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Episode 2452 CWSA 04/22/24

Episode #2452 Apr 22, 2024 1:45:56 29,834 views

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Opening General Commentary

Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization so far. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and there's never been a finer time in the history of the 13.9 billion years of this universe and before that. But if you'd like to take this up to a level that no one's ever seen…

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SimultaneousSip General Commentary

r, can or 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, the divine elixir of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Yeah, we're all good now. It's all c…

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NewsReaction AI & Technology

platform. One of them is Rowan Cheung, who's a good follow. He reports that Apple is reportedly building an LLM, so an AI that will be completely on the device. So your phone will not have to talk to anything to be smart. It will be AI on its own. And that could be a really big deal if you're not su…

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MainContent Confirmation Bias

rsational speed, it's going to be pretty awesome. And it will give you better privacy, presumably. Are you following the story of Grace Price? She's the teenage kid who's, well, I don't know if teenage is, is she still a kid? I don't know if she's 18 or not. But she's got a documentary about how o…

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MainContent Energy & Mood Management

doing. But I'm aware of it. You know that sometimes the best you can do about your own bias is just to do a little audit and say to yourself, all right, if this situation were a little different or if this person telling me were a little different, would I be receiving this differently? And the answ…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

uct is. They tell you why they bought it and what it's good for and why they're going to buy it again. And apparently the man cave turned into a lot of people who don't have anybody to talk to during the day. It has something like a personal experience because when I do the man caves I'm just inter…

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NewsReaction Politics as Persuasion

u couldn't use it. But suppose you open it up and it was, let's say, four to six charts that just showed you the direction of things. And let's say one of the charts is crime. So you could click on it and then you could explode it by city. Maybe you could look at it by Democrat versus Republican. T…

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NewsReaction Economics & Finance

g that most people, literally a majority, think is not likely to be fair and you do it right in front of them, that's your worst case scenario. Worst case scenario. They're doing that right in front of us. Well, let's talk about the plot to make Bidenomics look good. Zero Hedge is talking about com…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

re? The jailing of dissidents. Well a dissident would be like a protester. A protester. Where have I seen a protester being put in jail for protesting? Oh, the entire January 6 hoax in which the thoroughly corrupt members of Congress who should all be in jail, the ones on the January 6 committee sho…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

t of office by having a sweep and winning everything in 2024. And oh here's a story about Ted Lieu. He's accused of using donor money to give $50,000 donation to Stanford who then soon after admitted his child to Stanford. So that's probably a coincidence am I right? And I tell you when I give money…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

You've probably heard this before but what's new is that they're using the updated information about the Dominion machines. Their claims about them, allegations I'll call them, that they found some data security issues. I'll tell you what they are in a moment. And that they're updating some Supreme…

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MainContent Confirmation Bias

say look here's the encryption key. Do you know who had access to this? Everybody who knew where to look. Wouldn't that be the end of the case? Like how could you sit in the jury and let, and let's say that that evidence held up against cross-examination and everything. If that held up that it reall…

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NewsReaction Health & Biohacking

pparently what they tested was if you fast for a day and then eat twice as much the next day you won't lose weight. Did they really need to study that? Did anybody, was that a surprise to somebody? I don't know. Looks like bad science to me. Well End Wokeness is reporting that the LA mayor Karen Ba…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

individual. But I do know that in the context of DEI they've created a situation where it's my first assumption, my working assumption. Now do you think that's good for black people that when I see a black leader who's not getting it done that I think it's because of DEI not because necessarily the…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

't think there's a meeting where somebody said hey let's destroy the country in a variety of ways. I think what it is is a lot of young people especially may be seeing that the elites stole everything that's worth stealing and left them nothing but crumbs. Now if I were 20 years old and I thought th…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

hat's ridiculous? I mean really do you really think there are 25 different ways that the Biden administration is trying to literally destroy the country? Maybe 26. Maybe 26. Because this clearly is bad for the country. It couldn't be any worse for the country. And here it is and they're going to spe…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

gal. But some other things we're learning. This from Brian Dean Wright. I believe he used to be in the intelligence services but now is not. And he's talking about how the war is lost basically the Ukraine war. He says there are two problems. One is massive corruption that we know about. So it's go…

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Closing General Commentary

e fine. He would be perfectly safe because everybody would be like ah yeah keep that war guy in there. War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. Revolution is when the government's the enemy. All right that's all I got for you today on the platforms of Rumble and YouTube and X. I'm go…

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization so far. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and there's never been a finer time in the history of the 13.9 billion years of this universe and before that. But if you'd like to take this up to a level that no one's ever seen, all you need for that is a coffee mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice, tumbler, can or 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, the divine elixir of the day. The thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now.

Yeah, we're all good now. It's all coming together. All right, let's look at the news. The silly stuff and the serious stuff.

Well, I like to follow the AI news on several accounts on the X platform. One of them is Rowan Cheung, who's a good follow. He reports that Apple is reportedly building an LLM, so an AI that will be completely on the device. So your phone will not have to talk to anything to be smart. It will be AI on its own. And that could be a really big deal if you're not sure why. Because first of all, the speed would be completely different. If you've had the experience of trying to have a conversation with an AI, here's my impression of it. "Hey AI, how are you this morning?" "I am very good. How are you?" "Well, I'm pretty good too. You know, what's the news today?" "The weather will be 59 degrees." And that awkward pause just completely ruins the conversational element. You know you're talking to a computer because of the pause. But if it runs all locally and it's got the same speed as conversational speed, it's going to be pretty awesome.

And it will give you better privacy, presumably.

Are you following the story of Grace Price? She's the teenage kid who's, well, I don't know if teenage is, is she still a kid? I don't know if she's 18 or not. But she's got a documentary about how our lifestyle and food especially are giving us cancer. And she had a stat that she has from a source, she didn't make it up herself, that says that up to 95% of cancer is caused by your lifestyle and environmental factors. And there's a pool of studies that show that that's the case. Does that sound right to you? Yeah, Grace Price is her name. Do you think that 95% of cancer is caused by lifestyle and food? It's not impossible. To me it sounds high but not crazy. It could be that high.

But here's what I feel about her. You know, when Greta was talking about climate change, I thought to myself, this isn't really helping because I want to hear from scientists and people who know what they're talking about. But then when Grace Price does her thing, I'm totally on board. Should I be using the same standard with her as I do with Greta? Or is it because I think that Greta might be wrong and I think that Grace Price is right that I'm judging her expertise by just confirmation bias? And the answer is yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. But I'm aware of it. You know that sometimes the best you can do about your own bias is just to do a little audit and say to yourself, all right, if this situation were a little different or if this person telling me were a little different, would I be receiving this differently? And the answer is yes. So basically I'm hearing what I want to hear from Grace Price. And so to me it all looks very scientific and factual. And by the way, I really think that. But I'm also aware that if I were wrong, I would think the same thing. So I've got that little bit of self-filter. But it's not stopping me. I still say she looks right to me. But just be aware of it.

Well, I think the concept, the topic of loneliness is becoming a bigger and bigger issue. And I think there's no end in sight for that. There's nothing that looks like it's changing it immediately. It will get fixed like everything. We'll fix the loneliness problem. But even Kathy Griffin was saying in public, and somehow I think this is useful. I like it when public figures talk about their own experience. I like it less when public figures tell me what kind of apples to eat and stuff like that because I think they're outside their expertise. But when somebody just tells me about their own experience and it's some universal relatable thing, yeah, do that please.

So here's what Kathy Griffin says. And by the way, I remind you I know that a lot of you have a political opinion about her that's negative. But I've worked with her. She was the voice of Alice in the Dilbert animated show. And I really like her. So Kathy Griffin in person, very, very likable. You'd like her too. Anyway, she says, I guess she got divorced recently. She says, divorced women, I'm talking to you. I am four months divorced and I feel weak because I just can't get used to waking up alone in the hotel room, blah blah blah. And I'm having trouble adjusting. Any of you ladies out there, how did you get to a place where you can enjoy waking up alone? And she has some dogs. She brings one with her.

She says, now without dwelling on her specific case, I like the fact that she could be a famous public figure and that she can say with great vulnerability that loneliness is really a crippling problem for a lot of people.

Now the only thing I can add to this story that would be useful is that, as you know, I have a subscription service on the Locals platform, scottadams.locals.com. Many of them are watching right now. But I also do, for the subscribers, I do a private man cave just about every night from my garage-slash-man-cave. And although I didn't design it this way, it wasn't designed for this purpose, there's a good rule in marketing that the audience tells you what your product is. If you've ever heard that, you don't tell your customers what your product is. You try. I mean, that's what marketing is. But in the end they tell you what the product is. They tell you why they bought it and what it's good for and why they're going to buy it again.

And apparently the man cave turned into a lot of people who don't have anybody to talk to during the day. It has something like a personal experience because when I do the man caves I'm just interacting with the comments the entire time. So it's like a conversation for shy people. Like if you're not brave enough to go out and make a friend or join a group or be part of some larger organization where you just meet people, you can do it with me. So I've sort of morphed my ambitions for the man cave, which honestly was just for me. I started doing the man cave just because I thought it'd be nice to chat with people and be fun. But I've learned that its importance to several hundred people is that sometimes it's the only human-like experience they have during the entire day. The only human experience. So it feels like a necessity at this point.

So I'd invite any of you who want to subscribe to that. It's pretty much every night at different times, but California time usually between 4:30 and 6:30 I start anyway.

RFK Jr. was at a Michigan rally and he says provocatively, I'm going to put the entire US budget on blockchain so that every American can look at every budget item in the entire budget anytime they want, 24 hours a day. And then you can see if things cost too much or we wasted money. Now I like where that's heading. And I love how RFK Jr. gets earned media. Now whether or not this specific idea is ever implemented, don't you love the fact that he said it in public? This is what I call the bad idea that's a good idea. Meaning that in a sort of Hollywood writer's terms, sometimes you throw on a bad idea to give you something to react to and say, well not that, but it reminds me of something that would actually work.

So I love the fact he's throwing out this idea. If you ask me is blockchain the right way to do it and all that, I don't know. I don't know. My first instinct is blockchain would probably just slow it down. And I don't know exactly what you're buying by having it on the blockchain. So I'd have questions about the specifics. But I love the fact that he's putting it out there and it's provocative and it turns it into a story. So he gets all this free publicity. I'm talking about it in a positive way.

But I would go further. If you want to control the government, build a dashboard. If you want to control the whole government, build a dashboard. One dashboard that shows you the key political things. The budgets, the status, the laws that are coming, who voted for what. But you'd have to design it so well that it's not overwhelming. The way to do it wrong is there'd be a solid page of government boring data and you'd have to look for whatever you wanted and it'd be just so boring and busy you couldn't use it.

But suppose you open it up and it was, let's say, four to six charts that just showed you the direction of things. And let's say one of the charts is crime. So you could click on it and then you could explode it by city. Maybe you could look at it by Democrat versus Republican. That'd be a little more provocative. But I'd love to do that to find out whose policies seem to be working. And imagine if you could just drill down on all of those questions. And then at the bottom you could get the best pro and con argument on that topic. So the data itself doesn't tell you the story. You still need the interpretation. But you want the best ones.

So imagine if you had that dashboard that anybody, any citizen, can log into and you can just see everything that's going on money-wise. I think it'd be amazing. Anyway, so I think whoever builds that dashboard will necessarily control the world. Because what you put on the front page will be what everybody cares about. So effectively you could front-run all of the news. You could make the news entities useless by simply having a dashboard that wouldn't be the news per se. But if you were the one who controlled what got highlighted and what got put down in priority, you would effectively control the country. Because if you wanted to highlight, for example, we wasted a bunch of money on this thing, you just put it on the front page and say it's just the dashboard. So that's how easy it would be to control the whole country.

Rasmussen did some polls on whether people thought Trump was going to get a fair trial in New York City. 42% of US voters think that it's likely Trump will be able to get a fair trial. 42%. I don't know how good you are at math but let me fill you in. 42 is less than half. Less than half of the citizens polled in the United States, voters, likely voters, don't believe that it's even possible to get a fair trial in New York City if you're Trump.

Now how many people do you think say not only would Trump get a fair trial but it's very likely? What percentage do you think say it's very likely Trump will get a fair trial in New York City? Let's see how close you can get on this guess. Very good, very good. Yeah, a lot of you are guessing 25% and it's 27%. It's 27%. Yeah, but I'm going to round that off and say your 25 is correct. And once again your brilliance, if not your sex appeal, is coming through again. Let me say that the sapiosexuals who were attracted to intelligent people are probably just having quite a time now. Because when they see how smart you are, that you can answer a question like that with no prior knowledge, you just all knew it was around the quarter. Amazing, amazing.

But 51% think that Trump won't get a fair trial and 31% say it's not at all likely. Now here's my thing. If you have a situation in which the general public, which is pretty much paying attention because it's Trump, they are paying attention, if more than half say he can't get a fair trial, how in the world do you put him in jail if he's convicted? If more than half of the people watching say it's probably not fair, how do you do that? You can't maintain the system if you put them in jail while people think it's unfair or very likely to be unfair. So it seems to me that should be grounds for challenging it. But I don't think legally it is, is it?

I go back to the interesting story of how speed limits are determined in residential neighborhoods. I think I've told you this before. Maybe it's just a California thing, I don't know. But the way they determine a speed limit in a new road, if it's a residential, not a freeway because those are just standard speeds, but in the neighborhoods they'll actually monitor how people actually drive before they put up the speed limit signs. And they say, okay, it looks like people just naturally think they can drive 45 on the street, so we'll lower it to 35 because we know they'll cheat a little bit. So the idea here is that you create a law that you believe people will accept as reasonable because you looked at all the reasons, subtracted 10. Everybody knows you subtracted 10. Everybody's happy.

So a very good way to run a country is to see if people think it would be fair and then do the thing that most people think would be fair. That's stable. But if you do the thing that most people, literally a majority, think is not likely to be fair and you do it right in front of them, that's your worst case scenario. Worst case scenario. They're doing that right in front of us.

Well, let's talk about the plot to make Bidenomics look good. Zero Hedge is talking about commercial real estate foreclosures at their highest level in a decade. I don't know how big a deal that is yet. If you say the highest in a decade, because we do go through periods of better and worse for real estate. But it's not good. Certainly not good.

And a lot of people ask the question, why don't they just turn them into public housing? You know, why don't you just turn all these offices into condos? And the answer is the only way that would work according to Goldman is if you drop the prices 50%. So in other words you can charge way more for a business office per square foot than you can for a condo. So yes it's physically possible to change them into housing but you would lose your entire economic point of it. So actually you can't. The only way you can do it is if everybody who owns these goes broke and then the value of the thing goes down and then somebody buys it for a penny on the dollar and then they can turn it into residential housing.

So also wrong plumbing, as somebody's pointing out. Now anything can be fixed. Wrong plumbing could be turned into right plumbing at some expense but very expensive. All right. But it does look like, as Zero Hedge notes, that the Fed and everybody are probably trying to just push the problem forward so that Trump's in office when it collapses. It looks like a setup. It looks like they know it's going to collapse and if they could just hold it off until Trump gets elected it's his problem. Because I think 90% of politics is hoping that the economy did well during your rule so you can say it is what you did. Because I honestly I can't really think of anything that Bidenomics did. I mean that you know in theory it lowered some drug prices but I don't think that's resounding through the economy in general.

So a lot of it is the Dilbert filter on things. Things happen because they're going to happen anyway and then the leaders take credit for it. That's the way the real world works. People take credit for things that were going to happen anyway. That's how everything works.

So let's check in on the plot to assassinate Trump. Now as you know the plot to assassinate Trump is to make it look like an accident. So they're trying to talk him up as a threat to democracy so that lots of people have a reason to kill him because they think he's Hitler. So first you create the motivation and you brainwash millions of people into thinking, oh my God, if I could stop Hitler I could do it. So that part we see in action. That's the whole he's trying to ruin democracy thing.

Here's AOC talking about it. She said Trump, who seeks to dismantle American democracy, I am taking that personally very seriously because we will not be able to organize for any movement toward anything if we are facing the jailing of dissidents. This is the kind of authoritarianism that he threatens. We have to take it seriously. The jailing of dissidents. Where have I seen something like that happen before? The jailing of dissidents. Well a dissident would be like a protester. A protester. Where have I seen a protester being put in jail for protesting? Oh, the entire January 6 hoax in which the thoroughly corrupt members of Congress who should all be in jail, the ones on the January 6 committee should definitely be in jail. And if Trump only does one thing and he puts them all in jail for real crimes, I don't want him to make up any crimes, has to be a real crime, but that would be one of the best things that happened in the country. And if it ripped the country apart I'm okay with that. Totally down for that.

See here's the thing with somebody calling your bluff. You've got to call them on it. It's your only choice. Otherwise they own you. If people can scare you and bluff you and threaten you and make you change what you do, well they own you. If you don't want to be owned you've got to punch them in the teeth, so to speak. Not really, no violence. So obviously the January 6 people were jailed for being dissidents. This is another case. We've seen so many of the Democrats accusing Republicans of exactly what they're doing as they're talking. As she's talking her team is putting dissidents in jail.

Now what would be the example of where any Republican has put a dissident in jail? I can't think of any. Can you think of any? Even one? Oh maybe Assange but that wasn't really just a Republican thing and he wasn't a citizen so that's a little bit different. And we didn't put him in jail so that is different.

All right. So part one of trying to kill Trump is going well for the Democrats. Because the Democrats can say this out loud without being challenged, at least without being challenged by their own team. They can say that Trump is trying to dismantle democracy. Now as Mike Benz has taught you, that creates the predicate so that the intelligence people can do everything that they would do internationally to other countries. They can do it internally because hey, if you're trying to save democracy you've got to pull out all the stops.

So this is when you see the Democrats say he's trying to get rid of democracy because he's an authoritarian. Because of his authoritarianism. You should interpret that as an op. It's part of the brainwashing of America and it's to get him killed or jailed. And that's what it is. And there's no other way to see it really if you're even a little bit aware of what's happening.

So that's now. How about the plot to jail him? So Jonathan Turley is talking about that. So if they don't jail him and get him killed in prison they're going to try to kill him on the outside by making people think he's Hitler and also by taking away his Secret Service protection. So the Democrats are trying to do all three: paint him as Hitler, take away his Secret Service protection, and just as an insurance policy try to put him in jail on fake charges or trumped-up charges.

So Jonathan Turley is talking about the fact that Bragg the DA is going to start talking to David Pecker who is the head of the National Enquirer who is part of the story. Now as Turley points out, Pecker's part of the story has nothing to do with the charges. Do you understand that? So Pecker had to do with the suppressing of the story of Stormy Daniels but there are no charges and no law broken to suppress the story. So nobody's in trouble for suppressing the story. And the one and only thing that David Pecker knows is that part, that there was an effort to suppress the story about Stormy Daniels. But since there's no crime involved with that and it doesn't tell you anything about the other crimes, why is that the first witness? Why would he be the first witness if nothing he has to say is relevant to any of the crimes that are being charged?

Well because you're watching a porno and all pornos start the same. So Bragg is the fluffer and his job is to get the Pecker situation all firmed up. So he's got to get that Pecker situation all firmed up. So Bragg being the fluffer, you'll get that going. And that's really just to prepare you for the we're all going to get. So you always start by firming up the Pecker before giving the good hard that the public is waiting for. And Trump of course. So that makes sense.

Meanwhile on Meet the Press the fake news is having trouble supporting their own fake polls. Because here's just a current poll that was presented on Meet the Press. So their own people are presenting their own results it looked like. And I read this on Eric Aban's post. He's a good follow too on X. So here are some of the things. So comparing Trump to Biden on handling a crisis, Trump is up 46 to 42. Who is strong, who has a strong record as president? Trump is better 46 to 39. Who is competent and effective? Trump is better 47 to 36. That's a pretty big difference. On competent and effective. Dealing with inflation and cost of living, Trump by a mile 52 compared to 30. And then has the necessary mental and physical health, Trump by a mile 45% to 26.

