Episode 2436 CWSA 04/06/24
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I think it was better with the Joe Biden whisper at the end. The simultaneous sip. No, you sick of that already? All right. Well, I thought that would catch on with everybody.
Let's talk about all the news. Well, if you are subscribing to Dilbert Reborn, you would be seeing that the boss is hiring a batshit crazy woman to work in the office, and the staff is wondering why he didn't notice. And the boss says he's bad at reading faces anyway. You'd see that if you were a subscriber on either X or the Locals platform.
The other day I was looking through some boxes, just trying to organize some of my old stuff, and I found my hypnosis diploma. It was 1981. The Clont School of Hypnosis, if you want the French pronunciation, the Clont School of Hypnosis in San Francisco. Doesn't exist anymore, but it did. A number of people had questions about that because I posted the diploma.
I saw that James Pison said to me, he said, "Hypnosis, in quotes, as the masses define it isn't real, Scott. Sorry to burst your bubble. Suggestibility is the actual and closest thing to hypnosis that is currently measurable and actionable by science. But keep on keeping with your master juju voodoo science." Excellent. Have I ever told you that if anybody could figure out what hypnosis can actually do, you would kill us all? So I want more of this. I want more of James saying your powers are not real. Yeah, it's completely safe to listen to everything you say. You could not possibly hypnotize me.
A number of other people piled in and said, "Scott, my mind is far too strong to be hypnotized." To which I say, excellent. So what you're saying is you wouldn't know if you were being hypnotized because your mind's too strong. You can't even conceive of it. Yeah. If you think you can't be hypnotized, there's a good chance you already were.
Anyway, one of the things I was asked is how long after I took my hypnosis class did my career take a change for the better. And the answer is 1981 is when I got the diploma. 1988 is when I submitted Dilbert comics for syndication. So six years later. But the point I wanted to make is that hypnosis skills grow over time because what you do is you combine it with other things you pick up about persuasion and influence. And it all becomes one big larger bag of tricks. So just getting your hypnosis degree does not give you a superpower right away. But if you check back 20 years later, that person is almost certainly going to be doing well. So it's something that builds over time.
Well, the sadness trolls keep coming up. I'm going to tell you the tell for the sadness trolls. You probably don't have them. I think they only hit the larger accounts that they're trying to discourage from spending time on X. But the sadness trolls have two tells, which makes them hilarious because when they show up as just artificial people, then you don't have to worry about what they say.
So one of the tells is they have a small account and they're definitely not my followers or fans, but they follow me. That's the first tell. They don't agree with anything I say and they have tiny little accounts, but they follow me. Now, the reason they do that is that they'll get an alert as soon as I post and they go in first. So part of the troll game, the professionals, I assume these are organized, I don't think these are individuals, they make sure that they follow you so that they can get there first.
If there's one thing I can tell you, there's no Democrats who are following me organically. I don't think there's any, like just none. Because they don't want to be exposed to unpleasant thoughts. But the trolls don't mind because they want to respond as soon as possible. So the first thing I do when I see one of these trollish accounts, I always look to see if they follow me. Always. Well, not always, 90% of the time.
The other thing is they have a name that has several numbers at the end, like they couldn't be bothered to try to find a real good name. They took one like JacksonX53213265. Now who would open a real account and accept the default weird number name? Only a troll. And the reason the troll would do it is because they're in a hurry and they have multiple accounts and it doesn't really matter to them because they're not trying to send a true impression of who they are. They're trolls. They're artificial.
The other thing is that they often have little American flags so that they look like they might not be Democrat trolls. The ones that are actually just real people who are also trolling you, they usually have the little blue wave in there or a Ukrainian flag. Those might actually be real people. But the ones who pretend that maybe they're just patriots, those are the trolls. Anyway, that's how you tell them. So they're very active now because it's the political season. And it's a real thing, by the way. I don't know if you all know that's a real thing, that the trolls are literally paid. Do you all know that's real? Because it might sound like it's some weird conspiracy theory I'm giving you, but that's all demonstrated. That's what we know. Who did it the last time? We know who was in charge. You know, it's a well-known, understood process.
Well, did you know that Imperial College in London figured out how to genetically engineer bacteria to make vegan leather? So it's not real leather, but it's bacteria. And I guess the bacteria can also change its color so you can make yourself a black wallet or a brown wallet, I guess. And that'll save a whole bunch of animals and then we won't have to use artificial colors. Anyway, I don't know if you want a wallet made out of bacteria. You might have one pretty soon.
Elon Musk, I don't know if this video was, it might have been a while ago. I just saw a video of him walking with some celebrity, I can't remember, and he was explaining that Tesla can't build 100 gigafactories, but if other big companies were building them, you'd only need 100 gigafactories to power the entire world. Now the gigafactories are the big battery storage facilities and they would have to be enormous. We're talking about bigger than the Empire State Building sort of thing, enormous facilities. But if you built 100 of them, you would essentially have sustainable energy forever, presuming that you set up a commensurate amount of solar panels to charge the batteries.
Do you believe that? I'm just reading a comment. Sounds like BS. I don't know. Here's the thing. If you don't believe it, you're betting against Elon Musk's ability to engineer and do math. Are you comfortable doing that? I'm not. I'm not comfortable saying that he got the math wrong. I feel like he spends some time, you maybe it's exactly what he does and you don't do for a living. He figures that stuff out. So I'm going to say it's probably more likely true than not. But I would add that we don't know what the environmental situation is and what happens with the old batteries and the old solar panels. And that's an issue. Might be solvable, but it's certainly an issue.
Anyway, I like to put that out there as some optimism. That if you added nuclear power to that, well, you wouldn't need, if you had nuclear power, you don't need the batteries. So anyway, everything's moving in the right direction and we could solve climate change in probably five years if all the big companies said we'll chip in, we'll build a gigafactory.
Well, in other updates, we'll get to the politics in a minute. The Prince of Fakes, you know him on the X account, he's inventing a sex toy that can also talk dirty to you using AI. So he's using advanced tools to develop this sex toy, and presumably you'll be able to send it for manufacturing. And he's been testing it down on X so you can see the whole process from beginning to end. It's kind of fascinating to see what one person can do. So we currently have a situation where one person with one computer can build a whole commercial product. Now I guess we could always do that. We've been able to do that for a while. You'd have to send it down to have a prototype made and that sort of thing. But you could basically be your own company, just one person. And he's modeling that, one person building an industry. It's just fun to watch even if you don't care about the product. It's just fun to watch somebody who has lots of skills put them together and see if they can do a thing.
Well, here's one thing I can tell you about my audience. I'm seeing some funny memes go by in the Locals comments. You're not watching me if you're in Brazil unless you have a VPN, I guess. But Brazil has censored the Locals feed. So if you're on the Locals platform, you can't be watched in Brazil. Now let me ask you this. Do you think the Brazilians came up with that on their own? Do you think the Brazilian government said, oh, we gotta block that Locals platform? I doubt it. Sort of feels like maybe our government might have been a little bit behind that. So it's illegal to watch me in Brazil. To which I say, excellent. Excellent. Hey Brazilians, guess what? You can't watch. Why do you think they won't let you watch me, Brazilians? Do you think they won't let you watch me because they're trying to monitor the poor quality entertainment and they've decided, oh, that's just not good entertainment, can't watch that guy? You think that's why I'm blocked? Nope, nope.
Well, and the other question is, is it about me or is it about somebody else who's on Locals? Because you know it could be somebody else who's on Locals. But it's the same issue. They're not blocking me because I'm wrong and they're not blocking other people because they're wrong. They're only going to block you if you're right. It's telling the truth that's the problem. People lying is everybody. If they blocked people who lied, they'd have to close all of social media because it's pretty much 80% lies. But Locals is the special lies. Oh, these are the special kind. We better block these lies. These are the terrible ones. No, it's because it's the truth and they're preventing the truth. There's no other way to look at it.
All right, let's, here's my theme today. The gaslighting is not working so well. As you know, you've been living in a gaslit environment and the gaslighters have been telling you quite a few things. For example, 2016, the election was largely dominated by the Russia collusion hoax that we know is a Democrat slash intelligence agency hoax. But in 2020 we had the Hunter's laptop hoax. Oh, that's a Russian hoax. And then Biden ran on the fine people hoax. So that's two elections in a row dominated by hoaxes. And in both cases the Democrats and the intelligence people created them.
In 2024, just for consistency, the main theme is the January 6 hoax, also known as the Trump is a threat to democracy hoax, which goes well with the 91 indictments hoax. Now the 91 indictments really happened, but if you look at the quality of them and the types of things he's indicted for, it all looks like hoaxes to me, or an op if you prefer. And let me tell you, if you have three elections in a row and all three of them are quite obviously hoax-driven events, you can't say it's a coincidence. It would be more accurate to say that gaslighting the public is the operating system of the country. And there is the most basic thing you need to know about America is that nothing's real. It's the most important thing you need to know, that nothing's real. And when I say nothing, I mean nothing about politics, you know, and war, which is politics.
So we'll give you some examples of that. But I'd like to offer a competing hypothesis to this. So the first hypothesis is that bad people are intentionally making up rumors and conspiracy theories and gaslighting the public. But I'd like to try out a little pattern recognition for you. Do you know how I always say that Democrats appear mentally ill, but we don't really mention what that mental illness is? Sometimes we say TDS, which is a real thing and a genuine illness. But it seems deeper than that, doesn't it? Like there's something below that that's causing that. And I'd like to suggest that if you were to look at the dominant patterns coming from Democrats, you can actually identify the specific mental illness. Allow me to try it.
Did you have, have you noticed the Tucker Carlson theory that they blame you for what they're doing? So whatever they're doing, they blame you for it. You've all seen it. What mental illness or condition is that common to? Somebody blames you for what they're doing, but not just once, all the time, all the time. If you're late for dinner, they say you. If they're late, they say you're late. If they're cheating on you, they say you're cheating on them. If they're mean to you, they say you're mean to them. If they're giving you no attention, they say you're giving me no attention. Am I right? Now, 100% of people who have experience with narcissists will say, oh yeah, yeah, you can't even believe it. Like if you see it once you say, well, that's weird, maybe just an oddity. But if you're in a situation where over and over and over again they're blaming you for specifically what they're doing, that's narcissism.
Here's another element of narcissism and see if you can find this pattern. A narcissist is only interested in what you can do for them. Am I right? That's a basic definition of a narcissist. Not even the least bit interested in you. It's what can you do for me? How can I get your resources transferred to me? How can I get all of your attention and all of your everything to me? What am I doing for you? Yeah, it's what can you do for me. In this case, the me would be Democrats. And the me would be, hey, let's do some DEI so that the things you have can be transferred to us. Why? Well, because of all the discriminating you do against us. That's why. To which I say that's exactly the opposite of what has been happening in this country for 30 years. White men have been overtly, directly, massively discriminated against for 30 years. But what do the narcissists say? They say you're discriminating against me. And then they ask you to pay for it. That's exactly what narcissists do. They say you're the problem even though you're the one the narcissist is doing all that and you're not. And that you must pay me for it. Like you owe me. There's something you better do to make up for the fact that you're so bad, even though they're just projecting.
Now if you go down the line and see the consistency of it, the thing that you thought was socialism probably isn't. The thing you thought was socialism probably isn't. There is some of that and they're definitely Marxist, etc. So I'm not going to say it doesn't exist. But I think we're confusing the narcissism, which is you owe me because you've been bad, you better give me some stuff, with some kind of actual political theory. Because very few people have a political theory. They just want stuff and they're just sort of acting out their projection plus their sense of entitlement. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Now I've also made the observation that a lot of the evil people in the news, you'll hear this terrible story about somebody doing some woke thing that's just evil, and then you'll see a picture of the person and they have a demonic face. You know I'm doing it now in case you're listening to audio. I'm going to do the demonic face. Do you remember Judge Engoron? You look at his face and the first thing you think is, what the hell am I looking at? There's something wrong with your face. It looks demonic. It literally looks demonic. But the demonic part is just an interpretation. What it really looks like is mentally ill and specifically narcissistic. The narcissists, I think their faces actually reveal them sometimes, not all the time. So if you think you're seeing something that looks like demonic faces, you know, the eyes, crazy eyes, I think it's just the narcissists all in the same team.
And the narcissists are telling you that you're such a bad discriminator, you better give your stuff to the people you discriminated against. So that certainly is a big part of the gaslighting. But certainly it's coming from the top on the Democrat side. The things that Republicans believe that are not true usually bubble up from the bottom. They're just some people or persons who has a theory and other people go, ah, I think I'll believe that one. And it's not coordinated intelligence experts working with the top of the Democrats to create a hoax over the whole country. You don't really see that on the Republican side. But it's the normal operating system. We've seen it over three elections already of the Democrats.
But it's not just them. Defense Secretary Mark Esper has called Trump a threat to democracy. Look for the pattern. What exactly is a threat to democracy? Let me think. Weaponizing these NGOs and fake fact checkers and the FBI to suppress free speech on the other side. That's what I would call assault on democracy. So while they were actively taking away your free speech by working with the social media platforms in the news, they were complaining that Trump is going to take away democracy while they were doing it, like actively, really hard, working at it at the same time.
If you look at the Georgia case, the Georgia, mostly Republicans were passing laws to tighten security on their election system. Every Democrat voted against it. Because why would you vote against tightening security? Well, it's because they don't want a fair election because they're trying to protect democracy by making sure that you don't know exactly who voted. That's how they're going to protect democracy. Projection. It's just projection.
All right, here's another one. Have you seen this too? I turn on the news. There'll be a new poll about Biden versus Trump. And the poll will say Trump is leading in six out of seven tight races or tight states, you know, the battleground states. And he's winning overall by whatever number. And then somebody will say it to Biden or Biden's people and they'll say, you're looking at last year's polls or last week's polls. New polls just came out. Biden is ahead in six out of seven polls. To which I say, would that be in the newspaper or something? Like there's not, are you saying that Fox News wouldn't report that? Are they just skipping some polls? Is that happening? Because I also watch CNN and MSNBC. I haven't seen them display any polls where Biden is leading. In fact, they only talk about him being behind. Is this pure gaslighting where they actually just say no, Biden is actually ahead in the polls? You're looking at the wrong ones. They look right in your eyes and tell you that there exist polls that are the opposite of everything you've seen. How do they do that? And their press doesn't even call them out about it. They just say no, the polls are the opposite of what everything you've seen. Yeah, Biden's doing fine. Yep. Everything you've seen is opposite of what you think you saw. The level of gaslighting is insane.
