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Episode 2314 CWSA 12/06/23 Lots Of News With Persuasion Angles Today. That's My Jam

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SimultaneousSip General Commentary

ndomly picking his name. All you need for that is a cup or mug or glass or tankard or stein or canteen or flask or vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

you better too. It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens now. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's so good. Yeah, well, just an update. Yesterday the Locals platform had a little glitch, but that was related to a big technology migration they're doing to upgrade their system. So when we get through this l…

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MainContent AI & Technology

ho knew what and all that stuff. And former prime minister Boris Johnson has to explain why five thousand of his WhatsApp messages from the 2020 plus period disappeared. And Boris says he's not so sure. Some kind of technical thing, maybe something about the app. I don't know. Maybe it was uninstall…

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ata that they were supposed to store? Yeah, a lot of election data is missing. We haven't seen the UAP videos but I'm sure they exist, but they must be missing. Yeah, the Epstein jail video. Yeah, that just seems like there's just a lot of things missing. Just a lot of things missing. Anyway, here'…

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NewsReaction AI & Technology

and stuff. But I think once your labor goes down to practically zero and you can use the space better and then the AI makes sure that your crop is way better than it would have been, it's going to be a big deal. Indoor gardens. Mark my words. Kim Jong-un had an event I guess. He was talking about t…

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MainContent AI & Technology

bigger role in advising the White House on the Israel-Hamas war. So here are some of the insightful things that our dumbest vice president is recommending. Now see if anybody ever thought of these things before. These are so insightful. Apparently she's pushing officials to articulate more empathy…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

ey're saying and putting it into some important context as to whether they might be a terrorist or a criminal. And then what are you going to do about it? Would it be, first of all, would it be legal for AI to look through everybody's communications? And it's not a human, right, so it's not a human…

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MainContent Persuasion

ou get away with anything. All right. But mass spying, yeah that's definitely coming. Taylor Swift is the person of the year on Time Magazine. Now did you ever think that Time Magazine was making their choices based on objective criteria? Let me explain how the media works. Time Magazine makes the…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

ld be the end of free speech basically because if the governments can exercise this power you don't need all the governments to do it. You just need enough governments to say you have to censor before it just becomes easy for everybody to do it, all the governments to do it. So yeah that's a big dea…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

s not that he gave five million for nothing. Some amount of it was loans according to Hunter. There were loans. Could somebody get me a copy of the loan agreement? Or I'm just going to guess. I'll bet you when he's asked for the loan agreements he's going to say they're missing. Possibly lost. Lost…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

working. The people were on the other side of it and they were sort of respecting the barrier because there were police there and the police actually removed the barriers and let them in. Then we've also seen multiple interior security cameras. They show that the people look more like tourists. The…

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ing that nation. What's the antisemitic part? What am I missing? Can somebody fill me in? I mean I honestly don't know. Right there are plenty of people who are Jewish who don't approve of Zionism meaning they don't approve of Israel having a Jewish state. So there's somebody who disagrees with eve…

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true. If you can't even get things done that we want to be done how in the world could you overthrow the country just because you thought it was a good idea? Yeah. And here's an even better one. You want one that nobody would ever stop talking about? He he'll never say this but it would be awesome.…

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Closing General Commentary

So the word thinking is just two people having an argument but trying to win by changing the definition of words. What's happening with the Zion stuff is it's being used to identify people that can be boosters of your message basically. So similar but different. All right. So the other thing you ne…

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Good morning everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, the best time you've ever had. How would you like to take it up to levels that even Rob Reiner could never understand? Just randomly picking his name.

All you need for that is a cup or mug or glass or tankard or stein or canteen or flask or vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better and makes you better too. It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens now.

Oh, that's good. Oh, that's so good.

Yeah, well, just an update. Yesterday the Locals platform had a little glitch, but that was related to a big technology migration they're doing to upgrade their system. So when we get through this little ugly patch, there might be a few more bugs, but when we get through that it will be a lot better, much more stable and functional. So wait for that.

All right, well there's lots of news. Most of the stories are kind of small, so I'll just pound through them.

The Washington Post is having a strike. Seven hundred or more people. And it was one of the writers, I think Vanessa Larson, she posted on X that she's so proud to be among seven hundred or more Washington Post colleagues walking out for twenty-four hours on Thursday. And she asks people to support our walkout by not reading the Washington Post on Thursday.

Well, I can do better than that. I will support you not just Thursday. I will support you for the rest of my life by not reading the Washington Post. That's right, that intelligence-based, intelligence-driven fake news racist publication that still employs Phil Bump.

Phil Bump is to the Washington Post what President Gay is to Harvard: an embarrassment to the institution. Although I don't know which is more embarrassing. Is Phil Bump more insulted by being associated with the Washington Post, or is the Washington Post more damaged by having him on the staff? It could work both ways.

All right. Starbucks has lost a lot of value, I guess, in their stock because of boycotts based on some political tweet supporting the Palestinians or something. So I don't even know what Starbucks did, but somehow Starbucks is getting injured by whatever is happening in Gaza. It's kind of crazy.

Poor Starbucks. Boris Johnson, I guess they're having some kind of a Covid inquiry in the UK to find out what really happened and who knew what and all that stuff. And former prime minister Boris Johnson has to explain why five thousand of his WhatsApp messages from the 2020 plus period disappeared. And Boris says he's not so sure. Some kind of technical thing, maybe something about the app. I don't know. Maybe it was uninstalled or when it got reinstalled, you know, maybe something like technology and the app and the something and then the something happened. But maybe, maybe a glitch and maybe the data disappeared. Something like that.

Now when I look at Boris Johnson and I look at his haircut, I say to myself, there's a man who never loses anything. I don't know, I think that's hilarious. I look at his haircut and I say there's a man who never loses anything, like his comb for example, or his sense of fashion and style for another example.

All right, I'm done with that. But I would like to see a list. Maybe we could come up with it here in the comments. Tell me all the things that the UK government and the American government have lost that was important data that the public needed to see.

Let's see, you've got your Epstein stuff, all things Epstein from his video cameras. Then there's the video of his video cameras of his death. Those are missing because the cameras weren't on. Let's see, you've got Hillary's emails. They just sort of went missing and got destroyed by hammers and whatnot. You've got the January 6, the entire January 6 testimonies all mysteriously missing. What else is missing? Yeah, oh there's no video of Chauvin being attacked in prison, at least that we've seen. Yeah, Jimmy Hoffa is still missing. And what about the 2020 election? Are there any machines that don't have the data that they were supposed to store? Yeah, a lot of election data is missing. We haven't seen the UAP videos but I'm sure they exist, but they must be missing. Yeah, the Epstein jail video. Yeah, that just seems like there's just a lot of things missing. Just a lot of things missing.

Anyway, here's a trend you should watch. So China has a company that's using AI to build indoor vertical gardens. Now why is this a big deal? Well, indoor gardens, you know, greenhouses have been around forever, but they haven't quite replaced outdoor gardening for basic economic reasons. But you think that someday they would because your indoor gardening is going to be better on water, much easier on water. It's going to be better on keeping the insects out, much better. It's going to be potentially better in managing light if you do it right. But the one problem they had was still space, and of course you've got labor. But robots and AI could kind of solve that for you, and also building vertically. So they'll build. So instead of putting everything on the ground where you run out of space, they can just build shelves and keep going up to the ceiling.

Now if you have shelves to the ceiling you've got twice as much work problem, right, because you've got to get somebody up there to look around and adjust things. But if you had a robot, a robot with a couple arms and some AI, the robot would not only know how much light and water and when to plant and you know how to get rid of any weeds if there were any. And oh, the other benefit is you wouldn't need insecticide, so you'd have less chemicals, fewer chemicals.

So basically indoor gardens should be the way that we go if you can get the economics down. You know, some little extra. Every house you build would have its own garden. Imagine a room in your house which just has a robot like a Roomba that's just working all day and all night just making sure everything's good in there. And it has AI so it can actually look at your plant and know what's wrong. It can just look at it and say, oh looks like it needs a little water. I think the AI plus vertical shelves is right at the edge, right at the edge of where it's going to make more sense to be indoors I think. And then you know maybe you add little solar panels to drive the robot and stuff. But I think once your labor goes down to practically zero and you can use the space better and then the AI makes sure that your crop is way better than it would have been, it's going to be a big deal. Indoor gardens. Mark my words.

Kim Jong-un had an event I guess. He was talking about the women in North Korea not having enough babies and he actually wept. He actually cried in public, Kim Jong-un, because they weren't having enough babies. Now I don't know that just telling people to have more babies is going to work when people are starving. I would think that starving and living in a repressive regime should have the natural effect of making people want to have fewer babies. So I don't know how he's going to solve that. But even Kim Jong-un is probably seeing that they're in a death spiral because at their current rate they will not have enough young people. Big problem for everybody.

Well speaking of countries that have that problem, China's got that problem. But beyond that, Moody's just cut China's credit outlook to negative on rising debt risk. So I don't know if I've mentioned this but China is unsafe for business. I don't know if their debt situation could be worse than the United States but I feel like there's going to be some kind of thing happening in the future that I can't even imagine in which debt will go away.

Did you hear Warren Buffett's solution for solving our debt problem? He says he could solve it tomorrow. All you do is pass a law that says if you're a member of Congress and you don't keep our debt below three percent of GDP, that you automatically are unqualified to run for office. You can't run for reelection if the debt is above a certain percentage of the GDP. Now that's easy to say but of course nobody's going to pass a bill like that. But even if we had one, do you think it would work? Probably not, right? Probably not.

All right. Our dumbest vice president is reportedly, according to the Wall Street Journal, taking on a bigger role in advising the White House on the Israel-Hamas war. So here are some of the insightful things that our dumbest vice president is recommending. Now see if anybody ever thought of these things before. These are so insightful.

Apparently she's pushing officials to articulate more empathy for Palestinians. Well nobody thought of that before, huh? Empathy for non-combatants who are dying in a war. I've never heard of that before. Okay, that might be a good idea, Kamala. Also the most obvious idea in the history of obvious ideas, but does she have something better than that? Does she have something better than the most obvious idea in the history of obvious ideas? Yes. They should focus on a post-conflict Gaza plan. So they should spend more time talking about rebuilding Gaza.

Who told you that? I did. Yeah, it's the same advice I've given, but it's also the same advice that Israel would give you. It's the same advice everybody would give you, which is if you don't describe where you're going it's harder to get people to want to go there. So she's right, but these are the most obvious things that you could ever advise and I kind of didn't really need her for any of this.

Well in other news the X platform is moving ahead to become a payment processing app in addition to being everything else. And they've got licenses now for processing payments in a dozen US states, but they probably have to get most of the states or all of them before they can go live. But that's happening. To me that's a really big deal because you know if you've got a gazillion people on the app, and let me ask, how many of you in the course of a week, in a normal week, how many of you would send money on some digital app whether it's Venmo or Google Pay or Cash App? How many of you use any kind of a digital app at least once a week? And Zelle, yeah Zelle's one. A lot of yeses, few nos. I don't know how you avoid it. I feel like I use it almost every day for one thing or another.

Yeah, well so I think putting the payment thing in X is going to be a big deal because you're already there.

All right. So Nvidia, which makes these advanced chips which do among other things their perfect chip for AI. But the United States is trying to keep Nvidia from shipping their best chips to China because we don't want China to be as good as we are at AI. Could be dangerous. But Nvidia is arguing that they can tweak these chips so that they're degraded in some way and not as good as ours. But we'll see about that.

I guess China has been as much as twenty percent of Nvidia's revenue. But keep an eye on that. Do you think you can really keep China out of the AI game by making sure that their chips are not as good as ours? I feel like it's going to drive China to have their own chip manufacturing. But why wouldn't they have it already? What would prevent China from having their own chip industry? Is it the equipment you need to build the industry that they would have to build up? All kinds of, because I guess it's the same problem in the United States, right? The United States doesn't have the chip industry it used to have and it's hard to make it because you know I guess maybe it's trademarks and copyrights and patents. I don't know. I just don't know what prevents any major industrialized country from making their own chips. I'd love to know what's so hard about that that only Taiwan can do it. So we need to know more about that.

An expert who you should listen to, Bruce Schneier, he's one of these cybersecurity expert types and he's got an editorial on Slate in which he says that the era of AI is going to be an era of mass spying. Now what he means by that is that in the old days if you had a reason to spy on one person, let's say you had a reason to suspect them, you could get a warrant and then you could legally spy on that one person's communications. But if you have AI you have the option of sort of just watching everybody and having the AI summarize what they're saying and putting it into some important context as to whether they might be a terrorist or a criminal. And then what are you going to do about it?

Would it be, first of all, would it be legal for AI to look through everybody's communications? And it's not a human, right, so it's not a human looking through communications. But if it finds something then maybe it would flag it for the humans. Is that fair? Well don't we do that already? You're talking about the current situation. Do you know banks have been doing that for I don't know forty years? Banks have always run software that doesn't accuse a specific anybody of anything but it looks at all their transactions and it looks for anything that has a pattern that suggests fraud because there's patterns. And when it sees a pattern it surfaces it for the humans. So we've been doing that forever and I guess that's legal. You know it's legal for the banks to do it. So I feel like there will be certainly loopholes where AI can do it.

So if I haven't told you this before, stop doing anything illegal. If I have to tell you that you're definitely going to get caught. Anything that you're doing illegal today that you have a digital footprint for, you're definitely going to get caught. You know, maybe this year, next year, in four years, but you're definitely going to get caught. If there's any signs of a crime in your life you're going to get caught, right? So you should immediately adjust all of your illegal activities to get rid of them.

One of the predictions I made in the late nineties is that technology would eliminate crime. That technology would eliminate crime. And there are several ways I said that would happen. Number one was there would be cheap cameras everywhere. Right? Remember in the nineties I said the economics of little video cameras would go down so much there would just be a camera everywhere. And sure enough there's pretty much a camera everywhere. So there's still crime but the odds of getting away with lots of different types of crimes is going way down.

Now what if AI can find every financial crime? Imagine AI looking for insider trading. It could find it every time. It's not that easy to find insider trading with normal mechanisms but imagine AI could find the brother-in-law's cousin of the person who had the insider information. How about we can't do that now because the normal way you would get away with insider trading is you'd have somebody else do it. The dumb way to do it is to be a person in the company that has the insider information and then trade in that a day before the announcement. Right? You're going to get caught because the systems do look for that. They look for unusual trades right before big news events.

But if you would simply talk to your cousin in person and said to your cousin, hey you know your brother-in-law that nobody will ever connect me to because it's too many jumps, tell them to buy a little bit of this. And by the way I might be asking that brother-in-law's cousin for a favor someday so you can work things out. So there's a system of benefit that just never shows up on paper. But AI could find it because they know who your cousin is and they know your cousin's friend made a trade and suddenly this hiding stuff doesn't work.

Now remember Hunter Biden had all these shell corporations. Now that worked because nobody was looking for it. As soon as they were looking for it they could start to unwind it all. But if you weren't looking for it you weren't going to discover it. But could AI look for it? Could AI have enough access to enough databases in other countries etc. that it could find all the illicit corporate structures and also figure out how they connect to each other and just draw up the crime? Maybe. Maybe so.

I think we're reaching that point I suggested where we might be dumb enough to let the criminals out. That's a different story. But we'll have the ability to basically catch any crime. I don't know how you get away with anything.

All right. But mass spying, yeah that's definitely coming.

Taylor Swift is the person of the year on Time Magazine. Now did you ever think that Time Magazine was making their choices based on objective criteria? Let me explain how the media works. Time Magazine makes their decision who is the person of the year not because it's necessarily the best choice or what the customers would think. Sometimes it's just marketing for the magazine. Sometimes they're just being provocative and they know it so that you will say to yourself, my God how could they say that? I'm going to have to read their argument. And you buy the magazine. So you should see it as marketing first.

But Time Magazine might have a political bias as well. And I would ask, do you think there's any political meaning, given that this is a presidential political year coming up, that having Taylor Swift on the cover, would that be any kind of a political message in addition to just being good marketing for Time? Well maybe.

Here's a post by Jack Posobiec. It says the Taylor Swift girl boss op has been fully activated. From her hand-selected vaccine shill boyfriend to her DINK lifestyle, dual income no kids lifestyle, to her upcoming 2024 voter operation for Democrats on abortion rights. It's all coming. Yeah it does look a little bit like she's being, let's say, groomed by the media to be a good powerful political spokesperson for young people.

Now do you think that Taylor Swift could cause young people to vote her way because she's Taylor Swift? Do you think she can move votes? What do you think? Yes, yes she could. Absolutely. Now you know maybe not completely by herself but it would only take a few of your heroes to be on the same side before you say hey that's the third hero of mine that's on the same side. I guess I'm on that side too. Yes, yes she could move the dial. She is that powerful. So that might have a political component to it either intentionally or not.

So if you're watching the situation in Ireland and saying to yourself hey the tech censorship issues that are happening in Ireland right now that doesn't affect us. And if you're saying oh there are complaints against the immigration issue there that doesn't affect us. Well apparently there's a bill that's being considered in Ireland that would require corporations to show that they had taken all reasonable steps and exercised due diligence to avoid having bad content. Basically hate speech I guess.

So like most things it's the side effect that you worry about. You know it's not what it says on the surface, it's what's going to happen after that. Michael Shellenberger is sounding the alarm. If one country succeeds in getting the big platforms to censor who they want them to censor or else lose their ability to operate in that country, then the other countries are going to do it right away and they will exert control over their social medias as Ireland did if Ireland succeeds. And this would be the end of free speech basically because if the governments can exercise this power you don't need all the governments to do it. You just need enough governments to say you have to censor before it just becomes easy for everybody to do it, all the governments to do it. So yeah that's a big deal.

And Conor McGregor, famous UFC fighter, is actually kind of serious about running for president and could actually, in my opinion his popularity is Taylor Swift-like. He could actually win. Could actually win.

All right, here's another factoid. Reid Hoffman, one of the biggest donors to Democrats, reportedly gave a quarter million dollars to a Nikki Haley super PAC. So you ask yourself why would the biggest, or one of the biggest, he might be the biggest now that there are other biggest donors are having some troubles, but Reid Hoffman, why would he give money to a Republican if he's one of the biggest Democrat donors? And Vivek posted, well this makes sense. Yeah because have you noticed that Nikki Haley is sort of overperforming? She seems like she's doing better than I expected. Well maybe she's got more money. That might help.

And why would Reid Hoffman fund her? Is it because it's an anything-but-Trump? So if he can get an anti-Trumper elected, not an anti-Trumper but a anybody-but-Trump, that's good. But if he can get a Democrat elected that's even better. Or is he just creating trouble in the Republican party? Is it just to cause chaos in the Republicans? I don't know. Quarter million dollars.