Now I don't think you need to brag about 45% think that you're mentally and physically capable. But in the context of politics there's a big difference. It does suggest that even the Democrats think that Biden is degraded. Now imagine if you will that you've polled the public on each of these individual qualities of president and they do look like the important ones, right? Handling a crisis, strong record, competent, effective, mentally healthy, physical, dealing with inflation. And those are the important things. That's all the big stuff. And Trump dominates all the big tops. So wouldn't that suggest that the election isn't going to be anywhere near close? What did the polls tell you? Oh it's basically a tie. How in the world are we supposed to believe any of this? That the detailed polling shows Trump just annihilating Biden on all the important stuff. All of it. There's nothing that Biden's leading on. And yet the polls are basically close. Biden's actually leading in some polls. How in the world can we explain this polling? It looks like the polling is completely fake, at least some of it. I mean I assume that the top number is the fake. If the bottom number shows that Trump is leading on everything that matters, how in the world could he be tied in the polling? Because you'd think that if the same people who were just pro-Biden, they knew they were doing a poll that involved Trump and Biden, wouldn't they also say that Biden was winning on the individual categories? Wouldn't they? If you were in the bag for Biden and you just want to say Trump bad Biden good you would say that Biden was healthier. You'd say he's better for the economy. But they're not even willing to do that and he's still tied. Okay, there's something deeply wrong with what we're seeing. I don't know what it is. I really don't.

Well let's check in on all the conspiracy theories. I swear to God, you know sometimes it's hard to have a conservative sort of Republican audience because you know you guys, and I'm talking to all of you, you know you guys have some wild conspiracy theories. Am I right? Like one of them is that the government and especially the Democrats are packed with a bunch of sex offenders that haven't been caught yet. It's like some big pedophile conspiracy theory. Like you guys will believe anything. You're believing that the top people in the Democrat Party are a whole bunch of pedos. Crazy.

Well next story is that President Obama's former senior policy advisor Ramin Shai has been charged with child, oh okay, okay. Well maybe you're right sometimes. Okay I'm going to give you this one. All right I'll give you this. Turns out it's a whole party full of exactly what you thought. So yeah, Colin Rugg was reporting this on X. So the senior policy advisor is being charged with sex offenses. Let's just say he had some bad stuff on his computer. Some bad stuff. And he worked on the US strategy to combat terrorism and terrorists. So while he was helping us fight Al-Qaeda and the Taliban the children were fighting him off or something like that I guess. There were some kind of allegations. They're allegations. People, he's innocent till proven guilty. So take your conspiracy theories even though they look suspiciously supportable. Anyway he wasn't in charge of ordering the pizza and hot dogs for Obama but you know where that story's going.

Well thankfully the Democrats are trying to get those corrupt Republicans out of office by having a sweep and winning everything in 2024. And oh here's a story about Ted Lieu. He's accused of using donor money to give $50,000 donation to Stanford who then soon after admitted his child to Stanford. So that's probably a coincidence am I right? And I tell you when I give money to a politician what I'm really hoping the politician spends it on is bribing a college to get his kid into it. Now there's no evidence that's what happened. That's simply an allegation and we have a correlation but not a causation. It could be that he loves Stanford so much that he wanted to give them money and he had this donor money so he gave him that. It had nothing to do with the admission of his child. Innocent until proven guilty right? Sometimes it's hard to say innocent till proven guilty but let's try to keep that standard.

Well if you're watching the protester situation at Columbia University, I'm not sure I'd call it protesting so much as anti-Semitism. And it's become super dangerous and scary if you're a Jewish student or even if you're Jewish and anywhere near that situation. But apparently they built a tent city in the middle of the campus. An orthodox rabbi who I guess is associated with Columbia and Barnard, he sent out a WhatsApp message to 290 Jewish students and he said maybe they should go home until it's safe to go to college. He actually said you should consider going home and just dropping out of college until it's safe and then come back. Now that's not a very practical suggestion for most people. You can't really easily drop out of college if that's your whole plan right? But that's how bad it is now.

You might say to yourself, Scott this is terrible because not only have the protesters created a highly anti-Semitic situation and it's scary and there actually been physical attacks on Jewish students etc. I think somebody at Yale got stabbed at a protest. So it's getting really dicey. But as bad as it is now I don't think you should be super worried yet. I wouldn't worry until the Columbia tent people start digging tunnels. If you hear that the Columbia protesters have started to build tunnels then that's the next level of worrying. I would take your concern up to another level. Right now I would put it at the level of seriously, seriously concerning and must be fixed immediately. But I think if they start building tunnels under the tents I'd take that up another level at least one more DEFCON. So that's my standard. Once they got tunnels then you got to worry.

All right anyway. But I think that if they do build tunnels I think there's a theoretical number of migrants who could be urinating outdoors that would flood the tunnels. Anyway let's not solve it yet. Let's wait till it's a problem.

The Democrats have a new campaign ad showing a young woman who's trying to go to another state to get an abortion because Alabama law would prohibit it. And the theatrical approach that the advertising campaign is taking is that you see the pregnant woman being stopped by the Alabama police saying you can't cross state lines to get an abortion and she's like frisked and arrested. Now apparently that's not yet a law but there are allegedly, can you give me a fact check on this, allegedly that Alabama is looking at making it illegal to go to another state to get an abortion where it is illegal. Is that actually something that Republicans are dumb enough to do? Is that actually being discussed? Because I have trouble believing that. It sounds like just something made up. Right now I wouldn't be surprised if there are some people who have suggested it because there's always some people who suggest everything. But I can't imagine there's any serious effort in Alabama to stop somebody from driving across the state line. Is there? Can anybody give me a fact check on that? Is there? Because I'd ask some serious questions if that's the case. Regardless of what you think about abortion your state can't stop you from driving to another state and doing what's legal in that state. There's no way that that's going to be a law is it? I don't know. We've seen some crazy things but I can't imagine that would become a law.

Meanwhile at Steve Bannon's War Room there's some new information from Kurt Olson. He's an attorney and I guess he's got some new information. You've probably heard this before but what's new is that they're using the updated information about the Dominion machines. Their claims about them, allegations I'll call them, that they found some data security issues. I'll tell you what they are in a moment. And that they're updating some Supreme Court filings. So there's some kind of Supreme Court case that is being pushed forward. Doesn't mean the Supreme Court will take it. It's just an application of some sort for them to take it. But of course they don't take most things so we'll see.

But here are the claims. So Kurt Olson says his security experts have found the following. That in the 2020 and 2022 elections Dominion used altered software and lied about it. That's the allegation. Meaning that they said they were using one version of software but the actual election was run on a different version. Now is that a problem? That's like a really big problem. That's as big as you can get. If the system was checked out for security with one version of software and then ran a different version that's the same as not checking it for security. I mean or at least it leaves a big hole.

But that's not the only thing. Also in those last two elections they said they performed pre-election tests on the machines which would sound like they tested all the machines before the election. That's how I interpret that. But the claim is that they didn't. They didn't test the machines. They only tested some spares. In other words they only tested machines that were not used in the election and said they tested the machines used in the election by testing machines that were not used in the election. Is that a problem? Yeah could be kind of sketchy.

But then the third one is the funniest one. That the claim is that the master encryption key was left open in plain text. That anyone who knew where to look could find out how to have god control over the entire election simply by knowing where to look. They wouldn't have to hack anything. They just have to know where to look. And it was so unsecure the claim is that you could have changed anything happening in the system without detection.

Now do you believe that? Now I'm going to say that there's some pushback on the claim that you could do massive election machine cheating and not get caught because there are some controls. There are some audits. There are some checks. So it does seem to me that some types of misbehavior would get caught. But does that mean that every kind of cheating can get caught? Because if you could check the counting machines as well as the voting machines and I think it was all part of one network so you could you had control of more than one kind of machine, the vote and also the count of the vote. Do you think that the allegation will stand that you could change something in the voting machines that wouldn't be detected? So the wouldn't be detected part is the part I think would be the hardest to prove because I would imagine that Dominion will have some kind of argument that sounds like well yeah you can make those changes but we would obviously catch them. So we'll see if that's a good argument. But I think that would be the argument. But what else would it be right? If it were you you would argue yeah we would catch that and here's how we would catch it. So I don't know if this is enough to get it into the court.

However anybody who's making a claim that the election systems are secure is going to have to deal with the fact that they found three potential problems. That don't mean they were exploited. So remember separate the two topics. One topic is did anybody do anything bad on the election and the other topic is could they, was it possible but maybe they just didn't do it. And I think the question was it possible is looking more credible than it has before.

But remember all these election claims they almost all turn out not to be true. So if we were look at it from the 30,000 foot level and I said hey there's another claim about the election you should bet against it. Do you agree? If I said there's another claim but I didn't give you any details about the elections what would you bet? Well the smart bet you know is 20 to 1 in favor of it not being conclusive. So we'll see. These are pretty big claims.

But then Steve Bannon asked the question would Murdoch have won that gigantic Fox News case in which Tucker was saying things about the security of the election systems. Would Murdoch have won that case if he had had these three pieces of information and he could have said in that trial well we don't know what happened but here's your security key right here. Imagine if during the trial where Fox News was under fire for saying the election machines were not secure, imagine if the defense had pulled out a document and they said you know your encryption security key, here it is. And then just walk in front of the jury. Not that they could read the digits. Would just say look here's the encryption key. Do you know who had access to this? Everybody who knew where to look. Wouldn't that be the end of the case? Like how could you sit in the jury and let, and let's say that that evidence held up against cross-examination and everything. If that held up that it really was there and if you knew where to look you could find it. Now here's the part I don't know. How many people had access to that? Because you'd still have to have access to the system before you could find something on the system. So at the very least it would mean that any of the techs using the system could have thwarted it. So an inside job would still be possible but probably has to be an inside job unless the hackers can get in and maybe they can. So we'll keep an eye on that.

If you had applied the Dilbert filter to the election what would it have predicted? Now the Dilbert filter says that all big organizations operate super inefficiently and selfishly and stupidly and everything's a lie. That's the Dilbert filter. We were told that this massive enterprise of machines and technology and how it's all tied together in this complex system was flawless. If you've ever had any experience in a big company or any big organization there's no big organization that could pull this off flawlessly. The number of alleged problems with the system are exactly what I would have predicted. And I think I did, maybe not in the right words. But if you had any experience in a Dilbert-like world and this is a whole bunch of Dilbert worlds, you know every election precinct is a little Dilbert world. People don't have the ability to do this flawlessly. That's not something humans can do. Humans cannot pull off this level of complexity and organization without a lot of problems. So as soon as you were told that we don't have any problems every antenna should have gone up. Wait a minute you're in exactly a situation where 100% of the time there are problems and big ones. But this is the only time that that's not the case. Would you have believed it? No. The Dilbert filter is very predictive. If it's a big organization people are cheating and lying and bullshitting every time. Not sometimes, not most of the time, every time. It's just something to do with scale. If you get enough people in one place doing some kind of common thing a lot of them are going to be bad people. You can't avoid it.

All right let's take that and apply that to let's say climate change. Have you noticed that checking the temperature, the thermometers around the country, remind you of checking of voting machines? Let's say in both cases it's a very large enterprise with very complicated lots of moving parts, lots of human beings involved, a lack of transparency, very high stakes, people have a lot of money involved. How often is that going to be corrupt? If you use the Dilbert filter the Dilbert filter would say that climate change would be corrupt 100% of the time. And that the reading of the thermometers isn't much different from the making sure your election, your counting machines and your voting machines are all accurate and there's no security problems and that all the people working on them did the thing to keep them secure. Because remember the security of Dominion's machines I think this is fair to say is not about their design because nobody said yet, I haven't seen anybody say this, that they're designed poorly. It appears that the humans are the problem. If somebody left an unencrypted basically a password to the whole machine to give you god capability that feels more like a human problem. Like somebody should have known not to do that. It doesn't exactly sound like a technology problem. I mean it looks like it was done intentionally but you know in the real world incompetence explains almost everything so we can't tell in this case.

So I would say I would take the Dilbert filter to the climate thermometer measuring world and I'd say there's not really any chance the humans can do that as accurately as the experts tell us. So I have the same opinion on the voting machines as I do on climate change. That when you've got that level of complexity and money's involved and all that that's not something people can do to a level of perfection that you would want.

Now let's talk about evolution. I love that evolution is in the headlines again. It's just the ultimate provocative thing. So Tucker was on Joe Rogan the other day and said Tucker said that he doesn't believe in evolution. He does believe in species changing over time in the sense that you know you could breed a dog to be taller or bigger and maybe finches can have bigger or smaller beaks or change their colors. But according to Tucker, and this is not my view this is Tucker, human evolution has never been demonstrated by the fossil record. Would you agree with that statement? Science does not agree with that statement. But do you agree with it? That the fossil record does not prove human evolution and that in fact the record doesn't show anything else evolving either. It can show you a fossil of one thing and it can show you a fossil of another thing but you can't really tell that the one thing turned into the other thing because the fossil record is not that accurate.

Now to argue I'm going to argue both sides. So I want to steelman this as much as possible so it doesn't just sound absurd. The theory, the so-called theory of evolution has a ton of evidence in favor of it. A ton of evidence. I mean almost as much as climate change. Almost as much evidence as the fact that our elections are all secure and no problem at all. Those are three things that have a ton of evidence. The first two are ridiculously false. And when I say false I'm not making an allegation of my own about the voting machines so I can stay out of legal trouble. I'm saying I don't see any situation in which this level of complexity is going to lead to humans getting it flawlessly right. Evolution is pretty complicated too. A lot of moving parts and a lot of money involved. What are the odds that we got this one right?

Yeah here's a little mind bender for you. When you were in school did you learn that evolution was the survival of the fittest? How many of you learned that that's what evolution was, survival of the fittest? Do you know they changed that right? Because they found out that wasn't the case. It's the single most important element of evolution as we understood it that you had to have some adaptive benefit in order for that to continue. If it wasn't a benefit then it wouldn't continue. But the modern version of evolution is that things just happen. It's not always a benefit. So for example if you were a bird evolving on an island with no predators well then you could evolve for a thousand years having messed up birds that can't fly very well. No predators. If the predators were there and they couldn't fly they would all get eaten. But if there's no predators they can just willy-nilly evolve randomly into whatever the hell they want to. So the modern version of evolution pretty much completely rejects the original version of evolution that I was told was rock solid. I was told evolution was just a fact in school. But now I'm told that the most basic element of how it worked, now it's nothing like that. It's really just the evolution of what happened not the fittest.

Now but what about that fossil record? Would you say the entire evolution depends on just the fossil record? No it does not because there's other evidence. For example viruses although they're not alive so that shouldn't count. I think bacteria, some other stuff. So in a lab you can force things to evolve but I'm not sure you can turn a bacteria into a germ. Like I don't know what I'm talking about but I think a bacteria is different than a germ I'm pretty sure. So is there anything happening in the lab? I just don't know actually. Is there anything happening in the lab that's definitely evolution? Or is the lab just more proof that you can breed a big dog into a little dog if you try? I don't know.

But here's where it gets interesting. Elon Musk replied to this conversation with the sigh. The sigh seemed to indicate that watching Tucker doubt evolution was sort of anti-science. But how do you believe in evolution if you also believe in the simulation? Now you could say that the simulation just includes evolution so it all happened. It's all simulated but it all happened within the simulation just like everything else. Maybe. But if we're a simulation it suggests there's probably a resource limit because everything seems to have a resource limit. Now not necessarily. Could be some future unlimited technology species but far more likely it would be a species like us in some ways that is limited in resources. If it's limited in resources it's not going to build the whole universe in the simulation. That would be crazy. It's going to build the stuff you can see and then as you need to see other stuff. Let's say we can go to see the backside of the moon for the first time. That's when it becomes real. It fills it in when you can see it.

Now we do see in science that our observation does seem to change reality so that's not crazy. So I would say that if you believe the simulation is a billion to one more likely than not being a simulation it's a little sketchy to say that evolution is true. Because in my view simulation doesn't require but very likely the past is created by the present. So if you saw any evidence that like the double slit experiment in my view that's my own interpretation that is the present creating the past. Because when you look at it it's only when you look at it that it's different in the past. Does that make sense? The first time you look at the results for the double slit experiment without getting into details about it when you look at it that's the first time you know that there was an interference. And again without the details you know there was an interference pattern but the interference pattern had to have existed before you looked at it because otherwise it wouldn't be there. So by looking at it you've actually created the past for the first time. Now if you measure it without looking at it it also solidifies it into that interference pattern but the measurement is just another way of solidifying reality. Doesn't need to be a human. It could be a measurement. But in both cases the present created the past.

Now I know some of you are going to say Scott you are misinterpreting that experiment. To which I say hey whatever your name is no you're misinterpreting it. And so are all the scientists. Do you know why they're misinterpreting it? Because they can't handle the fact that the arrow of time is not what they think it is. So they start with the assumption that you can't change the past whereas I start with the assumption that changing the past is probably the way it works. It's the most likely way it works. So if you enter the double slit experiment assuming the most likely way the world works is that your observations change the past well there it is. It's right in front of you. If you think that's not possible then you would interpret it a different way I suppose.

Anyway I saw Cernovich saying, Mike Cernovich, the theory he posted today. The theory of evolution people can't even figure out where COVID originated. LMAO. So is that fair? Now that's the Dilbert principle. He's basically stating it in a more common sensical headline way. But the reason we can't figure out where COVID originated from might be capability but it might be more to do with the people that everybody lies. So the world is full of liars lying for lots of different reasons. So if you look at anything that's happened during our time you can see it's mostly a bunch of lying. But then you look at evolution you're like oh I'm glad we totally nailed that. Yeah the elections we have doubts about. We've got doubts about those thermometers but oh the evolution's good. We nailed the evolution.

I saw Colin Wright on X. Here's his view. He says the right can't convincingly accuse the woke left of denying biology, you know the whole trans thing regarding biological sex, if they themselves reject evolution. Does that make sense to you? Does it make sense that you can't doubt one part of science if you're doubting a different part of science? How does that make sense? Isn't doubting science built into science? And can't I say most of it looks good but I doubt this part? I thought that's the whole point. I thought that's exactly what I can do. I can say you got gravity right but I'm not so sure about climate change. There's no such thing as trusting science. If you're trusting science you're doing it wrong. Science says don't trust me right? Science says hey people don't trust me. That's his main message. That's the number one thing it says. Don't trust me. You better test this a lot.

All right so here's why. And then Tucker says that God built it and I say that any filter that works keep doing it. If having a God filter on things lets you organize your life in a productive way and raise your kids to be good citizens and all that it does appear to do that I'd say sure do some of that. But if it doesn't stop you from doing science that's the important part. I mean you can't ignore all of science because you disagree with one part of it.

All right here's some more science. Mario Nawfal is reporting that a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, so it's in their annals, they studied fasting and they say it doesn't work for losing weight. This is an RCT. Technically doesn't work for losing weight. Do you believe that? Do you believe that fasting doesn't work for losing weight? That as long as you eat the same amount of food over time you don't lose weight. How is that even, why do you even have to study that? Who didn't understand that if you ate the same amount of food in the same time frame you would weigh the same no matter when you ate it? Did we really need to study that?

