Episode 2505 CWSA 06/14/24

oh there we are comments online good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time if you'd like to enjoy this experience at the maximum possibility all you need is a cup or muger glass of tanker chal Canen juger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparal pleasure the dopamine yet of the day the thing that makes everything better is the special Friday edition the is going to be great today happy birthday president Trump go I think there was a little extra simultaneity in that one makes the sipping so good well let's see what we've got going I almost didn't have a show here because I had again major computer failure do you remember when Apple uh was accused used of slowing down their phones to make you think you needed a new one and then people were thinking ah that can't be a real thing and then we found out it was a real thing and they admitted it well I've got a a desktop you know Macintosh that suddenly suddenly it tells me I don't have the right operating system when it's the new one it tells me I don't have application uh application memory which I do it tells me I don't have a room on my hard disk which I do lots of it now anyway and it's basically crashing all of my applications all the time so I said to myself well I'm going to go to the Apple Store because I don't get out much since the pandemic I don't have bun of human activity outside the house so I thought you know what I'm going to do I'm going to go see what is like to be with people like actually go to a store you know where they're they're human beings in the same room and stuff because I don't really do that I it's been so long since I've been in a store I guess I've I've done grocery shopping but that's about it so I go to the Apple Store and what I was expecting of course is Apples usually you know blue star amazing service because they their service is so good that in the Apple Store they literally called the job description of the people who work there genius it actually says genius right on the business card literally that's just the name of the job they're called Geniuses and I remember the first time I went to an Apple store several years ago and I remember they were called Geniuses and I thought to myself well they're not going to be Geniuses watch this it's just going to be like every other employee they won't be able to know how to do anything and then it turns out they were really really smart hard and they could solve anything every time I went in they had Immediate Solutions so they were in fact Geniuses I mean way smarter than the average person anyway so that's the experience I expected when I went there yesterday so I go in there and sure enough I'm greeted at the door by sort of the a host type person with a with a phone who's going to put me in it and make sure that somebody comes and helps me right away and I'm like this is what I remember yeah this is good stuff so she tells me to go wait by the computer I wanted to buy CU I literally walked in and she said can I help you and I said yes I'd like to buy your finest computer now I meant that literally because I don't like to mess around I just want to know what's your one that has the best memory and the fastest processor okay wrap it up that's what I plan to do because when you do it professionally you don't really buy the second best computer computer is nothing really to decide because you know you're going to appreciate every little bit of extra you know power it has so she goes stand by the computer so she goes well you can while you're here you can compare this one to this other one now already she's not understanding my request I said show me your finest computer that's very different from show me some computers of which I can spend some time comparing in them no not really interested in the second best computer so already they're kind of not understanding the mission no only the best computer it's the only reason I'm here so I wait by the computer which seemed like a little longer than they usually make you wait especially since there were a whole bunch of geniuses wandering around not helping any people but often just talking to themselves in little groups now that was the first thing that caught my attention I thought huh there's a group of three of them over there doing nothing for customers when I'm standing here with my finger on my ass but eventually a genius did show up and the genius showed up wearing a n95 CO mask in 2024 in the summer and I said to myself I've got a bad feeling about this genius there's something this genius is signaling that says it's different from the other Geniuses it could be the co mask in 2024 and so the co mask genius came over to me and he said can I help you and I looked at him and I said in my strongest clearest voice yes I was going to give him the easiest transaction of his day do you see this computer this is your best one right yes right wrap it up here's my credit card that that's how I thought things would go instead it went this way can I help you yes great and then he walked directly over to another young couple well I'm not a young couple and said uh how can I help you and then he helped them so so now you're saying to yourself but Scott probably he misheard or you misheard or something that you know it's the easiest thing to fix you just walk up to one of the other Geniuses who's not busy and saying oh might have been some miscommunication but I still need some help and I see there are plenty of geniuses so I'm still in good shape so I walk up to the first genius and I realized that I've been away from people for too long I was so pissed off not only the apple as far as I can tell is intentionally crippled in my computer and totally up my operation that I do in front of live people every day but now they've apparently introduced some level of incompetence into their genius system and I looked at the very next guy and I had to stop myself and leave the store because I realized I was going to go off on him for no reason at all he hadn't done anything and I realized I'm not I can't be around people anymore people just pissed me off too much and are you going to say to me was it a Dei situation well not that I know of right I mean the the employee in question was among the diverse population but that doesn't mean it was you know that's what's was going on but I do assume that Apple has uh been destroyed by the same Dei that the other big companies have been so my presumption is that Dei destroyed their high level of service I don't know if that's true but it would be the reasonable the reasonable prediction well on other topics uh apparently Wells Fargo has fired what they call Mouse jigglers there are people who have some kind of technology to move the mouse when they're not at their desk and it makes it look like they're working if you're monitoring them electronically and they're called the mouse jigglers now if you don't think there's going to be a Dilbert reborn comic in which Wall-E is a mouse Jiggler well you don't know me there will be some mouse Jiggler Mouse Jiggler situation will be going on there all right uh so yesterday on my show I asked the provocative question why do we have voting machines at all given that they're not cheaper faster more reliable more credible or anything and and nobody could make an argument for it well that went a little bit viral on X and then I saw Real Clear Politics picked it up so the the question is there now do you think that anybody will answer the question let's make your prediction do you think anybody who knows what they're talking about whether they're from one of the companies that produces machines or just somebody who's knowledgeable do you think somebody will say oh oh there's an obvious reason and then they will tell me the reason that we use voting machines when they're not cheaper faster more reliable and and then I'll say oh that was very non obvious but now that you say that reason I can see why that would be important do you think that's going to happen that's what should happen right it's the most important question in the world because if we don't get our elections right the country fails there's a whole ripple effect so the most important question in the world and now it's public got a lot of attention so now I'll get the answer right have you seen the answer yet no there's no answer I haven't seen one if anybody sees an answer to that please please alert me but I'll tell you asking the right question is the most dangerous thing in the world because until you ask the right question people's minds aren't quite focused on the thing maybe they should be watching yeah it's a big question sort of a magic trick to even have those machines in there and somehow they've convinced everybody that there was a reason and maybe there is but it's kind of interesting that nobody in the country is aware of what that reason might be all right there's a study that says that gratitude can make you feel less lonely so there's a big old uh study published in the Journal of applied psychologist and they did a I think they did a meta study of studies and they spent a bunch of M money and took a bunch of time and they found out that showing gratitude makes you feel less lonely do you know what they could have done instead of a meta study they could have asked me now I keep finding out the hypnotists are apparently 50 years ahead of Science and I mean that actually literally with no exaggeration whatsoever hypnotists apparently are learning things that are like 50 years ahead of science because I could have told you this why gratitude releases oxytocin oxytocin makes you feel less lonely I knew that did you know that did you know that gratitude releases oxytocin and did you know that oxytocin makes you feel less lonely they didn't have to study this at all I knew it you just had to ask me yeah gratitude oxytocin oxytocin makes you feel less lonely I made sure I checked with you know chat GPT just to make sure I wasn't insane but yes it confirmed that's true um here's another one there was a study where they found that people would feel less pain if they if they uh were in virtual reality and they were looking at an avatar that was muscular I think it means their own avatar like a muscular version of themselves but I'm not sure that's necessary could be just a muscular Avatar but it would be better if it was a muscular Avatar of yourself more muscular than you are and it said it uh reduced Pain by 16% um you know who knew that without doing a test hypnotists yeah I think it was a long time ago the first time I saw that you could make people save more for the retirement if you showed them a a altered picture of themselves so they could see the themselves looking old if somebody somebody can imagine themselves in a different situation such as old then they'll change their behavior that's been known forever now does that extend to pain management yeah every hypnotist could tell you that pain management is one of the things a hypnosis does well it's one of the first original things so um yes it's completely uh obvious that if you looked at yourself looking differently you would have an effect on your body that would be psychological and that includes pain management because that can be there's a psychological element um but generally speaking the way you visualize yourself makes a difference now here's how I use this in everyday life I imagine myself as more physically fit than I am which is to say I imagine that if I took off my shirt and looked in the mirror it would look better than it actually does when I take off my shirt and look in the mirror so I always set my visual basically my avatar so I always have an avatar of myself except the Avatar of myself is a better version and I do that intentionally and I've I've told you this for years you should always set your self opinion above your whatever you think is real because there we have an ability to sort of stretch ourselves into our impression of who we are you you become the person you imagine it's just sort of an automatic process so if you imagin yourself being a big loser every day you probably will do more losing you've heard of the power of positive thinking the power of positive thinking is basically imagining an avatar of yourself succeeding in the future and what happens every study every personal experience everybody will tell you if you imagine yourself being successful or especially at something specific you're more likely to get it it's what affirmations are that's why affirmations you know have lasted a long time that people feel it works so yeah you could ask me if you would asked me do you think this would work I would have said yeah probably I don't think you even have to study it here's another one apparently they uh another research found out that people who have grandiose narcissism which is one of the two types very different from the other kind grandios is where you just want to get credit for doing great things and maybe you think positively of yourself and a study found that people with uh the most grandiose narcissism in other words the best opinion of themselves and their place in the world uh they perform better on intelligence tests when under stress thanks to a broader distribution of visual attention now uh the broader the broader distribution of visual attention that's uh there's another word for that um but I've talked about this with persuasion before so yes it is true that if you imagine things are going to go your way you will you'll simply notice more things and you'll be smarter just by imagining things are going to go your way in other words optimism makes makes you smarter now I would say that grandio narcissism is is just a form of personal optimism the reason and I often label myself a grandiose narcissist because I always think in in gigantic terms I wake up every day thinking I can change the world every day and always have even even before I was a public figure I always thought today I can do something that maybe will change the world and I've never lost that feeling that I'm going to do something that changes the world and I have done a few things that Chang the world in some ways so so now we know that uh there's a good form of narcissism it Mak just makes you smarter it makes you work harder to do good things because you want to get credit for get for having done good things I love credit for good things and and when people and you you might remember there was a time when I said narcissism is fake there's no such thing that was before I realized there's two completely different ones and they just use the same word so the problem is that narcissism can mean this good kind where people are just trying to do something great for the world and actually makes them better at doing those things what's wrong with that one so that's that's the kind that I see Trump as he actually feels he has some role to fix the world and then he goes out and he kind of does it so wasn't it good that he had that opinion of himself otherwise he wouldn't have even run for president who runs for president unless you think I mean you have to be sort of a narcissist to run for president but if you're the bad kind then you're just a troublemaker looking to destroy everything around you so you feel good that's a whole different deal so I insist again that calling this one narcissism is just the wrong label because it's like it's like calling somebody who's a doctor a murderer because you both deal with dead people no one is trying to save the people the doctor the others try to kill the people so calling them both Killers because you know I suppose a doctor can lose a patient by the wrong process um it's sort of that's sort of the same thing it's just the wrong word for the the thing so confusing well CNN continues to find the middle ground here uh Jake Tapper was calling out uh somebody he was talking to Dan Goldman was on the show and uh tap was pointing out that there's no reason for the dojj to withhold the her tapes h r her those are the tapes in which Biden is presumed to sound more dementia than the trans scripts would show if you had the actual audio apparently it would sound bad people imagine but the the two things I want to say about this number one I do think CNN's move toward reasonableness which is the mdal is real it does look real but I don't think it's affected every person the good news is uh Tapper is definitely moving towards something like a sensible middle and smires has always been the most reasonable person at the network but I found out the other day if if Chad GPT told me the truth it might have been hallucinating but I think they have the two biggest shows so the the two shows with the big the biggest viewers are also the more reasonable people on the network so that's good but Dan Goldman the guest I'm going to put him in the category of the professional Liars the Democrats have a professional liar grp Group which is the weirdest thing and what I mean by that is um in politics there are exaggerations and sort of normal lies but then there are the extraordinary lies the ones that really no reasonable person should ever believe you know like Russia collusion or the laptop is fake you know the or or in this case there's no reason you need to see those those tapes from her these are just crazy crazy up things so they have this group of people who are apparently either so so blackmailed or they know that they're the worst people in the world but they're the ones who will say anything and and if you don't know who they are you will confuse them with real people right Dan Goldman is just he's an Adam schf he's an Eric swell he's Jamie Rasin he's a uh he's a James Clapper he's a a Brennan those are the names that when you see them they seem to only appear when there's something so hard to defend that you would need some somebody completely Shameless to look in the camera and say it's true or not true the regular Democrats really don't show up for this stuff there there must be at least 70% of Democrats who wouldn't say any of this stuff out loud because they know everybody knows they're lying but for some reason there are this you know five to seven Democrats who will always say the dumbest ridiculous lie and Goldman's one of them he he's an absurd character um I remind you that in an election year all our data is fake I guess Jerome Powell the Fed chair basically admitted the other day that the employment numbers are inaccurate right so I'll tell you every day probably until election day there's no data