Here's what I can tell you about Reid Hoffman. So not only was he founder of LinkedIn and a big billionaire but he's one of the pioneers of social media in general. And specifically what he pioneered was the understanding of human behavior and addiction. Like how to get somebody to really, really like going back to the platform and how to get a network effect working etc.

Now he's one of the so-called PayPal Mafia, the people like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and David Sacks and Reid Hoffman. So they were all part of that PayPal original startup. Here's the thing I always say about that group. The one thing that that group has in common to a scary degree is the understanding of human psychology. And I would argue that they know that better than any small group of people you've ever seen. Consistently their understanding of how people operate, like how the brain works, is really the secret to all their success.

You know what makes the service viral, what makes you impossible to leave a service. It's all that stuff. You know Elon Musk making his first Tesla super fast just so people would be excited by it. The ludicrous mode in the current Teslas, completely unnecessary, completely unnecessary. It just makes it irresistible to a certain kind of buyer.

So yeah Reid Hoffman is more than just a big donor. He is probably one of their biggest persuasion experts. So if you see a persuasion play coming out of the Democrats, probably Reid Hoffman thought it was a good idea because if he thought it was a bad idea he's probably influential enough to stop it. And he's probably smart enough to suggest good ideas.

So if you're looking for who are the, sometimes people ask me this, you know if Robert Kennedy is not involved in politics this time and I think he was looking to retire from that, if he's not, who on the side of the Democrats is their persuasion expert? And I would look at Reid Hoffman as not just a rich guy giving money and not just a brilliant entrepreneur but he might be their persuasion expert. He might be the one. So I'm keeping a persuasion eye on him.

By the way I like Reid Hoffman. I've met him and he's a great guy. Had a very good personal interaction. He was very kind to me. He has different political preferences but I don't fault him for that. So yeah he's a good guy anyway.

Facebook and Meta getting some heat for having too much sexual content for young people. There's some kind of a civil lawsuit being filed in New Mexico. And doesn't it just boggle your mind that the X platform was singled out for their advertisement too close to content that people don't like and none of it was true? It was way more true on the platform that backs the Democrats. Way more true. But of course the truth doesn't matter. It's a political season so the truth doesn't matter.

All right. In California a new law is going into effect on January 1st. So California retailers will be fined for not having gender neutral toy sections for kids. You'll actually be fined if your toys are for boys and or girls or I guess if it just looks obvious it's for boys or for girls.

Now aren't there a lot of toys that are just naturally gender neutral? I thought that was already the case. Aren't most things gender neutral? Maybe not most for kids but this looks like just begging for lawsuits for no good reason. And what would that look like anyway? How if you labeled it, how would you label it? Would it be toys for boys, toys for girls, and toys for undecided? Or toys for non-binary? Like how would you even call it out? Toys, non-gender toys or something. I feel like everything is just designed to make it harder to be in business without getting sued.

Yeah, non-tuckable swimsuits. I don't know what they do but that looks like a ridiculous overreach by government.

So apparently Hunter Biden has something that the news is calling his sugar brother. Sugar brother. Somebody who gives him money. We don't know what this guy's getting in return. We can only imagine. But apparently Hunter has received 4.9 million from one Hollywood lawyer, Kevin Morris, in a three-year period.

Now I don't know about your friends. I've never had a friend who would give me five million for basically nothing in return. But boy do I wish I did. I wish I had a friend like that. But when I say for nothing in return that's unfair because some of it is that he bought Hunter's art work. So I'm sorry I probably should correct myself. I exaggerated. It's not that he gave five million for nothing. Some amount of it was loans according to Hunter. There were loans.

Could somebody get me a copy of the loan agreement? Or I'm just going to guess. I'll bet you when he's asked for the loan agreements he's going to say they're missing. Possibly lost. Lost or missing. Anybody want to take the other side of that bet that the loan documents, they definitely existed but I don't know it might be in my WhatsApp messaging that reset itself somehow. Kind of an app, kind of a bug. I uninstalled an app and now my files are all gone. Yeah I think something like that. Something like that's going to happen.

So I guess Hunter does use this trick of saying something's a loan and then avoiding taxes. You realize of course that at some point if you said something's a loan and you don't ever pay it back, at some point you still have to call that income don't you if you never pay it back? Actually I don't know the answer to that question. If anybody's an IRS expert, let's say you legitimately received a loan and you actually had paperwork for it and then you just didn't pay it back. Does it ever count as income if it's obvious? Once it becomes obvious there's no intention to ever pay it back and maybe you have the money. It's clearly true you have the money to pay it back but you just don't. Does it become income at that point or does it become just bad news for the person who gave you the loan from a banking perspective?

If somebody defaulted it wouldn't be income if you simply defaulted because you couldn't afford it. That doesn't become income. That's just a defaulted loan. But if it's clear you never had documents, ten years of going by, you've never made an interest payment, you've made no attempt to pay it back, wouldn't the IRS reclassify that as income eventually? Somebody says if you default on a credit card it counts as income. Oh I'm seeing opinions that people are saying that it does count as income. Interesting. Could have gone either way. I didn't know how that was going to go.

All right well these are comments on social media so talk to your accountant before you take my tax advice or anybody else's.

So what do you think of this? Is there any reason that this one Hollywood lawyer would be giving millions of dollars to one person who by the way they were not childhood friends? This guy started giving Hunter millions within a few years of meeting him. Now that's a friend.

All right. FBI director Wray was testifying in Congress and Senator Mike Lee went after him hard about the alleged changes in the processes to keep Americans safe from illegal spying stuff I guess. And the trouble is that the FBI can't, I guess they can't be too specific about what they changed. It's sort of a trust us, we changed everything and now it's good. So Mike Lee just went off on them and it's really good because sometimes you say to yourself oh these are just all the politicians are just trying to do their moment so it becomes a viral thing so it looks like they're doing their job. Honestly Mike Lee looked like a human being who was really mad. It didn't to me it didn't come off as grandstanding. He just came off as a pissed off human being which is why I recommend it. You know I wouldn't recommend somebody gives their little speech in Congress because they're just trying to be a star but he didn't look like that. I mean that's just the way, I'm not reading his mind, I'm just saying that that was the impression I got. He looks sincere like a human who's being abused just like the rest of us and he was talking just like you would if you could have talked freely. It's like Jesus you don't even let us see it. We have no reason to believe you're different. I mean he just went off on them. It was interesting to see.

All right. Well Bill Ackman, famous investor Bill Ackman has been going super hard on the presidents of the colleges that have allowed the antisemitic stuff to happen. And so here's a post from him today. He says does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your university's code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?

Now he's talking about the fact that three presidents of three colleges, Harvard, University of Penn and MIT, were hauled in by Congress to explain why they weren't either all quitting or being fired or removed by the boards for allowing what most observers are saying looks antisemitic. Which is they're allowing the anti-Jewish voices to intimidate the Jewish students in a bullying, clearly threatening way they should not exist in any campus today.

So Bill Ackman's going after them and I guess the three presidents, all three female presidents of those colleges, said it depends on the context. Oh my God it depends on the context.

Now here's my take. It does depend on the context. So technically of course everything depends on context. But what doesn't? Is there something that doesn't depend on context? Of course it does, right? You know let's say the context was somebody was giving a speech about what you should never do in public. Well that context would matter because it would mean that what they said was the opposite of what they thought was true. So yeah context matters. But in the real world is there ever going to be a context where this matters? I mean really is there ever going to be a context that makes this okay ever? And would this ever be okay in any context if any other ethnic group were involved? No of course not. Well maybe white people in general or white men but any other group no it would be inappropriate.

So there's continued calls for those three college presidents to be fired by their boards. Will it happen? I doubt it. I don't think any of them will be fired. Do you? Nope. No way.

All right. There was a study that I think it was the End Wokeness account on X, it's a great account to follow, finds a lot of good stuff. So there was a national election studies in 2021. National Election Studies was the name of the study. And in 2021 they looked at racial groups and how they rated each other and how they rated themselves. So they asked separately they asked the Black, Asian American, Hispanic Americans and white people in America how do you rate your own group? Yeah how awesome do you think you are? And then how do you rate the other three groups?

Well the findings of this study, yeah assuming the study's right we don't know but the studies seem to indicate that white people on average of course we're not talking about every person it's always these are just averages, that they tended to rate themselves, other white people, as well as Hispanic, Black and Asian Americans. That's about the same. So white people said white people, ah we're average. How's everybody else? About the same. So nobody was special, nobody was disavowed, nobody was put on a pedestal. Just everybody's about the same. So basically white people have been buying into the melting pot, you know everybody's the same we're all equal kind of narrative.

How the other groups do? Not so good. Turns out that the other groups think that they're pretty awesome but white people suck. So bet you didn't see that coming or did you?

Now I gave some advice here. If you believe that this study is accurate and you believe that white people generally are not biased against other people on average but that other groups might have a very low opinion of you if you're white, don't do anything about it. That's my advice. Don't mention it in public. Don't bring up that there's a study that suggests maybe there's a way to act that would keep you safer if you were white because you will be very cancelled if you point that out.

So what you should do, the only ethical thing as I've been told, I didn't know this at first but I've learned this, the only moral and ethical thing to do if you're a white person is to continue associating with people who have a low opinion of you because to do otherwise would be racist. So that's your advice.

Okay. Vivek posted today truth number one. January 6 now looks more and more like entrapment. Well that's pretty direct. So a major candidate for president who is not Trump is saying directly that January 6 looks more like entrapment.

Why? Well there are now more videos coming out that show multiple instances of police calmly removing barriers to let the crowd into the Capitol grounds. Calmly and repeatedly removing barriers that were working. This is the key point. The barriers were working. The people were on the other side of it and they were sort of respecting the barrier because there were police there and the police actually removed the barriers and let them in.

Then we've also seen multiple interior security cameras. They show that the people look more like tourists. They were just wandering respectfully, staying between the lines and the law enforcement was high-fiving and basically just letting them do their thing because they either didn't think they would be violent or they were in on something. We don't know what they were thinking or why they did it. We just know what happened.

So do we have, let's get a, let me test the temperature of my audience in the comments. Do you think it's a fair statement that January 6 now looks more and more like entrapment? And we're also not told the number of undercover informants or whatever in the crowd. So we're told that we're not going to be told how many were the entrapers, the alleged entrapers. But let's just call them the undercover people. We're not told that number. The public can't know that number.

Now what do I tell you about the government? If this were an individual and an individual said I have some information I'm not going to tell you, I say unambiguously well I don't know what that person did but innocent till proven guilty. Definitely innocent. Innocent, innocent by our system which is a really good system until proven guilty. I don't care how guilty it sounds. It can sound guilty but you've got to prove that. That's the rule. But not for the government. If the government doesn't tell you something you can infer their guilt. Totally appropriate. It's logical. It might not be right but you can infer that they've given you reason to believe they're guilty and you can act on it you know within the law as a citizen you can act on it.

So yeah I agree with Vivek and I would say I didn't start here. I did not start out believing that there were enough FBI informants to make a difference. I didn't start there. I always knew it was an interesting question but I didn't have the data to firmly say one way or the other. And I didn't assume that just because we knew that maybe one or two doors had been opened or maybe some police officers acted in a certain way or maybe Ray Epps was still a question mark. I didn't think that that was yet enough to put it together, say oh well maybe it's exactly what it looks like.

But in the fullness of time when we can see the complete catalog of dirty tricks and intelligence ops, we can see the full bag of dirty tricks from the Democrats in general. We can see their desperation to hold on to power and we can see that they were trying to paint MAGA people as domestic terrorists. If you look at their motivation they have the motive. They have the motive for the crime. Did they have the time to prepare for it? They had time to prepare because they knew it was coming. Would it be unprecedented? No it would not. It would be well within the normal behavior but usually it's something you see America instigating in another country. So it's normal for America to do it to other countries. And we also know now that it's normal and routine for America to take tricks which they've applied only to other countries and apply it domestically. We see this with the censorship etc. It's obvious right.

So we've got the motivation, we've got the means, you know they have the resources. We've got a full umbrella of supporting interests. We've got a full map of all the players so we can see who's connected to who and it all looks exactly like it says it looks. And now we have an increasing number of anecdotal, still anecdotal but you know little bits of why is this police officer acting this way, why is this one opening this gate, why is this one just standing aside. If you put it all together I'm going to state that at this point the burden of proof has to be on the government to prove innocence right. The burden of proof on the government. When there are this many signals they have to prove it didn't happen. It's not like a citizen where they'd have to prove it did happen. They have to prove it didn't happen.

And at this point your working assumption, your working assumption, this doesn't mean you're right but the correct working assumption is that it's exactly what it looks like and it was entrapment. And Vivek sees the same thing you do. That is the correct working assumption even if it turns out not to be true which I would love. I would love that the government could tell you how many operators were there, let you interview them or let the press interview them, let you see any documents that were part of the decision making and then maybe there's nothing there. But when you act this guilty the working assumption has to be guilt. That's exactly what it looks like.

All right. Thomas Massie getting some pushback from a number of people. Charles Schumer, Chuck Schumer, he was reacting to Massie's post. I'll tell you what his post was in a minute but he said what did it mean? Well Massie just says it was antisemitic.

Now I'm going to tell you what Thomas Massie posted and I want you to see how antisemitic it looks to you. All right. So he posted a meme in which the rapper Drake is shown in two pictures and he's putting up a hand like you know no more of that or don't give me that, kind of stop it hand. And one of them says Zionism. So at first he's saying oh no he's first saying approvingly yes to Zionism but then he's looking disapprovingly and then the word says American patriotism.

So Massie's post showed what looked like a conflict between what Congress was doing for Zionism versus America.

Now here's how I interpreted it and I'll let you tell me how I'm interpreting it wrong. I interpreted it that he wants the American Congress to use American money first for things that are primarily America-centric and not so much for something that's directly Israel-centric and the country of Israel being part of that definition of Zionism.

Now if an American politician says we should spend money on our own country instead of another country, even an ally, even a strong ally, even one of our favorite allies, that he would still prefer as our elected representative that we spend it on American interests more directly. Although I do understand that America has an interest in Israel's well-being but it's a second order effect. You know the first order is do you have any money that's more important than how you spend it? Do you have any? And we don't you know. Massie would say we'd have to borrow that money.

So here's what I learned from this. If you use that Z word, Zion, apparently there's another interpretation of it that I can't find in a definition. So when I look at the definition of the words in this controversy I see Massie using the Z word to refer to the nation of Israel and protecting it. Is that racist? It refers to the formation of the nation of Israel and then protecting that nation. What's the antisemitic part? What am I missing? Can somebody fill me in? I mean I honestly don't know.

Right there are plenty of people who are Jewish who don't approve of Zionism meaning they don't approve of Israel having a Jewish state. So there's somebody who disagrees with everything right. There's no issue that you don't have disagreement on. So everybody's, there's always going to be somebody disagreeing with everything.

Does anybody have any idea why the Z word is, if you don't agree with prioritizing Israel over the United States are you automatically antisemitic? Is it because, here's my best hypothesis. I'll see if this rings true. There is a second, well let's say there's an alternative use of that Z word by people who are unambiguously racists and see it as part of a global conspiracy. But that's not the dictionary definition. The dictionary definition is not what the worldwide conspiracy theorists are saying. That's their own definition or their own usage of it. The common usage of it is the formation of Israel and then the support of it as a Jewish state. Isn't it? Isn't that the definition right?

And I actually looked for the definition because I thought maybe there was an element to the definition I didn't get. But here's my best take. My best take is that of course Thomas Massie is not using it in an antisemitic way. Okay let me just say this. Thomas Massie did it. You think he did an antisemitic post like this soon after October 7th? An elected member of Congress. You think he did an unambiguous antisemitic post which he knew he was doing? Really? Yeah really. Really. You could actually stand in front of me and tell me you believe that?

But here here's my best defense of Schumer. All right so let me steelman this. Is that the right word? So I'm going to take Schumer's point of view and argue it the best I can. It is true that people who are definitely antisemitic have used the word Zion as an integral part of their antisemitic larger messaging. Is that true? Can we agree on that? That the people who are unambiguously antisemitic especially online use the Z word as part of their antisemitic messaging. So if you are associating with that group in any way like even by using their wording well that's maybe a little suggestive of antisemitism because you're borrowing their language. I can see that. I could see why somebody would ask you to disavow the post but that's really different from being antisemitic.

So I don't believe that even Schumer believes that Massie is antisemitic. He's talking about the choice of how to message. Would you agree with that? That even Schumer is not saying he is antisemitic. He simply is objecting to the messaging because it's too suggestive of a world in which they use that word too much in the worst way.

But here's the thing. Massie is not an idiot. He's just using words the way words are used. So I get it. And here's the other thing you need to know. Now this applies to my situation of my own canceling but also almost all the other canceling. It's never about the person who gets canceled. The public and the political players they use stories about public figures to attach their messaging to. So it's never really about the public figure. None of this is about Thomas Massie. It's about the fact that some people want to make sure you know that they're as supportive as they could be of the Jewish community and they want you to know that they won't tolerate anything that looks even suggestive of being on the other side.

So the way to interpret it is it has nothing to do with Thomas Massie because it legitimately has nothing to do with Thomas Massie. He just used English words the way they're used in the way he likes to use them. Everybody understood exactly what he meant. There was no confusion about what he meant or who he is. But still can turn it into something because it's easy to do so.

But also here here's the other thing you should be aware of. This is a hot war right. This is not theoretical. Israel is at war and they're right in the thick of it. Here's what I would not ask you to assume. Don't assume that people are being objective observers of anything. There's no objectivity happening here and if you try some objectivity you're going to get your ass handed to you right. So a lot of the messaging pro and con of everything is more about do you support Israel right. So this is the point where any little diversion from the perfect messaging in favor of Israel is going to get a lot of scrutiny. I'm surprised it hasn't happened to me yet.

You know I've said from the start I'm 100 percent backing Israel and my reasons are easy. My reasons are easy. It's what any country would do. Any country who would experience what they did on October 7th would respond the same way if they could, you know if they had the military might to do it. So having an opinion on it to me just seemed like a waste of time. It's just going to happen. My opinion isn't going to change anything. So I'm 100 percent understanding of it and supportive of it. But I don't know that that'll protect me because you realize the first second I say something that could be interpreted as off message the ADL will come after me right. Like you can't be 100 percent in favor of Israel and still be safe. You're just not. And I think Massie is an example that he's anyway there enough about that.

