Episode 2374 CWSA 02/04/24

good morning everybody and welcome to coffee with Scott Adams which is exactly what this is if you'd like to take this experience and yes it's an experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny human brains all you need is a cuper muger a glass a tanker chalice or Stein a Canen Jugger flask of vessel of any kind f 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 zip and it's going to happen right now go oh my goodness that was good I feel sorry for anybody drinking water when it's coffee time well we got all kinds of stories I'm going to jump right into them because I know you're people of action aren't you you're people of action um there's a new app called the dignity app that will add clothes back on to uh semico women on social media somebody said it was a 4chan app and to me this this is the funniest thing if if you could add to if you can add the clothes back on to the women online now uh what I love about this is how much work somebody put into the joke you know because I don't really see people using it you know that I can't really imagine anybody's going to say you know I'd like to spend some time today putting clothes on women online but the fact that it actually works and that it's a real thing and that somebody spent all that time to build it that's the story the story is about one in probably one Intrepid artist who just said you know what I bet I could put women back on bet I could put clothes back on these women and then then he built it I assume it's a guy all right so I tried to watch a new series I thought I was going to recommend it to you today uh on Netflix it's called Alexander it's a Alexander the Great have any of you made the mistake in trying to watch that you know what I said to myself I said to myself great it was a sort of a documentary movie and it was going to be about Alexander the Great and I had a lot of curiosity about Alexander the Great because I don't know too much on that topic and I thought oh this would be interesting I like my dictators and stuff and then I thought finally I'm going to watch a show that that doesn't have any wokeness in it because it's about you know ancient times and they can't really change the ethnicities of the people because it wouldn't be very wouldn't be very uh you know accurate well it took about uh 60 seconds into the miniseries before it turned into Brokeback Mountain Alexander the Great version I swear to God they turned it into a gay love story and and the Alexander the Great is making out with his boyfriend like 60 seconds into the thing now I don't have any problem with you know the gay part but I also don't like watching heterosexuals have intimate moments in a TV show or movie because I get that it's you know sort of building up who their character is but that's always the throwaway scene okay there are people they're kissing I guess that I'm supposed to feel their love as an important part of the story but they don't really need to kiss they don't need to have sex right in front of me they could just be holding hands they could just say nice things to each other I get it I I'll piece it together and you know I'm not approved I'm I'm about as far away as you can get from being approved it's just unnecessary entertainment CU it's never like turning you on right like I don't get turned on watching a heterosexual couple make out I just think well you know I wouldn't mind if that were Me Maybe replacing the guy just in case you wondered which one I was going to replace in that scene and uh I just don't need to see it I feel like it's a lazy writing I guess that's what it is you know I'm a professional writer sort of so when I see lazy writing I just go ah not another chase scene not not not somebody tied to a chair to be tortured not 10 minutes of watching somebody be sweeter than people are in in real life and they're always like sickeningly sweeter than real life like GH anyway well here's a Evergreen story I'm going to keep bringing up because it keeps helping people but I keep see more evidence from people online that they've experimented with quitting wheat and had tremendous you know weight loss and inflammation loss and all their pain went away and they became more flexible and that was my experience and I've I've recommended that this is the one thing well not the one thing but it's one thing you could really easily test meaning you could just try going a month I think a month is a good number a month without any Wheat but you you really have to go cold turkey you know don't just cut down I don't think that makes a difference I think you just have to go no wheat but also check the ingredients on packages you know because you could easily get yourself a you know a pizza or something and forget that that's wheat so you have to go to zero which is not terrible you could do it for a month but just see how you feel my my total overall uh Health tremendously better after a month off of weight and I've stayed off wheed so I had I had a type of inflammation that was my entire body all the time so if I exercised it just hurt just always hurt it just went away and the only thing I changed was taking the weed out of my diet so give it a try a lot of people say it's making a big difference to them um Tim P had a good point about Joe Rogan's alleged 250 million dollar Spotify deal that allows him to be on other platforms like X apparently but uh as Tim P points out if somebody like Spotify is going to double down on Joe Rogan it kind of proves that that style of entertainment has an economic value that looks like it's lasting so although people might complain people you know people on the left might complain that Joe Rogan is so popular and his guests say things they think are not true and provocative but apparently there's a market for it a big market and so I'd agree with Tim P that this does suggest that the powers that be are going to recognize the alternative voices if you can call it that um have value and and I think it's probably probably the biggest symbol of a gigantic change in the media landscape where the uh traditional media just looks like a joke and the non-traditional media is becoming the traditional media do you know when it was the last time I looked at a news site or I just don't do it anymore it's just not where I get the news pretty much all the news I want to get filtered through somebody who knows more than the people who reported the news yeah you know what is bad news not bad news as an unlucky news but a bad form of news is you go to any any media site and then you just read the story that's not even a left or right thing that's just the worst thing you could do just go to any media site and read the story do you know it's a good form go to Glenn greenwald's X feed and see what he says about the story in that media because he's going to add the context oh here's the stuff they left out here's the stuff they're lying to you about here's the fact that's already been debunked so if you show me today's news just from the original site it's just worthless absolutely worthless but if you show me that same story and you let a you know Mike cernovich or Glenn Greenwald or uh Michael shellenberger you know Matt taibe I could list 20 more if you let them filter it first the people who feel they have something to add to the story or subtract from it then you might have something then you might have something but if you're seeing it just on the news site you probably just misleading yourself because the news is all motivated you know they'll show you what they want to show you and leave out what they want to leave out because they think they have a certain kind of audience and maybe other reasons well Elon Musk continues to be entertaining on his own platform uh he suggested that uh well he said this in a post should I make the Texas Institute of Technology and science real in other words should he you know just create a college now the the reason he asked is because the acronym for Texas Institute of Technology and science would be tits so he's willing to create a college because it would be a funny a naughty pun now how much money do you have to have before you're willing to create a college just for the pun now I'm sure he'd have other reasons for doing it but I feel like the pun is a lot of it yeah I I couldn't love that more frankly uh and then he said uh it would of course have advanced social studies too advanced social studies ass oh so he would build the Institute of tits and ass I could not love this more I couldn't love it more I I don't name anything I would like more than this start with just the basic story the idea that Elon Musk could get involved designing a institution of Higher Learning I'm already on board all right I'm not just on board I'm like jumping up and down on board really Elon Musk might want to solve the biggest problem in the United States and maybe the world that our education system you know morphed into something horrible and maybe he could fix it because he seems to be good at fixing stuff I mean that alone would be amazing but if he names it something obscene well I couldn't love it more I could not love it more well famous rapper and uh actor 50 Cent uh is coming out a little bit Pro Trump he says uh maybe Trump is the answer because he's blasting New York mayor Eric Adams and you know he's not so happy about the migrant crisis so he said uh you know he's just like I don't even understand all this stuff he says he can't can't explain this he's talking about the migrant crisis in New York can't explain this I'm stuck maybe Trump is the answer so there you go now how many how many black voters do you think will actually consider Trump I worry that I'm in a bubble and just because a few notable people like Snoop Dog recently said a positive Trump thing um how much of a bubble am I in is this a real thing because I feel like I don't want to get a ahead of the reality I feel like there's certainly some prominent people who have said prot Trump things that you didn't expect that's real but I don't know if they represent much in the public you know I don't know if this is a 2% chance change or 5% change or what this is but I will dovetail this into my story about U you all know that you know it wasn't long ago that the great replacement theory that uh the immigrants were being brought into the country to replace Americans and usually it's white Americans who think they're the ones getting replaced so that's the theory I'm not saying that I buy into that theory I'll just say it exists but Elon Musk is uh buying into it hard uh at least in its current form which is the open borders and there does seem to be plenty of solid evidence that there are people who are doing this for political reasons um and I think we can now say oh yeah that this has at least one of the reasons I don't know how many reasons there are but at least one of the reasons is to change the um the voting mix so the Democrats win forever and Elon Musk is saying that out loud um apparently Arizona is literally trying to do that right now Arizona is trying to make it so that uh there's a a push to make it legal for uh non-citizens in Arizona to vote only in the presidential election that's pretty clear isn't it that they only wanted to vote in the presidential election that's literally just about Trump and you maybe the future but that's pretty obvious um Ann Coulter points out that back in the 90s I guess there was some democrat who was saying it directly if we open up immigration um I think during the Kennedy time there was talk about using immigration to increase the percentage of