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Episode 2333 CWSA 12/25/23 Merry Christmas And Get In Here For Some Headlines Fun. Bring Coffee

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Opening General Commentary

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells. Good morning everybody, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year a little bit early. Well, if you'd like your experience today to go up to levels that even Santa Claus couldn't understand, all you need for that is a coffee mug or a glass, a tankard, a chalice,…

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SimultaneousSip General Commentary

know the theme. You might know that Mickey Mouse came off copyright, but not the total Mickey Mouse, not the modern version, only the version that's 95 years old. There's a black and white Mickey Mouse, Steamboat Willie. So in honor of him coming off of copyright I have him visiting Dilbert's boss.…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

c is color. So Mickey says, "Hi, my name is Mickey." And the boss says, "Get out of here." And Mickey says, "Settle down, my copyright expired. I'm a free mouse. Disney can't sue you." And the boss says... Then Mickey says, "Can I get a job here or do you discriminate against black and white charac…

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MainContent Cognitive Reframing

dn't believe it list is Kevin Spacey's name. Now here's what you should look at. Look for if we should ever confirm that we know who flew with him. Look for people who are let's say famous celebrities who are unusually politically active. That's what I'd be looking for. All right, but we have to wai…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

But if the government is wondering why there are so many, maybe they should examine their own behavior. Maybe consider all possibilities. Well, an interesting and provocative post by Naval Ravikant. And he has a way of saying things in a very succinct way. And he said this: Argentina may prove that…

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MainContent Economics & Finance

, well they're not doing anything violent. And I would say they're shipping in military aged people that we don't know. How does that not end up with more violence than there would have been if they hadn't done it? Of course there is. So I would say we should at least examine designating the NGOs as…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

element of the food. The food would be bad and you'd see it in some demographic more than others. So I don't think it's food. I don't think it's anything that affects all of us all the time. So if it's not our lifestyle and it's not the food, what about the COVID itself? Well Europe had COVID and w…

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MainContent Health & Biohacking

you know one time change in energy prices? Kind of lucky. May we got lucky. All right. Yeah people are staying home more blah blah. So Wall Street Journal says that kids are preferring YouTube to all other forms of entertainment. I'm going to echo that although I'm no kid. Have all of you noticed t…

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QandA Health & Biohacking

ns is to make sure that when as soon as you're done the other countries they were trying to stop getting together are not just getting together but more getting together than they ever were contemplating before. So that there's a real, it really didn't work. You got to make sure that Iran thinks oh…

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MainContent AI & Technology

ws. Remember I told you it's simple to brainwash young people. It's really simple to un-brainwash them because you know what? Do you know it's easy to convince a young person? There's nothing easier to convince a 20 something or a teenager than the following statement. You ready for this? When I tel…

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MainContent AI & Technology

t winning the general you know the general vote. They just have to win in the key states. So that would suggest that Trump probably has like an overwhelming advantage in winning the election because if he's at two points ahead in the general that would be better than basically any Republican has don…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

e absolutely taking you off the drug. Now if two years later it looks like you couldn't handle it we'll talk about putting you back on but we're going to have to take you off it to see if you have any chance at all of maintaining your weight. Shouldn't that be the rule? That you're guaranteed to get…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

the extreme thing needed to do to maybe get something stable. This was it. It was an extreme thing. Nobody wanted it to happen but it did. So now they have a chance of building something stable maybe with Saudi or somebody else having some role. We'll see. But I see two wars that are likely to wind…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

saying that I'm just saying if he never done anything wrong it's hard to trust him because he's too smart. I think Elon Musk has that problem too. That if you don't like what he's doing you worry because he's too smart. Too smart is scary to most people. So you need to be too smart but also clearly…

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MainContent Health & Biohacking

his empathy for regular Americans is through the roof. Would you agree? I've never seen anybody more consistently. And here's the key. Genuinely. Trump is full of it about a lot of stuff but if he doesn't genuinely have empathy for the let's say middle class of America that would be the greatest tri…

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Tangent General Commentary

ers his perceived capability has a tremendous perceived empathy for regular Americans and they match. What happens when those two match? Your capability and your empathy if it's high capability charisma. That's what gets you a cult. You don't get a cult by being good at what you do. Let me say this…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

is culture. Is that what you're doing? I think actually all of you are wrong. I think you're all wrong actually. You want to check? Let's check on this for the next time okay? Should we check on it now? Let's check on it now. Let's do this in real time. So here here's what I think. I think he ident…

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MainContent Persuasion

ublicans nor Democrats actually have. That's what the First Amendment says. You get to practice your faith. Every pastor in this country gets to do his job without the government getting in their way. That's what I'm going to keep as the. So here's my interpretation. See if it matches yours. That h…

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QandA Politics as Persuasion

or true? I get a little disagreement on that. I would think deist is just there's a God and that's the end of the story. There's no Jesus. Yeah so that they would not believe that Jesus necessarily is God. So you can believe in Jesus but not believe that Jesus is God. You could believe he's the son…

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Closing General Commentary

a Christmas miracle. It's a Christmas miracle. All right everybody go have a great Christmas. Enjoy your families. I hope some of your families were watching and I might have another live stream tonight. I don't know yet but I probably will. Talk to you later. Bye for now.

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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells. Good morning everybody, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year a little bit early. Well, if you'd like your experience today to go up to levels that even Santa Claus couldn't understand, all you need for that is a coffee mug or a glass, a tankard, a chalice, a stein, or a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now.

Go. It's too early for eggnog. Much too early.

Well, should I read the news in a funny and not too serious way? All right, all right, we don't want to get too serious today, do we?

Before we start I should call your attention to the Dilbert Reborn comic available to local subscribers and also subscribers on X. And I just want to let you know the theme. You might know that Mickey Mouse came off copyright, but not the total Mickey Mouse, not the modern version, only the version that's 95 years old. There's a black and white Mickey Mouse, Steamboat Willie. So in honor of him coming off of copyright I have him visiting Dilbert's boss. So that's black and white Mickey, so I have to draw him in black and white even though the comic is color.

So Mickey says, "Hi, my name is Mickey." And the boss says, "Get out of here." And Mickey says, "Settle down, my copyright expired. I'm a free mouse. Disney can't sue you." And the boss says... Then Mickey says, "Can I get a job here or do you discriminate against black and white characters?" And the boss says, "That's a gray area."

Yeah, it's a dad joke but a solid one, I think. Solid.

The New York Post is reporting there was a man who was arrested because he used a laser pointer. He was pointing at a commercial plane, then at a police helicopter. Now as you know the laser pointers can blind the pilot, so that's very illegal. So they arrested him. But the part of the story that they didn't report is they took his laser pointer away from him and they shipped it to Zelensky in Ukraine because it's all we had left. We didn't have anything left. We're like, well we've got this laser pointer we took off that guy. He'll take it.

Okay, you don't like your Ukrainian humor early in the morning?

Well, here's a story that is developing. I think we can see where it's heading. I told you that Tucker Carlson suggests that he has information we don't have and that he believes that aliens or some kind of entity that's not human may have always been here as opposed to visiting from another planet. Might even have a spiritual dimension. So he thinks maybe they could be here, could be in the oceans, could have always been here hiding in Antarctica. Maybe, I don't know.

But then there's this related story that says scientists think they can decode whale language. So they might be able to use AI to decode the complexity of the whale sounds and figure out their language. And then they think that if they could learn whale language it might teach them how to make a universal communicator so that AI could someday allow us to communicate with aliens.

Have you put it all together yet? Have you connected the dots? Yeah, I think the cat's on the roof. They're trying to slowly break it to us that whales are aliens and they might have ships. Now you've got to have some good technology to haul a whale's ass around in a spaceship, but apparently they have the good stuff. Anti-gravity. So yeah, whales are aliens and they may have already decided to conquer us because I don't know if you know the history of humans and whales, but I swear I hope the whales don't know it because they're going to be really pissed. Have you heard of whale oil? Don't ask. Don't ask.

All right. I'm so old that you know how things change. And when you think back to what you used to think was true you're like, oh my God, how did we think that was true? When we were kids. So dumb.

Here's some of the things I believed. Probably two years ago, two years ago I thought maybe we had too much population on the planet so population growth was a problem. And I thought we had a shortage of lithium. But Elon Musk has set us straight. We have too few people. We need more or else the economy will collapse. And as he posted yesterday I think, lithium is one of the most common elements on Earth. Building lithium refineries is the hard part. That's what we need. But lithium's everywhere.

How many of you were in the same boat that just a few years ago you thought we had too many people and not enough lithium? But turns out we have unlimited lithium and not enough people. Is there anything we know that's true? The most basic things you thought you knew about reality? Nope. Totally opposite. Not enough people, plenty of lithium.

How many of you saw the most bizarre interview ever of Tucker Carlson interviewing Kevin Spacey? But Kevin Spacey did it with the character, the political character he played in that long running Netflix series whose name I can't remember. But he played a kind of a dirty politician. So he did the whole interview in character.

Now you might say to yourself, Kevin Spacey? I thought he got MeToo'd or he got blamed for some terrible sex crimes with men. And there were multiple claims. And how in the world is he being rehabilitated? I thought he was a goner. House of Cards was the name of the show. Yeah, he was on House of Cards.

But it turns out that now this is just what I see on the X platform. I'll need to fact check because I'm not positive this is true. Is it true that there were four accusers of Kevin Spacey? I think they were all male. And three of them died suspiciously. So those cases went away. And one of them dropped the charges. Is that true? That three out of the four people accusing him died suspiciously and one dropped the charges? I don't know if that's true. It feels too on the nose or something, right? That couldn't be true.

All right, I'm going to say I don't quite believe it yet but I'll say it's the story on social media. I'm not sure I believe it. I'm going to need a little more convincing on that one. A better source, I guess.

But there's also a report that there's a partial Epstein flight list. Is that real? Because I saw a few accounts that seem to be showing lists of people who went to the island. But I don't know if those are real. They were supposed to be released about now but I don't want to mention anybody on it because it looks like it might be. Is it real? Does anybody know? Do we actually have the list? It's fake. So that list that we're seeing is one that's been out for years which we don't know if it necessarily matches the real list. Right, okay. So we're going to call that one BS.

However, on the BS low credibility you shouldn't believe it list is Kevin Spacey's name. Now here's what you should look at. Look for if we should ever confirm that we know who flew with him. Look for people who are let's say famous celebrities who are unusually politically active. That's what I'd be looking for. All right, but we have to wait to make sure that it's a real list. So we don't know if Kevin Spacey was ever on anything like that. That would be a rumor.

There's a story that there's a big rise in threats to public officials. Can you believe it? Can you believe that our elected officials are getting more death threats than ever? Is that because the public got worse? I don't think so. Yeah, maybe there's a reason.

Well, one of my favorite comics of all time was, I can't even remember the cartoonist. I don't think the cartoon runs anymore. It was a single panel comic and it showed a guy in jail and he was talking to his bunk mate. And he had scratched a bunch of scratches on the wall and he was counting up and he was talking about his own experience. And the prisoner says, "19 arrests, 19 convictions. Maybe it's me." And I've been laughing about that for like 40 years. Maybe it's me. 19 arrests, 19 convictions. Starting to think the problem's on my side.

So yeah, there are more death threats to public figures. Is that because the public got worse or is there an unmistakable pattern of bad behavior that would certainly suggest there would be more death threats? I'm going to go with the latter. I feel like we know too much about government now. We're like a little bit smarter. Our eyes are a little bit more open. And maybe they're worse than they would have been. But I would certainly expect more death threats given our current situation. Not that I encourage them. I don't encourage that. So don't make any death threats. But if the government is wondering why there are so many, maybe they should examine their own behavior. Maybe consider all possibilities.

Well, an interesting and provocative post by Naval Ravikant. And he has a way of saying things in a very succinct way. And he said this: Argentina may prove that you can vote your way out of poverty. Because, and they showed some stats of South American countries and their poverty levels, and it is very clear that it's a political problem and not a resource problem. You can see that when the political leadership changes, the economy just either goes in the toilet or does well. And it seems to be one to one.

So Argentina has their new president. He was doing a lot of stuff and cutting departments and stuff. I would bet on Argentina recovering. I would say the smart money says Argentina is going to go well. And here's the thing. Sometimes it's just about energy. So the new president of Argentina brings in this reformist energy which makes people say, oh I'm optimistic now because of all that reformist energy. Oh he did something in the news that looks like a big deal. He got rid of some departments or something. Oh, reformist energy. So then because there's reformist energy people create their own energy and that becomes a self-fulfilling issue.

So it will be partly what he does, the new president, but partly how people feel about it. And apparently people are feeling good about it. So good news from Argentina which may spread to other places.

Zero Hedge is reporting that what is becoming evident is that the NGOs, the non-government organizations, now these will be organizations that usually rich people have funded but are not directly controlled by anybody's government. So they're like little governments but non-government because there's some rich person allowing them to do what they do. Rich people usually. And apparently these NGOs are now well known to be the organizers of the mass immigration that's happening in America and probably elsewhere.

So it's organized. It's not just that they made it comfortable for people who were going to immigrate anyway. They actually created an entire travel network to inform people how to go and then help them immigrate from everywhere in the world. Now this had nothing to do with the American government but has a gigantic impact on the health of the United States. So it's not a country. They're non-government organizations. It might be people from different countries in some cases.

Now how should we respond to that? Well if it's just a non-government organization doing legal stuff, and I guess it's all legal. In fact you can find out, you can get their documents, you can find their maps, you can find out their whole plans. And they're doing exactly what I said. They've created a whole platform to make it easy for people to leave where they are and end up in America and survive.

Now my first problem with that is the following. One of the things I've always liked about American illegal immigration and even legal immigration is that it was hard to get to America. It was hard to get in legally. You had to be qualified and know how to jump through all the hoops. You had to be able to afford a plane ticket depending where you're coming from. So the people we would get are people who crossed a very high bar. They could figure out how to get here. They could go through all the complications to do it. And they were high enough educated quality that the country said, oh yeah, we like people like you.

But what happens, and then also for the people coming over the southern border, they were unusually risk-taking people because they didn't necessarily know how they were going to make it work. I like those people. But here's the problem. What happens if it's so easy it's just easier to leave than it is to stay? Now you've reversed it. If it's easier to stay than it is to leave you've got a natural filter. So you get all the risk-taking high quality people who can do this difficult thing of getting here. Now you make it so easy and where you are is so bad that the laziest lowest qualified people say, hey I might as well get on this bus. It's free. Might take me somewhere better.

So didn't we just reverse the best thing about immigration? That it got us the people who could pass the filter. And now the filter is reversed and we're getting the people who couldn't make it in their own country and probably can't make it as easily in our country as the people who had a harder time getting past the filter. So that's bad.

But I'd like to add this following thought. Is there a reason we can't kill the NGO leaders under the rules of war? Wouldn't we just have to declare this an illegal invasion and part of a war and then we could kill them? Couldn't we? Now I don't think we should just go murder the people in the NGOs. That would be kind of crazy. I'm not saying that. I'm saying we should create a legal process in which we designate the NGOs as terrorist organizations because they seem to be working diligently for the destruction of the United States. What would you call that?

Well you'd say, well they're not doing anything violent. And I would say they're shipping in military aged people that we don't know. How does that not end up with more violence than there would have been if they hadn't done it? Of course there is. So I would say we should at least examine designating the NGOs as terrorist organizations or paramilitary or military supporting or funding of terrorists or something like that. And then we should give them warning. Plenty of warning. Because you don't want to kill anybody you don't need to kill. Say if you keep organizing these immigrants we're actually going to kill you wherever you are in any country. Wherever you are you're just going to get mowed down and we're not going to apologize because you're ruining our country.

No you don't think we should be able to murder the heads of the NGOs legally. You should be under a legal umbrella with lots of warning because America is being destroyed. That's not hyperbole. There is some level of immigration that guarantees the destruction of America and the NGOs are heading toward that limit. I don't know if we're there yet. I think we're below that limit but we're heading there as quickly as possible. I say you have to kill the people behind it but give them warning and do it under a legal structure. Certainly nothing illegal. Has anybody ever said that? I don't know how you just let them do it. And whoever funds it probably should be looked at as well.

All right, here's something interesting. Let's see if we can figure it out. You've heard that there is excess death rates in the United States. But here's the weird thing. So the pandemic is over and there's still these excess death rates. So you're going to say oh it's the vaccination, oh it's the this or that. But here's what we know. Apparently it's across all demographics in the United States and it's not as severe in Europe. Is that enough to tell us what it is? Think about it. It's all demographics but not so much in Europe. Can we figure it out from there? Nobody's figured it out but let's see if we can.

So here's what I think it would not be. If it's all demographics I would say it's not lifestyle because it wasn't that much of a lifestyle change that would affect all the demographics the same. So I'm going to rule out a lifestyle change such as staying home too much, less active, etc. I don't think the diet changed. I don't think the diet changed in one year or two, did it? Well we'll get to vaccines. I don't think diet changed and even if it did you would see that in some demographics more than others because I think we have some demographics that don't eat the same as others, right? I don't think seniors eat the same as young people. Young people don't eat the same as, you know. So we should have demographics that are not having the problem if it's food because it wouldn't be everything you eat everywhere all the same time. It would be like some element of the food. The food would be bad and you'd see it in some demographic more than others. So I don't think it's food. I don't think it's anything that affects all of us all the time.

So if it's not our lifestyle and it's not the food, what about the COVID itself? Well Europe had COVID and we had COVID but Europe is doing better so it's the same COVID. So it's probably not COVID.

And then your obvious question is the vaccinations. But I don't know this for sure but I strongly suggest that the vaccination status would be the main thing people are looking at. It's so obvious. So don't you think that we would know by now if the unvaccinated were a demographic group that were doing fine? Don't you think if we really knew that unvaccinated people just weren't having this excess death rate wouldn't we know that by now? I feel like we would because it's the most obvious thing you look at, right?

I don't think it's more sugar because that didn't change much. So I don't think it's food. I don't think it's Big Pharma. I don't think it's just that we got fatter although we did because that doesn't happen fast enough. What do you think it is?

All right I've got two hypotheses that I don't have a lot of confidence in but the fact that it's across all demographics that's the sketchy part. Here's what I think. Number one it's a data collection problem. So either Europe is doing a bad job of collecting death data or the US changed their mechanism or is doing a better job or a different job. So if I had to guess, the fact that it's across all demographics and it doesn't affect Europe as much that strongly suggests the data is just wrong. That we maybe we changed the way we collect it or something like that. Yeah so here's one possibility. It's a bad data collection. Say some kind of change that affected everybody the way they do it maybe. But I feel like we'd know that. Don't you think we'd know that by now? Don't you think somebody would have said hey the data collection changed? I feel like that would have bubbled up. So probably not that.

But there is one thing that affects all people in America in a way that doesn't affect Europe. What is it? What is something that does seem unique to America that's not affecting Europe as much? Loneliness. Loneliness. Now that's a hypothesis. That Europe has a different culture and may simply be more social. Is that true? Would you say that Europe is simply more social? I don't know if that's true but if they are that would explain it because we do have a loneliness problem in the United States. And it's the only thing I can think of that is across all demographics. Every demographic is lonelier now. Our shutdown in the pandemic apparently made a big difference to our permanent habits.