that you can rely on during an election year probably you couldn't rely on it ever but an election year is just crazy to imagine as true right everything's going to be gamed and I I find that I've entered this category of humans where maybe 90% of all the people on earth I can't relate to anymore cuz I can't talk to anybody who thinks that government data commercial data from companies the news and history are real how do you deal with somebody who thinks the news is still real wherever it was how do I deal with somebody who thinks that data from the government is accurate how do I deal with somebody who thinks that they know an election is fair I don't even know how to talk to them what what would you say to somebody who's operating in it's sort of like I'm a you I'm a base 10 number counter and I'm talking to somebody who some you know base I don't know what invisible numbers or something it's like I don't even know how to talk to them if if you think that news history and government data are real or that anything that you know Goldman Schiff swell Brennan or Clapper tell you if you think any of that's real how can I actually have a conversation with you about anything important I don't know what to do about that yeah know it it's so it so removes you from the regular world because the regular world is walking around hypnotized into thinking all this stuff is real anyway uh the Federalist is reporting that the state department won't say definitively whether or not it's colluding with big Tech to censor speech before the election now wouldn't you call that an easy question to answer if the answer is no hey are you colluding with big Tech to influence the election that we're about to have well we're doing things blah no but you didn't really answer the question are you colluding with big Tech to censor speech before the 2024 election well so yes yes of course they are yes of course there's massive censorship they're just going to be a little more clever about it I guess of course there is um I have a question for you having now used chat GPT quite a bit um I can't think of any reason I would ever use a Google search which seems like a really big problem for Google doesn't it because my normal habit would be lots of Google searches during any given week it's just the most common thing now probably I would only use it if I knew the URL or the name of the website because you know it will autofill the website so that's useful but besides autofilling the thing I want uh chat GPT gives me all kinds of context you know I can do follow-up questions I can do it in audio now what happens when I've got that on my phone apparently chat gbt and apple are not paying each other there there's enough of a strategic interest that chat gbt is basically free to Apple not just free to the users but even Apple isn't paying for it now I don't know what's beyond that but it looks like they may be trying to take Google down that's what it looks like because how does Google survive if I can pick up my phone and ask any question and Chad gbt will just take it over to presumably Bing to get my answer I don't know I think Google has a existential threat that just popped up out of nowhere all right Charlamagne the god the god uh he's being interesting again and uh he was saying that I guess he was on The Daily Show he said that in the age of hate Democrats need a message makeover and that they should learn from Republic Republicans how to talk like real people now that part sounds really smart but he can't quite he can't quite leave the illusion here's what Elsie said there's nothing wrong with the uh policies of the Democrats it's their messaging gosh every time you think Charlemagne's going to make the leap no charl me the policies are goddamn garbage it's not about Joe Biden's personality there's nothing about his I don't even care that he walks like a statue I I don't care I wouldn't even care if he was stealing money from Ukraine I wouldn't care if his son was coked up and firing bullets in the air if their policies were even a little bit okay the border is open are you kidding me we're we're spending our money in Ukraine for God knows what are you kidding me inflation through the roof it's crazy really Charlamagne the policies are good it's just the way they're talking about it that's the problem no nobody thinks that all right but what he said about the messaging was funny and good he says uh he he used three examples of good messaging from Republicans and you'll be amazed who he picked he picked Senator Kennedy Marjorie Taylor green and Trump as three examples of good of good uh messaging and a way to talk to the public specifically what he said is you should talk like people talk and that people don't want to hear a politician talk they want to hear a real person talk and that whether you like it or not so he's not endorsing what they said just the quality with which they said it in a way people can relate to totally agree uh that was a good observation I think and by the way I've been saying that since Trump came on the scene remember in 2015 everybody said he's talking like a sixth grade vocabulary and I kept saying you mean the best way you could ever talk well but you don't understand he's talking like a sixth grader and and then I would say again okay but you're complimenting him right don't you understand he's he's communicating like a sixth grader okay I'm hearing you but do you understand that's the best way to talk to the public and eight years later Charlemagne says you know that's the best way to talk to the public Trump did that to you he went from why is he talking like a child to we should all be talking like that I mean that's the way to talk that's what works and he's right Gavin Nome being Gavin Newsome at the board he's in full lizard mode and he's got a little video in which he's talking about how he's doubled the California National Guard at the border and they're working to stop the flow of fenel wow that sounds good that's a man of action he's getting stuff done and and then he contrasts it to the GOP that are like playing games and Mike Johnson searching for spot and meanwhile as Gavin new points out he's out there doing real work he's there with the National Guard they're closing the border now the National Guard wasn't shown in the video and fox news's Bill maluan weighs in and said you know none of that's happening not a single person he's ever talked to and he's down at the border all the time and he checked with the border patrol none of them have seen any National Guard as in Annie as in none nobody's ever seen one the people who actually do work on the border it's like National Guard we haven't seen them they're here so so Gavin Nome actually just does a video and says he's controlling the Border apparently none of that's happening now what happens when I talk to the next Democrat I run into who thinks that that's true how do I have a conversation with somebody who thinks Gavin Newsome's closing the border with the National Guard that's literally just like a fictional story all right well happy birthday to Trump he's 78 um and you I just saw another the interview with Jake Paul we talk about that he made some news but he looks completely on the ball am I wrong I don't see Trump losing a step now I think he's too old because I think everybody that age is at a certain risk but I got to say he looks 100% for what that's worth it's just not my preference to have people that age in that office but lots of individual differences all right so he's talking to uh um Jake Paul who's going to be fighting against uh Mike Tyson in a few months and here are some of things he talked about uh oh actually this before I talk about that apparently Trump said in a meeting with Republicans that he's considering or that he would consider replacing the federal income tax with an all tariff policy in other words 100% of the money coming into the government would be charging uh other countries for the privilege of trading with the United States now could that work CU I don't know wouldn't they just increase their tariffs on us or would we only be increasing tariffs on people who are already in an uh unbalanced situation so we just be bringing it to even I don't know how that would work but here's what so I'm not I'm not forward or against it here's what I'm going to say Donald Trump turned 78 years old he's the one who suggested building new cities on federal lands one of the most radic IAL and forward thinking things I've heard from a president ever he also is considering completely removing the federal tax code he hasn't decided to do it but he's he's looking into an idea that's so radical and so different I'd never even heard of it can you imagine that there was a potential tax policy that i' never heard of now whether that's a good idea or a bad idea if you think that being 78 is is hurting Trump's ability to be flexible intellectually you're wrong he's got the goods and he's bringing them right in front of you the goods are 78y old people don't think like this but he does he does and that's really kind of notable when was the last time you saw a 78-year-old be have the newest ideas in the game I've never even heard of that this is really un usual and he's doing it you know more than once it's fairly consistent he is an innovator and he said in a recent interview that the government needs to be helping the entrepreneurs more which caused you know Jason from the uh all-in podcast to go yes there you go that's exactly what we should be doing so on almost every topic he has a young man's opinion you can't Overlook that that's a big deal if you're concerned about AG that's a really big deal all right but here's my favorite part so uh Jake Paul asked him about UFOs now as you know if you're the president you get to see all the good stuff so a president in theory should be able to find out does the United States have any captured spaceships you know do we have any alens and here's what Trump said uh it's possible that there could be alien life CU you know it's a big universe so that's good that that's a very trumpian open-minded thing which is how do we know it's a big universe so so he's open to the possibility now why would you put it that way why would you say you know anything's possible if you actually knew we had aliens well you wouldn't so one of the things we can be sure about I think I can be sure nothing's 100% but he talked about how Pilots had seen things and uh they were very credible pilots and there were multiple of them and he talked to them personally and he had every reason to believe that what they were seeing was at least not a lie doesn't mean it's aliens but he was convinced that their stories were accurate observations of what they saw but what that what they saw is still of course a question so he's open to it he thinks that the people reporting it are credible but here's the thing isn't the real story whether or not we do have warehouses with 12 alien captured ships as the news and certain whistleblowers keep telling us well he said directly Trump did that he does not personally believe that aliens have been presented in Earth now think about those things that's actually a perfect answer the perfect answer is here's the evidence they're very credible it's a big world anything's possible but personally I'm not convinced do you think he would say personally he wasn't convinced if he'd taken a tour of UFO debris no I I think Trump doesn't know if there are aliens nobody's telling him and he was asked that directly do you think they would tell you you know what if they were there and it's like one of these you know John Brennan Secrets they don't tell you I feel like they would tell him and I don't think he's lying I think that the government literally doesn't have any captured UFOs because he would know about it you don't think he could figure that out so in my opinion this is confirmation that the whistleblowers are full of which always seemed obvious to me by the way all right uh then uh uh Trump talked about Elon Musk and had very positive things to say about him and how impressed he is about the Rockets you know Landing to be reusable and everything very very praising him but then separately um Elon was asked to some event about Trump and he said this uh Elon said about Trump he goes quote he does call me out of the blue for no reason he's very nice when he calls I think a lot of his friends now have Teslas he's a huge fan of the Cyber truck now as I saw cernovich comment on that that it's sort of a trump superpower that he will call people and he he works the Rolodex as as Mike said uh that he does this thing where he just connects to people that were good to connect to I can tell you from personal experience that once he personally connects with you for anything it's very person persuasive so any personal contact no matter how minimal just bonds you to him because he's so important when he uses his time to give you a little bit of it that has such an impact because he's not a regular person he's somebody who should be you know doing important stuff so if he takes one second to give you some attention you changed forever and apparently it's just part of his lifelong process of sending people notes long before he was president George Bush Senior was famous for this uh I saw a story once where every night before bed he dash off a whole bunch of private thank yous and you know just nice to have you in my life and stuff like that and people would wake up you know in a few days and open the mail and it would be George Bush you know even even when he was a much lower level um successful candidate you know from the early days you just write thank you notes now I have a I have a friend who does the same thing and has been doing it for years very effective uh and I can tell you from my own experience um several months ago when I mentioned the idea of trump and the building the cities from scratch which I loved somebody printed that out and showed it to Trump and then he signed it and thanked me for thanked me for liking the idea and then somebody mailed it to me when you open your mail and you see a personal message from somebody who had recently been president and might again it changes you right you can you can say oh I'm objective but you can't be it's just too powerful and I I feel it like I feel like it's like a a weighted vest that I wear oh I feel his influence on me and that Personal Touch is just so strong and I imagine that's the same thing he's doing with Elon because he likes everything that elon's doing many of us do and he's just giving him a touch and elon's feeling it well you probably saw the video of Biden at the G7 where he was wandering away apparently from the group like he was lost and then uh Italy's Prime Minister had to kind of go get him and turn him back toward the camera and stuff I have two comments about that number one is uh they're renaming the GES G7 to the g6.1 anybody anybody it's no longer the G7 it's just 6.1 okay um but the second point about uh G7 is I think there's a little bit of a rupar uh Video Edit problem because when it looks like Biden is just turned backwards to the rest of them and and looking at nothing he's not looking at nothing there's something over there outside of the camera's View and what I think it is is there were people on all sides um who were doing different things and there were some of them were interesting and he was looking at these other people and then it was time to take a group photo and he was still looking at the other people and so they said oh we'll get your attention we're taking the photo now so I'm not defending him he does look like his brain is shot there's no about that but I think the video made it look worse and the reason I call this out is not because I want him to win the presidency again is because we need to be better than the other side we should be better than them in some ways and I think calling out when the video looks a little bit misleading you know even if the main the main story is still the same he he's lost his brain everybody can see that but maybe a little misleading all right uh the post millennial is reporting that uh Biden's Ghost Writer deleted all of the audio recordings of his interviews with the president so they could not be used as evidence by the special counsel why would you delete your audio of the president what exactly did he say that could put him in jail what how bad was it was it because he was stumbling over his words or did he actually say something illegal that would change how we understand history well have I ever mentioned to you that Democrats have a problem with keeping any of their records or files intact starting with Hillary you know and her bleach bidding her server and all that there's been this long history of every time you need something from a Democrat they can't find it won't give it to you or they recently deleted it how are we supposed to not notice that after a while it's a pretty the the trend is just so obvious and I think they've just figured out that you don't get in trouble for deleting things but you could definitely get in trouble for what that those things are so it's just an obvious choice we'll just delete them now let me ask a second question if you did a personal interview with Biden who I think it was before he became president then he became president and you've got this terribly important historical document let's put him on the lie detector did you really delete it really you didn't keep a coffee you don't have it on a thumb drive in a safe deposit box because if you don't have it on a thumb drive where you gave it to your relative to hold on to it or something you're a idiot can I say this clearly it's one thing to say you deleted it and maybe that's smart so nobody can get it but to actually delete it to actually not keep a copy of a of a long form hours of interview with a guy who became president one of the most historically relevant documents or a of all time and he just got rid of all the copies no that didn't happen people I'm sorry nobody in that situation gets rid of all the copies didn't happen I I feel confident in saying somebody's got a thumb drive all right um kim.com is telling us that open AI just hired a new person for the well if you call it hired but but they're on the board of directors and it was the same person who was in charge of mass surveillance at the NSA oh well that's exactly what you thought it was remember I told you that if the uh if the intelligence entities of the United States