Democrats so Democrats have been talking about immigration as a way to gain power since Kennedy and in writing you know in a way that we can verify this is an actual conversation now I had my take on it prior to the Biden Administration is that although there was a lot of you know illegal immigration I didn't really think people were doing it primarily for that you know I always thought it was more economic you know both economic on the migrants parts but also economic on America's part because we needed workers and it was just sort of a sketchy way to do it to get them but now I now I fully Buy in at the current rate and given that the administration is clearly letting people in intentionally you there there's certainly no more uh mystery about whether they can't do it oh there's no way we could stop him because the laws and I don't have any power even Bill Maher was mocking on his show Friday night was mocking the people who don't understand that Biden could stop the border Invasion anytime you wanted like even and and the important part here is that Bill Maher you know deep in TDS on a lot of issues has found his way out at least on the border issue right that doesn't make him Pro Trump but he certainly understands that Trump was right on the border and that's that's pretty big so yeah I I think at this point we can say it's exactly what it looks like it's a play to tip the uh you maybe tip Texas which would be the big one maybe Florida but I love the fact that Texas's response is to ship them to places that were already so blue that it made no difference to any elections that's pretty clever not just to ship them to places that you know can share the pain but to ship them to places where they're electorally irrelevant it's pretty smart s mold in New York and Chicago and you don't lose anything vote wise but what I'm wondering is will the Democrats gain enough voters from immigration illegal immigration will they gain enough Democrat voters to make up for the number of black voters they're going to lose what do you think I don't know cuz I feel like black voters are largely locked in cuz everybody is you know T it takes you know just a miracle for anybody to change who they vote for but some if I had to guess there might be a 10% movement in the black vote toward Trump maybe 10% tops so you got 10% of uh 133% of the country right maybe 1.3% difference could be enough to change the vote but then what about the illegals so we got 10 million illegals uh let's say you've got 10 million extra we might have 25 million who knows but if you had 10 million illegals how many of them are going to vote I don't know so you got you know there's not that well let's say it's about the same number let's say the illegals and the number of legal you know black citizens of America are roughly the same are they are they about the same I think it's in the same neighborhood no it's not the same um well immigration isn't 25% of the country all right so we'll argue a little bit about the numbers but my question is does anybody understand the the push and the pull the net of this because I'm not 100% convinced the Democrats net out positive what do you think I I think that all it would take is one good narrative to just take 25% of the black vote and the narrative would be you just say what they say by the way this is the best persuasion the best persuasion is you don't sit in a room by yourself and say what can I say that will make a difference with whatever group you're trying to persuade that could work but it very be very difficult to you know think see into their minds but when you see uh black people being interviewed on the media and they're asked about Trump versus Biden what's the one thing that they always say they always say when they're talking about Trump versus Biden the one thing they always say lately well I'll say lately because it's changed every time it's I made more money under Trump every time how many of the uh black citizens that you've been you've seen interviewed said uh they don't like Trump because he's a racist this year in the past year how many times have you seen a black Citizen not a pundit I'm not talking about somebody who does IT professional actually zero the the the dog that's not barking there is not barking really loud isn't that weird can can you find me a citizen who's not a professional not a pundit let's say not an academic you know not somebody who writes and talks for a living just an actual Citizen and just ask them if they think that Trump is a racist compared to Biden that that would be the fair question is compared to Biden I feel like blacks get it now in the sense that Trump was always protecting Americans and they're American that's the end of the story right the the Trump point of view is so simple I'm surprised it's taking this long to catch on are you American I'm on your side and then he proves it by keeping the non-americans down if he can do it so that you're not competing with them I feel like Black America uh is one narrative away and and even though I say this jokingly it's literally true in a sort of indirect way it's literally true that the Immigrant situation has eliminated the possibility of reparations would you agree now you might say to yourself well Scott there's still that one place that's going to do it anyway that's probably true but that conversation is largely tabled in my opinion because the money we're spending on the the migrant population now you could say to yourself but Scott didn't you tell us that money is fungible and that's not how it works and just because you're spending money on one thing that doesn't mean you couldn't spend money on the other thing if you wanted to you know you could always run up your debt whatever that's true but we don't treat it that way in the real world in the real world we treat it like it's a limit even though it's not so if I were black and I thought the country Ed me more be it better education you know some kind of change in urban laws or policing or something if I thought I wanted something and I saw that 100% of the attention of all the authorities in the government is to to the migrant class which is what it feels like it's not the case but it feels like that I'd be I'd be voting Trump so fast but I can't put myself in the heads of other people so I guess we'll just have to find out how that goes um here's some updates Nikki hilly was on Saturday Night Live I guess she played to somebody in the audience who just asked a question of the person who is playing a trump person and the thing that caught me was that her uh her thing on Saturday Night Live was to mock Trump of course and then she tweeted you know that Trump probably doesn't stay up that late but you know he'll be tweeting angry things at her when he sees he sees Saturday Night Live and I thought do you not know anything about Trump the one thing we know about him for sure is he he does stay up late like that's like saying he doesn't golf did did you not notice he he kind of golfs and he also stays up late so that was a kind of a weird uh thing to say about him but here's what I got out of that Nikki hilly only only exists because Trump exists doesn't it feel like that now you could imagine if there was never a trump that she may have ra you know risen in politics anyway because she's capable but I feel her entire existence is only based on Trump she's defined by Trump what a terrible place to be isn't that a terrible place to be in life that that you the who you are is defined by another person you don't even like you you're not even defined by your own anything you're just well compareed to Trump so that's just a weird situation well Harvard is still stupid uh they've invited a radical Palestinian speaker um who has defended the Hamas Massac so they so Harvard's actually got a speaker who said something something along the lines of October 7th was totally normal and you know you got to expect people to defend themselves that's that's why she said and they're like well that'd be a good speaker now do I think that she should be allowed to speak absolutely absolutely free speech do I think that this is a good decision by Harvard well it doesn't seem like it because I'm pretty sure they wouldn't allow the competing message to be there if it was there would be so many protests that you know it turn into a mess so yeah that's a little bit of problem a little bit of problem managing the reputation so Harvard still looks stupid uh but maybe not as stupid as my state there's a story in the San Francisco Chronicle which uh used to be a newspaper I don't know what it is now but the the San Francisco chronical was the the last big paper to pick up Dilbert they just weren't convinced they just couldn't be convinced yeah they wanted to hold out anyway so the chronicle is garbage but anyway they report that uh Hayward down just down the street for me says that uh had an elementary school that was struggling with their low test scores so in order to uh to help things they spent $250,000 of federal money for an organization called and I swear to God this is the actual name of the organization woke kindergarten to train teachers to confront white supremacy disrupt racism and oppression and remove these barriers to learning so that was their response to the low test scores is to teach the uh students to be more uh aware of a way Supremacy now you're probably saying to yourself wow that probably helped their test scores huh so let's check in on the test scores because once they've addressed and confronted white supremacy I would expect those test scores to to start zooming up to the sky and update is um oh yeah the test scores went down well nobody saw that coming I mean how how could he even see that coming really I mean cuz people are stupid I thought the antidote to stupidity was moral wokeness am I wrong did I have that wrong the whole time that if your kids are not performing they're not woke enough and maybe it's the white supremacy that they haven't fully confronted it made so much sense to me I'm surprised it didn't work because on paper on paper it looks so right have you noticed that these good plans on paper for example take our border situation on paper the idea of opening your borders and rewarding people from all over the over all over the country that we can't vet by the by the multi-millions on paper that seems like a terrific idea but then you know sometimes reality gets it away and it's not really working out in reality but on paper doesn't that sound good let all the strangers in from the prisons and anywhere without checking full of I mean on paper it sounds great so you can understand why you get caught by surprise yeah and weirdly woke kindergarten didn't make his much difference as as it does on paper I mean on paper seems like a good idea um how about the uh military action over there well again you tell me is this not a great idea so we got this problem with the hooes and the proxies you know attacking American um American interests over overseas I don't know if there are interests but we have people there and the Biden Administration draws up this plan now I think you'd agree with me that on paper this makes sense that we don't want to war with Iran so in order to get them to surrender we will bomb things that Iran doesn't care about until Iran surrenders so that's what we've done so we're going to bomb Syria and Iraq and maybe Yemen until Iran just surrenders now you tell me isn't that a good plan at least on paper so why it hasn't worked already I'm a little bit puzzled because I'm thinking we've bombed all these empty buildings in other