So another story in the news is that people are not using their cars as much. We have the same number. We actually had more cars than we had before the pandemic. So the number of cars went up but the miles driven dropped like a rock. Do you think that miles driven dropping like a rock is entirely work related? Because some of it is. So a lot of people are working at home so that increases your loneliness. You have more, you know the technology is better all the time so that increases your options. Humans are worth less to each other. I think it's loneliness and the depression that comes with it.

Anybody want to offer another alternative? What do you think it is? Is it pharma, food, obesity, data, vaccination, dehydration, alcohol? Well Americans, relative. So I think Americans are drinking way less or actually maybe the ones who are drinking are drinking more but there are fewer people drinking at all and more people quitting so they're less social.

All right let me ask you this question of all of you. You ready? Do we have a problem here? Locals looks like the locals comments are having a problem so I'm going to open up the locals comments on my other device. That usually works. All right just a moment. Where am I? Hold on just a second. There we go. All right yes I have your comments now on my other device. Can you see me? I think you can see me but the comments are delayed. All right so I got all your comments now.

There was a change in data. Media scoops. Yeah maybe. Yep yep. Hey John you're kind of an, I just want to tell you that for Christmas guy named John you're a total. Thanks. Thanks for joining. Quitting alcohol is the best thing you've done for yourself. Good.

All right well we've already ruled out the vaccination because I think that would have been noticed. Yeah I don't know if it's depression but let me, here's the question I was going to ask. Let me look at the comments. The question is this. How many of you have increased loneliness since before the pandemic? How many of you have increased in loneliness? All right I'm seeing lots of no's but there are lots of yeses. I know. Oh my God sorry about that. Yeah some people got widowed. Yep. So some of it is retirement and all that other stuff. Okay. Oh we got our comments back. Well that's my guess.

All right here's a Sam Altman prediction. So he was bragging about his prediction. He said 27 months ago he made the following prediction. He said that by 2030, so now just six years away, it will become clear that the AI revolution and renewable plus nuclear energy are going to get us there which is near zero cost for intelligence and energy. Near zero.

So what Sam Altman is talking about is I think fusion made some breakthroughs and there are a lot of green energy breakthroughs and now you have the AI breakthrough which he suggests. And he said in a comment that at some point ChatGPT will be free except for the newest version. So you'll be able to get like a really really useful free one but if you want the really really useful one maybe that's connected to more services or something. You'd pay a few bucks a month. So at some point most people will have free AI. Just think about that. Free AI. It won't be the best you can buy but you know for 20 bucks a month you probably get that too.

And then we're heading towards free energy. So the answer to your question what do you do about a national debt that is so high you can't even imagine any scenario in which it would be paid back? Free energy would get you there. If energy approached free then the cost of all products would drop and suddenly everything gets fixed. So it is a once in a civilization change. Only once in all of human civilization will energy costs go from real expensive to almost free. Only once. It will never happen again. But only once have we run up debt that looks impossible to pay off. Luckily it happened at the same time. One of the things that makes me think we're in a simulation. Like how could that be? How could it be a coincidence that the one time you have a crushing impossible to pay off debt you have a once in history of the universe ever this you know one time change in energy prices? Kind of lucky. May we got lucky.

All right. Yeah people are staying home more blah blah. So Wall Street Journal says that kids are preferring YouTube to all other forms of entertainment. I'm going to echo that although I'm no kid. Have all of you noticed that if you turn on YouTube you'll find something very interesting to watch every single time? Have you ever noticed that it works every time? If I have some free time and I open up YouTube no question about it there are going to be five to ten things that it suggests all of which interest me.

Now go anywhere else. X actually works that way. When I go on X I'm always entertained. It's really really strange if I don't have an entertaining time on X. But if I open Netflix what are my percentage odds? Not that good. Maybe one in three that I'll find something I want to watch. At most one in four. And that's the same for all the streaming services. At one point I just signed up for all the streaming services like I just had every one of them and I could not find anything to watch.

But once I got the YouTube premium service where there's no commercials I always always have something fun to watch. YouTube is just killing everything else. There's no, and here's why. I don't want to spend a whole bunch of time looking for what I want to watch and Netflix is just a nightmare. And if you have more than one streaming service you can't remember where you stopped watching one thing. How many times have you ever done this? If you have more than one streaming service you'll watch a show and you watch a few episodes. You say hey this will be my new thing. I'll watch the rest of these. And then you can't remember which streaming service it was on and then you get frustrated because you're looking for it and it's not in the first three you try and then you just give up and you never watch it again.

Yeah it's not just me. Fairly it's not just me. Yeah I give up on most of the things I try to watch even when I like them because I can't figure out where the next episode is and it frustrates me because I sit down and if I spend 10 minutes looking for something to watch I'm going to give up. I'm literally just going to change my mind and say well that was my 10 minutes. I didn't have half an hour. I had 10 minutes and I spent the whole time looking for something. But you go to YouTube it's like oh yeah. Or not Amazon but YouTube. Oh there it is. Bang. And also a lot of the content is 10 minutes so I can see 10 minutes of something from beginning to end without looking for it. There's no competition. YouTube is just going to own everything.

Well apparently there's an Egyptian plan for solving the Gaza situation in which they do, in broad terms, they would end the war with Israel and Hamas with a ceasefire, a hostage release, and then the creation of a Palestinian government of experts who would administer to the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. So the plan would include a different kind of government for the West Bank in addition to Gaza which is probably important. You know having Gaza different than the West Bank gave you two problems. You know wouldn't it be nice to have one? And the proposal worked out with the Gulf nations of Qatar has been presented blah blah blah but it falls short of Israel's goal of crushing Hamas so we don't think it'll happen. It's good that they're talking about it.

Now yesterday there was a brief social media bit that I can't find it in the news so I think it's not true that Saudi Arabia had a plan for administering the West Bank and Gaza. Is that true or not true? Did anybody see a story about that? It was briefly on social media but I didn't see a source. I think it's not true but I'm going to double down and say that the smartest thing that Saudi Arabia could do is offer to administer the region with Israel in charge of all the security because it would make Saudi Arabia the adult in the room and it would position them in the strongest position not only to oppose Iran because remember Iran wanted to scuttle the growing closeness between Saudi and Israel and the other countries. So it really was about thwarting Saudi from becoming more integrated with Israel and the West.

So the best way you could defeat Iran's intentions and Hamas's intentions is to make sure that when as soon as you're done the other countries they were trying to stop getting together are not just getting together but more getting together than they ever were contemplating before. So that there's a real, it really didn't work. You got to make sure that Iran thinks oh crap that didn't work right so it's they're not tempted to do it again.

So I think maybe Saudi involvement would be the right answer. But I don't see any kind of answer where the Palestinians are governing themselves. I just don't see it.

Now as someone pointed out to me this morning you have all these brainwashed young people in the West Bank and Gaza. How in the world do you fix that? An entire youth group completely brainwashed to just want to kill Israelis and Jews and whatever. Can you fix it? I'm going to give you a weird optimistic answer to that question.

Number one here's number one persuasion rule you need to know. It is way easier to brainwash a young person. Old people can be brainwashed but it takes more work because they're more settled in their opinions. You really have to unsettle their opinion before you can change it. Young people are starting with no real opinion and certainly not strongly held so you can brainwash them easily. You can make them believe in Santa Claus. Anything, right? So that's what happened.

So now you've got this all this weaponized you know million or so young people who are weaponized. So how in the world do you solve that? Well I don't know if it's solvable but you could imagine a scenario in which let's say Saudi or somebody else had control of all of the education system. So somebody had real tight control of the curriculum and what the teachers were telling the kids. Then you just reprogram them. Now you'd have to get the 20 somethings because they're already out of school but you can get them.

So here's the good news. Remember I told you it's simple to brainwash young people. It's really simple to un-brainwash them because you know what? Do you know it's easy to convince a young person? There's nothing easier to convince a 20 something or a teenager than the following statement. You ready for this? When I tell you how easy it is you're going to laugh. It's the easiest un-brainwashing you'll ever do. You ready? Here it comes. The adults were lying to you. That's it. That's it. And you're done. You just have to explain what they lied to you about and that's it. Yeah young people especially men.

All right let's put this to the men. All right because it's the men who are doing the fighting for the most part. So we'll just say to the men don't you think you could be easily convinced that your adults you know your elders have been lying to you all along about anything? About anything. Just pick a topic and I tell you your elders were lying to you. Do you think I could sell that to young people? It's the easiest thing. There's nothing easier. They're already primed for it. It's easy to convince somebody of something they're already primed to believe. So if you already believed in ghosts it would be really easy to tell you that I saw one and you'd believe it. But if you didn't believe in ghosts well good luck right? I'm not really going to convince you I saw one if you don't believe they're real.

But young people specifically young men are all ready to believe that everybody's lying to them. It's the single most believable thing when you're a young male that you've been lied to. So you just take that approach. You don't say oh here's a better way. You say no they were all illegitimate. You know those Hamas leaders that were in charge of your education before they all became billionaires. What? Yeah they all became billionaires. It was never real. It was just a plot to brainwash you. Do you know how long it would take to un-brainwash a young person under those conditions? A reasonable person comes in and said you know I hate to tell you it was all an op. They were just brainwashing you so that they could get billions of dollars in power and really most of what they told you wasn't even true. A young person you can flip them in 10 minutes.

So if you're thinking oh there no there's no way you can un-brainwash all those young people. 10 minutes. 10 minutes. Yep you can un-brainwash every one of them. Now can you un-brainwash their parents? Good luck. Good luck with that. That's going to be harder. Way way harder. But the kids, the 20 somethings, yeah you can get every one of them. Every one of them.

All right Bill Ackman still going hard at the president of Harvard who refused to quit and I guess there's the board refused to fire. But now he says Bill Ackman says I have heard from a source that is reliable but a step or two removed from the situation that the Harvard Corporation has asked president Gay to resign and she has refused. Who could have seen this coming? I wonder what she did instead of agreeing to resign. Huh? Does it involve hiring a lawyer? And then the source said that she hired a lawyer and she's going to sue. Okay a little bit dependable. A little bit dependable.

Now let me ask you this. If you were a white man and you thought where should I go to get a job did you really have a chance of getting a job as president of Harvard this latest time? You really didn't, did you? Yeah. Do you think you should stay away from situations in which you have a natural disadvantage and try to find situations where you have some kind of natural advantage? I would. So I wouldn't go anywhere where you're in physical danger or where other people have a competitive edge against you in hiring. I wouldn't go to any of those two places. I guess I wouldn't have been canceled if I said that but that's basically what I said. Basically.

All right the polls are saying according to The Hill they looked at a whole bunch of polls, 57 polls, and they found out Trump is leading by over 2% against Biden. Now that's remember that's 2% in the general election and Republicans win elections without winning the general you know the general vote. They just have to win in the key states. So that would suggest that Trump probably has like an overwhelming advantage in winning the election because if he's at two points ahead in the general that would be better than basically any Republican has done since Reagan.

Give me a history fact check. When was the last time if ever a Republican won the election and also won the popular vote? When's the last time? Oh was it Bush? No George Bush. Did George Bush Jr. win the popular vote? Bush in 04. All right well it does happen but so far it has accurately predicted you know anywhere that a Republican won the popular vote they also won the election right? Is that right? Let's check that. Every time the Republican won the popular vote they also won the election. True. And won it handily. If they won the popular vote they didn't just win the election they won it like really. They won it by a lot right? I think that's true.

So we have a situation that guarantees civil war because either Trump wins and the bad guys create a civil war to stop it or Trump loses and his supporters start a civil war because it looks rigged. It's hard to avoid the civil war this time isn't it? Now I'm using hyperbole. I don't think there'll be a civil war. I don't think there's a civil war either way. I think we just complain a lot and do what we can in courts like always.

So you know that weight loss drug that's a big deal. You get the injections. I think Ozempic is one but there are others in the same category. And apparently they really really work and people lose weight. But believe it or not this is the conversation that's happening. Whether or not these shots should be considered a lifetime treatment because apparently as soon as people stop taking the shots two-thirds of them gain back all the weight in the year. Two-thirds. So the medical community is debating whether it should be treated like diabetes which is once you have it you have it so it's lifetime you know like high blood pressure. Once you have it you have it so you just always take the blood pressure pills.

Now is everybody okay with that? Isn't there something wrong with this reasoning by analogy? All right so it's permanent for diabetes and hypertension. Now obviously if you're if you somehow showed as non-diabetic or you somehow showed as no longer having hypertension they'd stop. But generally speaking the assumption is you're just doing it forever. Isn't that different than eating? Because I'm most positive people can eat less. Like by you know if they could eat less. If you lost a bunch of weight with Ozempic and then you got off it so your hunger came back it's not impossible for you to find another way to stop eating is it? Like a diet you know the way everybody else does it.

Now I don't do fat shaming because I don't believe in free will but since it's a real thing that people can keep weight off without drugs shouldn't you always take them off it after a year? Am I wrong about that? I would think that 100% of the time you'd say I'm going to do this for let's say two years. I'm going to do this for two years and then we're absolutely taking you off the drug. Now if two years later it looks like you couldn't handle it we'll talk about putting you back on but we're going to have to take you off it to see if you have any chance at all of maintaining your weight. Shouldn't that be the rule? That you're guaranteed to get off it but we'll watch it and if you can't figure out how to do it on your own we'll have to put you back on because the drug itself can't be completely safe is it anyway?

So there's a movement now. There's a book by Jones somebody named Jones who was talking about the white supremacy founding of the country and wants to remind us that the original exploration of at least of white people to the Americas was super super racist which I didn't actually know. So here's something maybe you didn't know. This author talks about the doctrine of discovery. So back in 1493 back in Columbus days the Pope put out a doctrine of discovery that said any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be quote discovered claimed and exploited by the Christian rulers. Did you know that? Did you know that the Christians believed that if they found land that wasn't run by Christians they could conquer it because they were Christians? What's that sound like? That sounds a little bit like the radical Islamic thing going on right now. All right so the Catholic faith and Christian religions could be exalted and spread everywhere because we were the good ones I guess. And it became the basis of all European claims in the Americas that it was basically a Christian right basically to take over anything that wasn't already Christian. That sounds worse than anything I've heard America do yet. That's pretty bad. Yeah boy.

Was it, I think I saw Vivek Ramaswamy saying that you know he sort of understands why people want to tear down statues of slave owners. Right you might not agree with it but it's not without an argument. It's not without an argument. Slave owner you know is that the message we want to send? But as Vivek says why don't we replace them with people who were the opposite of slave owners? And he mentioned two people in particular President John Adams and President John Quincy Adams who apparently were not slave owners and worked very hard against the evil slavery. So we do have presidents in the same era as the slave owners who are working very hard on the opposite side of things to try to free slaves and give them legal representation and everything else. So why not build a statue to my relatives? How about that huh? Didn't see that coming. My cousins the Adams presidents. I just assume I'm related somewhere down the line. I'm not descended from them but I might be a cousin of some kind.

Well Michael Shellenberger has a fascinating again article about how the color revolution methods that our government has used in other countries they used it against America to defeat Trump. So the color revolution is when you do a bunch of nonviolent things which collectively destabilize the country. So it could be protests in the street it could be lawfare it could be anything that's legal but would destabilize a country. That's the color revolution.

And as Michael Shellenberger points out the Democrats had previously proposed in both 2016 and 2020. No hold on. As his publication Public reported I'll just read what he said. On Wednesday political operatives and journalists these are Americans held a summit called the Transition Integrity Project or the TIP in 2020. Right so now a bunch of important Democrats got together and in 2020 and during that they did simulated exercises in which the players plotted how to challenge the election results in the event of a Trump victory. Just think about that. Trump is maybe going to go to jail or not be on the ballot for challenging an election and the Democrats were planning to challenge him if he won even if it was a legal victory. They were planning to challenge it.

And we know that it's documented the exact thing they're blaming him of they were planning to do. Very much planning it. I mean really really planning it. All right here and here's the punchline. In one of their simulations they had states send alternate slates of electors. That's right they actually did role play in war games in which they did what Trump tried to do with the alternate electors. And then when Trump did it instead of them they tried to put him in jail for it. So the very thing that they were going to do as soon as Trump did it and by the way they tried to do it in earlier elections as well so it was a very common thing. They actually got their illegitimate media to sell it as an insurrection so they could put Trump in jail. The very thing that they knew was legal because they'd done it before and so legal that they even war gamed it and documented it as a thing to do. Amazing.

And then Michael Shellenberger says the Democrats quote insurrection narrative rests on manipulative arguments and cynical language games and this narrative has been used to destroy a foundation of our democracy the right to vote for the candidate of your choice. Now this is a case of everything is exactly as bad and rotten as you thought it was. It couldn't be more of a worst case scenario and apparently it's all documented. It's as true as anything's ever been true. It's all documented.

Let me say it again. Trump will not be kept out of the election. He will not be jailed and he will not be prevented from running. Do you know why? Because that's too far. That's just too far. There is a line and in case Democrats are wondering where the line is there might be other lines but that's definitely a line. Yeah if you keep him from winning using a trick I can't predict what happens after that. I never suggest violence of course but things are going to get real unpredictable if that were to happen. So I almost can guarantee you it won't happen because the risk that Democrats would be putting themselves to would actually be existential. That would be an existential risk meaning the whole thing could fall apart. Yeah so I don't think that's going to happen because I think nobody would take that kind of risk. But Democrats might be thinking they're fighting for their lives you know. There might be somebody well lots of people so crooked that they fear a Trump presidency because he might actually put the crooks in jail and they're going to have to act in a way that's like trying to protect their own life. So I do hope his security service is up to the job.

All right I saw a post by Mike Cernovich. Said the energy felt bad and he was feeling a sort of a negative you know cloud coming. I don't feel it. I actually feel like we're in an awakening and that the awakening will be bumpy and you know won't be easy but that is where we had to go. So what I feel is a huge destabilization and I think maybe that's what Mike is feeling. There's a level of destabilization that I've never seen before. We're definitely destabilized and things are definitely going to change. But here's my being too American part. If there's one thing that Americans are good at consistently good at and nothing's changed like we're still those same people we're really good at breaking shit and then fixing it. Breaking is the hard part. Sometimes you got to break it or else you know you can't build it back.

We're experiencing a great breaking meaning that everything we were doing before stopped working right? Everything everything everything that used to work just stopped working. So we had to wait until it broke before we could really fix it and had to push it a little bit too. And now you're seeing things breaking everywhere. Remember DEI and the ESG stuff. It was just sort of rolling along and we had to break it before it could be put back together in a better way. So yeah I see a whole bunch of things that were just sort of rolling along that now just have to be broken.

I feel far and away more positive forces than negative forces are forming. That's my feeling. Just hunch but I think you can feel good this Christmas. I think you can feel good. To me it feels like Ukraine is winding down because it has to. I think Israel did what it needed to do and the situation that was in Israel was unsustainable. It had to break but first you had first something terrible had to happen before you could do the extreme thing needed to do to maybe get something stable. This was it. It was an extreme thing. Nobody wanted it to happen but it did. So now they have a chance of building something stable maybe with Saudi or somebody else having some role. We'll see. But I see two wars that are likely to wind down. I don't see a war with China starting. I see China on the decline. I see Russia sort of should stay kind of stable once Ukraine winds down and energy trending toward free and AI is coming and robots are going to save us. I don't know. I see a lot of positives.