Now don't, when you say fasting works let's be specific. Fasting has benefits that are claimed for that are good for your body and your mental health right but not necessarily weight loss. If you're fasting for weight loss then all you're doing is eating less if you're doing it right. So if what you did is fast for a day and then the next day you ate the normal amount for that day of course you'd lose weight because you would have an entire day with no calories. So apparently what they tested was if you fast for a day and then eat twice as much the next day you won't lose weight. Did they really need to study that? Did anybody, was that a surprise to somebody? I don't know. Looks like bad science to me.

Well End Wokeness is reporting that the LA mayor Karen Bass, her house was burglarized. Now I know what you're going to say that's an old story Scott we already know that Karen Bass the mayor of Los Angeles who was sort of a soft on crime person we already know that her house was burglarized and so why are you bringing it up again? Because it was burglarized a second time. Yep the soft on crime mayor just got burglarized a second time.

So here's my unpopular take on that. If DEI never existed I would look at her and say looks like she had some bad policies or maybe she'll correct it. In the context of DEI when I see a black mayor who's clearly not getting the job done I say to myself huh looks like a DEI problem. Like the base problem is DEI. And the reason I say that is I think a better leader could fix it. You know being tougher on crime for example. So is it my fault that I live in a world where I'm continuously reminded of DEI and then I see somebody who is black and is in charge and is failing? What am I supposed to think? If the society primes me to say DEI, DEI is why we're looking for people and hiring people and voting for people of course I'm going to think that the problem is DEI.

Now that's different from saying there's a problem with the person. So you have to separate that. One is a system and the other is an individual. So I'm not making a claim about the individual. And indeed if it turns out she's really good at her job, it's hard to tell from the outside but if it turns out she's really good at her job and maybe even made one slip that maybe she'll fix, pretty big one, but if she fixed it I would give her credit. So I don't know that there's something wrong with the individual. But I do know that in the context of DEI they've created a situation where it's my first assumption, my working assumption.

Now do you think that's good for black people that when I see a black leader who's not getting it done that I think it's because of DEI not because necessarily there's something wrong with the person? That's a whole different conversation. The person might actually be qualified and it would be terribly unfair to a qualified black leader to be painted with the same brush just because it's in the context of DEI. I don't see how black people come out ahead with DEI. To me it looks like a complete losing proposition. And I think what's wrong about it is what Democrats get wrong every time. They don't take into account the room. You got to read the room right? Read the room. That's what Trump did correctly on abortion I think. Even if you don't like where he landed he read the room right. He read the room right just exactly right. There's no right answer but he found the safest place to be on it for a president. That's reading the room right. Then and DEI is reading the room so wrong. And it's almost like ignoring that it matters what other people think of DEI. No it's actually the most important thing. The most important thing is how white people think about it but we're going to be really quiet in the short run. In the long run we're going to form opinions that it's promoting unqualified people. There's nothing you could do about that. We're not broken. There's nothing to fix. You designed a system that guarantees that people are going to assume DEI hires are less qualified and the math suggests that it will often be true but not always of course. So how's that a good situation for being black in America? To me this would be just the worst freaking thing. If you're capable you can be operating under this umbrella of assumption of incapability and I can't imagine anything that would be more destructive to your entire ability to enjoy your life.

Anyway get out of LA. LA is fallen.

There's a campaign video I guess you call it that that is the strongest one I think maybe I've ever seen. Now think about what a biggest statement that is. It's a campaign ad just a two-minute ad might be the strongest one I've ever seen for any side at any time anywhere. It was made by Western Lensman and Blake Haban. So I've posted it if you want to go see it. I'm not going to give it to you but I'll just tell you how it felt. It promises at the beginning to tell you 25 ways that Biden is destroying America or the Democrats I guess. And it's going to do it in two minutes. Now when I heard that I'm like really 25 ways? You're going to give me 25 ways in 2 minutes and I'm supposed to think that these are all credible? So here's what I assumed. The first five probably are going to be pretty good like things I might agree with like oh open border yeah that is destroying the country. And then I thought by the time you get to 25 you're going to be into the weak stuff right? Just makes sense right? You're going to put the strong stuff up front and then I'm going to say oh yeah yeah yeah and then once you got me nodding along by the time you get to eight or nine then the list the 25 you've just hypnotized me like yeah yeah yeah oh that's right oh yeah yeah and then you get to the 25 and they might be weak but you're all on board at that point.

Didn't go like that. All 25 are strong. And when you see them together it's like your hair catches on fire. Because when you see them together it does look like the Democrats are legitimately trying to destroy the country. And you don't see it if you see any one of the 25 things individually because they all have a reason. Well we're working on this and there's a reason for that and well you didn't look at the tradeoff and well it's not a perfect world and you know everything's got its own little excuse. But boy when you see all 25 of them together it looks like Democrats are literally intentionally trying to destroy the country. And I think there's something to that because when you hate something you will even subconsciously do everything you can to destroy it right? It doesn't even mean it's a plan. I wouldn't claim it's a plan. I don't think there's a meeting where somebody said hey let's destroy the country in a variety of ways. I think what it is is a lot of young people especially may be seeing that the elites stole everything that's worth stealing and left them nothing but crumbs. Now if I were 20 years old and I thought the elites in both parties had stolen everything good and polluted the world and left it a ashen crumbly mess with nothing but debt and war I would want to destroy that system. And it wouldn't matter what happened. I'd be like okay well anything you want to turn the boys into girls yeah go ahead I'm down for that. What could go wrong?

So I do want to take your time to look at it. It's on my X feed. I posted it today. So strong. So congratulations to Blake Haban and whatever Western Lensman did. I'm not sure who did what. I think Blake might have produced it actually I'm not sure but they work together on it in some way. But it's amazing. It's probably the most persuasive thing I've seen of a campaign ad.

New York Times has a guest opinion today and the title of the guest opinion is Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe. So is that scary to see that the paper of record is running an opinion piece that says government surveillance of all the citizens can keep you safe? You know everybody always says oh this is so 1984. This is the most 1984 thing I've ever seen. It would be hard to top this one. That's a topper. But the thing is I actually agree with it. It does keep you safe. It just takes your freedom away. That's always the tradeoff. You know the government can do lots of things to keep you safe. Lock you into your house but you in the long run maybe you're not too happy about it. I think this government surveillance probably goes a long way to explaining why we haven't had worse terror attacks since 9/11. I feel like the fact that we have no privacy is the only reason there haven't been major terror attacks. I think that a lot of stuff must be getting thwarted in its infancy because they have complete ability to monitor just literally everything. So that's the most positive thing you put on it. But no I'm not in favor of the government surveilling every single thing we do but I think it's a fact and it's not going to change.

Here's about this. There's a business called Sheetz. I don't know what they do. Sheetz. And they're being sued by the government, Biden administration, for discriminating against minorities. And specifically the form of discrimination is they require applicants to pass a criminal record background check. So Sheetz doesn't want to hire people who have criminal records. But since there are more people with criminal records in the underserved communities that would be now illegal according to the Biden administration. So the Biden administration wants to force this company to hire convicted felons.

So but you know what's ridiculous? You know what's ridiculous? I mean really do you really think there are 25 different ways that the Biden administration is trying to literally destroy the country? Maybe 26. Maybe 26. Because this clearly is bad for the country. It couldn't be any worse for the country. And here it is and they're going to spend a lot of resources on this. Of all the things that the Biden administration could do to root out unfairness and discrimination they had to find this one. Now doesn't that mean that everything else that's more important than this has been solved? Do they have so much resource so many resources that they could solve all the big discrimination problems? They're all well handled but now they're working down the list and priorities and we're all the way down to the company that doesn't want to hire criminals. They should hire more criminals or they'll go to jail or something. Fine probably so.

Now if you add this to the fact that the white supremacist that they were looking for in the military didn't exist I think things are really going well. If you've got DEI hires in all the major cities and the worst remaining discrimination you could find is that they don't want to hire criminals. Amazing.

Well let's talk about Ukraine. I saw a post by Joey Mannarino and he says this in his post. He said he had dinner with a friend from Ukraine and he learned something the media is not reporting. If you're a male citizen of Ukraine who lives outside the country and your passport expires you no longer can renew it at an embassy. So if you're a Ukrainian man in another country mostly maybe to get away from Ukraine if your passport expires they won't renew it. You have to come back to Ukraine and die in the meat grinder. Wow. So if you don't have a passport you can't stay in the country you're in but you also can't go back to the country. Some country should say you could come here because I'm pretty sure that the Ukrainian men who were living escaped Ukraine to get away from the draft they're probably educated and employable. They'd probably be a pretty good group because they're not filtered for being criminals or anything. They're filtered for being smart enough not to be part of a war and they had enough resources that they could get out of the country. That probably suggests it would be a great group of people to have in your country. So maybe somebody will open their doors and make that more legal.

But some other things we're learning. This from Brian Dean Wright. I believe he used to be in the intelligence services but now is not. And he's talking about how the war is lost basically the Ukraine war. He says there are two problems. One is massive corruption that we know about. So it's going to be hard to keep shoveling the money when we know Zelensky is stealing it and his lieutenants are and apparently that's documented now. So we don't wonder if Zelensky is stealing the money. Yeah he is. And I guess everybody knows it.

But the other thing is that there are no human beings left in Ukraine to fight. That the urban men disappeared because they could and the rural men are all dead. So they just ran out of people. So according to Brian Dean Wright the weapons aren't going to help as much as you want because they don't have anybody to fire them. Now that wouldn't be so bad. I mean it's terrible but it wouldn't be so bad if they look like they could win right? You'd say to yourself well that's the most horrible thing they lost all their men for a generation but if they won you can imagine that eventually they'd spin it into a great sacrifice in the victory. But they're not winning.

And indeed the whole goal that the Biden administration has set down loud that it's just a cheap way to degrade the Russian military which I don't think most people care about but maybe some do. But how's that working out? The Politico reports that the Russian army is larger by 15% than it was when it invaded Ukraine and their industrial production is growing. Their military is getting stronger and apparently there's no risk to the economy. So basically we made Russia stronger. Although I don't know that you can really tell that. I'm not sure we know exactly what's happening in Russia. You know that's probably propaganda too. So I don't know how much Russia is winning but it doesn't look like they're losing. You know you can't believe anything from a war zone or from Russia or Ukraine but anyway.

David Sacks is on this case making it clear and I think he's correct. He's making it clear that there is no win to be had and that we lost the only thing we said we were trying to do which is degrade Russia etc. And I think I have been won over to the side that the whole point of making Ukraine NATO is so Ukraine would have to buy weapons from American manufacturers and that Americans would pay with our taxes to give to Ukraine so they could buy our weapons. So basically it's just our own military-industrial complex looting our pockets and their energy people trying to take Russia's energy and that sort of thing. So I see America as more of a criminal enterprise than a military keeping the world safe for democracy. That's my take. Ukraine looks entirely like a criminal enterprise backed by an army. Because these stated claims are somewhat ludicrous whereas the more obvious explanation of what's going on you know CIA wants to protect their labs and we want to have closer assets to threaten Russia and maybe we did want to degrade their military a little or get Putin out of office all that stuff but it mostly it looks like it's just a money grab corrupt criminal enterprise and we're just knee deep in it. So I'm rejecting any notion that America is the good guy in this situation. I think we're the criminals in this situation. That would be my take.

Now what is the solution for all of it? Well Trump has to avoid the obvious plot to assassinate him. I think we could say that out loud right? I mean if they're trying to remove his Secret Service protection while painting him as a risk to democracy and a Hitler character that's a murder attempt. Now the fact that they figured out a legal way to murder somebody or attempt to murder that doesn't change the fact that what it is. It might be illegal but still murder. So I would say our system is mostly blackmail bribery corruption and murder and that the thin veneer of a republic and a democracy and all that stuff is largely silly and absurd and clearly hasn't been with us for decades. We're complicit unless we overthrow the corruption. Well unless it's working. See that's the problem. It always comes down to what are the alternatives. And I've said it before but I'm going to double down on it. If it's true that we're not a democratic republic that doesn't mean we're worse off. It just means we're not what we thought we were. It definitely means some people are being screwed. Definitely means that. Definitely means the elites are getting richer. But here's the problem. That's every system. If you show me a system where the elites don't not only stay elite but they don't gain compared to the population and rob them I've never seen that system. What system is that? So if every system robs the public for the benefit of the elite and if it doesn't it doesn't have the resources to field an army and protect itself it won't last. So my take is the bigger and badder we are as a criminal enterprise the longer we're going to last. Why do you think Russia is still in business and going to survive this war? Is it because they're a democratic republic? No it's because they're a massive criminal enterprise with the military just like us. Look at China. Do you think the elites are doing better than the people? I think so. I think so yeah. Think they're doing great. And does that mean that in a way conceptually they're robbing the people to keep themselves in power? And yeah of course that's what it means. That's exactly what it means. So every system that is successful, successful to the point where we think they should be in NATO let's say that's the minimum level of a successful country is that we want them in NATO. You don't get there without your elites being totally in charge and being able to control the government and the military. So I think that all of the countries that are successful are criminal enterprises because in the long run that's the model that works. And like the Mafia the Mafia might not want a lot of crime on its own street because it doesn't want to interfere with the bigger crimes it's doing. So it could be that our criminal government would do quite a good job of reducing crime if the right members of it were in charge. NATO is a cartel yeah in a sense yeah. I mean that doesn't that word fit perfectly because cartels don't have to be illegal do they? Well I don't know maybe they do. I'm not sure if that's baked into the definition of a cartel. Doesn't a cartel just mean a bunch of people with power who are operating together some way?

All right we're going to do a closing sip because I think you need it. Here's to you.

Now do you think Trump could fix all of these problems I just mentioned? How many of this criminal enterprise stuff could Trump fix? Almost none. If he could fix any of this stuff he would have done some of it in the first term. So it looks like whatever it is is stronger than all the presidents. I don't think there's any president that can fix it.

So here's what might happen. I think the people, the elites as we say, the people in charge, I think if Trump gets elected by a big enough margin they can't cheat him out of office and they can't put him in jail because there are too many people who would go nuts. I think they'll just try to wait him out. You know they'll do everything they can to destroy him while he's in office but ultimately they don't want to reveal too much about themselves if they can just wait four years and go back to running everything. So I feel like they'll just wait him out. So there's one possibility that it won't be riots in the streets. They might just say let's just keep this on a slow boil. Get through the four years. Get back in power. Start another war that sort of thing. Probably the biggest problem would be if Trump doesn't fund another war. I think if the first thing Trump did is fund a new war he'd be fine. He would be perfectly safe because everybody would be like ah yeah keep that war guy in there. War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. Revolution is when the government's the enemy.

All right that's all I got for you today on the platforms of Rumble and YouTube and X. I'm going to talk to the Locals people, the subscribers, privately. Thanks for joining and I will see you soon. Bye for now.

Going slow to change this because I know there's a lag. I don't want to look like I cut you off too soon. And the lag is over. See you tomorrow I believe. We're private now. All right thank you. How you like today's show? I like getting compliments. Cartel wasn't the right word. Cabal. Cabal might be a better word. You're right. What is the definition of a cartel? Well thank you. You're still here but you can't see me can you? Oh wait no we're still live on everything. Why didn't that work? Local supporters only now it's going to work. Oh that didn't work. It's still live on all the platforms. Looks like we have a bug in the system. Yeah there's a bug in the system. So I won't tell you any secrets like I usually do because all the other people still here. They're being quiet because they don't want you to know they can still see me but the same. I usually use it didn't turn them off. Am I doing it wrong? Let me look at it again. Am I looking at the wrong thing? It's local supporters only. Yeah so it's local support only then I update the stream and it didn't take. It didn't work. So it's just a bug in system. It worked yesterday. All right that's all I got for today. Locals people I'll do a man cave tonight. See you tonight. And yeah there's something wrong with the software. It's not working right now but I'll see you all soon. Goodbye. So taking my time. Okay I've stalled long enough. Bye for now.

that's weird good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization so far it's called coffee with Scott Adams and there's never been a finer time in the history of the 13.9 billion years of this universe and before that but if you'd like to take this up to a level that no one's ever seen all you need for that is a cuper marker a glass of tankered chalice time a Canen jug or flask a vessel V kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure the doine here of the day thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip it happens now yeah we we're all good now it's all coming together all right let's look at the news the silly stuff and the serious stuff well I like to follow uh the AI news on several accounts on the xplatform one of them is Rowan Chung who's a good follow C hu n g Rowan Rowan Jung anyway he reports that apple is reportedly building a uh llm so an AI that will be completely on the device so your phone will not have to talk to anything to be smart it will be AI uh on its own and that could be a really big deal if you're not sure why because first of all the speed would be completely different if if you've had the experience of trying to have a conversation with an AI here's my impression of it hey AI how are you this morning I am very good how are you well I'm pretty good too uh you know what what's the news today the weather will be 59° and and that that awkward pause just completely ruins the conversational you know element you you know you're talking to a computer because of the pause but if it runs all locally and it's got it the same speed as conversational speed it's going to be pretty awesome all right and uh it will give you better privacy presumably are you following the story of Grace price so she's the teenage kid who's well I don't know teenage is she still a kid I don't know if she's 18 or not but uh she's got a documentary about how our lifestyle and food especially are G giving us cancer and she had a stat that she has from a source she didn't make it up herself that says that up to 95% of cancer is caused by your lifestyle and environmental factors and there's a pool of studies that show that that's the case does that sound right right to you yeah Grace price is her name do you think that 95% of cancer is caused by lifestyle in food it's not impossible yeah it to me it sounds high but not crazy like it it could be it could be that High um but here's what I feel about her you know when when Greta was talking about climate change I thought to myself this isn't really helping because I want to hear from you know scientists and people who know what they're talking about uh but then but but then when Grace price does her thing I'm totally board should I be using the same standard with her as I do with Greta or is it because I think that Greta might be wrong and I think that Grace Price is Right that I'm judging her expertise by just confirmation bias and the answer is yes that's exactly what I'm doing but I'm aware of it you know that sometimes the best you can do about your own bias is just to do a little audit and say to yourself all right if this situation were a little different or or if this person telling me were a little different would I be receiving this differently and the answer is yes yes yeah so basically I'm hearing what I want to hear from Grace Pryce and so to me it all looks very scientific and and factual and by the way I really think that but I'm also aware that if I were wrong I would think the same thing so so I've got that little bit of just a little bit of self filter but it's not stopping me I still say she looks right to me but just be aware of it well I think the concept the uh the topic of loneliness is becoming a bigger and bigger issue and I think it it's there's no end in sight for that there's nothing that looks like it's changing it immediately it will get fixed like everything you we'll we'll fix the loneliness problem but uh even Kathy Griffin uh was saying in public and somehow I think this is useful um I like it when public figures talk about their own experience I like it less when public figures tell me what kind of apples to eat and stuff like that because I think they're outside their expertise but when somebody just tells me about their own experience and it's some Universal relatable thing yeah yeah do that please so here's what Kathy Griffin says and by the way I remind you I know that a lot of you have a political opinion about her that's negative but I've worked with her she was the voice of Alice in the Dilbert animated show and uh I really like her so Kathy Griffin in person very very likable you'd like her to anyway she says I guess she got divorced recently she says divorced women I'm talking to you I am four months divorced and I feel weak because I just can't get used to waking up alone in the hotel room uh blah blah blah and I'm having trouble adjusting any you ladies out there you got to uh how did you get to a place where you can enjoy waking up alone and she has some dogs she brings one with her she says now without dwelling on her specific case I like the fact that she could be a famous public figure and that she can say with great vulnerability that loneliness is like a it's really a crippling problem for a lot of people now the only thing I can add to this story that would be useful is that um as you know I have a subscription service on the locals platform Scott adams.

locals.com many of them are watching right now but I also do a uh for the subscribers I do a private manave just about every night from my garage SL manave and although I didn't design it this way it wasn't designed for this purpose um There's A good rule in marketing that the audience tells you what your product is if you ever heard that you don't tell what the audience you don't tell your customers what your product is you try I mean that's what marketing is but in the end they tell you what the product is they tell you why they bought it and what it's good for and why they're going to buy it again and apparently the man cave turned into a lot of people who don't have anybody to talk to during the day has something like a personal experience because when I do the band caves I'm just interacting with the with the uh comments the entire time so it's it's like a conversation for shy people like if you're not brave enough to go out and like make a friend or join a group or you be part of some larger organization where you just meet people uh you can do it with me so i' I've sort of morphed my ambitions for the mancave which honestly was just for me I started doing the band cave just because I thought it'd be nice to chat with people and be fun but I've I've learned that its importance to several hundred people is that sometimes it's the only humanlike experience they have during the entire day the only Human Experience so it feels like a a necessity at this point so I'd invite any of you who want to subscribe to that it's uh pretty much every night at different times but California time usually between 4:30 in 6:30 I started anyway uh RFK Jr was at a Michigan rally and he says provocatively I'm going to put the entire us Budget on blockchain so that every American can look at every B budget item in the entire budget anytime they want 24 hours a day and then you can see if things cost too much or we wasted money now I like where that's heading and I love how RFK Jr gets earned media now whether or not this specific idea is ever implemented don't you love the fact that he said it in public that this is what I call the the bad idea that's a good idea meaning that in a sort of Hollywood writer's terms sometimes you throw on a bad idea to give you something to react to and say well not that but it reminds me of something that would actually work so I love the fact he's throwing out this idea if you're ask me is blockchain the right way to do it and all that I don't know I don't know I mean I might my first instinct is blockchain would probably just slow it down and I I don't know exactly what you're buying by having it on the blockchain so I I'd have questions about the specifics but I love the fact that he's putting it out there and it's provocative and it makes turns it into a story so he gets all this free publicity I'm talking about it in a positive way but I would go further if you want to control the government build a dashboard if you want to control the whole government build a dashboard One dashboard that shows you the key political things the budgets the status the laws that are being you know coming who voted for what but you'd have to design it so well that it's not overwhelming the the way to do it wrong is there' be a solid page of government boring data and you'd have to look for whatever you wanted and it'd be just so so boring and busy you couldn't use it but suppose you open it up and it was a let's say four to six charts that just showed you the direction of things and let's say one of the charts is crime so you could click on it and then you could explode it by City maybe you could look at it by you know um Democrat versus Republican that'd be a little more provocative but I love to do that to find out whose policies seem to be working and imagine if you could just drill down on all of those questions and then at the bottom you could get the pro the best pro and con argument on that topic so the data itself doesn't tell you the story you still need the interpretation but you want the best ones so imagine if you had that um dashboard that anybody any citizen can log into and you can just see everything that's going on Money.