countries and Iran is acting like nothing even happened like how did even how do you understand the world anymore it's so confusing you have such good plans on paper and then you implement them and I don't know what's going on I don't know what's going on that you can Implement such logical good plans and still get a bad result I don't know I just don't get it well Tucker Carlson is a in Russia apparently people assume it's probably pretty good assumption they is there to talk to Putin but couldn't he also be talking to Snowden or Tera Reed I think she's there now um yeah but I'm going to guess Putin now there's a backstory that tuer call talks about that uh once before he got cancelled he was he was considering interviewing Putin and he apparently the government was well aware of it even though he didn't tell anybody and he he believes that they were into his encrypted Signal app now I don't know if that's how they found out because they don't have to get into the signal appp um there's other ways they can do it they could do it through your phone they could find out somebody else who knows something there are other ways to do it so I don't know if they got to do a signal app but let me tell you again if you believe there's such a thing as encrypted communication so that you can say things that you wouldn't say normally don't put anything in an encrypted message that's illegal ever there's no such thing as a message the government can't get in fact if you were the CIA the first thing you do is you take over these little encrypted apps because that's where all the good stuff is it's the first thing you do is You' get control of any company that was trying to put all the crooks in one place right wouldn't you go there first you would stop at nothing to have full control of encrypted apps because that's that's where all the good stuff is is it now is is that let me let me explain it to you in in the narrative that I'm trying to use here on paper doesn't that sound like a good idea you're going to take this encrypted app and you'll attract all the people who have things to say that they don't want the government to hear and you're going to organize them so that their names and user numbers and all their messages will be in one place really easy to find but don't worry because it's encrypted don't worry government can't get there because it's encrypted now you see any problem with that does anybody see a problem that the CIA can coopt any management it wants do you think there's do you think there's a leader of a company somewhere in America who can say no to the CIA really yeah do you really think anybody can say no to the CIA no if the CIA wants you you to cooperate whether they do it through legal means or carot and stick or you know because a CIA can come into a company and they can say for example you know I know your whole business model revolves around these encrypted apps but we really need to know what the terrorists are saying so we're going to need access to that oh no I'll never do that I'll never that really because you know there's probably a federal organization that could shut you down uh and then they list three organizations that could just wave some paperwork and they r a business I'm not saying I do it but I do have a friend in this or that organization that would probably want to look into your business and uh maybe your tax situation and when it was the last time you were audited now now the CEO is scared to death but still doesn't want do like they're going to be brave enough to resist and the C says and you know what would really help you is we've got some legislation that's cooking and wouldn't you like to see that go away because that could cost you a lot of money and uh there might be some government contracts oh we had the 34 Minute glitch there might be some uh government contracts that would you know tremble the size of your company and make you richer than God but you know only if the government's sort of on your side and you're playing along with the government right so I don't think there's any such thing as a American company that the CIA can't control do you think that's the thing do you think there's any such thing as an American company that can't be controlled completely by our intelligence people I mean it might exist as some kind of weird exception but in general there's no way you could resist them so on paper doesn't it sound like a good idea to put all the crooks in one place in the little encrypted place so you know exactly where the government's going to look and the government absolutely definitely 100% could get access to anything they want if it's an American company sounds great on paper doesn't it no it's the worst idea in the world on paper it couldn't possibly work in the long run it can't possibly work work you get that right is there anybody pushing back on that in the short run it might actually work in the long run the intelligence agencies have to have access to it and they'll do whatever it takes and they have the power to do whatever it takes until they get it you know they can keep hammering on it for years until they get it but there's nothing they're not going to get if they need it you all know that right all right I love when I see Sam Harris is trending on X cuz I know it's just going to be a bunch of people insulting his intelligence and I I've decided to find entertainment in it here here's what you'd never see if Sam Harris is trending on X oh look I wonder what that's all about click wow some people are saying some good things about Sam Harris well there there's a good take yeah I can see why he's trending now he's got a good take on that topic not lately poor guy he's just getting on by absolutely everybody on X I don't see anybody supporting him at this point now that has more to do with the xplatform um but even Elon Musk Elon Musk posted today because there's yet another Sam Harris clip that people are calling stupid he says uh Ela mus says Sam Harris's mind has melted into goo how would you like to wake up in the morning and find out that the smartest man in the country and the richest just just insulted the quality of your brain on the platform that he owns I know I just thought it's funny all right so um two stories California's got these hurricane force winds that are supposed to be coming uh at my house apparently my force field is holding cuz I just got a little sprinkle of rain that we needed so I don't know where all this flooding and hurricane rains are going to be but they say somewhere in the state um now of course you also know the story about the uh the migrants who beat up the cop in New York City and then allegedly they got in a bus and headed to my state California yeah and they went to San Jose where they were immediately swep Swept Away by a flood and a hurricane no that didn't happen but you wish it did cuz you're you're bastards you're all terrible all right um I asked my smart Democrat friend who I often mention because he fascinates me because he's you know smart and he follows the news but his opinions look like somebody who's not smart and has never followed the news yeah it's just the worst case of CDs you've ever seen in your life so I use him to test things I checked in with him recently because I wondered how in the world he could not be like 50 Cent and Snoop Dog at this point right and say you know the open borders and all that stuff you're GNA have to give Trump a second look right but I thought I thought by now surely my smart Democrat friend would say okay you know Biden did a few good things I liked I would expect that I would expect him to say that and then but you know you know given his age and the open borders and the wars we're getting into I got to admit baby Trump got a few things right as well that's what I was expecting you know what he said I'm paraphrasing but he told me I should spend more time reading the New York Times instead of all that fake news uh that the Republican for feeding me yep how's that feel in your bubble yeah we're all in a bubble let let's not pretend that my friend is the only person in a bubble we're all in a bubble and I'm definitely in a bubble and let me let me tell you how bad my bubble is I don't know any Democrats in person no I'm sure I do because you my friend but I haven't seen him in a long time right and I'm trying to I'm trying to think the last time I had a meaningful conversation with a Democrat uh who wasn't actually so insane that I just backed off right away because you know you you get the insanity thing right away you know the the TDS just goes right the top right away so you just go oh oh back down how many have had this situation where somebody will say blah blah blah the Insurrection of January 6 and you'll say that was no Insurrection they didn't bring guns and you know you you do your thing about how the media is fake and they won't back down from the Insurrection thing anybody who believes the Insurrection hoax or the fine people hoax cannot be dealt with you can't have a conversation all all they will do is shout at you for how brainwashed you are they won't even listen to the end of a sentence it'll be what what are you reading that uh listen to that Alex Jones thing again well he must have got that from Alex Jones right that's all you get all right some people are asking is AI getting worse is that body have that experience uh like uh chat GPT where it seems like it's less useful than it used to be so a number of people are saying that it's anecdotal but uh somebody had an interesting hypothesis I'll just put that out there I don't know if this makes sense technically but it's close enough to something that does could it be that the demand for the AI service is so big that there having a processing problem could could we be reaching some kind of computing temporary limit that's just making AI Dumber I saw people speculating about that I feel like it might have some impact but I would think it would have more impact on the timing of the answer than the quality of the answer but it could be that there's a processing problem that's making it Dumber I don't know that I but I'll tell you my own experience um I keep telling myself I'm G to jump into Ai and force myself to learn it and use it because you know for sure I'm going to be using it in the future I I just want to get a head start on it you know make sure I'm using all the tools in the best way I can't find anything useful like I keep thinking oh I'm going to find a thing that you know works for what I do and then I'll just keep using the thing because it'll be so useful I can't not use it you know like like a smartphone I have not found that yet I've done quite a few things but I can't use it to look for information right well actually I think I'll just read you my Sunday comic today if you're not a subscriber you haven't seen it but uh I handled this in a dillberg comic that you can see on if you subscribe on the xplatform or if you uh are on local so you can see it so I'm just going to read it to you it's morak the preventor of Information Services and he's he comes into the room to talk to to Dilbert and morak says I've been asked to ensure we have proper safeguards on the AI you were creating so here I'm imagining that Dilbert is creating an AI for his company all right so you want some safeguards and dver says such as and Bak says well you don't want any sexual content or fake news and dilbur says right and BC says and you don't want AI to be a bigot and dilbur says obviously and morex says you don't want AI to have opinions and it has to stay away from Facts too because it hallucinates and