All right. As Mike Cernovich has pointed out, I'll just read his post. He said Bill Ackman and the Harvard donors are the leading indicators of 2024. He will never openly support Trump talking about Ackman. Not the point. Even Trump haters see a huge mess meaning the country. Imagine what most Americans are thinking. And then Mike finishes in his usual provocative way. He says that's why the regime is using media apparatchiks to incite assassination. Hyperbole. Is that too far? Is that an exaggeration?

Do you think the Democrats have an intentional strategy of getting Trump assassinated because it's the only way they can stop an obvious train that's under control which is their own train but they don't want Republicans to stop it. They want to I guess keep the train going.

I agree with this completely and I'm going to add some weight to it. Here's some weight. Rob Reiner says that Trump would be the end of democracy. Rob Reiner yeah who's the head of an organization that includes some former CIA members on it. Some say without evidence that Rob Reiner might be part of the deep state blob and not just a person with an opinion. Some say. But if that were true I don't know that that's true. I know that he acts exactly like he's part of the deep state. I don't know that it's true. I just know his actions are consistent with it.

And if it were and he says it's the end of democracy what does that signal to you? Well by itself it would just be political blah blah blah right because people say stuff like that. But when you say it about Trump and it's in the context of all this other stuff that I'm going to mention it does feel like a call to assassination. It does. Because if you can tell people that Trump is bad enough, he's enough of a Hitler dictator tyrant then you can make the case that there's nothing that's out of bounds to stop him. Nothing's out of bounds. So look for this in their messaging. Nothing's out of bounds. They won't say that but they will say well he might murder your children so you know do what you have to do. You know it's going to look like that.

All right what else? Liz Cheney warns that a vote for Trump quote may mean the last election that you get to vote in. Ah so Liz Cheney says that you will probably lose your country if you let him win. But what does Joe Biden say? Is there anything scary sounding? He says we cannot let him win. We cannot let Trump win. That's an interesting way to word it isn't it? Usually it's something like we have to fight to win. If he wins you know it'll be a bad country but if I win it'll be good. But that phrase we cannot let him win does that sound like permission to do anything to keep him from? If you cannot that seems like it's going beyond preference. Cannot is a decision. See the difference? We don't want him to win as a preference. Our team would do better as a preference. He'd do a bad job as a preference. I'd do a good job as a preference. He has bad policies that's a preference. I have good policies that's a preference. We cannot let him win is a decision. That's not a preference. That is allowing anything. We cannot. Cannot is a really strong and it feels like you meant it.

I swear to God we just have to have the all caps filter. If I read you the stuff that the all caps people are saying on YouTube you would just laugh. It's like why do you label yourself as an idiot? Like why would you label yourself hi I'm an idiot look at my all cap statement. Oh oh oh.

All right. So the Democrat playbook is they're going to go after the following things from the Republicans. So here's their attack on the Republicans. They're going to go after the potential for a national abortion ban because Republicans talk about that. Apparently Trump has wisely refused to engage on that question which is the right political stance. And as others have pointed out assuming that Democrats still have some power in Congress I don't see how there would ever be a national abortion ban. Do you? How in the world would Congress change so much that you could get a vote for a national abortion ban? Does that even sound like something that could happen? You know don't say whether you'd like it or not but is it possible? It doesn't seem like it but it's a good political club because to the extent that Democrats think it could happen it's a good approach.

I don't know they say that you know Trump will cut climate funding. He probably will. And then they say he'll undercut and attack American democracy. This is coming from some Democrat adviser. All right. And he's going to punish his political opponents and be a dictator.

So Trump does this town hall thing on Hannity. He's asked the question about being a dictator. Do you remember what I told you? I told you that he should mock people for that idea. You just laugh at them. He did not do that. Instead he makes it so hard to support him. Instead he said I'll only be a dictator for the first day. Come on. Come on. Can you give me any little relief here? Can you possibly give me a chance of surviving the next year? Like I feel like I'm going to get assassinated right if I say two more good things about him and he says one more thing about being a dictator for the first day. I feel like I'm going to get assassinated. Can you try a little harder to keep me alive for the next year? Are you kidding me? Don't say you're going to be a dictator the first day but only the first day. Only the first day.

Now was he joking? Of course of course he was joking. But when it gets requoted or just quoted you don't get the joke part. You don't get that he wasn't taking any of it seriously. So of course the news today is that he says yeah I'm going to be a dictator on the first day. They're literally quoting him as saying I'm going to be a dictator on day one because he actually said that but then he said you know only day one because you know get some stuff done or whatever. And it didn't even make sense. It didn't make sense because he wouldn't have to be a dictator. You know if he actually has the powers to do the things he wants to do he doesn't need to be a dictator. Why would he say that? Why? Why come on make it a little bit easier for us huh? A little bit.

All right well I think he'll probably trend in the right direction on that. Yeah yeah I think he needs to be funnier in mocking it. He needs to make sure everybody knows that he thinks you're an idiot for thinking it. Here would be the way I'd explain it. You want to hear the fastest persuasive argument for how he will not become a dictator? All right here it goes.

Become a dictator? I've been president for four years. Do you know how hard it is to get anything done? Do you know how many people would have to be involved in any small decision? Even the smallest thing has to be approved by this miles of bureaucracy. Do you know how many of the bureaucracy are Trump supporters? Mostly not. Mostly not. You've got a whole government of people who are against me who work for me. How in the world am I going to become a dictator when I can't even get an executive order passed that doesn't get reversed in a few months by the next president? How in the world? I couldn't even get the National Guard to protect the Capitol on January 6th. How in the world do I become a dictator? Can somebody tell me that plan? Like if I make a phone call and tell somebody to do some dictator stuff in your world do they go do it? In my world it starts this big bureaucratic process which stops everything from happening. I can't even do easy things. I can't even do things you want. Do you know what else I can't get done? I can't build a wall and most of you want one. Think about that. Not only can I not take over the country by talking. By talking I'm not going to become a dictator because I talk myself into it and talk you into it. You would need the entire function and structure and the military to somehow be on the same side of that. I can't even get Congress to do the things that most of the people in the world want to be done. I can't even get easy things done. How in the world am I going to take over the country by posting on Truth? He's not even on X. He's not even on social media. He's only on his own social media. How in the world is he going to take over the country? I mean to me that's just funny.

And here's why that's persuasive. Because as soon as you say the bureaucracy is so thick that I can't even do things that all of you want me to do you'd be done wouldn't you? The moment you hear that you go okay that's kind of true. If you can't even get things done that we want to be done how in the world could you overthrow the country just because you thought it was a good idea? Yeah.

And here's an even better one. You want one that nobody would ever stop talking about? He he'll never say this but it would be awesome. Let me explain something to you. Imagine Trump saying this. If I tried to become a dictator Don Jr. would kill me. Don Jr. would murder me. And you know what maybe he would. Maybe he would. If he said Ivanka would kill me I think I'd believe that too because you know what Ivanka and Don Jr. are patriots and they would actually care about their country probably more than one person even their father. Now you could argue about whether that's true or not right but you would never forget it if he ever said something like that. You could never get it out of your head. And by the way people would joke about it. You know they would joke about it forever. Oh Don Jr. is going to kill you for this. But I think and wouldn't it be funny if Don Jr. confirmed it? Imagine Trump saying it and then you know everybody has to talk to Don Jr. Is like would you would you that's crazy would you? And imagine him saying absolutely absolutely absolutely. But just imagine that because it's also I think probably true. I think I could kill a family member if they became Hitler. I hate to admit it but I probably could.

All right here are a few things. Oh and also they're going to say Trump wants revenge. Steve Bannon and probably others will be saying this that that's a good thing and you know we should maybe keep boosting that message that Trump wants to get revenge because in this instance he would be getting revenge against people who had done truly bad things not just to him but to the rule of law and to the integrity of the country. I just don't like that word. I don't like that word. Yeah revenge is not really a good political word. I would like, now when Bannon talks about that word he does define it as you know holding people accountable and prosecuting criminals. So he's very careful to say I'm only talking about people who did crimes. I'm not talking about innocent people. We're just talking about literally criminals. But it's a bad look. It's a bad look. I think something more like justice would work better. However it is the primaries and you know if it were more of a fight in the primary I'd say use those fighting words that might get people excited. But I think Trump needs to be already priming toward the general election. Would you agree? Trump's candidacy should already be more toward the middle because he doesn't need to worry too much unless he goes to jail or has a health problem. He doesn't have to worry too much about the nomination unless something changes.

But is the debate tonight? Oh thanks for reminding me.

There's some news today that I never thought I'd have to say. Now I want you to sit down to hear this. This might come as a personal shock to some of you so this will affect you personally and I just want to say it once. If you weren't aware of this you died. Yeah you died and it's a tragedy that you died. Oh I'm sorry not why not why you died. No no no. His name is James Uyo and he was in that exploding house in Arlington they say. Which answers my question which is how can you be in a house that completely explodes and survive it? But apparently you died. So you died. Sorry. That's right. And when he knocked on the door and they said who's there he said yeah you know the rest of it.

Okay. Here's two things to understand about persuasion talking about this slow motion assassination attempt on Trump which does look exactly like that. So now you see that all the people who are the trained monkeys who say the things you're supposed to say are going to say he's a dictator and he's going to be Hitler and he wants revenge and he's coming after you. He's going to take away your democracy. Your democracy is going to be taken away.

Now here's the things you need to know persuasion wise. It is not possible to hypnotize somebody to commit murder right. It's been tried. It's been tested. No matter how good you are as a hypnotist and no matter who the person is you're hypnotizing you cannot hypnotize them to take a gun and go shoot somebody if they believe the gun really has real bullets in it. Sometimes they'll do it because they think it's just an experiment and a trick and they think the gun doesn't have real bullets but of course the gun does not have real bullets because it's just a test. So the people who do take the gun and go to shoot somebody it's not because they're hypnotized. It's because they know that nobody would ever give you a loaded gun to shoot an innocent person. So the tests are it's hard to test it but there's no example of anybody who's been hypnotized to do harm to somebody.

However you can brainwash an entire segment of the public into thinking somebody else is Hitler and then you just wait. You end up the same result. You just don't know which individual ends up deciding that they need to take matters into their own hands. So you are actually watching in my professional opinion a slow motion assassination of President Trump. Attempted an attempted assassination. And it's being led by the Atlantic, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC and all the usual suspects. And I do believe that they are aware as Cernovich calls it down. They are aware that they have done such a bad job with the fabric of American civilization that they can't possibly win in a straight up vote. And if they can't win in a straight up vote and here's why it's such a problem that Trump is threatening them. If they don't win they think they might go to jail. Do you know why they think they might go to jail? Because they've done crimes in some cases and then there are people who maybe didn't do crimes but they're worried that they would get blamed for a crime they didn't do. I wonder if that's ever happened to somebody named Trump 91 times this year. Yeah.

So why would Democrats be concerned about a government arrest passing them for charges that are huh? I wonder if they've been involved being on the side that is arresting people for you know like January 6th and 91 charges against Trump for so far nothing. Yeah so yeah I can see why they'd be worried that the government would ever come after somebody on Trumped up charges.

Now I would not support Trump doing anything like that. I would be very very much seriously against any Republican president who is doing political prosecutions. I hope I would be wise enough to recognize it though because the problem is you always think that the other side is a criminal but whatever they do to your team is a political witch hunt. It's just natural you think that way. I hope I would be wise enough to know if Republicans did that kind of thing to Democrats. I haven't seen it so I haven't seen a signal for it but I worry. I worry that I'm not tuned to it that I would miss it and that's a big problem because you don't want your side to do that either.

So I let me assure Democrats if you need it that I would be on your side if anything Trump or any other Republican did look like a purely political prosecution. I could not back that and I would also believe that that would be a big enough problem to impeach a president. So if Trump did something that looked like political prosecutions impeachments on the table. Yeah it's you got to be serious about that. You can't take that as team play. That can never be team play. That's just got to be the American play.

Would a special prosecutor for several areas be a good idea? Maybe it's case by case situation but maybe. Is it worth thinking on the Z issue? Um I now I know what you're saying. The word thinking are they just trying to use their own definition of the word and that's definitely what's happening but I think this is more a case of trying to scapegoat people to boost your own message. So the word thinking is just two people having an argument but trying to win by changing the definition of words. What's happening with the Zion stuff is it's being used to identify people that can be boosters of your message basically. So similar but different.

All right. So the other thing you need to know about persuasion is although you can't hypnotize one person to murder you can very easily hypnotize a group of people to see somebody as someone who is deserving of murder and then you wait and then you wait. So look for that. You should look for more evidence that they're looking for a what would be the right term for it something that's outside of the political process. Would you call that an extra political to mean it's outside of the political process or extrajudicial? Extrajudicial means you're doing something illegal right. Um yeah.

All right ladies and gentlemen that is more than enough. I think we've done our job here.

Do you believe in strategic incompetence? Yes I mean all the lost documents and lost files. I don't believe any of that. I believe that they are strategically deleting things and claiming incompetence. Yeah it's called lying.

Yep. Here's a question for you. Do you think that Trump this time would be able to assemble a high quality team or will he be once again locked out from the strong traditional players who normally would want to be part of an administration? I have a suspicion that he might be able to get high quality people. I'm not positive. It could work the other way but part of the reason is this. The Republicans have a lot of high quality people who could use jobs. Yeah no I'm not one of them. I'm definitely not a high quality person in terms of a government job. But I don't even have to give you names but just imagine all of the Republicans who would make a good spokesperson for the administration. They had communications. Just think of all the insanely good choices that you can make right. Just insanely good.

I'm going to throw one out for you. Okay a head of communications in a Trump administration. Greg Gutfeld. Yes or no? Now I don't think he'd ever do it. It would be a suicide mission but would Trump be smart enough to know that if you made those stupid press events interesting and you had somebody with a real personality not somebody who's just going to say no I don't know and I'll look into that and you've asked a question already you know all the things. What if you had somebody who actually engaged with the audience had fun with the audience. The audience may even like you know maybe they just like him and he just has fun with it because it's not a useful process that the press events are just not useful and that's why didn't Trump just get rid of them after a while he just stopped them didn't he because they're so. But somebody like you know let's say somebody of his capabilities if you put somebody in who can make a joke of stuff the joke gets on TV right. A boring answer maybe gets on TV but you forget it anyway but a real good funny answer becomes news. So Trump could actually create news by making sure that his spokesperson was funny and said things that were supportive of the president but also you couldn't forget right now.

Yeah I don't think Greg's going to be the head of communications but you could come up with I'll bet you on your own you could come up with ten Republican names that would be just fascinating in that job. Just fascinating right. Tyrus. Tyrus would be great. I'm seeing Tyrus being suggested as head of communications in a Republican. He'd be great. He has the full talent stack. So yeah I can get behind that. I'd watch it too. I'd far more likely watch if Tyrus was giving it because he's a big personality. He's funny. You don't remember Tony Snow who would mock stupid questions? Yeah I don't actually.

All right that's all for now. I'm going to go do something else. I'll get to talk a little bit to the good people in Locals and I'll say goodbye now to YouTube. Thanks for joining. You're awesome.