Wise um I think it'd be amazing um anyway so I think whoever builds that dashboard will necessarily control the world because what you put on the front page will be what everybody cares about so effectively you could front run all of the news you could you could make the the news entities uh useless by Simply Having a dashboard that wouldn't be the news per se but if you were the one who controlled what got highlighted and what got you know maybe put down in priority you would have factly control the country because if you wanted to highlight for example we wasted a bunch of money on this thing you just put on the front page and say it's just the dashboard so that's how easy it would be to control the whole country um rasmon did some polls on whether people thought Trump was going to get a fair trial in New York City 42% of us voters think that it's likely Trump will be able to get a fair trial 42% I don't know how good you are at math but let me fill you in 42 is less than half less than half less than half of the citizens PED in the United States voters likely voters don't believe that uh it's even possible to get a fair trial in New York City if you're Trump now how many people do you think say Not only would Trump get a fair trial um but it's very likely what percentage do you think say it's very likely Trump will get a fair trial in New York City let's let's see how close you can get on this guess very good very good yeah a lot of you are guessing 25% and it's 27% it's 27 yeah but I'm going to round that off and say your 25 is correct and once again your your Brilliance if not your sex appeal is coming through again let let me say that the sapo uh sapo sexuals who uh were attracted to intelligent people are probably just having quite a time now because when they see how smart you are that you can answer a question like that with no prior knowledge you just all knew it was around the quarter amazing amazing but uh 51% think that Trump won't get a fair trial and uh 31% say it's you know not at all likely now here's my thing if you have a situation in which the general public which is pretty much paying attention because it's Trump they are paying attention if more than half say he can't get a fair trial how in the world do you put him in in jail if he's convicted if more than half of the people watching say it's probably not fair how do you do that you can't you can't maintain the system if you put them in jail while than people think it's unfair or very likely to be unfair so it seems to me that should be a grounds for challenging it but I don't think legally it is is it I go back to the the interesting story of how um speed limits are determined in residential neighborhoods I think I've told you this before maybe it's just a California thing I don't know but the way they determine a speed limit in a new road if it's a residential not not a freeway because those are just standard speeds but uh in the neighborhoods they'll actually monitor how people actually drive before they put up the speed limit signs and they say okay it looks like people just naturally think they can drive 45 on the street so we'll lower it to 35 because we know they'll cheat a little bit so the idea here is that you create a law that you believe people will accept as reasonable because you looked at all the reason subtracted 10 everybody knows you subtracted 10 everybody's happy so a very good way to run a country is to see if people think it would be fair and then do the thing that most people think would be fair that's stable but if you do the thing that most people literally majority think is not likely to be fair and you do it right in front of them that's your worst case scenario worst case scenario they're doing that right in front of us well let's talk about the plot to make biomics look good Zero Hedge is talking about uh commercial real estate foreclosures they their highest level in a decade I don't know how big a deal that is yet yet if you say the highest in a decade because we do we do go through you know periods of better and worse for Real Estate but uh it's not good certainly not good and a lot of people ask the question why don't they just turn them into public housing you know why don't you just turn all these offices into um condos and the answer is the only way that would work according to Goldman is if you drop the prices is 50% so in other words you can charge way more for a business office per square foot than you can for a condo so yes it's physically possible to change them into housing but you would lose your entire economic point of it so actually you can't the only way you can do it is if I suppose you know everybody who owns these goes broke and then the value of the thing goes down and then somebody buys it for a penny on a dollar and then they can turned it into residential housing so uh also wrong Plumbing as as somebody's pointing out now anything can be fixed yeah wrong Plumbing could be turned into right Plumbing at some expense but very expensive all right uh but it does look like as Zero Hedge notes uh that the fed and everybody are probably trying to just push the problem forward so that trumps in office when it collapses it looks like set up it looks like they know it's going to collapse and they if they could just hold it off until Trump gets elected it's his problem because I I think 90% of politics is hoping that the economy did well during your your rule so you can say it is what you did because I honestly I can't really think of anything that bomic did I mean that you know in theory it lowered some drug prices but I don't think that's like you know resounding through the economy in general so a lot of it is uh you know this is a the dilber filter on things things happen because they're going to happen anyway and then the leaders take credit for it that's the way the real world Works people take credit for things that were going to happen anyway it's that's how everything works so let's check in on the plot to assassinate Trump now as you know the plot to assassinate Trump is to make it look like an accident so they're trying to um talk him up as a threat to democracy so that lots of people have a reason to kill him because they think he's Hiller so first you create the motivation and you brainwash you know millions of people into thinking oh my God if I could stop Hitler I could do it so that part we see an action that's the whole he's trying to ruin um democracy thing here's AOC talking about it she said uh Trump who is not uh he he seeks to dismantle American democracy I am taking that personally very seriously because we will not be able to organize for any movement toward anything if we are facing the jailing of dissidents this is the kind of authoritarianism that he threatens we have to take it seriously the jailing of dissidents where have I seen something like that happen before the jailing of dissidence well a dissident would be like a protester a protester where have I seen a protester being put in jail for protesting oh the entire January 6 hoax in which the thoroughly corrupt members of Congress who should all be in jail the ones on the January 6 committee should definitely be in jail and uh if if Trump only does one thing and he puts them all in jail for real crimes I don't want him to make up any crimes has to be a real crime but uh that would be one of the best things that happened in the country and if it ripped the country tree apart I'm okay with that totally down to that see here's the thing with somebody calling your bluff you've got to call them on it it's your only choice otherwise they own you if people can scare you and Bluff you and threaten you and make you change what you do well they own you if you don't want to be owned you've got to punch them in the teeth so to speak not really no violence so obviously the January 6 people were jailed for being dissidents uh this is another case we've seen so many of the Democrats accusing Republicans of exactly what they're doing as they're talking as she's talking her team is putting dissidents in jail as she's talking now what would be the example of where any Republican has put a dissident in jail I can't think of any can you think of any even one oh maybe a Sange but that wasn't really just a republican thing and he wasn't a citizen so that's a little bit different um and we didn't put him in jail so that's that is different all right so so part one of trying to kill Trump uh is going well for for the Democrats so because the Democrats can say this out loud without being challenged at least without being challenged on by their own team they can say that Trump is trying to dismantle democracy now as Mike Ben has taught you uh that that creates the predicate so that the intelligence people can do everything that they would do internationally to other countries they can do internally because hey if you're trying to save democracy there's you know you got to pull out all the stops so this is when you see the Democrats say he's trying to get rid of democracy because he's an authoritarianism uh because of his authoritarianism you should interpret that as an OP um it's part of the brainwashing of America and it's to get him killed or jailed and that's what it is and there's there's no other way to see it really if you're even a little bit aware of what's happening so that's now how about the plot to jail him so Jonathan turle is talking about that so if they don't jail him and get him killed in prison they're going to try to kill him on the outside by making people think he's Hiller and also by taking away his secret service protection so the Democrats are trying to do all three paint him his Hiller take away his secret service protection and just as an insurance policy try to put him in jail on fake charges or trumped up charges so Jonathan turle is talking about uh the fact that uh brag the da is uh he's going to start talking to David pecker who is the uh head of the national Inquirer who is part of the story now as Turley points out uh Pecker's part of the story um has nothing to do with the charges do you do you understand that so pecker had to do with the um suppressing of the story of St.

Stormy Daniels but there are no charges and no law broken to suppress the story so nobody's in trouble for suppressing the story and the one and only thing that David pecker knows is that part that there was an effort to suppress the story about Stormy Daniels but since there's no crime involved with that and it doesn't tell you anything about the other crimes why is that the first witness why would he be the first witness if nothing he has to say is relevant to any of the crimes that are being charged well because you're watching a porno and all pornos start the same so Bragg is the uh fluffer and his job is to get uh to get the uh the pecker situation all firmed up so he's got to get that pecker situation all firmed up um so brag being the fluffer you'll get that going and that's really just to prepare you for the we're all going to get so you always start by firming up the pecker before giving the good hard that the public is is waiting for and Trump of course so that makes sense meanwhile on Meet the Press uh the uh fake news is having trouble supporting their own fake polls because here's just here's a current poll that was presented on uh Meet the Press so the own people are presenting their their own results it look like and I read this on Eric Aban an's post he's got a he's a good follow too on on X um so here are some of the things so comparing Trump to Biden on handling a crisis Trump is up 46 to 42 who is strong who has a strong record as president Trump is better 46 to 39 who is competent and effective Trump is better 47 to 36 that's pretty big difference un competent and effective dealing with inflation and cost of living Trump by a mile 52 compared to 30 and then has the necessary mental and physical health Trump by a mile 45% to 26 now I don't think you need to brag about 45% think that you're mentally and physically capable but in the context of politics there's a big difference it it does suggest that even the Democrats think that Biden is degraded now imagine if you will that you've pulled the public on each of these individual qualities of President and they do look like the important ones right handling a crisis strong record competent effective mentally healthy physical dealing with inflation and those are the that's those are important things that's all the big stuff and Trump dominates all the big top so wouldn't that suggest that the election isn't going to be anywhere near close what did the polls tell you oh it's B tie how in the world are we supposed to believe any of this that the detailed polling shows Trump just annihilating uh Biden on all the important stuff all of it there's nothing that Biden's leading on and yet the the polls are be close Biden's actually leading in some polls how how in the world can we explain this polling it looks like the polling is completely fake at least some of it I mean I assume that the the top number is the fake if if the bottom number shows that Trump is leading on everything that matters how in the world could he be leading in the polling because You' think that if the same people who were just Pro Biden they knew they were doing a poll that involved Trump and Biden wouldn't they also say that Biden was winning on the individual categories wouldn't they if you were in the bag for Biden and you just want to say Trump bad Biden good you would say that Biden was healthier you'd say he's better for the economy but they're not even willing to do that and he's still Tai okay there's something deeply wrong with what we saying I don't know what it is I really don't well let's check in on the uh all the conspiracy theories I swear to God you know sometimes it's hard to have a conservative sort of Republican audience because you know you guys and I'm talking to all of you you know you guys have some wild conspiracy theories am I right like one of them is that the government and especially the Democrats are packed with a bunch of sex offenders that haven't been caught yet it's like some big you know pedopile conspiracy theory like you you guys will believe anything you're believing that the top people in the Democrat Party are a whole bunch of pedos crazy well next story is that President Obama's former senior policy advisor rahimin Shai has been charged with child oh okay okay well maybe you're right sometime s okay I'm going to give you this one all right I'll give you this turns out it's a whole party full up exactly what you thought so yeah Colin rug was reporting this on X um so the senior policy advisor is being charged with sex offenses let's just say he had some bad stuff on his computer some bad stuff and he worked uh on the us strategy to combat terrorism and terrorists so while he was helping us fight Al-Qaeda and the Taliban the children were fighting him off or something like that I guess there were some kind of allegations they're allegations people he's innocent till proven guilty so take your conspiracy theories even though they look suspiciously supportable anyway he wasn't in charge of ordering the pizza and hot dogs for Obama but you know you know where that story's going well thankfully um the the Democrats are trying to get those corrupt Republicans out of office by having a sweep and winning everything in 2024 and uh oh here's a story about Ted Lou he's accused of using donor money to give $50,000 donation to Stanford who then soon after admitted his child to Stanford so that's probably a coincidence am I right and uh I tell you when I give money to a politician what I'm really hoping the politician spends it on is uh bribing a college to get his kid into it now there's no evidence that's what happened that's simply an allegation and we have a correlation but not a causation it could be that he loves Stanford so much that he wanted to give them money and he had this donor money so he gave him that it had nothing to do with the admission of his child innocent until proven guilty right sometimes it's hard to say inoc till proven guilty but let's try to keep that standard well if you're watching the uh protester situation at Columbia University I'm not sure I'd call it protesting so much as anti-Semitism and uh it's got It's become uh super dangerous and scary if you're a Jewish student or even if you're Jewish and anywhere near that situation but uh apparently they built a tent city in the middle of the campus um the an orthodox Rabbi who I guess is associated with Columbia and Barnard he sent out a Whats.