Now keep your eye on Argentina because Naval's comment is way deeper than you think it is because he says it so succinctly but if Argentina quote proves you can vote yourself out of poverty that might change everything. Might change everything. If by election day Argentina has already started to turn around I think Trump gets elected easily. Don't you? Don't you think Argentina is a referendum on Trump? It's also a referendum on Vivek because Vivek has ideas that are that seem as let's say bold. I'm going to say bold as Argentina.

My cable management is yeah it is. I do have terrible cable management. You're true. Yeah it's not bad enough yet maybe. I think it is. No way someone stole your cat last year and you just received a box with your cat in it. That did not happen. Are you serious? Somebody stole your cat and they gave it back to you on Christmas. Did that really happen? I want to see if that's really happened. Probably a different cat. Yeah we're asking if it was dead or alive. It was alive huh?

You're worried about Vivek because he's too charismatic. You know that is the problem with smart people. And one of the things that Trump does best is he acts less smart than he is. Have you ever noticed that? One of Trump's greatest magic tricks is to convince you he's not as smart as he is because then you feel comfortable with him. Vivek has the other problem. He's so obviously smarter than all of us that you wonder if he's got a trick up his sleeve right? There's an automatic distrust for smart people. Bill Gates has this. Now I'm not going to defend Bill Gates. He can defend himself but I'm saying that even if he had never done anything wrong and I'm not saying that I'm just saying if he never done anything wrong it's hard to trust him because he's too smart.

I think Elon Musk has that problem too. That if you don't like what he's doing you worry because he's too smart. Too smart is scary to most people. So you need to be too smart but also clearly empathetic. So the thing that Vivek has to do is make sure that he's communicated his empathy with the same power as his capability. If he gets his capability higher than his empathy he looks like a monster. If he gets his empathy up to the level of his capability it's called charisma. Do you get that? That's a very important point by the way. Let me say it again because it's so important. If his capability is higher than his empathy he'll look like a monster because he's capable of doing anything but you're not sure he's on your team because he doesn't have the empathy. But if he gets his empathy to the same level as his capability which is extraordinary you're going to say to yourself oh we can't have anybody else. He will become what's the word just guaranteed. If his empathy and I don't think it does yet by the way. The reason you're afraid of him is that he hasn't done it yet. His empathy has not achieved the same level of his capability but not because he doesn't have empathy. It's exactly because his capability is so high it's really hard to get that much empathy even if you have plenty of empathy because he's just operating at such a high level.

If he gets it there and he could easily because it's more of a communication thing than a real thing. If he just tweaks his communication to get his empathy to the same level it's magic. Have you seen the viral videos of Vivek I'm going to say turning a critic in the audience? I've seen two of them so far. I think there might be more but in both cases the way he turned his critic was he said I'll give you the microphone and let you talk and let his critic fully express everything and then where he could find places of agreement he would agree strongly and then without losing any empathy he would tell you why his version actually shows the most empathy. And once he had done that because the person had talked themselves out in both cases they realized that he was coming from a place of empathy not a place of technical you know Republicans like this. It was actually derived from an empathy position.

Now that's not obvious. It's not obvious that all of his policies are empathy based. It's just that he thinks capitalism fixes your problem better than socialism or communism and he thinks you know the truth works better than a lie right? So he's definitely has an empathy first approach. It's just that he knows you have to go through a certain path to get to the best outcome and not everybody knows that. So he looks a little off model because people are not as smart as he is about how you get to the best place. But given his level of capability could he ever bring his perceived empathy because it's perception his perceived empathy up to his actual empathy where his capability is? If he does that he goes supernova. Supernova.

Now I would say that's what Trump gets right. One of the things that makes Trump so popular is that his empathy for regular Americans is through the roof. Would you agree? I've never seen anybody more consistently. And here's the key. Genuinely. Trump is full of it about a lot of stuff but if he doesn't genuinely have empathy for the let's say middle class of America that would be the greatest trick ever because he looks completely consistent. Everything he does in person every little act of kindness every word he picks every policy he picks they all seem to be consistent with a genuine empathy for Americans like ordinary Americans.

So I think when the Democrats pick up what they call the cult do you know what the cult is? He showed empathy. That's it. They called him a cult because he showed genuine empathy like the real kind. Like I think it's real. And believe me I'll be the first one to tell you Trump is a showman. I'll be the first person to say he uses hyperbole. The first person to tell you he doesn't pass all the fact checks. No no argument about any of that. But he has completely sold me after decades and decades of total consistency. The average American he really loves. And also the other thing he sells me on is I love his pirate ship. I call his supporters a pirate ship because it's all these you know a whole lot of narwhals and you know controversial characters people who've had brushes with the law you know just really edgy kind of out there people. He embraces all of them as long as they're on his side and America's side. He embraces all of them and I like it.

What I see with the Democrats is that they only embrace the politically popular. Oh trans are very important let's bring in some trans because they're getting a lot of publicity. Trump brings in the people who didn't get any publicity right? Yeah middle America is not getting a lot of publicity but that's the ones he caters to. So I think Vivek can take a lesson from the master. Trump actually in my opinion this it's pure opinion I believe he lowered his perceived capability by talking in a plain simple way you know. He says stuff like if the wind stops blowing your windmill won't work and you can't watch TV. Now nobody thinks that's really true I hope but it's just a simple way to say what he wants to say which is the green technology is overrated basically.

But if Vivek were to say the same thing he's going to give you the really compelling smart I understand this topic from top to bottom explanation and then you're going to say whoa his capability is way up here. Where's his empathy? His empathy is out of whack right? So he's so smart and so good his perceived capability got out of whack with his perceived empathy but the reality is they're probably the same. All he has to do is put them back in balance. So Trump lowers his perceived capability has a tremendous perceived empathy for regular Americans and they match. What happens when those two match? Your capability and your empathy if it's high capability charisma. That's what gets you a cult. You don't get a cult by being good at what you do. Let me say this a thousand times. You do not get a cult following for being good at what you do. Nobody does. It's not a thing. You get a cult following for having empathy that matches your high level of capability. Period. There's no other way to get there.

Now let's look at the president of Argentina. Capability looks pretty high. High level of capability but empathy. President of Argentina tell me tell me your impression of his empathy. High. It's high because he's going after the elites for the benefit of the regular people and he spent enough time you know being an interesting wild man that you think he actually cares about people and he's so diverse you know he just sort of a character who's done a lot of things that you believe he actually really cares about regular people. And then he does high capability things. Whoa. High empathy high capability magic. Magic.

So Vivek is one twist away from magic. Trump has magic. President Milei I don't want to say his name because I may mangle it in Argentina he has magic. Empathy and capability matched. Vivek still out of whack but he's under whack for exactly the best reason not for lack of capability. His capability is too high. It's out of whack with anybody's level of empathy. How do you get how does anybody how could you possibly have that much empathy? Because he's got to get up to that level of capability. If he doesn't which he could do he could absolutely do it but the moment he does it you know it's going to be a moment. If it happens it's going to be a moment in American history because it's going to be fireworks like you've never seen.

Oh damn it I was trying to trigger the platform but it didn't work. All right let me check in on locals and see if everybody's still good there. All right well okay well here's a very honest statement. All right this is a comment. I want to say from who people aren't quite sure whether to trust an Indian yet. Now I hate to say it but that's true. That not my opinion obviously but I do think there's a racial discomfort that people don't like to say out loud but it's a trust thing. But if I could make a one correction he's an American. He's not an Indian. He's literally not an Indian. He's an American with you know Indian heritage but you can't get you can't get more American than Vivek. Yeah he's like 110% American. He's more American than Americans. He's the one who reminds you how to be an American. That's like the most American you could be. He's not a Hindu. Oh some people think he's a Hindu. He's not a Hindu. He's a Christian. He's a Christian. Wait I'm saying smart people saying he is a Hindu. Now this is interesting. You're telling me he's a Hindu who believes in the Christian. He's a Hindu who believes that Jesus Christ was the son of God. That's a Christian.

Let me ask you this. Do you think Vivek believes in heaven or reincarnation? Does he believe in because I think you're talking you I think he might be culturally he comes from a Hindu background. I think you're confusing his religion with his culture. Is that what you're doing? I think actually all of you are wrong. I think you're all wrong actually. You want to check? Let's check on this for the next time okay? Should we check on it now? Let's check on it now. Let's do this in real time.

So here here's what I think. I think he identifies with the Hindu tradition and culture. In other words an influence but that his belief of religious belief is Christian. So we can check it right now. If I'm wrong I if I'm wrong you get to see it in real time. Does anybody want to stay and see if I'm wrong? It'll be fun. Don't you like to see me wrong? All right we'll find out the answer to the question and I'll say is Vivek Christian or Hindu? What do you think?

He said I'm Hindu and I'm proud of that. I stand for that without an apology. But wait hold on. So remember I said I didn't disagree that he identified as Hindu but we're talking about his religious belief right? We're talking about his religious belief. So let's get into this religious belief. All right let's see. Better answer shares the same values. How do we get a good answer for this? New York Times don't believe that. Don't want to. News Nation. I'm going to go with News Nation because I'm trying to find an unbiased source. Wait we might have an unbiased source here.

To Jenny Mitchell she is an entomologist at Iowa State University from Boone Iowa. She is a Republican who is currently undecided. Jenny all right listen thank you. Thanks for being here and thanks for coming to Iowa so much. We appreciate your visits. So freedom of religion is a part of our Constitution and obviously a huge part of our country. What do you say to those who say that you cannot be our president because your religion is not what our founding fathers based our country on?

I would say that I respectfully disagree and you know I want people to understand this about me. I would rather speak the truth and lose an election than to win by playing some political snakes and ladders. I mean if I want to map out my political career and really solve for that you know I could fake convert you know I'm not going to do that. I'm going to tell you about my faith. I'm Hindu. Now I went to Christian schools. I went to St. Xavier in Cincinnati and I actually have been on the board of St. X except for hiatus to run for president. And I can tell you with confidence that we share the same value set in common.

I'll tell you about my faith. My faith teaches me that God puts each of us here for a purpose. One God. That we have a moral duty to realize that purpose. One God. That God works through us in different ways but we're still equal because God resides in each of us. Now I had what you would call not a traditional upbringing but probably a very traditional upbringing right? My parents taught me family is the foundation. Marriage is sacred. Divorce isn't some option you just prefer off a menu when things don't go your way. Abstinence before marriage is the way to go. Adultery is wrong. That the good things in life involve a sacrifice. Now are those foreign values in this country? I know it could look that way at times. You turn on the television go to the movie theater your local DEI training at a company or what they're teaching your kids in schools. That could seem a little unfamiliar. I don't think it's unfamiliar to most of us. I think those are the same Judeo-Christian values that I learned at St. X.

When we get to the Ten Commandments what do they say? There's one true God. Don't take his name in vain. Observe the Sabbath. Respect your parents. Don't kill. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal. Don't commit adultery. Don't covet. That's when it hit me. We share the same value set in common.

There's another core teaching in my faith which is that we don't get to choose who God works through. God chooses who God works through. So we get to that Old Testament a little bit further along. We get to the book of Isaiah. I don't know if many of you are familiar with that one. God chose Cyrus a gentile all the way in Persia to lead the Jewish people back to the promised land. And so yes I believe God put us here for a purpose. My faith is what leads me on this journey to run for president. My gratitude to this country is what leads me.

And even when we think about the founding fathers I'm a fan of history okay. I talked about Thomas Jefferson earlier. We'll stick to Thomas Jefferson. He was a deist actually. Let's be honest about it because the left wants to rewrite our history and tell he was a slave owner an evil man. No I get that but we're not going to have anybody rewriting our history. Thomas Jefferson was a deist. He made the Jefferson Bible. You know how he did it? He didn't believe in all the parts of the New Testament but he took a blade razor blade by hand glued it together and that made the Jefferson Bible which we have today. John Adams wrote letters to Thomas Jefferson actually became something of a Hindu scholar after he left. And so I think it's important to see our founding fathers three-dimensionally not the way that they've been rewritten post 1990 either.

And so yes do I would I be the best president to spread Christianity through this country? I would not. I'd be not the best choice for that. But I also don't think that that's the job of the US president. But will I stand for the Judeo-Christian values that this nation was founded on that I was raised in even in the Hindu faith? Yes I will. You're darn right I will. And as a young person picking up on that strand from earlier I think it's my responsibility to make faith and patriotism and family and hard work cool again in this country. I think they're pretty cool and I think that's my job as your next president.

And to back to the First Amendment we will stand for religious liberty in a way that neither Republicans nor Democrats actually have. That's what the First Amendment says. You get to practice your faith. Every pastor in this country gets to do his job without the government getting in their way. That's what I'm going to keep as the.

So here's my interpretation. See if it matches yours. That he believes there's one God. What does he believe about Jesus? Because that would be kind of. I was just looking to see what he thinks about Jesus. Betting on moments. Let's see who is Jesus to the Hindus. I think they see him as a teacher. Well I guess that would be the main question huh? What do Hindus say about Jesus? He's a light in the world or something. Do Hindus believe in the Bible? Interesting.

So what would be the difference between someone who thought there was one God and believed all the Christian values but was a Hindu by self label? So here here's what I think you need to ask. Does he believe any of the Hindu specific beliefs such as reincarnation? Isn't that a key thing? If he believes there's one God and you go to an afterlife but the Bible might not be literal that's that's closer to a that's pretty close to Trump religion. It's kind of better than I thought it was. I'm more comfortable knowing that he's compatible with Christian religion without being a true believer. To me that's the ultimate. That'd be the best situation.

So I will accept your statement that he identifies as Hindu. Can we agree on that? Can we agree that he identifies as Hindu? Would you also agree that he does not identify at least out loud with the things the Hindus believe such as reincarnation or don't they have multiple gods? Wait how many gods do the Hindus have? How many gods? Let's get a number on that. 33. How many gods? 33. So he believes there's one God which he says all the time.

All right now let me ask you this. Using his own words to describe himself he is compatible with all of the Christian concepts and he believes there's one God and he agrees with Thomas Jefferson that the Bible is human made. So is Thomas Jefferson a Christian? Was Thomas Jefferson? Because I don't think he believed Jesus was the son of God. You know that right? I'm pretty sure Jefferson didn't believe in Jesus did he? He was a deist not a Jesus lover. What about Washington?

All right so this is more interesting than I thought. It's actually better than I thought. I would have been uncomfortable if he said he was Hindu and believed the specifics of 33 gods and reincarnation. I would be equally uncomfortable if he said he was a Christian and believed everything in the Bible was literally true. Sort of a Mike Johnson thing. That doesn't make me comfortable at all. But if you say you believe in one God like most of the Americans who believe in anything do and you say you're completely 100% on board with the cultural you know aspects of Christianity that's sort of the ideal situation for a president. I don't think you could do better. Now that might make him hard to be elected so that's a separate issue but I want a president who says I like all the good parts of your religion but it's up to you how much you believe about the historical details but I like all the I like what it says so let's deal with what it says because we all like that part and then you individually can argue about the historical part.

He attended church so we know he believed in God. He just didn't believe that the Bible was the work of God. That's why he kept some parts and threw away other parts. All right so I wouldn't say that he's I would not call Vivek what would you say a classic Hindu or a classic Christian but he's hit a mix that's pretty appealing I think. You found a sweet spot there. Now it doesn't mean it makes it easy to get elected. Just in my opinion it would be the perfect place to be if you're a deist you automatically don't believe in Jesus right? Is that right? Give me a fact check on that. Deists believe there's one supreme god which excludes Jesus being a like a godlike situation right? No or true? I get a little disagreement on that. I would think deist is just there's a God and that's the end of the story. There's no Jesus. Yeah so that they would not believe that Jesus necessarily is God. So you can believe in Jesus but not believe that Jesus is God. You could believe he's the son of God but not God. Okay all right well there's some wiggle room there.

All right well I'm glad we've sorted that all out but I will I will take your correction. Are you listening to this part? This is the part you wanted to hear. I accept your correction on the Hindu part but it's not if if you'll accept my definition that he's not a classic Hindu. To me he sounds more culturally Hindu and belief wise he's a lot closer to the Christian model. So I'm going to say I was 25% right and 75% wrong. Will you accept that? I grade myself 25% right but 75% wrong which means you're 75% right and I'm 25. And you know do you accept that? All right we have agreement. I call it a Christmas miracle. It's a Christmas miracle.

All right everybody go have a great Christmas. Enjoy your families. I hope some of your families were watching and I might have another live stream tonight. I don't know yet but I probably will. Talk to you later. Bye for now.