have not already captured the big AI companies maybe grock will be different we hope but certainly open Ai and certainly Google Gemini I think you can count on them being completely captured and the reason is they have to they can and they have to would you agree the two statements that guarantee it they have the ability and they really have to it's basically their job their job is to make sure Americans don't get wrong information wrong information quotequote and they've been doing it for decades they're not going to stop doing it it's within their probably within their scope of course they're doing it and maybe it's exactly what it looks like they put their own people on the board and that's how they control things now if it went any other way I'd be amazed and a little bit disappointed because the AI stuff is dangerous if if the people who manage risk for the United States are intelligence people if they're not embedded by now they're just not doing their job honestly so I have mixed feelings about it on one hand I'm like oo this seems terrible getting the the bad people in charge of our good things on the other hand I think it really is an existential threat it really is so you need you need some kind of adults watching it pretty carefully you one could also imagine that there was some dealing and I don't have any information about this but just common sense that there must be a big push for uh regulations on the AI companies it could be the open AI negotiated so how about less regulation but we'll put one of your trusted people on the board and you know later we can talk about regulation but it's too soon you know America needs to move fast so we don't get lapped which is a good argument by the way the best argument for moving fast on AI instead of moving safely is that the our adversaries will move fast and the only thing will protect you from their AI is our AI so yes move I'm on the move fast and risk civilization versus move slow and guarantee you lose civilization those are your two choices um China and India are building tons of nuclear facilities the United States is uh far far less but at least we're moving in the right direction why is it that China in India are building nuclear like crazy but the United States is sort of a late getting a late start and massive buildup well now we know uh James Carville told us it's preachy women and it turns out that when you uh look at the difference in support between male and female in the United States for nuclear power men are very much for it clear clear strong majority women are completely against it not completely but they're against it by a big majority so women are preventing us from having a nuclear energy program that will put us at Great security risk because it'll hurt our economy and within an economy you don't have a National Defense here again I remind you because I'm cancelled so I can say the things you can't say you can't put women in charge of National Defense collectively that you know individual women might be the best you ever had you know Margaret with Thatcher you know you you can name 10 women who would be great but you can't use the opinion of women collectively on a national security issue they they might be more in favor of open borders bad idea they might be more in for in favor of solar and letting nuclear you know sort of rot in the background bad idea here's something that every man knows when they're born I think we're just it's just an instinct that you can't have a military unless you have an economy you can't have an economy unless you have energy and we don't have enough energy connect the dots our entire situation is going to fall apart unless we're massively aggressive in nuclear because there's nothing else that looks like it's going to get us to the energy State we need because AI especially will just be sucking up energy like crazy so yes carlu is right it's preachy women preventing us because of you know because public opinion does sway these things and that's why we have such a late start it's women now if you're new to my program and that sounded sexist to you let me balance it out by saying I'm the only person who has this opinion of abortion as far as I know I've never met another person my opinion is that women should take the lead on that because they have the most skin in the game and there no right answer now you say but there is a right answer you don't kill babies and the other side says but there is a right answer you can't take Freedom away from the woman's bodily autonomy to which I say that's my point you both think you have an answer and it's the right answer and it's never going to change so when you have a situation that you can't get agreement you have to take one step back and get the thing you can get which is a credible system a credible system would be a set of laws that women in general were overwhelmingly in favor of even if you don't like it whichever way that goes so it might go different ways in different states but credibility requires the people were skinning the game the people were most capable the people who have the most you know direct Knowledge from an experiential level what's going on plus doctors right we can throw in a few experts that's fine but basically women need to figure this out and just tell the rest of us what it's going to be likewise for National Defense ladies shut the up Let the men handle it you're everything up you're destroying the whole country right stay out of the things you're not good at again this is not every woman plenty of women would be the best you know the best at National Security but you can't take the the group opinion they're not qualified for defense they're not built that way they didn't they didn't evolve to have an instinct for defense you don't believe it walk into a room right talk to your man why do you think men think about Rome all the time do you know why do you know why we think about Rome all the time because it's relevant to defense that's why you walk into a room you're looking for the exit the windows you're looking for the most dangerous person in the room you're looking for your allies you're looking around the room and you're saying all right when the F fight breaks out who who's going to be on my side that's built into us right nobody had to teach us that that's just male Behavior we are instinctively security oriented so you should take the the bulk of male opinion not any individual male because any individual could be an idiot but the bulk of our opinion is going to be the better answer for National Security every time all right um Thomas Massie had some uh clever things to say as he often does so he was talking about um you probably know that there's a $17 million hush fund for paying off uh sexual sexual claims against people in Congress I think it's funny that they just have a budget for paying off women usually who are making claims against the men for terrible behavior um but he points out that wouldn't that hush money payment be considered campaign Finance because what's the difference between that and what Trump was doing with the hush money for stormmy in both cases it's money that's being spent so that a politician would look better to the uh the voters so aren't they both a campaign VI contribution if one is why isn't the other and they've already ruled that one is and it looks like they were talking to fe's former FC commissioner Trey trainer and he points out that uh that would be it was a weird connection to even imagine that Trump had a any kind of campaign violation in other words Bragg just sort of came up with a a theory that the election people uh the Fe people would would say not so much but the legal system is a different system so they get to kind of have their own standard until it gets reversed I think it'll get reversed um so that's the first good point and then uh Missouri attorney general Andrew Bailey um said it'll likely be overturned you know the Trump conviction on that election or the election interference stuff or the campaign stuff then uh then Massie points out the irony here is that uh that stormmy Daniel's trial was all about trying to influence the election and by having the trial they influenced the election so in other words it was a trial about election interference in which the trial about the election interference interference was unambiguously election interference and I don't think anybody I just like the way he kind of summed it up so yes Thomas Massie Being the adult in the room oh once again meanwhile uh Putin has offered that he would do an immediate ceasefire with Ukraine um and all he's asking is that they withdraw their troops from the four regions that Moscow annexed I don't know how much property Australia has in those regions actually if it's a lot or a little I'm not sure uh but they would also have to re anounced plans to join NATO what did Ukraine say about that of course it's a non-starter so here's the questions that I asked chat GPT give me a fact check and see if this sounds right um in my view the United States is a pirate ship you know a criminal Enterprise and maybe always has been and that what we're trying to do is buy a country for cheap so we've got Le let's just round off $200 billion so far to defend Ukraine and you know get ready to rebuild it and I thought to myself is 200 billion cheap because when we're done we're going to have a controlled State and it's a big one right the whole idea is that the reason the CIA did the thing is so we can control it there there was not a CIA Le revolution in Ukraine so that when we're done the ukrainians could elect their own leader and have their own destiny that didn't happen no we just overthrew Ukraine you all know that right the United States just overthrew a sovereign country and we're making it look like Putin fa everybody knows that's what really happened right so the question I asked myself was if we judge us not as a country you know like a republic or all that and we and we're realistic and say all right if you're going to be a criminal Enterprise and it looks like that's not going to change right away are you at least doing that well are you at least being a good criminal and so I wondered is 200 billion a lot to spend if you ended up with a resourcer country that we' have bases in and we could do all kinds of stuff we can't do in America and we can threaten we can threaten Russia and decrease their ability to sell their energy so we get you know en we get defense benefits allegedly and I was I wondered I wanted to compare it to the Louisiana Purchase you know another time when we we bought some land and in today's dollars the entire Louisiana Purchase you know that center of the country would only be $3.5 billion but I wouldn't say that's a direct comparison to the $200 billion in Ukraine because uh you know it wasn't that populated at least with non-native Americans and uh and made a great deal it was a really good deal everybody agrees and then I asked what was the GDP of Ukraine before The Invasion now the current GDP of course is in the toilet but it was 200 billion so roughly speaking very rounded numbers the amount America has put into Ukraine is equal to one year of their entire GDP which actually sounds cheap doesn't it is there anybody here who's good at good at economics if I told you we could buy a country that had a $200 $200 billion GDP and we'd only pay 200 billion would that be a good deal now of course it would take a decade to get it back to a strong GDP so you'd have to You' probably get end another 100 billion in there at least so maybe it's 300 billion or 400 billion to have complete control or functional control of a country with a $200 billion GDP and and and also the owner of all just immense amount of pipelines that reach into other parts of Europe it might actually be worth it yeah so I'm not going to say I'm in favor of what we're doing in Ukraine that's a whole different question but I wondered if we're at least being good criminals and there's an argument that we are that we're good criminals now again I'm not praising them or saying we should be doing what we're doing I would rather just make peace right away and get the hell out of there but the fact is that we have successfully conquered a major country I don't think we're giving it back and it has immense strategic value as long as uh Putin doesn't nuke us but here's the conditions upon which I would agree with Putin and work on a deal and it goes like this if they make an offer and they say we'll give you a ceasefire but you got to you know let us keep the parts we wanted which are mostly Russian speaking and mostly wanted how could you make that work here's how I do it if I wanted piece I would first of all say your offer is too small I would say I don't want to have a deal just about these disputed territories and just about NATO we need like a big forever comprehensive deal about what is Russia to the United States in the future are we still enemies because if we're not going to negotiate being enemies in general I'm not sure we need to give Ukraine back right if the agreement is that even after you negotiate it you're still some kind of you know still trying to put Russia out of business why don't we just do something bigger something much bigger in which we say look we can't let you have you know running wild and doing anything you want but we don't have a problem with you living a good life and selling your stuff into a warm water Port just here's what we need don't build a battleship and put it in our water um do a nuclear agreement um make some kind of deal about trade make some kind of deal about what they would or would not do with China so a trump deal presumably would say you're thinking too small we need to get much bigger on what this looks like we we need to make an agreement about with space we need to make an agreement about the U the melting you know the ice in the North where the passageways will open that's going to be a big war zone but we should make the big deal so the opportunity is not for the small deal the opportunity is for the big deal I'm talking um Abrams Accord size where just out of nowhere you think you know what how about a gigantic comprehensive multicountry agreement that you never saw coming I think Trump could do it because he's a he's a utilitarian right Trump is not Uh Russian must die no matter what and a lot of the government is that or we we've got to take over Russia no matter what that's not Trump he could just say all right what's real what's not real and how can we make a deal that's comprehensive and Sol solves all of our problems at the same time because our biggest problem is that we've decided that Russia is our adversary and maybe they've decided the same now I'm not going to say we should trust Russians but I don't think they should trust us either so what you do is you try your best to make a deal that doesn't take too much trust you can just observe whether it's working or not something like that so um I don't see any chance of us just making a deal and and leaving Ukraine um I think that we're going to have to make the big deal but part of the deal would be I would say to Putin how about this we do a real referendum in those disputed territories and if we're happy that it was a fair vote and they actually voted to join Russia instead of Ukraine it's okay and by the way why wouldn't we be in favor of that why would we want to keep any why would Ukraine want to keep anything where the people wanted to be in Russia just because it's important as resources maybe maybe that's why all right ladies and gentlemen that is the conclusion of my prepared notes um thank you for joining if you haven't seen my book God's debris yet it's tearing up the charts well it's not tearing up the charts because it's a reissue of uh two books plus a new um a new short story at the end to wrap it all up and uh if you look at the reviews they're crazy and by the way I would say this is the only book I know that was written to give you a physical reaction as the reader and I was just seeing a message I really liked somebody who was just talking about the book to someone else and they got chills just hearing somebody who read it describing what the story was somebody got chills now that's because it's written as a hypnotist and because the ideas are interesting so it is written to give you a physical experience and a lot of people report it to me it won't be everybody because that's not how anything works all right did I miss any uh big stories um I still need to get the audio version done but it won't be done in the next month I don't think uh best place to buy it just get it from Amazon that's but watch out for the counterfeits there're a bunch of counterfeits selling uh used copies of the original books this is not the new book every part of Ukraine voted more than 50% to leave Russia I don't believe that's true um I don't believe that's true I I believe that some of the occup territories voted for CH for Russia but I also don't believe that they held any kind of fair election on that so I'm kind of in the don't believe any data phase yeah we talked about Trump and Jake Paul um and once again Trump is accurately um he he's actually reading the public something about marijuana top cannabis Market oh Michigan overtook that's interesting overtook California as the top weed Market they voted that way yeah that's right exactly all right um what's happening today there are enough Goods books left they can do it okay just looking at some of your uh that's a good question if you're if Amazon says you're not going to get the book till December that is a mistake and by the way my books always feature a mistake so since I was doing independent publishing there's always a mistake that they just just can't work out and what it does is it keeps it from hitting a bestseller list because if all the books sort of hit at the same time um they would do much better people don't like to buy a book if it says it's not going to be available for six months but that is a glitch it actually is available like next week if you order it today it'll ship and be there by next week so I don't know the answer to the question should you cancel it and reorder my guest guess is you don't have to but that's only an educated guess I would probably wait a week if you can wait i' just wait a week or two and see if it shows up and if it doesn't show up in two weeks definitely cancel it and reorder it that's what I would do if you can wait two weeks all right um people on Rumble and You.

