Episode 2484 CWSA 05/24/24

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Tube's in the house good morning everybody and welcome to coffee with Scott Adams the finest experience you've ever had in your life I'll bet you and if you'd like to take it up to levels that nobody can even see you without some kind of Elon Musk rocket ship well all you need for that is a coverer muger glass a tanker Chell sste a canteen Jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure the dopamine of the day thing that makes everything better is called the simultaneous Sip and it happens now go you want to see the weirdest thing I'm going to show you a picture from my college days this is a true story there was an underclassman who decided that um he looked enough like me and he decided that I was his role model because I was a year or two older and he he started dressing like me and people noticed and started calling him the Clone so so and rather than rejecting that and saying I'm not trying to copy him he he embraced it he said yeah I'm totally trying to copy him and uh it it would get more and more extreme the entire time and it just got funnier and funnier he was a friend of mine he live he lived you know just a few doors down in the dormatory but anyway for Halloween that year uh let's see where is it we went as clones see if you can tell which one I am I'd like to think he was the poor man's version of me but I'm not entirely sure he's probably worth a billion dollars now he was pretty smart probably did a startup or something anyway I saw a concept today in one of uh Owen's posts um about the What's called the third place have you ever heard that term a third place so your house is your first place your place of work is your second place and the third place would be like I guess if you were in England it would be the tavern if you were somewhere else it would be some else now my third place used to be be my gym you know it's a place you could go to feel less lonely and maybe run into people but um here's why I wanted to talk about it I really think we need to design new cities around accidentally meeting your neighbors leaving it to chance just doesn't work we need some way that in the normal course of business you run into people that you don't mind running into you know by you know all voluntarily nobody's going to be forced to talk to their neighbors but I've been looking into a number of businesses that I could start in my local area that would have a physical location and I didn't realize that I was always thinking about them as the third place for example I was thinking it was starting a dog park that would have some uh Shady place where you could plug in your laptop and sit at a table and if you make it so it's sort of like picnic tables you're going to have people who don't know each other sharing the same picnic table and if they have a place to plug in their laptop and talk about your dog hey which one is your dog it's kind of a perfect place to meet people I I've actually met good friends in the dog park um I had a few other few other ideas for that but I think I think I might even call it the third place I like the name so much uh i' call it a third place dog park yeah and just build it around the human attraction but also you can take your dog there wouldn't that be a good idea anyway couldn't make money from it as my neighbor my neighbor reminded me yesterday when I was talking about it so where I live uh our local real estate um let's say real estate um let's say king and queen of the neighborhood they're they're very uh and I say that not as an insult they're just very good at organizing things in the neighborhood so I know I've met all of my neighbors just through the fact that they're they're fairly organized we're all in a Whats.