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only the version that's 95 years old there's a black and white Mickey Mouse Steamboat Willie so in honor of him coming off of copyright I have him visiting Dilbert's boss so that's black and white Mickey so I have to draw them in black and white even though the comic is color so Mickey says hi my name is Mickey and the boss says G get out of here and Mickey says settle down my copyright expired I'm a free Mouse Disney can't sue you and the boss says then Mickey says can I get a job here or do you discriminate against black and white characters and the boss says that's a gray area yeah it's a it's a dad joke but a solid one I think solid while the New York Post is reporting there was a man who was arrested because he used a laser pointer he was pointing at a commercial plane then at a police helicopter now as you know the laser pointers can blind the uh pilot so that's very illegal so they they arrested him but the part of the story that they didn't report is they took his laser pointer away from him and they shipped it to zalinski in Ukraine because it's all we had left we didn't have anything left we're like well we've got this laser pointer we took off that guy I'll take it okay you don't like your ukra Ukrainian humor early in the morning well here's a story that is developing I think we can see where it's heading I told you that uh terer Carlson suggests that he has information we don't have and that he believes that aliens or some kind of entity that's not human uh may have always been here as opposed to visiting from another planet might even have a uh a spiritual Dimension so he thinks maybe he could be here here could be in the oceans could have always been here hiding in Antarctica maybe I don't know but then there's this related story that says scientists are uh they think they can decode whale language so they might be able to use AI to decode the complexity of the whale sounds and figure out their language yeah so uh and then they think that if they could learn whale language it might teach them how to make a univ IAL Communicator so that AI could someday allow us to communicate with aliens have you put it all together yet have you connected the dots yeah uh I think the cats on the roof they're trying to slowly break it to us that whales are aliens and they might have ships now you've got to have some good technology to C A whales ass around in a spaceship but apparently they have the good stuff anti-gravity so yeah whales are aliens and uh they may have already decided to conquer us because I don't know if you know the history of humans in Wales but I swear I hope the whales don't know it because they're going to be really pissed have you heard of a whale oil don't ask don't ask all right right um I'm so old that you know how things change and when you think back what you used to think was true you're like oh my God how do we think that was true when we were kids so dumb here's some of the things I believed oh probably two years ago two years ago I thought maybe we had too much population on the planet so population growth was a problem and I thought we had a shortage of lithium but Elon mosque has set a straight we have two few people we need more or else the economy will collapse and as he uh he posted yesterday I think um lithium is one of the most common elements on Earth building lithium refineries is the hard part that's what we need but lithium's everywhere how many of you were in the same boat that just a few years ago you thought we had too too many people and not enough lithium but turns out we have unlimited lithium and not enough people is there anything we know that's true the the most the most basic things you thought you knew about reality nope totally opposite not enough people plenty of lithium how many of you saw the most bizarre interview ever of ker Carlson interviewing Kevin spacy but Kevin spacy did it within with the character the political character he played in that long running Netflix series whose name I can't remember but he played a kind of a dirty politician so he did the whole interview in character now you might say to yourself Kevin spy I thought he got Meed or he got blamed for some terrible sex crimes with with men and you weren't there multiple claims and how in the world is he being rehabilitated I I thought he was a goner House of Cs was the name of the show yeah he was on House of Cs um but it turns out that uh now this is just what I see on the xplatform I'll need to I'll need a fact check because I'm not positive this is true is it true that there were four accusers of Kevin spacy I think they were all male and uh three of them died suspiciously so those cases went away and one of them dropped the charges is that true that three out of the four people accusing him died suspiciously and one dropped the charges I don't know if that's true it feels it feels too like on the nose or something right that couldn't be true all right I'm I'm going to say I don't quite believe it yet but I'll I'll say it's a it's the story on social media I'm not sure I believe it I'm going to need a little more convincing on that one a better Source I guess um but uh there's also a report that the uh there's a partial Epstein flight list is that real because I saw a few accounts that seem to show as they seem to be showing lists of people who went to AB Island but I don't know if those are real they were supposed to be released about now but I don't want to mention anybody on it because it looks like it might be is it real does anybody know do we actually have the list it's fake so the so that list that we're seeing is one that's been out for years which we don't know if it necessarily matches the real list right okay so we're going to call that one BS however on the BS low credibility you shouldn't believe it list is Kevin spy's name now here's what you should look at look for if we should ever confirm that we know who flew with him look for people who are uh let's say famous celebrities who are unusually politically active that's what I'd be looking for all right but we have to wait to make sure that it's a real list so we don't know if Kevin spacy was ever on anything like that that would be a rumor um there's a story that there's a a big rise in threats to public officials can you believe it can you believe that our elected officials are getting more death threats than ever is that because the public got worse I don't think so yeah maybe there's a reason well one of my favorite uh comics of all time was I can't even remember the the cartoonist I don't think the cartoon runs anymore it was a single p panel comic and I showed a guy in jail and he was talking to his bunk mate and he had you know scratched a bunch of scratches on the wall and he was counting up and he was talking about his own experience and the Prisoner says 19 arrests 19 convictions maybe it's me and I've been laughing about that for like 40 years maybe it's me 19 arrest 19 convictions starting to think the problems on my side so yeah there are more death threats of public figures is that because the public got worse or is there an unmistakable pattern of bad behavior that would certainly suggest there would be more death threats I'm going to go with the latter I I feel like we know too much about government now we're like a little bit smarter our eyes are a little bit more opened and maybe they're worse maybe they're worse in there would have been but I would certainly expect more death threats given our current situation not that I encourage them I don't encourage that so don't make any death threats but if the government is wondering why there are so many maybe they should examine their own behavior maybe you consider all possibilities well uh so a interesting and provocative post by Naval rant and uh he has a way of saying things in a very succinct way and he said this Argentina may prove that you can vote your way out of poverty because and they showed some stats of South American countries and their poverty levels and it is very clear that it's a political problem and not a resource problem you you can see that when the political leadership changes the economy just either goes in the toilet or or does well and it seems to be one to one so Argentina has their new Pro IST president he was doing a lot of stuff and cutting departments and stuff I would bet on Argentina recovering I would say the smart money says Argentina is going to go well and here's the thing sometimes it's just about energy so the new president of Argentina brings in this reformist energy which makes people say oh I'm optimistic now because of all that reformist energy oh he did something in the news that looks like a big deal he got got rid of some departments or something oh reformist energy so then because there's reformist energy people create their own energy and that becomes a self-fulfilling uh issue so it will be partly what he does the new president but partly how people feel about it and apparently people are feeling good about it so good news from Argentina which may may be spread to other places well zero Hedges reporting that uh what is becoming evident is that the NGS the non-government organizations now these will be organizations that usually rich people have funded but are not directly controlled by anybody's government so they're like little governments but non-government because there's some rich person allowing them to do what they do rich people usually and apparently these NOS are now well known to be the organizers of the mass IM immigration that's happening in America and probably elsewhere so it's organized it's not just that they made it um let's say comfortable for people who were going to immigrate anyway they actually created an entire Travel network to inform people how to go and then help them immigrate from everywhere in the world now this had nothing to do with the American government but has a gigantic impact on the health of the United States so it's not a country they're non-government organizations it might be people from different countries in some cases now how should we respond to that well if it's just a non-government organization doing legal stuff and I guess it's all legal in fact you can find out you can get their documents you can find their maps you can find out their whole plans and they're doing exactly what I said they've created a a whole platform to make it easy for people to leave where they are and end up in America and and survive now my first problem with that is the following one of the things I've always liked about American illegal immigration and even legal immigration is that it was hard to get to America it was hard to get in Legally you had to be qualified and know how to jump through all the Hoops you had be able to afford a plane ticket depending where you're coming from so the people we would get are people who cross a very high bar they could figure out how to get here they could go through all the the complications to do it and they were high enough educated quality that the country said oh yeah we we like people like you but what happens and then also for the people coming over the southern border they were unusually risk-taking people because they didn't necessarily know how they were going to make it work I like those people but here's the problem what happens if it's so easy it's just easier to leave than it is to stay now you've reversed it if it's if it's easier to stay than it is to leave you've got a natural filter so you get all the risk-taking high quality people who can you know do this difficult thing of getting here now you make it so easy and where you are is so bad that the laziest lowest qualified people say hey I might as well get on this bus it's free might take me somewhere better so didn't we just reverse the best thing about immigration that it got us the people who could pass the filter and now the filter is reversed and we're getting the people who couldn't who couldn't make it in their own country and probably can't make it as easily in our country country as the people who had a harder time getting past the filter so that's bad but I'd like to add this following thought uh is there a reason we can't kill the NGO leaders under the rules of War wouldn't we just have to declare this an illegal Invasion and part of a war and then we could kill them couldn't we now I don't think we should just just go murder the people in the NGS that would be kind of crazy I'm not saying that I'm saying we should create a legal process in which we designate the NOS as terrorist organizations because they seem to be working diligently for the destruction of United States what would you call that well you'd say Well they're not doing anything violent and I would say they're shipping in uh military aged people that we don't know how does that not end up with more violence than the there would have been if if they hadn't done it of course there are so I would say we should at least examine uh designated the NOS as terrorist organizations or paramilitary or military supporting or funding of terrorists or something like that and then we should give them warning plenty of warning because you don't want to kill anybody you don't need to kill sayl if you keep organizing these immigrants we're actually going to kill you wherever you are in any country wherever you are you're just going to get mowed down and we're not going to apologize because you're ruining our country no you don't think we should be able to murder the heads of the NOS legally you should be under a legal umbrella with lots of warning because America is being destroyed that's that's not hyperbole there is some level of immigration that that guarantees the destruction of America and the NOS are heading toward that limit I don't know if we're there yet I think we're below that limit but we're heading there as quickly as possible I say you have to kill the people behind it but give them warning and do it under a legal structure certainly nothing illegal has anybody ever said that I don't know how you just let them do it so but and whoever funds it probably should be looked at as well all right here's something interesting let's see if we can figure it out you've heard that there is excess death rates in the United States but here's the weird thing so the pandemic is over and there's still these excess death rates so you're going to say oh it's the vaccination oh it's the this or that but here's what we know apparently it's across all demographics in the United States and it's is not as severe in Europe is that enough to tell us what it is think about it it's all demographics but not so much in Europe can we figure it out from there nobody's figured it out but let's see if we can so here's what I think it would not be if it's if it's all demographics I would say it's not lifestyle because it wasn't that much of a lifestyle change that would affect all the demographics the same so I'm going to rule out a lifestyle change such as staying home too much less active Etc um I don't think the diet changed I don't think the diet changed in one year or two did it well we'll get to vaccines I don't think diet changed and even if it did you would see that in some di um some demographics more than others because I think we have some demographics that don't eat the same as others right I don't think uh seniors eat the same as young people young people don't eat the same as you know so we should have demographics that are not having the problem if it's food because it wouldn't be everything you eat everywhere all the same time it' be like some element of the food the food would be bad and you'd see it in some demographic more than others so I don't think it's food I don't think it's anything that affects all of us all the time so if it's not our lifestyle and it's not the food uh what about the co itself well Europe had Co and we had covid but Europe is doing better so it's the same Co so it's probably not Co um hangover and then your obvious question is the vaccinations but I don't know this for sure but I strongly suggest that the vaccination status would be the main thing people are looking at is so obvious so don't you think that uh we would know by now if the unvaccinated were a demographic group that were doing fine don't you think it if we really knew that unvaccinated people just weren't having this excess death rate wouldn't we know that by now I feel like we would because it's most obvious thing you look at right I don't think it's more sugar because that didn't change much um so I don't think it's food I don't think it's big Pharma I don't think it's just that we got fatter although we did because that doesn't happen fast enough what do you think it is all right I've got two hypotheses that I don't have a lot of confidence in but the fact that it's across all demographics that's the that's the sketchy part here's what I think number one it's a data collection problem so either Europe is doing a bad job of collecting death data or the US changed their mechanism or is doing a better job or a different job so if I had to guess the fact that it's across all demographics and it doesn't affect Europe as much that strongly suggests the data is just wrong that we maybe we changed the way we collect it or something like that yeah so here's one possibility it's a bad data collection say some kind of change that affected all the way everybody does it maybe um but I feel like we'd know that don't you think we'd know that by now don't you think somebody would would have said hey the data collection changed I feel like that would have bubbled up so probably not that but there is one thing that affects uh all people in America in a way that doesn't affect Europe what is it what is something that does seem unique to America that's not affecting Europe as much as much lonliness lonliness now that's a hypothesis that Europe has a different culture and may simply be more social is that true would you say that that Europe is simply more social I don't know if that's true but if they are that would explain it because we we do have a uh we have a loneliness problem in the United States and it's the only thing I can think of that is across all demographic Graphics every demographic is lonelier now our our shutdown in the pandemic apparently made a big difference to our permanent habits so another story in the news is that people are not using their cars as much we have the same number we actually had more cars than we had before the pandemic so the number of cars went up but the miles driven Drop Like a Rock do you think that miles driven dropping like a rock is entirely work related because some of it is so a lot of people are working at home so that increases your loneliness you have more you know the technology is better all the times that increases your options uh humans are worth less to each other I think it's loneliness and the depression that comes with it anybody want to offer another alternative what what do you think it is um is it Pharma food obesity data vaccination dehydration alcohol well well Americans oh relative that so I think Americans are drinking way less or actually maybe the ones who are drinking are drinking more but there are few people drinking at all and more people quitting so they're less social all right let me ask you this question uh of all of you you ready uh do we have a problem here locals looks like the locals comments are having a problem so I'm going to open up the locals comments on my other device that usually works all right just a moment where am I hold on just a second there we go all right yes I have your comments now on my other device can you see me I think you can see me but the comments are delayed all right so I got all your comments now uh there was a change in in data media scops yeah maybe yep yep hey John you're kind of an I just want to tell you that for Christmas guy named John you're a total thanks thanks for joining quitting alcohol is the best thing you you've done for yourself good all right well we've already ruled out the vaccination because I think that would have been noticed yeah I don't know if it's depression but uh let me here's the question I was going to ask let me look at the comments the question is this how many of you have uh increased loneliness since before the pandemic how many of you have increased in loneliness all right I'm saying lots of nose but there are lots of yeses I know oh my God sorry about that yeah some people got widowed uh yep so some of is re yeah loneliness and retirement and all that other stuff okay oh we got our comments back well that's my guess all right here's a Sam Olman prediction so he was bragging about his prediction he said 27 months ago he made the following prediction uh he said that by 2030 so now just six years away it will become clear that the AI Revolution and renewable plus nuclear energy are going to get us there which is near zero cost for intelligence and energy near zero so what Sam alman's talking about is I think Fusion made some breakthroughs and there are a lot of uh you know Green energy breakthroughs and now you have the AI breakthrough which He suggests um he and he said in a a comment that at some point ch GPT will be free uh except for the newest version so you'll be able to get like a a really really useful free one but if you want the really really useful one maybe that's connected to more services or something you you'd play pay a few bucks a month so at some point most people will have free AI just think about that free AI it won't be the best you can buy but you know for 20 bucks a month you probably get that too and then um we're heading towards free energy so the answer to your question what do you do about uh a national debt that is so high you can't even imagine any scenario in which it would be paid back free energy would get you there if energy approached to free then the cost of all products would drop and suddenly L everything gets fixed so it is a once in a civilization change only once in all of human civilization will energy costs go from real expensive to almost three only once it will never happen again but only once have we run up debt that looks impossible to pay off luckily it happened at the same time one of the things that makes me think we're in a simulation like how could that be how could it be a coincidence that the one time you have a crushing impossible to pay off debt you have a once in a ever in history of the universe ever this you know onetime change in energy prices kind of Lucky may we got lucky all right um yeah people are staying home more blah blah so Wall Street Journal says that kids are preferring You.

Tube to all other forms of entertainment I'm going to uh Echo that although I'm no kid have have all of you noticed that if you turn on You.

Tube you'll find something very interesting to watch every single time have you ever noticed that it works every time if I have some free time and I open up You.

Tube no question about it there are going to be 5 to 10 things that is suggest all of which interest me now go anywhere else right x x actually works that way when I go on X I'm always entertained it's really really strange if I don't have a entertaining time on X but if I open Netflix what are my percentage odds not that good maybe one and three that I'll find something I want to watch at most one and four and that's the same for all the streaming services at one point I just signed up for all the streaming services like I just had every one of them and I could not find anything to watch um but once I got uh the Youtube premium service where there's no commercials I always always have something fun to watch You.

Tube is just killing everything else there's there's no and and here's why I don't want to spend a whole bunch of time looking for what I want to watch and Netflix is a is just a nightmare and if you have more than one streaming service you can't remember where you stop watching One Thing how many time have you ever done this if you have more than one streaming service you'll watch a show and you watch a few episodes you say hey this will be my new thing I'll watch the rest of these and then you can't remember which streaming service it was on and then you get frustrated because you looking for it and it's not in the first three you try and then you just give up and you never watch it again yeah it's not just me fairly it's not just me yeah I give up on most of the things I try to watch even when I like them because I can't figure out where the next episode is and it frustrates me because I sit down and if I spend if I spend 10 minutes looking for something to watch I'm going to give up I'm literally just going to change my mind and say well that was my 10 minutes I didn't have half an hour I had 10 minutes and I spent the whole time looking for something but you go to Amazon it's like oh yeah or not Amazon but You.

Tube oh there it is bang and and also a lot of the content is 10 minutes so I can see 10 minutes of something from beginning to end without looking for it there's no competition You.