Tube and X thanks for joining I will see you tomorrow and uh I'm going to say say something to the uh folks on um on locals all right bye for now all right locals coming at you e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e

[Music]

[Applause]

oh there we

are comments

online good morning everybody and

welcome to the highlight of human

civilization it's called coffee with

Scott Adams and I'm pretty sure you've

never had a better time if you'd like to

enjoy this experience at the

maximum possibility all you need is a

cup or muger glass of tanker chal Canen

juger flask a vessel of any kind fill it

with your favorite liquid I like coffee

and join me now for the unparal pleasure

the dopamine yet of the day the thing

that makes everything better is the

special Friday edition the is going to

be great today happy birthday president

Trump

go I think there was a little extra

simultaneity in that

one makes the sipping so

good well let's see what we've got going

I almost didn't have a show here because

I had again major computer failure do

you remember when Apple uh was accused

used of slowing down their phones to

make you think you needed a new

one and then people were thinking ah

that can't be a real thing and then we

found out it was a real thing and they

admitted

it well I've got a a desktop you know

Macintosh that

suddenly suddenly it tells me I don't

have the right operating system when

it's the new one it tells me I don't

have application uh application memory

which I do it tells me I don't have a

room on my hard disk which I do lots of

it now

anyway and it's basically crashing all

of my applications all the time so I

said to myself well I'm going to go to

the Apple Store because I don't get out

much since the pandemic I don't have bun

of human activity outside the house so I

thought you know what I'm going to do

I'm going to go see what is like to be

with people like actually go to a store

you know where they're they're human

beings in the same room and stuff

because I don't really do that I it's

been so long since I've been in a

store I guess I've I've done grocery

shopping but that's about it so I go to

the Apple Store and what I was expecting

of course is Apples usually you know

blue star amazing service because they

their service is so good that in the

Apple Store they literally called the

job description of the people who work

there genius it actually says genius

right on the business card literally

that's just the name of the job they're

called Geniuses and I remember the first

time I went to an Apple store several

years

ago and I remember they were called

Geniuses and I thought to myself well

they're not going to be Geniuses watch

this it's just going to be like every

other employee they won't be able to

know how to do anything and then it

turns out they were really really smart

hard and they could solve anything every

time I went in they had Immediate

Solutions so they were in fact Geniuses

I mean way smarter than the average

person anyway so that's the experience I

expected when I went there

yesterday so I go in there and sure

enough I'm greeted at the door by sort

of the a host type person with a with a

phone who's going to put me in it and

make sure that somebody comes and helps

me right away and I'm like this is what

I remember yeah this is good stuff so

she tells me to go wait by the computer

I wanted to buy CU I literally walked in

and she said can I help you and I said

yes I'd like to buy your finest

computer now I meant that literally

because I don't like to mess around I

just want to know what's your one that

has the best memory and the fastest

processor okay wrap it up that's what I

plan to do because when you do it

professionally you don't really buy the

second best computer computer is nothing

really to decide because you know you're

going to appreciate every little bit of

extra you know power it has so she goes

stand by the computer so she goes well

you can while you're here you can

compare this one to this other

one now already she's not understanding

my

request I said show me your finest

computer that's very different from show

me some computers of which I can spend

some time comparing in them no not

really interested in the second best

computer so already they're kind of not

understanding the mission no only the

best computer it's the only reason I'm

here so I wait by the computer which

seemed like a little longer than they

usually make you wait especially since

there were a whole bunch of geniuses

wandering around not helping any people

but often just talking to themselves in

little groups now that was the first

thing that caught my attention I thought

huh there's a group of three of them

over there doing nothing for customers

when I'm standing here with my finger on

my ass but eventually a genius did show

up and the genius showed up wearing a

n95 CO

mask

in

2024 in the

summer and I said to

myself I've got a bad feeling about this

genius there's something this genius is

signaling that says it's different from

the other Geniuses it could be the co

mask in

2024 and so the co mask genius came over

to me and he said can I help you and I

looked at him and I said in my strongest

clearest voice

yes I was going to give him the easiest

transaction of his day do you see this

computer this is your best one right yes

right wrap it up here's my credit card

that that's how I thought things would

go instead it went this

way can I help you yes great and then he

walked directly over to another young

couple well I'm not a young couple and

said uh how can I help you and then he

helped

them

[Music]

