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Episode 2436 CWSA 04/06/24

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Opening General Commentary

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. A…

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SimultaneousSip General Commentary

that is a cup or mug or a glass or tankard, chalice, and a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneou…

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MainContent Hypnosis & Influence

f 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…

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Tangent Persuasion

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 a…

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NewsReaction General Commentary

ve 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. T…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

ls 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…

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Closing General Commentary

bugs and germs they got in all that debris but it 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 b…

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

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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

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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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