App uh message to 290 Jewish students and he said uh you know maybe they should go home until it's safe to go to college he actually said you should consider going home and just dropping out of college until it's safe and then come back now that's not a very practical suggestion for most people you can't really easily drop out of college if that's your whole plan right um but that's how bad it is now you might say to yourself Scott this is terrible because um it's so terrible because not only have the uh the protesters create a highly anti-semitic situation and it's scary and there actually been physical attacks on Jewish students Etc I think somebody at Yale got stabbed at a protest um so it's getting really dicey and dicey but as bad as it is now um I don't think you should be super worried yet I wouldn't worry until the Colombia tent people start digging tunnels if you hear that the Columbia protesters have started to build tunnels then that's the next level of worrying I I would take your concern up to another level right now I would put it at the level of seriously seriously concerning and must be fixed immediately but I think if they start are building tunnels under the tents I'd take that up another level at least one more Defcon so that's my standard once they got tunnels then you got to worry all right anyway um but I think that if they do build tunnels I think there's a theoretical number of uh migrants who could be urinating Outdoors that would flood the tunnels H anyway let's not solve yet let's wait till it's a problem uh let's see the Democrats have a new campaign ad showing uh a young woman who's trying to go to another state to get an abortion because Alabama Law would prohibit it and uh the the theatrical uh approach that the advertising campaign is taking is that you see the pregnant woman being stopped by the Alabama Police saying you can't cross state lines to get an abortion and she's like frisked and arrested now apparently that's not yet a law but there are allegedly can you give me a fact check on this um allegedly that Alabama is looking at uh making it illegal to go to another state to get an abortion where it is illegal is that actually something that Republicans are dumb enough to do is that actually being discussed because I have trouble B in that it sounds like just something made up right now I wouldn't be surprised if there are some people who have suggested it because there's always some people who suggest everything but I can't IM imagine there's any serious effort in Alabama to stop somebody from driving across the state line is there can can anybody give me a fact check on that is there because I I'd ask some serious questions if that's if that's the case regardless of what you think about abortion your state can't stop you from driving to another state and doing what's legal in that state there's no way that that's going to be a law is it I don't know we've seen some crazy things but I can't imagine that would become a law um meanwhile at Steve bannon's War Room there's uh some new information from Kurt olssen he's an attorney and uh I guess he's got some new information you've probably heard this before but what's new is that they're using the updated information about the Dominion machines their claims about them allegations I'll call them um that they found some uh let's say data security issues I'll tell you what they are in a moment and that they're updating some uh supreme court filings so there's some kind of Supreme Court case that um is being pushed forward doesn't mean the Supreme Court will take it it's just you know an application of some sort for them to take it but of course they don't take most things so we'll see but here are the claims so Kurt Olson says his Security Experts have found the following that in the 2020 and 22 2022 elections um that Dominion used altered software and lied about it that's the allegation meaning that um they said they were using one version of software but the actual election was run on a different version now is that a problem that's like a really big problem that's as big as you can get if the system was checked out for security with one version of software and then ran a different version that's that's the same as not checking it for security I mean or at least it leaves a big hole but that's not the only thing also in those last two elections um they said they pre performed pre-election tests on the machines which would sound like they tested all the machines before the election that's how I interpret that but the claim is that they didn't they didn't test the machines they only tested some spares in other words they only tested machines that were not used in the election and said they tested the machines used in the election by testing machines that were not used in the election is that a problem yeah could be kind of sketchy but then the third one is the funniest one that the claim is that the master encryption key was left open in plain text that anyone who knew where to look could find out how to have God control over the entire election simply by knowing where to look they wouldn't have to hack anything they just have to know where to look and and it was so so unsecure the claim is that you could have changed anything happening in the system without detection now do you believe that now I'm going to say that there's some pushback on the claim that you could do massive election machine cheating and not get caught because there are some controls right there there are some audits there are some checks so it does seem to me that some types of misbehavior would get caught but does that mean that every kind of cheating can get caught because if you could check the counting machines as well as the voting machines and I think it was all part of one network so you could you had control of more than one kind of machine the vote and also the count of the vote uh do you think that the allegation will stand that you could you could change something in the voting machines that that wouldn't be detected so so the wouldn't be detected part is the part I think would be the hardest to prove because I would imagine that Dominion will have some kind of argument that sounds like well yeah you can make those changes but we would obviously catch them so we'll see if that's a good argument but I think that would be the argument but what else would it be right if it were you you would argue yeah we would catch that and here's how we would catch it so I don't know if this is enough to get it into the Court however anybody who's making a claim that the election systems are secure is going to have to deal with the fact that they found three potential problems that don't mean they were exploited so remember separate the two topics one topic is you know did anybody do anything bad on the election and the other topic is could they was it possible but maybe they just didn't do it and I think the question was it possible is looking uh more credible than it has before but remember all these all these election claims they almost all turn out not to be true so if we were look at it from the 30,000 foot level and I said hey there's another Claim about the election you should bet against it do you agree if I said there's another claim but I didn't give you any details about the elections What would you bet well the smart bet you know is 20 to1 in favor of it not being you know not being conclusive so we'll see these are pretty big pretty big claims uh but then Steve Bannon ask the question would Murdoch have won that gigantic Fox News case in which Tucker was saying things about the security of the election systems would Murdoch have won that case if he had had these three pieces of information and he could have said in that trial well we don't know what happened but here's your security key right here imagine if during the trial where Fox News you know was Under Fire for saying the election machines were not secure imagine if the defense uh had pulled out a document and they said you know your encryption security key here it is and then just walk walk in front of the jury you know not that they could care read the digits would just say look here's the encryption key do you do you know who had access to this everybody who knew where to look wouldn't that be the end of the case like how could you sit in the jury and let and let's say that that evidence held up against cross-examination and everything if that held up that it really was there and if you knew where to look you could find it now here's the part I don't know how many people had access to that because you'd still have to have access to the system before you could find something on the system so at the very least it would mean that any of the texts using the system could have could have thwarted it so an inside job would still be possible but probably has to be an inside job unless the hackers can get in and maybe they can so we'll keep an eye on that if you had applied the dilber filter to the election what would it have predicted now the dilbur filter says that all big organizations operate super inefficiently and selfishly and stupidly and everything's a lie that's the dilver filter we were told that um this massive Enterprise of you know machines and technology and how it's all tied together in this complex system was Flawless if you've ever had any experience in a big company or any big organization there's no big organization that could pull this off flawlessly the the number of uh you know alleged problems with the system are exactly what I would have predicted and I I think I did maybe not in the right words but if you had any experience in a Dilbert like world and this is a whole bunch of Dilbert worlds you know every election Precinct is a little Dilbert world people don't have the ability to to do this flawlessly that's not something humans can do humans cannot pull off this level of complexity and organization without a lot of problems so as soon as you were told that we don't have any problems every every antenna should have gone up wait a minute you're in exactly a situation where 100% of the time there are problems and big ones but this is the only time that not not the case would you have believed it no the dilber filter is very predictive if it's a big organization people are cheating and lying and bullshitting every time not sometimes not most of the time every time it's just a as something to do with scale if you get enough people in one place doing you know some kind of common thing a lot of them are going to be bad people you can't avoid it all right let's uh let's take that and apply that to uh let's say climate change have you noticed that checking the temperature the thermometers around the country remind you of checking of voting machines let's say in both cases it's a very large Enterprise with very complicated lots of moving Parts lots of human beings involved uh a lack of transparency very high stakes people have a lot of money involved how often is that going to be corrupt if you use the dilbur filter the dilbur filter would say that climate change would be corrupt 100% of the time and that the reading of the thermometers isn't much different from the making sure your election your counting machines and your voting machines are all accurate and there's no security problems and that all the people working on them did the thing to keep them secure because remember the security of dominions machines I think this is fair to say is not about their design because nobody said yet I haven't seen anybody say this that they're designed poorly it it appears that the humans are the problem if somebody left an unencrypted you know basically a password to the whole machine to give you God capability that feels more like a human problem like somebody should have known not to do that it doesn't exactly sound like a technology problem I mean it it looks like it was done intentionally but you know in the real world incompetence explains almost everything so we can't tell in this case so I would say I would take the dilver filter to The Climate a thermometer measuring world and I'd say there's not really any chance the humans can do that as accurately as the experts tell us so I have the same opinion on the voting machines as I do on climate change that when you've got that level of complexity and money's involved and all that that's not something people can do to to a level of perfection that you would want now let's talk about Evolution I love that evolution is in the headlines again it's just the ultimate provocative thing so t was on Joe Rogan the other day and said Tucker said that he doesn't believe in evolution he does believe you know in species changing over time in the sense that you know you could breed a dog to be taller or bigger and you know maybe finches can have bigger or smaller beaks or change their colors but according to Tucker and this is not my view this is Tucker human evolution has never been demonstrated by the fossil record would you agree with that statement science does not agree with that statement but do you agree with it that the fossil record does not prove human evolution and that in fact the the the record doesn't show anything else evolving either it can show you it can show you a fossil of one thing and it can show you a fossil of another thing but you can't really tell that the one thing turned into the other thing because the because the fossil record is not that accurate now to argue I'm going to argue both sides you know so I want to Steelman this as much as possible so it doesn't just sound absurd the theory the so-call theory of evolution has a ton of evidence in favor of it a ton of evidence I mean almost as much as climate change almost as much evidence as the fact that our elections are all secure and and no problem at all those are three things that have a ton of evidence the first two are ridiculously false and when I say false I'm not making an allegation of my own about the voting machines so I can stay out of legal trouble I'm saying I don't see any situation in which this level of complexity is going to lead to humans getting it flawlessly right evolution is pretty complicated too a lot of moving parts and a lot of money involved what what are the odds that we got this one right yeah here's a little mind Bender for you when you were in uh school did you learn that uh Evolution was the survival of the fittest how how many of you learned that that's what what evolution was survival of the fittest do you know they changed that right because they found out that wasn't the case it's it's the single most important element of evolution as we understood it that you had to have some adaptive benefit in order for that to continue if it wasn't a benefit then it wouldn't continue but the modern version of evolution is that things just happen it's not always a benefit so for example if you were a bird evolving on an island with no Predators well then you could evolve for a thousand years having messed up birds that can't fly very well no Predators if if if the Predators were there and they couldn't fly they would all get eaten but if there's no Predators they can just willy-nilly evolve randomly into whatever the hell they want to so the modern version of evolution pretty much completely rejects the original version of evolution that I was told was Rock Solid I was told Evolution was just a fact in school but now I'm told that the most basic element of how it worked now it's nothing like that it's really just it's just the evolution of what happened not the fittest now um but what about that fossil record would you say the entire um evolution is depends on just the fossil record no it does not because there's other evidence for example you know uh viruses although they're not alive so that shouldn't count I think bacteria some other stuff so in in a lab you can force things to evolve but I'm not sure you can turn a v bacteria into a germ like I don't know what I'm talking about but I think a bacteria is different than a germ I'm pretty sure so is there anything happening in the lab I just don't know actually is there anything happening in the lab there's definitely Evolution or is the lab just more more proof that you can you know breed a big dog into a little dog if you try I don't know but here's where it gets interesting uh Elon Musk um replied to this conversation with the saigh uh the the Sigh seemed to indicate that watching Tucker doubt Evolution was sort of anti-science but how do you believe in evolution if you also believe in the S simulation now you could say that the simulation just includes Evolution so it all happened it's all simulated but it all happened within the simulation just like everything else maybe but if we're a simulation it suggests there's probably a resource limit because everything seems to have a resource limit now not necessarily could be some future you know Unlimited Technology species but far more likely it would be a species Like Us in some ways that is limited in resources if it's limited in resources it's not going to build the whole universe in the simulation that would be crazy it's going to build the stuff you can see and then as you need to see other stuff let's say we you know we can go to see the backside of the moon for the first time that's when it becomes real it fills it in when you can see it now we do see in science that our observation does seem to change reality so that's not crazy so I would say that uh if you believe the simulation is a billion to one more likely than not being a simulation uh it's a little sketchy to say that evolution is true because in my view simulation doesn't require but very likely the past is created by the present so if you saw any evidence that like the double slid experiment in my view that's my own interpretation uh that is the present create in the past because when you look at it's only when you look at it that it's different in the past does that make sense the first time you look at the results for the double slit experiment without getting into details about it when you look at it that's the first time you know that there was an interference and again without the details you know there was an interference pattern but the interference pattern had to have existed before you looked at it because otherwise it wouldn't be there so by looking at it you've actually created the past for the first time now if you measure it without looking at it it also solidifies it into that interference pattern but the measurement is just another way of you know solidifying reality doesn't need to be a human it could be a measurement but in both cases the present created the past now I know some of you are going to say Scott you are misinterpreting that experiment to which I say hey whatever your name is no you're misinterpreting it and are so are all the uh scientists do you know why they're misinterpreting it because they can't handle the fact that the arrow of time is not what they think it is so they start with the assumption that you can't be changed in the past whereas I start with the assumption that changing the past is probably the way it works it's the most likely way it works so if you enter the Double SL experiment assuming the most likely way the world works is that your observations change the past well there it is it's right in front of you if you think that's not possible then you would interpret it a different way I suppose anyway um uh I saw CNO saying Mike cernovich the theory he posted today the theory of evolution people can't even figure out uh he goes the theory of evolution people can't even figure out where Co originated uh LMAO so do is that fair now that's a that's the dilber principle he's basically stating it in a more you know Common sensical headline way but the reason we can't figure out where Co originated from might be capability but it might be more to do with the people that everybody lies so the world is full of liars lying for lots of different reasons so if you look at anything that's happened during our time you can see it's mostly a bunch of lying but then you look at Evolution you're like oh I'm glad we totally nailed that yeah yeah the elections we have doubts about we've got we've got doubts about those thermometers but oh the Evolution's good we nailed the evolution um I saw Colin Wright on xay uh here here's his view he says the right can't convincingly accuse the woke left of quote denying biology you know the whole trans thing uh regarding biological sex if they themselves reject Evolution H does that make sense to you does it make sense that you can't doubt one part of science if you're doubting a different part of science how does that make sense isn't doubting science built in through science and can't I say most of it looks good but I doubt this part I thought that's a whole point I thought that's exactly what I can do I can say you got gravity right but I'm not so sure about climate change there there's no such thing as trusting science if you're trusting science you're doing it wrong science says don't trust me right science says hey people don't trust me that's his main message that's the number one thing it says don't trust me you better test this a lot all right so here's why uh yeah um and then Tucker says that God built it and I say that uh any filter that works keep doing it right it if having a god filter on things lets you organize your life in a productive way and raise your kids to be good citizens and all that it does appear to do that I'd say sure do some of that um but if it doesn't stop you from doing science that's the important part I mean you can't you can't ignore all of science because you disagree with one part of it all right here's some more science um Mario and Noel is reporting that uh study published in the annals of internal medicine so it's in their annals so in their animals U they studied fasting and they say it doesn't work for losing weight this is an R test technical doesn't work for losing weight do you believe that do you believe that fasting doesn't work for losing weight um that uh as long long as you eat the same amount of food over time you don't lose weight how is that even why do you even have to study that who who didn't understand that if you ate the same amount of food in the same time frame you would weigh the same no matter when you ate it did we really need to study that now don't um when you say fasting Works let's be specific uh fasting has benefits that are claimed for that are good for your body and your mental health right but not necessarily weight loss if if you're fasting for weight loss then all you're doing is eating less if you're doing it right so if if what you did is fast for a day and then the next day you ate the normal amount for that day of course you'd lose weight because you would have an entire day with no no calories so apparently what they tested was if you fast for a day and then eat twice as much the next day you won't lose weight did they really need to study that did anybody was that a surprise to somebody I don't know looks like bad science to me well end wokeness is reporting that the LA mayor Karen bass um her house was burglarized now I know what you're going to say that's an old story Scott we already know that Karen Bass the mayor of Los Angeles who was sort of a soft on crime person we already know that her house was burglarized and so why are you bringing it up again because it was burglarized a second time yep the the soft on crer on crime mayor just got burglarized a second time so here's uh here's my unpopular take on that if Dei never existed I would look at her and say h looks like she had some bad policies or you know maybe she'll correct it in the context of Dei when I see a black mayor who's clearly not getting the job done I say to myself huh looks like a Dei problem like the base problem is Dei and the reason I say that is I I think a better leader could fix it you know being being tougher on crime for example so is it my fault that I live in a world where I'm continuously reminded of Dei and then I see somebody who is black and is in charge and is failing what am I supposed to think if if the society primes me to say Dei Dei is why were you know looking for people and hiring people and voting for people of course I'm going to think that the problem is Dei now that's different from saying there's a problem with the person so you have to separate that one is a one is a system and the other is an individual so I'm not making a claim about the individual and indeed if it turns out she's really good at her job it's hard to tell from the outside but if it turns out she's really good at her job and and maybe even made one slip that maybe she'll fix pretty big one but if she fixed it I would give her credit so I don't know that there's something wrong with the individual but I do know that in the context of Dei they've created a situation where it's my first um assumption is my working assumption now do you think that's good for black people that when I see a black leader who's not getting it done that I think it's because of Dei not because necessarily there's something wrong with the person that's that's a whole different conversation you know the person might actually be qualified and it would be terribly terribly unfair to a qualified black leader to be you know painted with the same brush just because it's in the context of Dei I don't see how black people come out ahead with Dei to me it looks like a complete losing proposition and I think what's wrong about it is what Democrats get wrong every time they don't take into account the room you got to read the room right read the room that that's what Trump did correctly on abortion I think you know even if you don't like where he landed he read the room right he read the room right just exactly right right there's no right answer but he found he found the safest place to be on it for a president that's reading the room right then and Dei is reading the room so wrong and it's almost like ignoring that it matters what other people think of Dei no it's actually the most important thing the most important thing is how white people think about it but we're going to be really quiet in the short run in the long run we're going to form opinions that it's promoting unqualified people there's nothing you could do about that we're not broken there's nothing to fix you you designed a system that guarantees that um people are going to assume Dei hires are less qualified and the math suggests that it will often be true but not always of course so how's that a good situation for being black in America to me this would be just the worst freaking thing you know if you're capable you can be operating under this umbrella of assumption of incapability and I can't imagine anything that would be more just destructive to your entire ability to enjoy your life anyway get out of la la is Fallen uh there's a uh there's a campaign video I guess you call it that that is the strongest one I think maybe I've ever seen now think about what biggest statement that is it's a campaign ad just a two-minute ad might be the strongest one I've ever seen for any side at any time anywhere it was made by um Western lensman and Blake haban so I've posted it if you want to go see it I'm not going to um give it to you but I'll just tell you how it felt it it Promises at the beginning to tell you 25 ways that Biden is destroying America or the Democrats I guess um and it's going to do it in two minutes now when I heard that I'm like really 25 ways you're going to give me 25 ways in 2 minutes and I'm supposed to think that these are all credible so here's what I assumed the first five probably are going to be pretty good like things I might agree with like oh open border yeah that is destroying the country and then I thought by the time you get to 25 you're going to be into the weak stuff right just makes sense right you're going to put the strong stuff up a front and then I'm going to say oh yeah yeah yeah and then once you got me nodding nodding Along by the time you get to eight or nine then the list the 25 you've just hypnotized me like yeah yeah yeah oh that's right oh yeah yeah and then you get to the 25 and they might be weak but but but you're all you're all on board at that point didn't go like that all 25 are strong and when you see them together it's like your hair catches is on fire because when you see them together it does look like the Democrats are legitimately trying to destroy the country uh and you don't see it if you see any one of the 25 things individually because they all have a reason well we're working on this and there's a reason for that and well you didn't look at the tradeoff and well it's not a perfect world and you know everything's got its own little excuse but boy when you see all 25 of them together it looks like Democrats are literally in intentionally trying to destroy the country and I think there's something to that because when you hate something you will even subconsciously do everything you can to destroy it right it doesn't even mean it's a plan uh I wouldn't claim it's a plan I don't think I don't think there's a meaning where somebody said hey let's destroy the country in a variety of ways I think what it is is a lot of young people especially um may be seeing that the the elites stole everything that's worth stealing and left them nothing but crumbs now if I were 20 years old and I thought the Elites in both parties had stolen everything good and polluted the world and left it a Ashan crumbly mess with nothing but debt and War I would want to destroy that system and it wouldn't matter what I what happened I'd be like okay well anything you want to turn the boys the girls yeah go ahead I'm I'm down to that yeah what could go wrong so I do want to um yeah you should take your time to look at it it's on my X feed I posted it today so strong so congratulations to Blake abian and what whatever Western lensman did I'm not sure who did what I think Blake might have produced it actually I'm not sure but the but they work together on it in some way um but it's amazing it's probably the most persuasive thing I've seen in of a campaign ad New York Times has a guest opinion today and the title of the guest opinion is government surveillance keeps us safe so so is that scary to see that the paper of record is running a an opinion piece that says government surveillance of all the citizens can keep you safe you know everybody always says oh this is so 1984 this is the most 1984 thing I've ever seen it would be hard to top this one that's a Topper but the thing is I actually agree with it it does keep you safe it just takes your freedom away that's always the trade-off you know the government can do lots of things to keep you safe lock you into your house but you in the long run maybe you're not too happy about it um I think this government surveillance probably goes a long way to explaining why we haven't had worst Terror attacks since 911 I feel like the fact that we have no privacy is the only reason there haven't been major Terror attacks I I think that a lot of stuff must be getting thwarted uh in its infancy because they have complete ability to monitor just literally everything so that that's the most positive thing you put on it but no I'm not in favor of the government surveilling every single thing we do but I think it's a fact and it's not going to change here about this uh there's a business called sheets I don't know what they do shz and they're being sued by the government Biden Administration for discriminating uh for discriminating against minorities and specifically the form of discrimination is they require applicants to pass a criminal record U background check so sheets doesn't want to hirer people have criminal records but since there are more people with criminal records in the underserved communities uh that would be um now illegal according to the Biden Administration so the Biden Administration wants to force this company to hire um convicted felons so uh but you know what's ridiculous you know what's ridiculous I mean really do you really think there are 25 different ways that the Biden Administration is trying to literally destroy the country maybe 26 maybe 26 because this clearly is bad for the country it couldn't be any worse for the country and here it is and they're going to spend a lot of resources on this of all the things that the that the Biden Administration could do to root out unfairness and discrimination they had to find this one now doesn't that mean that everything else that's more important than this has been solved do they have so much resource so many resources that they could solve all the big dis discrimination problems they're they're all well handled but now they're working down the list and priorities and we're all the way down to the company that doesn't want to hire criminals they should hire more criminals or they'll go to jail or something fine probably so I now if you add this to the fact that uh the white supremacist that they were looking for in the military didn't exist I think things are really going well if you've got Dei hires in all the major cities and uh the worst remaining discrimination you could find is that they're H they don't want to hire criminals amazing well let's talk about Ukraine I saw a post by uh Joey manino and he says this in his post he said he had dinner with a friend from Ukraine and he said and he learned something the media is not reporting if you're a male citizen of Ukraine who lives outside the country and your passport expires you no longer can renew it at an embassy so if you're an Ukrainian man at another country mostly maybe to get away from Ukraine uh if your passport expires they won't renew it you have to come back to Ukraine and die in the meat grinder wow um so if you don't have a passport you can't stay in the country you're in but you also can't go back to the country some country should say you could come here because I'm pretty sure that the ukrainians the Ukrainian men who were living you know escaped Ukraine to get away from the draft they're probably educated and employable they'd probably be a pretty good group you know because they're they're not filtered for being criminals or anything they're filtered for being smart enough not to be part of a war and they had enough resources that they could get out of the country that probably suggests it would be a great group of people to have in your country so you know maybe somebody will open their doors and and make that more legal um but some other things we're learning um this from uh Brian Dean Wright I believe he's used to be in the intelligence services but now is not and um he's talking about how the war is lost basically the Ukraine war he says there are two problems one is massive corruption that we know about so it's going to be hard to keep shoveling the money when we know zinsky is stealing it and his lieutenants are and apparently that's documented now so we don't wonder if zinski is stealing the money yeah he is and I guess everybody knows it um but the other thing is that there are no human beings left in Ukraine to fight that the uh the the urban men disappeared cuz they could and the rural men are all dead so they just ran out of people so according to uh Brian Dean right uh the weapons aren't going to help as much as you want because they don't have anybody to fire them now that wouldn't be so bad I mean it's terrible but it wouldn't be so bad if they look like they could win right you'd say to yourself well that's the most horrible thing they lost all their men for a generation but if they won you know you can imagine that eventually they' spin it into a great sacrifice in the victory but they're not winning and indeed the whole goal that uh the Biden Administration has set down loud that it's just a cheap way to degrade the Russian military which I don't think most people care about but maybe some do uh but how's that working out the uh Politico reports that the Russian Army is larger by 15% than it was when it invaded Ukraine and their their industrial production is growing their military is getting stronger and apparently there's no risk to the economy so basically we made Russia stronger although I don't know that you can really tell that I'm not sure we know exactly what's happening in Russia you know that's probably propaganda too so I don't know how much Russia is winning but it doesn't look like they're losing um you know you can't believe anything from a war zone or from Russia or Ukraine but anyway David saaks is is on this case uh making it clear and I think he's correct he's making it clear that there is no win to be had and and that we lost the only thing we said we were trying to do which is degrade Russia Etc and I think I am a uh uh I have been one over to the side that the whole point of making Ukraine NATO is so NATO so Ukraine would have to buy weapons from uh American manufacturers and that Americans would pay the uh with our taxes to give to Ukraine so they could buy our weapons so basically it's just our own military-industrial complex looting our pockets and uh they're energy people trying to take Russia's energy and that sort of thing so I I see America as more of a criminal Enterprise than a military keeping the world safer democracy that's my take Ukraine looks entirely like a criminal Enterprise backed by an army uh because these stated claims are somewhat ludicrous whereas the more obvious explanation of what's going on you know CIA wants to protect their labs and you know we want to have closer assets to threaten Russia and we maybe we did want to degrade their military a little or you know uh get Putin out of office all that stuff but it mostly it looks like it's just a moneygrab corrupt uh criminal Enterprise and we're just need deep in it so I I'm rejecting any notion that America is the good guy in this situation I think we're I think we're the criminals in this situation that would be my take now now what is the solution for all of it well Trump has to avoid the obvious plot to assassinate him I I think we could say that out loud right I mean if they're trying to remove his secret servy protection while painting him as a a risk to democracy and a Hitler character that's a murder attempt now the fact that they figured out a legal way to murder somebody or attempt to murder uh that doesn't change the fact that what it is it it might IL legal but still murder so I would say our system is mostly blackmail bribery corruption and murder and that the uh thin veneer of a republic and a democracy and all that stuff is you know largely silly and absurd and clearly hasn't been with us for decades we're complicit unless we overthrow the corruption well unless it's working see that's the problem uh it always comes down to what are the Alternatives and I've said it before but I'm going to double down on it if it's true that we're not you know a Democratic Republic that doesn't mean we're worse off it just means we're not what we thought we were it definitely means some people are being screwed definitely means that definitely means the elites are getting richer but here's the problem that's every system if you show me a system where the elites don't not only stay Elite but they don't you know gain compared to the population and Rob them I've never seen that system what system is that so if every system robs the public for the benefit of the elite and if it doesn't it doesn't have the resources to field an army and protect itself it won't last so my take is the big Bigg ger and batter we are as a criminal Enterprise the longer we're going to last why do you think Russia is still in business and going to survive this war is it because they're a Democratic Republic no it's because they're a massive criminal Enterprise with the military just like us look at China do you think the elites are doing better than the people I think so I think so yeah think they're doing great and does that mean that in in a way conceptually they're robbing the people to keep themselves in power and yeah of course that's what it means that's exactly what it means so every system that is successful successful to the point where you know we think they should be in NATO let's say let's say that's the minimum level of a successful country is that we want them in NATO you don't get there without your elites being totally in charge and being able to control the government and the military so I think that all of the countries that are successful are criminal Enterprises because in the long run that's the model that works and like the Mafia the mafia might not want a lot of crime on its own street because it doesn't want to interfere with the bigger crimes it's doing so it could be that our criminal government would do quite a good job of you know reducing crime if the right members of it were in charge NATO is a Cel yeah in in a sense yeah I mean that doesn't that word fit perfectly because cels don't have to be illegal do they well I don't know maybe they do I'm not sure if that's baked into the definition of a cartel doesn't a cartel just mean a bunch of people with power who are operating together some way all right we're going to do a closing sip because I think you need it here's to you now do you think Trump could fix all of these problems I just mentioned how many of this criminal Enterprise stuff could Trump fix almost none I I yeah if he could fix any of this stuff he would have done some of it in the first term so it looks like whatever it is is stronger than all the presidents you know I don't think there's any president that can fix it um so here's what might happen I think the people you know the the elites as as we say the people in charge I think if Trump gets elected by a big enough margin they can't cheat him out of office and they can't put him in jail because there too many people who would go Nots I think they'll just try to wait him out you know they'll do everything they can to destroy him while he's in office but ultimately they don't want to reveal too much about themselves if they can just wait four years and go back to it running everything so I feel like they'll just waigh him out so there's one possibility that it won't be riots in the streets they must just say they might just say let's let's just keep this on a slow boil get through the four years get back in power start another war that sort of thing probably the the biggest problem would be if Trump doesn't fund Another War I think if the first thing Trump did is fund a new war he'd be fine he would be perfectly safe because everybody would be like ah yeah keep that war war guy in there um war is when your government tells you who the enemy is revolution has when the government's the enemy yeah all right that's all I got for you today on the platforms of um Rumble and You.