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App messages from the 2020 plus period disappeared and Boris says he's not so sure um some kind of technical thing maybe something about the app I don't know maybe it was uninstalled or when it got reinstalled you know maybe something like technology and the app and the something and then the something happened but maybe maybe a glitch and maybe the data disappeared something like that now when I look at Boris Johnson and I look at his haircut I say to myself there's a man who never loses anything I don't know I think that's hilarious I look at his haircut and I say there's a man who never loses anything like his comb for example or his sense of fashion and style for another example all right I'm done with that but uh I would like to see a list maybe we could come up with it here in the comments tell me all the things that uh the UK government and the American government have lost that was important data that the public needed to see let's see you got your Epstein uh stuff all things Epstein from his video cameras then there's the video of his video cameras of his death those are those are missing because the cameras weren't on uh let's see you've got Hillary's emails they they just sort of went missing and got destroyed by Hammers and whatnot you got the January 6 the entire January 6 uh testimonies all all mysteriously missing uh what else is missing yeah oh there there's no video of show of being attacked in prison uh at least that we've seen yeah Jimmy hofa is still missing um and what about uh what about the 2020 election are there any any machines that don't have the data that they were supposed to store yeah a lot of election data is missing uh we haven't seen the UAP videos but I'm sure they exist but they must be missing uh yeah the Epstein ja video uh yeah that just seems like there's just a a lot of things missing just a lot of things missing anyway here's a trend you should watch um so China has a company that's using AI to build indoor vertical Gardens now why is this a big deal well indoor gardens you know greenhouses have been around forever but they haven't quite replaced outdoor gardening for basic economic reasons but you think that someday they would because your indoor gardening is going to be uh better on water you much easier on water it's going to be better on keeping the insects out much better it's going to be potentially better in managing light if you do it right and uh but the one problem they had was still space and of course you got labor but robots and AI could kind of solve that for you and also building vertically so they'll build so instead of putting everything on the ground where you run out of space they can just build shelves and keep going up to the ceiling now if you have shelves to the ceiling you've got twice as much work problem right because you got to get somebody up there to look around and and adjust things but if you had a robot a robot with a couple arms and some AI the robot would not only know how much light and water and when to plant and you know how to get rid of any weeds if there were any um and and oh the other benefit is you wouldn't need insecticide so you'd have less less chemicals fewer chemicals so basically indoor garden should be the way that we go if you can get it just get the economics down you know some some little extra every house you buil would have its own garden imagine a room in your house which just has a robot like a Roomba that's just working all day and all night just making sure everything's good in there and it has AI so it can actually look at your plant and know what's wrong it can just look at it and say oh looks like it needs a little water I think I think the AI plus vertical shelves is right at the edge right at the edge of where it's going to make more sense to be indoors I think and then you know maybe you add little uh you know uh solar panels to drive the robot and stuff but I think once your labor goes down to practically zero and you can use the space better and then the AI Mak sure that your your uh your crop is way better than it would have been it's going to be a big deal indoor gardens mark my words Kim Jong-un had a event I guess he was talking about the women in North Korea not having enough babies and he actually wept he actually cried in public Kim juned because they weren't having enough babies now I don't know that just telling people to have more babies is going to work when people are starving I would think that starving and living in a repressive regime should have the natural effect of making people want to have fewer babies so I don't know how he's going to solve that um but even Kim Jong-un is probably seeing that they're in a death spiral because at their current rate they will not have enough young people big problem for everybody well speaking of countries have that problem China's got that problem but beyond that Moody just cut China's credit out look to negative on Rising debt risk so I don't know if I've mentioned this but China is unsafe for business I don't know if their debt situations could be worse in the United States but I feel like there's going to be some kind of thing happening in the future that I can't even imagine in which debt will go away did you hear uh Warren Buffett's solution for uh solving our debt problem he says he could solve it tomorrow all you do is pass a law that says uh if you're a member of Congress and you don't keep our debt below 3% GDP uh that you automatically are un unqualified to run for office you you can't run for reelection if the debt is above a certain percentage of the GDP now that's easy to say but of course nobody's going to pass a bill like that but even if we had one do you think it would work probably not right probably not all right um our dumbest vice president is uh reportedly according to the Wall Street Journal is taking on a bigger role in advising the White House on the Israel Hamas War so here are some of the uh insightful things that uh our dumus vice president is recommending now see if anybody ever thought of these things before these are these are so insightful apparently she's pushing officials to articulate more empathy for Palestinians well nobody thought of that before huh empathy for non-combatants who are dying in a war I've never heard of that before okay that that might be a good idea kamla also the most obvious idea in the history of obvious ideas but does she have something better than that does she have something better than the most obvious idea in the history of obvious ideas yes um they should focus on postconflict Gaza plan so they should spend more time talking about rebuilding Gaza who told you that I did yeah it's the same advice I've given but it's also the same advice that Israel would give you it's the same advice everybody would give you which is if you don't describe where you're going it's harder to get people to want to go there so she's right but these are the most obvious things that you could ever advise and I kind of didn't really need her for any of this well in other news uh the xplatform uh is moving ahead to become a payment processing app in addition to being everything else and they've got licenses now for processing payment ments in in a dozen US states but they probably have to get most of the states or all of them before they can go live but that's happening to me that's a really big deal because you know if you got a gazillion people on the app and let me ask how many of you in the course of a week in a normal week how many of you would send money on some digital app whether it's venmo or Google pay or cash app how many of you how many of you use any kind of a digital app at least once a week and zel yeah zel's one um a lot of yeses few NOS I don't know how you avoid it I I feel like I use it almost every day for one thing or another yeah well so I think uh putting the payment thing in tax is going to be a big deal cuz you're already there all right um so Nvidia which makes these Advanced chips which do among other things they're their perfect chip for AI but the United States is trying to keep Nvidia from Shipping their best chips to China because we don't want China to be as good as we are at AI could be dangerous uh but Nidia is arguing that they can tweak these chips so that they're you know degraded in some way and and not as good as ours but we'll see about that um I guess China has been as much as 20% of nvidia's Revenue um but keep an eye on that do you think you can really keep China out of the AI game by making sure that their chips are not as good as ours I know I I feel like it's going to drive China to be to have the room own chip manufacturing but why wouldn't they have it already what what would what would prevent China from having their own chip industry is it the is it the equipment you need to build the industry that they would have to build up all kinds of because I guess it's the same problem in the United States right the United States doesn't have the chip industry it used to have and it's hard to make it because you know I guess maybe maybe it's uh trademarks and copyrights and patents I don't know I don't know what I just don't know what prevents any a major industrialized country from making their own chips I'd love to know what's so hard about that that only Taiwan can do it so we need to more know more about that um an expert who you should listen to Bruce uh schneir he's one of these cyber security expert types and he's got an editori on slate in which he says that the era of AI is going to be an era of mass spying now what he means by that is that in the old days you if you had a reason to spy on one person let's say you had a a reason to suspect them you could get a warrant and then you could you know legally spy in that one person's Communications but if you have ai you have the option of sort of just watching everybody and having the AI summarize what they're saying and putting it into some important context as to whether they might be a terrorist or a criminal and then what are you going to do about it would it be first of all would it be legal for AI to look through everybody's Communications and it's not a human right so it's not a human looking through Communications but if it finds something then maybe it would flag it for the humans is that fair well don't we do that already you're you're talking about the current situation do you know banks have been doing that for I don't know 40 years banks have always run software that doesn't accuse a specific anybody of anything but it looks at all their transactions and it looks for anything that has a uh a pattern that suggests fraud because there's patterns and when it sees a pattern it you know surfaces it for the humans so we've been doing that forever and I guess that's legal you know it's legal for the banks to do it so I feel like there will be certainly loopholes where AI can do it so if I haven't told you this before stop doing anything illegal if I have to tell you that you're you're definitely going to get caught anything that you're doing illegal today that you have a a digital footprint for you're definitely going to get caught you know maybe this year next year in four years but you're definitely going to get caught if if there's any signs of a crime in your life you're going to get caught right so you should immediately adjust all of your illegal activities to to get rid of them one of one of the uh predictions I made in the late '90s is that technology would eliminate crime that technology would eliminate crime and there are several ways I said that would happen number one was there would be cheap cameras everywhere right remember in the '90s I said the economics of little you video cameras would go down so much there would just be a camera everywhere and sure enough there there's pretty much a camera everywhere so there's still crime but the odds of getting away with lots of different types of crimes is going the way down now what if AI can find every Financial crime imagine AI looking for insider trading it could find it every time like it it's not that easy to find insider trading with you know normal mechanisms but imagine AI could find the brother-in-law's cousin of the person who had The Insider information how bet we can't do that now because the normal way you would get away with Insider uh trading is you'd have somebody else do it the dumb way to do it is to be you know a person in the company that has The Insider information and then trade in that a day before the announcement right you're going to get caught because the systems do look for that they look for unusual tra trades right before big news events but if you would simply talk to your cousin in person and said to your cousin hey you know you're your brother-in-law that nobody will ever connect me to because it's too many jumps tell them to buy a little bit of this and by the way you know I might be asking that brother-in-law's cousin for a favor someday so you can work things out so there's a system of benefit that that just never shows up on paper but AI could find it CU they know who your cousin is and they know your cousin's friend made a trade and suddenly you know this this uh you know hiding stuff doesn't work now remember Hunter Biden had all these um shell corporations now that worked because nobody was looking for it as soon as they were looking for it they could start to unwind it all but if if you weren't looking for it you weren't going to discover it but could AI look for it could you could AI have enough access to enough databases in other countries Etc that it could find all the um illicit corporate structures and also figure out how they connect to each other and just draw up the crime maybe maybe so I think we're reaching that point I suggested where you know we might be dumb enough to let the criminals out that's a different story but we'll have the ability to basically catch any crime I don't know how you get away with anything all right um but Mass spying yeah that's definitely coming Taylor Swift is the person of the year on Time Magazine now did you ever think that Time Magazine was making their choices based on you know objective criteria let me explain how the media Works Time Magazine makes their decision who who is the person of the year not because it's necessarily the best choice or or what the customers would think sometimes it's just marketing for the magazine sometimes they're just being provocative and they know it so that you will say to yourself my God how could they say that I'm going to have to read their argument and you buy the magazine so you should see it as marketing first but Time Magazine might have a political bias as well and I would ask do you think there's any political meaning giving that this is a presidential political year coming up that having Taylor Swift on the cover would would that be any kind of a political message in addition to just being good marketing for time well maybe um here's a post by Jack bobic says the uh the Taylor Swift girl boss scop H is it a girl boss scop has been fully activated from her hand selected vaccine shill boyfriend to her dink lifestyle DN K is uh um uh dual income no kids dual income no kids life style to her upcoming 2024 voter operation for Democrats on abortion rights it's all coming yeah it does look a little bit like she's being let's say groomed by the media to be a good you know powerful political spokesperson for young people now do you think that Taylor Swift could cause young people to vote her way because she's Taylor Swift do you think she can move votes what do you think yes yes she could absolutely yeah now you know maybe not completely by yourself but it would only take a few of your Heroes to be on the same side before you say hey that's the that's the third hero of mine that's on the same side I guess I'm on that side too yes yes she could move the dial she is she is that powerful so that might have a political component to it either intentionally or not um so if you're watching the situation in Ireland and saying to yourself hey that uh the tech censorship issues that are happening in Ireland right now that doesn't affect us and if you're saying oh there there complaints against the immigration issue there that doesn't affect us well apparently there's a a bill that's being considered in Ireland uh that would require corporations to to show that they had taken all reasonable steps and exercise due diligence uh to avoid the con the uh H having bad content basically ha speech I guess so like most things it's the it's the side effect that you worry about you know it's not the it's not what it says in the surface is what's going to happen after that what's going to happen after that Michael shellenberger is sounding the alarm is if one country succeeds in getting the big um platforms to censor who they want them to censor otherwise lose their ability to operate in that country then the other countries are going to do it right away and they will exert control over their social medias as Ireland did if Ireland succeeds and and this would be the end of free speech basically because if the governments can exercise this power you don't need all the governments to do it you just need enough governments to say you have to censor before it it just becomes easy for everybody to do it all the governments to do it so yeah that's a big deal um and Conor Mc.

Gregor famous uh UFC fighter is is actually kind of serious about running for president and could actually in my opinion his popularity is you know Taylor Swift like he could actually win could actually win all right here's another uh factoid Reed Hoffman one of the biggest donors to Democrats reportedly gave a qu million dollars to a Nicki hilly super pack so you ask yourself why would the biggest or one of the biggest he might be the biggest now that there other biggest donors are having some troubles uh but Reed Hoffman why would he give money to a republican if he's one of the biggest Democrats donors andake posted well this makes sense yeah because have you noticed that uh Nikki hilly is sort of overperforming she seems like she's doing better than I expected well maybe she's got more money that might help and why would Reed Hoffman fund her is it because it's an anything but Trump uh so if he can get an get an anti-trumper elected not an anti-trumper but a anybody but Trump that's good but if he can get a Democrat elected that's even better or is he just creating trouble in the Republican party is it just a so chaos in the Republicans I don't know quar billion dollarss uh here's what I can tell you about Reed Hoffman So Not only was he you know founder of Linked.

In and a big billionaire but um he's one of the pioneers of social media in general and specifically what he pioneered was the understanding of human behavior and addiction like how to give somebody to really really like going back to the platform and how to get a network effect working Etc now he's one of the uh so-called Pay.

Pal Mafia uh the people like Peter teal and Elon Musk and uh David Sachs and Reed Hoffman so they were all part of that Pay.

Pal original startup here's the thing I always say about that group the one thing that that group has in common to a scary degree is the understanding of human psychology and I would argue that they know that better than any any small group of people you've ever seen consistently their understanding of how people operate like how the brain works is really the secret to all their success you know what what makes the service viral what makes you impossible to leave a service it's all that stuff you know the Elon Musk making his first Tesla you know super fast just so people would be excited by it the the uh ludicrous mode in the current Teslas completely unnecessary completely unnecessary it just makes it irresistible to a certain kind of buyer so yeah Reed Hoffman is more than just a big donor he is probably one of their biggest persuasion experts so if you see a persuasion play coming out of the Democrats probably Reed Hoffman thought it was a good idea because if he thought it was a bad idea he's probably influential enough to stop it and he's probably smart enough to suggest good ideas so if you're looking for who are the sometimes people ask me this you know if if robbert Chini is not involved in politics this time and I think he was looking to retire from that uh if he's not who on who on the side of the Democrats is their um persuasion expert and I would look at Reed Hoffman as not just a rich guy given money and not just a brilliant entrepreneur but he might be their persuasion expert he might be the one so I'm keeping a persuasion eye on him by the way I like Reed Hoffman i' I've met him and uh he's a great guy had a very good very good personal interaction he was very kind to me uh he has different political preferences but I don't don't fault him for that so yeah he's a good guy anyway um Facebook and meta getting some heat for having too much sexual content for young people there's some kind of a civil lawsuit being filed in New Mexico and doesn't it just Boggle your mind that the xplatform was singled out for their advertisement too close to content that people don't like and none of it was true it was way more true on the platform that backs the Democrats way more true but of course the truth doesn't matter it's a political season so the truth doesn't matter all right uh in California a new law is going into effect in January 1st so California retailers will be fined for not having gender neutral toy section for kids you'll actually be fine if your toys are for boys and or girls or I guess if it just looks obvious it's for boys or for girls now aren't there a lot of toys that are just naturally gender neutral I I thought that was already the case AR aren't most aren't most things gender neutral maybe not most for kids but um this looks like just uh just begging for lawsuits for no good reason and what what would that look like anyway how if you labeled it how would you label it would it be toys for boys toys for girls and toys for undecided or toys for non-binary like how would you even call it out toys non-gender toys or something I feel like everything is just designed to make it harder to be in business without getting sued yeah non- tuckable swimsuits I don't know I don't know what they do but that looks like a ridiculous overreach by government so apparently Hunter Biden has something that the news is calling his sugar brother sugar brother somebody who gives him money we don't know what this guy's getting in return we can only imagine but um apparently Hunter is received $4.9 million from one Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris in a three-year period now I don't know about your friends I've never had a friend who would give me5 million for basically nothing in return but boy do I wish I did I wish I had a friend like that but when I say for nothing in return that's that's unfair because uh some of it is that he bought Hunters are at work so I'm sorry I probably I should correct myself uh I exaggerated it's not that he gave $5 million for nothing some amount of it was loans according to hter there were loans could somebody uh get me a copy of the loan agreement or I'm just going to guess I'll bet you when he's asked for the loan agreements he's going to say they're missing possibly lost lost or missing anybody want to take the other side of that bed that the loan documents they definitely existed but I don't know it might be in my Whats.