dilbur says good point morc says you also don't want it to get into politics religion Socialism or capitalism and then dilber says what's left just the weather and math and morak says weather and math are racist Concepts and dilber says I quit now how far is that from reality it's pretty close to reality isn't it you can't use it for fiction because then you're a plagiarist you can't use it for facts because it hallucinates you can't use it for opinions because opinions are too provoc ative so if you can't use it for fiction facts or opinions what's left the weather which you don't need it for or math the you don't need it for I guess it's good for writing code yeah and good for translating also excellent for translating I I think that I love the fact that we've actually uh invented a universal translator very Star Trek in one of the things you'll be able to do with your uh someday when you have your uh Apple Vision Pro AR glasses you'll be able to uh watch somebody talk a different language and it will immediately show up as a transcript floating in front of you how amazing is that you could actually go to a foreign country and well you couldn't talk but you could understand what they were saying but suppose you were hearing impaired you could also talk to somebody and have it appear and then being hearing impaired just disappears it just stops being a thing yeah the the technology for the hearing impaired is just so exciting if you know anybody who's got hearing issues it's an exciting time to be alive very life-changing so I do think AI is going to have all these uh Niche uh things that change people's lives that's a good example of one so the coders and the people with hearing problems and a lot more are going to be real happy but for the average person who's doing average stuff is so far A little too difficult and clunky to use but it'll get there we might only be a few months away from all of the interfaces being fine and you know the the tools being really good all right um here's an update on Ukraine so Mike cerovich had an opinion he posted today he said that my sense of Ukraine is the American people didn't fall for the hoaxes the regime and is at a level of power now that they don't need to hoax the public into conflict as with the Iraq Wars they stole the money and said be glad you're not in prison like the J Sixers does that sound like a Fair summary of our current situation that the regime the the government is now so powerful that they can just do what they want right in front of you and they don't have to give you a narrative and make you believe it I think that's only partially true it's true is here's what I think I I don't think it's about the uh not needing to brainwash I think that they successfully brainwashed 2third of the country so the onethird that was is not brainwashed doesn't have any power because they're you know they don't control the government so I don't think it's that they do or do don't need to brainwash I think they have brainwashed again it's just that they don't need to brainwash everybody anymore they only need to brainwash twoth thirds and then the other third they will just call White supremacists and just say that we're hoaxed we're hoaxing each other that's all they need all right um Thomas Massie is opposed to the house bill that would give $14 billion to Israel and his reasoning is this Israel has a lower debt to GDP ratio than the United States and we're done I don't need to hear anything else Whoever has the lowest debt ratio should be the one paying period if you're not taking on his as much debt as we are in this country why are we giving you money I I get that we're on the same side but they in theory their ability to generate money is the same as ours because they can borrow more money until their debt ratio is higher that's what we did why can't they do what we did to create money they're in better shape to do it than we are now but here's the mindblower of this whole thing do you want to have your had just go just completely explode how long have we been talking about the funding of Israel for the homas situation it's been since October 7th basically talking talking talking politicians pundits experts military experts a lot of people talking how many of you are hearing for the first time that Israel has a better debt to GDP ratio than the United United States how many are hearing that fact for the first time right now yeah so you're hearing for the first time the only fact that was relevant to the question there wasn't any other relevant question and who did it come from you know Thomas Massie why was it Thomas Massie who had to tell you this well apparently there's there's a trend that's uh being created that the only honest person in Congress is Thomas Massie once again he found the only thing that mattered and he's the only person who told you in the government what is wrong is everything broken like is just everything broken because the media should have been telling you that every time the conversation came came up every single time the funding came up somebody should have said and you know the situation is that they have a better you know debt to GDP ratio than we do how does that not become the first thing you say on this topic well some of it is that people don't understand economics and even when I say debt to GDP there'll be a number of you who are saying H I'm not sure what that means means what it means is that uh Israel could borrow money easier more easily than the United States they have better credit essentially now there's more to it than the ratio you know it would be the you know their their long-term prospects the risk involved you know there's other things but I just think we should be hard now to giving money to have anybody who has a better debt to GDP ratio that they should be giving us money literally anyway so I remind you that I'm uh fully supportive of Israel doing what it needs to do um I just don't think they need to do it with our money that's a separate question and by the way this is a good uh little general lesson in the world of financing and this is hard to understand the first time you hear it you should separate the question of whether you do something or not from the question of how to pay for it and that's completely counterintuitive isn't it it's counterintuitive because you say but wait the ability to pay for it that's like Central to the question of whether you do it the the most basic question is can you pay for it and how otherwise it's not even in the mix nope nope do it the other way now in business the reason you do that is that that first you have to decide what a good idea looks like and then secondly if it's a good idea you can always get it funded in the business world you know the established business world this is different from a startup but in the established business world you can almost always get money for a good idea you can borrow it you could you know issue some more stock you could take it from another part of the company that didn't need it as much but in the real world of a big company and again just limiting this to big companies you can always find the money one way or another if it's a good idea there is not a good idea then you don't need money either way so first you say is it a good idea and then separately you figure out can you pay for it um so the but with the Israel funding we haven't done that we should have said is it a good idea for Israel to do what it's doing and for us to like it and support it let's say you let's say you decided yes separately then you say well how would they fund that but I think we we put it together it's like do we support Israel well then we give them money right support is money got to support them with their money we we've conflated two things that should properly be not just in the same conversation but you should force them apart they should be forced apart and then you have it's more it's a cleaner way to an to analyze something just treat the financing as a separate question and that is what Thomas Massie is doing and Thomas Massie again proves that he's just about the only useful person in Congress who's telling you the truth and and looking at the important stuff you know in the in the same way that I tell you that when I see that uh there that bill Mah is trending do you know what I think I think oh Bill Mah is trending on a because he said something that's common sense that will be shocking to Democrats sure enough Sam Harris is trending as I said and I I know it's going to be about people calling him stupid for some TDS opinion sure enough right but then you see Thomas Massie trending is almost always because he's the only person who told you the truth and he's the only person who figured out what was important the the trend is really solid like the Massie is never trending because he was stupid ever that's always the better idea and people like huh hadn't thought of it that way that's actually smart so I guess there's uh been over 30 attacks on the htis in Yemen does anybody have the same curiosity that I have how many hoodies are there how hard is it to destroy all of hoodville I mean seriously you look at a picture of it there's not even a tree that they can hide behind there's not even bushes there basically just a big forest with a bunch of hoodies on trucks with missiles and how long does it take to kill them all I'm I'm not saying we should I'm just saying are there millions hundreds tens of thousands who are armed and have missiles I feel like finding the missiles shouldn't be that hard you know assuming we have surveillance on it's not like they have a lot of cloudy days we should be able to see what's happening over there pretty easily I feel like what we need is a swarm approach where we just identify all the targets with satellites or whatever and then we just send 20,000 drones over and they all blow up one different thing we'll get there but at the moment our idea of sending 36 missiles into Yemen seems like it wouldn't make no difference whatsoever and they're yeah and they're still uh and they're still attacking so didn't make any difference so there you are the hoodies are still blowing ships there's a lot more hoodies than you would guess how many are there I'd ask uh AI but it would lie to me there are millions but how many of them are uh military estimated 200,000 200,000 Fighters or 200,000 population I just don't know if there is that a is Yemen highly populated or is it sparsely populated I don't even know that anything that moves we've got persistent surveillance all right 40 million hoodies and 200,000 uh Fighters well that sounds like a problem wouldn't it make more sense just to uh stop telling Saudi Arabia to leave them alone didn't we tell Saudi Arabia to calm down and stop fighting the hoodies yeah wouldn't it be better for America to say you know you guys have a lot of money and you got a lot of weapons we sold to you would it be good if you um yeah wouldn't that be good anyway apparently the Saudis can't stop it either yeah and Darius Rucker was arrested for marijuana in Tennessee really you can get arrested for marijuana in Tennessee you know Tennessee and Texas are just so close to being acceptable but you're G to have to fix that marijuana stuff otherwise I just can't visit I'm sorry all right Obama helped Saudi attack Yemen as an apology for the Rand deal that's what you think maybe all right ladies and gentlemen I believe I've done everything I need to do on this fine Sunday I don't know what you're doing if you're not 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time well we got all kinds of