Tube is just going to own everything well apparently there's an Egypt plan for solving the Gaza situation uh in which they do a uh in Broad terms uh they would end the war with Israel and Hamas with a ceasefire a f hostage release and then the creation of a Palestinian government of experts who would administer to the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank so the the plan would include a different kind of government for the West Bank in addition to Gaza which is probably important you know having Gaza different than the West Bank gave you two problems you know wouldn't it be nice to have one um and the proposal worked out with the Gulf of nations of cutter has been presented blah blah blah uh but it falls short of Israel's goal of crushing Hamas so we don't think it'll happen um it's good that they're talking about it now yesterday there was a brief social media bit that I can't find it in the news so I think it's not true that Saudi Arabia had a plan for uh administering the West Bank in Gaza is that true or not true did anybody see a story about that it was briefly on social media but I didn't see a source I think it's not true but I'm going to I'm going to double down and say that the smartest thing that Saudi Arabia could do is offer to administer the region uh with with Israel in charge of all the security because it would make Saudi Arabia the adult in the room and it would position them in the strongest position not only to oppose Iran because remember Iran wanted to Scuttle the uh the growing closeness between Saudi and Israel and the other countries so it really was about thwarting is a Saudi from becoming more integrated with Israel and the West so the best way you could defeat Iran's intentions and hamas's intentions is to make sure that when as soon as you're done the other countries they were trying to stop getting together or not just getting together but more getting together than they ever were contemplating before so that there's a real it really didn't work you got to make sure that Iran thinks oh crap that didn't work right so it's they're not tempted to do it again so I think uh maybe maybe a Saudi involvement would be the right answer uh but I don't see any kind of answer where the Palestinians are are governing themselves I just don't see it now as someone pointed out to me this morning um you have all these brainwashed young people in the West Bank and Gaza how in the world do you fix that an entire youth group completely brainwashed to just want to you know kill Israelis and Jews and whatever can you fix it I'm going to give give you a weird optimistic answer to that question number one here's here's number one persuasion rule you need to know it is way easier to brainwash a young person old people can be brainwashed but it takes more work because they're more settled in their opinions you really have to unsettle their opinion before you can change it young people are starting with no real opinion and certainly not strongly held so you can brainwash them easily you you can make them believe in Santa Claus anything right so that's what happened so now you've got this all this weaponized you know million or so young people who are weaponized so how in the world do you solve that well I don't know if it's solvable but you could imagine a scenario in which let's say Saudi or somebody else uh had control of all of the education system so somebody had real tight control of the curriculum and what the teachers were telling the kids then you just reprogram them now you'd have to get the 20 somethings because they're already out of school but you can get them so here's the good news remember I told you it's simple to brainwash young people it's really simple to un-brainwash them because you know what do you know it's easy to convince a young person there's nothing easier to convince a 20-some or a teenager than the following statement you ready for this when I tell you how easy it is you're going to laugh it's the easiest unb brainwashing you'll ever do you ready here it comes the adults were lying to you that's it that's it and you're done you just have to explain what they lied to you about and that's it yeah young young people especially men all right let let's put this to the men all right because it's the men who are doing the fighting for the most part so we'll just say to the men don't you think you could be easily convinced that your adult you know your elders have been lying to you all along about anything about anything just pick a topic and I tell you your your elders were lying to you do you think I could sell that to young people it's the easiest thing there's nothing easier they're already primed for it it's easy to convince somebody of something they're already primed it to believe so if you already believed in ghosts it would be really easy to tell you that I saw one and you'd believe it but if you didn't believe in ghosts well good luck right I'm not really going to convince you I saw one if you don't believe they're real but young people specifically young men are all ready to believe that everybody's lying to them it's the single most believable thing when you're a young male that you've been lied to so you just take that approach you don't say oh here's a better way you say no they were all illegitimate you know those Hamas leaders that were in charge of your education before they all became billionaire iones what yeah they all became billionaires it was never real it was just a plot to brainwash you do you know how long it would take to un-brainwash a young person under those conditions a a reasonable person comes in and said you know I hate to tell you it was all an OP they were just brainwashing you so that they could get billions of dollars in power and really most of what they told you wasn't even true a young person you can flip them in 10 minutes so if you're thinking oh there no there's no way you can un-brainwash all those young people 10 minutes 10 minutes yep you can un-brainwash every one of them now can you brain un-brainwash their parents uh good luck good luck with that that's going to be harder way way harder but the kids the 20s somethings yeah you can get every one of them every one of them all right uh Bill Amman still going hard at the president of Harvard who refused to quit and I guess there's the board refused to fire but now he says bill akman says I have heard from a source that is reliable but a step or two removed from the situation that the Harvard Corporation has asked president gate to resign and she has refused uh who could have seen this coming I wonder what she did instead of agreeing to resign huh does it involve hiring a lawyer uh and then the source said that she hired a lawyer and she's going to sue okay a little bit Dependable a little bit Dependable now let me ask you this if you were a white man and you thought where should I go to you go get a job did you really have a chance of getting a job as president of Harvard this latest time you really didn't did you yeah do you think you should stay away from situations in which you have a natural disadvantage and try to find situations where you have some kind of natural Advantage I would so I wouldn't go anywhere where you're in physical danger or where other people have a Competitive Edge against you in hiring I wouldn't go any of those two places I guess I wouldn't have been canceled if I said that but that's basically what I said basically all right uh the polls are saying according to the hill they looked at a whole bunch of polls 57 polls and they found out Trump is leading by over 2% against Biden now that's remember that's 2% in the general election and Republicans win elections without winning the general you know the the general vote they just have to win in the key States so that would suggest that Trump probably has like an overwhelming advantage in winning the election because because if he's at two points ahead in the general that would be better than basically any Republican has done since Reagan give me give me a history fact check when was the last time if ever a republican won the election and also won the popular vote when's the last time oh was a bush no George Bush did George Bush Jr win the popular vote bush in 04 all right well it does happen but so far it has accurately predicted you know anywhere that a republican won the popular vote they also won the election right is that right let's let's check that every time the Republican won the popular vote they also won the election true and won it handily if they won the popular vote they didn't just win the election they won it like really pop they wanted by a lot right I think that's true so we have a situation that guarantees Civil War because either Trump wins and the bad guys create a civil war to stop it or Trump loses and his supporters start a civil war because it looks rigged it's hard to avoid the Civil War this time isn't it now I'm using hyperbole I don't think they'll be a Civil War I don't think there's a civil war either way I think we just complain a lot and do what we can in courts like always so you know that weight loss drug that's a big deal you get the injections I think OIC is one but there are others in the same category and apparently they really really work and people lose weight but believe it or not this is the conversation that's happening whether or not these shots should be considered a lifetime treatment because apparently as soon as people take stop taking the shots two-thirds of them gain back all the weight in the year 2/3 so the medical community is debating whether it should be treated like diabetes which is once you have it you have it so it's lifetime you know like a high blood pressure once you you have it you have it so you just always take the blood pressure pills now is everybody okay with that isn't there something wrong with this uh reasoning by analogy all right so it's permanent for diabetes and hypertension now obviously if you're if you somehow showed as non-diabetic or you somehow showed as no longer having hypertension they'd stop but generally speaking the assumption is you're just doing it forever isn't that different than eating because I'm most positive people can eat less like by you know if they could eat less if if you lost a bunch of weight with OIC and then you got off it so your hunger came back it's not impossible for you to find another way to stop eating is it like a diet you know the way everybody else does it now I don't I don't do fat shaming because I don't believe in free will but since it's a real thing that people can keep weight off with own drugs shouldn't you always take them off it after a year am I wrong about that I would think that 100% of the time You' say I'm going to do this for let's say two years I'm going to do this for two years and then we're absolutely taking you off the drug now if two years later it looks like you couldn't handle it we'll talk about putting you back on but we're going to have to take you off it to see if you have any chance at all of maintaining your weight shouldn't that be the rule that you're guaranteed to get off it but we'll watch it and if you know if you can't figure out how to do it on your own we'll have to put you back on because the drug itself can't be completely safe is it anyway um so there's a there's a movement now there's a book by uh let's see book by Jones somebody named Jones who was talking about the white supremacy founding of the country and wants to remind us that the original exploration of the uh at least of white people by the Americas was super super racist which I didn't actually know so here's something maybe you didn't know um this author uh talks about the doctrine of Discovery so back in 1493 back in Columbus days um the uh Pope put out a doctrine of discovery that said any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be quote discovered claimed and exploited by the Christian rulers did you know that did you know that the Christians believed that if they found land that wasn't run by Christians they could conquer it because they were Christians what's that sound like this that sounds a little bit like the radical Islamic thing going on right now all right so the Catholic faith and Christian religions uh could be exalted and spread everywhere because we were the good ones I guess uh and it became the basis of All European claims in the Americas that it was basically a Christian Christian right basically to take over anything that wasn't already Christian that that sounds worse than anything I've heard America do yet that's pretty bad yeah boy um was it uh I think I saw V ramaswami saying that you know he sort of understands why people want to tear down statues of slave owners right you might not agree with it but it's not without an argument it's not without an argument slave owner you know is that the message we want to send but as V says why don't we replace him with people who were the opposite of slave owners and he mentioned two people in particular uh President John Adams and President John Quincy Adams who apparently were not slave owners and worked very hard against the evil slavery so we do have presidents in the same era as the slave owners who are working very hard on the opposite side of things to try to free free slaves and give them legal representation and everything else so why not build a statute to my relatives how about that huh didn't see that coming my cousins the Adams presidents I just assume I'm related some somewhere down the line I'm not descended from them but I might be a cousin of some kind well uh Michael shellenberger has a fascinating again uh article about how the color Revolution methods that our government has used in other countries uh they used it against America to defeat Trump so the color Revolution is when you do a bunch of nonviolent things which collectively destabilize the country so could be processs in the street it could be lawfare you it could be anything that's legal but would destabilize a country that's the color Revolution and as Michael shellenberger points out uh the Democrats had previously proposed in both 2016 and 2020 um no hold on uh as his publication public reported I'll just read what he said uh on Wednesday political operatives and journalists these are Americans held a summit called the transition Integrity project or the tip in 2020 right so now a bunch of important Democrats got together and in 2020 and during that they did simulated exercises in which the players plotted how to challenge the election results in the event of a trump Victory just think about that Trump is maybe going to go to jail or not be on the ballot for challenging an election and the Democrats were planning to challenge him if he won even if it was a legal Victory they were planning to challenge it and we know that it's documented the exact thing they're they're blaming him of they were planning to do very much planning it I mean really really planning it all right here and here's the punchline in one of their simulations they had States send alternate slates of of electors that's right they actually did uh roleplay in uh war games in which they did what Trump tried to do with the alternate electors and then when Trump did it instead of them they tried to put him in jail for it so the very thing that they War that they were going to do as soon as Trump did it and by the way they tried to do it in earlier elections as well so it was a very common thing they they actually got their IL illegitimate media to sell it as an Insurrection so they could put Trump in jail the very thing that they knew was legal because they' done it before and so legal that they even War gamed it and documented it as a a thing to do amazing and then uh Michael shenberger says the Democrats quote Insurrection narrative rests on manipulative arguments and cynical language games and this narrative has being used to destroy a foundation of her democracy the right to vote for the candidate of your choice now this is a case of everything is exactly as bad and rotten as you thought it was it it it couldn't be more of a worst case scenario and apparently it's all documented it's as true as anything's ever been true it's all documented let me say it again Trump will not be kept out of the election he will not be jailed and he will not be prevented from running do you know why because that's too far that's just too far there there is a line and in case Democrats are wondering where the line is there might be other lines but that's definitely a line yeah if you keep him from winning using a trick I can't predict what happens after that I I never suggest violence of course but things are going to get real unpredictable if that were to happen so I almost can guarantee you it won't happen because the risk that Democrats would be putting themselves to would actually be existential that would be an existential risk meaning the whole thing could fall apart yeah so I don't think that's going to happen because I think nobody would take that kind of risk but Democrats might be thinking they're fighting for their lives you know there might be somebody well lots of people so crooked that they fear a trump presidency because he might actually put the crooks in jail and they're going to have to act in a way that's like trying to protect their own life so I do hope his security service is up to the job all right I saw a uh a post by Mike covich said the Energy felt bad and he was feeling a sort of a negative you know Cloud coming I don't feel it I actually feel like um we're in an Awakening and that the Awakening will be bumpy and you know won't be easy but that is where we had to go so what I feel is a huge destabilization and I think maybe that's what Mike is feeling there there's a level of destabilization that I've never seen before we're definitely destabilized and things are definitely going to change but here's my my uh being too American part if there's one thing that Americans are good at consistently good at and nothing's changed like we're we're still those same people we're really good at breaking our and then fixing it breaking is the hard part sometimes you got to break it or else you know you can't build it back we're we're we're experiencing a great breaking meaning that everything we were doing before stopped working right everything everything everything that used to work just stop working so we had to wait until it broke before we could really fix it and and had to push it a little bit too and now you're seeing things breaking everywhere remember Dei and the ESG stuff it was just sort of rolling along and we had to break it before it could be put back together in a better way so yeah I I see a whole bunch of things that were just sort of rolling along that now just have to be broken uh I feel Far and Away more positive forces than negative forces are forming that's my feeling just hch but I think you can feel good this Christmas I think you can feel good to me it feels like Ukraine is winding down because it has to I think uh Israel did what it needed to do and the S the the situation that was in Israel was unsustainable it had to break but first you had first something terrible had to happen before you could do the extreme thing needed to do to maybe get something stable this was it it was an extreme thing nobody wanted it to happen but it did so now they have a chance of building something stable maybe with Saudi or somebody else having some role we'll see but I see two Wars that are likely to wind down I don't see a war with China starting I see China on the decline I see Russia sort of should stay kind of stable once Ukraine winds down and energy trending toward free and AI is coming and robots are going to save us I don't know I see a lot of positives now keep your eye on Argentina because uh naval's comment is is way deeper than you think it is because he says it so succinctly but if Argentina quote proves you can vote yourself out of poverty that might change everything might change everything if if uh by election day Argentina has already started to turn around I think Trump gets elected easily don't you don't you think Argentina is a referendum on Trump it's also a referendum on V because V has ideas that are that seem as uh let's say bold I'm going to say bold as as Argentina my cable management is yeah it is I do have table I I have terrible Cable Management you're true yeah it's not bad enough yet maybe I think it is no way someone stole your cat last year and you just received a box with your cat in it that did not happen are you serious somebody sold your cat and they gave it back to you on Christmas did that really happen I want to see if that's really happened probably a different cat yeah we're asking if it was dead or alive it was alive huh you're worried about V because he's too charismatic you know that is the problem with smart people and one of the things that Trump does best is he acts less smart than he is have you ever noticed that one of one of Trump's greatest magic tricks is to convince you he's not as smart as he is because then you feel comfortable with him V has the other problem he's so obviously smarter than all of us that you wonder if he's got a trick up his sleeve right there's an automatic distrust for smart people Bill Gates has this now I'm not going to defend Bill Gates he can defend himself but I'm saying that even if he hadd never done anything wrong and I'm not saying that I'm just saying if he never done anything wrong it's hard to trust him because he's too smart I think Elon Musk has that problem too that if if you don't like what he's doing you worry because he's too smart too smart is scary to most people so you need to be too smart but also clearly empathetic so the thing that VI has to do is make sure that he's communicated his empathy with the same power as his capability if he gets his capability higher than his empathy he looks like a monster if he gets his empathy up to the level of his capability it's called Charisma do you get that that's a very important Point by the way let me say it again because it's so important if his capability is higher than his empathy he'll look like a monster because he's capable of doing anything but you're not sure he's on your team because he doesn't have the empathy but if he gets his empathy to the same level as his capability which is extraordinary you're going to say to yourself oh we can't have anybody else he he will become uh he will become what's the word just guaranteed if his empathy and I don't think it does yet by the way the reason the reason you're afraid of him is that he doesn't hasn't done it yet his empathy has not achieved the same level of his capability but not because he doesn't have empathy it's exactly because his capabilties so high it's really hard to get that much empathy even if you have plenty of empathy because he's just operating at such a high level if he gets it there and he could easily because it's more of a communication thing than a real thing if he just tweaks his communication to get his empathy to the same level is Magic have you seen the viral videos of a v um I'm going to say turning a Critic in the audience I've seen two of them so far I think there might be more but in both cases the way he turned his critic was he said I'll give you the microphone and let you talk and let and let his critic fully express everything and then where he could find places of agreement he would agree strongly and then without losing any empathy he would tell you why his version actually shows the most empathy and once he had done that because the person had talked themselves out in both both cases they realized that he was coming from a place of empathy not a place of uh technical you know Republicans like this it was actually derived from an empathy position now that's not obvious it's not obvious that all of AES policies are empathy based it's just that he thinks capitalism fixes your problem better than Socialism or communism and he thinks you know the truth works better than a lie right so he's definitely has an empathy first um approach it's just that he knows he have to go through a certain path to get to the best outcome and not everybody knows that so he he looks a little off model because people are not as smart as he is about how you get to the best place but given his level of uh capability could he ever bring his his perceived empathy because it's perception his perceived empathy to to up to his actual empathy where his capability is if he does that he goes supernova supernova now I would say that's what Trump gets right one of the things that makes Trump so popular is that his empathy for regular Americans is through the roof would you agree I've never seen anybody more consistently and here's here's the key genuinely Trump is full of about a lot of stuff but if he's if he doesn't genuinely have empathy for the let's say middle class of America uh that would be the greatest trick ever because he looks completely consistent everything he does in person every little act of kindness every word he picks every policy he picks they all seem to be consistent with a genuine empathy for Americans like ordinary Americans so I think I think when the Democrats pick up what they call the cult do you know what the cult is he showed empathy that's it they called him a cult because he showed genuine empathy like the real kind like I think it's real and believe me I'll be the first one to tell you Trump is a showman I'll be the first person to say he uses hyper the first person to tell you doesn't pass all the fact checks no no argument about any of that but he is completely sold me after decades and Decades of total consistency the average Americans he really loves and also the other thing he sells me on is I love his pirate ship I call this supporters a pirate ship because it's all these you know a whole lot of nar wells and you know controversial characters people who've had brushes with the law you know just really edgy kind of out there people he Embraces all of them as long as they're on his side and America's side he Embraces all of them and uh I like it what I see with the Democrats is that they only embrace the politically popular oh Trans are very important let's bring in some trans because they're getting a lot of publicity Trump brings in the people who didn't get any publicity right yeah Middle Middle America is not getting a lot of publicity but that's the ones he caters to so I think V can take a lesson from the master Trump trump actually in my opinion this it's pure opinion I believe he lowered his perceived capability You by talking in a plain simple way uh you know the he says stuff like if the wind stops blowing your windmill won't work and you can't watch TV now nobody thinks that's really true I hope but it's just a simple way to say what he wants to say which is the Green Technology is overrated basically um but if aake were to say the same thing he's going to give you the really compelling smart I understand this topic from top to bottom explanation and then you're going to say whoa his capability is way up here where's his empathy his empathy is an a whack right so he's so smart and so good his perceived capability got on a whack with his perceived empathy but the reality is they're probably the same all he has to do is put him back in Balance so Trump lowers his perceived capability has an a tremendous perceived empathy for regular Americans and they match what happens when those two match your capability and your empathy if it's high capability Charisma that's what gets you a cult he you don't get a cult by being good at what you do let me say this a thousand times you do not get a cult to following for being good at what you do nobody does it's not a thing you get a cult following for having empathy that matches your high level of capability period there's no other way to get there now let's look at the president of Argentina capability looks pretty high high level of capability but empathy president of Argentina tell me tell me your impression of his empathy high it's high because he's he's going going after the Elites for the benefit of the regular people and he spent enough time you know being a interesting wild man that you think he actually cares about people and he's so diverse you know he just sort of a a character who's done a lot of things that you believe he actually really cares about regular people and then he does high capability things whoa High empathy High capability magic magic so V is one twist away from Magic Trump has magic uh mil president milu I don't want to say his name because I me m in Argentina he has magic empathy and capability matched V still an awack but he's under whack for exactly the best reason not for lack of capability his capability is too high it's on a whack with anybody's level of empathy how do you get how does anybody how could you possibly have that much empathy because he's got to get up to that level of capability if he doesn't which he could do he could absolutely do it but the moment he does it you know it's going to be a moment if it happens it's going to be a moment in American history because it's going to be fireworks like you've never seen oh damn it I was trying to trigger the platform but it didn't work all right let me uh check in on locals and see if everybody's still good there all right well okay well here's here's a very honest statement all right this is a comment I want to say from who people aren't quite sure whether to trust an Indian yet now I hate to say it but that's true that not my opinion obviously but I do think there's a a racial uh discomfort that people don't like to say out loud but it's a trust thing but if I could make a one correction um he's an American he's not an Indian he's literally not an Indian he's an American with you know Indian Heritage but you can't get you can't get more American than V yeah he's he's like 110% American he's more American than Americans he's the one who reminds you how to be an American that's like the most American you could be he's not a Hindu oh some people think he's a Hindu he's not a Hindu he's a Christian he's a Christian wait I'm I'm saying smart people saying he is a Hindu now this is interesting you you're telling me he's a Hindu who believes in the Christian he's a Hindu who believes that Jesus Christ was the son of God that's a Christian let me ask you this do you think V believes in heaven or uh reincarnation does he believe in because I think you're talking you I think he might be culturally he comes from a Hindu background I think you're you're confusing his religion with his culture is that what you're doing I I think actually all of you are wrong I think you're all wrong actually you want to check let's check on this for the next time okay should we check on it now let's check on it now let's do this in real time so here here's what I think I think he identifies with the Hindu tradition and culture another words an influence but that his belief of uh religious belief is Christian so we we can check it right now if I'm wrong I if I'm wrong you get to see it in real time does anybody want to stay and see if I'm wrong it'll be fun don't you like to see me wrong all right we'll find out the answer to the question and I'll say is uh V Christian or Hindu what do you think uh he said uh he said I'm Hindu and I'm proud of that I stand for that without an apology uh but wait hold on so remember I said I didn't disagree that he identified as Hindu but we're talking about his religious belief right we're talking about his religious belief so let let's get into this religious belief uh all right let's see better answer shares the same values how do we get a good answer for this New York Times don't believe that don't want to I a news Nation I'm g go with news Nation because I'm trying to find a unbiased Source wait we might have an unbiased Source here to Jenny Mitchell she is an entomologist at Iowa State University from Boon Iowa she is a republican who is currently undecided Jenny all right listen thank you thanks for being here and thanks for coming to Iowa so much we appreciate your visits uh so freedom of religion is a part of our Constitution and obviously a huge part of our country what do you say to those who say that you cannot be our president because your religion is not what our founding fathers based our country on I would say that I respectfully disagree and you know I want people to understand this about me I would rather speak the truth and lose an election than to win by playing some political Snakes and Ladders I mean if I want to map out my political career and really solve for that you know I could fake convert you know I'm not going to do that I'm G to tell you about my faith I'm Hindu now I went to Christian Schools I went to St.

Xavier in Cincinnati and I actually have been on the board of STX except for Hiatus to run for president and I can tell you with confidence that we share the same value set in common I'll tell you about my faith my faith teaches me that God puts each of us here for a purpose one God that we have a moral duty to realize that purpose one God that God works through Us in different ways but we're still equal because God resides in each of us now I had what you would call not a traditional upbringing but probably a very traditional upbringing right my parents taught me family is the foundation marriage is sacred divorce isn't some option you just prefer off a menu when things don't go your way abstinence before marriage is the way to go adultery is wrong that the good things in life involve a sacrifice now are those foreign values in this country I know it could look that way at times you turn on the television go to the movie theater your local Dei training at a company or with they're teaching your kidss in schools that could seem a little unfamiliar I don't think it's unfamiliar to most of us I think those are the same judeo Christian values that I learned at St.