App messaging that reset itself somehow kind of an app kind of a bug I uninstalled an app and now my files are all gone yeah I think something like that something like that's going to happen so I guess Hunter does use this trick of saying something alone and then uh avoiding taxes you realize of course that at some point if you said something's a loan uh and you don't ever pay it back as some point you still have to call that income don't you if you never pay it back actually I don't know the answer to that question if anybody's an IRS expert let's say you let's say you legitimately received a loan and you actually had paperwork for it and then you just didn't pay it back does it ever count as income if it's obvious once it becomes obvious there's no intention to ever to pay it back and maybe you have the money you just and that maybe that's the key you have the money it's clearly clearly true you have the money to pay it back but you just don't does it become income at that point point or does it become just bad news for the person who gave you the loan from a banking perspective if somebody defaulted it wouldn't be income if you simply defaulted because you couldn't afford it that doesn't become income that's just a defaulted loan but if it's clear you never had documents 10 years of going by you've never made an interest payment you've made no attempt to pay it back wouldn't the IRS reclassify that as a loan eventually if oh somebody says if you default on a credit card it counts as income oh I'm seeing opinions that people are saying that it does count as income interesting could have gone either way I didn't know how that was going to go all right well these are these are comments on social media so uh talk to your accountant before you take my tax advice or anybody else's so what do you think of this is there any reason that this one Hollywood lawyer would be giving millions of dollars to one person who by the way they were not childhood friends this guy started giving Hunter Millions within you know a few years of meeting him now that's a friend all right uh FBI director Ray was testifying in Congress and Senator Mike Lee went after him hard um about the alleged changes in the processes to keep Americans safe from um illegal you know fising stuff I guess and uh the trouble is that the FBI can't I guess they can't be too specific about what they changed it it's sort of a uh trust us we changed everything and now it's good so Mike Lee just went off on them and it's really good because because you know sometimes you say to yourself oh these are just you know all the politicians are just trying to do their moment so it becomes a viral thing so it looks like they're doing their job honestly Mike Le looked like a human being who was really mad it didn't to me it didn't come off as you know grandstanding he just came off as a pissed off human being which is why I recommend it you know I wouldn't recommend you know somebody gives their little speech in Congress cuz they're just trying to be a star but he didn't look like that I mean that's just the way I I'm not reading his mind I'm just saying that that was the impression I guy he looks sincere like a like a human who's being abused just like the rest of us and he was talking just like you would if you could have talked freely it's like Jesus you don't even let us see it we have no reason to believe you're different I mean he just went off on them it was interesting to see all right well bill lman um famous investor bill lman has been going super hard on the presidents of the colleges that have allowed the uh anti-semitic stuff to happen and uh so here's a post for him today he says does calling for the genocide of Jews violate uh your University's code of conduct or rules regarding bullying bullying or harassment now he's talking about the fact that three presidents of three colleges Harvard University of pen and MIT were hauled in by Congress to explain why they weren't uh either all quitting or or being fired or removed by the boards for allowing what uh most observers are saying looks anti-semitic which is they're allowing the anti-jewish voices to intimidate the Jewish students in a bullying clearly threatening way they should not exist in any campus today so Bill amman's going after him and I guess the the three presidents all all answered the question of does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your College's code of conduct all three female um presidents of those un or those colleges said it depends on the context oh my God it depends on the context now here's my take it does depend on the context so technically of course everything depends on context but what doesn't is there something that doesn't depend on context of course it does right you know let's say the context was um somebody was giving a speech about what you should never do in public well that context would matter because it would mean that what they said was the opposite of what they thought was true so yeah context matters but in in the real world is there ever going to be a context where this matters I mean really is there ever going to be a context that makes this okay ever and would this ever be okay in any context if any other you know ethnic group were involved no of course not well maybe white people in general or white men but any other group no it be inappropriate so there's uh continued calls for those three College professors or college uh presidents to be fired by their boards will it happen I doubt it I don't think any of them will be fired do you nope no way all right um there was a study that the uh I think it was the end wokeness account on on X it's a great account to follow finds a lot of good stuff so there was a national election um studies in 2021 national election studies was the name of the the study and in 2021 they looked at racial groups and how they raided each other uh and how they raided themselves so they asked uh separately they asked the black Asian-American um Hispanic Americans and white people in America how do you rate your own group yeah how awesome do you think you are and then how do you rate the other three groups well the findings of this study yeah assuming the stud's right we don't know but the studies seem to indicate that white people uh on average of course we're not talking about every person it's always these are just averages that they tended to rate themselves other white people as well as Hispanic black and Asian Americans that's about the same so white people said white people ah we're average how's everybody else about the same so nobody was special nobody was disavowed nobody was put on a pedestal just everybody's about the same so basically white people have been buying into the Melting Pot you know everybody's the same we're all equal kind of narrative how the other groups do uh not so good turns out that the other groups think that they're pretty awesome but white people suck so bet you didn't see that coming or did you now I gave some advice here um if you believe that this study is accurate and you believe that white people generally are not uh biased against other people on average but that other groups might have a very low opinion of you if you're white don't do anything about it that's my advice don't mention it in public don't bring up that there's a study that suggests maybe there's a a way to act that would keep you safer if you were white because you will be very cancelled if you point that out so what you should do um the only ethical thing as I I've been told I didn't know this at first but I've learned this the only moral and ethical thing to do if you're a white person is to uh continue associating with people who have a low opinion of you because to do otherwise would be racist so that's your advice okay uh V posted today truth number one January 6 now looks more and more like entrapment well that's pretty Direct so a major candidate for president who is not Trump is saying directly the January 6 looks more like entrapment why well there are now more videos coming out that show uh multiple instances of police calmly removing barriers to let the crowd into the capital grounds calmly and repeatedly removing barriers that are working this is this is the key point the barriers were working the people were on the other side of it and they were sort of respecting the barrier because there were police there and the police actually removed the barriers and let them in then we've also seen multiple in interior uh security cameras they show that the people look more like tourists they were just wandering respectfully staying between the lines and the uh law enforcement was high-fiving and and basically just letting them do their thing cuz they they either didn't think they would be violent or they were in on something we don't know what they were thinking or why they did it we just know what happened so do we have let let's get a uh let me test the temperature of my audience in the comments do you think it's a fair statement that January 6 now looks more and more like entrapment that and we're also not told the number of uh undercover informants or whatever in the crowd so we're told that we're not going to be told how many were the ENT Trappers the alleged ENT Trappers uh but let's just call them the undercover of people we're not told that number the public can't know that number now what do I tell you about the government If This Were an individual and an indiv idual said I have some information I'm not going to tell you I say unambiguously well I don't know what that person did but innocent till proven guilty definitely innocent innocent innocent by our system which is a really good system until proven guilty I don't care how I don't care how guilty it sounds it can sound guilty but you got to prove that that's the rule but not for the government if the government doesn't tell you something you can infer their guilt totally appropriate it's logical it might not be right but you can infer that they've given you reason to believe they're guilty and you can act on it you know within the law as a citizen you can act on um so yeah I agree with vake and I would say I would I didn't start here I did not start out believing that there were enough FBI informance to make a difference I didn't start there I always knew it was an interesting question but I didn't have the data to you know firmly say one way or the other and I didn't assume that just because we knew that maybe one or two doors had been opened or you know maybe some police officers acted in a certain way or you know maybe Ray EPS was still still a question mark I didn't think that that was yet enough to put it together say oh well maybe it's exactly what it looks like but but in the fullness of time when we can see the complete catalog of dirty tricks and intelligence Ops we can see the full bag of dirty tricks from the Democrats in general we can see their desperation to hold on to power and we can see that they were uh trying to paint Mega people as domestic terrorists if you look at their um motiv ation they have the motive they have the motive for the crime did they have the time to prepare for it they had time to prepare because they knew it was coming um would it be unprecedented no it would not it it would be well within the normal behavior but usually it's something you see America in instigating in another country so it's normal for America to do it to other countries and we also know now that it's normal and routine for America to take tricks which they've applied only to other countries and apply it domestically we see this with the censorship Etc it's obvious right so we've got the motivation we've got the means you know they have the resources we've got uh a full full umbrella of supporting interests we've got a full map of all the players so we can see who's connected to who and it all looks exactly like the says it looks and now we have an increasing number of anecdotal still anecdotal but you know little bits of why is this police offic are acting this way why is this one opening this gate why is this one just standing aside if you put it all together I I'm going to state that at this point the burden of proof has to be on the government to prove innocence right the burden of proof on the government when you've done when there are this many signals they have to prove it didn't happen it's not like a citizen where they'd have to prove it did happen they have to prove it didn't happen and at this point your working assumption your working assumption this doesn't mean you're right but the correct working assumption is that it's exactly what it looks like and it was entrapment and vake sees the same thing you do that is the correct working assumption even if it turns out not to be true which I would love I would I would love that the government could tell you how many operators were there let you interview them or let the Press interview them let you see any documents that were you know part of the decision making and then maybe there's nothing there but when you act this guilty the working assumption has to be guilt that's exactly what it looks like all right um Thomas Massie getting some push back from a number of people uh Charles Schumer Chuck Schumer he was reacting to uh massie's post I'll tell you what his post was in a minute but he said uh uh what did it mean well Massie just says it was anti-semitic now I'm going to tell you what Thomas Massie posted and I want you to see uh how uh how anti-semitic it looks to you all right uh so he posted a meme in which the uh rapper Drake is shown in two pictures and he he's putting up a hand like you know no more of that or you know don't give me that kind of stop it hand and and one of them says uh uh what did it say uh uh Zionism so at first he's saying uh oh no he's first saying approvingly yes to Zionism but then he's looking disapprovingly and then the word say uh uh uh American patriotism so massie's post showed a uh what looked like a conflict between uh what Congress was doing for Zionism versus America now here's how I interpreted it and and I'll let you tell me how I'm interpreting it wrong I interpreted it that he wants the American Congress to use American money first for things that are uh primarily America Centric and not so much for something that's directly Israel Centric and the country of Israel uh being part of that definition of Zionism now if an American politician says we should spend money on our own country instead of another country even an ally even a strong Ally even you know one of our favorite allies that he would still prefer as our elected representative that we spend it on American interest more directly although I do understand that America has an interest in in Israel's you know well-being but it's a second order effect you know the the first order is do you have any money that's more important than how you spend it do you have any and we don't you know Massie would say we'd have to borrow that money so um here's what I learned from this if you use that zword Z IO n apparently there's another interpretation of it that I can't find in a definition so when I look at the definition of the words in this controversy I see uh Massie using the zword to refer to the nation of Israel and protecting it is that racist it refers to the formation of the nature of the nation of Israel and then protecting that Nation what's what's the anti-semitic part what am I missing can somebody fill me in I mean I I honestly don't know right there there are plenty of people who are Jewish who don't approve of Zionism meaning they don't approve of Israel having you know I guess a Jewish state so there there's somebody who disagrees with everything right there's no issue that you don't have disagreement on so everybody there's always going to be somebody disagreeing with everything does anybody have any idea why the word the zword is all if you don't agree with prioritizing Israel over the United States are you automatically anti-semitic is it because here's here's my best hypothesis I'll see if any if this Rings true there there is a second well let's say there's an alternative use of that zword by people who are unambiguously racists and see it part of a global conspiracy but that's not the de the dictionary definition the dictionary definition is not what the worldwide conspiracy theorists are saying that's their own definition or their own usage of it the the common usage of it is the formation of Israel and then the support of it as a Jewish State isn't it isn't that the that's the definition right and I actually looked for the definition because I thought maybe I maybe there was an element to the definition I didn't get but here's my best take my best take is that of course Thomas Massie is not using it in a anti- itic way okay let me just say this Thomas Massie did it you think he did an anti-semitic post like this soon after October 7th an elected member of Congress you think he did an unambiguous anti-semitic post which he knew he was doing really yeah really really you could you actually stand in front of me and tell me you believe that but here here's my best um my best defens of Schumer all right so let me steal man this is that the right word so I'm going to take Schumer's point of view and argue with the best I can uh it is true that people who are definitely anti-semitic have used the word Zion as as a integral part of their anti-semitic you know larger messaging is that true can can we agree on that that the people who are unambiguously anti-semitic especially online use the z-word as part of their anti-semitic messaging so if you are associating with that group in any way like even by using their wording well that's maybe a little suggestive of anti-Semitic because you're borrowing their language I can see that I I I could see why somebody would ask you to disavow the post but that's really different from being anti-semitic so I don't believe that even Schumer believes that Massie is anti-Semitic he's talking about the choice of how to message would you agree with that that even Schumer is not saying he is anti-Semitic he simply objecting to the messaging because it's too suggestive of a a world in which which they use that word too much in the worst way but here's the thing Massie is not an idiot he's just using words the way words words are used so um I get and here's the other thing you need to know now this applies to my situation of my own cancelling but also almost all the other cancelling it's never about the person who gets cancelled um the public and the and the political players they use stories about um public figures to attach their messaging to so it's never really about the public figure none of this is about Thomas Massie it's about the fact that some people want to make sure you know that they're as supportive as they could be of the Jewish community and they want you to know that they won't tolerate anything that looks even suggestive of being on the other side so the way to interpret it is has nothing to do with Thomas Massie because it legitimately has nothing to do with Thomas Massie he just used English words the way they're used in the way he likes to use them everybody understood exactly what he meant there was no confusion about what he meant or who he is but still can can turn it into something because it's easy to do so um but also here here's the other thing you should be aware of um this is a hot War right this is not theoretical Israel is at War and they're right in the thick of it here's what I would not ask you to assume don't don't assume that people are being objective observers of anything there's no objectivity happening here and if you try some objectivity you're going to get your ass handed to you right so a lot of the messaging pro and con of everything is more about do you support Israel right so this is the point where um any any little diversion from the perfect messaging in favor of Israel is going to get a lot of scrutiny I'm surprised it hasn't happened to me yet you know I've said from the start I'm 100% um backing Israel and my my reasons are easy my reasons are easy it's what any country would do any country who would experience what they did on October 7th would respond same way if they could you know if they had the military might to do it so having an opin opinion on it to me just seemed like a waste of time it's just going to happen my opinion isn't going to change anything so um I'm 100% understanding of it and supportive of it um but I don't I don't know that that'll protect me because you realize the first second I say something that that could be interpreted as off message the ADL will come after me right like you can't be 100% in favor of Israel and still be safe you're just not a safe and I think Massie is an example that he's uh anyway there enough about that all right um as Mike covich has pointed out um I'll just read his his post he said Bill Amman and the Harvard donors are are the leading indicators of 2024 he will never openly support Trump talking about Amman uh not the point even Trump haters see a huge mess meaning the country um imagine what most Americans are thinking and then uh Mike finishes in his usual provocative way he says that's why the regime is using media apparat aaric to incite assassination hyperbole is that too far is that an exaggeration do you do you think the Democrats have an intentional strategy of getting uh Trump assassinated uh because it's the only way they can stop an obvious train that's under of control which is their own train but they don't want they don't want Republicans to stop it they want to I guess keep the train going um I agree with this completely and I'm going to I'm going to add some weight to it here's some weight uh Rob Riner says that Trump would be the end of democracy Rob Riner yeah who's the head of an organization that includes some former CIA members on it some say without evidence that Rob Riner might be part of the deep State blob and not just a person with an opinion some say but if that were true I don't know that that's true I know that he acts exactly like he's part of the deep State I don't know that it's true I just know his actions are consistent with it and if it were and he says it's the end of democracy what does that signal to you well by itself it would just be political blah blah blah right because people say stuff like that but when you say it about Trump and it's in the context of all this other stuff that I'm going to mention it does feel like a call to assassination it does because if you can tell people that Trump is bad enough he's enough of a Hitler dictator Tyrant then you can make the case that there's nothing that's out of bounds to stop him nothing's out of bounds so look for this in their messaging nothing's and abounds they won't say that but they will say well he might murder your children so you know do what you have to do you know it's going to look like that all right what else uh Liz Cheney warns that a vote for Trump quote May mean the last election that you get to vote in ah so Liz Cheney says that you will probably lose your country if you let if you let him win but what does um Joe Biden say is there anything scary sounding uh he says uh we cannot let him win we cannot let Trump win that's an interesting way to word it isn't it usually usually it's something like uh we have to you know we have to fight to win if he wins you know it'll be a bad country but if I win it'll be good but that phrase We cannot let him win does that sound like permission to do anything to keep him from if you cannot that seems like it's going Beyond preference cannot is a decision see the difference we don't want him to win as a preference our team would do better as a preference he'd do a bad job as a preference I'd do a good job as a preference he has bad policies that's a preference I have good policies that's a preference we cannot let him win is a decision that's not a preference that is allowing anything we cannot cannot is a really strong and and it feels like feels like you meant it I swear to God we just have to have the all caps filter if I read you the the stuff that the that the all caps people are saying on You.

Tube you would just laugh it's like why do you label yourself as a idiot like why would you label yourself hi I'm a idiot look at my all cap statement oh oh oh all right um so the uh Democrat Playbook um is they're going to go after the following things from the Republicans so here here's their attack on the Republicans um they're going to go after the potential for a National Abortion ban because Republicans talk about that apparently Trump has wisely refused to engage on that question which is the right political stance and uh as others have pointed out assuming that Democrats still have some power in Congress I don't see how there would ever be a National Abortion ban do you how how in the world would Congress change so much that you could get a vote for a National Abortion ban does that even sound like something that could happen you know don't say whether you'd like it or not but is it possible it doesn't seem like it but it's a good political um it's a good political Club because to the extent that Democrats think it could happen it's a good it's a good approach um I don't know they say that you know Trump will cut climate funding he probably will and then they say he'll undercut and attack American democracy this is coming from some de Democrat uh adviser all right uh and he's going to punish his political opponents and be a dictator so Trump does this town hall thing on Hannity he's asked the question about being a dictator do you remember what I told you I told you that he should uh he should mock people for the for that idea you just laugh at him he did not do that instead he he makes it so hard to to support him instead he said I'll only be a dictator for the first day come on come on C can you give me can you give me any little relief here can can you possibly give me a chance of surviving the next year like I feel like I'm going to get assassinated right if I say two more good things about him and he says one more thing about being a dictator for the first day I feel like I'm going to get assassinated can you try a little harder to keep me alive for the next year are you kidding me don't say you're going to be a dictator the first day but only the first day only the first day now was he joking of course of course he was joking but when it gets requoted or just quoted you don't get the joke part you don't get that he wasn't taking it any of it seriously so of course the news today is that he says yeah I'm going to be a dictator on the first day they're literally quoting him as saying I'm going to be a dictator on day one because he actually said that but then he said you know only day one cuz you know give some stuff done or whatever and it didn't even make sense it didn't make sense because he wouldn't have to be a dictator you know if he actually has the powers to do the things he wants to do he doesn't need to be a dictator why would he say that why why come on make it a little bit easier for us huh a little bit all right well I think he'll probably Trend in the right direction on that um yeah yeah I I think he get he needs to be funnier in mocking it he he needs he needs to make sure everybody knows that he thinks you're you're an idiot for thinking it here here would be the way I'd explain it you want to hear the fastest persuasive argument for how he will not become a dictator all right here it goes become a dictator I've been president for four years do you know how hard it is to get anything done do you know how many people would have to be involved in in any small decision even the smallest thing has to be approved by this miles of bureaucracy do you know how many of the bureaucracy are Trump supporters mostly not mostly not you've got a whole government of people who are against me who work for me how in the world am I going to become a dictator when I can't even get an executive order passed that doesn't get reversed in a few months by the next president how in the world I couldn't I couldn't even get the National Guard to protect the capital on January 6th how in the world do I become a dictator can somebody can somebody tell me that plan like if I if I make a phone call and tell somebody to do some dictator stuff in your world do they go do it in my world it starts this big or uh this big bureaucratic process which stops everything from happening I I can't even do easy things I can't even do things you want do you know what I else I can't get done I can't build up a wall and most of you want one think about that not only can I not take over the country by talking by talking I'm not going to become a dictator because I talk myself into it and talk you into it you would need the entire function and structure and and the military to somehow be on the same side of that I can't even get I can't even get Congress to do the things that most of the people in the world want to be done I can't even get easy things done how in the world am I going to take over the country by posting on Truth he's not even on X he's not even on social media he's only on his own social media how in the world is he going to take over the country I mean to me that's just funny and here's why that's persuasive because as soon as you say the bureaucracy is so thick that I can't even do things that all of you want me to do you'd be done wouldn't you the moment you hear that you go okay that's kind of true if you can't even get things done that we want to be done how in the world could you overthrow the country just because you thought it was a good idea yeah and here's an even better one you want one that nobody would ever stop talking about he he'll never say this but it would be awesome let me explain something to you imagine Trump saying this if I tried to become a dictator Don Jr would kill me done done junor would murder me and you know what maybe you would maybe he would if he said a vonka would kill me I think I'd believe that too because you know what ianka and Don Jr are Patriots and they would actually care about their country probably more than one person even their father now you could argue about whether that's true or not right but you would never forget it if he ever said something like that you could never get it out of your head and by the and people would joke about it you know they would joke about forever oh donu is going to kill you for this but I think and wouldn't it be funny if Don Jr confirmed it imagine Trump saying it and then you know everybody has to talk to Don junor is like would you would you that's crazy would you and imagine him saying absolutely absolutely absolutely but just imagine that because it's also I think probably true I think I could kill a family member if they became Hitler I hate to admit it but I probably could all right here are a few things uh oh and also they're going to say Trump Wants Revenge uh Steve Bannon and probably others will be saying this that that's a good thing and you know we should maybe keep boosting that message that Trump wants to get revenge because in this in this instance he would be getting revenge against people who had done truly bad things not just to him but to the rule of law and to the Integrity of the country I just don't like that word I don't like that word yeah revenge is not really uh a good political word um I would like uh now when Bannon talks about that word he does Define it as you know holding people accountable and Prosecuting criminals so he's very careful to say I'm only talking about people who did crimes I'm not I'm not talking about innocent people we're just talking about literally criminals but it's a bad look it's a bad look I think something more like justice would work better however it is the primaries and you know if it were more of a fight in the primary I'd say use those fighting words that might get people uh excited but I think Trump needs to be already priming toward the general election would you agree Trump's um candidacy should already be more toward the middle cuz he doesn't need to worry too much unless he go to jail or as a health problem he doesn't have to worry too much about the nomination unless something changes but is the debate tonight oh thanks for reminding me um there there's some news today that I never thought I'd have to say now I want you to sit down to hear this this this might come as a a personal shock to some of you so that this will affect you personally and I I just want to say it once if you weren't aware of this you died yeah you died and it's tragedy that you died oh I'm sorry not why not why OU died no no no uh his name is James uh U yo and he was in that exploding house in Arlington they say uh which answers my question which is how can you be in a house that completely explodes and survive it but apparently you died so you died sorry um that's right and when he knocked on the door and they said who's there he said yeah you know you know the rest of it okay uh here's two things to understand about persuasion talking about this slow motion assassination attempt on Trump which does look exactly like that so now you see that all the the people who are the trained um the trained monkeys who say the things you're supposed to say are going to say he's a dictator and he's uh going to be Hitler and uh he wants revenge and he's coming after you he's going to take away your democracy your democracy is going to be taken away now here's the things you need to know persuasion wise it is not possible to hypnotize somebody to commit murder right it's been tried it's been tested no matter how good you are as a hypnotist and no matter who the person is you're hypnotizing you cannot hypnotize them to take a gun and go shoot somebody if they believe the gun really has really bull real bullets in it sometimes they'll do it because they think it's just an experiment and a trick and they think the gun does doesn't have real bullets but of course the gun does not have real bullets because it's just a test so the people who do take the gun and and go to shoot somebody it's not because they're hypnotized it's because they know they nobody would ever give you a loaded gun until you to shoot an innocent person so the tests are it's hard to test it but there's no there's no example of anybody who's been hypnotized to do harm to somebody however you can bring brainwash an entire segment of the public into thinking somebody else is Hiller and then you just wait you end up the same result you just don't know which individual ends up deciding that they need to take matters into their own hands so you are actually watching in my professional opinion a slow motion assassination of President Trump attempted an attempted assassination and it's being led by the Atlantic The Washington Post CNN MSNBC and all The Usual Suspects and I do believe that they are aware as cernovich calls it down they are aware that they have done such a bad job with the I'll say the fabric of American civilization that they can't possibly win in a straightup vote and if they can't win in a straightup vote and here's why it's such a problem that uh Trump is threatening them if they don't win they think they might go to jail do you know why they think they might go to jail because they've done crimes in some cases and then there are people who maybe didn't do crimes but they're worried that they would get blamed of a crime they didn't do I wonder if that's ever happened to somebody named Trump 91 times this year yeah so why would why do you think Democrats would be concerned about a government arrest passing them for charges that are huh huh I wonder if they've been involved being on the side that is arresting people for you know like January 6th and 91 charges against Trump for so far nothing yeah so yeah I can see why they'd be worried that some that the government would ever come after somebody on Trump tub charges now I would not support Trump doing anything like that I would be very very much seriously against any Republican president who is doing political prosecutions I hope I I hope I would be wise enough to recognize it though because the problem is you always think that the other side is a criminal but whatever they do to your team is a political Witch Hunt it's just natural you think that way I hope I would be wise enough to know if Republicans did that kind of thing to Democrats I haven't seen it so I haven't seen a signal for it but I worry I worry that I'm not tuned to it that I would miss it and that's a big problem because you don't want your side to do that either so I uh let me assure Democrats if you need it that I would be on your side if uh anything Trump or any other the Republican did look like a purely um political prosecution I I could not back that and I would uh and I would also believe that that would be a big enough problem to impeach a president so if if Trump did something that looked like political prosecutions impeachments on the table yeah it's you got to be serious about that you you can't take that as team play that can never be team play that's just got to be the American play would a special prosecutor for several areas be a good idea maybe it's Case by case situation but maybe uh is it word thinking on the Z issue um I now I know what you're saying the the word thinking are they just trying to use their own definition of the word and that's definitely what's happening but I think this is more a case of trying to scapegoat people to boost your own message so the the word thinking is just two people having an argument but trying to win by changing the definition of words what's happening with the the the Zion stuff is uh it's being used to identify people that can be boosters of your message basically so similar but different all right um so the other thing you need to know about persuasion is although you can't hypnotize one person to murder you can very easily hypnotize a group of people to see somebody as someone who is deserving of murder and then you wait and then you wait so um so look for that you should you should look for more evidence that they're looking for a uh ex what would what would be the right term for it something that's outside of the political process would be would you call that an extra political to mean it's outside of the political process on extrajudicial extrajudicial means you're doing something illegal right um yeah all right ladies and gentlemen that is more than enough I think we've done our job here um do you believe in strategic incompetence uh yes I mean all the all the Lost documents and lost files I don't believe any of that I I believe that they are strategically deleting things and claiming incompetence yeah it's called lying yep here's a question for you do you think that Trump this time would be able to assemble a highquality team or will he be once again locked out from you know the the strong traditional players who normally would would want to be part of an Administration I I have a suspicion that he might be able to get high quality people I'm not positive it could work the other way but part of the reason is this uh the Republicans have a lot of high quality people who could use jobs yeah no I'm not one of them I'm definitely not a high quality person in terms of a government job but um I don't even have to give you names but just just imagine all of the Republicans who would make a good uh uh spokesperson for the administration you they haded Communications Ju Just just think of all the insanely good choices that you can make right just insanely good I I'm going to throw one out for you okay a head of Communications in a trump Administration Greg gelt yes or no now I don't think he'd ever do it it would be a it would be a suicide mission but would Trump be smart enough to know that if you made the um if you made those stupid press events interesting and you and you had somebody with a real personality not somebody who's just going to say no I don't know and I'll look into that and you've asked a question already you know all the all the things what if you had somebody who actually engaged with the audience had fun with the audience the audience may even like you know maybe they just like him and he just has fun with it because it's not a useful process that the Press events are just not useful and that's why didn't Trump just get rid of them after a while he just stopped them didn't he because they're so but somebody like you know let's say somebody of his capabilities if you put somebody in who can make a joke of stuff the joke gets on TV right a boring answer maybe gets on TV but you forget it anyway but a real good funny answer becomes news so Trump could actually create news by making sure that his spokesperson was funny and said things that you know were supportive of the president but also you couldn't forget right now yeah I don't think I don't think Greg's going to be the head of communications but you could come up with I'll bet you on your own you could come up with 10 Republican names that would be just fascinating in that job just fascinating right uh Tyrus Tyrus would be great I'm seeing Tyrus being suggested as head of Communications in a republican uh he'd be great he has the full the full u talent stack so yeah I can get behind that I'd watch it too I'd far more I far more likely watch watch if Tyrus was giving it because he's a big personality he's funny you don't remember Tony Snow who would mock stupid questions yeah I don't actually all right that's all for now I'm going to go do something else I'll get to talk a little bit to the good people in locals and I'll say goodbye now to You.