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stuff and the serious

stuff well I like to follow uh the AI

news on several accounts on the

xplatform one of them is Rowan Chung

who's a good follow C hu n g Rowan Rowan

Jung anyway he reports that apple is

reportedly building a uh llm so an AI

that will be completely on the device so

your phone will not have to talk to

anything to be smart it will be AI uh on

its

own and that could be a really big deal

if you're not sure why because first of

all the speed would be completely

different if if you've had the

experience of trying to have a

conversation with an

AI here's my impression of it hey AI how

are you this

morning I am very good how are you well

I'm pretty good too uh you know what

what's the news

today the weather will be

59° and and that that awkward

pause just completely ruins the

conversational you know element you you

know you're talking to a computer

because of the pause but if it runs all

locally and it's got it the same speed

as conversational

speed it's going to be pretty

awesome all right and uh it will give

you better privacy

presumably are you following the story

of Grace price so she's the teenage kid

who's well I don't know teenage is she

still a kid I don't know if she's 18 or

not but uh she's got a documentary about

how our lifestyle and food especially

are G giving us cancer and she had a

stat that she has from a source she

didn't make it up herself that says that

up to 95% of cancer is caused by your

lifestyle and environmental factors and

there's a pool of studies that show that

that's the case does that sound right

right to you yeah Grace price is her

name do you think that 95% of cancer is

caused by lifestyle in

food it's not impossible

yeah it to me it sounds

high but not crazy like it it could be

it could be that

High um but here's what I feel about her

you know when when Greta was talking

about climate

change I thought to myself this isn't

really helping because I want to hear

from you know scientists and people who

know what they're talking about uh but

then but but then when Grace price does

her thing I'm totally

board should I be using the same

standard with her as I do with Greta or

is it because I think that Greta might

be wrong and I think that Grace Price is

Right that I'm judging her expertise by

just confirmation bias and the answer is

yes that's exactly what I'm

doing but I'm aware of it you know that

sometimes the best you can do about your

own bias is just to do a little audit

and say to yourself all right if this

situation were a little different or or

if this person telling me were a little

different would I be receiving this

differently and the answer is yes yes

yeah so basically I'm hearing what I

want to hear from Grace Pryce and so to

me it all looks very scientific and and

factual and by the way I really think

that but I'm also

aware that if I were wrong I would think

the same thing so so I've got that

little bit of just a little bit of self

filter but it's not stopping me I still

say she looks right to

me but just be aware of

it well I think the concept the uh the

topic of loneliness is becoming a bigger

and bigger issue and I think it it's

there's no end in sight for that there's

nothing that looks like it's changing it

immediately it will get fixed like

everything you we'll we'll fix the

loneliness problem but uh even Kathy

Griffin uh was saying in public and

somehow I think this is useful um I like

it when public

figures talk about their own experience

I like it less when public figures tell

me what kind of apples to eat and stuff

like that because I think they're

outside their expertise but when

somebody just tells me about their own

experience and it's some Universal

relatable thing yeah yeah do that please

so here's what Kathy Griffin says and by

the way I remind you I know that a lot

of you have a political opinion about

her that's negative but I've worked with

her she was the voice of Alice in the

Dilbert animated show and uh I really

like her so Kathy Griffin in person very

very likable you'd like her to anyway

she says I guess she got divorced

recently she says divorced women I'm

talking to you I am four months divorced

and I feel weak because I just can't get

used to waking up alone in the hotel

room

uh blah blah blah and I'm having trouble

adjusting any you ladies out there you

got to uh how did you get to a place

where you can enjoy waking up alone and

she has some dogs she brings one with

her she says now without dwelling on her

specific case I like the fact that she

could be a famous public figure and that

she can say with great vulnerability

that loneliness is like a it's really a

crippling problem for a lot of people

now the only thing I can add to this

story that would be useful is that um as

you know I have a subscription service

on the locals platform Scott adams.

locals.com many of them are watching

right now but I also do a uh for the

subscribers I do a private manave just

about every night from my garage SL

manave and although I didn't design it

this way it wasn't designed for this

purpose um

There's A good rule in marketing that

the audience tells you what your product

is if you ever heard that you don't tell

what the audience you don't tell your

customers what your product is you try I

mean that's what marketing is but in the

end they tell you what the product is

they tell you why they bought it and

what it's good for and why they're going

to buy it again and apparently the man

cave turned into a lot of people who

don't have anybody to talk to during the

day has something like a personal

experience

because when I do the band caves I'm

just interacting with the with the uh

comments the entire time so it's it's

like a conversation for shy people like

if you're not brave enough to go out and

like make a friend or join a group or

you be part of some larger organization

where you just meet people uh you can do

it with me so i' I've sort of morphed my

ambitions for the mancave which honestly

was just for

me I started doing the band cave just

because I thought it'd be nice to chat

with people and be fun but I've I've

learned that its importance to several

hundred people is that sometimes it's

the only humanlike experience they have

during the entire day the only Human

Experience so it feels like a a

necessity at this point so I'd invite

any of you who want to subscribe to that

it's uh pretty much every night at

different times but California time

usually between 4:30 in 6:30 I

started anyway uh RFK Jr was at a

Michigan rally and he says provocatively

I'm going to put the entire us Budget on

blockchain so that every American can

look at every B budget item in the

entire budget anytime they want 24 hours

a

day and then you can see if things cost

too much or we wasted money now I like

where that's heading and I love how RFK

Jr gets earned media

now whether or not this specific idea is

ever

implemented don't you love the fact that

he said it in

public that this is what I call the the

bad idea that's a good idea meaning that

in a sort of Hollywood writer's terms

sometimes you throw on a bad idea to

give you something to react to and say

well not that but it reminds me of

something that would actually work so I

love the fact he's throwing out this

idea if you're ask me is blockchain the

right way to do it and all that I don't

know I don't know I mean I might my

first instinct is blockchain would

probably just slow it down and I I don't

know exactly what you're buying by

having it on the blockchain so I I'd

have questions about the

specifics but I love the fact that he's

putting it out there and it's

provocative and it makes turns it into a

story so he gets all this free publicity

I'm talking about it in a positive way

but I would go further

if you want to control the

government build a

dashboard if you want to control the

whole

government build a dashboard One

dashboard that shows you the key

political things the budgets the status

the laws that are being you know coming

who voted for what but you'd have to

design it so well that it's not

overwhelming the the way to do it wrong

is there' be a solid page of government

boring data and you'd have to look for

whatever you wanted and it'd be just so

so boring and busy you couldn't use it

but suppose you open it up and it was a

let's say four to six charts that just

showed you the direction of things and

let's say one of the charts is crime so

you could click on it and then you could

explode it by City maybe you could look

at it by you know um Democrat versus

Republican that'd be a little more

provocative but I love to do that to

find out whose policies seem to be

working and imagine if you could just

drill down on all of those questions and

then at the bottom you could get the pro

the best pro and con argument on that

topic so the data itself doesn't tell

you the story you still need the

interpretation but you want the best

ones so imagine if you had that um

dashboard that anybody any citizen can

log into and you can just see everything

that's going on MoneyWise

um I think it'd be

amazing um

anyway so I think whoever builds that

dashboard will necessarily control the

world because what you put on the front

page will be what everybody cares about

so effectively you could front run all

of the

news you could you could make the the

news entities uh useless by Simply

Having a dashboard that wouldn't be the

news per se

but if you were the one who controlled

what got highlighted and what got you

know maybe put down in priority you

would have factly control the country

because if you wanted to highlight for

example we wasted a bunch of money on

this thing you just put on the front

page and say it's just the dashboard so

that's how easy it would be to control

the whole

country um rasmon did some polls on

whether people thought Trump was going

to get a fair trial in New York City 42%

of

us voters think that it's likely Trump

will be able to get a fair trial

42% I don't know how good you are at

math but let me fill you in 42 is less

than half less than half less than half

of the citizens PED in the United States

voters likely

voters don't believe that uh it's even

possible to get a fair trial in New York

City if you're

Trump now how many people do you think

say Not only would Trump get a fair

trial um but it's very likely what

percentage do you think say it's very

likely Trump will get a fair trial in

New York

City let's let's see how close you can

get on this

guess very good very good yeah a lot of

you are guessing 25% and it's

27% it's 27 yeah but I'm going to round

that off and say your 25 is correct and

once again your your Brilliance if not

your sex appeal is coming through again

let let me say that the sapo uh sapo

sexuals who uh were attracted to

intelligent people are probably just

having quite a time now because when

they see how smart you are that you can

answer a question like that with no

prior knowledge you just all knew it was

around the quarter amazing amazing

but uh 51% think that Trump won't get a

fair trial and uh 31% say it's you know

not at all

likely now here's my

thing if you have a situation in which

the general public which is pretty much

paying attention because it's Trump they

are paying

attention if more than half say he can't

get a fair trial how in the world do you

put him in in jail if he's

convicted if more than half of the

people watching say it's probably not

fair how do you do that you can't you

can't maintain the system if you put

them in jail

while than people think it's unfair or

very likely to be

unfair so it seems to me that should be

a grounds for challenging it but I don't

think legally it is is

it I go back to the

the interesting story of how

um speed limits are determined in

residential

neighborhoods I think I've told you this

before maybe it's just a California

thing I don't know but the way they

determine a speed limit in a new road if

it's a residential not not a freeway

because those are just standard speeds

but uh in the neighborhoods they'll

actually monitor how people actually

drive before they put up the speed limit

signs and they say okay it looks like

people just naturally think they can

drive 45 on the street so we'll lower it

to 35 because we know they'll cheat a

little bit so the idea here is that you

create a law that you believe people

will accept as reasonable because you

looked at all the reason subtracted 10

everybody knows you subtracted 10

everybody's happy so a very good way to

run a country is to see if people think

it would be fair and then do the thing

that most people think would be

fair that's stable but if you do the

thing that most people literally

majority think is not likely to be fair

and you do it right in front of them

that's your worst case

scenario worst case scenario they're

doing that right in front of

us well let's talk about the plot to

make biomics look good Zero Hedge is

talking about uh commercial real estate

foreclosures they their highest level in

a decade I don't know how big a deal

that is yet yet if you say the highest

in a decade because we do we do go

through you know periods of better and

worse for Real Estate but uh it's not

good certainly not good and a lot of

people ask the question why don't they

just turn them into public housing you

know why don't you just turn all these

offices into um condos and the answer is

the only way that would work according

to

Goldman is if you drop the prices is

50% so in other words you can charge way

more for a business office per square

foot than you can for a condo so yes

it's physically possible to change them

into housing but you would lose your

entire economic point of it so actually

you can't the only way you can do it is

if I suppose you know everybody who owns

these goes broke and then the value of

the thing goes down and then somebody

buys it for a penny on a dollar and then

they can turned it into residential

housing so uh also wrong Plumbing as as

somebody's pointing out now anything can

be

fixed yeah wrong Plumbing could be

turned into right Plumbing at some

expense but very

expensive all right uh but it does look

like as Zero Hedge notes uh that the fed

and everybody are probably trying to

just push the problem forward so that

trumps in office when it collapses it

looks like set

up it looks like they know it's going to

collapse and they if they could just

hold it off until Trump gets elected

it's his

problem because I I think 90% of

politics is hoping that the economy did

well during your your rule so you can

say it is what you did because I

honestly I can't really think of

anything that bomic

did I mean that you know in theory it

lowered some drug prices but I don't

think that's like you know resounding

through the economy in general so a lot

of it is uh you know this is a the

dilber filter on things things happen

because they're going to happen anyway

and then the leaders take credit for it

that's the way the real world Works

people take credit for things that were

going to happen anyway it's that's how

everything

works so let's check in on the plot to

assassinate Trump now as you know the

plot to assassinate Trump is to make it

look like an accident so they're trying

to um talk him up as a threat to

democracy so that lots of people have a

reason to kill him because they think

he's Hiller so first you create the

motivation and you brainwash you know

millions of people into thinking oh my

God if I could stop Hitler I could do it

so that part we see an action that's the

whole he's trying to ruin um democracy

thing here's AOC talking about it she

said uh Trump who is not uh he he seeks

to dismantle American democracy I am

taking that personally very seriously

because we will not be able to organize

for any movement toward anything if we

are facing the jailing of dissidents

this is the kind of authoritarianism

that he threatens we have to take it

seriously the jailing of

dissidents where have I seen something

like that happen before the jailing of

dissidence well a dissident would be

like a protester a protester where have

I seen a protester being put in jail for

protesting oh the entire January 6 hoax

in which the thoroughly corrupt members

of Congress who should all be in jail

the ones on the January 6 committee

should definitely be in jail and uh if

if Trump only does one thing and he puts

them all in

jail for real crimes I don't want him to

make up any crimes has to be a real

crime but uh that would be one of the

best things that happened in the country

and if it ripped the country tree apart

I'm okay with

that totally down to that see here's the

thing with somebody calling your

bluff you've got to call them on it it's

your only choice otherwise they own you

if people can scare you and Bluff you

and threaten you and make you change

what you do well they own you if you

don't want to be owned you've got to

punch them in the teeth so to speak not

really no violence

so obviously the January 6 people were

jailed for being dissidents uh this is

another case we've seen so many of the

Democrats accusing Republicans of

exactly what they're doing as they're

talking as she's talking her team is

putting dissidents in jail as she's

talking now what would be the example of

where any Republican has put a dissident

in

jail I can't think of any can you think

of any even

one oh maybe a Sange but that wasn't

really just a republican

thing and he wasn't a citizen so that's

a little bit different um and we didn't

put him in jail so that's that is

different all right so so part one of

trying to kill Trump uh is going well

for for the Democrats so because the

Democrats can say this out loud without

being challenged at least

without being challenged on by their own

team they can say that Trump is trying

to dismantle democracy now as Mike Ben

has taught you uh that that creates the

predicate so that the intelligence

people can do everything that they would

do internationally to other countries

they can do internally because hey if

you're trying to save democracy there's

you know you got to pull out all the

stops so this is when you see the

Democrats say he's trying to

get rid of democracy because he's an

authoritarianism uh because of his

authoritarianism you should interpret

that as an OP um it's part of the

brainwashing of America and it's to get

him killed or jailed and that's what it

is and there's there's no other way to

see it really if you're even a little

bit aware of what's

happening so that's now how about the

plot to jail him so Jonathan turle is

talking about that so if they don't jail

him and get him killed in prison they're

going to try to kill him on the outside

by making people think he's

Hiller and also by taking away his

secret service protection so the

Democrats are trying to do all three

paint him his Hiller take away his

secret service protection and just as an

insurance policy try to put him in jail

on fake charges or trumped up

charges so Jonathan turle is talking

about uh the fact that uh brag

the da is uh he's going to start talking

to David pecker who is the uh head of

the national Inquirer who is part of the

story now as Turley points

out uh Pecker's part of the

story um has nothing to do with the

charges do you do you understand that so

pecker had to do with the um suppressing

of the story of St Stormy Daniels but

there are no charges and no law broken

to suppress the story so nobody's in

trouble for suppressing the story and

the one and only thing that David pecker

knows is that part that there was an

effort to suppress the story about

Stormy Daniels but since there's no

crime involved with that and it doesn't

tell you anything about the other crimes

why is that the first

witness why would he be the first

witness if nothing he has to say is

relevant to any of the crimes that are

being charged

well because you're watching a porno and

all pornos start the

same so Bragg is the uh

fluffer and his job is to get uh to get

the uh the pecker situation all firmed

up so he's got to get that pecker

situation all firmed up um so brag being

the fluffer you'll get that going and

that's really just to prepare you for

the we're all going to get

so you always start by firming up the

pecker before giving the good hard

that the public is is waiting

for and Trump of course so that makes

sense meanwhile on Meet the Press uh the

uh fake news is having trouble

supporting their own fake polls

because here's just here's a current

poll that was presented on uh Meet the

Press so the own people are presenting

their their own results it look like and

I read this on Eric Aban an's post he's

got a he's a good follow too on on

X um so here are some of the things so

comparing Trump to Biden on handling a

crisis Trump is up 46 to

42 who is strong who has a strong record

as president Trump is better 46 to 39

who is competent and effective Trump is

better 47 to 36 that's pretty big

difference un competent and effective

dealing with inflation and cost of

living Trump by a mile 52 compared to 30

and then has the necessary mental and

physical health Trump by a mile 45% to

26 now I don't think you need to brag

about 45% think that you're mentally and

physically capable but in the context of

politics there's a big difference it it

does suggest that even the Democrats

think that Biden is degraded now imagine

if you will that you've pulled the

public on each of these individual

qualities of President and they do look

like the important ones right handling a

crisis strong record competent effective

mentally healthy physical dealing with

inflation and those are the that's those

are important things that's all the big

stuff and Trump dominates all the big

top

so wouldn't that suggest that the

election isn't going to be anywhere near

close what did the polls tell you oh

it's B tie how in the world are we

supposed to believe any of

this that the detailed polling shows

Trump just

annihilating uh Biden on all the

important stuff all of it there's

nothing that Biden's leading on and yet

the the polls are be close Biden's

actually leading in some

polls how how in the world can we

explain this

polling it looks like the polling is

completely fake at least some of it I

mean I assume that the the top number is

the fake if if the bottom number shows

that Trump is leading on everything that

matters how in the world could he be

leading in the polling because You'