so so now you're saying to yourself but

Scott probably he misheard or you

misheard or something that you know it's

the easiest thing to fix you just walk

up to one of the other Geniuses who's

not busy and saying oh might have been

some miscommunication but I still need

some help and I see there are plenty of

geniuses so I'm still in good

shape so I walk up to the first

genius and I realized that I've been

away from people for too

long I was so pissed

off not only the apple as far as I can

tell is intentionally crippled in my

computer and totally up my

operation that I do in front of live

people every

day but now they've apparently

introduced some level of incompetence

into their genius system and I looked at

the very next guy and I had to stop

myself and leave the store because I

realized I was going to go off on

him for no reason at all he hadn't done

anything and I realized I'm not I can't

be around people anymore

people just pissed me off too much and

are you going to say to me was it a Dei

situation well not that I know of right

I mean the the employee in question was

among the diverse population but that

doesn't mean it was you know that's

what's was going on but I do assume that

Apple has uh been destroyed by the same

Dei that the other big companies have

been so my presumption is that Dei

destroyed their high level of service I

don't know if that's true but it would

be the reasonable the reasonable

prediction well on other topics uh

apparently Wells Fargo has fired what

they call Mouse

jigglers there are people who have some

kind of technology to move the mouse

when they're not at their desk and it

makes it look like they're working if

you're monitoring them electronically

and they're called the mouse

jigglers now if you don't think there's

going to be a Dilbert reborn comic in

which Wall-E is a mouse Jiggler well you

don't know me there will be some mouse

Jiggler Mouse Jiggler situation will be

going on there all

right

uh so yesterday on my show I asked the

provocative question why do we have

voting machines at all given that

they're not cheaper faster more reliable

more credible or anything and and nobody

could make an argument for it well that

went a little bit viral on X and then I

saw Real Clear Politics picked it up so

the the question is there now do you

think that anybody will answer the

question let's make your prediction do

you think anybody who knows what they're

talking about whether they're from one

of the companies that produces machines

or just somebody who's knowledgeable do

you think somebody will say oh oh

there's an obvious reason and then they

will tell me the reason that we use

voting machines when they're not cheaper

faster more

reliable and and then I'll say oh that

was very non obvious but now that you

say that reason I can see why that would

be important do you think that's going

to happen that's what should happen

right it's the most important question

in the world because if we don't get our

elections right the country

fails there's a whole ripple effect so

the most important question in the world

and now it's public got a lot of

attention

so now I'll get the answer right have

you seen the answer yet no there's no

answer I haven't seen one if anybody

sees an answer to that please please

alert

me but I'll tell you asking the right

question is the most dangerous thing in

the world because until you ask the

right question people's minds aren't

quite focused on the thing maybe they

should be

watching yeah it's a big question sort

of a magic trick to even have those

machines in there and somehow they've

convinced everybody that there was a

reason and maybe there is but it's kind

of interesting that nobody in the

country is aware of what that reason

might

be all

right there's a study that says that

gratitude can make you feel less lonely

so there's a big old uh study published

in the Journal of applied psychologist

and they did a I think they did a meta

study of studies and they spent a bunch

of M money and took a bunch of time and

they found out that showing gratitude

makes you feel less lonely do you know

what they could have done instead of a

meta

study they could have asked

me now I keep finding out the hypnotists

are apparently 50 years ahead of Science

and I mean that actually literally with

no exaggeration whatsoever hypnotists

apparently are learning things that are

like 50 years ahead of science because I

could have told you this why gratitude

releases oxytocin oxytocin makes you

feel less lonely I knew that did you

know

that did you know that gratitude

releases oxytocin and did you know that

oxytocin makes you feel less lonely they

didn't have to study this at

all I knew it you just had to ask me

yeah gratitude oxytocin oxytocin makes

you feel less lonely I made sure I

checked with you know chat GPT just to

make sure I wasn't insane but yes it

confirmed that's

true um here's another one there was a

study where they found that people would

feel less pain if they if they uh were

in virtual reality and they were looking

at an

avatar that was muscular I think it

means their own avatar like a muscular

version of themselves but I'm not sure

that's necessary could be just a

muscular Avatar but it would be better

if it was a muscular Avatar of yourself

more muscular than you are and it said

it uh reduced Pain by

16% um you know who knew that without

doing a

test

hypnotists yeah I think it was a long

time ago the first time I saw that you

could make people save more for the

retirement if you showed them a a

altered picture of themselves so they

could see the themselves looking old if

somebody somebody can imagine themselves

in a different situation such as old

then they'll change their behavior

that's been known forever now does that

extend to pain management yeah every

hypnotist could tell you that pain

management is one of the things a

hypnosis does well it's one of the first

original things

so

um yes it's completely uh

obvious that if you looked at yourself

looking differently you would have an

effect on your body that would be

psychological and that includes pain

management because that can be there's a

psychological

element um but generally speaking the

way you visualize yourself makes a

difference now here's how I use this in

everyday

life I imagine myself as more physically

fit than I

am which is to say I imagine that if I

took off my shirt and looked in the

mirror it would look better than it

actually does when I take off my shirt

and look in the mirror so I always set

my visual basically my avatar so I

always have an avatar of myself except

the Avatar of myself is a better version

and I do that intentionally and I've

I've told you this for years you should

always set your self opinion above your

whatever you think is real because there

we have an ability to sort of stretch

ourselves

into our impression of who we are you

you become the person you imagine it's

just sort of an automatic process so if

you imagin yourself being a big loser

every day you probably will do more

losing you've heard of the power of

positive thinking the power of positive

thinking is basically imagining an

avatar of yourself succeeding in the

future and what

happens every study every personal

experience everybody will tell you if

you imagine yourself being successful or

especially at something specific you're

more likely to get it it's what

affirmations are that's why affirmations

you know have lasted a long time that

people feel it works so yeah you could

ask me if you would asked me do you

think this would work I would have said

yeah probably I don't think you even

have to study

it here's another one apparently they uh

another research found out that people

who have grandiose narcissism which is

one of the two types very different from

the other kind grandios is where you

just want to get credit for doing great

things and maybe you think positively of

yourself and a study found that people

with uh the most grandiose narcissism in

other words the best opinion of

themselves and their place in the world

uh they perform better on intelligence

tests when under stress thanks to a

broader distribution of visual attention

now uh the

broader the broader distribution of

visual

attention that's uh there's another word

for that um but I've talked about this

with persuasion before so yes it is true

that if you imagine things are going to

go your way you will you'll simply

notice more things and you'll be

smarter just by imagining things are

going to go your way in other words

optimism makes makes you smarter

now I would say that grandio narcissism

is is just a form of personal

optimism the reason and I often label

myself a grandiose

narcissist because I always think in in

gigantic terms I wake up every day

thinking I can change the

world every day and always have even

even before I was a public figure I

always thought today I can do something

that maybe will change the world and

I've never lost that feeling that I'm

going to do something that changes the

world and I have done a few things that

Chang the world in some

ways so so now we know that uh there's a

good form of narcissism it Mak just

makes you

smarter it makes you work harder to do

good things because you want to get

credit for get for having done good

things I love credit for good things

and and when people and you you might

remember there was a time when I said

narcissism is fake there's no such thing

that was before I realized there's two

completely different ones and they just

use the same word so the problem is that

narcissism can mean this good kind where

people are just trying to do something

great for the world and actually makes

them better at doing those

things what's wrong with that one so

that's that's the kind that I see Trump

as he actually feels he has some role to

fix the world and then he goes out and

he kind of does it so wasn't it good

that he had that opinion of himself

otherwise he wouldn't have even run for

president who runs for president unless

you think I mean you have to be sort of

a narcissist to run for president but if

you're the bad kind then you're just a

troublemaker looking to destroy

everything around you so you feel good

that's a whole different deal so I

insist again

that calling this one narcissism is just

the wrong label because it's like it's

like calling somebody who's a doctor a

murderer because you both deal with dead

people no one is trying to save the

people the doctor the others try to kill

the people so calling them both Killers

because you know I suppose a doctor can

lose a patient by the wrong process um

it's sort of that's sort of the same

thing it's just the wrong word for the

the thing so

confusing well CNN continues to find the

middle ground here uh Jake Tapper was

calling out uh somebody he was talking

to Dan Goldman was on the show and uh

tap was pointing out that there's no

reason for the

dojj to withhold the her tapes h r her

those are the tapes in which Biden is

presumed to sound more dementia than the

trans scripts would show if you had the

actual audio apparently it would sound

bad people imagine but the the two

things I want to say about this number

one I do think

CNN's move toward

reasonableness which is the mdal is real

it does look real but I don't think it's

affected every

person the good news is uh Tapper is

definitely moving towards something like

a sensible middle and

smires has always been the most

reasonable person at the network but I

found out the other day if if Chad GPT

told me the truth it might have been

hallucinating but I think they have the

two biggest shows so the the two shows

with the big the biggest viewers are

also the more reasonable people on the

network so that's good but Dan Goldman

the guest I'm going to put him in the

category of the professional Liars the

Democrats have a professional liar grp

Group which is the weirdest thing and

what I mean by that is um in politics

there are exaggerations and sort of

normal lies but then there are the

extraordinary lies the ones that really

no reasonable person should ever believe

you know like Russia collusion or the

laptop is fake you know the or or in

this case there's no reason you need to

see those those tapes from her these are

just crazy crazy up things

so they have this group of people who

are apparently either so so blackmailed

or they know that they're the worst

people in the world but they're the ones

who will say anything and and if you

don't know who they are you will confuse

them with real people right Dan Goldman

is just he's an Adam schf he's an Eric

swell he's Jamie

Rasin he's a uh he's a James Clapper

he's a a

Brennan those are the names that when

you see them they seem to only appear

when there's something so hard to defend

that you would need some somebody