stories I'm going to jump right into

them because I know you're people of

action aren't you you're people of

action um there's a new app called the

dignity app that will add clothes back

on to uh semico women on social

media somebody said it was a

4chan app and to me this this is the

funniest thing if if you could add

to if you can add the clothes back on to

the women

online now uh what I love about this is

how much work somebody put into the

joke you know because I don't really see

people using it you know that I can't

really imagine anybody's going to say

you know I'd like to spend some time

today putting clothes on women online

but the fact that it actually works and

that it's a real thing and that somebody

spent all that time to build it that's

the story the story is about one in

probably one Intrepid artist who just

said you know what I bet I could put

women back on bet I could put clothes

back on these women and then then he

built it I assume it's a

guy all right so I tried to watch a new

series I thought I was going to

recommend it to you today uh on Netflix

it's called

Alexander it's a Alexander the Great

have any of you made the mistake in

trying to watch

that you know what I said to myself I

said to myself great it was a sort of a

documentary

movie and it was going to be about

Alexander the Great and I had a lot of

curiosity about Alexander the Great

because I don't know too much on that

topic and I thought oh this would be

interesting I like my dictators and

stuff and then I thought finally I'm

going to watch a show that that doesn't

have any wokeness in it because it's

about you know ancient times and they

can't really change the ethnicities of

the people because it wouldn't be very

wouldn't be very uh you know accurate

well it took about uh 60 seconds into

the miniseries before it turned into

Brokeback

Mountain Alexander the Great

version I swear to God they turned it

into a gay love

story and and the Alexander the Great is

making out with his boyfriend like 60

seconds into the thing now I

don't have any problem with you know the

gay

part but I also don't like watching

heterosexuals have intimate moments in a

TV show or movie because I get that it's

you know sort of building up who their

character is but that's always the

throwaway

scene okay there are people they're

kissing

I guess that I'm supposed to feel their

love as an important part of the story

but they don't really need to kiss they

don't need to have sex right in front of

me they could just be holding hands they

could just say nice things to each other

I get it I I'll piece it together and

you know I'm not approved I'm I'm about

as far away as you can get from being

approved it's just unnecessary

entertainment CU it's never like turning

you on

right like I don't get turned on

watching a heterosexual couple make out

I just think well you know I wouldn't

mind if that were Me Maybe replacing the

guy just in case you wondered which one

I was going to replace in that scene and

uh I just don't need to see it I feel

like it's a lazy writing I guess that's

what it is you know I'm a professional

writer sort of so when I see lazy

writing I just go ah not another chase

scene not not not somebody tied to a

chair to be tortured not 10 minutes of

watching somebody be sweeter than people

are in in real life and they're always

like sickeningly sweeter than real life

like GH

anyway well here's a Evergreen story I'm

going to keep bringing up because it

keeps helping people but I keep see more

evidence from people online that they've

experimented with quitting wheat

and had tremendous you know weight loss

and inflammation loss and all their pain

went away and they became more flexible

and that was my experience and I've I've

recommended that this is the one thing

well not the one thing but it's one

thing you could really easily

test meaning you could just try going a

month I think a month is a good number a

month without any Wheat but you you

really have to go cold turkey you know

don't just cut down I don't think that

makes a difference I think you just have

to go no wheat but also check the

ingredients on packages you know because

you could easily get yourself a you know

a pizza or something and forget that

that's

wheat so you have to go to zero which is

not terrible you could do it for a month

but just see how you feel my my total

overall uh Health tremendously better

after a month off of weight and I've

stayed off wheed so I had I had a type

of inflammation that was my entire body

all the time so if I exercised it just

hurt just always hurt it just went away

and the only thing I changed was taking

the weed out of my diet so give it a try

a lot of people say it's making a big

difference to them um Tim P had a good

point about Joe Rogan's alleged 250

million dollar Spotify deal that allows

him to be on other platforms like X

apparently

but uh as Tim P points out if somebody

like Spotify is going to double down on

Joe Rogan it kind of proves that that

style of

entertainment has an economic value that

looks like it's lasting so although

people might complain people you know

people on the left might complain that

Joe Rogan is so popular and his guests

say things they think are not true and

provocative but apparently there's a

market for it a big market and so I'd

agree with Tim P that this does suggest

that the powers that be are going to

recognize the alternative voices if you

can call it that um have value and and I

think it's

probably probably the biggest symbol of

a gigantic change in the media landscape

where the uh traditional media just

looks like a joke and the

non-traditional media is becoming the

traditional

media do you know when it was the last

time I looked at a news

site or I just don't do it anymore it's

just not where I get the news pretty

much all the news I want to get filtered

through somebody who knows more than the

people who reported the

news yeah you know what is bad news not

bad news as an unlucky news

but a bad form of news is you go to any

any media site and then you just read

the

story that's not even a left or right

thing that's just the worst thing you

could do just go to any media site and

read the story do you know it's a good

form go to Glenn greenwald's X feed and

see what he says about the story in that

media because he's going to add the

context oh here's the stuff they left

out here's the stuff they're lying to

you about here's the fact that's already

been debunked so if you show me today's

news just from the original site it's

just worthless absolutely worthless but

if you show me that same story and you

let a you know Mike cernovich or Glenn

Greenwald or uh Michael shellenberger

you know Matt taibe I could list 20 more

if you let them filter it first the

people who feel they have something to

add to the story or subtract from it

then you might have something then you

might have something but if you're

seeing it just on the news site you

probably just misleading yourself

because the news is all motivated you

know they'll show you what they want to

show you and leave out what they want to

leave out because they think they have a

certain kind of audience and maybe other

reasons well Elon Musk continues to be

entertaining on his own platform uh he

suggested that uh well he said this in a

post should I make the Texas Institute

of Technology and science real in other

words should he you know just create a

college now the the reason he asked is

because the acronym for Texas Institute

of Technology and science would be

tits so he's willing to create a college

because it would be a funny a naughty

pun now how much money do you have to

have before you're willing to create a

college just for the

pun now I'm sure he'd have other reasons

for doing it but I feel like the pun is

a lot of it yeah I I couldn't love that

more frankly uh and then he said uh it

would of course have advanced social

studies too advanced social studies ass

oh so he would build the Institute of

tits and

ass I could not love this

more I couldn't love it more I I don't

name anything I would like more than

this start with just the basic story the

idea that Elon Musk could get involved

designing a institution of Higher

Learning I'm already on board all right

I'm not just on board I'm like jumping

up and down on board really Elon Musk

might want to solve the biggest problem

in the United States and maybe the world

that our education system you know

morphed into something horrible and

maybe he could fix it because he seems

to be good at fixing stuff I mean that

alone would be amazing but if he names

it something obscene well I couldn't

love it more I could not love it

more well famous rapper and uh actor 50

Cent uh is coming out a little bit Pro

Trump he says uh maybe Trump is the

answer because he's blasting New York

mayor Eric Adams and you know he's not

so happy about the migrant crisis so he

said uh you know

he's just like I don't even understand

all this stuff he

says he can't can't explain this he's

talking about the migrant crisis in New

York can't explain this I'm stuck maybe

Trump is the

answer so there you go now how many how

many black voters do you think will

actually consider Trump I worry that I'm

in a bubble and just because a few

notable people like Snoop Dog recently

said a positive Trump thing um how much

of a bubble am I

in is this a real

thing because I feel like I don't want

to get a ahead of the

reality I feel like there's certainly

some prominent people who have said prot

Trump things that you didn't expect

that's real but I don't know if they

represent much in the public you know I

don't know if this is a 2% chance change

or 5% change or what this is

but I will dovetail this into my story

about U you all know that you know it

wasn't long ago that the great

replacement theory that uh the

immigrants

were being brought into the country to

replace Americans and usually it's white

Americans who think they're the ones

getting replaced so that's the theory

I'm not saying that I buy into that

theory I'll just say it exists but Elon

Musk is uh buying into it hard uh at

least in its current form which is the

open

borders and there does seem to be plenty

of solid evidence that there are people

who are doing this for political

reasons um and I think we can now say oh