X when we get to the Ten Commandments what do they say there's one true God don't take his name in vain observe the sabbath respect your parents don't kill don't lie don't cheat don't steal don't commit adultery don't covet that's when it hit me we share the same value set in common there's another Core teaching in my faith which is that we don't get to choose who God works through God chooses who God works through so we get to that Old Testament a little bit further along we get to the book of Isaiah I don't know if many of you're familiar with with that one God chose Cyrus a gentile all the way in Persia to lead the Jewish people back to the promised land and so yes I believe God put us here for a purpose my faith is what leads me on this journey to run for president my gratitude to this country is what leads me and even when we think about the founding fathers I'm a fan of History okay I talked about Thomas Jefferson earlier we'll stick to Thomas Jefferson he was a deist actually let's be honest about because the left wants to rewrite our history and tell he was a slave owner an evil man no IET that but we're not gonna have anybody rewriting our history thas Jefferson was a theist he made the Jefferson Bible you know how he did it he didn't believe in all the parts of the new Testament but he took a blade razor blade by hand glued it together and that made the Jefferson Bible which we have today John Adams wrote letters to Thomas Jefferson actually became something of a Hindu scholar after he left and so I think it's important to see our founding fathers three-dimensionally not the way that they've been Rewritten post 1990 either and so yes do I would I be the best president to spread Christianity through this country I would not I'd be not the best choice for that but I also don't think that that's the job of the US president but will I stand for the judeo-christian values that this nation was founded on that I was raised in even in the Hindu Faith yes I will You're darn right I will and as a young person picking up on that strand from earlier I think it's my responsibility to make faith and patriotism and family and hard work cool again in this country I think they're pretty cool and I think that's my job as your next president and to back to the First Amendment we will stand for Rel religious liberty in a way that neither Republicans nor Democrats actually have that's what the First Amendment says you get to practice your faith every Pastor in this country gets to do his job without the government getting in their way that's what I'm going to keep as the so so here's my interpretation see if it matches yours that he believes there's one God what does he believe about Jesus because that would be kind of I was just looking to see what he thinks about Jesus um betting on momes let's see who is Jesus to the Hindus I think they see him as a teacher well I guess that would be the main question huh what do Hindus say about Jesus he's a ayra is a light in the world or something do hindos believe in the Bible interesting so what would be the difference between someone who thought there was one God and believed all the Christian values but you but was a Hindu by uh self label so here here's what I think you need to ask does he believe uh any of the Hindu specific beliefs such as reincarnation isn't that a key thing if he believes there's one God and you go to an afterlife but the Bible might not be literal that's that's closer to a that's pretty close to Trump religion it's kind of better than I thought it was um I'm more comfortable knowing that he's compatible with Christian religion without being a True Believer to me that's the ultimate that be the best situation so uh so I will accept your statement that he's identifies as Hindu can we agree on that can we agree that uh he identifies as Hindu would you also agree that he does not identify at least out loud with the things the Hindus believe such as reincarnation or don't they have multiple gods wait how many gods do the Hindus have how many gods let's get a number on that 33 uh how many gods 33 so he believes there's one God which says all the time all right now let me ask you this using his own words to describe himself he is compatible with all of the um Christian Concepts and he believes there's one God and he agrees with Thomas Jefferson that the Bible uh is human made so is Thomas Jefferson a Christian was Thomas Jefferson because I don't think he believed Jesus was the son of God you know that right I'm pretty sure Jefferson didn't believe in Jesus did he he was a de not a Jesus Lover what about Washington all right so this is more interesting than I thought it's actually better than I thought I would have been uncomfortable if he said he was um Hindu and believed the the specifics of 33 gods and reincarnation I would be equally uncomfortable if he said he was a Christian and believed everything in the Bible was literally true sort of a Mike Johnson thing that doesn't make me comfortable at all but if you say you believe in one God like most of the American who believe in anything do uh and you say you're completely 100% on board with the cultural you know aspects of Christianity that's sort of the ideal situation for a president I don't think you could do better for better now that might it might make him hard to be elected so that's a separate issue but I Want a President Who says I like all the good parts of your religion but it's up to you how much you believe about the historical details but I like all the I like what it says so let's let's deal with what it says because we all like that part and then you individually can argue about the historical part he attended church so we know he believed in God he just didn't believe that the Bible was the work of God that's why he kept some parts and threw away other parts all right so I wouldn't say that he's I would not call v um what would you say a classic Hindu or a classic Christian but he's he's hit a mix that's pretty appealing I think you found a sweet spot there now it doesn't mean it's makes it easy to get elected just in my opinion it would be the perfect place to to be if you're a deist you automatically don't believe in Jesus right is that right give me a fact check on that de believe there's one supreme god which uh excludes Jesus being a like a godl situation right no or true I get a little disagreement on that I would think aest is just there's a God and that's the end of the story there's no Jesus yeah so that they would not believe that Jesus necessarily is God so you can believe in Jesus but not believe that Jesus is God you could believe he's the son of God but not God okay all right well there's some wiggle room there all right well I'm glad we've sorted that all out but I will I will take your correction are you listening to this part this is part you wanted to hear I I accept your correction on the Hindu part but it's not if if you'll accept my definition that he's not a classic Hindu to me he sounds more culturally Hindu and belief wise is he's a lot closer to the Christian model so I'm going to say I was 25% right and 75% wrong will you accept that I grade myself 25% right but 75% wrong which means you're 75% right and I'm 25 and you know do you accept that all right we have agreement I call it a Christmas miracle it's a Christmas miracle all right everybody go have a great Christmas enjoy your families I hope some of your families were watching and uh I might have another live stream tonight I don't know yet but I probably will talk to you later bye for now

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funny and not too serious way all right