completely Shameless to look in the

camera and say it's true or not

true the regular Democrats really don't

show up for this

stuff there there must be at least 70%

of Democrats who wouldn't say any of

this stuff out loud because they know

everybody knows they're lying but for

some reason there are this you know five

to seven Democrats who will always say

the dumbest ridiculous lie and

Goldman's one of them he he's an absurd

character um I remind you that in an

election year all our data is fake I

guess Jerome Powell the Fed chair

basically admitted the other day that

the employment numbers are

inaccurate right

so I'll tell you every day probably

until election day there's no data that

you can rely on during an election year

probably you couldn't rely on it ever

but an election year is just crazy to

imagine as true right everything's going

to be gamed and I I find that I've

entered this category of humans where

maybe 90% of all the people on earth I

can't relate to

anymore cuz I can't talk to anybody who

thinks that government data commercial

data from companies the news and history

are

real how do you deal with somebody who

thinks the news is still real wherever

it was how do I deal with somebody who

thinks that data from the government is

accurate how do I deal with somebody who

thinks that they know an election is

fair I don't even know how to talk to

them what what would you say to somebody

who's operating in it's sort of like I'm

a you I'm a base 10 number counter and

I'm talking to somebody who some you

know

base I don't know what invisible numbers

or something it's like I don't even know

how to talk to them if if you think that

news history and government data are

real or that anything that you know

Goldman Schiff swell Brennan or Clapper

tell you if you think any of that's real

how can I actually have a conversation

with you about anything

important I don't know what to do about

that

yeah know it it's

so it so removes you from the regular

world because the regular world is

walking around hypnotized into thinking

all this stuff is

real

anyway uh the Federalist is reporting

that the state department won't say

definitively whether or not it's

colluding with big Tech to censor speech

before the

election now wouldn't you call that an

easy question to answer if the answer is

no hey are you colluding with big Tech

to influence the election that we're

about to

have well we're doing

things blah no but you didn't really

answer the question are you colluding

with big Tech to censor speech before

the 2024

election

well so yes

yes of course they are yes of course

there's massive

censorship they're just going to be a

little more clever about it I guess of

course there

is um I have a question for you having

now used chat GPT quite a bit um I can't

think of any reason I would ever use a

Google

search which seems like a really big

problem for Google doesn't it because my

normal habit would be lots of Google

searches during any given week it's just

the most common thing now probably I

would only use it if I knew the URL or

the name of the website because you know

it will autofill the website so that's

useful but besides autofilling the thing

I want

uh chat GPT gives me all kinds of

context you know I can do follow-up

questions I can do it in audio now what

happens when I've got that on my phone

apparently chat gbt and apple are not

paying each other there there's enough

of a strategic interest that chat gbt is

basically free to Apple not just free to

the users but even Apple isn't paying

for it now I don't know what's beyond

that but it looks like they may be

trying to take Google

down that's what it looks like because

how does Google survive if I can pick up

my phone and ask any question and Chad

gbt will just take it over to presumably

Bing to get my

answer I don't know I think Google has a

existential threat that just popped up

out of

nowhere all right Charlamagne the god

the god uh he's being interesting again

and uh he was saying that I guess he was

on The Daily

Show he said that in the age of hate

Democrats need a message makeover and

that they should learn from Republic

Republicans how to talk like real

people now that part sounds really

smart but he can't

quite he can't quite leave the illusion

here's what Elsie

said there's nothing wrong with the uh

policies of the Democrats it's their

messaging

gosh every time you think Charlemagne's

going to make the leap no charl me the

policies are goddamn

garbage it's not about Joe Biden's

personality there's nothing about his I

don't even care that he walks like a

statue I I don't care I wouldn't even

care if he was stealing money from

Ukraine I wouldn't care if his son was

coked up and firing bullets in the air

if their policies were even a little bit

okay the border is open are you kidding

me we're we're spending our money in

Ukraine for God knows what are you

kidding me inflation through the

roof it's crazy really Charlamagne the

policies are good it's just the way

they're talking about it that's the

problem no nobody thinks

that all right but what he said about

the messaging was funny and good he says

uh he he used three examples of good

messaging from Republicans and you'll be

amazed who he picked he picked Senator

Kennedy Marjorie Taylor green and

Trump as three examples of good of good

uh messaging and a way to talk to the

public specifically what he said is you

should talk like people talk and that

people don't want to hear a politician

talk they want to hear a real person

talk and that whether you like it or not

so he's not endorsing what they said

just the quality with which they said it

in a way people can relate to totally

agree uh that was a good observation I

think and by the way I've been saying

that since Trump came on the scene

remember in 2015 everybody said he's

talking like a sixth grade

vocabulary and I kept saying you mean

the best way you could ever talk well

but you don't understand he's talking

like a sixth grader and and then I would

say again okay but you're complimenting

him right don't you understand he's he's

communicating like a sixth grader okay

I'm hearing you but do you understand

that's the best way to talk to the

public and eight years later Charlemagne

says you know that's the best way to

talk to the

public Trump did that to you he went

from why is he talking like a child to

we should all be talking like that I

mean that's the way to talk that's what

works and he's

right Gavin Nome being Gavin Newsome at

the board he's in full lizard mode and

he's got a little video in which he's

talking about how he's doubled the

California National Guard at the border

and they're working to stop the flow of

fenel wow that sounds good that's a man

of action he's getting stuff done and

and then he contrasts it to the GOP that

are like playing games and Mike Johnson

searching for spot and meanwhile as

Gavin new points out he's out there

doing real work he's there with the

National Guard they're closing the

border now the National Guard wasn't

shown in the

video and fox news's Bill maluan weighs

in and said you know none of that's

happening not a single person he's ever

talked to and he's down at the border

all the time and he checked with the

border patrol none of them have seen any

National

Guard as in Annie as in none nobody's

ever seen one the people who actually do

work on the border it's like National

Guard we haven't seen them they're

here so so Gavin Nome actually just does

a video and says he's controlling the

Border apparently none of that's

happening now what happens when I talk

to the next Democrat I run into who

thinks that that's true how do I have a

conversation with somebody who thinks

Gavin Newsome's closing the border with

the National Guard that's literally just

like a fictional

story all right well happy birthday to

Trump he's

78 um and you I just saw another the

interview with Jake Paul we talk about

that he made some

news but he looks completely on the ball

am I wrong I don't see Trump losing a

step now I think he's too old because I

think everybody that age is at a certain

risk but I got to say he looks

100% for what that's worth it's just not

my preference to have people that age in

that

office but lots of individual

differences all

right so he's talking to

uh um Jake Paul who's going to be

fighting

against uh Mike Tyson in a few months

and here are some of things he talked

about uh

oh actually this before I talk about

that apparently Trump said in a meeting

with Republicans that he's considering

or that he would consider replacing the

federal income tax with an all tariff

policy in other words 100% of the money

coming into the government would be

charging uh other countries for the

privilege of trading with the United

States now could that

work CU I don't know wouldn't they just

increase their tariffs on us or would we

only be increasing tariffs on people who

are already in an uh unbalanced

situation so we just be bringing it to

even I don't know how that would work

but here's what so I'm not I'm not

forward or against it here's what I'm

going to

say Donald Trump turned 78 years

old he's the one who suggested building

new cities on federal lands one of the

most radic IAL and forward thinking

things I've heard from a president

ever he also is considering completely

removing the federal tax code he hasn't

decided to do it but he's he's looking

into an idea that's so radical and so

different I'd never even heard of it can

you imagine that there was a potential

tax policy that i' never heard of now

whether that's a good idea or a bad idea

if you think that being 78 is is hurting

Trump's ability to be flexible

intellectually you're wrong he's got the

goods and he's bringing them right in

front of you the goods are 78y old

people don't think like this but he does

he does and that's

really kind of notable when was the last

time you saw a 78-year-old be have the

newest ideas in the game I've never even

heard of that this is really un usual

and he's doing it you know more than

once it's fairly consistent he is an

innovator and he said in a recent

interview that the government needs to

be helping the entrepreneurs more which

caused you know Jason from the uh all-in

podcast to go yes there you go that's

exactly what we should be doing so on

almost every topic he has a young man's

opinion you can't Overlook that that's a

big deal if you're concerned about AG

that's a really big deal all right but

here's my favorite

part so uh Jake Paul asked him about

UFOs now as you know if you're the

president you get to see all the good

stuff so a president in theory should be

able to find out does the United States

have any captured spaceships you know do

we have any

alens and here's what Trump

said uh it's possible that there could

be alien life CU you know it's a big

universe so that's good that that's a

very trumpian open-minded thing which is

how do we know it's a big

universe so so he's open to the

possibility now why would you put it

that way why would you say you know

anything's possible if you actually

knew we had

aliens well you wouldn't so one of the

things we can be sure

about I think I can be sure nothing's

100% but he talked about how Pilots had

seen things and uh they were very

credible pilots and there were multiple

of them and he talked to them personally

and he had every reason to believe that

what they were

seeing was at least not a lie doesn't

mean it's

aliens but he was convinced that their

stories were accurate observations of

what they

saw but what that what they saw is still

of course a question so he's open to it

he thinks that the people reporting it

are credible but here's the thing isn't

the real story whether or not we do have

warehouses with 12 alien captured ships

as the news and certain whistleblowers

keep telling us well he said directly

Trump did that he does not personally

believe that aliens have been presented

in

Earth now think about those things

that's actually a perfect answer the

perfect answer is here's the evidence

they're very credible it's a big world

anything's possible but personally I'm

not

convinced do you think he would say

personally he wasn't convinced if he'd

taken a tour of UFO

debris no I I think Trump doesn't

know if there are aliens nobody's

telling him and he was asked that

directly do you think they would tell

you you know what if they were there and

it's like one of these you know John

Brennan Secrets they don't tell you I

feel like they would tell

him and I don't think he's

lying I think that the government

literally doesn't have any captured UFOs

because he would know about it you don't

think he could figure that out so in my

opinion this is confirmation that the

whistleblowers are full of

which always seemed obvious to me

by the