yeah that this has at least one of the

reasons I don't know how many reasons

there are but at least one of the

reasons is to change the um the voting

mix so the Democrats win forever and

Elon Musk is saying that out loud um

apparently Arizona is literally trying

to do that right now Arizona is trying

to make it so that uh there's a a push

to make it legal for uh non-citizens in

Arizona to vote only in the presidential

election that's pretty clear isn't it

that they only wanted to vote in the

presidential election that's literally

just about

Trump and you maybe the future but

that's pretty obvious um Ann Coulter

points out that back in the 90s I guess

there was some democrat who was saying

it directly if we open up

immigration um I think during the

Kennedy time there was talk about using

immigration to increase the percentage

of Democrats so Democrats have been

talking about immigration as a way to

gain power since Kennedy and in writing

you know in a way that we can verify

this is an actual conversation now

I had my take on it prior to the Biden

Administration is that although there

was a lot of you know illegal

immigration I didn't really think people

were doing it primarily for that you

know I always thought it was more

economic you know both economic on the

migrants parts but also economic on

America's part because we needed workers

and it was just sort of a sketchy way to

do it to get

them but now I now I fully Buy in at the

current rate and given that the

administration is clearly letting people

in

intentionally you there there's

certainly no more uh mystery about

whether they can't do it oh there's no

way we could stop him because the laws

and I don't have any power even Bill

Maher was mocking on his show Friday

night was mocking the people who don't

understand that Biden could stop the

border Invasion anytime you wanted like

even and and the important part here is

that Bill Maher you know deep in TDS on

a lot of issues has found his way out at

least on the border issue right that

doesn't make him Pro Trump but he

certainly understands that Trump was

right on the border and that's that's

pretty big

so yeah I I think at this point we can

say it's exactly what it looks like it's

a play to tip the uh you maybe tip Texas

which would be the big one maybe Florida

but I love the fact that Texas's

response is to ship them to places that

were already so blue that it made no

difference to any

elections that's pretty clever not just

to ship them to places that you know can

share the pain but to ship them to

places where they're electorally

irrelevant it's pretty smart s mold in

New York and Chicago and

you don't lose anything vote

wise but what I'm wondering is will the

Democrats gain enough voters from

immigration illegal immigration will

they gain enough Democrat voters to make

up for the number of black voters

they're going to lose what do you

think I don't know

cuz I feel like black voters are largely

locked in cuz everybody is you know T it

takes you know just a miracle for

anybody to change who they vote for but

some if I had to guess there might be a

10% movement in the black vote toward

Trump maybe 10% tops so you got 10% of

uh 133% of the country right maybe 1.3%

difference could be enough to change the

vote but then what about the illegals so

we got 10 million

illegals uh let's say you've got 10

million extra we might have 25 million

who knows but if you had 10 million

illegals how many of them are going to

vote I don't know so you got you know

there's not that well let's say it's

about the same number let's say the

illegals and the number of legal you

know black citizens of America are

roughly the

same are they are they about the same I

think it's in the same

neighborhood no it's not the

same

um well immigration isn't 25% of the

country all right so we'll argue a

little bit about the numbers but my

question is does anybody understand the

the push and the pull the net of this

because I'm not 100% convinced the

Democrats net out positive what do you

think I I think that all it would take

is one good narrative to just take 25%

of the black vote and the narrative

would be you just say what they say by

the way this is the best

persuasion the best persuasion is you

don't sit in a room by yourself and say

what can I say that will make a

difference with whatever group you're

trying to persuade that could work but

it very be very difficult to you know

think see into their minds but

when you see uh black people being

interviewed on the media and they're

asked about Trump versus Biden what's

the one thing that they always

say they always say when they're talking

about Trump versus Biden the one thing

they always

say lately well I'll say lately because

it's

changed every time it's I made more

money under Trump every time

how many of the uh black citizens that

you've been you've seen interviewed said

uh they don't like Trump because he's a

racist this year in the past year how

many times have you seen a black Citizen

not a pundit I'm not talking about

somebody who does IT professional

actually

zero the the the dog that's not barking

there is not barking really

loud

isn't that

weird can can you find me a citizen

who's not a professional not a pundit

let's say not an academic you know not

somebody who writes and talks for a

living just an actual Citizen and just

ask them if they think that Trump is a

racist compared to Biden that that would

be the fair question is compared to

Biden I feel like blacks get it now in

the sense that Trump was always

protecting

Americans and they're American that's

the end of the story right the the Trump

point of view is so

simple I'm surprised it's taking this

long to catch on are you American I'm on

your

side and then he proves it by keeping

the non-americans down if he can do it

so that you're not competing with

them I feel like Black

America uh is one narrative away and and

even though I say this jokingly it's

literally true in a sort of indirect way

it's literally true

that the Immigrant situation has

eliminated the possibility of

reparations would you

agree now you might say to yourself well

Scott there's still that one place

that's going to do it anyway that's

probably true

but that conversation is largely tabled

in my opinion because the money we're

spending on the the migrant population

now you could say to yourself but Scott

didn't you tell us that money is

fungible and that's not how it works and

just because you're spending money on

one thing that doesn't mean you couldn't

spend money on the other thing if you

wanted to you know you could always run

up your debt whatever that's true but we

don't treat it that way in the real

world in the real world we treat it like

it's a limit even though it's not so if

I were black and I thought the country

Ed me more be it better

education you know some kind of change

in urban laws or policing or something

if I thought I wanted something and I

saw that 100% of the attention of all

the authorities in the government is to

to the migrant class which is what it

feels like it's not the case but it

feels like that I'd

be I'd be voting Trump so

fast but I can't put myself in the heads

of other people so I guess we'll just

have to find out how that

goes um here's some updates Nikki hilly

was on Saturday Night Live I guess she

played to somebody in the audience who

just asked a question of the person who

is playing a trump person and the thing

that caught me was that her uh her thing

on Saturday Night Live was to mock Trump

of course and then she tweeted you know

that Trump probably doesn't stay up that

late but you know he'll be tweeting

angry things at her when he sees he sees

Saturday Night Live and I thought do you

not know anything about

Trump the one thing we know about him

for sure is he he does stay up

late like that's like saying he doesn't

golf did did you not notice he he kind

of

golfs and he also stays up late so that

was a kind of a weird uh thing to say

about him but here's what I got out of

that Nikki hilly only only exists

because Trump

exists doesn't it feel like that now you

could imagine if there was never a trump

that she may have ra you know risen in

politics anyway because she's

capable but I feel her entire existence

is only based on Trump she's defined by

Trump what a terrible place to

be isn't that a terrible place to be in

life that that you the who you are is

defined by another person you don't even

like you you're not even defined by your

own anything you're just well compareed

to Trump so that's just a weird

situation well Harvard is still stupid

uh they've invited a radical Palestinian

speaker um who has defended the Hamas

Massac so they so Harvard's actually got

a speaker who said something something

along the lines of October 7th was

totally normal and you know you got to

expect people to defend themselves

that's that's why she said and they're

like well that'd be a good speaker

now do I think that she should be

allowed to speak absolutely absolutely

free speech do I think that this is a

good decision by Harvard well it doesn't

seem like it because I'm pretty sure

they wouldn't allow the competing

message to be there if it was there

would be so many protests that you know

it turn into a mess so yeah that's a

little bit of problem a little bit of

problem managing the reputation so

Harvard still looks stupid uh but maybe

not as stupid as my

state there's a story in the San

Francisco Chronicle which uh used to be

a

newspaper I don't know what it is

now but the the San Francisco chronical

was the the last big paper to pick up

Dilbert they just weren't convinced they

just couldn't be convinced yeah they

wanted to hold out anyway so the

chronicle is garbage but anyway they

report that uh Hayward down just down

the street for me says that uh had an

elementary school that was struggling

with their low test scores so in order

to uh to help things they spent $250,000

of federal money for an organization

called and I swear to God this is the

actual name of the

organization woke kindergarten to train

teachers to confront white supremacy

disrupt racism and oppression and remove

these barriers to

learning so that was their response to

the low test scores is to teach the uh

students to be more uh aware of a way

Supremacy now you're probably saying to