all right we don't want to get too

serious today do we well before we start

I should uh call your attention to the

Dilbert reborn comic available to local

subscribers and also subscribers on

X um and I just want to let you know the

theme you might know that Mickey Mouse

came off copyright but not the total

Mickey Mouse not the modern version only

the version that's 95 years old there's

a black and white Mickey Mouse Steamboat

Willie so in honor of him coming off of

copyright I have him visiting Dilbert's

boss so that's black and white Mickey so

I have to draw them in black and white

even though the comic is

color so Mickey says hi my name is

Mickey and the boss says G get out of

here and Mickey says settle down my

copyright expired I'm a free Mouse

Disney can't sue you and the boss

says then Mickey says can I get a job

here or do you discriminate against

black and white characters and the boss

says that's a gray

area yeah it's a it's a dad

joke but a solid one I think

solid while the New York Post is

reporting there was a man who was

arrested because he used a laser pointer

he was pointing at a commercial plane

then at a police helicopter now as you

know the laser pointers can blind the uh

pilot so that's very illegal so they

they arrested him but the part of the

story that they didn't report is they

took his laser pointer away from him and

they shipped it to zalinski in

Ukraine because it's all we had

left we didn't have anything left we're

like well we've got this laser pointer

we took off that guy I'll take

it okay you don't like your ukra

Ukrainian humor early in the

morning well here's a story that is

developing I think we can see where it's

heading I told you that uh terer Carlson

suggests that he has information we

don't have and that he believes that

aliens or some kind of entity that's not

human uh may have always been here as

opposed to visiting from another planet

might even have a uh a spiritual

Dimension so he thinks maybe he could be

here here could be in the oceans could

have always been here hiding in

Antarctica maybe I don't know but then

there's this related story that says

scientists are uh they think they can

decode whale language so they might be

able to use AI to decode the complexity

of the whale sounds and figure out their

language

yeah so uh and then they think that if

they could learn whale language it might

teach them how to make a univ IAL

Communicator so that AI could someday

allow us to communicate with

aliens have you put it all together

yet have you connected the

dots

yeah uh I think the cats on the roof

they're trying to slowly break it to

us that whales are

aliens and they might have

ships now you've got to have some good

technology to C A whales ass around in a

spaceship but apparently they have the

good stuff anti-gravity so yeah whales

are aliens and uh they may have already

decided to conquer us

because I don't know if you know the

history of humans in

Wales but I swear I hope the whales

don't know it because they're going to

be really

pissed have you heard of a whale

oil don't ask don't

ask all right

right um I'm so

old that you know how things change and

when you think back what you used to

think was true you're like oh my God how

do we think that was true when we were

kids so dumb here's some of the things I

believed oh probably two years

ago two years ago I thought maybe we had

too much population on the planet so

population growth was a problem

and I thought we had a shortage of

lithium but Elon mosque has set a

straight we have two few people we need

more or else the economy will collapse

and as he uh he posted yesterday I think

um lithium is one of the most common

elements on

Earth building lithium refineries is the

hard part that's what we need but

lithium's

everywhere how many of you were in the

same boat that just a few years ago you

thought we had too too many people and

not enough lithium but turns out we have

unlimited lithium and not enough

people is there anything we know that's

true the the most the most basic things

you thought you knew about reality nope

totally opposite not enough people

plenty of

lithium how many of you saw the most

bizarre interview ever of ker Carlson

interviewing Kevin spacy but Kevin spacy

did it within with the character the

political character he played in that

long running Netflix series whose name I

can't remember but he played a kind of a

dirty politician so he did the whole

interview in

character now you might say to yourself

Kevin spy I thought he got Meed or he

got blamed for some terrible sex crimes

with with men

and you weren't there multiple claims

and how in the world is he being

rehabilitated I I thought he was a goner

House of Cs was the name of the show

yeah he was on House of

Cs um but it turns out that uh now this

is just what I see on the xplatform I'll

need to I'll need a fact check because

I'm not positive this is true is it true

that there were four accusers of Kevin

spacy I think they were all male and uh

three of them died

suspiciously so those cases went away

and one of them dropped the

charges is that true that three out of

the four people accusing him died

suspiciously and one dropped the

charges I don't know if that's true it

feels it feels too like on the nose or

something right that couldn't be true

all right I'm I'm going to say I don't

quite believe it yet but I'll I'll say

it's a it's the story on social media

I'm not sure I believe it I'm going to

need a little more convincing on that

one a better Source I guess

um but uh there's also a

report that the uh there's a partial

Epstein flight list is that real because

I saw a few accounts that seem to show

as they seem to be showing lists of

people who went to AB Island but I don't

know if those are real they were

supposed to be released about now but I

don't want to mention anybody on it

because it looks like it might be

is it real does anybody know do

we actually have the

list it's fake so the so that list that

we're seeing is one that's been out for

years which we don't know if it

necessarily matches the real list right

okay so we're going to call that one BS

however on the BS low

credibility you shouldn't believe it

list is Kevin spy's

name now here's what you should look at

look for if we should ever confirm that

we know who flew with him look for

people who

are uh let's say famous

celebrities who are unusually

politically

active that's what I'd be looking for

all right but we have to wait to make

sure that it's a real list so we don't

know if Kevin spacy was ever on anything

like that that would be a

rumor

um there's a story that there's a a big

rise in threats to public officials can

you believe

it can you believe that our elected

officials are getting more death threats

than

ever is that because the public got

worse

I don't think

so yeah maybe there's a

reason well one of my favorite uh comics

of all time was I can't even remember

the the cartoonist I don't think the

cartoon runs anymore it was a single p

panel comic and I showed a guy in jail

and he was talking to his bunk mate and

he had you know scratched a bunch of

scratches on the wall and he was

counting up and he was talking about his

own experience and the Prisoner says 19

arrests 19 convictions maybe it's

me and I've been laughing about that for

like 40 years maybe it's me 19 arrest 19

convictions starting to think the

problems on my

side so yeah there are more death

threats of public figures is that

because the public got worse

or is there an unmistakable pattern of

bad behavior that would certainly

suggest there would be more death

threats I'm going to go with the latter

I I feel like we know too much about

government now we're like a little bit

smarter our eyes are a little bit more

opened and maybe they're worse maybe

they're worse in there would have been

but I would certainly expect more death

threats given our current situation not

that I encourage them I don't encourage

that so don't make any death threats but

if the government is wondering why there

are so many maybe they should examine

their own behavior maybe you consider

all

possibilities well uh so a interesting

and provocative post by Naval

rant and uh he has a way of saying

things in a very succinct way and he

said this Argentina may prove that you

can vote your way out of

poverty because and they showed some

stats of South American countries and

their poverty levels and it is very

clear that it's a political problem and

not a resource problem you you can see

that when the political leadership

changes the economy just either goes in

the toilet or or does well and it seems

to be one to one so Argentina has their

new Pro IST

president he was doing a lot of stuff

and cutting departments and stuff I

would bet on Argentina

recovering I would say the smart money

says Argentina is going to go well and

here's the thing sometimes it's just

about energy so the new president of

Argentina brings in this reformist

energy which makes people say oh I'm

optimistic now because of all that

reformist energy oh he did something in

the news that looks like a big deal he

got got rid of some departments or

something oh reformist energy so then

because there's reformist energy people

create their own energy and that becomes

a

self-fulfilling uh issue so it will be

partly what he does the new president

but partly how people feel about it and

apparently people are feeling good about

it so good news from Argentina which may

may be spread to other places well zero

Hedges

reporting that uh what is becoming

evident is that the

NGS the non-government organizations now

these will be organizations that usually

rich people have funded but are not

directly controlled by anybody's

government so they're like little

governments but non-government because

there's some rich person allowing them

to do what they do rich people usually

and apparently these NOS are now well

known to be the organizers of the mass

IM immigration that's happening in

America and probably elsewhere so it's

organized it's not

just that they made it um let's say

comfortable for people who were going to

immigrate anyway they actually created

an entire Travel network to inform

people how to go and then help them

immigrate from everywhere in the

world now this had nothing to do with

the American government but has a

gigantic impact on the health of the

United

States so it's not a

country they're non-government

organizations it might be people from

different countries in some

cases now how should we respond to

that well if it's just a non-government

organization doing legal stuff and I

guess it's all legal in fact you can

find out you can get their documents you

can find their maps you can find out

their whole plans and they're doing

exactly what I said they've created a a

whole platform to make it easy for

people to leave where they are and end

up in America and and

survive now my first problem with that

is the

following one of the things I've always

liked about American illegal

immigration and even legal immigration

is that it was hard to get to America it

was hard to get in Legally you had to be

qualified and know how to jump through

all the Hoops you had be able to afford

a plane ticket depending where you're

coming from so the people we would get

are people who cross a very high bar

they could figure out how to get here

they could go through all the the

complications to do it and they were

high enough educated quality that the

country said oh yeah we we like people

like

you but what happens and then also for

the people coming over the southern

border they were unusually risk-taking

people because they didn't necessarily

know how they were going to make it work

I like those people but here's the

problem what happens if it's so easy

it's just easier to leave than it is to

stay now you've reversed

it if it's if it's easier to stay than

it is to leave you've got a natural

filter so you get all the risk-taking

high quality people who can you know do

this difficult thing of getting here now

you make it so easy and where you are is

so bad that the laziest lowest qualified

people say hey I might as well get on

this bus it's free might take me

somewhere better so didn't we just

reverse the best thing about

immigration that it got us the people

who could pass the filter and now the

filter is reversed and we're getting the

people who couldn't who couldn't make it

in their own country and probably can't

make it as easily in our country country

as the people who had a harder time

getting past the

filter so that's bad but I'd like to add

this following thought uh is there a

reason we can't kill the NGO leaders

under the rules of

War wouldn't we just have to declare

this an illegal Invasion and part of a

war and then we could kill them couldn't

we now I don't think we should just just

go murder the people in the NGS that

would be kind of crazy I'm not saying

that I'm saying we should create a legal

process in which we designate the NOS as

terrorist

organizations because they seem to be

working diligently for the destruction

of United States what would you call

that well you'd say Well they're not

doing anything violent and I would say

they're shipping in uh military aged

people that we don't

know how does that not end up with more

violence than the there would have been

if if they hadn't done it of course

there are so I would say we should at

least examine uh designated the NOS as

terrorist organizations or paramilitary

or military supporting or funding of

terrorists or something like that and

then we should give them warning plenty

of warning because you don't want to

kill anybody you don't need to kill sayl

if you keep organizing these immigrants

we're actually going to kill you

wherever you are in any country wherever

you are you're just going to get mowed

down and we're not going to

apologize because you're ruining our

country

no you don't think we should be able to

murder the heads of the

NOS legally you should be under a legal

umbrella with lots of warning

because America is being

destroyed that's that's not

hyperbole there is some level of

immigration that that guarantees the

destruction of America and the NOS are

heading toward that limit I don't know

if we're there yet I think we're below

that limit but we're heading there as

quickly as possible I say you have to

kill the people behind it but give them

warning and do it under a legal

structure certainly nothing

illegal has anybody ever said

that I don't know how you just let them

do

it so but and whoever funds it probably

should be looked at as

well all right here's something

interesting let's see if we can figure

it out you've heard that there is excess

death rates in the United States but

here's the weird thing so the pandemic

is

over and there's still these excess

death rates so you're going to say oh

it's the vaccination oh it's the this or

that but here's what we

know apparently it's across all

demographics in the United States and

it's is not as severe in

Europe is that enough to tell us what it

is think about it it's all

demographics but not so much in Europe

can we figure it out from there nobody's

figured it out but let's see if we

can so here's what I think it would not

be if it's if it's all demographics I

would say it's not

lifestyle because it wasn't that much of

a lifestyle change that would affect all

the demographics the same so I'm going

to rule out a lifestyle change such as

staying home too much less active Etc um

I don't think the diet

changed I don't think the diet changed

in one year or two did

it well we'll get to vaccines I don't

think diet changed and even if it did

you would see that in some di um some

demographics more than others

because I think we have some

demographics that don't eat the same as

others right I don't think uh seniors

eat the same as young people young

people don't eat the same

as you know so we should have

demographics that are not having the

problem if it's food because it wouldn't

be everything you eat everywhere all the

same time it' be like some element of

the food the food would be bad and you'd

see it in some demographic more than

others so I don't think it's food

I don't think it's anything that affects

all of us all the

time so if it's not our lifestyle and

it's not the food uh what about the co

itself well Europe had Co and we had

covid but Europe is doing better so it's

the same Co so it's probably not Co um

hangover and then your obvious question

is the

vaccinations but I don't know this for

sure but I strongly suggest that the

vaccination status would be the main

thing people are looking at is so

obvious so don't you think that uh we

would know by now if the unvaccinated

were a demographic group that were doing

fine don't you think it if we really

knew that unvaccinated people just

weren't having this excess death rate

wouldn't we know that by now I feel like

we would because it's most obvious thing

you look at right I don't think it's

more sugar because that didn't change

much um so I don't think it's food I

don't think it's big Pharma I don't

think it's just that we got fatter

although we did because that doesn't

happen fast

enough what do you think it

is all right I've got two

hypotheses that I don't have a lot of

confidence in but the fact that it's

across all

demographics that's the that's the

sketchy part here's what I

think number one it's a data collection

problem so either Europe is doing a bad

job of collecting death data or the US

changed their mechanism or is doing a

better job or a different job so if I

had to guess the fact that it's across

all demographics and it doesn't affect

Europe as much that strongly suggests

the data is just wrong that we maybe we

changed the way we collect it or

something like

that

yeah so here's one

possibility it's a bad data

collection say some kind of change that

affected all the way everybody does it

maybe um but I feel like we'd know that

don't you think we'd know that by

now don't you think somebody would would

have said hey the data collection

changed I feel like that would have

bubbled up so probably not that but

there is one thing that affects uh all

people in

America in a way that doesn't affect

Europe what is it what is something that

does seem unique to

America that's not affecting Europe as

much as

much

lonliness

lonliness now that's a

hypothesis that Europe has a different

culture and may simply be more social is

that true would you say that that Europe

is simply more

social I don't know if that's true but

if they

are that would explain it because we we

do have a uh we have a loneliness

problem in the United States and it's

the only thing I can think of that is

across all demographic

Graphics every demographic is lonelier

now our our shutdown in the pandemic

apparently made a big difference to our

permanent habits so another story in the

news is that people are not using their

cars as much we have the same number we

actually had more cars than we had

before the pandemic so the number of

cars went up but the miles driven Drop

Like a

Rock do you think that miles driven

dropping like a rock is entirely work

related because some of it is so a lot

of people are working at home so that

increases your loneliness you have more

you know the technology is better all

the times that increases your options uh

humans are worth less to each other I

think it's

loneliness and the depression that comes

with

it anybody want

to offer another

alternative what what do you think it is

um is it Pharma

food

obesity

data

vaccination dehydration alcohol well

well Americans oh relative that so I

think Americans are drinking way

less or actually maybe the ones who are

drinking are drinking

more but there are few people drinking

at all and more people quitting so

they're less social all right let me ask

you this

question uh of all of you you

ready uh do we have a problem here

locals looks like the

locals comments are having a problem so

I'm going to open up the locals comments

on my other device that usually

works all right just a

moment

where am

I hold on just a

second there we go all right yes I have

your comments now on my other device can

you see me I think you can see me but

the comments are delayed all right so I

got all your comments now

uh there was a change in in

data media scops yeah

maybe yep yep hey John you're kind of an

I just want to tell you that for

Christmas guy named

John you're a total

thanks thanks for

joining quitting alcohol is the best

thing you you've done for yourself

good all

right well we've already ruled out the

vaccination because I think that would

have been

noticed yeah I don't know if it's

depression but uh let me here's the

question I was going to ask let me look

at the comments the question is this how

many of you have uh increased

loneliness since before the pandemic how

many of you have increased in

loneliness all right I'm saying lots of

nose but there are lots of

yeses I

know oh my God sorry about

that yeah some people got

widowed uh yep so some of is re yeah

loneliness and retirement and all that

other stuff okay oh we got our comments

back well that's my guess all right

here's a Sam Olman prediction so he was

bragging about his prediction he said 27

months ago he made the following

prediction uh he said that by

2030 so now just six years away it will

become clear that the AI Revolution and

renewable plus nuclear energy are going

to get us there which is near zero cost

for intelligence and

energy near zero so what Sam alman's

talking about is I think Fusion made

some breakthroughs and there are a lot

of uh you know Green energy

breakthroughs and now you have the AI

breakthrough which He suggests um he and

he said in a a comment that at some

point ch GPT will be

free uh except for the newest

version so you'll be able to get like a

a really really useful free one but if

you want the really really useful one

maybe that's connected to more services

or something you you'd play pay a few

bucks a month so at some point most

people will have free

AI just think about that free

AI it won't be the best you can buy but

you know for 20 bucks a month you

probably get that

too and then um we're heading towards

free

energy so the answer to your question

what do you do about uh a national debt

that is so high you can't even imagine

any scenario in which it would be paid

back free energy would get you

there if energy approached to free then

the cost of all products would drop and

suddenly

L everything gets fixed so it is a once

in a civilization

change only once in all of human

civilization will energy costs go from

real expensive to almost three only once

it will never happen again but only once

have we run up debt that looks

impossible to pay

off luckily it happened at the same

time one of the things that makes me

think we're in a simulation like how

could that be how could it be a

coincidence that the one time you have a

crushing impossible to pay off debt you

have a once in a ever in history of the

universe ever this you know onetime

change in energy prices kind of Lucky

may we got

lucky all right

um yeah people are staying home more

blah blah so Wall Street Journal says

that kids are preferring YouTube to all

other forms of

entertainment I'm going to uh Echo that

although I'm no kid have have all of you

noticed that if you turn on YouTube

you'll find something very interesting

to watch every single time have you ever

noticed that it works every time if I

have some free time and I open up

YouTube no question about it there are

going to be 5 to 10 things that is

suggest all of which interest

me now go anywhere

else right x x actually works that way

when I go on X I'm always entertained

it's really really strange if I don't

have a entertaining time on

X but if I open Netflix what are my

percentage odds

not that good maybe one and three that

I'll find something I want to watch at

most one and

four and that's the same for all the

streaming

services at one point I just signed up

for all the streaming services like I

just had every one of them and I could

not find anything to

watch um

but once I got uh the Youtube premium

service where there's no

commercials I always always have

something fun to watch YouTube is just

killing everything else there's there's

no and and here's

why I don't want to spend a whole bunch

of time looking for what I want to watch

and Netflix is a is just a nightmare and

if you have more than one streaming

service you can't remember where you

stop watching One Thing how many time

have you ever done this if you have more

than one streaming service you'll watch

a show and you watch a few episodes you

say hey this will be my new thing I'll

watch the rest of these and then you

can't remember which streaming service

it was on and then you get frustrated

because you looking for it and it's not

in the first three you try and then you

just give up and you never watch it

again yeah it's not just me fairly it's

not just

me yeah I give up on most of the things

I try to watch even when I like them

because I can't figure out where the

next episode is and it frustrates me

because I sit down and if I spend if I

spend 10 minutes looking for something

to watch I'm going to give up I'm

literally just going to change my mind

and say well that was my 10 minutes I

didn't have half an hour I had 10

minutes and I spent the whole time

looking for something but you go to

Amazon it's like oh yeah or not Amazon

but YouTube oh there it is bang and and

also a lot of the content is 10 minutes

so I can see 10 minutes of something

from beginning to end without looking

for it there's no competition YouTube is

just going to own

everything well apparently there's an

Egypt plan for solving the Gaza

situation uh in which they do a uh in

Broad

terms uh they would end the war with

Israel and Hamas with a ceasefire a f

hostage release and then the creation of

a Palestinian government of experts who

would administer to the Gaza Strip and

occupied West Bank so the the plan would

include a different kind of government

for the West Bank in addition to Gaza

which is probably

important you know having Gaza different

than the West Bank gave you two problems

you know wouldn't it be nice to have one

um and the proposal worked out with the

Gulf of nations of cutter has been

presented blah blah blah uh but it falls

short of Israel's goal of crushing Hamas

so we don't think it'll

happen um it's good that they're talking

about it now yesterday there was a brief

social media bit that I can't find it in

the news so I think it's not true that

Saudi Arabia had a plan for uh

administering the West Bank in Gaza is

that true or not true

did anybody see a story about that it

was briefly on social media but I didn't

see a source I think it's not true but

I'm going to I'm going to double down

and say that the smartest thing that

Saudi Arabia could do is offer to

administer the

region uh with with Israel in charge of

all the

security because it would make Saudi

Arabia the adult in the room and it

would position them in the strongest

position not only to oppose Iran because

remember Iran wanted to Scuttle the uh

the growing closeness between Saudi and

Israel and the other countries so it

really was about thwarting is a Saudi

from becoming more integrated with

Israel and the West so the best way you

could defeat Iran's intentions and

hamas's intentions is to make sure that

when as soon as you're done

the other countries they were trying to

stop getting together or not just

getting together but more getting

together than they ever were

contemplating before so that there's a

real it really didn't work you got to

make sure that Iran thinks oh crap that

didn't work right so it's they're not

tempted to do it again

so I think uh

maybe maybe a Saudi involvement would be

the right

answer uh but I don't see any kind of

answer where the Palestinians

are are governing themselves I just

don't see it now as someone pointed out

to me this morning um you have all these

brainwashed young people in the West

Bank and Gaza how in the world do you

fix that an entire youth group

completely brainwashed to just want to

you know kill Israelis and Jews and

whatever can you fix it I'm going to

give give you a weird optimistic answer

to that

question number one here's here's number

one persuasion rule you need to know it

is way easier to brainwash a young

person old people can be brainwashed but

it takes more work because they're more

settled in their opinions you really

have to unsettle their opinion before

you can change it young people are

starting with no real opinion and

certainly not strongly held so you can

brainwash them easily you you can make

them believe in Santa Claus anything

right so that's what happened so now

you've got this all this weaponized you

know million or so young people who are

weaponized so how in the world do you

solve that well I don't know if it's

solvable but you could imagine a

scenario in which let's say Saudi or

somebody else uh had control of all of

the education system so somebody had

real tight control of the curriculum and

what the teachers were telling the

kids then you just reprogram them now

you'd have to get the 20 somethings

because they're already out of school

but you can get them so here's the good

news remember I told you it's simple to

brainwash young

people it's really simple to

un-brainwash

them because you know what do you know

it's easy to convince a young person

there's nothing easier to convince a

20-some or a teenager than the following

statement you ready for this when I tell

you how easy it is you're going to laugh

it's the easiest unb brainwashing you'll

ever do you ready here it

comes the adults were lying to

you that's

it that's

it and you're done you just have to

explain what they lied to you about and

that's it

yeah young young people especially

men all right let let's put this to the

men all right because it's the men who

are doing the fighting for the most part

so we'll just say to the

men don't you think you could be easily

convinced that your adult you know your

elders have been lying to you all along

about anything about anything just pick

a topic and I tell you your your elders

were lying to you do you think I could

sell that to young people it's the

easiest thing there's nothing easier

they're already primed for it it's easy

to convince somebody of something

they're already primed it to believe so

if you already believed in ghosts it

would be really easy to tell you that I

saw one and you'd believe it but if you

didn't believe in ghosts well good luck

right I'm not really going to convince

you I saw one if you don't believe

they're real but young

people specifically young men are all

ready to believe that everybody's lying

to them it's the single most believable

thing when you're a young male that

you've been lied to so you just take

that approach you don't say oh here's a

better way you say no they were all

illegitimate you know those Hamas

leaders that were in charge of your

education before they all became

billionaire iones what yeah they all

became billionaires it was never real it

was just a plot to brainwash you do you

know how long it would take to

un-brainwash a young person under those

conditions a a reasonable person comes

in and said you know I hate to tell you

it was all an OP they were just

brainwashing you so that they could get

billions of dollars in power and really

most of what they told you wasn't even

true a young person

you can flip them in 10

minutes so if you're thinking oh there

no there's no way you can un-brainwash

all those young people 10 minutes 10

minutes yep you can un-brainwash every

one of them now can you brain

un-brainwash their parents uh good luck

good luck with that that's going to be

harder way way harder but the kids the

20s somethings yeah you can get every

one of them every one of

them all right

uh Bill Amman still going hard at the

president of Harvard who refused to quit

and I guess there's the board refused to

fire but now he says bill akman says I

have heard from a source that is

reliable but a step or two removed from

the situation that the Harvard

Corporation has asked president gate to

resign and she has

refused

uh who could have seen this coming I

wonder what she did instead of agreeing

to

resign huh does it involve hiring a

lawyer uh and then the source said that

she hired a lawyer and she's going to

sue

okay a little bit

Dependable a little bit Dependable

now let me ask you

this if you were a white

man and you thought where should I go to

you go get a job did you really have a

chance of getting a job as president of

Harvard this latest time you really

didn't did

you yeah do you think you should stay

away from situations in which you have a

natural

disadvantage and try to find situations

where you have some kind of natural

Advantage I

would so I wouldn't go anywhere where

you're in physical danger or where other

people have a Competitive Edge against

you in

hiring I wouldn't go any of those two

places I guess I wouldn't have been

canceled if I said

that but that's basically what I

said

basically all right uh the polls are

saying according to the hill they looked

at a whole bunch of polls 57 polls and

they found out Trump is leading by over

2% against Biden now that's remember

that's 2% in the general

election and Republicans win elections

without winning the general you know the

the general vote they just have to win

in the key

States so that would suggest that Trump

probably has like an overwhelming

advantage in winning the election

because because if he's at two points

ahead in the general that would be

better than

basically any Republican has done since

Reagan give me give me a history fact

check when was the last time if ever a

republican won the election and also won

the popular