App thing it's actually a great situation anyway uh can you believe that overdoses are down and obviously we're going to talk about Trump and Bronx and all that later but overdoses actually went down a little bit from 2023 down 4% from 20 22 I don't know if this is real it could be that they went down because the pandemic's over the pandemic might have been a high point for drugs could be that uh all of our data is bad all the time so it's not even real very possible maybe they just start reported it differently how about the fact that more people are substituting weed for stronger drugs maybe I don't know maybe it works the other way but I don't have data on it um maybe the government is giving out fewer sub U prescriptions so fewer people are getting H um getting hooked maybe I don't know but certainly there was action in that direction but I'm going to I'm going to offer the most uh provocative idea for why maybe um OD is went down a little bit for that one year I think the most likely explanation is it's we're we're off the pandemic don't you 4% sounds sort of like just coming off the pandemic High I don't know if it's real but I would offer this possibility uh all the junkies are dead you can't kill somebody twice there might be a logical end to how much the um how much the overdose problem can get in other words there might be a natural cap to it and we might have had now let let me make a bad analogy if you try to kill a a head terrorist like a Bin Laden it's not really going to stop things because there'll be a second in command if you kill the second in command probably won't stop things because it'll be a third in command but in theory the quality of the terrorist goes down every time you kill one you know from the top down you bin l perhaps he was really good at it you elahi maybe he was really good at it but when you get to maybe the fifth or sixth terrorist down in the organization chart I think it probably starts falling apart like that fifth best terrorist isn't quite good enough but it could be that with the that's a terrible analogy maybe the worst I've ever done but um I think the overdoses are limited to people who would be would have a propensity to it once you run out of people who have a propensity you don't make new ones right there the people who are never going to become an addict are not going to wake up this morning and something changed they were born people were never going to be addicts because there's there is such a um a genetic component to this and if you take let's take alcoholism alcohol is around 10% of the public if alcohol killed you at a high rate like fentol it does kill you but at a higher rate like fentanyl wouldn't you start running out of drunks I think you'd actually start running out you know if the population is become stable so it could be that here's my favorite story of the day uh explorers say they found what they believe is the remains of World War to Ace pilot uh who was down in a jungle Ravine now he was fairly famous for his exploits as a pilot but here's the best part his name is Richard bong b o n or I think his his friends probably called him dick and if I were going to be a World War II flying ace and my name was Dick bong I would feel like I was the coolest person in the world well you know until I got shot down and died in a ravine in a jungle but until then cool name so I will be celebrating tonight in the man cave with the rest of the local subscribers and uh we will uh do something I don't know what but something that would be appropriate to honor dick bong maybe some tubin kind of a thing I don't know you maybe you could come up with an idea well do you remember when uh Marjorie Taylor green got into a little shouting match in congress with uh uh eyelashes Mickey uh her real name is representative Crockett I think it's Jasmine Crockett and uh she was talking today and there was some open hearing and she was touting her uh credentials she said I currently hold an honorary doctorate I also hold jur doctorate uh a bachelor's degree uh she technically holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Civil Air Patrol and I actually practiced law for almost two decades in addition to serving on various boards in addition to being a prior State lawmaker so uh this was in the context of telling somebody that she doesn't understand why you have to choose between uh qualified and diverse because she's saying very clearly that she has lots of qualifications and she's diverse she's black and she's female and so why can't they just do more of that you know what why why are you pretending that you have to lower the quality of people to get enough diversity now she said that in public which suggests that she doesn't understand human motivation or how anything works and and somehow doesn't understand that systemic racism has made it impossible to not choose between diversity and quality because the pipeline is too small has nothing to do with anybody's genes has nothing to do with culture the school system does not create uh a pipeline of people that corporations need in terms of the the talents so here's the problem and again it's what Democrats don't understand if there had never been Dei if there had never been Dei and I saw representative Crockett and I found out that she had done all of these things and also had gotten elected to congress do you know what I would say about her if there had never been Dei I would have said wow she might be more more capable than everybody in Congress because if she had to overcome things like being black and being a woman in a in a world where that was you know not a free pass I would have said huh you know all things being equal probably better than average because you know potentially maybe overcame more barriers to get there but in the context of Dei I assume that she does not belong in her job she owns an honorary doctorate which is complete do you know who own who also has an honorary doctorate Jerry Seinfeld you get an honorary doctorate for giving a speech as a college does she think we're stupid enough to think that an honorary doctorate is something she can mention in as a part of her qualifications how stupid would you have to be to say you have an honorary doctorate and that's part of your credentials uh now she also has some kind of legal degree do we assume that she got got that the real way by being qualified no I don't assume that I assume the opposite I assume the opposite because we're in the context of Dei and on top of that seems to not understand the most basic element of the topic that she was having an open hearing on how dides she not understand the most basic thing that the pipeline is insufficient to get us all what we all want I think everybody would be happy if the pipeline was just full of diverse candidates that were great and then the companies would say that's great and then you'd got to work with all these gray people and you would not see their color because you'd say uh my coworker is just great I mean my co-worker is nailing it if your co-worker is doing a good job that's the part you see realistically you know you might be you might be Prejudice I I like to say this a lot discrimination only lasts until you open your mouth and then you get judged by what the you say and that's it that in the real world you can't discriminate against somebody who's talking to you because you're going to decide what you think about them based on what comes out of their mouth period period it doesn't matter what happened the moment until they open their mouth the moment they open their mouth you're judging them on what comes out yeah that's it and and I don't think I don't think not everybody understands that I think the the people who are worried about what other people are thinking about them are sort of missing the biggest part of that that if you act like a good person it's pretty much automatic that people are going to like you and want to work with you there aren't that many good people if you're black let me give you a an Insider tip about white people there are not so many white people that are awesome that uh I have an unlimited amount if you walk into my life and you're just like a good person you're in the top 10% without trying it's not that hard it's not that hard to get into my top 10% in favor of people the bar is just not that high it really isn't all right um so I would say that thing that representative Crockett misses is that she is she and anybody who is pro Dei creates a situation where the assumption is flipped from wow you must be extra qualified if you made it through some extra challenges to get here to you're probably not qualified because we've built a system to promote unqualified people the system guarantees it because of systemic racism limiting the pipeline of applicants that you would like to hire all right Elon Musk being uh it must be nice to be the richest person in the world BEC because there's just that little extra bit of Freedom you get so here's something that really happened I could not have loved it more so Elon Musk was on some kind of uh online thing where he was taking uh press calls vivatech 2024 in Paris and uh somebody from Business Insider got up a reporter to ask a question and here's the here's the question she starts to ask she says quote Tesla has had a bumpy few months looking at of flagging sales at home stock market decline layoffs when you look back and musk interrupts her he interrupts her in mids sentence he says yeah we can stop the question right now because I don't think Business Insider is a real publication okay the reporter replied and sat down then mus said so let's move on to the next question can can we take a moment to slow clap that out can can you just slow clap at home I I don't know how much to express how much I love that what why in the world would he give respect to something that's clearly not a real publication all right Business Insider is just now I think it was sort of a little bit real at one point but not now so more of that please more of that I would like to suggest as my theme today it does feel like things are changing let me give you some hints do you think I could have gone after representative Crockett as hard as I just did even two years ago no somebody would have grabbed it an a context and tweeted it all over the place and tried to get me cancelled but now I can just tell you what is useful and true I wouldn't say it if it weren't useful I don't know if everybody gets that you know even when I got cancelled for saying get the F away does everybody know that was trying to be helpful for everybody the of course the news looked like it made it look like I'm targeting one group nope is specifically was to help that one group that it says I'm targeting because if you don't know what's true you cannot make plans I'm telling you what's true what's true is if you're going to do Dei I'm going to try to get away from it if you're creating a situation where you say I've got your money and you better give it back I'm going to run away so you can't have it both ways you can't have it both ways and now I can say that out loud cuz I paid for it I bought the ticket I paid full price for the Free Speech ticket now I get to use it so all right um Thomas Massie being awesome as usual is introduced a bill to eliminate taxpayer funding for online censorship yes please and I'm thinking wait a minute why why is it always the same guy who comes up with all the good ideas are you noticing the pattern who who the hell did we hire for congress if there's like one guy who comes up with all the useful ideas it's always the same one like I'm glad we elected accidentally one smart person now Rand Paul is pretty great too but I like Thomas Massie so yes the Twitter as Massie says the Twitter files showed the government colludes with private companies and universities to violate the First Amendment yes proven and Congress must use the power of the purse to make that illegal yes please that that's a yes yes yes yes yes and better yet here's the best part let's get people on record to be against it let's see who's against having the government reduce your free speech let's find out who's bold enough to say yeah I would like to use the government power to restrict your free speech because we wouldn't want you to get any bad information about the pandemic right because that's the good argument yeah we wouldn't want you to get any dangerous information about like Russia collusion or or who or the real nature of the Hunter laptop yeah we certainly wouldn't want any misinformation all right Jonathan turle is all over this story about the so-called Hunter Biden sugar bro now I mentioned this but it's such a head Shaker and and totle is making a point that the fact that the regular media media you know the corporate media is not treating this as like the big story ever just sort of ignoring it tells you a lot so this is dog not barking situation so the situation I'm talking about is there's this fellow named it's a friend of Hunter Biden's who has given him millions of dollars Kevin Morris and he just says he's a friend he wants to help no ulterior motive he's just likes to give his friend millions of dollars and apparently he gave his friend all of his money because he doesn't have any left that's what you do for your friends yeah when you your friend needs money you don't give some money yeah you give them all your money what what so Congress of course wanted to talk to the sugar bro to find out what the deal is and the CIA said they had some relationship with the sugar bro and said no you can't talk to him what wait what we can't talk to the person giving millions of dollars to the president's son cuz see eia says you you you can't know what that guy knows maybe it's exactly what it looks like I've been saying that a lot lately maybe this story is exactly what it looks like yeah like uh like everything bad yeah it and if you tie this together with the uh the Mike Ben's view of the world that Ukraine is basically a play to get the uh energy resources from Russia has nothing to do with Ukraine or Liberty or democracy in fact we're not interested even a little bit in Ukraine being Democratic apparently that would just work against our interest so uh there'll be more on that a little bit in a moment um it's a whole week of complicated stories do you notice that the news is really complicated now for example there's