Now who lies like that? Narcissists. Narcissists are the only ones who could punch you in the stomach and say stop punching me in the stomach. And you'd be like, you literally just punched me in the stomach and I've literally never even touched you. Stop punching me in the stomach. Like to lie at that level, look you right in the eye and say no, the polls are all pro-Biden. I don't know what you're talking about. That's only narcissists. That is not even normal politics. Even politicians don't lie like that. You know, they say something more weaselly, right? They don't lie directly like that on something that's the easiest thing in the world to check. Narcissism.
All right. There's some interesting charts going around. Zach Goldberg, I think, pulled them together. He's sort of an anti-wokeness activist. And two charts. One of them found that liberal white people have the following belief, that white people are far more violent in the United States than black people. They're the only group that think that. I don't think black people think that. Only white liberals. So white conservatives don't think that. Only white liberals believe that white people are more violent than black Americans.
Now it could be that they're answering the question differently. It could be that they're including wars and colonization and slavery. If you see the whole history of wars and colonization, slavery, white people definitely had a hand in the violence. I'm going to give you that. If you just looked at total number of people killed, white people are right up there. We're very competitive in the killing millions of people category. I'll give you that. But if you're talking about normal social violence in the United States, it's not even close. The actual numbers. And I'm not making any kind of genetic or cultural or any kind of a comment. I'm just saying those are the numbers. You know, the why of it gets to a more interesting question, but we're not talking about the why, just the number.
But it's worse than that. It's not just that. But according to Zach's charts, that the same group, the white liberals, believe that black Americans on average have higher IQ than white people. Now again, I'm not going to get into any conversation about genetics or culture or systemic racism. I think the question about the cause is an interesting one that I'm not going to talk about. It's just the data itself. How in the world could you live in America and think that? The data has shown this stuff and there's only one group that thinks it.
Now what would be true about this group? They're the craziest group. They actually can't, they're actually seeing the world backwards like upside down and inside out fairly consistently. Everything they see is the opposite of what is actually true.
Well, I'll tell you my own theory on differences in income, let's say income instead of IQ because IQ is too divisive. Just say difference in income. To me the biggest difference is that the school system discriminates against black kids. To me that's the biggest thing. Now when I say discriminates against them, I just mean because poor places have bad schools. Teachers unions don't give you much choice. So there's not a free market to give you options. So it's more of a teachers union has destroyed the ability for anybody in a low-income area to get a good education. So if you're starting from a low income, it's hard to climb out.
All right. What else do they believe? So on MSNBC last night, Joy Reid, who is, as you know, a disgruntled Trump impersonator if you've seen her haircut, she had a guest called Steve Hassan who builds himself as an expert on cults. And the expert on cults said that the MAGA people are a cult.
Now I've got a little bit of insight about this situation. So Hassan also interviewed me, I think it was during the 2016 cycle. So I had a long conversation with him and he, I think he might have been writing or had finished his book on cults. But he wanted to tie the MAGA movement, you know, make it a cult because he could sell books and he was a cult expert and very, very Democratic, it seems. So here's what I learned. Number one, the cult expert grew up in a cult. The cult expert grew up in a cult. So that's one of the things that makes him an expert. The cult expert escaped that cult. Good job. Now that's a sign of credibility, wouldn't you say? If you escaped a cult and then immediately went to become a Democrat and just joined another cult without knowing it.
And so let me describe what a cult is. And I also discovered that the cult expert actually didn't know what a cult was. Just think about that. Actually doesn't know what a cult is. Because the definition of a cult is, you know, it's for the benefit of the leader, not the people. You cut off communication from the outside and you punish people if they get outside of your cult and you make sure that the external information doesn't come in. That's the Democrats. The Democrats are literally censoring information in like this massive censoring operation involving NGOs and fact checkers and the fake media and the intelligence groups. That's a cult.
A cult is actively putting a lot of effort into making sure you can't see the other argument. Look at Brazil. Brazil is literally censoring me right now. Who's in the cult now? Let's say you're a MAGA Republican. Can you name any Republican who doesn't have access to all the information on the left? Most of the arguments that the Republicans make come from a full understanding of what the other argument is. It's really an argument against the other arguments, which requires you to know what the other arguments are. So the MAGA people are fighting for the First Amendment, opposite of a cult. They have full access to all information, opposite of a cult. And never in my life have I heard anybody ostracized for leaving the Republican Party and becoming a Democrat. I mean at the public level, you know, sort of a Kinzinger thing, they'll definitely get mocked. But in the regular public, if your neighbor decided to re-register from Republican to Democrat, would you stop inviting them to the picnics? No, it doesn't work that way on the right.
Have you heard about dating? Apparently if you're a Democrat and you see somebody in a dating app who's a Republican, that's a hard no. I will not even associate with the people outside my cult. But it doesn't work the other way. The conservative men are still willing to date anybody who wants to date them. So I would say that the Democrats show all of these signs of a cult based on the standard definitions. And then they bring the most hypnotized cult member on to project and say the other people are in a cult. It's very consistent.
Now I was mocking him on X yesterday by showing a picture of his wide eyes. He's got the Charles Manson eyes, you know, the wide eyes, the crazy eyes. So there you go. Somebody saying their wife is a liberal. Yeah, so that's another case of gaslighting and projection. But I think the gaslighting wall is starting to break here.
Are three RFK Jr. stories that he just made in the last day or so. So apparently RFK Jr. doesn't believe that January 6 was an insurrection and he's saying it publicly. So how would you explain if you're a Democrat that one of the most storied and famous Democrat names, who even if you don't like him you know he's really well researched and smart and he doesn't just make stuff up as far as I know, and he's telling you there's no real evidence this was an insurrection. And he says for the same reasons the Republicans say. Well, they came to an insurrection without guns. I mean really, there's no evidence of any planning and they looked everywhere. No evidence of any planning at all. You know, there were obviously 1% who were bad people and nobody's questioning that. All right, so that's one thing RFK Jr. said.
The other thing is he's calling out the fake jobs report. Remember yesterday I said I wasn't even going to tell you what the numbers were on employment because all employment numbers are fake in an election year. You know the incumbent is always going to fake them. But RFK Jr. said the good news and bad news. The good news is that the economy added 691,000 jobs in March. Bad news is that they're all part-time jobs. The full-time jobs actually fell by 6,000. So he's calling out his own team for gaslighting the public on economics.
So RFK Jr., famous Democrat, is calling out the Democrats for gaslighting on the insurrection hoax correctly and for gaslighting on the fake job numbers correctly. And that he also talked about the CIA killing Uncle JFK. And apparently he's friends, RFK Jr. is friends with Woody Harrelson. And Woody Harrelson's dad, according to RFK Jr., is one of the people who definitely was in on the assassination of his uncle. And he's actually talked to Woody and Woody confirms the whole thing. Apparently Woody confirms his father was part of the assassination and it was just a CIA plot exactly like he thought it was.
And RFK Jr. says the CIA, by the way this was on the Hodge Twins podcast. Is it Hodes with an S? Is it Hodge with an S on the end? The Hodge Twins. Hodes. Give me a fact check on that anyway. Those guys are doing a great job building the brand and also having interesting guests and making news. So I recommend their podcast. It's the Hodge Twins. So look for them. And the RFK Jr. interview in particular is pretty good.
And he points out that the CIA was behind Vietnam. The CIA was behind, and the mafia worked together to try to take out Castro because the mafia didn't like that Castro closed their casinos in Cuba. And Kennedy points out accurately that no one was punished for killing Kennedy. No one was punished for it. The members of our own government killed the president and to this day got away with it. We even know who they were and they still got away with it. And it's not even in the history books. Not only did they get away with it but history doesn't even record it. You know, there's no kids learning this, that the CIA killed his uncle.
He also said, so he said why would they stop? The intelligence people and whoever was behind it, why would they stop doing things if they get away with them? They overthrew 80 countries in the United States and something's going on with Brazil right now. Why would they stop? It's totally working. Good point.
RFK Jr. also says that Joe Biden is not in possession of his faculties. So an actual Democrat saying no, he's not in possession. And the argument he gives is that he says that the Joe Biden he knows and has known forever would have given him Secret Service protection. So RFK Jr. didn't get Secret Service protection and certainly qualified. And it looks like the bad guys who killed his uncle are trying to get him killed. I think there's no other way to interpret it than the same people who killed his uncle are trying to kill him but make it look like an accident just by leaving him unprotected.
And he thinks the government is being run by anonymous men in lanyards, meaning the CIA basically. All right. And then when the Hodge Twins said, quote, "sounds like our democracy is dead," this is what RFK Jr. said about our democracy, about the United States. RFK Jr. about the United States, quote, "Yeah, it's Kabuki theater. That we don't have a republic and that we haven't had it for a long time." Now that's what I've been telling you, right? That I think the Republic ended probably in the 60s and that the anonymous men with lanyards have clearly been running things since then. And RFK Jr.'s exactly on the same page. Now I think he influenced me more than I got it from anywhere else. So it's not a coincidence I guess.
Well, let's see. The Rock said he would not endorse Biden. I think you already heard that. But Aaron Rupar called it a cowardly word salad thing to say. Now what was the word salad? What the Rock said, he didn't want to endorse Biden this time because he did last time, because he said it caused him something that tears me up in my guts, which is division. How was that unclear? Where's the word salad? He said supporting Biden caused division. Now I interpreted that as division in his personal life, meaning that he couldn't hang out with his buddies without being mocked. I'm just reading that. That's a little mind reading on my part. I don't know that. But that's what it feels like. That maybe he got too much pushback from his manly, manly men fans who are more likely to be Republican anyway.
I saw Mike Cernovich saying that some of these people who people like me keep talking about are not what I think. They're not organic. So The Rock and Bill Maher and anybody else. I think there are a few others. Oh, Charlamagne the God. So I think Mike thinks it's more of some kind of a trick or an op or something. The way I look at it is it doesn't matter whether it's an op or not. What matters is it's creating a social proof and it's making it safe for other people who might be saying, hey, I'm starting to think the problems on our side, that they could say it out loud because The Rock said it or Charlamagne said it. It's a lot easier for a Democrat to say something anti-DEI or think something anti-DEI if they know somebody that is famous for being on their team just called it garbage in public. Or if they thought they were voting for less division when they got Biden but now The Rock told them no, it's actually more division. So just hearing it from somebody on their own team is a whole different persuasion than hearing it from the other team. If the other team says that you just put up your walls and go blah blah blah other team. But if it's coming from inside your house, RFK Jr., The Rock, Charlamagne the God, and Bill Maher to name a few, I think that that's persuasive in the social proof sense.
So whether or not any of these people are working some kind of an op, which I don't quite know how to connect those dots to make it anything but organic, I think it's organic. I think they have different reasons, just four people with four completely different reasons. But that they're just willing to say something that would have been harder to say a year ago.
All right. Margaret Sullivan writing in The Guardian is perplexed that the public is not understanding how good the economy is and thinks that journalists have to do a better job of selling the economy so that Biden can look better. Now aside from the fact that this is obviously just a pure Democrat hack, here is a real problem. Do journalists think that they're capable of writing about the economy? Does Margaret Sullivan think she's capable of understanding the economy? Journalists are the last people who should be writing about the economy. Now if you're an economist and you write, that's fine. Because if you're an economist and you're also a writer, then you're going to have some good opinions. Like let's say Krugman. Come on, you're not going to let me say that without pushing me back. Krugman, it's a punchline. You're famous for being one of the most wrong economists in all the world.
And Margaret Sullivan pointed to Krugman as an example of somebody who's trying to set people right. Imagine being a Democrat and thinking that Krugman is your gold standard for accurate economic assessments. Do they really believe that? Do they not know that he's just a Democrat and that anything he says starts from being a Democrat and then he can work the economics into his story? How do they not notice that?
Well anyway, let me tell you what's true, Margaret Sullivan. Would you be aware that the reason the jobs are growing so quickly is because we just came off a pandemic? Would she be smart enough to know that? Would she be smart enough to know that the great jobs numbers, like RFK Jr. says, are not really so great? Is she going to tell you that those numbers will certainly be revised because it's an election year and the people reporting them are all in the bag for Democrats? Do you think the journalist would know that? And if she knew it, would she report it? Do you think the journalist knows that Krugman has not gotten everything right? Do you think she knows that the reason the GDP is doing well and even employment, I would say, is that the government is spending itself into oblivion and death spiral and buying too many weapons for war? Yeah, we're spending a lot. The government spending is a huge part of that anyway.
Do you think that Margaret Sullivan knows that affordability is a better measure of the economy than your wages went up 4%? Do you think she knows that your 4% wage increase doesn't let you move out of your parents' house? That's the issue. You can't buy a house, can't live on your own, can't start a family. If you can't reproduce, your economy is completely broken. Maybe there's more than that that's broken. But if your people stopped reproducing because of money, your economy is not only not good, it's fatal. Let me say that again. The current economy is discouraging reproduction. That's fatal for the entire country, guaranteed.
So would Margaret Sullivan say yeah but your wages are up 4% and employment looks good with all these part-time jobs? Would she be able to see what's really going on? A journalist, not an economist. Would she know that college expenses are so ridiculous that the old way of getting ahead doesn't work? It's just unavailable basically for more people. Does she know that even though the statistics look good, when people fill up their tank of gas and it's three figures, you don't forget that. Last time I did a fill up over $100, was it ever $100 under Trump? Ever? I don't think it was. Was it? Yeah. So I don't, I'm not looking at what happened with the price of aluminum. I'm looking at my gas when I buy groceries and I look at the grocery bill. Does that look cheap to me or does it look like 40% higher than it was on Trump? Now I don't care they went down 2% on the cucumber since yesterday. I just look at my number and it's just a big old number that I'd never seen until Biden was the president.
All right. So basically journalists shouldn't even write about the economy if they understand it so poorly. And if they're looking to their own economists to give them what's true, they're looking at the Krugman types who are not economists per se. They're more like political figures and writers who happen to have some economic experience.
All right. Holman Jenkins has a Wall Street Journal opinion piece about the upcoming October disinformation plan that we all know is coming. All right. So he mentions that in 2016 the Russian collusion, 2020 was the laptop story, and now we're dealing with the January 6 insurrection hoax and the it's the end of democracy hoax.
Here's how you know that the CIA is behind the January 6 insurrection hoax. I don't think you've ever heard this before. Who would be the greatest experts in our country about whether an insurrection did happen, at least attempted, or it didn't happen? That would be the CIA because they literally are in the business of staging insurrections in other countries. So they would certainly be the experts to know if this was or was not. Wouldn't you love to have them give you an opinion? But I don't remember hearing them. The only ones I remember are the ones like Brennan and Clapper and the ones who are clearly illegitimate liars, you know, the confirmed liars anyway.