vote when's the last time oh was a

bush

no George Bush

did George Bush Jr win the popular

vote bush in

04 all right well it does

happen but so far it has accurately

predicted you know anywhere that a

republican won the popular vote they

also won the election right is that

right let's let's check that every time

the Republican won the popular vote they

also won the election

true and won it

handily if they won the popular vote

they didn't just win the election they

won it like really pop they wanted by a

lot right I think that's

true so we have a situation that

guarantees Civil

War because either Trump wins and the

bad guys create a civil war to stop it

or Trump

loses and his supporters start a civil

war because it looks

rigged it's hard to avoid the Civil War

this time isn't it now I'm using

hyperbole I don't think they'll be a

Civil War I don't think there's a civil

war either way I think we just complain

a lot and do what we can in courts like

always so you know that weight loss drug

that's a big deal you get the injections

I think OIC is one but there are others

in the same category and apparently they

really really work and people lose

weight but believe it or not this is the

conversation that's

happening whether or not these shots

should be considered a lifetime

treatment because apparently as soon as

people take stop taking the shots

two-thirds of them gain back all the

weight in the

year 2/3 so the medical community is

debating whether it should be treated

like

diabetes which is once you have it you

have it so it's lifetime you know like a

high blood pressure once you you have it

you have it so you just always take the

blood pressure

pills

now is everybody okay with

that isn't there something wrong with

this uh reasoning by

analogy all right so it's permanent for

diabetes and

hypertension now obviously if you're if

you somehow showed as non-diabetic or

you somehow showed as no longer having

hypertension they'd stop

but generally speaking the assumption is

you're just doing it

forever isn't that different than

eating because I'm most positive people

can eat less like

by you know if they could eat less if if

you lost a bunch of weight with

OIC and then you got off it so your

hunger came back it's not impossible for

you to find another way to stop eating

is it like a

diet you know the way everybody else

does it

now I don't I don't do fat shaming

because I don't believe in free will but

since it's a real thing that people can

keep weight off with own drugs shouldn't

you always take them off it after a year

am I wrong about that I would think that

100% of the time You' say I'm going to

do this for let's say two years I'm

going to do this for two years and then

we're absolutely taking you off the

drug now if two years later it looks

like you couldn't handle it we'll talk

about putting you back on but we're

going to have to take you off it to see

if you have any chance at all of

maintaining your weight shouldn't that

be the rule that you're guaranteed to

get off it but we'll watch it and if you

know if you can't figure out how to do

it on your own we'll have to put you

back on because the drug itself can't be

completely safe is

it

anyway um

so there's a there's a movement now

there's a book by uh let's see book by

Jones somebody named Jones who was

talking about the white supremacy

founding of the country and wants to

remind us that the original exploration

of the uh at least of white people by

the Americas was super super

racist which I didn't actually know so

here's something maybe you didn't know

um this author

uh talks about the doctrine of Discovery

so back in 1493 back in Columbus days um

the uh Pope put out a doctrine of

discovery that said any land not

inhabited by Christians was available to

be quote discovered claimed and

exploited by the Christian

rulers did you know that did you know

that the Christians believed that

if they found land that wasn't run by

Christians they could conquer it because

they were Christians what's that sound

like this that sounds a little bit like

the radical

Islamic thing going on right now all

right so the Catholic faith and

Christian religions uh could be exalted

and spread everywhere because we were

the good ones I guess uh and it became

the basis of All European claims in the

Americas that it was basically a

Christian

Christian right basically to take over

anything that wasn't already

Christian that that sounds worse than

anything I've heard America do

yet that's pretty

bad yeah

boy um was it uh I think I saw V

ramaswami saying that you know he sort

of understands why people want to tear

down statues of slave owners

right you might not agree with it but

it's not without an argument it's not

without an argument slave owner you know

is that the message we want to send but

as V says why don't we replace him with

people who were the opposite of slave

owners and he mentioned two people in

particular uh President John Adams and

President John Quincy Adams who

apparently were not slave owners and

worked very

hard against the evil slavery so we do

have presidents in the same era as the

slave owners who are working very hard

on the opposite side of things to try to

free free slaves and give them legal

representation and everything else so

why not build a statute to my

relatives how about that huh didn't see

that coming my cousins the Adams

presidents I just assume I'm related

some somewhere down the

line I'm not descended from them but I

might be a cousin of some

kind well uh Michael shellenberger has a

fascinating again uh article about how

the color Revolution methods that our

government has used in other

countries uh they used it against

America to defeat Trump so the color

Revolution is when you do a bunch of

nonviolent things which collectively

destabilize the country so could be

processs in the street it could be

lawfare you it could be anything that's

legal but would destabilize a country

that's the color

Revolution and as Michael shellenberger

points out uh the Democrats had

previously proposed in both 2016 and

2020

um no hold on uh as his publication

public reported I'll just read what he

said uh on Wednesday political

operatives and journalists these are

Americans held a summit called the

transition Integrity project or the tip

in 2020 right so now a bunch of

important Democrats got together and in

2020 and during that they did simulated

exercises in which the players plotted

how to challenge the election results in

the event of a trump

Victory just think about that Trump is

maybe going to go to jail or not be on

the ballot for challenging an

election and the Democrats were planning

to challenge him if he won even if it

was a legal Victory they were planning

to challenge it and we know that it's

documented the exact thing they're

they're blaming him of they were

planning to

do very much planning it I mean really

really planning it all right

here and here's the punchline in one of

their simulations they had States send

alternate slates of of

electors that's right they actually did

uh roleplay in uh war games in which

they did what Trump tried to do with the

alternate

electors and then when Trump did it

instead of

them they tried to put him in jail for

it so the very thing that they War

that they were going to

do as soon as Trump did it and by the

way they tried to do it in earlier

elections as well so it was a very

common thing they they actually got

their IL illegitimate media to sell it

as an Insurrection so they could put

Trump in jail the very thing that they

knew was legal because they' done it

before and so legal that they even War

gamed it and documented it as a a thing

to do

amazing and then uh Michael shenberger

says the Democrats quote Insurrection

narrative rests on manipulative

arguments and cynical language games and

this narrative has being used to destroy

a foundation of her democracy the right

to vote for the candidate of your

choice

now this is a case of everything is

exactly as bad and rotten as you thought

it was it it it couldn't be more of a

worst case scenario and apparently it's

all documented it's as true as

anything's ever been true it's all

documented let me say it

again Trump will not be kept out of the

election he will not be

jailed and he will not be prevented from

running do you know why because that's

too

far that's just too far

there there is a

line and in case Democrats are wondering

where the line is there might be other

lines but that's definitely a

line yeah if you keep him from winning

using a

trick I can't predict what happens after

that I I never suggest violence of

course but things are going to get real

unpredictable if that were to happen so

I almost can guarantee you it won't

happen because the risk that Democrats

would be putting themselves to would

actually be existential that would be an

existential risk meaning the whole thing

could fall

apart yeah so I don't think that's going

to happen because I think nobody would

take that kind of risk but Democrats

might be thinking they're fighting for

their lives you know there might be

somebody well lots of people so crooked

that they fear a trump presidency

because he might actually put the crooks

in jail and they're going to have to act

in a way that's like trying to protect

their own life so I do hope his security

service is up to the

job all

right I saw a uh a post by Mike covich

said the Energy felt bad and he was

feeling a sort of a

negative you know Cloud coming I don't

feel

it I actually feel like um we're in an

Awakening and that the Awakening will be

bumpy and you know won't be easy but

that is where we had to go so what I

feel is a huge destabilization and I

think maybe that's what Mike is feeling

there there's a level of

destabilization that I've never seen

before we're definitely destabilized and

things are definitely going to change

but here's my my uh being too American

part if there's one thing that Americans

are good at consistently good at and

nothing's changed like we're we're still

those same

people we're really good at breaking our

and then fixing

it breaking is the hard part sometimes

you got to break it or else you know you

can't build it back we're we're we're

experiencing a great breaking

meaning that everything we were doing

before stopped

working right everything everything

everything that used to

work just stop working so we had to wait

until it broke before we could really

fix it and and had to push it a little

bit too and now you're seeing things

breaking everywhere remember Dei and the

ESG stuff it was just sort of rolling

along and we had to break it before it

could be put back together in a better

way so yeah I I see a whole bunch of

things that were just sort of rolling

along that now just have to be

broken uh I feel Far and Away more

positive forces than negative forces are

forming that's my feeling just hch

but I think you can feel good this

Christmas

I think you can feel good to me it feels

like Ukraine is winding down because it

has to I think uh Israel did what it

needed to do and the S the the situation

that was in Israel was

unsustainable it had to

break but first you had first something

terrible had to happen before you could

do the extreme thing needed to do to

maybe get something stable this was it

it was an extreme thing nobody wanted it

to happen but it did so now they have a

chance of building something stable

maybe with Saudi or somebody else having

some role we'll

see but I see two Wars that are likely

to wind down I don't see a war with

China starting I see China on the

decline I see Russia sort of should stay

kind of stable once Ukraine winds

down

and energy trending toward free and AI

is coming and robots are going to save

us I don't know I see a lot of positives

now keep your eye on

Argentina because uh naval's comment is

is way deeper than you think it is

because he says it so succinctly but if

Argentina quote proves you can vote

yourself out of

poverty that might change

everything might change everything if if

uh by election day Argentina has already

started to turn

around I think Trump gets elected easily

don't you don't you think Argentina is a

referendum on Trump it's also a

referendum on V because V has ideas that

are that seem as uh let's say bold I'm

going to say bold as as

Argentina

my cable management is yeah it is I do

have table I I have terrible Cable

Management you're

true

yeah it's not bad enough yet maybe I

think it

is no way someone stole your cat last

year and you just received a box with

your cat in it that did not happen are

you serious somebody sold your cat and

they gave it back to you on

Christmas did that really

happen I want to see if that's really

happened probably a different

cat yeah we're asking if it was dead or

alive

it was

alive

huh you're worried about V because he's

too

charismatic you know that is the problem

with smart people and one of the things

that Trump does best is he acts less

smart than he is have you ever noticed

that one of one of Trump's greatest

magic tricks is to convince you he's not

as smart as he is because then you feel

comfortable with him V has the other

problem he's so obviously smarter than

all of us that you wonder if he's got a

trick up his sleeve right there's an

automatic distrust for smart people Bill

Gates has this now I'm not going to

defend Bill Gates he can defend himself

but I'm saying that even if he hadd

never done anything wrong and I'm not

saying that I'm just saying if he never

done anything wrong it's hard to trust

him because he's too smart I think Elon

Musk has that problem too that if if you

don't like what he's

doing you worry because he's too smart

too smart is scary to most people so you

need to be too smart but also clearly

empathetic so the thing that VI has to

do is make sure that he's communicated

his empathy with the same power as his

capability if he gets his capability

higher than his empathy he looks like a

monster if he gets his empathy up to the

level of his capability it's called

Charisma do you get that that's a very

important Point by the way let me say it

again because it's so important if his

capability is higher than his empathy

he'll look like a monster because he's

capable of doing anything but you're not

sure he's on your team because he

doesn't have the empathy but if he gets

his empathy to the same level as his

capability which is extraordinary you're

going to say to yourself oh we can't

have anybody else he he will

become

uh he will

become what's the word just

guaranteed if his

empathy and I don't think it does yet by

the way the reason the reason you're

afraid of him is that he doesn't hasn't

done it yet his empathy has not achieved

the same level of his capability but not

because he doesn't have

empathy it's exactly because his

capabilties so high it's really

hard to get that much empathy even if

you have plenty of empathy because he's

just operating at such a high

level if he gets it there and he could

easily because it's more of a

communication thing than a real thing if

he just tweaks his communication to get

his empathy to the same level is Magic

have you seen the viral videos of a v um

I'm going to say turning a Critic in the

audience I've seen two of them so far I

think there might be more but in both

cases the way he turned his critic was

he said I'll give you the microphone and

let you

talk and let and let his critic fully

express everything and then where he

could find places of agreement he would

agree

strongly and then without losing any

empathy he would tell you why his

version actually shows the most empathy

and once he had done that because the

person had talked themselves out in both

both cases they realized that he was

coming from a place of empathy not a

place of uh technical you know

Republicans like this it was actually

derived from an empathy position now

that's not obvious it's not obvious that

all of AES policies are empathy based

it's just that he thinks capitalism

fixes your problem better than Socialism

or communism and he thinks you know the

truth works better than a lie right so

he's definitely has an empathy

first um approach it's just that he

knows he have to go through a certain

path to get to the best outcome and not

everybody knows that so he he looks a

little off model because people are not

as smart as he is about how you get to

the best

place but given his level of uh

capability could he ever bring his his

perceived empathy because it's

perception his perceived empathy to to

up to his actual

empathy where his capability is if he

does that he goes

supernova supernova now I would say

that's what Trump gets

right one of the things that makes Trump

so popular is that his empathy for

regular Americans is through the roof

would you agree I've never seen anybody

more consistently and here's here's the

key

genuinely Trump is full of about a

lot of stuff but if he's if he doesn't

genuinely have empathy for the let's say

middle class of

America uh that would be the

greatest trick ever because he looks

completely consistent everything he does

in person every little act of kindness

every word he picks every policy he

picks they all seem to be consistent

with a genuine empathy for Americans

like ordinary Americans so I think I

think when the Democrats pick up what

they call the cult do you know what the

cult is he showed

empathy that's it they called him a

cult because he showed genuine empathy

like the real kind like I think it's

real

and believe me I'll be the first one to

tell you Trump is a showman I'll be the

first person to say he uses hyper the

first person to tell you doesn't pass

all the fact checks no no argument about

any of that but he is completely sold me

after decades and Decades of total

consistency the average

Americans he really

loves and also the other thing he sells

me on is I love his pirate ship

I call this supporters a pirate ship

because it's all these you know a whole

lot of nar wells and you know

controversial characters people who've

had brushes with the law you know just

really

edgy kind of out there people he

Embraces all of them as long as they're

on his side and America's side he

Embraces all of them and uh I like

it what I see with the Democrats is that

they only embrace the politically

popular oh Trans are very important

let's bring in some trans because

they're getting a lot of publicity Trump

brings in the people who didn't get any

publicity right yeah Middle Middle

America is not getting a lot of

publicity but that's the ones he caters

to so I think V can take a lesson from

the master Trump trump actually in my

opinion this it's pure opinion I believe

he lowered his perceived capability You

by talking in a plain simple way uh you

know the he says stuff like if the wind

stops blowing your windmill won't work

and you can't watch TV now nobody thinks

that's really true I

hope but it's just a simple way to say

what he wants to say which is the Green

Technology is overrated basically um but

if aake were to say the same thing he's

going to give you the really compelling

smart I understand this topic from top

to bottom explanation and then you're

going to say whoa his capability is way

up here where's his empathy his empathy

is an a whack right so he's so smart and

so good his perceived capability got on

a whack with his perceived empathy but

the reality is they're probably the same

all he has to do is put him back in

Balance so Trump lowers his perceived

capability

has an a tremendous perceived empathy

for regular Americans and they match

what happens when those two match your

capability and your empathy if it's high

capability

Charisma that's what gets you a

cult he you don't get a cult by being

good at what you do let me say this a

thousand times you do not get a cult to

following for being good at what you do

nobody does it's not a thing you get a

cult following for having

empathy that matches your high level of

capability period there's no other way

to get there now let's look at the

president of

Argentina

capability looks pretty high high level

of capability but

empathy president of Argentina tell me

tell me your impression of his

empathy high it's high because he's he's

going going after the Elites for the

benefit of the regular people and he

spent enough time you know being a

interesting wild man that you think he

actually cares about people and he's so

diverse you know he just sort of a a

character who's done a lot of things

that you believe he actually really

cares about regular

people and then he does high capability

things

whoa High empathy High

capability magic magic

so

V is one twist

away from

Magic Trump has magic uh mil president

milu I don't want to say his name

because I me m in Argentina he has magic

empathy and capability matched V still

an

awack but he's under whack for exactly

the best

reason not for lack of capability his

capability is too high it's on a whack

with anybody's level of empathy how do

you get how does anybody how could you

possibly have that much empathy because

he's got to get up to that level of

capability if he doesn't which he could

do he could absolutely do it but the

moment he does it you know it's going to

be a moment if it happens it's going to

be a moment in American history because

it's going to be

fireworks like you've never seen

oh damn it I was trying to trigger the

platform but it didn't work all right

let me uh check in on locals and see if

everybody's still good

there all

right well okay well here's here's a

very honest statement all right this is

a comment I want to say from who people

aren't quite sure whether to trust an

Indian yet now I hate to say it but

that's

true that not my opinion obviously but I

do think there's a a

racial uh

discomfort that people don't like to say

out loud but it's a trust thing but if I

could make a one

correction um he's an

American he's not an

Indian he's literally not an

Indian he's an American with you know

Indian

Heritage but you can't get you can't get

more American than

V yeah he's he's like 110% American he's

more American than Americans he's the

one who reminds you how to be an

American that's like the most American

you could

be he's not a Hindu oh some people think

he's a Hindu he's not a

Hindu he's a

Christian he's a

Christian wait I'm I'm saying smart

people saying he is a

Hindu now this is

interesting

you you're telling me he's a Hindu who

believes in the

Christian he's a Hindu who believes that

Jesus Christ was the son of God that's a

Christian let me ask you this do you

think V believes in heaven

or uh

reincarnation does he believe in because

I think you're talking you I think he

might be culturally he comes from a

Hindu

background I think you're you're

confusing his religion with his

culture is that what you're doing I I

think actually all of you are

wrong I think you're all wrong

actually you want to check let's check

on this for the next time okay should we

check on it

now let's check on it

now let's do this in real time so here

here's what I think I think he

identifies with the Hindu

tradition and culture another words an

influence but that his belief of

uh religious belief is

Christian so we we can check it right

now if I'm wrong I if I'm wrong you get

to see it in real time does anybody want

to stay and see if I'm

wrong it'll be fun don't you like to see

me

wrong all right we'll find out the

answer to the question and I'll say

is uh

V Christian or

Hindu what do you think

uh he said

uh he said I'm Hindu and I'm proud of

that I stand for that without an

apology

uh but

wait hold on so remember I said I didn't

disagree that he identified as

Hindu but we're talking about his

religious belief

right we're talking about his religious

belief so let let's get into this

religious

belief

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uh all right let's see better

answer

shares the same

values how do we get a good answer for

this New York

Times don't believe that don't want to I

a news Nation I'm g go with news Nation

because I'm trying to find a unbiased

Source wait we might have an unbiased

Source here

to Jenny Mitchell she is an entomologist

at Iowa State University from Boon Iowa

she is a republican who is currently

undecided Jenny all right listen thank

you thanks for being here and thanks for

coming to Iowa so much we appreciate

your visits uh so freedom of religion is

a part of our Constitution and obviously

a huge part of our country what do you

say to those who say that you cannot be

our president because your religion is

not what our founding fathers based our

country on I would say that I

respectfully disagree and you know I

want people to understand this about me

I would rather speak the truth and lose

an election than to win by playing some

political Snakes and Ladders I mean if I

want to map out my political career and

really solve for that you know I could

fake convert you know I'm not going to

do that I'm G to tell you about my faith

I'm Hindu now I went to Christian

Schools I went to St Xavier in

Cincinnati and I actually have been on

the board of STX except for Hiatus to

run for president and I can tell you

with confidence that we share the same

value set in common I'll tell you about

my faith my faith teaches me that God

puts each of us here for a purpose one

God that we have a moral duty to realize

that purpose one God that God works

through Us in different ways but we're

still equal because God resides in each

of us now I had what you would call not

a traditional upbringing but probably a

very traditional upbringing right my

parents taught me family is the

foundation marriage is sacred divorce

isn't some option you just prefer off a

menu when things don't go your way

abstinence before marriage is the way to

go adultery is wrong that the good

things in life involve a

sacrifice now are those foreign values

in this country I know it could look

that way at times you turn on the

television go to the movie theater your

local Dei training at a company or with

they're teaching your kidss in schools

that could seem a little

unfamiliar I don't think it's unfamiliar

to most of us I think those are the same

judeo Christian values that I learned at

St X when we get to the Ten Commandments

what do they say there's one true God

don't take his name in vain observe the

sabbath respect your parents don't kill

don't lie don't cheat don't steal don't

commit adultery don't

covet that's when it hit me we share the

same value set in common

there's another Core teaching in my

faith which is that we don't get to

choose who God works

through God chooses who God works

through so we get to that Old Testament

a little bit further along we get to the

book of Isaiah I don't know if many of

you're familiar with with that

one God chose

Cyrus a gentile all the way in

Persia to lead the Jewish people back to

the promised land and so yes I believe

God put us here for a purpose

my faith is what leads me on this

journey to run for president my

gratitude to this country is what leads

me and even when we think about the

founding fathers I'm a fan of History

okay I talked about Thomas Jefferson

earlier we'll stick to Thomas Jefferson

he was a deist actually let's be honest

about because the left wants to rewrite

our history and tell he was a slave

owner an evil man no IET that but we're

not gonna have anybody rewriting our

history thas Jefferson was a theist he

made the Jefferson Bible you know how he

did it he didn't believe in all the

parts of the new Testament but he took a

blade razor blade by hand glued it

together and that made the Jefferson

Bible which we have today John Adams

wrote letters to Thomas Jefferson

actually became something of a Hindu

scholar after he left and so I think

it's important to see our founding

fathers three-dimensionally not the way

that they've been Rewritten post 1990

either and so yes do I would I be the

best president to spread Christianity

through this country I would not I'd be

not the best choice for that but I also

don't think that that's the job of the

US

president but will I stand for the

judeo-christian values that this nation

was founded on that I was raised in even

in the Hindu Faith yes I will You're

darn right I will and as a young person

picking up on that strand from earlier I

think it's my

responsibility to make faith and

patriotism and family and hard

work cool again in this country I think

they're pretty cool and I think that's

my job as your next president and to

back to the First Amendment we will

stand for Rel religious liberty in a way

that neither Republicans nor Democrats

actually have that's what the First

Amendment says you get to practice your

faith every Pastor in this country gets

to do his job without the government

getting in their way that's what I'm

going to keep as

the so so here's my interpretation see

if it matches

yours that he believes there's one

God what does he believe about Jesus

because that would be kind of

I was just looking to see what he thinks

about

Jesus um betting on

momes let's

see who is Jesus to the

Hindus I think they see him as a

teacher well I guess that would be the

main

question

huh what do Hindus say about

Jesus he's a

ayra is a light in the world or

something do hindos believe in the

Bible interesting so what would be the

difference between someone who thought

there was one

God and believed all the Christian

values but you but was a Hindu by uh

self

label so here here's what I think you

need to

ask does he believe uh any of the Hindu

specific beliefs such as

reincarnation isn't that a key thing if

he believes there's one

God and you go to an

afterlife but the Bible might not be

literal that's that's closer to a that's

pretty close to Trump

religion it's kind of better than I

thought it

was um I'm more comfortable knowing that

he's compatible with Christian religion

without being a True Believer to me

that's the ultimate that be the best

situation

so uh so I will accept your statement

that he's identifies as Hindu can we

agree on

that can we agree that uh he identifies

as

Hindu would you also agree that he does

not identify at least out loud with the

things the Hindus believe such as

reincarnation or don't they have

multiple

gods wait how many gods do the Hindus

have how many

gods let's get a number on that

33 uh how many gods

33 so he believes there's one God which

says all the time all right now let me

ask you

this using his own words to describe

himself he is compatible with all of the

um Christian Concepts and he believes

there's one God and he agrees with

Thomas Jefferson that the Bible uh is

human

made so is Thomas Jefferson a

Christian was Thomas Jefferson

because I don't think he believed Jesus

was the son of God you know that

right I'm pretty sure Jefferson didn't

believe in Jesus did

he he was a de not a Jesus

Lover what about

Washington all right so this is more

interesting than I thought it's actually

better than I thought

I would have been

uncomfortable if he said he was um Hindu

and believed the the specifics of 33

gods and

reincarnation I would be equally

uncomfortable if he said he was a

Christian and believed everything in the

Bible was literally true sort of a Mike

Johnson thing that doesn't make me

comfortable at

all but if you say you believe in one

God like most of the American who

believe in anything do uh and you say

you're completely 100% on board with the

cultural you know aspects of

Christianity that's sort of the ideal

situation for a

president I don't think you could do

better for better now that might it

might make him hard to be elected so

that's a separate issue but I Want a

President Who says I like all the good

parts of your religion but it's up to

you

how much you believe about the

historical details but I like all the I

like what it says so let's let's deal

with what it

says because we all like that part and

then you individually can argue about

the historical

part he attended church so we know he

believed in God he just didn't believe

that the Bible was the work of God

that's why he kept some parts and threw

away other parts

all right so I wouldn't say that he's I

would not call

v

um what would you say a classic Hindu or

a classic

Christian but he's he's hit a mix that's

pretty

appealing I think you found a sweet spot

there now it doesn't mean it's makes it

easy to get elected just in my opinion

it would be the perfect place to to

be

if you're a deist you automatically

don't believe in Jesus right is that

right give me a fact check on

that de believe there's one supreme god

which uh excludes Jesus being a like a

godl situation

right no or true I get a little

disagreement on that I would think aest

is just there's a God and that's the end

of the story there's no

Jesus yeah so that they would not

believe that Jesus necessarily is

God so you can believe in Jesus but not

believe that Jesus is God you could

believe he's the son of God but not

God okay all right well there's some

wiggle room there all right well I'm

glad we've sorted that all

out but I will I will take your

correction are you listening to this

part this is part you wanted to hear I I

accept your correction on the Hindu part

but it's not if if you'll accept my

definition that he's not a classic

Hindu to me he sounds more culturally

Hindu and belief wise is he's a lot

closer to the Christian model so I'm

going to say I was 25% right and 75%

wrong will you accept

that I grade myself 25% right but 75%

wrong which means you're 75% right and

I'm 25 and you know do you accept

that all right we have

agreement I call it a Christmas

miracle it's a Christmas miracle all

right everybody go have a great

Christmas enjoy your families I hope

some of your families were watching

and uh I might have another live stream

tonight I don't know yet but I probably

will talk to you later bye for

now