a story about the Ecco Health Alliance boss Peter daik and apparently he's in big trouble for some documents that have been found that suggest there was some kind of cordinated effort to hide the involvement of the uhan lab if I have that right uh and they use apparently they used the personally email to avoid getting caught they there there's some people involved who were deleting emails ahead of time before they got foed and the nature of the conversations that we have seen suggests that they know they were guilty and that they were trying to hide hide it at least that's how it's being interpreted I'll just say that's how it's being interpreted can't know their inner thoughts so it looks like everything you thought was true about the pandemic was true it came out of the Wuhan lab it was gain a function we were behind it right America was behind it everything and they covered it up so every bad assumption you had about that apparently was all true apparently now that's a complicated story so I don't know if I have all that Nuance there but that's a basic idea uh there's a democratic consultant who's been indicted for creating a deep fake of Joe Biden's voice that did a bunch of Robo calls and told people not to vote Stephen Kramer so he's being charged with voter suppression and faces up to $6 million fines so that's the future the future is uh people faking voices on rooc calls but got caught speaking of of AI voices you know the story about Scarlet Johansson saying that uh chat GPT illegally stole her voice and had they they hired somebody to sound like her because she had declined the offer to do it herself well it turns out that this story is way more complicated than you thought because it's not so simple as we stole your voice because the The Voice they used is a real person who was not doing an impression and the real person says this is new nobody's ever nobody in my real life has ever told me I sound like Scarlet Johansson now do you believe that do you believe that everybody who listens to it says oh sounds like Scarlet Johansson but then in a real life and nobody's saying that it was altered voice it's a real voice nobody told her she sounds like nobody never once I've been told I look like John Denver and uh about 50 other people I hear it all the time and no nobody's ever said that I don't know I don't know so a open ai's uh story is that it never intended to copy scarlet and wanted her for it but they found somebody who was not her that was just a voice they liked and there you go that's their version but uh this is going to have huge implications for uh Hollywood because what happens if you can create people who sort of are in the in the vibe of Scarlet Johansson is that going to be okay what if you found what if you created an AI that didn't look exactly like her but was a highly attractive blonde of the same age and then you gave it a voice that was based on not her but somebody who sounds a lot like her according to other people is that going to be legal there's going to be massive lawsuits about all this stuff so we'll see I would just like to note because the important part is my connection to all stories that uh Scarlet Johansson's husband once mocked me on SNL she's she's married to Colin Jou Jo so he mocked me about a year ago on SNL so good luck with that guys there is a study of uh brains they found there's a part of the brain that might be evolved with causing somebody to be a narcissist let me tell you something that I realized um uh maybe 40 years ago I remember the first time I heard that uh they found that the brains of addicts and alcoholics in particular were different and they were saying hey we think that alcoholism might have a genetic propensity to which I said what I thought that was free will I thought you either decided to drink or you didn't are you telling me that your brain might be different and that some people cannot just decide not to drink and that was the case then later people said we found in the brain a part of the brain that makes you more likely to be gay and I said what I thought that was just a choice you tell me that your brain could be the you know decider of in your genes could be the decider of whether you're a born guay and then I said to myself what's going to happen to free will once we find and map all the parts of the brain once you know that there's a physical part of the brain that causes all of our behaviors and you can identify it and you go oh there it is we just scanned you you got that big narcissist thing in your brain oh that's why you're acting that way or oh found out you've got that tendency to be an alcoholic there it is it's right in your brain what are you going to think of free will when we identify all the parts of the brain that cause all of our actions well I I realized that that day that the idea of Free Will would get smaller and smaller as we got smarter and smarter about what the brain does as a machine and here's and so here's the newest one now now if narcissism can be identified and everything from intelligence to you can even apparently even your propensity to be conservative or liberal can be identified in your brain so if your brain has an influence on these things are you still clinging to the idea that you have free will because that idea is going to get harder and harder to hold on to harder and harder all right um the debate over whether the government was trying to kill to kill Trump uh and have him assassinated by including in their maralago raid uh authorization they are authorized to use deadly force if necessary and um so there's some people who were saying well it was just standard procedure they just say that all the time and there are other people uh Mike cernovich Dan banino for example and uh who say no you idiots that is not a standard procedure now how could it be standard procedure but also not a standard procedure well it turns out it can be and Bonino gets to the heart of it by asking this question if you think it's standard paperwork um would the DEA be allowed to serve a search warrant on the White House with armed agents in the cocaine case why not do you think that armed people with authorization to shoot to kill would have gone into the White House to look into the cocaine situation and and by the way in both cases there was full cooperation on the physical part so at moral Lago there was never any indication anybody was going to resist anything and Secret Service were always in the communication they were always talking to them never once said if you come in here we're going to prevent you in fact they negotiated so that there would be no problems at all so the question is if you knew there were going to be no problems because you'd already negotiated it why do you have to put that in there so I'm going to take a a middle a middle view of this I don't think somebody sat down and said all right I got to plan to kill the president here's what we're going to do we're going to create this situation and then we'll put this authorization in there and then as soon as something goes wrong will just start blazing away and gun down the president I don't believe that even for the slightest second because nobody's nobody's that dumb but did they create a situation where the possibility would go from zero to nonzero yes it does look like they did that it looks like very much created a situation where there was a nonzero chance of killing him that did happen I so I'm with Bonino on that um but I but I wouldn't take it so much as they planed to kill him because if they had planned to kill him it would have gone down differently it would have been more like more of a surprise you know less of a negotiated situation so um and by the way I I like I say this often but one of the things I always value in Dan banino is his talent stack he he's done one of the greatest jobs of assembling uh talents everything and this is another one so he's got this background in you know uh law enforcement type stuff but on top of that he knows politics and on top of that he knows all the players and on top of that he's great at the media stuff so he's got the full package and that's why he's doing so well all right um so Trump went to the Bronx and gave his big speech it was a giant hit there were no real problems of any scale it was all positivity um we're all Americans doesn't matter what color your skin is people were wild for him if anybody thought he would get a bad reception in the Bronx you were wrong the crowd was the most diverse for a trump crowd there were plenty of white people but uh there were plenty of other people too so plenty of Asians plenty of blacks plenty of Hispanics hey AOC seem to be flipping out because remember I told you the Andre Agy strategy where you don't go after your opponent's weakest shot you go after their strongest shot because if you get lucky and you could you can make them lose their confidence in their strongest shot they're dead so you basically can decapitate somebody in the first set just by making sure you lose they lose their confidence in their best play so the best play that the uh Democrats have is that the deepest bluest States absolutely cannot stand any Trump anything so he went into the deepest bluest place and blew their doors off he Andre IAC see them you could see the panic in aoc's um you know complaints about him going there why would you even complain about it like why would that even be a conversation that somebody running for president would visit a highly populated area in America and make his case but they had to complain about it because he was going right into the belly of the Beast they could tell he was going for their fore hand he wasn't going for their weak backand he went right into the middle of the dragon and it up they now and I agree with some people who say he's not going to win this state he might by the way I'm not I'm not on the the page that he's not going to win the state you do the part we can't predict is how far Biden will fall between now on Election Day you see the rate of decline right have you seen a video of Biden talking one year ago completely different one year completely different um we we'll talk about this so Biden gave a a press conference very rare apparently he had all the people he was going to call out call on on a card he gave them only one question a piece because that's the one he was prepared for and then he read his response as it appears from a card in other words it wasn't a press conference at all it was a Q&A with written questions and written answers he just stood in public and did it do you think he would have had to do that a year ago a year ago he might have been able to Bluff his way through although they were they were hiding him a year ago but I think he could have gotten through it today he is clearly not capable of handling a question that he's not that's not written in front of him with the answer that's completely different in one year what's he going to be by November by November I don't even think there'll be a choice it it could be a really one person and one person who's just not even going to be alive in a few months so could Trump win New York I'm going to say yes I'm going to say yes but not because of steady state it's because there's there could be a big there's going to be a big drop in Biden before November I think his health will just fall off ledge I think it already has and they're just hiding it from us but it's going to be hard to hide it for a few more months I suspect that the Democratic National Convention where Biden has to give a speech could be really really touch and go for the Democrats because I don't think they trust them to be able to even read the teleprompter at this point imagine him going up there if it happens uh and giving in his acceptance speech and he does the mumbly thing oh my God it's bad enough if he does it just you know on a stump speech but if he does it standing in front of the whole country at the DNC and I think he will it's not a good look uh apparently I don't know is this true I need a fact check on this did did Trump actually say at the Bronx rally and I quote I don't eat bacon anymore it's too expensive he didn't really say those words did he because I've been laughing about it all morning it sounds like something he would say in his normal hyperbole we do assume that he can still afford bacon but but if he said that it's hilarious because I think the the difference between Trump today and prior Trump is that now we understand him like we get him no you didn't mean literally you can't afford bacon of course but is it funny it's totally funny yeah it's totally funny so that's all we care about so meanwhile Trump goes and does by everybody's account everything right now may I remind you again that Trump's performance as a candidate this time around is unlike anything I've ever seen I mean it's just all good all the way I mean he's just doing one home run after another I mean he's hitting Frozen Ropes into the Outfield every every at bat is crazy and this Bronx thing really highlights that because he's not just playing as safe if I told you he's made no mistakes but he's also playing as safe you'd say that's not the Trump we want we're not looking for the play as safe guy so here he goes into the belly of the Beast and the Bronx kills it that's who we want we want the one who can do the thing you think can't be done we want the one who says why would I be afraid of that why would I be afraid of that that's the one we want meanwhile the governor of New York hok um said that uh she referred to Trump supporters as clowns during the rally clowns have we noticed a correlation that the Democrats think that Republican an are pieces of it's a pretty clear pattern yeah just remember that you have one leader who is saying very clearly and consistently we're all Americans we can pull together and one who says we're better off divided because that's kind of what he's saying Biden anyway um here's something uh Biden said in a post he says Donald Trump and his Mega Republican allies don't care about securing the Border or fixing Americans broken immigration system if they did they would have supported the toughest border enforcement in history so it was a bill that just got turned down by mostly Republicans instead they put partisan politics ahead of our national security so here's my question first of all you can see that he's dividing the