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700 um or more people and it was one of

the writers I think Vanessa

Larson she posted on next that she's so

proud to be among 700 or more Washington

Post colleagues walking out for 24 hours

uh on

Thursday and she asks uh people to

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Washington Post or is the Washington

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uh Starbucks is uh lost a lot of value I

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boycotts uh based on some political twe

supporting the Palestinians or something

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crazy um poor Starbucks Boris Johnson is

I guess they're having some kind of a CO

inquiry in the UK to find out what

really happened and who knew what and

all that stuff and former prime minister

Boris Johnson has to explain why 5,000

of his WhatsApp messages from the 2020

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disappeared and Boris says he's not so

sure um some kind of technical thing

maybe something about the app I don't

know maybe it was uninstalled or when it

got reinstalled you know maybe something

like technology and the app and the

something and then the something

happened but maybe maybe a glitch and

maybe the data disappeared something

like that now when I look at Boris

Johnson and I look at his haircut I say

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anything I don't know I think that's

hilarious I look at his haircut and I

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for another example all right I'm done

with that but uh I would like to see a

list maybe we could come up with it here

in the comments tell me all the things

that uh the UK government and the

American government have lost that was

important data that the public needed to

see let's see you got your

Epstein uh stuff all things Epstein from

his video cameras then there's the video

of his video cameras of his death those

are those are missing because the

cameras weren't on uh let's see you've

got Hillary's emails they they just sort

of went missing and got destroyed by

Hammers and whatnot you got the January

6 the entire January 6 uh testimonies

all all mysteriously

missing uh what else is

missing yeah oh there there's no video

of show of being attacked in

prison uh at least that we've

seen yeah Jimmy hofa is still

missing um and what about uh what about

the 2020 election are there any any

machines that don't have the data that

they were supposed to store yeah a lot

of election data is missing uh we

haven't seen the UAP videos but I'm sure

they exist but they must be

missing uh yeah the Epstein ja

video

uh yeah that just seems like there's

just a a lot of things

missing just a lot of things

missing

anyway here's a trend you should watch

um so China has a company that's using

AI to build indoor vertical Gardens now

why is this a big deal well indoor

gardens you know greenhouses have been

around forever but they haven't quite

replaced outdoor gardening for basic

economic reasons but you think that

someday they would because your indoor

gardening is going to be uh better on

water you much easier on water it's

going to be better on keeping the

insects out much better it's going to be

potentially better in managing light if

you do it right and uh but the one

problem they had was still space and of

course you got

labor but robots and AI could kind of

solve that for you and also building

vertically so they'll build so instead

of putting everything on the ground

where you run out of space they can just

build shelves and keep going up to the

ceiling now if you have shelves to the

ceiling you've got twice as much work

problem right because you got to get

somebody up there to look around and and

adjust things but if you had a

robot a robot with a couple arms and

some AI the robot would not only know

how much light and water and when to

plant and you know how to get rid of any

weeds if there were any um and and oh

the other benefit is you wouldn't need

insecticide so you'd have less less

chemicals fewer chemicals so basically

indoor garden

should be the way that we go if you can

get it just get the economics down you

know some some little extra every house

you buil would have its own garden

imagine a room in your

house which just has a robot like a

Roomba that's just working all day and

all night just making sure everything's

good in there and it has AI so it can

actually look at your plant and know

what's wrong it can just look at it and

say oh looks like it needs a little

water I think I think the AI plus

vertical shelves

is right at the edge right at the edge

of where it's going to make more sense

to be

indoors I think and then you know maybe

you add little uh you know uh solar

panels to drive the robot and stuff but

I think once your labor goes down to

practically zero and you can use the

space better and then the AI Mak sure

that your your uh your crop is way

better than it would have been it's

going to be a big deal indoor gardens

mark my words Kim Jong-un had a event I

guess he was talking about the women in

North Korea not having enough babies and

he actually

wept he actually cried in public Kim

juned because they weren't having enough

babies now I don't know that just

telling people to have more babies is

going to work when people are starving I

would think that starving and living in

a repressive regime should have the

natural effect of making people want to

have fewer babies so I don't know how

he's going to solve

that um but even Kim Jong-un is probably

seeing that they're in a death

spiral because at their current rate

they will not have enough young people

big problem for

everybody well speaking of countries

have that problem China's got that

problem but beyond that Moody just cut

China's credit out look to negative on

Rising debt risk so I don't know if I've

mentioned this but China is unsafe for

business I don't know if their debt

situations could be worse in the United

States but I feel like there's going to

be some kind of thing happening in the

future that I can't even imagine in

which debt will go

away did you hear uh Warren Buffett's

solution for uh solving our debt problem

he says he could solve it tomorrow

all you do is pass a law that says uh if

you're a member of Congress and you

don't keep our debt below 3%

GDP uh that you automatically are un

unqualified to run for office you you

can't run for reelection if the debt is

above a certain percentage of the GDP

now that's easy to say but of course

nobody's going to pass a bill like that

but even if we had one do you think it

would work

probably not right probably

not all right um our dumbest vice

president is uh reportedly according to

the Wall Street Journal is taking on a

bigger role in advising the White House

on the Israel Hamas War so here are some

of the uh insightful things that uh our

dumus vice president is

recommending now see if anybody ever

thought of these things before these are

these are so

insightful apparently she's pushing

officials to articulate more empathy for

Palestinians well nobody thought of that

before huh empathy for non-combatants

who are dying in a war I've never heard

of that before okay that that might be a

good idea kamla also the most obvious

idea in the history of obvious ideas but

does she have something better than that

does she have something better than the

most obvious idea in the history of

obvious ideas

yes

um they should focus on postconflict

Gaza plan so they should spend more time

talking about rebuilding

Gaza who told you that I did yeah it's

the same advice I've given but it's also

the same advice that Israel would give

you it's the same advice everybody would

give you which is if you don't describe

where you're going it's harder to get

people to want to go there so she's

right but these are the most obvious

things that you could ever

advise and I kind of didn't really need

her for any of

this well in other news uh the xplatform

uh is moving ahead to become a payment

processing app in addition to being

everything else and they've got licenses

now for processing payment ments in in a

dozen US

states but they probably have to get

most of the states or all of them before

they can go live but that's

happening to me that's a really big

deal because you know if you got a

gazillion people on the app and let me

ask how many of you in the course of a

week in a normal

week how many of you would send money on

some digital app whether it's venmo or

Google pay or cash app how many of you

how many of you use any kind of a

digital app at least once a

week and zel yeah zel's one um a lot of

yeses few NOS I don't know how you avoid

it I I feel like I use it almost every

day for one thing or

another yeah well so I think uh putting

the payment thing in tax is going to be

a big deal cuz you're already there all

right um so Nvidia which makes these

Advanced chips which do among other

things they're their perfect chip for AI

but the United States is trying to keep

Nvidia from Shipping their best chips to

China because we don't want China to be

as good as we are at AI could be

dangerous uh but Nidia is arguing that

they can tweak these chips so that

they're you know degraded in some way

and and not as good as

ours but we'll see about that um I guess

China has been as much as 20% of

nvidia's

Revenue um but keep an eye on that do

you think you can really keep China out

of the AI game by making sure that their

chips are not as good as

ours I know I I feel like it's going to

drive China to be to have the room own

chip

manufacturing but why wouldn't they have

it already what what would what would

prevent China from having their own chip

industry is it the is it the equipment

you need to build the

industry that they would have to build

up all kinds of because I guess it's the

same problem in the United States right

the United States doesn't have the chip

industry it used to

have and it's hard to make

it because you know I guess maybe maybe

it's uh trademarks and copyrights and

patents I don't know I don't know what I

just don't know what prevents any a

major industrialized country from making

their own chips I'd love to know what's

so hard about that that only Taiwan can

do

it so we need to more know more about

that um an expert who you should listen

to Bruce uh schneir he's one of these

cyber security expert types and he's got

an editori on slate in which he says

that the era of AI is going to be an era

of mass

spying now what he means by that is that

in the old days you if you had a reason

to spy on one person let's say you had a

a reason to suspect them you could get a

warrant and then you could you know

legally spy in that one person's

Communications but if you have ai you

have the option of sort of just watching

everybody and having the AI summarize

what they're saying and putting it into

some important context as to whether

they might be a terrorist or a

criminal and then what are you going to

do about

it would it be first of all would it be

legal for AI to look through everybody's

Communications and it's not a human

right so it's not a human looking

through Communications but if it finds

something then maybe it would flag it

for the

humans is that

fair well don't we do that

already you're you're talking about the

current situation do you know banks have

been doing that for I don't know 40

years banks have always run software

that doesn't accuse a specific anybody

of anything but it looks at all their

transactions and it looks for anything

that has a uh a pattern that suggests

fraud because there's patterns and when

it sees a pattern it you know surfaces

it for the humans so we've been doing

that

forever and I guess that's legal you

know it's legal for the banks to do it

so I feel like there will be certainly

loopholes where AI can do

it so if I haven't told you this

before stop doing anything

illegal if I have to tell you that

you're you're definitely going to get

caught anything that you're doing

illegal today that you have a a digital

footprint for you're definitely going to

get caught you know maybe this year next

year in four years but you're definitely

going to get caught if if there's any

signs of a crime in your life you're

going to get caught right so you should

immediately adjust all of your illegal

activities to to get rid of them one of

one of the uh predictions I made in the

late '90s

is that technology would eliminate

crime that technology would eliminate

crime and there are several ways I said

that would happen number one was there

would be cheap cameras

everywhere right remember in the '90s I

said the economics of little you video

cameras would go down so much there

would just be a camera everywhere and

sure enough there there's pretty much a

camera everywhere so there's still crime

but the odds of getting away with lots

of different types of crimes is going

the way

down now what if AI can find every

Financial

crime imagine AI looking for insider

trading it could find it every

time like it it's not that easy to find

insider trading with you know normal

mechanisms but imagine AI could find the

brother-in-law's cousin of the person

who had The Insider

information how bet we can't do that now

because the normal way you would get

away with Insider uh trading is you'd

have somebody else do it the dumb way to

do it is to be you know a person in the

company that has The Insider information

and then trade in that a day before the

announcement right you're going to get

caught because the systems do look for

that they look for unusual tra trades

right before big news events but if you

would simply talk to your cousin in

person and said to your cousin hey you

know you're your

brother-in-law that nobody will ever

connect me to because it's too many

jumps tell them to buy a little bit of

this and by the way you know I might be

asking that brother-in-law's cousin for

a favor someday so you can work things

out so there's a system of benefit that

that just never shows up on paper but AI

could find it CU they know who your

cousin is and they know your cousin's

friend made a trade and suddenly you

know this this uh you know hiding stuff

doesn't work now remember Hunter Biden

had all these um shell

corporations now that worked because

nobody was looking for it as soon as

they were looking for it they could

start to unwind it all but if if you

weren't looking for it you weren't going

to discover it but could AI look for it

could you could AI have enough access to

enough databases in other countries Etc

that it could find all the um illicit

corporate structures and also figure out

how they connect to each other and just

draw up the crime maybe maybe so I think

we're reaching that point I suggested

where you know we might be dumb enough

to let the criminals out that's a

different story but we'll have the

ability to basically catch any

crime I don't know how you get away with

anything all right um but Mass spying

yeah that's definitely coming Taylor

Swift is the person of the

year on Time Magazine now did you ever

think that Time Magazine was making

their choices based on you know

objective criteria let me explain how

the media

Works Time Magazine makes their decision

who who is the person of the year not

because it's necessarily the best choice

or or what the customers would think

sometimes it's just marketing for the

magazine sometimes they're just being

provocative and they know it so that you

will say to yourself my God how could

they say that I'm going to have to read

their argument and you buy the magazine

so you should see it as marketing

first but Time Magazine might have a

political bias as well and I would ask

do you think there's any political

meaning giving that this is a

presidential political year coming up

that having Taylor Swift on the cover

would would that be any kind of a

political message in addition to just

being good marketing for time well maybe

um here's a post by Jack bobic says the

uh the Taylor Swift girl boss scop

H is it a girl boss

scop has been fully activated from her

hand selected vaccine shill boyfriend to

her dink lifestyle DN K is uh

um uh dual income no kids dual income no

kids life style to her upcoming 2024

voter operation for Democrats on

abortion rights it's all

coming yeah it does look a little bit

like she's being let's say groomed by

the media to be a good you know powerful

political spokesperson for young people

now do you think that Taylor Swift could

cause young people to vote her way

because she's Taylor Swift do you think

she can move

votes what do you

think yes yes she could absolutely yeah

now you know maybe not completely by

yourself but it would only take a few of

your Heroes to be on the same side

before you say hey that's the that's the

third hero of mine that's on the same

side I guess I'm on that side too yes

yes she could move the dial she is she

is that

powerful

so that might have a political component

to it either intentionally or

not um so if you're watching the

situation in Ireland and saying to

yourself hey that uh the tech censorship

issues that are happening in Ireland

right now that doesn't affect us and if

you're saying oh there there complaints

against the immigration issue there that

doesn't affect us well apparently

there's a a bill that's being considered

in

Ireland uh that would require

corporations to to show that they had

taken all reasonable steps and exercise

due

diligence uh to avoid the con the uh H

having bad content basically ha speech I

guess

so like most things it's the it's the

side effect that you worry about you

know it's not the it's not what it says

in the surface is what's going to happen

after that what's going to happen after

that Michael shellenberger is sounding

the alarm is if one country succeeds in

getting the big um platforms to censor

who they want them to censor otherwise

lose their ability to operate in that

country then the other countries are

going to do it right away and they will

exert control over their social medias

as Ireland did if Ireland

succeeds and and this would be the end

of free speech basically because if the

governments can exercise this power you

don't need all the governments to do it

you just need enough

governments to say you have to censor

before it it just becomes easy for

everybody to do it all the governments

to do

it so yeah that's a big deal um and

Conor

McGregor famous uh UFC fighter is is

actually kind of serious about running

for president and could actually in my

opinion his popularity is you know

Taylor Swift like he could actually win

could actually

win all right here's another uh factoid

Reed Hoffman one of the biggest donors

to Democrats reportedly gave a qu

million dollars to a Nicki hilly super

pack so you ask yourself why would the

biggest or one of the biggest he might

be the biggest now that there other

biggest donors are having some troubles

uh but Reed Hoffman why would he give

money to a republican if he's one of the

biggest Democrats

donors

andake posted well this makes

sense yeah because have you noticed that

uh Nikki hilly is sort of overperforming

she seems like she's doing better than I

expected well maybe she's got more money

that might help and

why would Reed

Hoffman fund her is it because it's an

anything but Trump uh so if he can get

an get an anti-trumper elected not an

anti-trumper but a anybody but Trump

that's good but if he can get a Democrat

elected that's even better or is he just

creating trouble in the Republican party

is it just a so chaos in the Republicans

I don't know quar billion dollarss uh

here's what I can tell you about Reed

Hoffman So Not only was he you know

founder of LinkedIn and a big

billionaire but um he's one of the

pioneers of social media in general and

specifically what he pioneered was the

understanding of human behavior and

addiction like how to give somebody to

really really like going back to the

platform and how to get a network effect

working Etc now he's one of the uh

so-called PayPal Mafia uh the people

like Peter teal and Elon Musk and uh

David Sachs and Reed Hoffman so they

were all part of that PayPal original

startup here's the thing I always say

about that group the one thing that that

group has in common to a scary degree is

the understanding of human

psychology and I would argue that they

know that better than any any small

group of people you've ever seen

consistently their understanding of how

people operate like how the brain works

is really the secret to all their

success you know what what makes the

service viral what makes you impossible

to leave a service it's all that stuff

you know the Elon Musk making his first

Tesla you know super

fast just so people would be excited by

it the the uh ludicrous mode in the

current Teslas completely unnecessary

completely unnecessary it just makes it

irresistible to a certain kind of buyer

so yeah Reed Hoffman is more than just a

big

donor he

is

probably one of their biggest persuasion

experts so if you see a persuasion play

coming out of the Democrats probably

Reed Hoffman thought it was a good idea

because if he thought it was a bad idea

he's probably influential enough to stop

it and he's probably smart enough to

suggest good ideas so if you're looking

for who are the sometimes people ask me

this you know if if robbert Chini is not

involved in politics this time and I

think he was looking to retire from that

uh if he's not who on who on the side of

the Democrats is

their um persuasion expert

and I would look at Reed Hoffman as not

just a rich guy given money and not just

a brilliant

entrepreneur but he might be their

persuasion expert he might be the one so

I'm keeping a persuasion eye on him by

the way I like Reed Hoffman i' I've met

him and uh he's a great guy had a very

good very good personal interaction he

was very kind to me uh he has different

political preferences but I don't don't

fault him for

that so yeah he's a good guy anyway

um Facebook and meta getting some heat

for having too much sexual content for

young people there's some kind of a

civil lawsuit being filed in New

Mexico and doesn't it just Boggle your

mind that the xplatform was singled out