way all right uh then uh uh Trump talked

about Elon Musk and had very positive

things to say about him and how

impressed he is about the Rockets you

know Landing to be reusable and

everything very very praising him but

then separately um Elon was asked to

some event about Trump and he said this

uh Elon said about Trump he goes quote

he does call me out of the blue for no

reason he's very nice when he calls I

think a lot of his friends now have

Teslas he's a huge fan of the Cyber

truck now as I saw cernovich comment on

that that it's sort of a trump

superpower that he will call people and

he he works the Rolodex as as Mike said

uh that he does this thing where he just

connects to people that were good to

connect to I can tell you from personal

experience that once he personally

connects with you for

anything it's very person

persuasive so any personal contact no

matter how

minimal just bonds you to him because

he's so important when he uses his time

to give you a little bit of it that has

such an impact because he's not a

regular person he's somebody who should

be you know doing important stuff so if

he takes one second to give you some

attention you changed forever and

apparently it's just part of his

lifelong process of sending people notes

long before he was president

George Bush Senior was famous for this

uh I saw a story once where every night

before bed he dash off a whole bunch of

private thank yous and you know just

nice to have you in my life and stuff

like that and people would wake up you

know in a few days and open the mail and

it would be George Bush you know even

even when he was a much lower level um

successful candidate you know from the

early days you just write thank you

notes now I have a I have a friend who

does the same thing and has been doing

it for years very effective uh and I can

tell you from my own experience um

several months ago when I

mentioned the idea of trump and the

building the cities from scratch which I

loved somebody printed that out and

showed it to Trump and then he signed it

and thanked me for thanked me for liking

the idea and then somebody mailed it to

me when you open your mail and you see a

personal message from somebody who had

recently been president and might again

it changes you right you can you can say

oh I'm objective but you can't be it's

just too powerful and I I feel it like I

feel like it's like a a weighted vest

that I wear oh I feel his influence on

me and that Personal Touch is just so

strong and I imagine that's the same

thing he's doing with Elon because he

likes everything that elon's doing many

of us do and he's just giving him a

touch and elon's feeling

it well you probably saw the video of

Biden at the G7 where he was wandering

away apparently from the group like he

was lost and then uh Italy's Prime

Minister had to kind of go get him and

turn him back toward the camera and

stuff I have two comments about that

number one is uh they're renaming the

GES G7 to the

g6.1 anybody anybody it's no longer the

G7 it's just

6.1 okay um but the second point about

uh G7 is I think there's a little bit of

a

rupar uh Video Edit

problem because when it looks like Biden

is just turned backwards to the rest of

them and and looking at nothing he's not

looking at

nothing there's something over there

outside of the camera's View and what I

think it is is there were people on all

sides um who were doing different things

and there were some of them were

interesting and he was looking at these

other people and then it was time to

take a group photo and he was still

looking at the other people and so they

said oh we'll get your attention we're

taking the photo now

so I'm not defending him he does look

like his brain is shot there's no about

that but I think the video made it look

worse and the reason I call this out is

not because I want him to win the

presidency again is because we need to

be better than the other

side we should be better than them in

some ways and I think calling out when

the video looks a little bit misleading

you know even if the main the main story

is still the same he he's lost his brain

everybody can see that but maybe a

little

misleading all

right uh the post millennial is

reporting that uh Biden's Ghost Writer

deleted all of the audio recordings of

his interviews with the president so

they could not be used as evidence by

the special

counsel why would

you delete your audio of the

president what exactly did he say that

could put him in

jail what how bad was

it was it because he was stumbling over

his words or did he actually say

something illegal that would change how

we understand

history well have I ever mentioned to

you that Democrats have a problem with

keeping any of their records or files

intact starting with Hillary you know

and her bleach bidding her server and

all that there's been this long history

of every time you need something from a

Democrat they can't find it won't give

it to you or they recently deleted

it how are we supposed to not notice

that after a while it's a pretty the the

trend is just so

obvious and I think they've just figured

out that you don't get in trouble for

deleting things but you could definitely

get in trouble for what that those

things are so it's just an obvious

choice we'll just delete them now let me

ask a second question

if you did a personal interview with

Biden who I think it was before he

became president then he became

president and you've got this terribly

important historical

document let's put him on the lie

detector did you really delete

it really you didn't keep a coffee you

don't have it on a thumb drive in a safe

deposit box because if you don't have it

on a thumb drive

where you gave it to your relative to

hold on to it or something you're a

idiot can I say this clearly it's one

thing to say you deleted it and maybe

that's smart so nobody can get it but to

actually delete it to actually not keep

a copy of a of a long form hours of

interview with a guy who became

president one of the most historically

relevant documents or a

of all time and he just got rid of all

the

copies no that didn't happen people I'm

sorry nobody in that situation gets rid

of all the copies didn't

happen I I feel confident in saying

somebody's got a thumb

drive all right um kim.com is telling us

that open AI just hired a new person for

the well if you call it hired but but

they're on the board of

directors and it was the same person who

was in charge of mass surveillance at

the

NSA

oh well that's exactly what you thought

it

was remember I told you that if the uh

if the intelligence entities of the

United States have not already captured

the big AI companies maybe grock will be

different we hope but certainly open Ai

and certainly Google

Gemini I think you can count on them

being completely captured and the reason

is they have

to they can and they have

to would you agree the two statements

that guarantee it they have the ability

and they really have to it's basically

their job their job is to make sure

Americans don't get wrong information

wrong information quotequote and they've

been doing it for decades they're not

going to stop doing it it's within their

probably within their scope of course

they're doing it and maybe it's exactly

what it looks like they put their own

people on the board and that's how they

control things now if it went any other

way I'd be amazed and a little bit

disappointed because the AI stuff is

dangerous if if the people who manage

risk for the United States are

intelligence people if they're not

embedded by now they're just not doing

their job honestly so I have mixed

feelings about it on one hand I'm like

oo this seems terrible getting the the

bad people in charge of our good things

on the other hand I think it really is

an existential threat it really is so

you need you need some kind of adults

watching it pretty

carefully you one could also imagine

that there was some dealing and I don't

have any information about this but just

common sense that there must be a big

push for uh

regulations on the AI companies it could

be the open AI negotiated so how about

less regulation but we'll put one of

your trusted people on the

board and you know later we can talk

about regulation but it's too soon you

know America needs to move fast so we

don't get lapped which is a good

argument by the way the best argument

for moving fast on AI instead of moving

safely is that the our adversaries will

move fast and the only thing will

protect you from their

AI is our AI so yes move I'm on the move

fast and risk civilization versus move

slow and guarantee you lose civilization

those are your two

choices um China and India are building

tons of nuclear facilities the United

States is uh far far less but at least

we're moving in the right direction why

is it that China in India are building

nuclear like crazy but the United States

is sort of a late getting a late start

and massive

buildup well now we know uh James

Carville told us it's preachy women and

it turns out that when you uh look at

the difference in support between male

and female in the United States for

nuclear power men are very much for it

clear clear strong majority women are

completely against it not completely but

they're against it by a big

majority so women are preventing us from

having a nuclear energy

program that will put us at Great

security risk because it'll hurt our

economy and within an economy you don't

have a National Defense here again I

remind you because I'm cancelled so I

can say the things you can't say you

can't put women in charge of National

Defense collectively that you know

individual women might be the best you

ever had you know Margaret with Thatcher

you know you you can name 10 women who

would be great but you can't use the

opinion of women collectively on a

national security issue they they might

be more in favor of open

borders bad idea they might be more in

for in favor of solar and letting

nuclear you know sort of rot in the

background bad idea here's something

that every man knows when they're born I

think we're just it's just an instinct

that you can't have a military unless

you have an economy you can't have an

economy unless you have energy and we

don't have enough energy connect the

dots our entire situation is going to

fall apart unless we're massively

aggressive in nuclear because there's

nothing else that looks like it's going

to get us to the energy State we need

because AI especially will just be

sucking up energy like

crazy so yes carlu is right it's preachy

women preventing us because of you know

because public opinion does sway these

things and that's why we have such a

late

start it's women now if you're new to my

program and that sounded sexist to you

let me balance it out by saying I'm the

only person who has this opinion of

abortion as far as I know I've never met

another person my opinion is that women

should take the lead on that because

they have the most skin in the game and

there no right answer now you say but

there is a right answer you don't kill

babies and the other side says but there

is a right answer you can't take Freedom

away from the woman's bodily autonomy to

which I say that's my point you both

think you have an answer and it's the

right answer and it's never going to

change so when you have a situation that

you can't get agreement you have to take

one step back and get the thing you can

get which is a credible

system a credible system would be a set

of laws that women in general were

overwhelmingly in favor of even if you

don't like it whichever way that goes so

it might go different ways in different

states but credibility requires the

people were skinning the game the people

were most capable the people who have

the most you know direct Knowledge from

an experiential level what's going on

plus doctors right we can throw in a few

experts that's fine but basically women

need to figure this out and just tell

the rest of us what it's going to be

likewise for National Defense ladies

shut the up Let the men handle it

you're everything up you're

destroying the whole country right stay

out of the things you're not good at

again this is not every woman plenty of

women would be the best you know the

best at National Security but you can't

take the the group opinion they're not

qualified for defense they're not built

that way they didn't they didn't evolve

to have an instinct for defense you

don't believe it walk into a

room right talk to your man why do you

think men think about Rome all the time

do you know why do you know why we think

about Rome all the time because it's

relevant to

defense that's why you walk into a room

you're looking for the exit the windows

you're looking for the most dangerous

person in the room you're looking for

your