country by referring to magga Republican allies now he's specifically talking met the elected politicians but how do you hear it I don't hear it that way I hear that he is just saying if you're a magga republican he wants to piss on your head that's what I hear Do you hear it differently I think he's in insulting the citizens at the same time he's insulting the people they voted for the so-called Mega allies so that's his usual piece of divisive uh terrible president president um framing that they are bad people and there are good people and he's the good people I guess do you do you think that the Democrats are catching on this obviously was a fake border bill that had poison pills in it do you think that the Democrats haven't figured out that it's all theater and do they really think that the Republicans looked at a perfectly good border Bill and said we're going to turn this down for the good of getting elected I'm not saying they wouldn't but it's not what happened they didn't really have a chance to look at a good border bill I think it's strange that the president's name is Biden at the same time um we're all wondering the same question on Election Day will he still be alive byen what are the odds that his name would be byen when all we're waiting for is if he's still going to be alive by then that's a weird coincidence all right uh Biden also posted or somebody did for him Trump is not running to lead America he's running for Revenge but you can't build a future on Revenge I'm running to lead America into the future what future is that the one where you live for another four months months and then we bury you well what exact future are you talking about old man who can't even do a press conference you're not part of our future you're just not in any way our future but okay but here's my bigger complaint he says uh Trump is not leading running to lead America he's running for Revenge Revenge is what I want revenge is called the justice system do you think the justice system was set up for fairness no do you think the justice system was set up to rehabilitate people no it's Revenge that's what it does and the and the the risk of Revenge is the only thing that keeps Society together why do you not do bad things if you're a good person why do you not do bad things cuz we're going to get revenge on you we're going to put you in jail if you don't want to call that Revenge fine you can call it a flower you can put a different word on it but the justice system is very much about revenge and that's what makes it work and you know what revenge is the animated the animating part of it the part of the reason that uh Trump has so much support is that you put 2,000 people in jail for a political reasons you're trying to Jail the president for political reasons and Peter Navaro is still in jail so revenge is going to be at the top of the menu revenge is at the top of the menu and it belongs there because that's what Justice looks like justice looks like honest Revenge who else needs to talk about let's not have Revenge did anybody else have to talk about that do you remember Jimmy Carter saying oh don't do revenge on me do you know why we didn't have to do revenge on Jimmy Carter because there was no reason do you know why we didn't need revenge on Bill Clinton there was no reason there was no reason do you know why nobody's ever talked about revenge before ever there was no reason if he's talking about don't do Revenge it's because he created the whole situation nobody's going to be talking about revenge unless something really really big and terrible it happened and something big and terrible is happening right now Peter Navaro is still in prison no you let Peter Navaro ENT prison and the other 2,000 people you dropped this stupid lawfare charges and we'll stop talking about revenge but right now I want to see hundreds of Democrats in jail I want to see hundreds of Democrats in jail minimum and we do have the goods I mean completely within the legal system I recommend no actions outside the legal system yeah no no vigilante anything don't do that but yes the justice system has plenty of evidence of crimes at the highest level so yes Revenge Revenge Revenge Revenge and every time you say don't do it you remind us why we need to because nobody else needs to even talk that way if you're talking somebody out of getting revenge revenge is called for cuz it isn't even in the conversation it's just not part of the conversation until you up really badly and you have Peter Navaro is still in prison Peter Navaro is still in prison remember the Elmo and yes you can build a future on Revenge it's called The Justice System speaking of Justice apparent the amuse account on X tells us that there's something called the 65 project uh and it's apparently mostly to cancel anybody anybody was a lawyer who's trying to help Trump and it's run by David Brock and it's funded by George Soros and it's uh as Muse says it's an allout war on the sixth amendment to the Constitution Revenge Revenge all right uh American American first legal that's the uh Republican oriented uh group that's trying to create a counterbalance for the in the legal system and is trying to use legal means to get Justice in a variety of ways that Democrats have tried to take it away from you but there's this new story that frankly I do not understand there's something about a new document that's been undercovered some Obama order from his days that's been kind of secret that says that there should be something about keeping copies of all the classified stuff on a server and the argument doesn't make sense to me but maybe it does to you so I've asked for a clarification but here's what it sounds like it sounds like America First legal is saying that Trump's um legal problems with the moral Lago documents are not a problem because there are also copies of them that the government never lost they've always had the copies now I don't understand that do you why would that make any difference if they have copies I assume they had copies didn't you always assume they had copies would would the government in 2024 I have a digital copy of everything important that came across the the government's desks I mean I just assume so so I don't I don't understand the importance of this but American first legal is playing it as very important so I've asked them to explain it give me the dummies version of I don't get it like why is this important how's it how's it have anything to do with anything so if they come up with that I'll talk about it again but at the moment all I can say is that people who know more than I do about the law think there's an important thing that happened and I have no idea what it is uh block the FBI from arresting dangerous Iranians yeah that that's a boring story but I I see what you're saying so there's some story about John KY blocking the arrest of some known Iranian uh bad guys uh because he was trying to get a deal done with Iran is that the biggest crime in the world here's the thing that might be just real politic meaning that if you're this close if you're this close to getting a deal that's a really big deal maybe you don't arrest those people on Tuesday you maybe you get the deal arrest him a few weeks later so I don't know how real that story is uh it it's not that far from something I would think is normal business but I guess I'd wait for Dan banino to set me straight on that so I guess I don't have enough a hook into that story to care about it um there's a report that the US and the European Union are moving toward an agreement for a massive loan for Ukraine but their clever technique is they're going to use Russian assets Frozen in the west as collateral here's the thing I've been saying that our form of government is not a democracy of course it was designed to be a republic you know federal republic with Democratic principles but it's really not that either it probably hasn't been since the 50s we are essentially a criminal organization and colonizers we're basically the board trying to you know take everybody's assets and apparently we've always been that way that's what America is now if that sounds like a criticism here's the twist I don't think there's a better form a government because if you don't coordinate your government with your big capitalist entities somebody else will and they'll be your daddy so unfortunately if you're not the baddest criminal in the criminal world you're going to get dead so being the baddest of the criminals might be the best form a government maybe because you know I think democracy has its issues too if you let dumb people make big decisions so I don't know but when I see a story like this it just reminds you that we're a criminal organization trying to steal Putin's stuff you know the the Mike Ben's take is that Ukraine is really just an energy play and that Hunter Biden is part of that with barisma that's that's why Hunter was part of barisma all part of the you know the big Energy play to steal the energy from Russia and since we couldn't get all of their energy we're going to settle for keeping their assets that we could freeze I mean I get that there's a war going on but we're we're persecuting we're Prosecuting the war like we're just criminals we're just looking to steal it it's hard to not see it as just a criminal act against another criminal and again if it sounds like if it sounds like a criticism believe it or not it's not we seem to be a very effective criminal organization because we've overthrown lots of governments we've got access to lots of resources and other places and uh maybe it's not working out so well in Ukraine but you know it seems to be proving the the point but to me um so Putin has said that he's willing to negotiate a ceasefire along current lines of uh who owns what now I say there's no chance of negotiating until Trump gets there because the Biden play it was never about stopping a war they're not really concerned with ending War they're only concerned in stealing Russia's energy game and if they haven't done that and they think they still have a chance they're not going to negotiate so this basically they're going to save the negotiations for Trump who as far as I know does not have a massive interest in a big energy deal or stealing things in Ukraine so he could just say yeah let's just end this what when Trump says he could end it in the day I would bet against it but I wouldn't bet against ending it in a month because I think he can get it done in a month and that ladies and gentlemen brings us to the conclusion of my prepared remarks it all comes down to race and religion somebody says does it uh Trump didn't let zalinsky rip up the M Peace Accords Biden did and that was the start of the war you think that's what you think so um all right I had another topic but I think too controver IAL um I think we overestimated Russia's willingness to negotiate creating a well here's what I think we should do I would love to see Trump do a grand deal where we just work out our differences with the three superpowers and just agree to rule the world in peace and they can have their part we'll have our part you know I realize that taiwan's a problem but at this point we are moving our chip facilities out of there and I think Taiwan knows that in the long run there's really no way that they could become they can't be independent in the long run it's too dangerous could you imagine China having a major Ally in Cuba and you know being right at our doorstep and I don't know it it just seems to me that we're fighting history if we're trying to keep keep Taiwan out of Chinese control here's what I think we should do instead the had a good plan I think what we should do instead is create a hundred-year plan do do the Hong Kong plan say you know what why fight history in a 100 years sometime within that 100 years Taiwan will be China but if you wait 100 years you don't have to worry about microchips because something will be very different by then uh and it won't be you know depending on Taiwan so I think if we said how about we just agree now that there's it's 100-year plan and in the 100 years Taiwan will figure out what its role will be so there'll be future negotiations of does it operate a little bit independently compared to the mainland nobody knows what the mainland would even look like in 100 years you you could have a you know a de democracy in China in the 100 years Anything Could Happen so I think you do a 100-year plan and just take the violence off the table because if you're president she and you know you got it back you just won't be alive when it happens that's a big win and if we can take that off the table then we can deal with China at a much much better level Hong Kong Island was eded to the UK in perpetuity I don't believe that I thought it was a 99e elease Hong Kong had a 50-year plan that the CCP removed yeah well it's a risk but here's the thing Hong Kong didn't really have a chance of staying independent forever Taiwan doesn't have a chance of staying independent forever if it were our hemisphere we would insist that we had that much control and I don't know I just wouldn't fight history um many think it was a deal so I'm seeing people say that the the The Narrative of Hong Kong is all fake and that they did not have a deal to give it back I'm I'm doubting your framing of that uh I think it was 99 year lease and when it ended the UK gave it back so but I but I will note that there are people who are saying that's not true yeah a managed democracy with an authoritarian streak the the one thing I don't see is China looking like they're they want to control other countries except economically of course but taiwan's special so I think something will happen there one sooner or later it's going to happen so I I think it's a deal that Trump could make I think he could say look how about Russia you making your money China you making your money we'll make our money and let's play I think you could pull that off I I I suspect that the biggest reason we can't get along with Russia and China is that we can't stop doing covert things to each other continuously cuz we're sure that the other is doing it too so I know I'll tell you that the theory that China is doing everything it can to stop reproduction in America is looking better and better I don't think that that they're that clever but maybe all right that's all I got for you and on You.