for their advertisement too close to

content that people don't like and none

of it was true it was way more true on

the platform that backs the Democrats

way more true but of course the truth

doesn't matter it's a political season

so the truth doesn't

matter all right uh in California a new

law is going into effect in January 1st

so California retailers will be fined

for not having gender neutral toy

section for

kids you'll actually be

fine if your toys are for boys and or

girls or I guess if it just looks

obvious it's for boys or for girls now

aren't there a lot of toys that are just

naturally gender

neutral I I thought that was already the

case AR aren't most aren't most things

gender neutral maybe not most for

kids but um

this looks like just uh just begging for

lawsuits for no good

reason and what what would that look

like anyway how if you labeled it how

would you label it would it be toys for

boys toys for girls and toys for

undecided or toys for

non-binary like how would you even call

it

out toys non-gender toys or

something I feel like everything is just

designed to make it harder to be in

business without getting

sued yeah non- tuckable swimsuits I

don't know I don't know what they do but

that looks like a ridiculous overreach

by

government so apparently Hunter Biden

has something that the news is calling

his sugar

brother sugar brother somebody who gives

him money we don't know what this guy's

getting in return we can only imagine

but um apparently Hunter is received

$4.9 million from one Hollywood lawyer

Kevin Morris in a three-year

period now I don't know about your

friends I've never had a friend who

would give me5 million for basically

nothing in return but boy do I wish I

did I wish I had a friend like that but

when I say for nothing in return that's

that's unfair because uh some of it is

that he bought Hunters are at

work so I'm sorry I probably I should

correct myself uh I exaggerated it's not

that he gave $5 million for

nothing some amount of it was loans

according to hter there were

loans could somebody uh get me a copy of

the loan agreement or I'm just going to

guess I'll bet you when he's asked for

the loan agreements he's going to say

they're missing possibly lost lost or

missing anybody want to take the other

side of that bed that the loan documents

they definitely existed but I don't know

it might be in my WhatsApp messaging

that reset itself somehow kind of an app

kind of a bug I uninstalled an app and

now my files are all gone yeah I think

something like that something like

that's going to

happen so I guess Hunter does use this

trick of saying something

alone and then uh avoiding

taxes you realize of course that at some

point if you said something's a

loan uh and you don't ever pay it back

as some point you still have to call

that income don't

you if you never pay it back actually I

don't know the answer to that question

if anybody's an IRS expert let's say you

let's say you legitimately received a

loan and you actually had paperwork for

it and then you just didn't pay it back

does it ever count as

income if it's obvious once it becomes

obvious there's no intention to ever to

pay it back and maybe you have the money

you just and that maybe that's the key

you have the money it's clearly clearly

true you have the money to pay it back

but you just

don't does it become income at that

point

point or does it become just bad news

for the person who gave you the

loan from a banking perspective if

somebody defaulted it wouldn't be income

if you simply defaulted because you

couldn't afford it that doesn't become

income that's just a defaulted loan but

if it's clear you never had documents 10

years of going by you've never made an

interest payment you've made no attempt

to pay it back wouldn't the IRS

reclassify that as a loan

eventually if oh somebody says if you

default on a credit card it counts as

income oh I'm seeing opinions that

people are saying that it does count as

income interesting could have gone

either way I didn't know how that was

going to

go all right well these are these are

comments on social media so uh talk to

your accountant before you take my tax

advice or anybody else's so what do you

think of this is there any reason that

this one Hollywood lawyer would be

giving millions of dollars to one person

who by the way they were not childhood

friends this guy started giving Hunter

Millions within you know a few years of

meeting

him now that's a friend all

right uh FBI director Ray was testifying

in Congress and Senator Mike Lee went

after him

hard um about the alleged changes in the

processes to keep Americans safe from um

illegal you know fising stuff I guess

and uh the trouble is that the FBI can't

I guess they can't be too specific about

what they

changed it it's sort of a uh trust us we

changed everything and now it's good so

Mike Lee just went off on them and it's

really good because because you know

sometimes you say to yourself oh these

are just you know all the politicians

are just trying to do their moment so it

becomes a viral thing so it looks like

they're doing their

job honestly Mike Le looked like a human

being who was really

mad it didn't to me it didn't come off

as you know

grandstanding he just came off as a

pissed off human being which is why I

recommend it you know I wouldn't

recommend you know somebody

gives their little speech in Congress

cuz they're just trying to be a star but

he didn't look like that I mean that's

just the way I I'm not reading his mind

I'm just saying that that was the

impression I guy he looks sincere like a

like a human who's being abused just

like the rest of us and he was talking

just like you would if you could have

talked freely it's like Jesus you don't

even let us see it we have no reason to

believe you're different I mean he just

went off on them it was interesting to

see

all right well bill lman um famous

investor bill lman has been going super

hard on the presidents of the colleges

that have allowed the uh anti-semitic

stuff to

happen

and uh so here's a post for him today he

says does calling for the genocide of

Jews violate uh your University's code

of conduct or rules regarding bullying

bullying or harassment now he's talking

about the fact that three presidents of

three colleges Harvard University of pen

and MIT were hauled in by Congress to

explain why they weren't uh either all

quitting or or being fired or removed by

the boards for allowing what uh most

observers are saying looks anti-semitic

which is they're allowing the

anti-jewish

voices to intimidate the Jewish students

in a bullying

clearly threatening way they should not

exist in any campus today so Bill

amman's going after him and I guess the

the three presidents all all answered

the question of does calling for the

genocide of Jews violate your College's

code of conduct all three

female um presidents of those un or

those colleges said it depends on the

context oh my God

it depends on the

context now here's my take it does

depend on the context so technically of

course everything depends on context but

what doesn't is there something that

doesn't depend on context of course it

does right you know let's say the

context was um somebody was giving a

speech about what you should never do in

public well that context would matter

because it would mean that what they

said was the opposite of what they

thought was true so yeah context matters

but in in the real world is there ever

going to be a context where this

matters I mean really is there ever

going to be a context that makes this

okay ever and would this ever be okay in

any context if any other you know ethnic

group were involved no of course not

well maybe white people in general or

white men but any other group no it be

inappropriate so there's uh continued

calls for those three College professors

or college uh presidents to be fired by

their boards will it happen I doubt it I

don't think any of them will be fired do

you nope no

way all right um there was a study that

the uh I think it was the end wokeness

account on on X it's a great account to

follow finds a lot of good stuff so

there was a national

election um studies in

2021 national election studies was the

name of the the study and in 2021 they

looked at racial groups and how they

raided each

other uh and how they raided themselves

so they asked uh separately they asked

the black

Asian-American um Hispanic Americans and

white people in America how do you rate

your own group yeah how awesome do you

think you are and then how do you rate

the other three

groups well the findings of this

study yeah assuming the stud's right we

don't know but the studies seem to

indicate that white people uh on average

of course we're not talking about every

person it's always these are just

averages that they tended to rate

themselves other white people as well as

Hispanic black and Asian Americans

that's about the same so white people

said white people ah we're average how's

everybody else about the same so nobody

was special nobody was disavowed nobody

was put on a pedestal just everybody's

about the same so basically white people

have been buying into the Melting Pot

you know everybody's the same we're all

equal kind of narrative how the other

groups

do uh not so good turns out that the

other groups think that they're pretty

awesome but white people

suck

so bet you didn't see that coming or did

you now I gave some advice here um if

you believe that this study is accurate

and you believe that white people

generally are not uh biased against

other people on average but that other

groups might have a very low opinion of

you if you're

white don't do anything about it that's

my advice don't mention it in

public don't bring up that there's a

study that suggests maybe there's a a

way to act that would keep you safer if

you were white because you will be very

cancelled if you point that out so what

you should do um the only ethical thing

as I I've been told I didn't know this

at first but I've learned this the only

moral and ethical thing to do if you're

a white person is to uh continue

associating with people who have a low

opinion of

you because to do otherwise would be

racist so that's your advice

okay uh V posted today truth number one

January 6 now looks more and more like

entrapment well that's pretty Direct

so a major candidate for president who

is not

Trump is saying directly the January 6

looks more like entrapment why well

there are now more videos coming out

that show uh multiple instances of

police calmly removing barriers to let

the crowd into the capital

grounds calmly and repeatedly removing

barriers that are

working this is this is the key point

the barriers were working the people

were on the other side of it and they

were sort of respecting the barrier

because there were police there and the

police actually removed the barriers and

let them in then we've also seen

multiple in interior uh security cameras

they show that the people look more like

tourists they were just wandering

respectfully staying between the lines

and the uh law enforcement was

high-fiving and

and basically just letting them do their

thing cuz they they either didn't think

they would be violent or they were in on

something we don't know what they were

thinking or why they did it we just know

what

happened so do we have let let's get a

uh let me test the temperature of my

audience in the comments do you think

it's a fair statement that January 6 now

looks more and more like

entrapment that and we're also not told

the number of uh undercover informants

or whatever in the

crowd so we're told that we're not going

to be told how many were the ENT

Trappers the alleged ENT Trappers uh but

let's just call them the undercover of

people we're not told that number the

public can't know that

number now what do I tell you about the

government If This Were an

individual and an indiv idual said I

have some information I'm not going to

tell you I say

unambiguously well I don't know what

that person did but innocent till proven

guilty definitely innocent innocent

innocent by our system which is a really

good system until proven guilty I don't

care how I don't care how guilty it

sounds it can sound guilty but you got

to prove that that's the rule but

not for the government if the government

doesn't tell you something you can infer

their

guilt totally appropriate it's logical

it might not be right but you can infer

that they've given you reason to believe

they're

guilty and you can act on it you know

within the law as a citizen you can act

on

um so yeah I agree with vake and I would

say I would I didn't start here I did

not start out believing that there were

enough FBI informance to make a

difference I didn't start there I always

knew it was an interesting question but

I didn't have the data to you know

firmly say one way or the other and I

didn't assume that just because we knew

that maybe one or two doors had been

opened or you know maybe some police

officers acted in a certain way or you

know maybe Ray EPS was still still a

question mark I didn't think that that

was yet enough to put it together say oh

well maybe it's exactly what it looks

like but but in the fullness of time

when we can see the complete catalog of

dirty tricks and intelligence Ops we can

see the full bag of dirty tricks from

the Democrats in general we can see

their desperation to hold on to power

and we can see that they were uh trying

to paint Mega people as domestic

terrorists if you look at their um motiv

ation they have the motive they have the

motive for the crime did they have the

time to prepare for it they had time to

prepare because they knew it was coming

um would it be

unprecedented no it would not it it

would be well within the normal behavior

but usually it's something you see

America in instigating in another

country so it's normal for America to do

it to other countries and we also know

now that it's

normal and routine for America to take

tricks which they've applied only to

other countries and apply it

domestically we see this with the

censorship Etc it's obvious right so

we've got the motivation we've got the

means you know they have the

resources we've got uh a full full

umbrella of supporting

interests we've got a full map of all

the players so we can see who's

connected to who and it all looks

exactly like the says it looks and now

we have an increasing number of

anecdotal still anecdotal but you know

little bits of why is this police offic

are acting this way why is this one

opening this gate why is this one just

standing

aside if you put it all

together I I'm going to state that at

this point the burden of proof has to be

on the government to prove

innocence right the burden of proof on

the government when you've done when

there are this many signals they have to

prove it didn't happen it's not like a

citizen where they'd have to prove it

did happen they have to prove it didn't

happen and at this point your working

assumption your working assumption this

doesn't mean you're right but the

correct working assumption is that it's

exactly what it looks like and it was

entrapment and vake sees the same thing

you do that is the correct working

assumption even if it turns out not to

be true which I would love I would I

would love that the government could

tell you how many operators were there

let you interview them or let the Press

interview them let you see any documents

that were you know part of the decision

making and then maybe there's nothing

there but when you act this

guilty the working assumption has to be

guilt that's exactly what it looks

like all

right um Thomas Massie getting some push

back from a number of people uh Charles

Schumer Chuck

Schumer he was reacting to uh massie's

post I'll tell you what his post was in

a minute but he said

uh uh what did it mean well Massie just

says it was anti-semitic now I'm going

to tell you what Thomas Massie posted

and I want you to

see uh how uh how anti-semitic it looks

to

you all

right uh so he posted a meme in which

the uh rapper Drake is shown in two

pictures and he he's putting up a hand

like you know no more of that or you

know don't give me that kind of stop it

hand and and one of them says uh uh what

did it say

uh uh Zionism so at first he's saying uh

oh no he's first saying approvingly yes

to Zionism but then he's looking

disapprovingly and then the word say uh

uh uh American patriotism so massie's

post showed a

uh what looked like a conflict between

uh what Congress was doing for Zionism

versus America now here's how I

interpreted it and and I'll let you tell

me how I'm interpreting it wrong I

interpreted it that he wants the

American Congress to use American money

first for things that are uh primarily

America Centric and not so much for

something that's directly Israel Centric

and the country of Israel uh being part

of that definition of

Zionism now if an American politician

says we should spend money on our own

country instead of another country even

an ally even a strong Ally even you know

one of our favorite

allies that he would still prefer as our

elected representative that we spend it

on American interest more directly

although I do understand that America

has an interest in in Israel's you know

well-being but it's a second order

effect you know the the first order is

do you have any money that's more

important than how you spend it do you

have any and we don't you know Massie

would say we'd have to borrow that money

so um here's what I learned from this if

you use that zword Z IO n apparently

there's another interpretation of it

that I can't find in a

definition so when I look at the

definition of the words in this

controversy I see uh Massie using the

zword to refer to the nation of Israel

and protecting

it is that racist it refers to the

formation of the nature of the nation of

Israel and then protecting that Nation

what's what's the anti-semitic part what

am I

missing can somebody fill me

in I mean I I honestly don't

know right there there are plenty of

people who are Jewish who don't approve

of Zionism meaning they don't approve of

Israel having you know I guess a Jewish

state so there there's somebody who

disagrees with everything right there's

no issue that you don't have

disagreement on so everybody there's

always going to be somebody disagreeing

with

everything does anybody have any

idea why the word the

zword is all if you don't agree

with

prioritizing Israel over the United

States are you

automatically

anti-semitic is it because here's here's

my best hypothesis I'll see if any if

this Rings true

there there is a second well let's say

there's an alternative use of that

zword by people who are unambiguously

racists and see it part of a global

conspiracy but that's not the de the

dictionary definition the dictionary

definition is not what the worldwide

conspiracy theorists are saying that's

their own definition or their own usage

of it the the common usage of it is the

formation of Israel and then the support

of it as a Jewish State isn't it isn't

that the that's the definition

right and I actually looked for the

definition because I thought maybe I

maybe there was an element to the

definition I didn't get but here's my

best

take my best take is that of course

Thomas Massie is not using it in a anti-

itic way okay let me just say

this Thomas Massie did it you think he

did an anti-semitic

post like this soon after October

7th an elected member of Congress you

think he did an

unambiguous anti-semitic post which he

knew he was doing really yeah really

really you could you actually stand in

front of me and tell me you believe

that but here here's my best um my best

defens of Schumer all right so let me

steal man this is that the right word so

I'm going to take Schumer's point of

view and argue with the best I

can uh it is true that people who are

definitely

anti-semitic have used the word Zion as

as a integral part of their

anti-semitic you know larger messaging

is that

true can can we agree on that that the

people who are unambiguously

anti-semitic especially online use the

z-word as part of their anti-semitic

messaging so if you are associating with

that group in any way like even by using

their

wording well that's maybe a little

suggestive of

anti-Semitic because you're borrowing

their language I can see that I I I

could see why somebody would ask you to

disavow the post but that's really

different from being anti-semitic so I

don't believe that even

Schumer believes that Massie is

anti-Semitic he's talking about the

choice of how to message would you agree

with that that even Schumer is not

saying he is anti-Semitic he simply

objecting to the messaging because it's

too suggestive of a a world in which

which they use that word too much in the

worst way but here's the

thing Massie is not an

idiot he's just using words the way

words words are

used

so um I

get and here's the other thing you need

to know now this applies to my situation

of my own cancelling but also almost all

the other

cancelling it's never about the person

who gets cancelled

um the public and the and the political

players they use stories about um public

figures to attach their messaging to so

it's never really about the public

figure none of this is about Thomas

Massie it's about the fact that some

people want to make sure you know that

they're as supportive as they could be

of the Jewish community and they want

you to know that they won't tolerate

anything that looks even suggestive of

being on the other

side so the way to interpret it is has

nothing to do with Thomas Massie because

it legitimately has nothing to do with

Thomas Massie he just used English words

the way they're used in the way he likes

to use them everybody understood exactly

what he meant there was no confusion

about what he meant or who he is but

still

can can turn it into something

because it's easy to

do so

um but also here here's the other thing

you should be aware of um this is a hot

War right this is not theoretical Israel

is at

War and they're right in the thick of it

here's what I would not ask you to

assume don't don't assume that people

are being objective observers of

anything there's no objectivity