yourself wow that probably helped their

test scores huh so let's check in on the

test scores because once they've

addressed and confronted white supremacy

I would expect those test scores to to

start zooming up to the sky and update

is

um

oh yeah the test scores went down well

nobody saw that

coming I mean how how could he even see

that coming

really I mean cuz people are stupid I

thought the antidote to stupidity was

moral

wokeness am I wrong did I have that

wrong the whole time that if your kids

are not performing they're not woke

enough and maybe it's the white

supremacy that they haven't fully

confronted it made so much sense to me

I'm surprised it didn't work because on

paper on paper it looks so right have

you noticed that these good plans on

paper for example take our border

situation

on paper the idea of opening your

borders and rewarding people from all

over the over all over the country that

we can't vet by the by the

multi-millions on paper that seems like

a terrific idea but then you know

sometimes reality gets it away and it's

not really working out in reality but on

paper doesn't that sound good let all

the strangers in from the prisons and

anywhere without checking full of I mean

on paper it sounds great so you can

understand why you get caught by

surprise yeah and weirdly woke

kindergarten didn't make his much

difference as as it does on paper I mean

on paper seems like a good

idea um how about the uh military action

over there well again you tell me is

this not a great

idea so we got this problem with the

hooes and the proxies you know attacking

American um American interests over

overseas I don't know if there are

interests but we have people there and

the Biden Administration draws up this

plan now I think you'd agree with me

that on paper this makes sense that we

don't want to war with Iran so in order

to get them to surrender we will bomb

things that Iran doesn't care about

until Iran

surrenders so that's what we've done so

we're going to bomb Syria and Iraq and

maybe Yemen until Iran just surrenders

now you tell me isn't that a good plan

at least on

paper so why it hasn't worked already

I'm a little bit

puzzled because I'm thinking we've

bombed all these empty buildings in

other countries and Iran is acting like

nothing even

happened like how did even how do you

understand the world anymore it's so

confusing you have such good plans on

paper and then you implement them and I

don't know what's going on I don't know

what's going on that you can Implement

such logical good plans and still get a

bad result I don't know I just don't get

it well Tucker Carlson is a in Russia

apparently people assume it's probably

pretty good

assumption they is there to talk to

Putin but couldn't he also be talking to

Snowden or Tera Reed I think she's there

now um yeah but I'm going to guess

Putin now there's a backstory that tuer

call talks about that uh once before he

got cancelled he was he was considering

interviewing

Putin and he apparently the government

was well aware of it even though he

didn't tell anybody and he he believes

that they were into his encrypted Signal

app now I don't know if that's how they

found out

because they don't have to get into the

signal appp um there's other ways they

can do it they could do it through your

phone they could find out somebody else

who knows something there are other ways

to do it so I don't know if they got to

do a signal app but let me tell you

again if you believe there's such a

thing as encrypted

communication so that you can say things

that you wouldn't say

normally don't put anything in an

encrypted message that's

illegal ever there's no such thing as a

message the government can't get in fact

if you were the CIA the first thing you

do is you take over these little

encrypted apps because that's where all

the good stuff is it's the first thing

you do is You' get control of any

company that was trying to put all the

crooks in one

place right wouldn't you go there

first you would stop at nothing to have

full control of encrypted apps because

that's that's where all the good stuff

is is it now is is

that let me let me explain it to you

in in the narrative that I'm trying to

use

here on paper doesn't that sound like a

good

idea you're going to take this encrypted

app and you'll attract all the people

who have things to say that they don't

want the government to hear and you're

going to organize them so that their

names and user numbers and all their

messages will be in one place really

easy to find but don't worry because

it's

encrypted don't worry government can't

get there because it's

encrypted now you see any problem with

that does anybody see a problem that the

CIA can coopt any management it

wants do you think there's do you think

there's a leader of a company somewhere

in America who can say no to the

CIA

really yeah do you really think anybody

can say no to the CIA no if the CIA

wants you you to

cooperate whether they do it through

legal means or carot and stick or you

know because a CIA can come into a

company and they can say for example you

know I know your whole business model

revolves around these encrypted apps but

we really need to know what the

terrorists are saying so we're going to

need access to that oh no I'll never do

that I'll never that really because you

know there's probably a federal

organization that could shut you down uh

and then they list three organizations

that could just wave some paperwork and

they r a business I'm not saying I do it

but I do have a friend in this or that

organization that would probably want to

look into your business and uh maybe

your tax situation and when it was the

last time you were

audited now now the CEO is scared to

death

but still doesn't want do like they're

going to be brave enough to resist and

the C says and you

know what would really help you is we've

got some legislation that's cooking and

wouldn't you like to see that go away

because that could cost you a lot of

money and uh there might be some

government contracts oh we had the 34

Minute glitch there might be some uh

government contracts that would you know

tremble the size of your company and

make you richer than God but you know

only if the government's sort of on your

side and you're playing along with the

government right so I don't think

there's any such

thing as a American company that the CIA

can't

control do you think that's the thing do

you think there's any such thing as an

American company that can't be

controlled completely by our

intelligence

people I mean it might exist as some

kind of weird exception but in general

there's no way you could resist

them

so on paper doesn't it sound like a good

idea to put all the crooks in one place

in the little encrypted place so you

know exactly where the government's

going to look and the government

absolutely definitely 100% could get

access to anything they want if it's an

American company sounds great on paper

doesn't

it no it's the worst idea in the world

on paper it couldn't possibly work in

the long run it can't possibly work work

you get that right is there anybody

pushing back on that in the short run it

might actually work in the long run the

intelligence agencies have to have

access to it and they'll do whatever it

takes and they have the power to do

whatever it takes until they get it you

know they can keep hammering on it for

years until they get it but there's

nothing they're not going to get if they

need

it you all know that right all

right I love when I see Sam Harris is

trending on X cuz I know it's just going

to be a bunch of people insulting his

intelligence and I I've decided to find

entertainment in it here here's what

you'd never see if Sam Harris is

trending on X oh look I wonder what

that's all about click wow some people

are saying some good things about Sam

Harris well there there's a good take

yeah I can see why he's trending now

he's got a good take on that

topic

not

lately poor guy he's just getting

on by absolutely everybody on X I don't

see anybody supporting him at this point

now that has more to do with the

xplatform um but even Elon Musk Elon

Musk posted today because there's yet

another Sam Harris clip that people are

calling stupid he says uh Ela mus says

Sam Harris's mind has melted into

goo how would you like to wake up in the

morning and find out that the smartest

man in the country and the richest just

just insulted the quality of your brain

on the platform that he

owns I know I just thought it's

funny all

right so um two stories California's got

these hurricane force winds that are

supposed to be

coming uh at my house apparently my

force field is holding cuz I just got a

little sprinkle of rain that we needed

so I don't know where all this flooding

and hurricane rains are going to be but

they say somewhere in the

state um now of course you also know the

story about the uh the migrants who beat

up the cop in New York City and then

allegedly they got in a bus and headed

to my state California yeah and they

went to San Jose where they were

immediately swep Swept Away by a flood

and a

hurricane no that didn't happen

but you wish it did cuz you're you're

bastards you're all

terrible all right um I asked my smart

Democrat friend who I often mention

because he fascinates me because he's

you know smart and he follows the

news but his opinions look like somebody

who's not smart and has never followed

the news yeah it's just the worst case

of CDs you've ever seen in your life so

I use him to test things I checked in

with him

recently because I wondered how in the

world he could not be like 50 Cent and

Snoop Dog at this point right and say

you

know the open borders and all that stuff

you're GNA have to give Trump a second

look right but I thought I thought by

now surely my smart Democrat friend

would say okay

you know Biden did a few good things I

liked I would expect that I would expect

him to say that and then but you know

you know given his age and the open

borders and the wars we're getting into

I got to admit baby Trump got a few

things right as well that's what I was

expecting you know what he

said I'm

paraphrasing but he told me I should

spend more time reading the New York

Times instead of all that fake news uh

that the Republican for feeding

me

yep how's that feel in your

[Laughter]