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go you want to see the weirdest

thing I'm going to show you a picture

from my college

days this is a true story there was an

underclassman who decided that um he

looked enough like me and he decided

that I was his role model because I was

a year or two

older and he he started dressing like

me and people noticed and started

calling him the

Clone so so and rather than rejecting

that and saying I'm not trying to copy

him he he embraced it he said yeah I'm

totally trying to copy him and uh it it

would get more and more extreme the

entire time and it just got funnier and

funnier he was a friend of mine he live

he lived you know just a few doors down

in the

dormatory but anyway for Halloween that

year uh let's see where is it we went as

clones see if you can tell which one I

am I'd like to think he was the poor

man's version of me but I'm not entirely

sure he's probably worth a billion

dollars now he was pretty smart probably

did a startup or something

anyway I saw a concept today in one of

uh Owen's posts um about the What's

called the third

place have you ever heard that term a

third place so your house is your first

place your place of work is your second

place and the third place would be like

I guess if you were in England it would

be the tavern if you were somewhere else

it would be some else now my third place

used to be be my

gym you know it's a place you could go

to feel less lonely and maybe run into

people but um here's why I wanted to

talk about it I really think we need to

design new cities around accidentally

meeting your

neighbors leaving it to chance just

doesn't work we need some way that in

the normal course of business you run

into people that you don't mind running

into you know by you know all

voluntarily nobody's going to be forced

to talk to their neighbors but I've been

looking into a number of

businesses that I could start in my

local area that would have a physical

location and I didn't realize that I was

always thinking about them as the third

place for example I was thinking it was

starting a dog park that would have some

uh Shady place where you could plug in

your laptop and sit at a table and if

you make it so it's sort of like picnic

tables you're going to have people who

don't know each other sharing the same

picnic table and if they have a place to

plug in their laptop and talk about your

dog hey which one is your dog it's kind

of a perfect place to meet people I I've

actually met good friends in the dog

park um I had a few other few other

ideas for that but I think I think I

might even call it the third

place I like the name so much uh i' call

it a third place dog

park yeah and just build it around the

human attraction but also you can take

your dog there wouldn't that be a good

idea anyway couldn't make money from it

as my neighbor my neighbor reminded me

yesterday when I was talking about

it

so where I live uh our local real estate

um let's say real estate um let's say

king and queen of the neighborhood

they're they're very uh and I say that

not as an insult they're just very good

at organizing things in the neighborhood

so I know I've met all of my

neighbors just through the fact that

they're they're fairly organized we're

all in a WhatsApp thing it's actually a

great

situation anyway uh can you believe that

overdoses are down and obviously we're

going to talk about Trump and Bronx and

all that later but overdoses actually

went down a little bit from 2023 down 4%

from 20 22 I don't know if this is real

it could be that they went down because

the pandemic's over the pandemic might

have been a high point for drugs could

be that uh all of our data is bad all

the time so it's not even real very

possible maybe they just start reported

it differently how about the fact that

more people are substituting weed for

stronger

drugs maybe I don't know maybe it works

the other way but I don't have data on

it

um maybe the government is giving out

fewer sub U

prescriptions so fewer people are

getting H um getting hooked maybe I

don't know but certainly there was

action in that direction but I'm going

to I'm going to offer the most uh

provocative idea for why maybe um OD is

went down a little bit for that one year

I think the most likely explanation is

it's we're we're off the

pandemic don't you 4% sounds sort of

like just coming off the pandemic High I

don't know if it's real but I would

offer this

possibility uh all the junkies are

dead you can't kill somebody twice there

might be a logical end to how much the

um how much the overdose problem can get

in other words there might be a natural

cap to it and we might have had

now let let me make a bad

analogy if you try to kill a a head

terrorist like a Bin Laden it's not

really going to stop things because

there'll be a second in

command if you kill the second in

command probably won't stop things

because it'll be a third in command but

in theory the quality of the terrorist

goes down every time you kill one you

know from the top down you bin l

perhaps he was really good at it you

elahi maybe he was really good at it but

when you get to maybe the fifth or sixth

terrorist down in the organization chart

I think it probably starts falling apart

like that fifth best terrorist isn't

quite good

enough but it could be that with the

that's a terrible analogy maybe the

worst I've ever done but um I think the

overdoses are limited to people who

would be

would have a propensity to it once you

run out of people who have a

propensity you don't make new

ones right there the people who are

never going to become an addict are not

going to wake up this morning and

something

changed they were born people were never

going to be addicts because there's

there is such

a um a genetic component to

this and if you take let's take

alcoholism alcohol is around 10% of the

public if alcohol killed

you at a high rate like fentol it does

kill you but at a higher rate like

fentanyl wouldn't you start running out

of

drunks I think you'd actually start

running out you know if the population

is become stable so it could be that

here's my favorite story of the day uh

explorers say they found what they

believe is the remains of World War to

Ace pilot uh who was down in a jungle

Ravine now he was fairly famous for his

exploits as a pilot but here's the best

part his name is Richard bong b o n or I

think his his friends probably called

him

dick and if I were going to be a World

War II flying ace and my name was Dick

bong I would feel like I was the coolest

person in the world well you know until

I got shot down and died in a ravine in

a jungle but until

then cool name so I will be celebrating

tonight in the man cave with the rest of

the local

subscribers and uh we will uh do

something I don't know what but

something that would be

appropriate to honor dick

bong maybe some tubin kind of a thing I

don't know you maybe you could come up

with an idea

well do you remember when uh Marjorie

Taylor green got into a little shouting

match in congress with uh uh eyelashes

Mickey uh her real name is

representative

Crockett I think it's Jasmine

Crockett and uh she was talking today

and there was some open

hearing and she was touting her uh

credentials she said I currently hold an

honorary

doctorate I also hold jur doctorate uh a

bachelor's degree uh she technically

holds the rank of lieutenant colonel in

the Civil Air Patrol and I actually

practiced law for almost two decades in

addition to serving on various boards in

addition to being a prior State

lawmaker so uh this was in the

context of telling somebody that she

doesn't understand why you have to

choose between uh qualified and diverse

because she's saying very clearly that

she has lots of

qualifications and she's diverse she's

black and she's female and so why can't

they just do more of that you know what

why why are you pretending that you have

to lower the quality of

people to get enough

diversity now she said that in public

which suggests that she doesn't

understand human motivation or how

anything works and and somehow doesn't

understand that systemic racism has made

it impossible to not choose between

diversity and quality because the

pipeline is too small has nothing to do

with anybody's genes has nothing to do

with

culture the school system does not

create uh a pipeline of people that

corporations need in terms of the the

talents so here's the problem

and again it's what Democrats don't

understand if there had never been

Dei if there had never been Dei and I

saw representative Crockett and I found

out that she had done all of these

things and also had gotten elected to

congress do you know what I would say

about her if there had never been

Dei I would have

said wow she might be more more capable

than everybody in Congress because if

she had to overcome things like being

black and being a woman in a in a world

where that was you know not a free pass

I would have said huh you know all

things being equal probably better than

average because you know potentially

maybe overcame more barriers to get

there but in the context of Dei I assume

that she does not belong in her job she

owns an honorary doctorate which is

complete do you know who own

who also has an honorary

doctorate Jerry Seinfeld you get an

honorary doctorate for giving a speech

as a college does she think we're stupid

enough to think that an honorary

doctorate is something she can mention

in as a part of her

qualifications how stupid would

you have to be to say you have an

honorary doctorate and that's part of

your

credentials uh now she also has some

kind of legal degree do we assume that

she got got that the real way by being

qualified no I don't assume that I

assume the opposite I assume the

opposite because we're in the context of

Dei and on top of that seems to not

understand the most basic element of the

topic that she was having an open

hearing on how dides she not understand

the most basic thing that the pipeline

is insufficient to get us all what we

all want I think everybody would be

happy if the pipeline was just full of

diverse candidates that were great and

then the companies would say that's

great and then you'd got to work with

all these gray people and you would not

see their color because you'd say uh my

coworker is just great I mean my

co-worker is nailing it if your

co-worker is doing a good job that's the

part you see realistically you know you

might be you might be Prejudice I I like

to say this a

lot discrimination only lasts until you

open your

mouth and then you get judged by what

the you say and that's it that in

the real world you can't discriminate

against somebody who's talking to you

because you're going to decide what you

think about them based on what comes out

of their mouth period period it doesn't

matter what happened the moment until

they open their mouth the moment they

open their mouth you're judging them on

what comes out yeah that's it and and I

don't think I don't think not everybody

understands

that I think the the people who are

worried about what other people are

thinking about them are sort of missing

the biggest part of

that that if you act like a good person

it's pretty much automatic that people

are going to like you and want to work

with you there aren't that many good

people if you're black let me give you a

an Insider tip about white

people there are not so many white

people that are

awesome that uh I have an unlimited

amount if you walk into my life and

you're just like a good person you're in

the top 10% without

trying it's not that hard it's not that

hard to get into my top 10% in favor of

people the bar is just not that high it

really

isn't all

right um so I would say that thing that

representative Crockett misses is that

she is she and anybody who is pro Dei

creates a situation where the assumption

is flipped from wow you must be extra

qualified if you made it through some

extra challenges to get here to you're

probably not qualified because we've

built a system to promote unqualified

people the system guarantees it because

of systemic racism limiting the pipeline

of applicants that you would like to

hire

all right Elon Musk being

uh it must be nice to be the richest

person in the

world BEC because there's just that

little extra bit of Freedom you

get so here's something that really

happened I could not have loved it more

so Elon Musk was on some kind of uh

online thing where he was taking uh

press calls vivatech 2024 in Paris and

uh somebody from Business Insider got up

a reporter to ask a question and here's

the here's the question she starts to

ask she says quote Tesla has had a bumpy

few months looking at of flagging sales

at home stock market decline layoffs

when you look back and musk interrupts

her he interrupts her in mids sentence

he says yeah we can stop the question

right now because I don't think Business

Insider is a real

publication okay the reporter replied

and sat

down then mus said so let's move on to

the next

question can can we take a moment to

slow clap that

out can can you just slow clap at

home I I don't know how much to express

how much I love

that what why in the world would he give

respect to something that's clearly not

a real publication all right Business

Insider is just now I think it

was sort of a little bit real at one

point but not

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now so more of that please more of