I don't know if we have to wait for a new hoax or if they'll just use January 6 and their insurrection hoax to do it. The Biden administration is making it harder to fire bureaucrats, which presumably is because they expect Trump to be president and to clean house. So they're doing some kind of little technical change that would change the designation of some people to make them impossible to fire so that Trump would be handicapped by having all disloyal people on his staff or in the government. Great, great, terrific. What exactly is the benefit of making it harder to fire people who are not doing a good job or you can't trust? What's the benefit of that? I can't think of one.
Well, here's some interesting news. Two dozen of the January 6 protesters have filed a lawsuit against the Capitol Police for all of their alleged violent and historic gross indifference, dereliction of duty, and injury and all that. Now I don't know if anything will come from that but it's more evidence that Republicans have grown a spine and they've realized that if they don't fight back they will be lawyered out of existence. And so it appears that a number of prominent and powerful Republicans have banded together. Probably there's somebody funding this. My guess is there's some external force who's putting the money up to make this lawsuit happen. And so it appears that Republicans have developed an infrastructure for funding legal responses and that feels important because that's definitely mutually assured destruction. And it looks like Republicans are going to have to destroy the careers and lives of maybe dozens of Democrats. Some of them won't deserve it but it probably is a necessary step to get balance.
Let's see. So four-term Louisiana Republican Clay Higgins, he said that he's claiming that the FBI agents entrapped the U.S. Capitol rioters on January 6. So he says that they brought in a big bunch of ghost buses and that they're guilty of all that. Now here's the thing. The government apparently will not tell us how many of their people were on the ground that day. That's still true, right? The FBI has never told us how many of the agents were there. Can you confirm that? I think that's true. They haven't told us. And what can you conclude from the fact that you know some were there? I don't think there's any question that they were there. I don't even think anybody's doubting that. It would only be a question of how many. If there were three people you say, oh okay, they didn't have that much influence. If it was 50 people then you might assume that the reason was not to stop things or watch things but to cause things because that's a lot of people. So the fact that the government has not confirmed how many of their FBI agents were there, I think any non-transparency from the government has to be seen as guilt. So I would treat it as a confession. If they don't tell you how many FBI agents are there, that's all you need to know. Your working assumption should be, oh there were a lot of them and they were there for nefarious purposes and they probably caused this and they're part of the brainwashing. So that's my working assumption now.
May I do an impression of a Democrat hearing me say that? But Scott, show your proof. Where's all your proof? Okay, you're not listening to me. When the government won't show its proof, they don't have the assumption of innocence. They have the assumption of guilt. So non-transparency from your government is a confession. Non-transparency is a confession. Same with the elections.
All right. And then somebody cleverly said to me, so Scott, because I also said it's the worst case scenario if they're not telling you something, it's you could assume the worst case scenario. And somebody said, what about the UFO stuff? The government won't admit we have UFOs so is it a worst case scenario there? Good question. And the answer is it depends what you think is the worst case scenario. If you think the worst case scenario is that aliens are going to kill us, well okay that would be pretty bad. But I assume the aliens are not real. So that the worst case scenario is that the CIA has been telling alien stories forever whenever they want to distract us. That's the worst case scenario for me because the worst case realistic scenario does not involve actual aliens. It's not really realistic. But the worst case real life scenario is that the CIA has been intentionally diverting our attention with alien stories, which by the way historically we know they have done that. We just don't have confirmation that they're doing it today but we do have written confirmation they've done it in the past. Use UFO as a diversion.
Well, can we be honest enough to mock Biden's all-female White House comms team? So his communications team when he formed it was all women. I think there were nine principles in the group, you know, probably with lesser staffers there too. But all nine were women and pretty high level of diversity within the women as well. And they were quite proud of that. And I think we would all agree they have the worst comms team of any president ever. I mean just laughably bad. So at what point can we call Biden's administration the DEI government? Because a lot of what we're seeing in terms of incompetence is really exactly what we warned, which has nothing to do with anybody's genetics and nothing to do with anybody's culture. That there might be just not enough people to go around if everybody wanted to improve their diversity. You're going to have to go deeper in the less qualified people just to meet your diversity goal.
Now do you know who doesn't believe that? Well never mind, I'm going to skip that one anyway.
Tony Bobulinski, he's going to sue Representative Democrat Daniel Goldman for allegedly defaming him. Daily Caller reporting that. Now I don't have an opinion about whether that's a worthy lawsuit. Here's what I do have an opinion about. I'm guessing that the same well-organized Republicans who are behind other lawsuits are behind this. I doubt Tony Bobulinski would pay his own money to pursue a defamation case that probably won't work. Defamation is really hard to prove. It's not the sort of thing you do with your own money. It is the sort of thing you do if some rich Republican said I'll pay for the whole thing. And if you're mad enough maybe you can get your revenge. So that's what's happening. So it's a good trend that the Republicans are going full legal war now.
And apparently even Democrat judges are noticing that the Democrats have gone too far. So there's a story about a federal judge, a Democrat-appointed judge who just went off on the Hunter Biden related subpoenas cases. So U.S. District Judge Anna Reyes, a Biden appointee to the federal court, and she just spent an hour saying that the Justice Department attorneys were hypocrites for instructing two other lawyers to not comply with the House subpoena. And this Democrat judge says, all right let me understand. Peter Navarro is in jail for the thing you're saying you want to do. Now explain how that works. You just put Peter Navarro in jail for the exact same thing and now you think that your two lawyers should walk free? How? Make that make sense. And apparently she just went off on them because it's so obviously a non-justice process. I mean it's obvious to her that the legal system has been co-opted. I would say based on her words it seems obvious that she's not trusting the Department of Justice. So there's that. So maybe other people are noticing too.
Here are some, you didn't know about. I'm not sure this is pro yet so I'm not happy about the quality of the sources for this story but I'll report it as long as you know that I can't confirm this is entirely true. But the story goes like this. That Israel is using facial recognition in Gaza and with the Palestinians to determine who the Hamas militant terrorists are. And part of that is an AI program working in the back. So it's not just facial recognition, it's also activity. So if you let's say were on a WhatsApp group with some terrorists the AI would say well there's a good chance you're a terrorist too. So they would look at your lifestyle, your travel, anything they could find out about you, your social media, and then they would create a list, the AI would, of probable terrorists or probable Hamas militants. And then they would wait. Now this is the claim and it's a little too on the nose for me, meaning it sounds exactly like something Israel's enemies would make up out of nothing. So I'm not believing it all yet. I'm just reporting that it's in the news.
And the report is that once they use their AI and their facial recognition and they know who they want to target, they wait for that person to go to their residence at night and they bomb the whole residence and kill the family. Now the allegation is that Israel knows it's doing this and knows that its AI will be wrong say 10% of the time. And that 10% of the time they're not only not killing a Hamas operative but they're killing the family of the person who is also not a Hamas person. So that's the allegation against them.
And then there's a further allegation that they're using Google product as part of that. So part of the Google facial stuff I guess Google can group people by face so that has something to do with what they're doing. So I would be suspicious of this story because it's a little too perfect. You like it. It brings in the headlines of the AI and facial recognition and people want to make that evil. And then it brings in this other story about bombing the wrong people and bombing the residents and stuff like that. It kind of conveniently ties together too many popular things for me to feel comfortable with the story. Yeah, all right. So you can believe that one or not.
But let me ask you this question. Suppose it's all true and that the Israelis look at somebody who is 90% likely to be a militant and that they do actually wait until they're in their house. Would that be wrong? Because if they think they're probably killing a bad guy and they've accepted some collateral damage to do it, that's not a lot different than war in general. I mean you'd have to make your argument but it's not that different than just everything that happens in war. Because when you're bombing a city for example you know you're killing civilians and you know that you're doing it intentionally in the sense that it's unavoidable. Intentional meaning unavoidable, not you wanted to do it. I don't know. And when you assume that the Hamas person has weaponized his family, there's a small distinction between the actual gun holder and the teenage sons who want to follow in their footsteps and the mom who raised them. So you could make the argument that blowing up those homes is just part of normal military action if it's happening at all. I don't know what the odds are. I give it a 50/50. I think the best I could do is 50% chance, likely to be true, coin flip. And the coin flip is because there's nothing to depend on in the story. It's a very undependable story. Hidden sources. Yeah it just doesn't quite add up.
All right. And then there's some, I guess America, the Biden administration is pressing Israel to let some civilians get back into the north of Gaza. Now is that real or does the United States not understand what's happening here? They're not going to just let everybody go back. What would be the point of even having a war if you're going to let them go back and just rebuild the whole problem? Whatever is going to happen and I certainly don't know but it's not going to be hey let's just build back and all you peaceful civilians go live in peace. I don't know what's going to happen.
I'd like to make a prediction. Here's a future conspiracy theory prediction. I don't think Israel can say out loud what the real plan is which is not to resettle it. That's I'm just speculating, not based on any information. So if it were me and I was trying to sell this story without actually saying it out loud that we're not going to let people in, you have to come up with some other reason. You can't just say well yeah it's mostly women and children and stuff but we're not going to let you live in peace where you used to live. Can't really say that. Here's something you could say. Sadly there's been an environmental disaster. The water system has been polluted. Darn it. And there's so much cancer-causing dust in the air from all the bombing and asbestos. I'm just making this up. That it would be irresponsible for us to let anybody go live there because it's just too dangerous. So you better stay safe and stay in your refugee camps or wherever. Go to another country maybe. So I'm looking for a fake environmental claim. That's my prediction. That Israel will make a fake environmental claim to prevent people from moving back. That's my guess. So we'll watch.
Now by the way it might not be fake. It could be there's legitimately an environmental emergency there. I mean why wouldn't there be? I can't imagine that anything you're going to breathe is going to be good for you for a long time. I can't believe that if you're digging around in the rubble trying to clean up I can't believe that's going to be good for you. Like I don't know what kind of microbes and bugs and germs they got in all that debris but it can't be good.
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let's get our notes wow I'm extra prepared today good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and I guarantee this will be the best thing you've ever seen in your life yeah in your life if you'd like to take it up to a level that's even higher than that it's hard to imagine all you need for that is a cuper muger a glass of tanker chaly and a canteen Jugger flas a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure of the dopamine here the day the thing that makes everything better it's called simultaneous zp go I think it was better with the Joe Biden whisper at the end the simultaneous zp no you sick of that already all right well I thought that would catch on with everybody let's talk about all the news the news Well if you are subscribing to dver reborn you would be seeing that the boss is hiring a batshit crazy uh woman to work in the office and uh the staff is wondering why he didn't notice and the boss says he's bad at reading faces anyway you'd see that if you were subscriber on either X or the locals platform the other day I was looking through some boxes just trying to organize some of my old stuff and I found my hypnosis diploma it was 1981 The Clement clont if you want to want the French pronunciation the clont school of hypnosis in San Francisco doesn't exist anymore but it did and number of people had questions about that because I posted the diploma and I saw that James pison said to me he said hypnosis in quotes as the masses Define it isn't real Scott sorry to burst your sengali crave bubble suggestibility is the actual and closest thing to hypnosis that is currently measurable and actionable by science but keep on keeping with your master Juju sudu science excellent have I ever told you that if anybody could figure out what Hypno disc con actually do you would kill us all so I want more of this I want I want more of James saying your powers are not real yeah it's completely safe to listen to everything you say you could not possibly hypnotize me number of other people piled in and said Scott my mind is far too strong to be hypnotized to which I say excellent so so what you're saying is you wouldn't know if you were being hypnotized cuz your mind's too strong you can't even conceive of it yeah if you think you can't be hypnotized there's a good chance you already were anyway uh one of the things that uh I was asked is how long after I took my hypnosis class did my career take a change for the better and the answer is 1981 is when I got the diploma 1988 is when I submitted dilber comics for syndication so six years later but uh the point I wanted to make is that um hypnosis skills grow over time because what you do is you combine it with other things you pick up about persuasion and influence and it's all it all becomes one big larger bag of tricks so just getting your hypnosis degree does not give you a superpower right away but if you check back 20 years later that person is almost certainly going to be doing well so it's it's something that builds over time well the sadness trolls keep keep coming up um I'm going to tell you the the tell for the sadness trolls you you probably don't have them I think they only hit the larger accounts that they're trying to discourage from spending time on X but the sadness trolls have two tells which makes them hilarious because when they show up as just artificial people then you don't have to worry about what they say so one of the Tells is they have a small account and they're definitely not my followers or fans but they follow me that's the first tell they don't agree with anything I say and they have tiny little accounts but they follow me now they the reason they do that is that they'll get an alert as soon as I post and they go in first so part of the Troll game the professionals I assume these are organized I don't think these are individuals they they make sure that they follow you so that they can get there first if there's one thing I can tell you there's no Democrats who are following me organically I don't think there's any like just none because they don't want to be exposed to you know unpleasant thoughts but the trolls don't mind because they they want to respond as as soon as possible so the first thing I do was when I see one of these trollish accounts I always look to see if they follow me always well not always 90% of the time the other thing is they have a name that has several uh numbers at the end like they couldn't be bothered to test to find a real good name they took one like Jackson X5 321 3265 now who would open a real account and accept the default weird number name only a troll and the reason the troll would do it is because they're in a hurry and they have multiple accounts and it doesn't really matter to them because they're not trying to send a true impression of who they are they're trolls they're they're artificial the other thing is that they often have little American flags uh so that they look like they might not be Democrat trolls the the ones that are actually just real people who are also trolling you they usually have the little blue wave in there or or a Ukrainian flag that those might actually be real people but the ones who pretend that maybe they're just Patriots those are the trolls anyway that's how you tell them so they're very active more and because it's the political season and it's a real thing by the way I don't know I don't know if it it do you all know that's a real thing that the trolls are literally paid do you all know that's real because it might sound like it's some weird conspiracy theory I'm giving you but that's all demonstrated that's what we know who did it the last time we know who was in charge you know it's a well-known understood process well did you know that uh that Imperial College in London figured out how to genetically engineer bacteria to make vegan leather so it's not real leather but it's bacteria and I guess the bacteria can also change its color so you can make yourself a a black wallet or a or brown wallet I guess and that'll save a whole bunch of animals and then we won't have to use artificial colors anyway I don't know if you want a wallet made out of bacteria you might have one pretty soon uh Elon mus I don't know in this video was it might have been a while ago I just saw a video of him walking with uh some celebrity I can't remember and he was explaining that Tesla uh it Tesla can't build 100 Giga factories but if other big companies were building them they you'd only need a 100 gigafactories to power the entire world now the gigafactories are the big battery storage facilities and they they would have to be enormous we're talking about you know bigger than the Empire State Building sort of thing enormous facilities but if you built 100 of them you would essentially have a sustainable energy forever presuming that you set up an a commensurate amount of solar panels to charge the batteries do you believe that I'm just leing a comment sounds like BS I don't know here's the thing if you don't believe it you're betting against Elon Musk ability to engineer and do math are you are you comfortable doing that I'm not I'm not comfortable saying that he got the math wrong I feel like he spends some time you maybe it's exactly what he does and you don't do for a living He figures that stuff out so I'm going to say it's probably more likely true than not but I would um I would add that we don't know what the environmental situation is and what happens well the old batteries and the old solar panels and that's an issue might be solvable but it's certainly an issue anyway I like to put that out there as some optimism that if you added a nuclear power to that well you wouldn't need if you had nuclear power you don't need the batteries so anyway everything's moving in the right direction and we could solve climate change in probably five years if every if all the big companies said we'll we'll chip in we'll build a gigafactory well in other updates uh we'll get to the politics in a minute um bri.