happening here and if you try some

objectivity you're going to get your ass

handed to you right so a lot of the

messaging pro and con of everything is

more about do you support

Israel right so this is the point where

um any any little diversion from the

perfect messaging in favor of Israel is

going to get a lot of scrutiny I'm

surprised it hasn't happened to me

yet you know I've said from the start

I'm 100% um backing Israel and my my

reasons are

easy my reasons are

easy it's what any country would

do any country who would experience what

they did on October 7th would respond

same way if they could you know if they

had the military might to do it so

having an opin opinion on it to me just

seemed like a waste of time it's just

going to happen my opinion isn't going

to change anything so um I'm

100% understanding of it and supportive

of it

um but I don't I don't know that that'll

protect me because you realize the first

second I say something that that could

be interpreted as off

message the ADL will come after me right

like you can't be 100% in favor of

Israel and still be

safe you're just not a safe and I think

Massie is an example that he's uh anyway

there enough about

that all right

um as Mike covich has pointed

out um I'll just read his his post he

said Bill Amman and the Harvard donors

are are the leading indicators of

2024 he will never openly support Trump

talking about Amman uh not the point

even Trump haters see a huge mess

meaning the country um imagine what most

Americans are thinking and

then uh Mike finishes in his usual

provocative way he says that's why the

regime is using media apparat aaric to

incite

assassination

hyperbole is that too

far is that an

exaggeration do you do you think the

Democrats have an intentional strategy

of getting uh Trump

assassinated uh because it's the only

way they can

stop an obvious train that's under of

control which is their own train but

they don't want they don't want

Republicans to stop it they want to I

guess keep the train

going um I agree with this completely

and I'm going to I'm going to add some

weight to

it here's some weight uh Rob

Riner says that Trump would be the end

of

democracy Rob Riner yeah who's the head

of an organization that includes some

former CIA members on it some say

without evidence that Rob Riner might be

part of the deep State blob and not just

a person with an

opinion some say

but if that were true I don't know that

that's true I know that he acts exactly

like he's part of the deep State I don't

know that it's true I just know his

actions are consistent with it and if it

were and he says it's the end of

democracy what does that signal to

you well by itself it would just be

political blah blah blah right because

people say stuff like that but when you

say it about Trump and it's in the

context of all this other stuff that I'm

going to mention it does feel like a

call to

assassination it does because if you can

tell people that Trump is bad enough

he's enough of a Hitler dictator Tyrant

then you can make the case that there's

nothing that's out of bounds to stop him

nothing's out of bounds so look for this

in their messaging nothing's and abounds

they won't say that but they will say

well he might murder your children so

you know do what you have to

do you know it's going to look like

that all right what else uh Liz Cheney

warns that a vote for Trump quote May

mean the last election that you get to

vote in ah so Liz Cheney says that you

will probably lose your

country if you let if you let him win

but what does um Joe Biden say is there

anything scary

sounding uh he says

uh we cannot let him

win we cannot let Trump win that's an

interesting way to word it isn't

it usually usually it's something like

uh we have to you know we have to fight

to win if he wins you know it'll be a

bad country but if I win it'll be good

but that phrase We cannot let him win

does that sound like permission to do

anything to keep him from if you

cannot that seems like it's going Beyond

preference cannot is a decision see the

difference we don't want him to win as a

preference our team would do better as a

preference he'd do a bad job as a

preference I'd do a good job as a

preference he has bad policies that's a

preference I have good policies that's a

preference we cannot

let him win is a decision that's not a

preference that is allowing

anything we

cannot cannot is a really strong and and

it feels

like feels like you meant

it I swear to God we just have to have

the all caps filter if I read you the

the stuff that the that the all caps

people are saying on YouTube you would

just laugh it's like why do you label

yourself as a

idiot like why would you label yourself

hi I'm a idiot look at my all

cap statement oh oh

oh all

right

um so the uh Democrat

Playbook um is they're going to go after

the following things from the

Republicans so here here's their attack

on the

Republicans um they're going to go after

the potential for a National Abortion

ban because Republicans talk about that

apparently Trump has wisely refused to

engage on that

question which is the right political

stance and uh as others have pointed out

assuming that Democrats still have some

power in Congress I don't see how there

would ever be a National Abortion ban do

you how how in the world would Congress

change so much that you could get a vote

for a National Abortion ban does that

even sound like something that could

happen you know don't say whether you'd

like it or not but is it

possible it doesn't seem like it but

it's a good political um it's a good

political

Club because to the extent that

Democrats think it could

happen it's a good it's a good

approach um I don't know they say that

you know Trump will cut climate funding

he probably

will and then they say he'll undercut

and attack American

democracy this is coming from some de

Democrat

uh adviser all right uh and he's going

to punish his political

opponents and be a dictator so Trump

does this town hall thing on Hannity

he's asked the question about being a

dictator do you remember what I told

you I told you that he should uh he

should mock people for the for that idea

you just laugh at him he did not do that

instead he he makes it so hard to to

support him instead he said I'll only be

a dictator for the first

day come

on come

on C can you give me can you give me any

little relief

here can can you possibly give me a

chance of surviving the next year like I

feel like I'm going to get

assassinated right if I say two more

good things about him and he says one

more thing about being a dictator for

the first day I feel like I'm going to

get assassinated can you try a little

harder to keep me alive for the next

year are you kidding me don't say

you're going to be a dictator the first

day but only the first day only the

first day

now was he joking of course of course he

was joking but when it gets requoted or

just quoted you don't get the joke part

you don't get that he wasn't taking it

any of it seriously so of course the

news today is that he says yeah I'm

going to be a dictator on the first day

they're literally quoting him as saying

I'm going to be a dictator on day one

because he actually said that but then

he said you know only day one cuz you

know give some stuff done or

whatever and it didn't even make

sense it didn't make sense because he

wouldn't have to be a dictator

you know if he actually has the powers

to do the things he wants to do he

doesn't need to be a dictator why would

he say that why why come on make it a

little bit easier for us huh a little

bit all right well I think he'll

probably Trend in the right direction on

that

um

yeah yeah I I think he get he needs to

be funnier in mocking it

he he needs he needs to make sure

everybody knows that he thinks you're

you're an idiot for thinking it here

here would be the way I'd explain it you

want to hear the fastest persuasive

argument for how he will not become a

dictator all right here it goes become a

dictator I've been president for four

years do you know how hard it is to get

anything done do you know how many

people would have to be involved in in

any small decision even the smallest

thing has to be approved by this miles

of bureaucracy do you know how many of

the bureaucracy are Trump supporters

mostly not mostly not you've got a whole

government of people who are against me

who work for me how in the world am I

going to become a dictator when I can't

even get an executive order passed that

doesn't get reversed in a few months by

the next president how in the world I

couldn't I couldn't even get the

National Guard to protect the capital on

January 6th how in the world do I become

a dictator can somebody can somebody

tell me that plan like if I if I make a

phone call and tell somebody to do some

dictator stuff in your world do they go

do it in my world it starts this big or

uh this big bureaucratic process which

stops everything from

happening I I can't even do easy things

I can't even do things you want do you

know what I else I can't get done I

can't build up a wall and most of you

want

one think about that not only can I not

take over the country by

talking by

talking I'm not going to become a

dictator because I talk myself into it

and talk you into it you would need the

entire function and structure and and

the military to somehow be on the same

side of that I can't even get I can't

even get Congress to do the things that

most of the people in the world want to

be done I can't even get easy things

done how in the world am I going to take

over the

country by posting on

Truth he's not even on X he's not even

on social media he's only on his own

social media how in the world is he

going to take over the country I mean to

me that's just

funny and here's why that's persuasive

because as soon as you say the

bureaucracy is so thick that I can't

even do things that all of you want me

to do you'd be

done wouldn't you the moment you hear

that you go okay that's kind of

true if you can't even get things done

that we want to be done how in the world

could you overthrow the country just

because you thought it was a good

idea

yeah and here's an even better one you

want one that nobody would ever stop

talking

about he he'll never say this but it

would be

awesome let me explain something to you

imagine Trump saying this if I tried to

become a dictator Don Jr would kill

me

done done junor would murder me and you

know

what maybe you

would maybe he would if he said a vonka

would kill me I think I'd believe that

too because you know what ianka and Don

Jr are Patriots and they would actually

care about their country probably more

than one person even their

father now you could argue about whether

that's true or not

right but you would never forget it if

he ever said something like that you

could never get it out of your head and

by the and people would joke about it

you know they would joke about forever

oh donu is going to kill you for

this but I think and wouldn't it be

funny if Don Jr confirmed

it imagine Trump saying it and then you

know everybody has to talk to Don junor

is like would you would you that's crazy

would you and imagine him saying

absolutely

absolutely

absolutely but just imagine

that because it's also I think probably

true I think I could kill a family

member if they became

Hitler I hate to admit it but I probably

could all

right here are a few things uh oh and

also they're going to say Trump Wants

Revenge uh Steve Bannon and probably

others will be saying this that that's a

good thing and you know we should maybe

keep boosting that message that Trump

wants to get revenge because in this in

this instance he would be getting

revenge against people who had done

truly bad things not just to him but to

the rule of law and to the Integrity of

the country I just don't like that

word I don't like that

word

yeah

revenge is not really uh a good

political word um I would like uh now

when Bannon talks about that word he

does Define it as you know holding

people accountable and Prosecuting

criminals so he's very careful to say

I'm only talking about people who did

crimes I'm not I'm not talking about

innocent people we're just talking about

literally

criminals but it's a bad look it's a bad

look I think something more like justice

would work better however it is the

primaries and you know if it were more

of a fight in the primary I'd say use

those fighting words that might get

people uh excited but I think Trump

needs to be already priming toward the

general election would you

agree

Trump's um candidacy should already be

more toward the middle cuz he doesn't

need to worry too much unless he go to

jail or as a health problem he doesn't

have to worry too

much about the nomination unless

something changes but is the debate

tonight oh thanks for reminding me um

there there's some news today that I

never thought I'd have to

say now I want you to sit down to hear

this this this might come as a a

personal shock to some of you so that

this will affect you personally

and I I just want to say it

once if you weren't aware of

this you

died yeah you

died and it's tragedy that you

died oh I'm sorry not why not why OU

died no no no uh his name is James uh U

yo and he was in that exploding house in

Arlington they say uh which answers my

question which is how can you be in a

house that completely explodes and

survive it but apparently you died so

you died

sorry

um that's right and when he knocked on

the door and they said who's there he

said yeah you know you know the rest of

it okay uh here's two things to

understand about

persuasion talking about this slow

motion assassination attempt on Trump

which does look exactly like that so now

you see that all the the people who are

the trained um the trained monkeys who

say the things you're supposed to say

are going to say he's a

dictator and he's uh going to be Hitler

and uh he wants revenge and he's coming

after you he's going to take away your

democracy your democracy is going to be

taken away now

here's the things you need to know

persuasion wise it is not possible to

hypnotize somebody to commit

murder right it's been tried it's been

tested no matter how good you are as a

hypnotist and no matter who the person

is you're hypnotizing you cannot

hypnotize them to take a gun and go

shoot somebody if they believe the gun

really has really bull real bullets in

it sometimes they'll do it because they

think it's just an experiment and a

trick and they think the gun does

doesn't have real bullets but of course

the gun does not have real bullets

because it's just a

test so the people who do take the gun

and and go to shoot somebody it's not

because they're hypnotized it's because

they know they nobody would ever give

you a loaded gun until you to shoot an

innocent person so the tests are it's

hard to test it but there's no there's

no example of anybody who's been

hypnotized to do harm to

somebody

however you can bring brainwash an

entire segment of the public into

thinking somebody else is

Hiller and then you just wait you end up

the same result you just don't know

which individual ends up deciding that

they need to take matters into their own

hands so you are actually watching in my

professional opinion a slow motion

assassination of President Trump

attempted an attempted assassination and

it's being led by the Atlantic The

Washington Post CNN MSNBC and all The

Usual Suspects and I do believe that

they are aware as cernovich calls it

down they are aware that they have done

such a bad job with the I'll say the

fabric of American

civilization that they can't possibly

win in a straightup vote and if they

can't win in a straightup vote and

here's why it's such a problem that uh

Trump is threatening them if they don't

win they think they might go to jail do

you know why they think they might go to

jail because they've done crimes in some

cases and then there are people who

maybe didn't do crimes but they're

worried that they would get blamed of a

crime they didn't do I wonder if that's

ever happened to somebody named Trump 91

times this

year yeah so why would why do you think

Democrats would be concerned about a

government arrest passing them for

charges that are

huh huh I wonder if they've

been

involved being on the side that is

arresting people for you know

like January

6th and 91 charges against Trump for so

far

nothing

yeah so yeah I can see why they'd be

worried that some that the government

would ever come after somebody on Trump

tub charges now I would not support

Trump doing anything like that I would

be very very much seriously against any

Republican president who is doing

political

prosecutions I hope I I hope I would be

wise enough to recognize it though

because the problem is you always think

that the other side is a criminal but

whatever they do to your team is a

political Witch Hunt it's just natural

you think that way I hope I would be

wise enough to know if Republicans did

that kind of thing to

Democrats I haven't seen it so I haven't

seen a signal for it but I worry I worry

that I'm not tuned to it that I would

miss it and that's a big problem because

you don't want your side to do that

either so I uh let me assure

Democrats if you need it that I would be

on your side if uh anything Trump or any

other the Republican did look like a

purely um political prosecution I I

could not back that and I would uh and I

would also believe that that would be a

big enough problem to impeach a

president so if if Trump did something

that looked like political

prosecutions impeachments on the table

yeah it's you got to be serious about

that you you can't take that as

team play that can never be team play

that's just got to be the American

play would a special prosecutor for

several areas be a good idea maybe it's

Case by case situation but

maybe uh is it word thinking on the Z

issue

um I

now I know what you're saying the the

word thinking are they just trying to

use their own definition of the word and

that's definitely what's happening but

I think this is more a case of trying to

scapegoat people to boost your own

message so the the word thinking is just

two people having an argument but trying

to win by changing the definition of

words what's happening with the the the

Zion stuff is uh it's being used to

identify people that can be boosters of

your message

basically so similar but

different

all right

um so the other thing you need to know

about persuasion is although you can't

hypnotize one person to murder you can

very easily hypnotize a group of people

to see somebody as someone who is

deserving of murder and then you wait

and then you

wait so

um so look for

that you should you should look for

more evidence that they're looking for a

uh ex what would what would be the right

term for it something that's outside of

the political process would be would you

call that an extra political to mean

it's outside of the political process on

extrajudicial extrajudicial means you're

doing something illegal

right um yeah all right ladies and

gentlemen that is more than enough I

think we've done our job here um do you

believe in strategic

incompetence uh yes I mean all the all

the Lost documents and lost files I

don't believe any of that I I believe

that they are

strategically deleting things and

claiming

incompetence

yeah it's called

lying yep here's a question for you do

you think that Trump this time would be

able to assemble a highquality team or

will he be once again locked out from

you know the the strong traditional

players who normally would would want to

be part of an

Administration I I have a suspicion that

he might be able to get high quality

people I'm not positive it could work

the other way but part of the reason is

this uh the Republicans have a lot of

high quality people who could use

jobs yeah no I'm not one of them I'm

definitely not a high quality person in

terms of a government

job but um I don't even have to give you

names but just just

imagine all of the Republicans who would

make a good uh uh spokesperson for the

administration you they haded

Communications Ju Just just think of all

the insanely good choices that you can

make right just insanely good I I'm

going to throw one out for you okay a

head of Communications in a trump

Administration Greg

gelt yes or

no now I don't think he'd ever do it it

would be a it would be a suicide mission

but would Trump be smart enough to know

that if you made the um if you made

those stupid press events interesting

and you and you had somebody with a real

personality not somebody who's just

going to say no I don't know and I'll

look into that and you've asked a

question already you know all the all

the things what if you had

somebody who actually engaged with the

audience had fun with the audience the

audience may even like you know maybe

they just like him and he just has fun

with it because it's not a useful

process that the Press events are just

not useful and that's why didn't Trump

just get rid of them after a while he

just stopped them didn't he because

they're so but somebody like

you know let's say somebody of his

capabilities if you put somebody in who

can make a joke of stuff the joke gets

on TV right a boring answer maybe gets

on TV but you forget it anyway but a

real good funny answer becomes news so

Trump could actually create news by

making sure that his spokesperson was

funny and said things that you know were

supportive of the president but also you

couldn't

forget right now yeah I don't think I

don't think Greg's going to be the head

of communications but you could come up

with I'll bet you on your own you could

come up with 10 Republican names that

would be just fascinating in that job

just fascinating right uh

Tyrus Tyrus would be great I'm seeing

Tyrus being suggested as head of

Communications in a

republican uh he'd be

great he has the full the full u talent

stack so yeah I can get behind that I'd

watch it too I'd far more I far more

likely watch watch if Tyrus was giving

it because he's a big personality he's

funny you don't remember Tony Snow who

would mock stupid

questions yeah I don't

actually all

right that's all for now I'm going to go

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