that I would like to suggest as my theme

today it does feel like things are

changing let me give you some hints do

you think I could have gone after

representative Crockett as hard as I

just

did even two years ago no somebody would

have grabbed it an a context and tweeted

it all over the place and tried to get

me

cancelled but now I can just tell you

what is useful and true I wouldn't say

it if it weren't useful I don't know if

everybody gets that you know even when I

got cancelled for saying get the F away

does everybody know that was trying to

be helpful for

everybody the of course the news looked

like it made it look like I'm targeting

one group nope is specifically was to

help that one group that it says I'm

targeting because if you don't know

what's true you cannot make

plans I'm telling you what's true what's

true is if you're going to do Dei I'm

going to try to get away from it if

you're creating a situation where you

say I've got your money and you better

give it back I'm going to run

away so you can't have it both ways you

can't have it both ways and now I can

say that out loud cuz I paid for it I

bought the ticket I paid full price for

the Free Speech ticket now I get to use

it

so all right um Thomas Massie being

awesome as usual is introduced a bill to

eliminate taxpayer funding for online

censorship yes

please and I'm thinking wait a

minute why why is it always the same guy

who comes up with all the good ideas are

you noticing the

pattern who who the hell did we hire for

congress if there's like one guy who

comes up with all the useful ideas it's

always the same

one like I'm glad we elected

accidentally one smart person now Rand

Paul is pretty great too but I like

Thomas

Massie so yes the Twitter as Massie says

the Twitter files showed the government

colludes with private companies and

universities to violate the First

Amendment yes proven and Congress must

use the power of the purse to make that

illegal yes

please that that's a yes yes yes yes yes

and better yet here's the best

part let's get people on record to be

against

it let's see who's against having the

government reduce your free

speech let's find out who's bold enough

to say yeah I would like to use the

government power to restrict your free

speech because we wouldn't want you to

get any bad information about the

pandemic right because that's the good

argument yeah we wouldn't want you to

get any dangerous information about like

Russia

collusion or or who or the real nature

of the Hunter

laptop yeah we certainly wouldn't want

any

misinformation all right Jonathan turle

is all over this story about the

so-called Hunter Biden sugar bro now I

mentioned this but it's such a head

Shaker and and totle is making a point

that the fact that the regular media

media you know the corporate media is

not treating this as like the big story

ever just sort of ignoring it tells you

a lot so this is dog not barking

situation so the situation I'm talking

about is there's this fellow named it's

a friend of Hunter Biden's who has given

him millions of dollars Kevin Morris and

he just says he's a friend he wants to

help no ulterior motive he's just likes

to give his friend millions of

dollars and apparently he gave his

friend all of his money because he

doesn't have any left that's what you do

for your friends yeah when you your

friend needs money you don't give some

money yeah you give them all your

money what what so Congress of course

wanted to talk to the sugar bro to find

out what the deal is and the CIA said

they had some relationship with the

sugar bro and said no you can't talk to

him

what wait

what we can't talk to the person giving

millions of dollars to the president's

son cuz see eia says you you you can't

know what that guy

knows maybe it's exactly what it looks

like I've been saying that a lot lately

maybe this story is exactly what it

looks like yeah like

uh like everything bad yeah it and if

you tie this together with the uh the

Mike Ben's view of the world that

Ukraine is basically a play to get the

uh energy resources from Russia has

nothing to do with Ukraine or Liberty or

democracy in fact we're not interested

even a little bit in Ukraine being

Democratic apparently that would just

work against our

interest so

uh there'll be more on that a little bit

in a

moment um it's a whole week of

complicated stories do you notice that

the news is really complicated now for

example there's a story about the Ecco

Health Alliance boss Peter

daik and apparently he's in big trouble

for some documents that have been found

that suggest there was some kind of

cordinated effort to hide the

involvement of the uhan lab if I have

that

right uh and they use apparently they

used the personally email to avoid

getting caught they there there's some

people involved who were deleting emails

ahead of time before they got foed and

the nature of the conversations that we

have seen suggests that they know they

were guilty and that they were trying to

hide hide it at least that's how it's

being interpreted I'll just say that's

how it's being

interpreted can't know their inner

thoughts so it looks like everything you

thought was true about the pandemic was

true it came out of the Wuhan lab it was

gain a function we were behind it

right America was behind

it everything and they covered it up so

every bad assumption you had about that

apparently was all

true

apparently now that's a complicated

story so I don't know if I have all that

Nuance there but that's a basic

idea uh there's a democratic consultant

who's been indicted for creating a deep

fake of Joe Biden's voice that did a

bunch of Robo calls and told people not

to vote

Stephen

Kramer so he's being charged with voter

suppression and faces up to $6 million

fines so that's the future the future is

uh people faking voices on rooc calls

but got

caught speaking of of AI voices you know

the story about Scarlet Johansson saying

that uh chat GPT illegally stole her

voice and had

they they hired somebody to sound like

her because she had declined the offer

to do it herself well it turns out that

this story is way more complicated than

you

thought because it's not so simple as we

stole your voice because the The Voice

they used is a real person who was not

doing an

impression and the real person says this

is new nobody's ever nobody in my real

life has ever told me I sound like

Scarlet Johansson

now do you believe that do you believe

that everybody who listens to it says oh

sounds like Scarlet Johansson but then

in a real life and nobody's saying that

it was altered voice it's a real voice

nobody told her she sounds like nobody

never

once I've been told I look like John

Denver and

uh about 50 other people I hear it all

the time and no nobody's ever said that

I don't know I don't

know so a open ai's uh story is that it

never intended to copy scarlet and

wanted her for it but they found

somebody who was not her that was just a

voice they liked and there you go that's

their version but uh this is going to

have huge implications for uh

Hollywood because what happens if you

can create people who sort of are in the

in the vibe of Scarlet Johansson is that

going to be okay what if you found what

if you created an AI that didn't look

exactly like her but was a highly

attractive blonde of the same age and

then you gave it a voice that was based

on not her but somebody who sounds a lot

like her according to other

people is that going to be

legal there's going to be massive

lawsuits about all this stuff so we'll

see I would just like to note because

the important part is my connection to

all stories that uh Scarlet Johansson's

husband once mocked me on

SNL she's she's married to Colin Jou

Jo so he mocked me about a year ago on

SNL so good luck with that guys there is

a study of uh brains they found there's

a part of the brain that might be

evolved with causing somebody to be a

narcissist let me tell you something

that I

realized

um uh maybe 40 years

ago I remember the first time I heard

that uh they found that the brains of

addicts and alcoholics in particular

were

different and they were saying hey we

think that alcoholism might have a

genetic

propensity to which I said what

I thought that was free will I thought

you either decided to drink or you

didn't are you telling me that your

brain might be different and that some

people cannot just decide not to drink

and that was the case then later people

said we found in the brain a part of the

brain that makes you more likely to be

gay and I said what I thought that was

just a choice you tell me that your

brain could be the you know decider of

in your genes could be the decider of

whether you're a born guay and then I

said to myself what's going to happen to

free will once we find and map all the

parts of the brain once you know that

there's a physical part of the brain

that causes all of our behaviors and you

can identify it and you go oh there it

is we just scanned you you got that big

narcissist thing in your brain oh that's

why you're acting that way or oh found

out you've got that tendency to be an

alcoholic there it is it's right in your

brain what are you going to think of

free

will when we identify all the parts of

the brain that cause all of our

actions well I I realized that that day

that the idea of Free Will would get

smaller and smaller as we got smarter

and smarter about what the brain does as

a

machine and here's and so here's the

newest one now now if narcissism can be

identified

and everything from intelligence to you

can even apparently even your propensity

to be conservative or liberal can be

identified in your

brain so if your brain has an influence

on these

things are you still clinging to the

idea that you have free

will because that idea is going to get

harder and harder to hold on

to harder and harder

all right um the debate over whether the

government was trying to kill to kill

Trump uh and have him assassinated by

including in their maralago raid uh

authorization they are authorized to use

deadly force if

necessary

and

um so there's some people who were

saying well it was just standard

procedure they just say that all the

time and there are other people uh Mike

cernovich Dan banino for example and uh

who say no you idiots that is not a

standard

procedure now how could it be standard

procedure but also not a standard

procedure well it turns out it can be

and Bonino gets to the heart of it by

asking this

question if you think it's standard

paperwork um would the DEA be allowed to

serve a search warrant on the White

House with armed agents in the cocaine

case why

not do you think that armed people with

authorization to shoot to kill would

have gone into the White House to look

into the cocaine situation and and by

the way in both cases there was full

cooperation on the physical part so at

moral Lago there was never any

indication anybody was going to resist

anything and Secret Service were always

in the communication they were always

talking to them never once said if you

come in here we're going to prevent you

in fact they negotiated so that there

would be no problems at all so the

question is if you knew there were going

to be no problems because you'd already

negotiated it why do you have to put