the prince of fakes you know him on the X account um he's inventing a uh sex toy that can also talk dirty to you using AI so he's using he's using Advanced tools to develop this sextoy and presumably you'll be able to send it for manufacturing and and he's been testing it down on X so you can see the whole process from beginning then it's kind of fascinating to see what one person can do so we we currently have a situation where one person with one computer can build a whole commercial product now I guess we could always do that it's you know we've been able to do that for a while you'd have to send it down to have a prototype made and that sort of thing but you basically be your own company just one person and and he's modeling that one person building an industry it's just fun to watch even if you don't care about the product it's just fun to watch somebody who has lots of skills put them together and see if they they can do a thing well here's one thing I can tell you about my audience I'm seeing some funny memes go by in the locals comments uh you're not watching me if you're in Brazil unless you have a VPN I guess but Brazil has censored the locals um feed so if you're on the locals platform you you can't be watched in Brazil now let me ask you this do you think the Brazilians came up with that on their own do do you think the Brazilian government said oh we got to gotta block that locals platform I doubt it sort of feels like maybe our government might have been a little bit behind that so it's illegal to watch me in Brazil to which I say excellent excellent hey Brazilians guess what you can't watch why do you think they won't let you watch me Brazilians do you think they won't let you watch me because they're they're trying to monitor uh the poor quality entertainment and they've decided oh that's that's just not good entertainment can't watch that guy you think that's why I'm blocked nope nope well and the other the other question is is it about me or is it about somebody else who's on locals because you know it could be somebody else who's on locals but it's the same issue they're not blocking me because I'm wrong and they're not blocking other people because they're wrong they're only going to block you if you're right right it's it's it's telling the truth that's the problem people lying is everybody if they blocked people who lied they'd have to close all of social media because it's pretty much 80% lies but locals is the special lies oh these are the special kind we better block these lies these are the the terrible ones um no it's because it's the truth and they're preventing the the truth there there's no other way to look at it all right let's here's my theme today uh the gas lighting is not working so well as you know you've been living in a gas lit uh environment and uh the gas lighters have been telling you quite a few things for example 2016 the election was largely dominated by the Russia clusion hoax that we know is a Democrat SL intelligence agency hoax but in 2020 uh we had the hunters lapt hoax oh that's a Russian Russian hoax and then Biden ran on the fine people hoax so that's two elections in a row dominated by hoaxes and in both cases the Democrats and the intelligence people created them in 2024 just for consistency the main theme is the January 6 hoax also known as the Trump is a threat to democracy hoax um which goes well with the 91 indictment hoax now the 91 indictments really happened but if you look at the quality of them and the types of things he's indicted for all looks like Oaks to me or an OP if you prefer and let me tell you if you have three elections in a row um and all three of them are quite obviously hoax driven events you can't say it's a coincidence it would be more accurate to say that uh gaslighting the public is the operating system of the country and there is the most basic thing you need to know about America is that nothing's real it's the most important thing you need to know that nothing's real and when I say nothing I mean nothing about politics you know and War which is politics um so we'll give you some examples that but I'd like to offer a competing hypothesis to this so the first hypothesis is that bad people are intentionally making up uh rumors and conspiracy theories and gasl in the public but I'd like to try out a little pattern recognition for you do you know how I always say that uh Democrats appear mentally ill but we don't really mention what that mental illness is sometimes we say TDS which is a real thing and a genuine Illness but it seems deeper than that doesn't it like there's something below that that's causing that and I'd like to suggest that if you were to look at the dominant patterns coming from Democrats you can actually identify the specific mental illness allow me to try it did you have you noticed the Tucker Carlson theory that they blame you for what they're doing so whatever they're doing they blame you for you've all seen it what mental illness or condition is that common to somebody blames you for what they're doing but not just once all the time all the time if if you're uh late for dinner they say you if they're late they say you're late if they're cheating on you they say you're cheating on them if they're mean to you they say you're mean to them if uh if they're giving you no attention they say you're giving me no attention am I right now 100% of people who have experienced with narcissists will say oh yeah yeah you can't even believe it like if you see it once you say well that's weird maybe just an odity but if you're in a situation where over and over and over again they're blaming you of specifically what they're doing that's narcissism here's another element of narcissism and see if you can find this pattern a narcissist is only interested in what you can do for them am I right that's a basic definition of a narcissist not even the least bit interested in you it's what can you do for me how can I get your resources transer to me how can I get all of your attention and all of your you know everything to me what am I doing for you yeah it's what can you do for me in this case the me would be Democrats and the me would be hey let's do some Dei so that the things you have can be transferred to us why well because of all the discriminating you do against us that's why to which I say that's exactly the opposite of what has been happening in this country for 30 years white men have been overtly directly massively discriminated against for 30 years but what do the narcissists say they say you're discriminating against me and then they ask you to pay for it that's exactly what narcissists do they say you're the problem even though you're the one the the narcissist is doing all that and you're not and that you must pay me for it like you owe me there's something you better do to make up for the fact that you're so bad even though they're just projecting now if you go down the the line and see the consistency of it the thing that you thought was socialism probably isn't the thing you thought was socialism probably isn't there is some of that and they're definitely Marxist Etc so I'm not going to say it doesn't exist but I think we're confusing the narcissism which is you owe me because you've been bad you better give me some stuff with some kind of actual political Theory because very few people have a political Theory they just want stuff and they're just sort of acting out their projection plus their sense of entitlement once you see it you can't unsee it now I've also made the observation that a lot of the evil people in the news you'll hear this terrible story about somebody doing some woke thing that's just evil and then you'll see a picture of the person and they have demonic face you know I'm doing it now in case you're listening to it I'm I'm going to do the Demonic face do you remember a judge Eng Goran you look at his face and you the first thing you think is what the hell am I looking at there's something wrong with your face it looks demonic it literally looks demonic but the Demonic part is just an interpretation what it really looks like is mentally ill and specifically narcissistic The Narcissist I think their faces actually reveal them sometimes not all the time so if you think you're seeing something that looks like demonic faces you know that the eyes crazy eyes I think it's just the narcissists all in the same team and the narcissists are telling you that you're such a bad discriminator you better give your stuff to the people you discriminated against so that certainly uh is a big part of the uh gaslighting but certainly it's coming from the top on the Democrat side the things that Republicans believe that are not true usually Bubble Up From The Bottom they're just some people or persons who has a theory and other people go ah I think I'll believe that one and it's not coordinated intelligence experts working with the top of the Democrats to create a hoax over the whole country you don't really see that on the Republican side but it's the normal operating system we've seen it over three elections already um of the Democrats but it's not just them defense secretary Mark esper has called Trump a threat to democracy look for the pattern what exactly is a threat to democracy let me think uh weaponizing uh these these uh NGS and fake fact Checkers and the FBI to suppress free speech on the other side that's what I would call assault on Democracy so while they were actively taking away your uh free speech by working with the social media Platforms in the news they were complaining that Trump is going to take away democracy while they were doing it like actively really hard working at it at the same time if you look at the Georgia case the Georgia mostly Republicans were passing laws to tighten Security on their election system every Democrat voted against it because why why would you vote against tightening security well it's because they don't want a fair election because they're trying to protect democracy by making sure that you don't know exactly who voted that's how they're going to protect democracy projection it's just projection all right here's another one um have you seen this too I turn on the news there'll be a new poll about Biden versus Trump and the poll will say Trump is leading in uh six out of seven um you know tight races or tight States you know the Battleground States and he's you know winning overall by whatever number and then somebody will say it to Biden or Biden's people and they'll say you're looking at last year's polls or last week's polls New polls just came out uh Biden is ahead in six out of seven polls to which I say would that be in the newspaper or something like there's not are you saying that are you saying Fox News wouldn't report that are are they just skipping some polls is that happening because I you know I also watch CNN and MSNBC I haven't seen him display any polls where Biden is leading in fact they only talk about him being behind is this is this pure gaslighting where they actually just say no Biden is actually heading the polls you're looking at the wrong ones they look right in your eyes and tell you that they that there exist poles that are the opposite of everything you've seen how do they do that and their press doesn't even call them out about it they just say no the pools are the opposite of what everything you've seen yeah Biden's doing fine yep everything you've seen is opposite of what you think you saw the the level of gaslighting is insane now who lies like that narcissists narcissists are the only one who can who could punch you in the stomach and say stop punching me in the stomach and you'd be like you literally just punched me in the stomach and I've literally never even touched you stop punching me in the stomach like to lie at that level look you right in the eye and say no the poles are all probid I don't know what you're talking about that's only narcissist that that is not even normal politics even politicians don't lie like that you know they they say something more weasy right they don't lie directly like that on something that's the easiest thing in the world to Jack narcissism all right um there's some interesting charts going around Zack Goldberg I think pulled them together he's sort of an anti- wokeness activist and uh two charts one of them founds that uh liberal white people have the following belief that uh white people are far more violent in the United States than black people they're the they're the only group that think that I don't think black people think that only white liberals so uh White conservatives don't think that only white liberals believe that white people are more violent than black Americans now it could be that they're answering the question differently it could be that they're including Wars and colonization and slavery if you if you C like the whole history of you know Wars and colonization slavery white people are definitely had on the violence I'm going to give you that if you just looked at total number of people killed white people are right up there we we're we're very competitive in The Killing millions of people category I'll give you that but if you're talking about normal social violence in the United States it's not even close the actual numbers and I'm not making any kind of genetic or cultural or any kind of a comment I'm just saying those are the numbers you know the the why of it you know gets to a more interesting question but we're not talking about the why just the number but it's worse than that it's not just that but the um according to Zach's charts that the same group The White liberals believe that black Americans on average have higher I than white people now again I'm not going to get into any conversation about genetics or culture or um systemic racism I think the the question about the cause is an interesting one that I'm not going to talk about it's just the data itself how in the world could you live in America and think that the data has shown this stuff and there's only one group that thinks it now what would be true about this group they're the crazi yeah they're the craziest group they actually can't they're actually seeing the world backwards like upside down and Inside Out fairly consistently everything they see is the opposite of what is what is actually true well I'll tell you my own my own theory on um you know differences in income let's say income instead of IQ because IQ is too divisive just say difference in income to me the biggest the biggest difference is that the school system discriminates against black kids to me that's the biggest thing now when I say discriminates against them I just mean because poor places have bad schools teachers unions don't give you much choice so there's not a free market to give you options so it's more of a teachers union has destroyed the ability for anybody in a low-income area to get a good education so if you're starting from a low income it's hard to climb out all right um what else El do they believe um so on MSNBC last night uh Joy Reed who is a as you know a disgruntled Trump impersonator if you've seen her haircut um she had a guest called Steve Hassan who uh builds himself as a expert on Cults and the expert on Cults uh said that the magga people are a cult now I've got a little bit of insight about this situation so stasan also interviewed me I think it was during the 2016 cycle so I had a long conversation with him and he I think he might have been writing or had finish his book on Cults but he wanted to tie the the magga movement you know make it a cult because he could sell books and you know he was a cult expert and very very democratic it seems so here's what I learned number one the cult expert grew up in a cult the cult expert grew up in a cult so that's one of the things that makes him an expert the cult expert escaped that cult good job now that now that's a sign of credibility wouldn't you say if you escaped a cult and then when immediately to become a Democrat and just joined another cult without knowing it and so let me describe uh what a cult is and I also discovered that the cult expert actually didn't know what a cult was just think about that actually doesn't know what a cult is because the definition of a cult is you know it's for the benefit of the leader not the people you cut off communication for the outside and you punish people if they get outside of your cult and you make sure that the external information doesn't come in that's the Democrats the Democrats are literally censoring information in like this massive censoring operation involves Nos and fact Checkers and the the fake media and the intelligence groups that's a cult a cult is actively putting a lot of effort into making sure you can't see the other argument look at Brazil Brazil is literally censoring me right now who's in The Cult now let's say you're a uh a mega Republican can you name any Republican who doesn't have access to all the information on the left most of the arguments that the Republicans make come from a full understanding of what the other argument is it's really an argument against the other arguments which requires you to know what the other arguments are so the the magga people are fighting for the First Amendment opposite of a cult they have full access to all information opposite of a cult and never in my life have I heard anybody ostracized for leaving the Republican party and becoming a Democrat I mean at the public level you know sort of a kins injure thing they'll definitely get mocked but in the regular public if your neighbor if your neighbor decided to re-register from Republican to Democrat would you stop inviting them to the picnics no it doesn't work that way on the right have have you heard about dating apparently if you're a if you're a Democrat and you see somebody in a dating app who's a republican that's a hard no I will not even associate with the people outside my cult but it doesn't work the other way the the conservative men are for you know they're still willing to to date anybody who wants to date them so I would say that the Democrats show all of these signs of a cult based on the standard definitions and then they they bring the most hypnotized cult member on to project and say the other people are in a cult it's very consistent now I was mocking him uh on X Yesterday by showing a picture of his wide eyes he's got the Charles Manson eyes you know the wide eyes the crazy eyes so oh there you go so somebody saying their wife is a liberal um yeah so that's another case of gaslighting and uh projection but I think the gaslighting wall is starting to break here are three RFK Jr stories um that he just made in the last day or so so apparently RFK Jr doesn't believe that January 6 was an Insurrection and he's saying it publicly so how would you explain if you're a Democrat that one of the most storied and famous Democrat names who even if you don't like him you know he's really well researched and smart and he doesn't just make stuff up as far as I know and he's telling you there's no real evidence this was an Insurrection and he says for the same reasons so the Republicans say well they came to an Insurrection without guns I mean really there there's no evidence of any planning and they looked everywhere no evidence of any planning at all you know there were obviously 1% were bad people and nobody's questioning that all right so that's one thing our K Jr said the other thing is he's calling out the fake jobs report remember yesterday I said I wasn't even going to tell you what the