think that if the same people who were

just Pro Biden they knew they were doing

a poll that involved Trump and Biden

wouldn't they also say that Biden was

winning on the individual

categories wouldn't

they if you were in the bag for Biden

and you just want to say Trump bad Biden

good you would say that Biden was

healthier you'd say he's better for the

economy but they're not even willing to

do that and he's still

Tai okay there's something deeply wrong

with what we saying I don't know what it

is I really

don't well let's check in on the uh all

the conspiracy theories I swear to God

you know sometimes it's hard to have a

conservative sort of Republican audience

because you know you guys and I'm

talking to all of you you know you guys

have some wild conspiracy theories am I

right like one of them is that the

government and especially the Democrats

are packed with a bunch of sex offenders

that haven't been caught yet it's like

some big you know

pedopile conspiracy

theory like you you guys will believe

anything you're believing that the top

people in the Democrat Party are a whole

bunch of

pedos

crazy well next story is that President

Obama's former senior policy advisor

rahimin Shai has been charged with child

oh okay okay well maybe you're right

sometime s okay I'm going to give you

this one all right I'll give you this

turns out it's a whole party full up

exactly what you

thought so yeah Colin rug was reporting

this on X um so the senior policy

advisor is being charged with sex

offenses let's just say he had some bad

stuff on his computer some bad

stuff and he worked uh on the us

strategy to combat terrorism and

terrorists so while he was helping us

fight Al-Qaeda and the

Taliban the children were fighting him

off or something like that I guess there

were some kind of allegations they're

allegations people he's innocent till

proven

guilty so take your conspiracy

theories even though they look

suspiciously

supportable anyway he wasn't in charge

of ordering the pizza and hot dogs for

Obama but you know you know where that

story's

going well thankfully um the the

Democrats are trying to get those

corrupt Republicans out of office by

having a sweep and winning everything in

2024 and uh oh here's a story about Ted

Lou he's accused of using donor money to

give $50,000 donation to

Stanford who then soon after admitted

his

child to

Stanford

so that's probably a

coincidence am I

right and uh I tell you when I give

money to a politician what I'm really

hoping the politician spends it on is uh

bribing a college to get his kid into it

now there's no evidence that's what

happened that's simply an

allegation and we have a correlation but

not a

causation it could be that he loves

Stanford so much that he wanted to give

them money and he had this donor money

so he gave him that it had nothing to do

with the admission of his

child innocent until proven

guilty

right sometimes it's hard to say inoc

till proven guilty but let's try to keep

that standard

well if you're watching the uh protester

situation at Columbia University I'm not

sure I'd call it protesting so much as

anti-Semitism and uh it's got It's

become uh super dangerous and scary if

you're a Jewish student or even if

you're Jewish and anywhere near that

situation but uh apparently they built a

tent city in the middle of the

campus um the an orthodox Rabbi who I

guess is associated with Columbia and

Barnard he sent out a WhatsApp uh

message to 290 Jewish students and he

said uh you know maybe they should go

home until it's safe to go to

college he actually said you should

consider going home and just dropping

out of college until it's safe and then

come back now that's not a very

practical suggestion for most

people you can't really easily drop out

of college if that's your whole plan

right um but that's how bad it

is now you might say to yourself Scott

this is

terrible because um it's so terrible

because not

only have the uh the protesters create a

highly anti-semitic situation and it's

scary and there actually been physical

attacks on Jewish students Etc I think

somebody at Yale got stabbed at a

protest um so it's getting really dicey

and dicey but as bad as it is

now um I don't think you should be super

worried

yet I wouldn't worry until the Colombia

tent people start digging

tunnels if you hear that the Columbia

protesters have started to build

tunnels then that's the next level of

worrying I I would take your concern up

to another level right now I would put

it at the level of seriously seriously

concerning and must be fixed

immediately but I think if they start

are building tunnels under the

tents I'd take that up another level at

least one more

Defcon so that's my

standard once they got

tunnels then you got to worry all

right anyway um but I think that if they

do build tunnels I think there's a

theoretical number of uh migrants who

could be urinating Outdoors that would

flood the

tunnels H anyway let's not solve yet

let's wait till it's a

problem uh let's see the Democrats have

a new campaign ad showing uh a young

woman who's trying to go to another

state to get an abortion because Alabama

Law would prohibit it and uh the the

theatrical uh approach that the

advertising campaign is taking is that

you see the pregnant woman being stopped

by the Alabama Police saying you can't

cross state lines to get an abortion and

she's like frisked and

arrested now apparently that's not yet a

law but there are allegedly can you give

me a fact check on

this um

allegedly that Alabama is looking at uh

making it illegal to go to another state

to get an abortion where it is

illegal is that actually something that

Republicans are dumb enough to

do is that actually being discussed

because I have trouble B in that it

sounds like just something made up right

now I wouldn't be surprised if there are

some people who have suggested it

because there's always some people who

suggest everything but I can't IM

imagine there's any serious effort in

Alabama to stop somebody from driving

across the state line is

there can can anybody give me a fact

check on that is

there because I I'd ask some serious

questions if that's if that's the case

regardless of what you think about

abortion your state can't stop you from

driving to another state and doing

what's legal in that state there's no

way that that's going to be a law is it

I don't

know we've seen some crazy things but I

can't imagine that would become a

law um meanwhile at Steve bannon's War

Room there's uh some new information

from Kurt olssen he's an attorney and uh

I guess he's got some new information

you've probably heard this before but

what's new is that they're using the

updated information about the Dominion

machines their claims about them

allegations I'll call them um that they

found some uh let's

say data security issues I'll tell you

what they are in a moment and that

they're updating some uh supreme court

filings so there's some kind of Supreme

Court case that um is being pushed

forward doesn't mean the Supreme Court

will take

it it's just you know an application of

some sort for them to take it but of

course they don't take most things so

we'll see but here are the claims so

Kurt Olson says his Security Experts

have found the following that in the

2020 and 22 2022

elections um that Dominion used altered

software and lied about it that's the

allegation meaning that um they said

they were using one version of software

but the actual election was run on a

different version now is that a

problem that's like a really big

problem that's as big as you can

get if the system was checked out for

security with one version of software

and then ran a different

version that's that's the same as not

checking it for

security I mean or at least it leaves a

big hole but that's not the only thing

also in those last two elections um they

said they pre performed pre-election

tests on the

machines which would sound like they

tested all the machines before the

election that's how I interpret that but

the claim is that they didn't they

didn't test the machines they only

tested some

spares in other words they only tested

machines that were not used in the

election and said they tested the

machines used in the election by testing

machines that were not used in the

election is that a

problem yeah could be kind of sketchy

but then the third one is the funniest

one that the claim is that the master

encryption key was left open in plain

text that anyone who knew where to look

could find out how to have God control

over the entire election simply by

knowing where to look they wouldn't have

to hack anything they just have to know

where to look and and it was so so

unsecure the claim is that you could

have changed anything happening in the

system without

detection now do you believe that now

I'm going to say that there's some

pushback on the claim that you could do

massive election machine cheating and

not get

caught because there are some

controls right there there are some

audits there are some checks so it does

seem to me that some types of

misbehavior would get caught but does

that mean that every kind of cheating

can get caught because if you could

check the counting machines as well as

the voting machines and I think it was

all part of one network so you could you

had control of more than one kind of

machine the vote and also the count of

the vote uh do you think that the

allegation will

stand that you could you could change

something in the voting machines that

that wouldn't be

detected so so the wouldn't be detected

part is the part I think would be the

hardest to prove because I would imagine

that Dominion will have some kind of

argument that sounds like well yeah you

can make those changes but we would

obviously catch

them so we'll see if that's a good

argument but I think that would be the

argument but what else would it be right

if it were you you would argue yeah we

would catch that and here's how we would

catch

it so I don't know if this is enough to

get it into the Court however anybody

who's making a claim that the election

systems are secure is going to have to

deal with the fact that they found three

potential problems that don't mean they

were exploited so remember separate the

two topics one topic is you know did

anybody do anything bad on the election

and the other topic is could they was it

possible but maybe they just didn't do

it and I think the question was it

possible

is looking uh more credible than it has

before but remember all these all these

election claims they almost all turn out

not to be true so if we were look at it

from the 30,000 foot level and I said

hey there's another Claim about the

election you should bet against

it do you

agree if I said there's another claim

but I didn't give you any details about

the

elections What would you

bet well the smart bet you know is 20

to1 in favor of it not being you know

not being

conclusive so we'll see these are pretty

big pretty big claims uh but then Steve

Bannon ask the question would Murdoch

have won that gigantic Fox News case in

which Tucker was saying things about the

security of the election systems would

Murdoch have won that case if he had had

these three pieces of information and he

could have said in that trial well we

don't know what happened but here's your

security key right

here imagine if during the trial where

Fox News you know was Under Fire for

saying the election machines were not

secure imagine if the

defense uh had pulled out a document and

they said you know your encryption

security key here it is and then just

walk walk in front of the jury you know

not that they could care read the digits

would just say look here's the

encryption key do you do you know who

had access to this everybody who knew

where to look wouldn't that be the end

of the

case like how could you sit in the jury

and let and let's say that that evidence

held up against cross-examination and

everything if that held up that it

really was there and if you knew where

to look you could find it now here's the

part I don't know how many people had

access to that

because you'd still have to have access

to the system before you could find

something on the system so at the very

least it would mean that any of the

texts using the system could have could

have thwarted it so an inside job would

still be possible but probably has to be

an inside job unless the hackers can get

in and maybe they can so we'll keep an

eye on that if you had applied the

dilber filter to the election what would

it have predicted

now the dilbur filter says that all big

organizations operate super

inefficiently and selfishly and stupidly

and everything's a lie that's the dilver

filter we were told that um this massive

Enterprise of you know machines and

technology and how it's all tied

together in this complex system was

Flawless if you've ever had any

experience in a big company or any big

organization there's no big organization

that could pull this off

flawlessly the the number of uh you know

alleged problems with the system are

exactly what I would have

predicted and I I think I did maybe not

in the right words but if you had any

experience in a Dilbert like world and

this is a whole bunch of Dilbert worlds

you know every election Precinct is a

little Dilbert

world people don't have the ability to

to do this

flawlessly that's not something humans

can do humans cannot pull off this level

of complexity and

organization without a lot of problems

so as soon as you were told that we

don't have any

problems every every antenna should have

gone up wait a minute you're in exactly

a situation where 100% of the time there

are problems and big ones but this is

the only time that not not the

case would you have believed it no the

dilber filter is very predictive if it's

a big organization people are cheating

and lying and bullshitting every time

not sometimes not most of the

time every time it's just a as something

to do with scale if you get enough

people in one place doing you know some

kind of common thing a lot of them are

going to be bad people you can't avoid

it

all right let's uh let's take that and

apply that to uh let's say climate

change have you noticed that checking

the temperature the thermometers around

the country remind you of checking of

voting

machines let's say in both cases it's a

very large

Enterprise with very complicated lots of

moving Parts lots of human beings

involved uh a lack of transparency

very high

stakes people have a lot of money

involved how often is that going to be

corrupt if you use the dilbur filter the

dilbur filter would say that climate

change would be corrupt 100% of the time

and that the reading of the thermometers

isn't much different from the making

sure your election your counting

machines and your voting machines are

all accurate and there's no security

problems and that all the people working

on them did the thing to keep them

secure because remember the security of

dominions machines I think this is fair

to say is not about their

design because nobody said yet I haven't

seen anybody say this that they're

designed

poorly it it appears that the humans are

the

problem if somebody left an

unencrypted you know basically a

password to the whole machine to give

you God capability

that feels more like a human problem

like somebody should have known not to

do that it doesn't exactly sound like a

technology problem I mean it it looks

like it was done

intentionally but you know in the real

world incompetence explains almost

everything so we can't tell in this case

so I would say I would take the dilver

filter to The Climate a thermometer

measuring world and I'd say there's not

really any chance the humans can do that

as accurately as the experts tell us so

I have the same opinion on the voting

machines as I do on climate change that

when you've got that level of complexity

and money's involved and all that that's

not something people can do to to a

level of perfection that you would

want now let's talk about

Evolution I love that evolution is in

the headlines

again it's just the ultimate provocative

thing so t was on Joe Rogan the other

day and said Tucker said that he doesn't

believe in evolution he does believe you

know in species changing over time in

the sense that you know you could breed

a dog to be taller or bigger and you

know maybe finches can have bigger or

smaller beaks or change their colors but

according to Tucker and this is not my

view this is Tucker human evolution has

never been demonstrated by the fossil

record

would you agree with that

statement science does not agree with

that statement but do you agree with it

that the fossil record does not prove

human

evolution and that in fact the the the

record doesn't show anything else

evolving

either it can show you it can show you a

fossil of one thing and it can show you

a fossil of another

thing but you can't really tell that the

one thing turned into the other thing

because the because the fossil record is

not that accurate now to argue I'm going

to argue both sides you know so I want

to Steelman this as much as possible so

it doesn't just sound

absurd the theory the so-call theory of

evolution has a ton of evidence in favor

of it a ton of

evidence I mean almost as much as

climate change

almost as much evidence

as the fact that our elections are all

secure and and no problem at all those

are three things that have a ton of

evidence the first two are ridiculously

[Laughter]