that in

there so I'm going to take a a middle a

middle view of

this I don't think somebody sat down and

said all right I got to plan to kill the

president here's what we're going to do

we're going to create this situation and

then we'll put this authorization in

there and then as soon as something goes

wrong will just start blazing away and

gun down the president I don't believe

that even for the slightest second

because nobody's nobody's that dumb but

did they create a situation where the

possibility would go from zero to

nonzero yes it does look like they did

that it looks like very much created a

situation where there was a nonzero

chance of killing him that did happen I

so I'm with Bonino on

that

um but I but I wouldn't take it so much

as they planed to kill him because if

they had planned to kill him it would

have gone down differently it would have

been more like more of a surprise you

know less of a negotiated

situation so

um and by the way I I like I say this

often but one of the things I always

value in Dan banino is his talent

stack he he's done one of the greatest

jobs of

assembling uh talents everything and

this is another one so he's got this

background in you know uh law

enforcement type stuff but on top of

that he knows politics and on top of

that he knows all the players and on top

of that he's great at the media

stuff so he's got the full

package and that's why he's doing so

well all right um so Trump went to the

Bronx and gave his big speech it was a

giant hit there were no real problems of

any scale it was all positivity um we're

all Americans doesn't matter what color

your skin is people were wild for him if

anybody thought he would get a bad

reception in the Bronx you were wrong

the crowd was the most diverse for a

trump crowd there were plenty of white

people but uh there were plenty of other

people too so plenty of Asians plenty of

blacks plenty of

Hispanics hey AOC seem to be flipping

out because remember I told you the

Andre Agy strategy where you don't go

after your opponent's weakest shot you

go after their strongest shot because if

you get lucky and you could you can make

them lose their confidence in their

strongest shot they're dead so you

basically can decapitate somebody in the

first set just by making sure you lose

they lose their confidence in their best

play so the best play that the uh

Democrats have is that the deepest

bluest

States absolutely cannot stand any Trump

anything so he went into the deepest

bluest place and blew their doors off he

Andre IAC see them you could see the

panic in aoc's um you know complaints

about him going there why would you even

complain about it like why would that

even be a conversation that somebody

running for president would visit a

highly populated area in America and

make his case but they had to complain

about it because he was going right into

the belly of the Beast they could tell

he was going for their fore hand he

wasn't going for their weak backand he

went right into the middle of the dragon

and it

up they now and I agree with some people

who say he's not going to win this

state he

might by the way I'm not I'm not on the

the page that he's not going to win the

state you do the part we can't predict

is how far Biden will fall between now

on Election Day you see the rate of

decline right have you seen a video of

Biden talking one year ago completely

different one year completely

different um we we'll talk about this so

Biden gave a a press conference very

rare apparently he had all the people he

was going to call out call on on a card

he gave them only one question a piece

because that's the one he was prepared

for and then he read his response as it

appears from a card in other words it

wasn't a press conference at all it was

a Q&A with written questions and written

answers he just stood in public and did

it do you think he would have had to do

that a year ago a year ago he might have

been able to Bluff his way through

although they were they were hiding him

a year ago but I think he could have

gotten through it today he is clearly

not capable of handling a question that

he's not that's not written in front of

him with the

answer that's completely different in

one

year what's he going to be by

November by November I don't even think

there'll be a choice it it could be a

really one person and one person who's

just not even going to be alive in a few

months so could Trump win New York I'm

going to say yes

I'm going to say yes but not because of

steady state it's because there's there

could be a big there's going to be a big

drop in Biden before November I think

his health will just fall off ledge I

think it already has and they're just

hiding it from us but it's going to be

hard to hide it for a few more months I

suspect that the Democratic National

Convention where Biden has to give a

speech could be really really touch and

go for the Democrats because I don't

think they trust them to be able to even

read the teleprompter at this

point imagine him going up there if it

happens uh and giving in his acceptance

speech and he does the mumbly

thing oh my God it's bad enough if he

does it just you know on a stump speech

but if he does it standing in front of

the whole country at the DNC and I think

he

will it's not a good

look uh apparently I don't know is this

true I need a fact check on this did did

Trump actually say at the Bronx rally

and I quote I don't eat bacon anymore

it's too

expensive he didn't really say those

words did he because I've been laughing

about it all

morning it sounds like something he

would

say in his normal hyperbole

we do assume that he can still afford

bacon but but if he said that it's

hilarious because I think the the

difference between Trump today and prior

Trump is that now we understand him like

we get him no you didn't mean literally

you can't afford bacon of course but is

it funny it's totally

funny yeah it's totally funny so that's

all we care

about so meanwhile Trump goes and does

by everybody's account everything

right now may I remind you

again that Trump's performance as a

candidate this time

around is unlike anything I've ever seen

I mean it's just all good all the way I

mean he's just doing one home run after

another I mean he's hitting Frozen Ropes

into the Outfield every every at bat is

crazy and this Bronx thing really

highlights that because he's not just

playing as safe if I told you he's made

no mistakes but he's also playing as

safe you'd say that's not the Trump we

want we're not looking for the play as

safe

guy so here he goes into the belly of

the Beast and the Bronx kills

it that's who we want we want the one

who can do the thing you think can't be

done we want the one who says why would

I be afraid of

that why would I be afraid of that

that's the one we

want meanwhile the governor of New York

hok um said that uh she referred to

Trump supporters as clowns during the

rally clowns have we noticed a

correlation that the Democrats think

that Republican an are pieces of

it's a pretty clear pattern

yeah just remember that you have one

leader who is saying very clearly and

consistently we're all Americans we can

pull together and one who says we're

better off divided because that's kind

of what he's

saying Biden

anyway um here's something uh Biden said

in a post he says Donald Trump and his

Mega Republican allies don't care about

securing the Border or fixing Americans

broken immigration system if they did

they would have supported the toughest

border enforcement in history so it was

a bill that just got turned down by

mostly Republicans instead they put

partisan politics ahead of our national

security so here's my question first of

all you can see that he's dividing the

country by referring to magga Republican

allies now he's specifically talking met

the elected politicians but how do you

hear it I don't hear it that way I hear

that he is just saying if you're a magga

republican he wants to piss on your head

that's what I hear Do you hear it

differently I think he's in

insulting the citizens at the same time

he's insulting the people they voted for

the so-called Mega

allies so that's his usual piece of

divisive uh terrible president president

um framing that they are bad people and

there are good people and he's the good

people I guess do you do you think that

the Democrats are catching on this

obviously was a fake border bill that

had poison pills in it do you think that

the Democrats haven't figured

out that it's all theater and

do they really think that the

Republicans looked at a perfectly good

border Bill and said we're going to turn

this down for the good of getting

elected I'm not saying they wouldn't but

it's not what

happened they didn't really have a

chance to look at a good border

bill I think it's strange that the

president's name is Biden at the same

time um we're all wondering the same

question on Election

Day will he still be

alive byen

what are the odds that his name would be

byen when all we're waiting for is if

he's still going to be alive by then

that's a weird

coincidence all right uh Biden also

posted or somebody did for him Trump is

not running to lead America he's running

for Revenge but you can't build a future

on Revenge I'm running to lead America

into the future what future is that the

one where you live for another four

months months and then we bury you well

what exact future are you talking about

old man who can't even do a press

conference you're not part of our future

you're just not in any way our future

but okay but here's my bigger complaint

he says uh Trump is not leading running

to lead America he's running for

Revenge Revenge is what I want revenge

is called the justice

system do you think the justice system

was set up for fairness no do you think

the justice system was set up to

rehabilitate people no it's Revenge

that's what it does and the and the the

risk of Revenge is the only thing that

keeps Society together why do you not do

bad things if you're a good person why

do you not do bad things cuz we're going

to get revenge on you we're going to put

you in jail if you don't want to call

that Revenge fine

you can call it a flower you can put a

different word on it but the justice

system is very much about revenge and

that's what makes it work and you know

what revenge is the animated the

animating part of it the part of the

reason that uh Trump has so much support

is that you put 2,000 people in

jail for a political reasons you're

trying to Jail the president for

political reasons and Peter Navaro is

still in jail so revenge is

going to be at the top of the menu

revenge is at the top of the menu and it

belongs there because that's

what Justice looks like justice looks

like honest Revenge who else needs to

talk about let's not have Revenge did

anybody else have to talk about that do

you remember Jimmy Carter saying oh

don't do revenge on me do you know why

we didn't have to do revenge on Jimmy

Carter because there was no reason

do you know why we didn't need revenge

on Bill

Clinton there was no

reason there was no reason do you know

why nobody's ever talked about

revenge before

ever there was no

reason if he's talking about don't do

Revenge it's because he created the

whole