numbers were on employment because all employment numbers are fake in an election year you know the incumbent is always going to fake them but RFK Jr said the good news and bad news the good news is that the economy added 691 th000 jobs in March bad news is that they're all part-time jobs the full-time job actually fell by 6,000 so he's calling out his own team for gaslighting the public on economics so RFK Jr famous Democrat is calling out the Democrats for gaslighting on the Insurrection hoax correctly and for gaslighting on the fake job numbers correctly correctly and that he also talked about the CIA killing Uncle JFK and apparently he's friends RFK Jr is friends with Woody harelson and Woody Harrelson's dad according to RFK Jr is one of the people who definitely was in on the assassination of his uncle and he's actually talked to Woody and Woody confirms the whole thing apparently Woody confirms his father was part of the assassination and it was just a CIA plot exactly like he thought it was and RFK JR says the CIA by the way this was on the uh the Hodge twins podcast is it Hodes with an S is hjj with an s on the end the hjge twins Hodes give me a fact check on that anyway those those guys are doing a great job um building the brand and also having interesting guests and making news so I recommend their podcast it's it's it's the Haj with no s on in hjge twins so look for them and the RFK Junior interview in particular is pretty good um and he points out that the CIA was behind Vietnam the CIA was behind and the mafia worked together to try to take out Castro because Mafia didn't like the Castro closed their casinos in Cuba and Kennedy points out accurately that no one was punished for Killing Kennedy no no one was punished for it the members of our own government killed the president and to this day got away with it we even know who they were and they still got away with it and it's not even in the history books not only did they get away with it but history doesn't even record it you know there's no kids learning this that the CIA killed his uncle um he also said so he said why would they stop stop they beating the intelligence people and whoever was banned why would they stop doing things if they get away with them they overthrew 80 countries and the United States and something's going on with Brazil right why would they stop it's totally working good point RFK Jr also says that Joe Biden is not in position of possession of his faculties so an actual Democrat saying no he's not in possession and the argument he gives is that he says that the Joe Biden he knows and has known forever would have given him Secret Service protection so RFK junr didn't get Ser Secret Service protection and certainly qualified um and it looks like the bad guys who killed his uncle are trying to get him killed I think there's no other way to interpret it than the same people who killed his uncle are trying to kill him but make it look like an accident just by leaving him unprotected um and he thinks the government is being run by Anonymous men in lanyards meaning the CIA basically all right and then when the hjge twins said quote sounds like our democracy is dead this is what RFK Jr said about our democracy about the United States RFK Jr about the United States quote Yeah it's Kabuki theater that we don't have a republic and that we haven't had it for a long time now that's what I've been telling you right that I think the Republic ended probably in the 60s and that the anonymous men with lanyards have clearly been running things since then and RFK Jr's exactly the same page now I think he influenced me more than I got it from anywhere else so it's not a coincidence I guess well let's see the rock said he would not uh endorse Biden I think you already heard that but uh uh Aon rupar called it a cowardly word salad thing to say now what was the word salad what what the Rock said he he didn't want to uh endorse Biden this time because he did last time because he said it caused uh cause him something that tears me up in my guts which is division how was that unclear where's the word solid he said supporting Biden C caused division now I interpreted that as division in his personal life meaning that he couldn't hang out with his buddies without being mocked I'm just read that that's a little mind reading on my part I don't know that but but that's what it feels like that maybe he got too much push back from his you know menly manly men uh fans who are more likely to be Republican anyway um I saw Mike cernovich saying that some of these people who uh people like me keep talking about are not what I think they're not organic so the Rock and Bill Maher and um anybody else I think there a few others oh Char leag the god um so I think Mike thinks it's more of some kind of a a trick or an OP or something um the way I look at is it doesn't matter whether it's an OP or not what matters is it's creating a social proof and it's making it safe for other people who might be saying hey I'm starting to think the problems on our side that they could say it out loud because the rock said it or Charlamagne said it it's a lot easier for a Democrat to say something anti- Dei or think something anti- Dei if they know somebody that is famous for being on their team just called it garbage in public or if they thought they were voting for Less division with when they got Biden but now the rock told them no it's actually more division so just hearing it from somebody on their own team is a whole different persuasion than hearing it from the other team if the other team says that you just put up your walls and go blah blah blah other team but if it's coming from inside your house RFK junr of the rock Charlamagne the God and Bill Mah to name a few um I think that that's persuasive in the social proof sense so whether or not any of these people are working some kind of an OP which I don't I don't quite know how to connect those dots to make it anything but organic I think it's organic I think they have different reasons just four people with four completely different reasons but uh that they're just willing to say something that would have been harder to say a year ago all right Margaret Sullivan writing in the guardian uh is perplexed that the public is not understanding how good the economy is and thinks that uh you know the journalists have to do a better job of selling the economy so that Biden can look better now aside from the fact that this is obviously just a pure Democrat here is a real problem do journalists think that they're capable of writing about the economy does Margaret suvin think she's capable of understanding the economy journalists are the last people who should be writing about the economy now if you're if you're Economist and and you write that's fine because if you're an economist and you're also a writer then you're going to have some good opinions like let's say Krugman come on you're not going to let me say that without pushing me back Krugman it's a punchline you're famous for being one of the most wrong economists in all the world and Margaret Sullivan pointed to uh Krugman as you know an example of somebody who's trying to set people right imagine being a Democrat and thinking that Krugman is your stand your gold standard for accurate economic assessments do they really believe that do they not know that he's just a Democrat and that anything he says starts from being a Democrat and then he can work the economics into his story how how do they not notice that well anyway let me tell you what's true margar Sullivan would you be aware that the reason the uh jobs are growing so quickly is because we just came off a pandemic would she be smart enough to know that would she be smart enough to know that the great jobs numbers like RFK JR says are not really so great is she going to tell you that those numbers will certainly be revised because it's an election year and the people reporting them are all in the bag for Democrats do you think the journalist would know that and if she knew it would she report it do you think the journalist knows that Krugman has not gotten everything right do you think she knows that the reason the GDP is doing well and even employment I would say is that the government is spending itself you know into Oblivion and death spiral and buying too much too many weapons for war yeah we're spending a lot the government the government spending is you know a huge part of that anyway um do you think that uh Margaret Sullivan knows that affordability is a better measure of the economy then your wages went up 4% do you think she knows that do do you think she knows that your 4% wage increase doesn't let you move out of your parents' house that's the issue you can't buy a house can't live on your own can't start a family if you can't reproduce your economy is completely broken maybe there's more than that that's broken but if your people stopped reproducing because of money your economy is not only not good it's fatal let me say that again the current economy is discouraging reproduction that's fatal for the entire country guaranteed so would Margaret solvent say yeah but your wages are up 4% and employment looks good with all these part-time jobs would she be able to you know see what's really going on a journalist not an economist would she know that college expenses are so ridiculous that the old way of getting ahead doesn't work it's just unavailable basically for more people does she know that even though the statistics look good when people fill up their tank of gas and it's three figures you don't forget that last time I did a fill up over $100 was it ever $100 under Trump ever I don't think it was was it yeah so I don't I'm not looking at what happened with the price of aluminum I'm looking at my gas when I buy groceries and I and I look at the the grocery bill does that look cheap to me or does it look like 40% higher than it was on Trump now I don't care they went down 2% on the Cucumber since yesterday I just look at my number and it's just big old number that I'd never seen until Biden was the president all right so basically uh journalists shouldn't even write about the economy if they understand it so poorly and if they're looking to their own Economist to give them what's true they're being looking at the Krugman types who are not economists per se they're more like political figures and writers who happen to have some economic experience all right Holman Jenkins has a Wall Street Journal opinion piece about the uh upcoming October disinformation plan that we all know is coming all right so he mentions that in 2016 the you know Russian collusion 20120 was the laptop story and now we're doing with the January 6 Insurrection hoax and the it's the end of democracy hoax um here's what here's how you know that the CIA is behind the January Insurrection hoax I don't think you've ever heard this before who would be the greatest experts in our country about whether an Insurrection did happen at least attempted or or it didn't happen that would be the CIA because they literally are in the business of staging insurrections in other countries so they would certainly be the experts to know if this was or was not wouldn't you love to have them give you an opinion but I don't remember hearing them the only ones I remember are the ones like you know Brennan and Clapper and the ones who are you know clearly illegitimate Liars you know the confirmed Liars anyway I don't know if we have to wait for a new hoax or if they'll just use January 6 and their Insurrection hes to do it uh the Biden Administration is making it harder to fire bureaucrats which presumably uh is because they expect Trump to be president and to clean house so they're doing some kind of little technical change that would change the designation of some people to make them impossible to fire so that Trump would be handicapped by having all disloyal people on his staff or you know in the government great great terrific what what exactly is the benefit of making it harder to fire people who are not doing a good job or you can't trust what's the benefit of that I can't think one well here's some interesting news uh two dozen of the January 6 protesters have filed a lawsuit against the Capitol Police for all of their uh alleged uh violent and historic gross indifference dereliction of Dy and and injury and all that now I don't know if anything will come from that but it's more evidence that Republicans have grown a spine and they've realized that if they don't fight back they will be law fired out of existence and so it appears that a number of prominent and Powerful Republicans have banded together uh probably there's somebody funding this my my guess is there's some external Force who's putting the money up to make this lawsuit happen and uh so it appears that Republicans have developed a an infrastructure for funding legal responses and that feels important because that that's definitely mutually assured destruction and it looks like looks like Republicans are going to have to destroy the careers and lives of uh maybe dozens of Democrats uh some of them won't deserve it but it probably is a necessary probably a necessary step to get balance uh let's see so four-term Louisiana Republican clay Higgins um he said that uh he's claiming that the FBI agents entrapped the US capital riers on January 6 so he says that they brought in a big you bunch of ghost buses and um that they're guilty of all that now here's the thing the government apparently will not tell us how many of their people were on the ground day that's still true right the FBI has never told us how many of the agents were there can you confirm that I think that's true they haven't told us and what can you conclude from the fact that you know somewh there I don't think there's any question that they were there I don't I don't even think anybody's doubting that it would only be a question of how many if there were three people you say oh okay they didn't have that much influence if it was 50 people then you might assume that the reason was not to stop things or watch things but to cause things because that's a lot of people so the fact that the government has not confirmed how many of their FBI agents were there I think any non-transparency from the government has to be seen as guilt so I would treat it as a confession if they don't tell you how many FBI agents are there that's all you need to know your working assumption should be oh there were a lot of them and they were there for nefarious purposes and they probably caused this up and they're they're part of the brainwashing so that's my working assumption now uh may I do a a impression of a Democrat hearing me say that but Scott show your proof where's all your proof okay you're not listening to me when the government won't show its proof they don't have the Assumption of Innocence they the Assumption of guilt so non-transparency from your government is a confession non-transparency is a confession same with the elections all right um and then somebody cleverly said to me so Scott uh because I also said it's the worst case scenario if they're not telling you something it's you could assume the worst case scenario and somebody said what about the UFO stuff the the government won't admit we have UFOs so is it a worst case scenario there good question and the answer is it depends what you think is the worst case scenario if you think the worst case scenario is that aliens are going to kill us well okay that that would be pretty bad but I assume the aliens are not real so that the worst case scenario is that the CIA has been telling alien stories forever whenever they want to distract us that's the worst case scenario for me because the worst case realistic scenario does not involve actual aliens it's not really realistic but the worst case real life scenario is that the CIA has been intentionally diverting our attention with alien stories which by the way historically we know they have done that we just don't we don't have confirmation that they're doing it today but we do have written confirmation they've done it in the past use UFO as a diversion well can we can we uh be honest enough to mock Biden's all female White House comms team so his Communications team when he formed it was uh all women I think there were nine nine principles in the group you know probably with lesser staffers there too but all nine were women and pretty high level of diversity within the women as well and they were quite proud of that and uh I think we would all agree they have the worst comms team of any president ever I mean just laughably bad so at what point can we call Biden's Administration the Dei government because a lot of what we're seeing in terms of incompetence is really exactly what we warned which has nothing to do with anybody's genetics and nothing to do with anybody's culture that there might be just not enough people to go around if everybody wanted to improve their diversity you just you're going to have to you know go deeper in the less qualified people just to meet your diversity goal now do you know who doesn't believe that well never mind I'm going to skip that one anyway um Tony balinski balinski he's going to sue representative uh Democrat representative Daniel Goldman for allegedly defaming him Daily Caller reporting that now I don't have an opinion about whether that's a worthy lawsuit here's what I do have an opinion about I'm guessing that the same well organized Republicans who are behind other lawsuits are behind this I doubt Tony balinsky would pay his own money to pursue a a defamation case that probably won't work defamation is really hard to prove it's not the sort of thing you do with your own money it is the sort of thing you do if some rich Republican said I'll pay for the whole thing and if you're mad enough maybe you can get your revenge so that's what's happening so it's a good Trend that the Republicans are going full uh full legal War now and apparently even Democrat judges are noticing that the Democrats have gone too far so there's a story about a federal judge a uh Democrat appointed judge who just went off on the hunter Biden uh related subpoenas cases so US District Judge Anna Rays a Biden appointee to the federal court and she just spent an hour saying that the justice department attorneys uh were Hypocrites for instructing two other lawyers to not comply with the house subpoena and this Democrat judge says all right let me understand Peter Navaro is in jail for the thing you're saying you want to do now explain how that works you just put Peter navaru in jail for the exact same thing and now you think that your two lawyers should walk free how make make that make sense and apparently she just went off on them because it's so obviously a non a non-justice process I mean it's obvious to her that the legal system has been co-opted I would say based on her words it seems obvious that she's not trusting the Department of Justice so there's that so maybe other people are noticing too here are some you didn't know about um I I I'm not sure this is Pro yet so I'm not happy about the equality of the sources for this story but I'll report it as long as you know that can't confirm this is entirely true but the story goes like this that Israel is using uh facial recognition in Gaza and with the Palestinians to determine who the uh Hamas militant terrorists are and part of that is a AI program working in the back so it's not it's not just facial recognition it's also activity so if you let's say were on a Whats.