bubble yeah we're all in a bubble let

let's not pretend that my friend is the

only person in a bubble we're all in a

bubble and I'm definitely in a bubble

and let me let me tell you how bad my

bubble

is I don't know any Democrats in person

no I'm sure I do because you my friend

but I haven't seen him in a long

time right

and I'm trying to I'm trying to think

the last time I had a meaningful

conversation with a

Democrat uh who wasn't actually so

insane that I just backed off right away

because you know you you get the

insanity thing right away you know the

the TDS just goes right the top right

away so you just go oh oh back

down how many have had this

situation where somebody will say blah

blah blah the Insurrection of January 6

and you'll say that was no Insurrection

they didn't bring guns and you know you

you do your thing about how the media is

fake and they won't back down from the

Insurrection thing anybody who believes

the Insurrection hoax or the fine people

hoax cannot be dealt with you can't have

a

conversation all all they will do is

shout at you for how brainwashed you are

they won't even listen to the end of a

sentence it'll

be what what are you reading that uh

listen to that Alex Jones thing again

well he must have got that from Alex

Jones right that's all you

get all right some people are

asking is AI getting

worse is that body have that

experience uh like uh chat GPT where it

seems

like it's less useful than it used to

be so a number of people are saying that

it's anecdotal but uh somebody had an

interesting hypothesis I'll just put

that out there I don't know if this

makes sense technically but it's close

enough to something that does could it

be that the demand for the AI service is

so big that there having a processing

problem could could we be reaching some

kind of computing temporary

limit that's just making AI

Dumber I saw people speculating about

that I feel like it might have some

impact but I would think it would have

more impact on the timing of the answer

than the quality of the answer but it

could be that there's a processing

problem that's making it Dumber I don't

know that I but I'll tell you my own

experience um I keep telling myself I'm

G to jump into Ai and force myself to

learn it and use it because you know for

sure I'm going to be using it in the

future I I just want to get a head start

on it you know make sure I'm using all

the tools in the best way I can't find

anything

useful like I keep thinking oh I'm going

to find a

thing that you know works for what I do

and then I'll just keep using the thing

because it'll be so useful I can't not

use it you know like like a smartphone I

have not found that yet I've done quite

a few

things but I can't use it to look for

information right well actually I think

I'll just read you my Sunday comic today

if you're not a subscriber you haven't

seen

it but uh I handled this in a dillberg

comic that you can see on if you

subscribe on the

xplatform or if you uh are on local so

you can see

it so I'm just going to read it to you

it's morak the preventor of Information

Services and he's he comes into the room

to talk to to

Dilbert and morak

says I've been asked to ensure we have

proper safeguards on the AI you were

creating so here I'm imagining that

Dilbert is creating an AI for his

company all right so you want some

safeguards and dver says such as and Bak

says well you don't want any sexual

content or fake news and dilbur says

right and BC says and you don't want AI

to be a bigot and dilbur says

obviously and morex says you don't want

AI to have

opinions and it has to stay away from

Facts too because it hallucinates and

dilbur says good point morc says you

also don't want it to get into politics

religion Socialism or

capitalism and then dilber says what's

left just the weather and math and morak

says weather and math are racist

Concepts and dilber says I

quit now how far is that from reality

it's pretty close to reality isn't it

you can't use it for fiction because

then you're a plagiarist you can't use

it for facts because it hallucinates you

can't use it for opinions because

opinions are too provoc ative so if you

can't use it for fiction facts or

opinions what's

left the

weather which you don't need it for or

math the you don't need it

for I guess it's good for writing

code yeah and good for translating also

excellent for translating I I think that

I love the fact that we've actually uh

invented a universal

translator very Star Trek in one of the

things you'll be able to do with your uh

someday when you have your uh Apple

Vision Pro AR glasses you'll be able to

uh watch somebody talk a different

language and it will immediately show up

as a transcript floating in front of you

how amazing is that you could actually

go to a foreign country and well you

couldn't talk but you could understand

what they were saying

but suppose you were hearing

impaired you could

also talk to somebody and have it appear

and then being hearing impaired just

disappears it just stops being a thing

yeah the the technology for the hearing

impaired is just so exciting if you know

anybody who's got hearing issues it's an

exciting time to be alive very

life-changing

so I do think AI is going to have all

these uh Niche uh things that change

people's lives that's a good example of

one so the coders and the people with

hearing problems and a lot more are

going to be real happy but for the

average person who's doing average stuff

is so far A little too difficult and

clunky to use but it'll get there we

might only be a few months away from all

of the interfaces being fine and you

know the the tools being really good

all right um here's an update on

Ukraine so Mike cerovich had an opinion

he posted today he said that my sense of

Ukraine is the American people didn't

fall for the hoaxes the regime and is at

a level of power now that they don't

need to hoax the public into conflict as

with the Iraq Wars they stole the money

and said be glad you're not in prison

like the J

Sixers does that sound like a Fair

summary of our current situation that

the regime the the government is now so

powerful that they can just do what they

want right in front of you and they

don't have to give you a narrative and

make you believe

it I think that's only partially true

it's true is here's what I

think I I don't think it's about the uh

not needing to brainwash I think that

they successfully brainwashed 2third of

the country so the onethird that was is

not

brainwashed doesn't have any power

because they're you know they don't

control the government so I don't think

it's that they do or do don't need to

brainwash I think they have brainwashed

again it's just that they don't need to

brainwash everybody anymore they only

need to brainwash twoth thirds and then

the other third they will just call

White

supremacists and just say that we're

hoaxed we're hoaxing each other that's

all they need

all right

um Thomas Massie is opposed to the house

bill that would give $14 billion to

Israel and his reasoning is this Israel

has a lower debt to GDP ratio than the

United

States and we're

done I don't need to hear anything

else Whoever has the lowest debt ratio

should be the one

paying

period if you're not taking on his as

much debt as we are in this country why

are we giving you

money I I get that we're on the same

side but they in theory their ability to

generate money is the same as

ours because they can borrow more money

until their debt ratio is

higher that's what we did why can't they

do what we did to create money they're

in better shape to do it than we are now

but here's the mindblower of this whole

thing do you want to have your had just

go just completely explode how long have

we been talking about the funding of

Israel for the homas

situation it's been since October 7th

basically talking talking talking

politicians pundits experts military

experts a lot of people talking how many

of you are hearing for the first time

that Israel has a better debt to GDP

ratio than the United United States how

many are hearing that fact for the first

time right

now

yeah so you're hearing for the first

time the only fact that was relevant to

the

question there wasn't any other relevant

question and who did it come from you

know Thomas

Massie why was it Thomas Massie who had

to tell you

this well apparently there's there's a

trend that's uh being created that the

only honest person in Congress is Thomas

Massie once again he found the only

thing that mattered and he's the only

person who told you in the

government what is

wrong is everything

broken like is just everything broken

because the media should have been

telling you that every time the

conversation came came

up every single time the funding came up

somebody should have said and you know

the situation is that they have a better

you know debt to GDP ratio than we do

how does that not become the first thing

you say on this

topic well some of it is that people

don't understand

economics and even when I say debt to

GDP there'll be a number of you who are

saying H I'm not sure what that means

means what it means is that uh Israel

could borrow money easier more easily

than the United States they have better

credit essentially now there's more to

it than the ratio you know it would be

the you know their their long-term

prospects the risk involved you know

there's other things

but I just think we should be hard now

to giving money to have anybody who has

a better debt to GDP

ratio that they should be giving us

money

literally anyway so I remind you that

I'm uh fully supportive of Israel doing

what it needs to do um I just don't

think they need to do it with our money

that's a separate question and by the

way this is a good uh little general

lesson in the world of

financing and this is hard to understand

the first time you hear it you should

separate the question of whether you do

something or not from the question of

how to pay for it and that's completely

counterintuitive isn't it it's

counterintuitive because you say but

wait the ability to pay for it that's

like Central to the question of whether

you do it the the most basic question is

can you pay for it and how otherwise

it's not even in the mix nope nope do it

the other way now in business the reason

you do that is that that first you have

to decide what a good idea looks like

and then secondly if it's a good idea

you can always get it

funded in the business world you know

the established business world this is

different from a startup but in the

established business world you can

almost always get money for a good idea

you can borrow it you could you know

issue some more stock you could take it

from another part of the company that

didn't need it as much but in the real

world of a big company and again just

limiting this to big companies you can

always find the money one way or another

if it's a good idea there is not a good

idea then you don't need money either

way so first you say is it a good idea

and then separately you figure out can

you pay for it um

so the but with the Israel funding we

haven't done that we should have said is

it a good idea for Israel to do what

it's doing and for us to like it and

support

it let's say you let's say you decided

yes separately then you say well how

would they fund

that but I think we we put it together

it's like do we support Israel well then

we give them money right support is

money got to support them with their

money we we've conflated two things that

should properly be not just in the same

conversation but you should force them

apart they should be forced

apart and then you have it's more it's a

cleaner way to an to analyze something

just treat the financing as a separate

question and that is what Thomas Massie

is doing and Thomas Massie again proves

that he's just about the only useful

person in Congress who's telling you the

truth and and looking at the important

stuff you know in the in the same way

that I tell you that when I see that uh

there that bill Mah is trending do you

know what I think I think oh Bill Mah is

trending on a because he said something

that's common sense that will be

shocking to

Democrats sure enough Sam Harris is

trending as I said and I I know it's

going to be about people calling him

stupid for some TDS opinion sure enough

right but then you see Thomas Massie

trending is almost always because he's

the only person who told you the truth

and he's the only person who figured out

what was important

the the trend is really solid like the

Massie is never trending because he was

stupid ever that's always the better

idea and people like huh hadn't thought

of it that way that's actually

smart so I guess there's uh been over 30

attacks on the htis in

Yemen does anybody have the same

curiosity that I

have how many hoodies are there

how hard is it to destroy all of

hoodville I mean seriously you look at a

picture of it there's not even a tree

that they can hide behind there's not

even bushes there basically just a big

forest with a bunch of hoodies on trucks

with missiles and

how long does it take to kill them

all I'm I'm not saying we should I'm

just

saying are there millions

hundreds tens of thousands who are armed

and have missiles I feel like finding

the missiles shouldn't be that hard you

know assuming we have surveillance on

it's not like they have a lot of cloudy

days we should be able to see what's

happening over there pretty easily I

feel like what we need is a swarm

approach where we just identify all the

targets with satellites or whatever and

then we just

send 20,000 drones over and they all

blow up one different thing

we'll get

there but at the moment our idea of

sending 36 missiles into Yemen seems

like it wouldn't make no difference

whatsoever and they're yeah and they're

still uh and they're still attacking so

didn't make any difference so there you

are the hoodies are still blowing

ships there's a lot more hoodies than

you would guess how many are there I'd

ask uh AI but it would lie to

me there are millions but how many of

them

are uh

military estimated

200,000

200,000

Fighters or 200,000

population I just don't know if there is

that a is Yemen highly populated

or is it sparsely populated I don't even

know

that anything that moves we've got

persistent surveillance all right 40

million hoodies and 200,000 uh Fighters

well that sounds like a problem wouldn't

it make more sense just to uh stop

telling Saudi Arabia to leave them

alone didn't we tell Saudi Arabia to

calm down and

stop fighting the

hoodies yeah wouldn't it be better for

America to say you know you guys have a

lot of money and you got a lot of

weapons we sold to

you would it be good if

you

um yeah wouldn't that be good anyway

apparently the Saudis can't stop it

either yeah and Darius Rucker was

arrested for marijuana in Tennessee

really you can get arrested for

marijuana in Tennessee you know

Tennessee and Texas are just so close to

being

acceptable but you're G to have to fix

that marijuana

stuff otherwise I just can't visit I'm

sorry all

right Obama helped Saudi attack Yemen as

an apology for the Rand deal that's what

you think

maybe all right ladies and gentlemen I

believe I've done everything I need to

do on this fine Sunday I don't know what

you're doing if you're not watching

football but I'm sure you'll find

something to do if you're in California

make sure you stay out of the floods and

the hurricane winds they tell us are

coming the Pineapple Express

and I will talk to you tomorrow on the

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for

joining all right Super Bowls next week

huh Wall Street Journal called Dearborn

the Jihad capital of

America

wow that's why I said no football today

why did they have a functioning

electrical Grid in

Yemen isn't that the first thing we

should take

out I think we should take out the SE

the cell towers in Yemen just take out

all their

phones because somebody's calling the

rebels and telling them to fire or not

fire just take their phones just take

out their wholesale

Network I know their military would

still have satellite phones but oh they

use

satellite can't we target them from

their satellite

phones how would we communicate well you

just take out their cell

phones I know I better not make any

military strategies not exactly my

domain

the show is still on on Rumble

really

oh oh that's interesting I'm clicking

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YouTube are there are you watching me

now I'm getting an error message trying

to end the

show so I'm live all right let's see if

it's live on X as

well see if I can see

myself I had a little bug here

and oh I'll be damned there I

am still live 244 people watching me

even though I thought I was alone

talking to locals

people huh well now you know what you're

usually

missing we always go a little longer all

right so there's an end stream button

that I'm clicking that's not working so

I'm going to have to just you know exit

of the program uh that will

work or will it yes it will bye for

now

that