situation nobody's going to be talking

about revenge unless something really

really big and terrible it

happened and something big and

terrible is happening right now Peter

Navaro is still in

prison no you let Peter Navaro ENT

prison and the other 2,000

people you dropped this stupid lawfare

charges and we'll stop talking about

revenge but right now I want to see

hundreds of Democrats in jail I want to

see hundreds of Democrats in jail

minimum and we do have the goods I mean

completely within the legal system I

recommend no actions outside the legal

system yeah no no vigilante anything

don't do that but yes the justice system

has plenty of evidence of crimes at the

highest level so yes Revenge Revenge

Revenge

Revenge and every time you say don't do

it you remind us why we need to because

nobody else needs to even talk

that

way if you're talking somebody out of

getting

revenge revenge is called for cuz it

isn't even in the

conversation it's just not part of the

conversation until you up really

badly and you have Peter Navaro is still

in

prison Peter Navaro is still in

prison remember the

Elmo and yes you can build a future on

Revenge it's called The Justice System

speaking of Justice apparent the amuse

account on X tells us that there's

something called the 65

project uh and it's apparently mostly to

cancel anybody anybody was a lawyer

who's trying to help Trump and it's run

by David Brock and it's funded by George

Soros and it's uh as Muse says it's an

allout war on the sixth amendment to the

Constitution

Revenge

Revenge all right uh American American

first legal that's the

uh Republican oriented uh group that's

trying to create a counterbalance for

the in the legal system and is trying to

use legal means to get Justice in a

variety of ways that Democrats have

tried to take it away from you

but there's this new story that frankly

I do not

understand there's something about a new

document that's been undercovered some

Obama order from his days that's been

kind of secret that says that there

should be something about keeping copies

of all the classified stuff on a server

and the argument doesn't make sense to

me but maybe it does to you so I've

asked for a clarification but here's

what it sounds like

it sounds like America First legal is

saying that Trump's um legal

problems with the moral Lago

documents are not a problem because

there are also copies of them that the

government never lost they've always had

the copies now I don't understand that

do you why would that make any

difference if they have copies I assume

they had copies didn't you always assume

they had copies

would would the government in 2024 I

have a digital copy of everything

important that came across the the

government's desks I mean I just assume

so so I don't I don't understand the

importance of this but American first

legal is playing it as very

important so I've asked them to explain

it give me the dummies version of I

don't get it like why is this important

how's it how's it have anything to do

with anything so if they come up with

that I'll talk about it again but at the

moment all I can say is that people who

know more than I do about the law think

there's an important thing that happened

and I have no idea what it

is uh block the FBI from arresting

dangerous

Iranians

yeah that that's a boring story but I I

see what you're saying so there's some

story about John KY blocking the arrest

of some known Iranian

uh bad guys uh because he was trying to

get a deal done with

Iran is that the biggest crime in the

world here's the thing that might be

just real

politic meaning that if you're this

close if you're this close to getting a

deal that's a really big deal maybe you

don't arrest those people on Tuesday you

maybe you get the

deal arrest him a few weeks later so I

don't know how real that story is uh it

it's not that far from something I would

think is normal business but I guess I'd

wait for Dan banino to set me straight

on that so I guess I don't have enough a

hook into that story to care about

it um there's a report that the US and

the European Union are moving toward an

agreement for a massive loan for Ukraine

but their clever technique is they're

going to use Russian assets Frozen in

the west as

collateral here's the

thing I've been saying that our form of

government is not a

democracy of course it was designed to

be a republic you know federal republic

with Democratic principles but it's

really not that either it probably

hasn't been since the 50s we are

essentially a criminal

organization and

colonizers we're basically the board

trying to you know take everybody's

assets and apparently we've always been

that way that's what America is now if

that sounds like a

criticism here's the twist I don't think

there's a better form a

government because if you don't

coordinate your government with your big

capitalist

entities somebody else will and they'll

be your

daddy so unfortunately if you're not the

baddest criminal in the criminal world

you're going to get dead so being the

baddest of the criminals might be the

best form a

government maybe because you know I

think democracy has its issues too if

you let dumb people make big

decisions so I don't know but when I see

a story like this it just reminds you

that we're a criminal organization

trying to steal Putin's stuff you know

the the Mike Ben's take is that Ukraine

is really just an energy play and that

Hunter Biden is part of that with

barisma that's that's why Hunter was

part of barisma all part of the you know

the big Energy play to steal the energy

from Russia and since we couldn't get

all of their energy we're going to

settle for keeping their assets that we

could

freeze I mean I get that there's a war

going on but we're we're persecuting

we're Prosecuting the war like we're

just criminals we're just looking to

steal

it it's hard to not see it as just

a criminal act against another criminal

and again if it sounds like if it sounds

like a

criticism believe it or not it's

not we seem to be a very effective

criminal

organization because we've overthrown

lots of governments we've got access to

lots of resources and other places and

uh maybe it's not working out so well in

Ukraine but you know it seems to be

proving the the

point but to me um so Putin has said

that he's willing to negotiate a

ceasefire along current lines of uh who

owns what now I say there's no chance of

negotiating until Trump gets there

because the Biden play it was never

about stopping a war

they're not really concerned with ending

War they're only concerned in stealing

Russia's energy game and if they haven't

done that and they think they still have

a chance they're not going to negotiate

so this basically they're going to save

the negotiations for Trump who as far as

I know does not have a massive interest

in a big energy deal or stealing things

in Ukraine so he could just say yeah

let's just end this

what when Trump says he could end it in

the

day I would bet against

it but I wouldn't bet against ending it

in a

month because I think he can get it done

in a

month and that ladies and

gentlemen brings us to the conclusion of

my prepared

remarks it all comes down to race and

religion somebody says does it

uh Trump didn't let zalinsky rip up the

M Peace Accords Biden did and that was

the start of the war you

think that's what you

think so

um all

right I had another topic but I think

too controver

IAL um I think we overestimated Russia's

willingness to

negotiate creating a

well here's what I think we should do I

would love to see Trump do a grand

deal where we just work out our

differences with the three

superpowers and just agree to rule the

world in peace and they can have their

part we'll have our part you know I

realize that taiwan's a problem

but at this point we are moving our chip

facilities out of

there and I think Taiwan knows that in

the long run there's really no way that

they could become they can't be

independent in the long run it's too

dangerous could you imagine China having

a major Ally in Cuba and you know being

right at our doorstep and I don't

know it it just seems to me that we're

fighting history if we're trying to keep

keep Taiwan out of Chinese

control here's what I think we should do

instead the had a good plan I think what

we should do instead is create a

hundred-year

plan do do the Hong Kong plan say you

know what why fight history in a 100

years sometime within that 100 years

Taiwan will be China but if you wait 100

years you don't have to worry about

microchips because something will be

very different by then

uh and it won't be you know depending on

Taiwan so I think if we said how about

we just agree now that there's it's

100-year plan and in the 100 years

Taiwan will figure out what its role

will be so there'll be future

negotiations of does it operate a little

bit independently compared to the

mainland nobody knows what the mainland

would even look like in 100 years you

you could have a you know a de democracy

in China in the 100 years Anything Could

Happen

so I think you do a 100-year plan and

just take the violence off the table

because if you're president

she and you know you got it back you

just won't be alive when it happens

that's a big

win and if we can take that off the

table then we can deal with China at a

much much better

level Hong Kong Island was eded to the

UK in perpetuity I don't believe that I

thought it was a 99e

elease Hong Kong had a 50-year plan that

the CCP removed yeah well it's a risk

but here's the thing Hong Kong didn't

really have a chance of staying

independent

forever Taiwan doesn't have a chance of

staying independent forever if it were

our hemisphere we would insist that we

had that much control and I don't know I

just wouldn't fight

history um many think it was a deal so

I'm seeing people say that the the The

Narrative of Hong Kong is all fake and

that they did not have a deal to give it

back I'm I'm doubting your framing of

that

uh I think it was 99 year lease and when

it ended the UK gave it

back so but I but I will note that there

are people who are saying that's not

true yeah a managed democracy with an

authoritarian streak the the one thing I

don't see is China looking like they're

they want to control other countries

except economically of

course but taiwan's

special so

I think something will happen there one

sooner or later it's going to happen so

I I think it's a deal that Trump could

make I think he could say look how about

Russia you making your money China you

making your money we'll make our money

and let's

play I think you could pull that off I I

I suspect that the biggest reason we

can't get along with Russia and China is

that we can't stop doing covert things

to each other continuously cuz we're

sure that the other is doing it too so I

know I'll tell you that the theory that

China is doing everything it can to stop

reproduction in America is looking

better and

better I don't think that that they're

that clever but

maybe all right that's all I got for you

and on YouTube and Rumble and X I'm

going to take a few minutes with just

the subscribers on

locals and uh I'll see the rest of you

tomorrow locals stay with me the rest of

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