App group with some terrorists the AI would say well there's a good chance you're a terrorist too um so they would look at your lifestyle your travel you know anything they could find out about you your social media and then they would create a list the AI would of probable terrorists or probable Hamas you know militants and then they would wait now this is the claim and it's a little it's a little too on the nose for me meaning it sounds exactly like something Israel's enemies would make up out of nothing so I'm not I'm not there believing it all yet I'm just reporting that it's in the news and the report is that once they use their Ai and their facial recognition and they know who they want to Target they wait for that person to go to their Residence at night and they bomb the whole residence and kill the family now the allegation is that Israel knows it's doing this and knows that its AI will be wrong say 10% of the time and that 10% of the time they're not only not killing a Hamas operative but they're killing the family of the person who is also not a Hos person so that's the allegation against them and then there's a further allegation that they're using uh Google product as part of that so part of the Google facial stuff I guess Google can group people by face so that has something to do with what they're doing so I would be suspicious of this story um because it's a little too perfect you like it it brings in the headlines of the AI and facial recognition and you know people want to make that evil and then it uh you know brings in this other story about um bombing the wrong people and bombing the residents and stuff like that it it kind of conveniently ties together too many popular things for me to feel comfortable with the story yeah all right so you can believe that one or not um but let me ask you this question suppose it's all true and that the Israelis look as somebody who is 90% likely to be a militant and that they do actually wait until they're in their house would that be wrong because if they think they're probably killing a bad guy and they've accepted some collateral damage to do it that's not a lot different than war in general I mean you you you'd have to make your argument but it's not that different than just everything that happens in war because you know when you're bombing a city for example you know you're killing civilians and you know that you you're doing it intentionally in the sense that it's unavoidable intentional meaning unavoidable not not you wanted to do it I don't know and when you assume that the Hamas person has weaponized his family um there's a small distinction between the actual gun holder and the teenage sons who you know want to follow in their footsteps and you know the mom who raised them so you could make the argument that U blowing up those homes is just part of normal military action if it's happening at all um I don't know what the odds are I give it a 50/50 I think the best I could do is 50% chance likely to be true coin flip and the coin flip is because there's nothing to depend on in the story it's a very undependable story you know hidden sources yeah it just doesn't quite add up all right and then uh there's some I guess America the Biden Administration is pressing Israel to uh let some civilians get back into the north of Gaza now is that real or does the United States not understand what's happening here they're not going to just let everybody go back what would be the point of even having a war if you're going to let them go back and just rebuild their the whole problem whatever is going to happen and I certainly don't know but it's not going to be hey let's just build back and all you you peaceful civilians go live in piece I don't know what's going to happen my I'd like to make a prediction here's a future conspiracy theory prediction I don't think I don't think Israel can say out loud what the real plan is which is not to resettle it that's I'm just speculating not based on any information so if it were me and I was trying to sell this story without actually saying it out loud that we're not going to let people in you have to come up with some other reason you can't just say well yeah it's mostly you know women and children and stuff but we're not going to let you you know live in peace where you used to live can't really say that here's something you could say uh sadly there's been an environmental disaster the water system has been polluted darn it and there's so much um cancer causing uh dust in the air from all the bombing and asbestos I'm just making this up that it would be irresponsible for us to let anybody go live there because it's just too dangerous so you better stay safe and stay in your refugee camps or wherever go to another country maybe so I'm looking for a fake environmental claim that's my prediction that Israel will make a fake Environmental Al claim to prevent people from moving back that's my guess so we we we'll watch now by the way it might not be fake it could be there's legitimately a environmental you know emergency there I mean why wouldn't there be I can't imagine that anything you're going to breathe is going to be good for you for a long time I can't believe that any if you're digging around in the rubble you know trying to clean up I can't believe that's going to be good for you like I don't I don't know what kind of microbes and bugs and germs they got in all that debris but I can't be good all right ladies and gentlemen that's all I had for you today on this fine weekend thanks for joining let's keep watching the gaslighting show I'm going to say goodbye to the main platforms here and stick with the locals people because they get extra because they're subscribers if you want to get extra too the pre-show and the after show join locals Scott adams.
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reborn you would be seeing that the boss
is hiring a batshit crazy uh woman to
work in the
office and uh the staff is wondering why
he didn't
notice and the boss says he's bad at
reading faces anyway you'd see that if
you were subscriber on either X or the
locals platform the other day I was
looking through some boxes just trying
to organize some of my old stuff and I
found my hypnosis
diploma it was
1981 The Clement clont if you want to
want the French pronunciation the clont
school of hypnosis in San Francisco
doesn't exist anymore but it
did and number of people had questions
about that because I posted the
diploma and I saw that James pison said
to me he said hypnosis in quotes as the
masses Define it isn't real Scott sorry
to burst your sengali crave bubble
suggestibility is the actual and closest
thing to hypnosis that is currently
measurable and actionable by science but
keep on keeping with your master Juju
sudu
science
excellent have I ever told you that if
anybody could figure out what Hypno disc
con actually
do you would kill us
all so I want more of this I want I want
more of James saying your powers are not
real yeah it's completely safe to listen
to everything you say you could not
possibly hypnotize me number of other
people piled in and said Scott my mind
is far too strong to be hypnotized to
which I
say excellent so so what you're saying
is you wouldn't know if you were being
hypnotized cuz your mind's too strong
you can't even conceive of it yeah if
you think you can't be
hypnotized there's a good chance you
already
were anyway uh one of the things that uh
I was asked is how long after I took my
hypnosis class did my career take a
change for the better and the answer is
1981 is when I got the diploma 1988 is
when I submitted dilber comics for
syndication so six years later but uh
the point I wanted to make is that um
hypnosis skills grow over time because
what you do is you combine it with other
things you pick up about persuasion and
influence and it's all it all becomes
one big larger bag of
tricks so just getting your hypnosis
degree does not give you a superpower
right away
but if you check back 20 years
later that person is almost certainly
going to be doing well so it's it's
something that builds over
time well the sadness trolls keep keep
coming up um I'm going to tell you the
the tell for the sadness
trolls you you probably don't have them
I think they only hit the larger
accounts that they're trying to
discourage from spending time on X but
the sadness trolls have two tells which
makes them hilarious because when they
show up as just artificial people then
you don't have to worry about what they
say so one of the Tells is they have a
small account and they're definitely not
my followers or fans but they follow me
that's the first tell they don't agree
with anything I say and they have tiny
little accounts but they follow me now
they the reason they do that is that
they'll get an alert as soon as I post
and they go in first
so part of the Troll game the
professionals I assume these are
organized I don't think these are
individuals they they make sure that
they follow you so that they can get
there
first if there's one thing I can tell
you there's no Democrats who are
following me
organically I don't think there's any
like just none because they don't want
to be exposed to you know unpleasant
thoughts but the trolls don't mind
because they they want to respond as as
soon as possible so the first thing I do
was when I see one of these trollish
accounts I always look to see if they
follow me always well not always 90% of
the time the other thing is they have a
name that has several uh numbers at the
end like they couldn't be bothered to
test to find a real good name they took
one like Jackson X5 321
3265 now who would open a real
account and accept the default weird
number name only a troll and the reason
the troll would do it is because they're
in a hurry and they have multiple
accounts and it doesn't really matter to
them because they're not trying to send
a true impression of who they are
they're trolls they're they're
artificial the other thing is that they
often have little American
flags uh so that they look like they
might not be Democrat trolls
the the ones that are actually just real
people who are also trolling you they
usually have the little blue wave in
there or or a Ukrainian
flag that those might actually be real
people but the ones who pretend that
maybe they're just
Patriots those are the trolls anyway
that's how you tell them so they're very
active more and because it's the
political season and it's a real thing
by the way I don't know I don't know if
it it do you all know that's a real
thing that the trolls are literally paid
do you all know that's real because it
might sound like it's some weird
conspiracy theory I'm giving you but
that's all demonstrated that's what we
know who did it the last time we know
who was in charge you know it's a
well-known understood
process well did you know that uh that
Imperial College in London figured out
how to genetically engineer bacteria to
make vegan leather
so it's not real leather but it's
bacteria and I guess the bacteria can
also change its color so you can make
yourself a a black wallet or a or brown
wallet I guess and that'll save a whole
bunch of animals and then we won't have
to use artificial colors anyway I don't
know if you want a wallet made out of
bacteria you might have one pretty
soon uh Elon mus I don't know in this
video was it might have been a while ago
I just saw a video of him walking with
uh some celebrity I can't remember and
he was explaining that Tesla uh it Tesla
can't build 100 Giga factories but if
other big companies were building them
they you'd only need a 100 gigafactories
to power the entire world now the
gigafactories are the big battery
storage facilities and they they would
have to be enormous we're talking about
you know bigger than the Empire State
Building sort of thing enormous
facilities but if you built 100 of them
you would essentially have a sustainable
energy forever presuming that you set up
an a commensurate amount of solar panels
to charge the
batteries do you believe
that I'm just leing a comment sounds
like BS I don't
know here's the thing if you don't
believe it you're betting against Elon
Musk ability to engineer and do
math are you are you comfortable doing
that I'm not I'm not comfortable saying
that he got the math
wrong I feel like he spends some time
you maybe it's exactly what he does and
you don't do for a living He figures
that stuff out so I'm going to say it's
probably more likely true than not but I
would um I would add that we don't know
what the environmental situation is and
what happens well the old batteries and
the old solar panels and that's an issue
might be solvable but it's certainly an
issue anyway I like to put that out
there as some optimism that if you added
a nuclear power to
that well you wouldn't need if you had
nuclear power you don't need the
batteries so anyway everything's moving
in the right direction and we could
solve climate change in probably five
years if every if all the big companies
said we'll we'll chip in we'll build a
gigafactory well in other updates uh
we'll get to the politics in a minute um
bri. the prince of fakes you know him on
the X account um he's inventing a uh sex
toy that can also talk dirty to you
using
AI so he's using he's using Advanced
tools to develop this sextoy and
presumably you'll be able to send it for
manufacturing and and he's been testing
it down on X so you can see the whole
process from beginning then it's kind of
fascinating to see what one person can
do so we we currently have a situation
where one person with one
computer can build a whole commercial
product now I guess we could always do
that it's you know we've been able to do
that for a while you'd have to send it
down to have a prototype made and that
sort of thing but you basically be your
own company just one person and and he's
modeling that one person building an
industry it's just fun to watch even if
you don't care about the product it's
just fun to watch somebody who has lots
of skills put them together and see if
they they can do a
thing well here's one thing I can tell
you about my
audience I'm seeing some funny memes go
by in the locals comments uh
you're not watching me if you're in
Brazil unless you have a VPN I guess but
Brazil has censored the locals um feed
so if you're on the locals platform you
you can't be watched in
Brazil now let me ask you this do you
think the Brazilians came up with that
on their
own do do you think the Brazilian
government said oh we got to gotta block
that locals
platform I doubt it sort of feels like
maybe our government might have been a
little bit behind that so it's illegal
to watch me in Brazil to which I
say
excellent excellent hey
Brazilians guess what you can't
watch why do you think they won't let
you watch me Brazilians do you think
they won't let you watch me because
they're they're trying to
monitor uh the poor quality
entertainment
and they've decided oh that's that's
just not good entertainment can't watch
that guy you think that's why I'm
blocked
nope nope well and the other the other
question is is it about me or is it
about somebody else who's on
locals because you know it could be
somebody else who's on
locals but it's the same issue they're
not blocking me because I'm wrong and
they're not blocking other people
because they're wrong they're only going
to block you if you're right
right it's it's it's telling the truth
that's the problem people lying is
everybody if they blocked people who
lied they'd have to close all of social
media because it's pretty much 80% lies
but locals is the special lies oh these
are the special kind we better block
these lies these are the the terrible
ones um no it's because it's the truth
and they're preventing the the truth
there there's no other way to look at
it all right let's here's my theme today
uh the gas lighting is not working so
well as you know you've been living in a
gas lit uh
environment and uh the gas lighters have
been telling you quite a few things for
example 2016 the election was largely
dominated by the Russia clusion hoax
that we know is a Democrat SL
intelligence
agency
hoax but in 2020 uh we had the hunters
lapt hoax oh that's a Russian Russian
hoax and then Biden ran on the fine
people
hoax so that's two elections in a row
dominated by
hoaxes and in both cases the Democrats
and the intelligence people created
them in 2024 just for consistency the
main theme is the January 6 hoax also
known as the Trump is a threat to
democracy hoax um which goes well with
the 91 indictment hoax now the 91
indictments really happened but if you
look at the quality of them and the
types of things he's indicted
for all looks like Oaks to me or an OP
if you
prefer and let me tell you if you have
three elections in a row um and all
three of them are quite obviously hoax
driven
events you can't say it's a
coincidence it would be more accurate to
say that uh gaslighting the public is
the operating system of the country and
there is the most basic thing you need
to know about America is that nothing's
real it's the most important thing you
need to know that nothing's real and
when I say nothing I mean nothing about
politics you know and War which is
politics um so we'll give you some
examples that but I'd like to offer a
competing hypothesis to this so the
first hypothesis is that bad people are
intentionally making up uh rumors and
conspiracy theories and gasl in the
public
but I'd like to try out a little pattern
recognition for
you do you know how I always say that uh
Democrats appear mentally
ill but we don't really mention what
that mental illness is sometimes we say
TDS which is a real thing and a genuine
Illness but it seems deeper than that
doesn't it like there's something below
that that's causing that and I'd like to
suggest that if you were to look at the
dominant patterns coming from Democrats
you can actually identify the specific
mental
illness allow me to try
it did you have you noticed the Tucker
Carlson theory that they blame you for
what they're doing so whatever they're
doing they blame you for you've all seen
it what mental illness or condition is
that common to somebody blames you for
what they're doing but not just
once all the time all the time if if
you're uh late for dinner they say you
if they're late they say you're late if
they're cheating on you they say you're
cheating on them if they're mean to you
they say you're mean to them if uh if
they're giving you no attention they say
you're giving me no attention am I right
now 100% of people who have experienced
with narcissists will say oh yeah yeah
you can't even believe
it like if you see it once you say well
that's weird maybe just an odity but if
you're in a situation where over and
over and over again they're blaming you
of specifically what they're
doing that's
narcissism here's another element of
narcissism and see if you can find this
pattern a narcissist is only interested
in what you can do for
them am I right that's a basic
definition of a narcissist not even the
least bit interested in you it's what
can you do for me how can I get your
resources transer to me how can I get
all of your attention and all of your
you know everything to me what am I
doing for you
yeah it's what can you do for me in this
case the me would be