false and when I say false I'm not

making an allegation of my own about the

voting machines so I can stay out of

legal trouble I'm saying I don't see any

situation in which this level of

complexity is going to lead to humans

getting it flawlessly

right evolution is pretty complicated

too a lot of moving parts and a lot of

money

involved what what are the odds that we

got this one

right yeah here's a little mind Bender

for you when you were in uh school did

you learn that uh Evolution was the

survival of the fittest how how many of

you learned that that's what what

evolution was survival of the

fittest do you know they changed that

right because they found out that wasn't

the

case it's it's the single most important

element of evolution as we understood it

that you had to have some adaptive

benefit in order for that to continue if

it wasn't a benefit then it wouldn't

continue but the modern version of

evolution is that things just happen

it's not always a benefit so for example

if you were a bird evolving on an island

with no

Predators well then you could evolve for

a thousand years having messed up birds

that can't fly very

well no

Predators if if if the Predators were

there and they couldn't fly they would

all get eaten but if there's no

Predators they can just willy-nilly

evolve randomly into whatever the hell

they want to so the modern version of

evolution pretty much completely rejects

the original version of evolution that I

was told was Rock

Solid I was told Evolution was just a

fact in school but now I'm told that the

most basic element of how it worked now

it's nothing like that it's really just

it's just the evolution of what happened

not the

fittest now um but what about that

fossil

record would you say the entire um

evolution is depends on just the fossil

record no it does not because there's

other evidence for example you know uh

viruses although they're not alive so

that shouldn't count I think bacteria

some other stuff so in in a lab you can

force things to

evolve but I'm not sure you can turn a v

bacteria into a

germ like I don't know what I'm talking

about but I think a bacteria is

different than a

germ I'm pretty

sure so is there anything happening in

the lab I just don't know actually is

there anything happening in the lab

there's definitely Evolution or is the

lab just more more proof that you can

you know breed a big dog into a little

dog if you

try I don't

know but here's where it gets

interesting

uh Elon Musk um replied to this

conversation with the saigh uh the the

Sigh seemed to indicate that watching

Tucker doubt

Evolution was sort of

anti-science but how do you believe in

evolution if you also believe in the S

simulation now you could say that the

simulation just includes

Evolution so it all happened it's all

simulated but it all happened within the

simulation just like everything else

maybe but if we're a simulation it

suggests there's probably a resource

limit because everything seems to have a

resource limit now not necessarily could

be some future you know Unlimited

Technology species but far more likely

it would be a species Like Us in some

ways that is limited in resources if

it's limited in resources it's not going

to build the whole universe in the

simulation

that would be crazy it's going to build

the stuff you can see and then as you

need to see other stuff let's say we you

know we can go to see the backside of

the moon for the first time that's when

it becomes real it fills it in when you

can see it now we do see in science that

our observation does seem to change

reality so that's not

crazy so I would say that uh if you

believe the simulation is a billion to

one more likely than not being a

simulation uh it's a little sketchy to

say that evolution is true because in my

view

simulation doesn't

require but very

likely the past is created by the

present so if you saw any evidence that

like the double slid experiment in my

view that's my own interpretation uh

that is the present create in the past

because when you look at it's only when

you look at it that it's different in

the past does that make sense the first

time you look at the results for the

double slit experiment without getting

into details about it when you look at

it that's the first time you know that

there was an interference and again

without the details you know there was

an interference pattern but the

interference pattern had to have existed

before you looked at it because

otherwise it wouldn't be there so by

looking at it you've actually created

the past for the first time now if you

measure it without looking at it it also

solidifies it into that interference

pattern but the measurement is just

another way of you know solidifying

reality doesn't need to be a human it

could be a measurement but in both cases

the present created the

past now I know some of you are going to

say Scott you are misinterpreting that

experiment to which I say hey whatever

your name is no you're misinterpreting

it and are so are all the uh scientists

do you know why they're misinterpreting

it because they can't handle the fact

that the arrow of time is not what they

think it is so they start with the

assumption that you can't be changed in

the

past whereas I start with the assumption

that changing the past is probably the

way it works it's the most likely way it

works so if you enter the Double SL

experiment assuming the most likely way

the world works is that your

observations change the past well there

it is it's right in front of you if you

think that's not possible then you would

interpret it a different way I

suppose anyway

um uh I saw CNO saying Mike cernovich

the theory he posted today the theory of

evolution people can't even figure out

uh he goes the theory of evolution

people can't even figure out where Co

originated uh

LMAO so

do is that fair now that's a that's the

dilber

principle he's basically stating it in a

more you know Common sensical headline

way but the reason we can't figure out

where Co originated

from might be capability but it might be

more to do with the people that

everybody

lies so the world is full of liars lying

for lots of different reasons so if you

look at anything that's happened during

our time you can see it's mostly a bunch

of

lying but then you look at Evolution

you're like oh I'm glad we totally

nailed that yeah yeah the elections we

have doubts about we've got we've got

doubts about those thermometers but oh

the Evolution's good we nailed the

evolution

um I saw Colin Wright on xay uh here

here's his view he says the right can't

convincingly accuse the woke left of

quote denying biology you know the whole

trans thing uh regarding biological sex

if they themselves reject

Evolution H does that make sense to you

does it make sense that you can't doubt

one part of science if you're doubting a

different part of

science how does that make

sense isn't doubting science built in

through science and can't I say most of

it looks good but I doubt this

part I thought that's a whole point I

thought that's exactly what I can do I

can say you got gravity right but I'm

not so sure about climate

change there there's no such thing as

trusting science if you're trusting

science you're doing it wrong science

says don't trust

me right science says hey people don't

trust me that's his main message that's

the number one thing it says don't trust

me you better test this a

lot all right

so here's why uh

yeah um and then Tucker says that God

built

it and I say that uh any filter that

works keep doing it right it if having a

god filter on things lets you organize

your life in a productive way and raise

your kids to be good citizens and all

that it does appear to do that I'd say

sure do some of that um but if it

doesn't stop you from doing science

that's the important part I mean you

can't you can't ignore all of science

because you disagree with one part of

it all right here's some more science um

Mario and Noel is reporting that uh

study published in the annals of

internal

medicine so it's in their

annals so in their

animals U they studied fasting and they

say it doesn't work for losing weight

this is an R test technical doesn't work

for losing weight do you believe that do

you believe that fasting doesn't work

for losing

weight um that uh as long long as you

eat the same amount of

food over time you don't lose weight how

is that even why do you even have to

study

that who who didn't understand that if

you ate the same amount of food in the

same time frame you would weigh the same

no matter when you ate it did we really

need to study

that now don't

um when you say fasting Works let's be

specific uh fasting has benefits

that are claimed for that are good for

your body and your mental health right

but not necessarily weight

loss if if you're fasting for weight

loss then all you're doing is eating

less if you're doing it

right so if if what you did is fast for

a day and then the next day you ate the

normal amount for that day of course

you'd lose

weight because you would have an entire

day with no no calories so apparently

what they tested was

if you fast for a day and then eat twice

as much the next day you won't lose

weight did they really need to study

that did anybody was that a surprise to

somebody I don't know looks like bad

science to me well end wokeness is

reporting that the LA mayor Karen bass

um her house was

burglarized now I know what you're going

to say that's an old story Scott we

already know that Karen Bass the mayor

of Los Angeles who was sort of a soft on

crime person we already know that her

house was burglarized and so why are you

bringing it up again because it was

burglarized a second

time yep the the soft on crer on crime

mayor just got burglarized a second

time so here's uh here's my unpopular

take on

that if Dei never existed

I would look at her and say h looks like

she had some bad policies or you know

maybe she'll correct

it in the context of Dei when I see a

black mayor who's clearly not getting

the job done I say to myself huh looks

like a Dei

problem like the base problem is Dei and

the reason I say that is I I think a

better leader could fix it you know

being being tougher on crime for

example

so is it my fault that I live in a world

where I'm continuously reminded of Dei

and then I see somebody who is black and

is in charge and is

failing what am I supposed to

think if if the society primes me to say

Dei

Dei is why were you know looking for

people and hiring people and voting for

people of course I'm going to think that

the problem is Dei now that's different

from saying there's a problem with the

person so you have to separate that one

is a one is a system and the other is an

individual so I'm not making a claim

about the individual and indeed if it

turns out she's really good at her job

it's hard to tell from the outside but

if it turns out she's really good at her

job and and maybe even made one slip

that maybe she'll

fix pretty big one but if she fixed it I

would give her credit

so I don't

know that there's something wrong with

the

individual but I do know that in the

context of

Dei they've created a situation where

it's my first um

assumption is my working

assumption now do you think that's good

for black people that when I see a black

leader who's not getting it done that I

think it's because of

Dei not because necessarily there's

something wrong with the person that's

that's a whole different conversation

you know the person might actually be

qualified and it would be terribly

terribly unfair to a

qualified black leader to be you know

painted with the same brush just because

it's in the context of Dei I don't see

how black people come out ahead with Dei

to me it looks like a complete losing

proposition and I think what's wrong

about it is what Democrats get wrong

every

time they don't take into account the

room you got to read the

room right read the room that that's

what Trump did correctly on abortion I

think you know even if you don't like

where he landed he read the room right

he read the room right just exactly

right right there's no right answer but

he found he found the safest place to be

on it for a president that's reading the

room right then and Dei is reading the

room so wrong

and it's almost like ignoring that it

matters what other people think of

Dei no it's actually the most important

thing the most important thing is how

white people think about it but we're

going to be really quiet in the short

run in the long run we're going to form

opinions that it's promoting unqualified

people there's nothing you could do

about that we're not

broken there's nothing to

fix you you designed a system that

guarantees that um people are going to

assume Dei hires are less

qualified and the math suggests that it

will often be true but not always of

course so how's that a good situation

for being black in America to me this

would be just the worst freaking thing

you know if you're capable you can be

operating under this umbrella of

assumption of

incapability and I can't imagine

anything that would be

more just destructive to your entire

ability to enjoy your

life anyway get out of la la is

Fallen uh there's a uh there's a

campaign video I guess you call it that

that is the strongest one I think maybe

I've ever seen now think about what

biggest statement that is it's a

campaign ad just a two-minute ad might

be the strongest one I've ever seen for

any side at any time anywhere

it was made by um Western lensman and

Blake

haban so I've posted it if you want to

go see it I'm not going to um give it to

you but I'll just tell you how it felt

it it Promises at the beginning to tell

you 25 ways that Biden is destroying

America or the Democrats I guess um and

it's going to do it in two minutes now

when I heard that I'm like really

25

ways you're going to give me 25 ways in

2 minutes and I'm supposed to think that

these are all credible so here's what I

assumed the first

five probably are going to be pretty

good like things I might agree with like

oh open border yeah that is destroying

the country and then I thought by the

time you get to

25 you're going to be into the weak

stuff right just makes sense right

you're going to put the strong stuff up

a front and then I'm going to say oh

yeah yeah yeah and then once you got me

nodding nodding Along by the time you

get to eight or nine then the list the

25 you've just hypnotized me like yeah

yeah yeah oh that's right oh yeah yeah

and then you get to the 25 and they

might be weak but but but you're all

you're all on board at that

point didn't go like

that all

25 are strong and when you see them

together it's like your hair catches is

on fire because when you see them

together it does look like the Democrats

are legitimately trying to destroy the

country uh and you don't see it if you

see any one of the 25 things

individually because they all have a

reason well we're working on this and

there's a reason for that and well you

didn't look at the tradeoff and well

it's not a perfect world and you know

everything's got its own little excuse

but boy when you see all 25 of them

together it looks like Democrats are

literally in intentionally trying to

destroy the

country and I think there's something to

that because when you hate

something you will even subconsciously

do everything you can to destroy it

right it doesn't even mean it's a plan

uh I wouldn't claim it's a plan I don't

think I don't think there's a meaning

where somebody said hey let's destroy

the country in a variety of ways I think

what it is is a lot of young people

especially um may be seeing that the the

elites stole everything that's worth

stealing and left them nothing but

crumbs now if I were 20 years old and I

thought the Elites in both parties had

stolen everything good and polluted the

world and left it a Ashan crumbly mess

with nothing but debt and

War I would want to destroy that

system and it wouldn't matter what I

what happened I'd be like okay well

anything you want to turn the boys the

girls yeah go ahead I'm I'm down to that

yeah what could go wrong so I do want to

um yeah you should take your time to

look at it it's on my X feed I posted it

today so strong so congratulations to

Blake abian and what whatever Western

lensman did I'm not sure who did what I

think Blake might have produced it

actually I'm not sure but the but they

work together on it in some

way um but it's amazing

it's probably the most persuasive thing

I've seen in of a campaign

ad New York Times has a guest opinion

today and the title of the guest opinion

is government surveillance keeps us

safe

so

so is that scary to see that the paper

of record is running a an opinion piece

that says government surveillance of all

the citizens can keep you

safe you know everybody always says oh

this is so

1984 this is the most 1984 thing I've

ever

seen it would be hard to top this one

that's a Topper but the thing is I

actually agree with

it it does keep you safe it just takes

your freedom

away that's always the trade-off you

know the government can do lots of

things to keep you safe lock you into

your house but you in the long run maybe

you're not too happy about

it um I think this government

surveillance probably goes a long way to

explaining why we haven't had worst

Terror attacks since

911 I feel like the fact that we have no

privacy is the only reason there haven't

been major Terror attacks I I think that

a lot of stuff must be getting

thwarted uh in its infancy because they

have complete ability to monitor just

literally everything so that that's the

most positive thing you put on it but no

I'm not in favor of the government

surveilling every single thing we do but

I think it's a fact and it's not going

to

change here about this uh there's a

business called

sheets I don't know what they do

shz and they're being sued by the

government Biden Administration for

discriminating uh for discriminating

against

minorities and specifically the form of

discrimination is they require

applicants to pass a criminal record U

background check so sheets doesn't want

to hirer people have criminal records

but since there are more people with

criminal records in the underserved

communities uh that would be um now

illegal according to the Biden

Administration so the Biden

Administration wants to force this

company to hire um convicted

felons so

uh but you know what's

ridiculous you know what's

ridiculous I mean really do you really

think there are 25 different ways that

the Biden Administration is trying to

literally destroy the

country maybe

26 maybe 26 because this clearly is bad

for the

country it couldn't be any worse for the

country and here it is and they're going

to spend a lot of resources on this of

all the things that the that the Biden

Administration could do to root out

unfairness and

discrimination they had to find this

one now doesn't that mean that

everything

else that's more important than this has

been

solved do they have so much

resource so many resources that they

could solve all the big dis

discrimination problems they're they're

all well handled but now they're working

down the list and priorities and we're

all the way down to the company that

doesn't want to hire criminals they

should hire more criminals or they'll go

to jail or something fine

probably so I now if you add this to the

fact that uh the white supremacist that

they were looking for in the military

didn't

exist I think things are really going

well

if you've got Dei hires in all the major

cities and uh the worst remaining

discrimination you could find is that

they're H they don't want to hire

criminals

amazing well let's talk about Ukraine I

saw a post by uh Joey

manino and he says this in his post he

said he had dinner with a friend from

Ukraine and he said and he learned

something the media is not reporting if

you're a male citizen of Ukraine who

lives outside the country and your

passport expires you no longer can renew

it at an

embassy so if you're an Ukrainian man at

another country mostly maybe to get away

from Ukraine uh if your passport expires

they won't renew

it you have to come back to Ukraine and

die in the meat

grinder

wow um so if you don't have a passport

you can't stay in the country you're in

but you also can't go back to the

country some country should say you

could come

here because I'm pretty sure that the

ukrainians the Ukrainian men who were

living you know escaped Ukraine to get

away from the draft they're probably

educated and

employable they'd probably be a pretty

good group you know because they're

they're not filtered for being criminals

or anything they're filtered for being

smart enough not to be part of a war and

they had enough resources that they

could get out of the country that

probably suggests it would be a great

group of people to have in your

country so you know maybe somebody will

open their doors and and make that more

legal um

but some other things we're learning um

this from uh Brian Dean Wright I believe

he's used to be in the intelligence

services but now is not

and um he's talking about how the war is

lost basically the Ukraine war he says

there are two problems one is massive

corruption that we know about so it's

going to be hard to keep shoveling the

money when we know zinsky is stealing it

and his lieutenants are and apparently

that's documented now so we don't wonder

if zinski is stealing the money yeah he

is and I guess everybody knows

it um but the other thing is that there

are no human beings left in Ukraine to

fight that the uh the the urban men

disappeared cuz they could and the rural

men are all dead so they just ran out of

people so according to uh Brian Dean

right uh the weapons aren't going to

help as much as you want because they

don't have anybody to fire them

now that wouldn't be so

bad I mean it's terrible but it wouldn't

be so bad if they look like they could

win right you'd say to yourself well

that's the most horrible thing they lost

all their men for a generation but if

they won you know you can imagine that

eventually they' spin it into a great

sacrifice in the

victory but they're not

winning and indeed the whole goal that

uh the Biden Administration has set down

loud that it's just a cheap way to

degrade the Russian

military which I don't think most people

care about but maybe some do uh but

how's that working out the uh Politico

reports that the Russian Army is larger

by 15% than it was when it invaded

Ukraine and their their industrial

production is

growing their military is getting

stronger and apparently there's no risk

to the

economy so basically we made Russia

stronger although I don't know that you

can really tell

that I'm not sure we know exactly what's

happening in Russia you know that's

probably propaganda too so I don't know

how much Russia is winning but it

doesn't look like they're

losing um you know you can't believe

anything from a war zone or from Russia

or Ukraine but anyway David saaks is is

on this case uh making it clear and I

think he's correct he's making it clear

that there is no win to be had

and and that we lost the only thing we

said we were trying to do which is

degrade Russia

Etc and I think I am a uh uh I have been

one over to the side that the whole

point of making Ukraine NATO is so NATO

so Ukraine would have to buy weapons

from uh American

manufacturers and that Americans would

pay the uh with our taxes to give to

Ukraine so they could buy our weapons so

basically it's just our own

military-industrial complex looting our

pockets and uh they're energy people

trying to take Russia's energy and that

sort of thing so I I see America as more

of a criminal

Enterprise than a military keeping the

world safer

democracy that's my take Ukraine looks

entirely like a criminal Enterprise

backed by an

army uh because these stated claims are

somewhat ludicrous whereas the more

obvious explanation of what's going on

you know CIA wants to protect their labs

and you know we want to have closer

assets to threaten Russia and we maybe

we did want to degrade their military a

little or you know uh get Putin out of

office all that stuff but it mostly it

looks like it's just a moneygrab

corrupt uh criminal Enterprise and we're

just need deep in it so I I'm rejecting

any notion that America is the good guy

in this situation I think we're I think

we're the criminals in this situation

that would be my take now now what is

the solution for all of it well Trump

has to avoid the obvious plot to

assassinate him I I think we could say

that out loud right I mean if they're

trying to remove his secret servy

protection while painting him as a a

risk to democracy and a Hitler character

that's a murder attempt now the fact

that they figured out a legal way to

murder somebody or attempt to murder uh

that doesn't change the fact that what

it is it it might IL legal but still

murder so I would say our system is

mostly blackmail bribery corruption and

murder and that the uh thin veneer of a

republic and a democracy and all that

stuff is you know largely silly and

absurd and clearly hasn't been with us

for

decades we're complicit unless we

overthrow the

corruption well unless it's working

see that's the

problem uh it always comes down to what

are the

Alternatives and I've said it before but

I'm going to double down on it if it's

true that we're not you know a

Democratic Republic that doesn't mean

we're worse off it just means we're not

what we thought we were it definitely

means some people are being screwed

definitely means that definitely means

the elites are getting richer but here's

the problem that's every system

if you show me a system where the elites

don't not only stay Elite but they don't

you know gain compared to the population

and Rob them I've never seen that system

what system is

that so if every system robs the public

for the benefit of the elite and if it

doesn't it doesn't have the resources to

field an army and protect itself it

won't last so my take is the big Bigg

ger and batter we are as a criminal

Enterprise the longer we're going to

last why do you think Russia is still in

business and going to survive this war

is it because they're a Democratic

Republic no it's because they're a

massive criminal Enterprise with the

military just like

us look at

China do you think the elites are doing

better than the

people I think so I think so yeah think

they're doing great and does that mean

that in in a way conceptually they're

robbing the people to keep themselves in

power and yeah of course that's what it

means that's exactly what it means so

every system that is

successful successful to the point where

you know we think they should be in NATO

let's say let's say that's the minimum

level of a successful country is that we

want them in

NATO you don't get there without your

elites

being totally in charge and being able

to control the government and the

military so I think that all of the

countries that are successful are

criminal

Enterprises because in the long run

that's the model that

works and like the

Mafia the mafia might not want a lot of

crime on its own

street because it doesn't want to

interfere with the bigger crimes it's

doing so it could be that our criminal

government would do quite a good job of

you know reducing crime if the right

members of it were in

charge NATO is a Cel yeah in in a

sense yeah I mean that doesn't that word

fit perfectly because cels don't have to

be illegal do they well I don't know

maybe they do I'm not sure if that's

baked into the definition of a cartel

doesn't a cartel just mean a bunch of

people with power who are operating

together

some

way all right we're going to do a

closing

sip because I think you need

it here's to

you now do you think Trump could fix all

of these problems I just

mentioned how many of this criminal

Enterprise stuff could Trump

fix almost

none I I yeah if he could fix any of

this stuff he would have done some of it

in the first term so it looks like

whatever it is is stronger than all the

presidents you know I don't think

there's any president that can fix it

um so here's what might happen I think

the people you know the the elites as as

we say the people in charge I think if

Trump gets elected by a big enough

margin they can't cheat him out of

office and they can't put him in jail

because there too many people who would

go

Nots I think they'll just try to wait

him out you know they'll do everything

they can to destroy him while he's in

office but ultimately they don't want to

reveal too much about themselves if they

can just wait four years and go back to

it running everything so I feel like

they'll just waigh him

out so there's one possibility that it

won't be riots in the streets they must

just say they might just say let's let's

just keep this on a slow

boil get through the four years get back

in power start another war that sort of

thing probably the the biggest problem

would be if Trump doesn't fund Another

War I think if the first thing Trump did

is fund a new war he'd be fine he would

be perfectly safe because everybody

would be like ah yeah keep that war war

guy in

there um war is when your government

tells you who the enemy is revolution

has when the government's the enemy

yeah all right that's all I got for you

today on the platforms

of um Rumble and YouTube and X I'm going

to talk to the locals people the

subscribers privately thanks for joining

and I will see you

soon bye for now

going slow to change this because I know

there's a lag I don't want to look like

I cut you off too

soon and the lag is over see you

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now all right thank you how you like

Today's Show I like I like getting

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cartel wasn't the right word cabal cabal

might be a better word you're

right what is the definition of a

cartel well thank

you you're still here but you can't see

me can

you oh

wait no we we're still live on

everything why didn't that

work local sporters own

now it's going to

work oh that didn't work it's still live

on all the platforms looks like we have

a bug in the

system yeah there's a bug in the system

so I won't tell you any secrets like I

usually do because all the the other

people still here they're being quiet

because they don't want you to know they

can still see

me but the the same I usually

use uh it didn't turn them off am I

doing it wrong let me look at it

again am I looking at the wrong thing

it's local supporters

only yeah so it's local support only

then I update the

stream and it didn't take it didn't work

so it's just a a bug in

system it worked

yesterday all right that's all I got for

today um locals people I'll do a man

cave tonight see you tonight and uh yeah

yeah there there's something wrong with

the uh software it's not working right

now but I'll see you all uh

soon to this

goodbye so taking my

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