allies you're looking around the room

and you're saying all right when the F

fight breaks out who who's going to be

on my

side that's built into us right nobody

had to teach us that that's just male

Behavior we are

instinctively security

oriented so you should take the the bulk

of male opinion not any individual male

because any individual could be an idiot

but the bulk of our opinion is going to

be the better answer for National

Security every time

all right um Thomas Massie had some uh

clever things to

say as he often does so he was talking

about um you probably know that there's

a $17 million hush fund for paying off

uh sexual sexual claims against people

in

Congress I think it's funny that they

just have a budget for paying off women

usually who are making claims against

the men for terrible

behavior um but he points out that

wouldn't that hush money payment be

considered campaign Finance because

what's the difference between that and

what Trump was doing with the hush money

for stormmy in both cases it's

money that's being spent so that a

politician would look better to the uh

the voters so aren't they both a

campaign VI contribution if one is why

isn't the other and they've already

ruled that one

is

and it looks like they were talking to

fe's former FC commissioner Trey trainer

and he points out that uh that would be

it was a weird connection to even

imagine that Trump had a any kind of

campaign violation in other words Bragg

just sort of came up with a a theory

that the election

people uh the Fe people would would say

not so much but the legal system is a

different system so they get to kind of

have their own

standard until it gets reversed I think

it'll get

reversed um so that's the first good

point and then uh Missouri attorney

general Andrew

Bailey um said it'll likely be

overturned you know the Trump conviction

on that election or the election

interference stuff or the campaign stuff

then

uh then Massie points out the irony here

is that uh that stormmy Daniel's

trial was all about trying to influence

the

election

and by having the

trial they influenced the election so in

other words it was a trial about

election

interference in which the trial about

the election interference interference

was unambiguously election

interference and I don't think anybody I

just like the way he kind of summed it

up so yes Thomas Massie Being the adult

in the room oh once

again meanwhile

uh

Putin has offered that he would do an

immediate

ceasefire with Ukraine um and all he's

asking is that they withdraw their

troops from the four regions that Moscow

annexed I don't know how much property

Australia has in those regions actually

if it's a lot or a little I'm not

sure uh but they would also have to re

anounced plans to join NATO what did

Ukraine say about that of course it's a

non-starter so here's the questions that

I asked chat GPT give me a fact check

and see if this sounds right um in my

view the United States is a pirate ship

you know a criminal Enterprise and maybe

always has been and that what we're

trying to do is buy a country for

cheap so we've got Le let's just round

off $200 billion so far to defend

Ukraine and you know get ready to

rebuild it and I thought to myself is

200

billion

cheap because when we're done we're

going to have a controlled State and

it's a big

one right the whole idea is that the

reason the CIA did the thing is so we

can control it there there was not a CIA

Le revolution in Ukraine so that when

we're done the ukrainians could elect

their own leader and have their own

destiny that didn't happen no we just

overthrew Ukraine you all know that

right the United States just overthrew a

sovereign country

and we're making it look like Putin fa

everybody knows that's what really

happened

right so the question I asked myself was

if we judge us not as a country you know

like a republic or all that and

we and we're realistic and say all right

if you're going to be a criminal

Enterprise and it looks like that's not

going to change right away are you at

least doing that well are you at least

being a good criminal and so I wondered

is 200 billion a lot to

spend if you ended up with a

resourcer country that we' have bases in

and we could do all kinds of stuff we

can't do in America and we can threaten

we can threaten Russia and decrease

their ability to sell their energy so we

get you know en we get defense benefits

allegedly and I was I wondered I wanted

to compare it to the Louisiana

Purchase you know another time when we

we bought some

land and in today's

dollars the entire Louisiana Purchase

you know that center of the

country would only be $3.5

billion but I wouldn't say that's a

direct comparison to the $200 billion in

Ukraine because

uh you know it wasn't that populated at

least with non-native Americans and

uh and made a great deal it was a really

good deal everybody

agrees and then I asked what was the GDP

of Ukraine before The Invasion now the

current GDP of course is in the toilet

but it was 200

billion so roughly speaking very rounded

numbers the amount America has put into

Ukraine is equal to one year of their

entire

GDP which actually sounds cheap

doesn't it is there anybody here who's

good at good at

economics if I told you we could buy a

country that had a $200 $200 billion

GDP and we'd only pay 200 billion would

that be a good deal now of course it

would take a decade to get it back to a

strong

GDP so you'd have to You' probably get

end another 100 billion in there at

least so maybe it's 300 billion or 400

billion

to have complete control or functional

control of a country with a $200 billion

GDP and and and also the owner of all

just immense amount of pipelines that

reach into other parts of

Europe it might actually be worth it

yeah so I'm not going to say I'm in

favor of what we're doing in Ukraine

that's a whole different question but I

wondered if we're at least being good

criminals and

there's an argument that we are that

we're good

criminals now again I'm not praising

them or saying we should be doing what

we're doing I would rather just make

peace right away and get the hell out of

there but the fact is that we have

successfully conquered a major country I

don't think we're giving it

back and it has immense strategic value

as long as uh Putin doesn't nuke us

but here's the conditions upon which I

would agree with

Putin and work on a deal and it goes

like this if they make an offer and they

say we'll give you a ceasefire but you

got to you know let us keep the parts we

wanted which are mostly Russian speaking

and mostly wanted how could you make

that

work here's how I do it if I wanted

piece I would first of all say your

offer is too

small I would say I don't want to have a

deal just about these disputed

territories and just about NATO we need

like a big forever comprehensive deal

about what is Russia to the United

States in the future are we still

enemies because if we're not going to

negotiate being enemies in

general I'm not sure we need to give

Ukraine back right if the agreement is

that even after you negotiate it you're

still some kind of you know still trying

to put Russia out of

business why don't we just do something

bigger something much bigger in which we

say look we can't let you have you know

running wild and doing anything you

want but we don't have a problem with

you living a good life and selling your

stuff into a warm water

Port just here's what we

need don't build a battleship and put it

in our water

[Music]

um do a nuclear

agreement um make some kind of deal

about trade make some kind of deal about

what they would or would not do with

China so a trump deal presumably would

say you're thinking too small we need to

get much bigger on what this looks like

we we need to make an agreement about

with space we need to make an agreement

about the U the melting you know the ice

in the North where the passageways will

open that's going to be a big war zone

but we should make the big deal so the

opportunity is not for the small

deal the opportunity is for the big deal

I'm

talking

um Abrams Accord size where just out of

nowhere you think you know what how

about a gigantic comprehensive

multicountry agreement that you never

saw

coming I think Trump could do it because

he's a he's a

utilitarian right Trump is not Uh

Russian must die no matter what and a

lot of the government is that or we

we've got to take over Russia no matter

what that's not Trump he could just say

all right what's real what's not real

and how can we make a deal that's

comprehensive and Sol solves all of our

problems at the same

time because our biggest problem is that

we've decided that Russia is our

adversary

and maybe they've decided the same now

I'm not going to say we should trust

Russians but I don't think they should

trust us either so what you do is you

try your best to make a deal that

doesn't take too much trust you can just

observe whether it's working or not

something like that so um I don't see

any chance of us just making a deal and

and leaving

Ukraine um I think that we're going to

have to make the big

deal but part of the deal would be I

would say to Putin how about this we do

a real referendum in those disputed

territories and if we're happy that it

was a fair vote and they actually voted

to join Russia instead of

Ukraine it's okay and by the way why

wouldn't we be in favor of that why

would we want to keep any why would

Ukraine want to keep anything where the

people wanted to be in

Russia just because it's important

as

resources maybe maybe that's why all

right ladies and gentlemen that is the

conclusion of my prepared notes um thank

you for joining if you haven't seen my

book God's debris yet it's tearing up

the charts well it's not tearing up the

charts because it's a reissue of uh two

books plus a new um a new short story at

the end to wrap it all up

and uh if you look at the reviews

they're crazy and by the way I would say

this is the only book I know that was

written to give you a physical reaction

as the reader and I was just seeing a

message I really liked somebody who was

just talking about the book to someone

else and they got

chills just hearing somebody who read it

describing what the story was somebody

got chills now

that's because it's written as a

hypnotist and because the ideas are

interesting so it is written to give you

a physical experience and a lot of

people report it to me it won't be

everybody because that's not how

anything

works all

right did I miss any uh big

stories um I still need to get the audio

version done but it won't be done in the

next month I don't think

uh best place to buy it just get it from

Amazon that's but watch out for the

counterfeits there're a bunch of

counterfeits selling uh used copies of

the original books this is not the new

book every part of Ukraine voted more

than 50% to leave

Russia I don't believe that's

true um I don't believe that's true I I

believe that some of the occup

territories voted for CH for Russia but

I also don't believe that they held any

kind of fair election on that so I'm

kind of in the don't believe any data

phase yeah we talked about Trump and

Jake

Paul um and once again Trump is

accurately um he he's actually reading

the public

something about

marijuana top cannabis Market oh

Michigan overtook that's interesting

overtook California as the top weed

Market they voted that way yeah that's

right

exactly all right um what's

happening

today there are enough Goods books left

they can do it

okay just looking at some of

your uh that's a good question if

you're if Amazon says you're not going

to get the book till December that is a

mistake and by the way my books always

feature a

mistake so since I was doing independent

publishing there's always a

mistake that they just just can't work

out and what it does is it keeps it from

hitting a bestseller list because if all

the books sort of hit at the same time

um they would do much

better people don't like to buy a book

if it says it's not going to be

available for six months but that is a

glitch it actually is available like

next week if you order it today it'll

ship and be there by next week so I

don't know the answer to the question

should you cancel it and reorder my

guest guess is you don't have to but

that's only an educated guess I would

probably wait a week if you can wait i'

just wait a week or two and see if it

shows up and if it doesn't show up in

two weeks definitely cancel it and

reorder it that's what I would

do if you can wait two

weeks all right um people on Rumble and

YouTube and X thanks for joining I will

see you

tomorrow and

uh I'm going to say say something to the

uh folks on

um on locals all right bye for

now all right locals coming at

you

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e

e e