Democrats and the me would be hey let's
do some
Dei so that the things you have can be
transferred to
us why well because of all the
discriminating you do against us that's
why to which I say that's exactly the
opposite of what has been happening in
this country for 30 years white men have
been overtly directly massively
discriminated against for 30
years but what do the narcissists say
they say you're discriminating against
me and then they ask you to pay for it
that's exactly what narcissists do they
say you're the problem even though
you're the one the the narcissist is
doing all that and you're not and that
you must pay me for it like you owe me
there's something you better do to make
up for the fact that you're so bad even
though they're just
projecting now if you go down the the
line and see the consistency of it the
thing that you thought was socialism
probably
isn't the thing you thought was
socialism probably isn't there is some
of that and they're definitely Marxist
Etc so I'm not going to say it doesn't
exist but I think we're confusing the
narcissism which is you owe me because
you've been bad you better give me some
stuff with some kind of actual political
Theory because very few people have a
political Theory they just want stuff
and they're just sort of acting out
their projection plus their sense of
entitlement once you see it you can't
unsee
it now I've also made the observation
that a lot of the evil people in the
news you'll hear this terrible story
about somebody doing some woke thing
that's just evil and then you'll see a
picture of the person and they have
demonic
face you know I'm doing it now in case
you're listening to it I'm I'm going to
do the Demonic
face do you remember a judge Eng
Goran you look at his face and you the
first thing you think is what the hell
am I looking at there's something wrong
with your face it looks
demonic it literally looks demonic but
the Demonic part is just an
interpretation what it really looks like
is mentally
ill and specifically
narcissistic The
Narcissist I think their faces actually
reveal them sometimes not all the
time so if you think you're seeing
something that looks like demonic faces
you know that the eyes crazy eyes I
think it's just the narcissists all in
the same team and the narcissists are
telling you that you're such a bad
discriminator you better give your stuff
to the people you discriminated
against so that certainly uh is a big
part of the uh gaslighting but certainly
it's coming from the top on the Democrat
side the things that Republicans believe
that are not true usually Bubble Up From
The Bottom they're just some people or
persons who has a theory and other
people go ah I think I'll believe that
one and it's not
coordinated intelligence experts working
with the top of the Democrats to create
a hoax over the whole country you don't
really see that on the Republican side
but it's the normal operating system
we've seen it over three elections
already um of the
Democrats but it's not just them defense
secretary Mark esper has called Trump a
threat to
democracy look for the pattern what
exactly is a threat to democracy let me
think uh weaponizing uh these these uh
NGS and fake fact Checkers and the FBI
to suppress free speech on the other
side that's what I would call assault on
Democracy so while they were actively
taking away your uh free speech by
working with the social media Platforms
in the news they were complaining that
Trump is going to take away
democracy while they were doing it like
actively really hard working at it at
the same time if you look at the Georgia
case the Georgia mostly Republicans were
passing laws to tighten Security on
their election
system every Democrat voted against it
because why why would you vote against
tightening
security well it's because they don't
want a fair election because they're
trying to protect democracy by making
sure that you don't know exactly who
voted that's how they're going to
protect
democracy projection it's just
projection all
right here's another
one
um have you seen this too I turn on the
news there'll be a new poll about Biden
versus Trump and the poll will say Trump
is leading in uh six out of
seven um you know tight races or tight
States you know the Battleground States
and he's you know winning overall by
whatever number and then somebody will
say it to Biden or Biden's people and
they'll say you're looking at last
year's polls or last week's polls New
polls just came out uh Biden is ahead in
six out of seven polls to which I
say would that be in the newspaper or
something like there's not are you
saying that are you saying Fox News
wouldn't report that are are they just
skipping some polls is that happening
because I you know I also watch CNN and
MSNBC I haven't seen him display any
polls where Biden is leading in fact
they only talk about him being
behind is this is this pure
gaslighting where they actually just say
no Biden is actually heading the polls
you're looking at the wrong ones they
look right in your eyes and tell you
that they that there exist poles that
are the opposite of everything you've
seen how do they do that and their press
doesn't even call them out about it they
just say no the pools are the opposite
of what everything you've seen yeah
Biden's doing fine yep everything you've
seen is opposite of what you think you
saw the the level of gaslighting is
insane
now who lies like
that narcissists narcissists are the
only one who can who could punch you in
the stomach and say stop punching me in
the
stomach and you'd be like you literally
just punched me in the stomach and I've
literally never even touched you stop
punching me in the
stomach like to lie at that level look
you right in the eye and say no the
poles are all probid I don't know what
you're talking about
that's only narcissist that that is not
even normal politics even politicians
don't lie like that you know they they
say something more
weasy right they don't lie directly like
that on something that's the easiest
thing in the world to
Jack
narcissism all right um there's some
interesting charts going around Zack
Goldberg I think pulled them together
he's sort of an anti- wokeness
activist and
uh two charts one of them founds that uh
liberal white people have the following
belief that uh white people are far more
violent in the United States than black
people they're the they're the only
group that think that I don't think
black people think that only white
liberals so uh White conservatives don't
think
that only white liberals believe that
white people are more violent than black
Americans now it could be that they're
answering the question differently it
could be that they're including Wars and
colonization and slavery if you if you C
like the whole history of you know Wars
and colonization slavery white people
are definitely had on the
violence I'm going to give you that if
you just looked at total number of
people killed white people are right up
there we we're we're very competitive in
The Killing millions of people category
I'll give you that but if you're talking
about normal social violence in the
United States it's not even close the
actual numbers and I'm not making any
kind of genetic or cultural or any kind
of a comment I'm just saying those are
the numbers you know the the why of it
you know gets to a more interesting
question but we're not talking about the
why just the number
but it's worse than that it's not just
that but the um according to Zach's
charts that the same group The White
liberals believe that black Americans on
average have higher I than white
people now
again I'm not going to get into any
conversation about genetics or culture
or um systemic racism I think the the
question about the
cause is an interesting one that I'm not
going to talk about it's just the data
itself how in the world could you live
in
America and think that the data has
shown this stuff and there's only one
group that thinks it
now what would be true about this
group they're the crazi yeah they're the
craziest group they actually can't
they're actually seeing the world
backwards like upside down and Inside
Out fairly consistently everything they
see is the opposite of what is what is
actually
true well I'll tell you my own my own
theory
on
um you know differences in income let's
say income instead of IQ because IQ is
too divisive just say difference in
income to me the biggest the biggest
difference is that the school system
discriminates against black kids
to me that's the biggest thing now when
I say discriminates against them I just
mean because poor places have bad
schools teachers unions don't give you
much choice so there's not a free market
to give you options so it's more of a
teachers union has destroyed the ability
for anybody in a low-income area to get
a good
education so if you're starting from a
low income it's hard to climb
out all right um what else El do they
believe
um so on MSNBC last night uh Joy Reed
who is a as you know a disgruntled Trump
impersonator if you've seen her haircut
um she had a guest called Steve
Hassan who uh builds himself as a expert
on
Cults and the expert on
Cults uh said that the magga people are
a
cult now I've got a little bit of
insight about this
situation so stasan also interviewed me
I think it was during the 2016 cycle so
I had a long conversation with him and
he I think he might have been writing or
had finish his book on Cults but he
wanted to tie the the magga movement you
know make it a cult because he could
sell books and you know he was a cult
expert and very very democratic it seems
so here's what I learned number one the
cult expert grew up in a
cult the cult
expert grew up in a
cult so that's one of the things that
makes him an
expert the cult expert escaped that cult
good job now that now that's a sign of
credibility wouldn't you say if you
escaped a cult and then when immediately
to become a Democrat and just joined
another
cult without knowing
it
and so let me
describe uh what a cult is and I also
discovered that the cult expert actually
didn't know what a cult
was just think about that actually
doesn't know what a cult is because the
definition of a
cult is you know it's for the benefit of
the leader not the people you cut off
communication for the outside and you
punish people if they get outside of
your cult and you make sure that the
external information doesn't come
in that's the
Democrats the Democrats are literally
censoring information in like this
massive censoring operation involves Nos
and fact Checkers and the the fake media
and the intelligence
groups that's a cult a cult is actively
putting a lot of effort into making sure
you can't see the other argument look at
Brazil Brazil is literally censoring me
right now who's in The Cult now let's
say you're a uh a mega
Republican can you name any Republican
who doesn't have access to all the
information on the
left most of the arguments that the
Republicans make come from a full
understanding of what the other argument
is it's really an argument against the
other arguments which requires you to
know what the other arguments
are so the the magga people are fighting
for the First Amendment opposite of a
cult they have full access to all
information opposite of a cult and never
in my life have I heard anybody
ostracized for leaving the Republican
party and becoming a Democrat I mean at
the public level you know sort of a kins
injure thing they'll definitely get
mocked but in the regular public if your
neighbor if your neighbor decided to
re-register from Republican to
Democrat would you stop inviting them to
the
picnics no it doesn't work that way on
the right have have you heard about
dating apparently if you're a if you're
a Democrat and you see somebody in a
dating app who's a republican that's a
hard no I will not even associate with
the people outside my cult but it
doesn't work the other way the the
conservative men are for you know
they're still willing to to date anybody
who wants to date them so I would say
that the Democrats show all of these
signs of a cult based on the standard
definitions and then they they bring the
most hypnotized cult member on to
project and say the other people are in
a cult it's very
consistent now I was mocking him uh on X
Yesterday by showing a picture of his
wide eyes he's got the Charles Manson
eyes you know the wide eyes the crazy
eyes so oh there you go so somebody
saying their wife is a
liberal um yeah so that's another case
of gaslighting and uh projection but I
think the gaslighting wall is starting
to break here are three RFK Jr stories
um that he just made in the last day or
so so apparently RFK Jr doesn't believe
that January 6 was an
Insurrection and he's saying it
publicly so how would you explain if
you're a
Democrat that one of the most storied
and famous Democrat names who even if
you don't like him you know he's really
well researched and smart and he doesn't
just make stuff up as far as I
know and he's telling you there's no
real evidence this was an Insurrection
and he says for the same reasons so the
Republicans say well they came to an
Insurrection without guns I mean really
there there's no evidence of any
planning and they looked everywhere no
evidence of any planning at all you know
there were obviously 1% were bad people
and nobody's questioning
that all right so that's one thing our K
Jr said the other thing is he's calling
out the fake jobs report remember
yesterday I said I wasn't even going to
tell you what the numbers were on
employment because all employment
numbers are fake in an election year you
know the incumbent is always going to
fake
them but RFK Jr said the good news and
bad news the good news is that the
economy added 691 th000 jobs in March
bad news is that they're all part-time
jobs the full-time job actually fell by
6,000 so he's calling out his own team
for gaslighting the public on
economics so RFK Jr famous
Democrat is calling out the Democrats
for gaslighting on the Insurrection hoax
correctly and for gaslighting on the
fake job
numbers
correctly correctly and that he also
talked about the CIA killing Uncle JFK
and apparently he's friends RFK Jr is
friends with Woody harelson and Woody
Harrelson's dad according to RFK Jr is
one of the people who definitely was in
on the assassination of his uncle and
he's actually talked to Woody and Woody
confirms the whole
thing apparently Woody confirms his
father was part of the assassination and
it was just a CIA plot exactly like he
thought it
was
and RFK JR says the CIA by the way this
was on the uh the Hodge twins
podcast is it Hodes with an S is hjj
with an s on the end the hjge twins
Hodes give me a fact check on
that anyway those those guys are doing a
great
job um building the brand and also
having interesting guests and making
news so I recommend their
podcast
it's it's it's the Haj with no s on in
hjge twins so look for them and the RFK
Junior interview in particular is pretty
good um and he points out that the CIA
was behind Vietnam the CIA was behind
and the mafia worked together to try to
take out Castro because Mafia didn't
like the Castro closed their casinos in
Cuba and Kennedy points out accurately
that no one was punished for Killing
Kennedy no no one was punished for
it the members of our own government
killed the president and to this day got
away with it we even know who they were
and they still got away with
it and it's not even in the history
books not only did they get away with it
but history doesn't even record it you
know there's no kids learning this that
the CIA killed his
uncle um he also said so he said why
would they stop stop they beating the
intelligence people and whoever was
banned why would they stop doing things
if they get away with them they
overthrew 80 countries and the United
States and something's going on with
Brazil right why would they stop it's
totally
working good point RFK Jr also says that
Joe Biden is not in position of
possession of his faculties so an actual
Democrat saying no he's not in
possession and the argument he gives is
that he says that the Joe Biden he knows
and has known forever would have given
him Secret Service protection so RFK
junr didn't get Ser Secret Service
protection and certainly
qualified um and it looks like the bad
guys who killed his uncle are trying to
get him
killed I think there's no other way to
interpret it than the same people who
killed his uncle are trying to kill him
but make it look like an accident just
by leaving him
unprotected um
and he thinks the government is being
run by Anonymous men in lanyards meaning
the CIA
basically all
right and then when the hjge twins said
quote sounds like our democracy is dead
this is what RFK Jr said about our
democracy about the United
States RFK Jr about the United States
quote Yeah it's Kabuki
theater that we don't have a republic
and that we haven't had it for a long
time now that's what I've been telling
you right that I think the Republic
ended probably in the 60s and that the
anonymous men with lanyards have clearly
been running things since
then and RFK Jr's exactly the same page
now I think he influenced me more than I
got it from anywhere else so it's not a
coincidence I
guess well let's see the rock said he
would not uh endorse Biden I think you
already heard that but uh uh Aon rupar
called it a cowardly word salad thing to
say now what was the word salad what
what the Rock said he he didn't want to
uh endorse Biden this time because he
did last time because he said it caused
uh cause him something that tears me up
in my guts which is
division how was that unclear where's
the word
solid he said supporting Biden C caused
division now I interpreted that as
division in his personal life meaning
that he couldn't hang out with his
buddies without being
mocked I'm just read that that's a
little mind reading on my part I don't
know that but but that's what it feels
like that maybe he got too much push
back from his you know menly manly men
uh fans
who are more likely to be
Republican anyway um I saw Mike
cernovich saying that some of these
people who uh people like me keep
talking about are not what I think
they're not organic so the Rock and Bill
Maher
and um anybody else I think there a few
others oh Char leag the god um so I
think Mike thinks it's more of some kind
of a a
trick or an OP or something um the way I
look at is it doesn't matter whether
it's an OP or not what matters is it's
creating a social proof and it's making
it safe for other people who might be
saying hey I'm starting to think the
problems on our
side that they could say it out loud
because the rock said it or Charlamagne
said it it's a lot easier for a Democrat
to say something anti- Dei or think
something anti- Dei if they know
somebody that is famous for being on
their team just called it garbage in
public or if they thought they were
voting for Less division with when they
got Biden but now the rock told them no
it's actually more
division so just hearing it from
somebody on their own team is a whole
different persuasion than hearing it
from the other team if the other team
says that you just put up your walls and
go blah blah blah other team but if it's
coming from inside your
house RFK junr of the rock Charlamagne
the
God and Bill Mah to name a
few um I think that that's persuasive in
the social proof sense so whether or not
any of these people are working some
kind of an OP which I don't I don't
quite know how to connect those dots to
make it anything but organic I think
it's organic I think they have different
reasons just four people with four
completely different reasons but uh that
they're just willing to say something
that would have been harder to say a
year
ago all right Margaret Sullivan writing
in the
guardian uh is perplexed that the public
is not understanding how good the
economy is and thinks that uh you know
the journalists have to do a better job
of selling the economy so that Biden can
look better now aside from the fact that
this is obviously just a pure Democrat
here is a real problem
do journalists think that they're
capable of writing about the
economy does Margaret suvin think she's
capable of understanding the
economy journalists are the last people
who should be writing about the economy
now if you're if you're
Economist and and you write that's fine
because if you're an economist and
you're also a writer then you're going
to have some good opinions like let's
say
Krugman
come on you're not going to let me say
that without pushing me back Krugman
it's a
punchline you're famous for being one of
the most wrong economists in all the
world and Margaret Sullivan pointed to
uh Krugman as you know an example of
somebody who's trying to set people
right imagine being a Democrat and
thinking that Krugman is your stand your
gold standard for accurate economic
assessments do they really believe that
do they not know that he's just a
Democrat and that anything he says
starts from being a Democrat and then he
can work the economics into his story
how how do they not notice
that well
anyway let me tell you what's true
margar Sullivan would you be aware that
the reason the uh jobs are growing so
quickly is because we just came off a
pandemic
would she be smart enough to know that
would she be smart enough to know that
the great jobs numbers like RFK JR says
are not really so
great is she going to tell you that
those numbers will certainly be revised
because it's an election year and the
people reporting them are all in the bag
for Democrats do you think the
journalist would know that and if she
knew it would she report it do you think
the journalist knows that Krugman has
not gotten everything
right do you think she knows that the
reason the GDP is doing well and even
employment I would say is that the
government is spending itself you know
into Oblivion and death
spiral and buying too much too many
weapons for war yeah we're spending a
lot the government the government
spending is you know a huge part of
that anyway um do you think that uh
Margaret Sullivan knows that
affordability is a better measure of the
economy then your wages went up
4% do you think she knows that do do you
think she knows that your 4% wage
increase doesn't let you move out of
your parents' house that's the issue you
can't buy a house can't live on your own
can't start a family if you can't
reproduce your economy is completely
broken maybe there's more than that
that's broken but if your people stopped
reproducing because of money
your economy is not only not
good it's
fatal let me say that again the current
economy is discouraging
reproduction that's fatal for the entire
country
guaranteed so would Margaret solvent say
yeah but your wages are up 4% and
employment looks good with all these
part-time jobs would she be able to
you know see what's really going on a
journalist not an
economist would she know that college
expenses are so ridiculous that the old
way of getting ahead doesn't work it's
just unavailable basically for more
people does she know that even though
the statistics look good when people
fill up their tank of gas and it's three
figures you don't forget
that last time I did a fill up over $100
was it ever $100 under
Trump
ever I don't think it was was it yeah so
I don't I'm not looking at what happened
with the price of
aluminum I'm looking at my gas when I
buy groceries and I and I look at the
the grocery
bill does that look cheap to me or does
it look like 40% higher than it was on
Trump now I don't care they went down 2%
on the Cucumber since
yesterday I just look at my number and
it's just big old number that I'd never
seen until Biden was the
president all right so basically uh
journalists shouldn't even write about
the economy if they understand it so
poorly and if they're looking to their
own Economist to give them what's true
they're being looking at the Krugman
types who are not economists per se
they're more like political figures and
writers who happen to have some economic
experience all right Holman Jenkins has
a Wall Street Journal opinion piece
about the uh upcoming October
disinformation plan that we all know is
coming all right so he mentions that in
2016 the you know Russian collusion
20120 was the laptop story and now we're
doing with the January 6 Insurrection
hoax and the it's the end of democracy
hoax
um here's what here's how you know that
the CIA is behind the January
Insurrection
hoax I don't think you've ever heard
this
before who would be the greatest experts
in our country about whether an
Insurrection did happen at least
attempted or or it didn't happen that
would be the CIA because they literally
are in the business of staging
insurrections
in other countries so they would
certainly be the experts to know if this
was or was not wouldn't you love to have
them give you an opinion but I don't
remember hearing them the only ones I
remember are the ones like you know
Brennan and Clapper and the ones who are
you know clearly
illegitimate Liars you know the
confirmed
Liars anyway I don't know if we have to
wait for a new hoax or if they'll just
use January 6 and their Insurrection hes
to do
it uh the Biden Administration is making
it harder to fire
bureaucrats which presumably uh is
because they expect Trump to be
president and to clean house so they're
doing some kind of little technical
change that would change the designation
of some people to make them impossible
to fire so that Trump would be
handicapped by having all disloyal
people on his staff or you know in the
government great
great terrific what what exactly is the
benefit of making it harder to fire
people who are not doing a good job or
you can't
trust what's the benefit of
that I can't think one well here's some
interesting news uh two dozen of the
January 6 protesters have filed a
lawsuit against the Capitol Police for
all of their uh alleged uh violent and
historic gross indifference dereliction
of Dy and and injury and all that now I
don't know if anything will come from
that but it's more evidence that
Republicans have grown a spine and
they've realized that if they don't
fight back they will be law fired out of
existence and so it appears that a
number of prominent and Powerful
Republicans have banded together uh
probably there's somebody funding this
my my guess is there's some external
Force who's putting the money up to make
this lawsuit happen and uh so it appears
that Republicans have developed a an
infrastructure for funding legal
responses and that feels important
because that that's definitely mutually
assured destruction and it looks like
looks like Republicans are going to have
to destroy the careers and lives of uh
maybe dozens of Democrats uh some of
them won't deserve it but it probably is
a necessary probably a necessary step to
get
balance
uh let's see so four-term Louisiana
Republican clay
Higgins um he said that
uh he's claiming that the FBI agents
entrapped the US capital riers on
January 6 so he says that they brought
in a big you bunch of ghost buses and um
that they're guilty of all that now
here's the thing the government
apparently will not tell us how many of
their people were on the ground day
that's still true right the FBI has
never told us how many of the agents
were
there can you confirm that I think
that's true they haven't told us and
what can you conclude from the fact that
you know somewh there I don't think
there's any question that they were
there I don't I don't even think
anybody's doubting that it would only be
a question of how many if there were
three people you say oh okay they didn't
have that much influence if it was 50
people
then you might assume that the reason
was not to stop things or watch things
but to cause things because that's a lot
of people so the fact that the
government has not
confirmed how many of their FBI agents
were there I think any non-transparency
from the government has to be seen as
guilt so I would treat it as a
confession if they don't tell you how
many FBI agents are there that's all you
need to know your working assumption
should be oh there were a lot of them
and they were there for nefarious
purposes and they probably caused this
up and they're they're part of the
brainwashing so that's my working
assumption now uh may I do a a
impression of a Democrat hearing me say
that but Scott show your proof where's
all your proof okay you're not listening
to me when the government won't show its
proof they don't have the Assumption of
Innocence they the Assumption of guilt
so non-transparency from your government
is a
confession non-transparency is a
confession same with the
elections all
right um and then somebody cleverly said
to me so Scott uh because I also said
it's the worst case scenario if they're
not telling you something it's you could
assume the worst case scenario and
somebody said what about the UFO stuff
the the government won't admit we have
UFOs so is it a worst case scenario
there good question and the answer is it
depends what you think is the worst case
scenario if you think the worst case
scenario is that aliens are going to
kill us well okay that that would be
pretty bad but I assume the aliens are
not real so that the worst case scenario
is that the CIA has been telling alien
stories forever whenever they want to
distract us that's the worst case
scenario for me because the worst case
realistic scenario does not involve
actual aliens it's not really realistic
but the worst case real life scenario is
that the CIA has been intentionally
diverting our attention with alien
stories which by the way historically we
know they have done that we just don't
we don't have confirmation that they're
doing it today but we do have written
confirmation they've done it in the past
use UFO as a
diversion well can we can we uh be
honest enough to mock Biden's all female
White House comms team so his
Communications team when he formed it
was uh all women I think there were
nine nine principles in the group you
know probably with lesser staffers there
too but all nine were women and pretty
high level of diversity within the women
as well and they were quite proud of
that
and uh I think we would all agree they
have the worst comms team of any
president ever I mean just laughably
bad so at what point can we call Biden's
Administration the Dei government
because a lot of what we're seeing in
terms of
incompetence is really exactly what we
warned which has nothing to do with
anybody's genetics and nothing to do
with anybody's culture that there might
be just not enough people to go around
if everybody wanted to improve their
diversity you just you're going to have
to you know go deeper in the less
qualified people just to meet your
diversity
goal now do you know who doesn't believe
that well never mind I'm going to skip
that
one anyway um Tony balinski balinski
he's going to sue representative uh
Democrat representative Daniel Goldman
for allegedly defaming him Daily Caller
reporting that now I don't have an
opinion about whether that's a worthy
lawsuit here's what I do have an opinion
about I'm
guessing that the same well organized
Republicans who are behind other
lawsuits are behind this I doubt Tony
balinsky would pay his own money to
pursue a a defamation case that probably
won't work defamation is really hard to
prove it's not the sort of thing you do
with your own money it is the sort of
thing you do if some rich Republican
said I'll pay for the whole thing and if
you're mad enough maybe you can get your
revenge so that's what's happening so
it's a good Trend that the Republicans
are going full uh full legal War
now and apparently even Democrat judges
are noticing that the Democrats have
gone too far so there's a story about a
federal judge a uh Democrat appointed
judge who just went off on the hunter
Biden uh related subpoenas cases so US
District Judge Anna
Rays a Biden appointee to the federal
court and she just spent an hour saying
that the justice department
attorneys uh were Hypocrites for
instructing two other lawyers to not
comply with the house
subpoena and this Democrat judge says
all right let me understand Peter Navaro
is in jail for the thing you're saying
you want to
do now explain how that
works you just put Peter navaru in jail
for the exact same thing and now you
think that your two lawyers should walk
free how make make that make sense and
apparently she just went off on them
because it's so obviously a non a
non-justice process I mean it's obvious
to her that the legal system has been
co-opted I would say based on her words
it seems obvious that she's not trusting
the Department of
Justice so there's
that so maybe other people are noticing
too here are some you didn't know about
um I I I'm not sure this is Pro yet so
I'm not happy about the equality of the
sources for this story but I'll report
it as long as you know that can't
confirm this is entirely true but the
story goes like this that Israel is
using uh facial recognition in Gaza and
with the Palestinians to determine who
the uh Hamas militant terrorists
are and part of that is a AI program
working in the back so it's not it's not
just facial recognition it's also
activity so if you let's say were on a
WhatsApp group with some
terrorists the AI would say well there's
a good chance you're a terrorist too um
so they would look at your lifestyle
your travel you know anything they could
find out about you your social media and
then they would create a list the AI
would of probable terrorists or probable
Hamas you know militants
and then they would wait now this is the
claim and it's a little it's a little
too on the nose for
me meaning it sounds exactly like
something Israel's enemies would make up
out of nothing so I'm not I'm not there
believing it all yet I'm just reporting
that it's in the
news and the report is that once they
use their Ai and their facial
recognition and they know who they want
to Target they wait for that person to
go to their Residence at night and they
bomb the whole residence and kill the
family now the allegation is that Israel
knows it's doing this and knows that its
AI will be wrong say 10% of the time and
that 10% of the time they're not only
not killing a Hamas operative but
they're killing the family of the person
who is also not a Hos person
so that's the allegation against them
and then there's a further allegation
that they're using uh Google product as
part of that so part of the Google
facial stuff I guess Google can group
people by
face so that has something to do with
what they're doing so I would be
suspicious of this
story um because it's a little too
perfect you like it it brings in the
headlines of the AI and facial
recognition and you know people want to
make that evil and then it uh you know
brings in this other story about um
bombing the wrong people and bombing the
residents and stuff like that it it kind
of conveniently ties together too many
popular things for me to feel
comfortable with the
story yeah all right so you can believe
that one or not
um but let me ask you this question
suppose it's all true and that the
Israelis look as somebody who is 90%
likely to be a militant and that they do
actually wait until they're in their
house would that
be
wrong
because if they think they're probably
killing a bad
guy and they've accepted some collateral
damage to do it that's not a lot
different than war in
general I mean you you you'd have to
make your argument but it's not that
different than just everything that
happens in war because you know when
you're bombing a city for example you
know you're killing
civilians and you know that you you're
doing it intentionally in the sense that
it's unavoidable intentional meaning
unavoidable not not you wanted to do
it I don't know and when you assume that
the Hamas person has weaponized his
family um there's a small distinction
between the actual gun holder and the
teenage sons who you know want to follow
in their footsteps and you know the mom
who raised them so you could make the
argument that U blowing up those homes
is just part of normal military action
if it's happening at
all um I don't know what the odds
are I give it a 50/50
I think the best I could do is 50%
chance likely to be true coin flip and
the coin flip is because there's nothing
to depend on in the story it's a very
undependable story you know hidden
sources yeah it just doesn't quite add
up all right and then uh there's
some I guess America the Biden
Administration is pressing Israel to uh
let some civilians get back into the
north of
Gaza
now is that real or does the United
States not understand what's happening
here they're not going to just let
everybody go back what would be the
point of even having a war if you're
going to let them go back and just
rebuild their the whole
problem whatever is going to happen and
I certainly don't know but it's not
going to be hey let's just build back
and all you you peaceful civilians go
live in
piece I don't know what's going to
happen my I'd like to make a prediction
here's a future conspiracy theory
prediction I don't think I don't think
Israel can say out loud what the real
plan is which is not to resettle it
that's I'm just
speculating not based on any information
so if it were me and I was trying to
sell this story without actually saying
it out loud that we're not going to let
people in you have to come up with some
other
reason you can't just say well yeah it's
mostly you know women and children and
stuff but we're not going to let you you
know live in peace where you used to
live can't really say that here's
something you could
say uh sadly there's been an
environmental
disaster the water system has been
polluted darn it and there's so much um
cancer causing uh dust in the air from
all the bombing and asbestos I'm just
making this up that it would be
irresponsible for
us to let anybody go live there because
it's just too dangerous so you better
stay safe and stay in your refugee camps
or wherever go to another country maybe
so I'm looking for a fake environmental
claim that's my
prediction that Israel will make a fake
Environmental Al claim to prevent people
from moving
back that's my guess so we we we'll
watch now by the way it might not be
fake it could be there's legitimately a
environmental you know emergency there I
mean why wouldn't there
be I can't imagine that anything you're
going to breathe is going to be good for
you for a long time I can't believe that
any if you're digging around in the
rubble you know trying to clean up I
can't believe that's going to be good
for you like I don't I don't know what
kind of microbes and bugs and germs they
got in all that
debris but I can't be good all right
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