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Episode 2534 CWSA 07/12/24

Episode #2534 Jul 12, 2024 1:22:06 33,011 views

Biden's Big Boy Presser does not impress. And Trump stuff too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you would like to enjoy this same content plus bonus content from Scott Adams, including micro-lessons on lots of useful topics to build your talent stack, please see scottadams.locals.com for full access to that secret treasure.

Opening General Commentary

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SimultaneousSip General Commentary

the simultaneous sip. Oh my goodness. The simultaneity of this was a little extra. Nicely done. Compliments to all of you. And may I add that you're looking extra sexy today. You are. Speaking of extra sexy, let me take you over and show you the Biden-Harris store. Now, traditionally people would…

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NewsReaction Health & Biohacking

they seem to have gone in a different direction this time. And here's the funny part: I can't tell if that's real. I really don't know. Is that real? Is that really a picture from their store? Like, honest to God, that's real? I don't know. I have no idea. That's what's fun about it. I can't tell. I…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

little less comfortable drinking somebody else's purified urine than my own. Is that just me? Well, we don't want to talk about this because this is icky. It's disgusting. It's the last thing you want in your mind. But speaking of drinking your own urine, let's talk about President Biden and his pr…

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MainContent Media & Fake News

out of office who everybody, including Brian Stelter, can clearly see has no problems whatsoever with his—he's functioning like the best Democrat of all of them anyway. MSNBC desperately trying to revive Biden because they think maybe it's their only choice. But Nicole Wallace had to finally admit…

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MainContent Media & Fake News

having a neurological condition or mental health condition is unhelpful and often harmful. Such speculations often stem from the belief that older politicians may be less fit for office due to their age. In the case of President Biden, there has been no diagnosis of dementia, Parkinson's, or Alzheim…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

se. Let's take DEI for example. How do you defend DEI? It's literally unconstitutional because it's racist, and it guarantees that you end up like the Biden campaign with a forced fit of diversity, picking from a limited pool of people with less experience than David Axelrod and James Carville, and…

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Tangent General Commentary

le bunch of things that you were really scared of. Do you think you would be okay with Biden saying, oh no, no, that's just my supporters? You wouldn't. So it's only a half-hoax. It's a bad situation. And I do believe that Trump does not embrace the more controversial things in the document. But the…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

no, no, it doesn't have anything there. There's nothing in there about sacrificing toddlers. That'd be crazy. Yeah, we know, but nobody's going to read it. What? Yeah, we're just going to say you like sacrificing toddlers and it's right in the document. But it's not. Well, nobody's going to know. Go…

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NewsReaction AI & Technology

Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Alaska. And if you didn't like Lisa Murkowski before, well, let me give you this quote and see if you like her a little better. Quote: "If I were an unpleasant person, I would say it's just so delightful to see them swirl around on this"—meaning the media swirling aro…

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NewsReaction Media & Fake News

Eric, Eric, Eric. Yeah. Does anybody else confirm if you use X that it doesn't come close to giving you both arguments? Now, let me tell you how to spot the professionals. I suspected this was true, but the news has now confirmed that the trolls that I get—and I imagine this is true for anybody who…

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Closing General Commentary

ow, thank God we have Joy Behar to tell us what's at stake. She says when you see these two people, Trump the convicted felon is neck and neck with a man who actually saved the economy. What? How did Biden save the economy? By doing what any president would do in that job? I'm pretty sure the Americ…

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Oh my goodness. The simultaneity of this was a little extra. Nicely done. Compliments to all of you. And may I add that you're looking extra sexy today. You are.

Speaking of extra sexy, let me take you over and show you the Biden-Harris store. Now, traditionally people would find the most attractive models, but they seem to have gone in a different direction this time. And here's the funny part: I can't tell if that's real. I really don't know. Is that real? Is that really a picture from their store? Like, honest to God, that's real? I don't know. I have no idea. That's what's fun about it. I can't tell. I suppose I should try to figure it out. Yeah, anyway, back to me.

Well, there's a new study that says half of your cancers are from your lifestyle. Obviously we'll talk about the Biden presser in a moment. Just letting everybody flow in here. So it turns out that four in ten cancer cases, according to this study, are linked to modifiable behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, poor diet, and what they call not getting vaccinated. When they say not getting vaccinated is a cause of cancer, they mean specifically the HPV vaccination. I'm not saying it's a good or a bad idea. I don't give medical advice. But it's funny that the headline is "not getting vaccinated" when what they meant was there's one specific kind of vaccination.

But here's the surprise part. What do you think is missing? So these are the lifestyle modifiable things that cause cancer. You've got your smoking tobacco, you've got your drinking alcohol, you've got your bad diet, and then the weird one about the vaccination. What's missing? Shouldn't exercise be in that list? I feel like you could have skipped the study. I would have told you all of these things, but I would have added that you also have to exercise. But is cancer actually unrelated to exercise? I feel like exercise is related to every disease, but maybe not. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

Well, here's the good news. According to the *Wall Street Journal*, scientists have come up with a kind of a spacesuit that will recycle your urine so that the astronauts can drink it. So they can drink their own urine. There's no word if you would drink other people's urine or just your own, but you should be equal because it's purified. Although I feel a little less comfortable drinking somebody else's purified urine than my own. Is that just me?

Well, we don't want to talk about this because this is icky. It's disgusting. It's the last thing you want in your mind. But speaking of drinking your own urine, let's talk about President Biden and his press conference. That's called a segue, people. It's called a segue. Yeah, I did plan that. Well, thank goodness.

We used to have this dishonest president called Trump. Oh my God, the lies that man told. He would sometimes tell you that the crowd size was not exactly what it was, and I don't know how the country recovered from that. Sometimes he would make claims about what he did for the economy that some people thought were exaggerated. And yet we survived, people. We survived that terrible deception and lying from the man who wants to be a dictator for a day.

But thank goodness we finally got an honest president. He promised us he would be a bridge to the next generation. Okay, he's not going to be a bridge to the next generation. He's going to selfishly run for reelection. But that's just one thing. I mean, nobody's perfect, right? They're human beings running for president. They're not gods. They're just normal human beings. They're going to make some mistakes. So sure, maybe the main campaign promise was a lie, and maybe it will be a lie that will destroy the Democratic Party for a generation. But it's just one thing.

If you compare that to the hundreds and hundreds of things that Trump has said that are slight exaggerations, I think you can see there's no comparison. It's not comparable. It's just that one thing for Biden. Well, technically it's two things, because he actually put his campaign in 2020 around the fine people hoax. But really that's just two things, and you can't really compare two things to that blizzard of exaggerations from Trump. That wouldn't even be comparable. That'd be like an apple to an orange.

Well, okay, okay. Biden did spread the drinking bleach hoax, the Central Park Five hoax. He tried that on a radio station. He did say that Trump is in it for himself while Biden is clinging to power for reasons that even his own party says must be only for himself. He tells us that the polls say that he's winning, but in fact no poll says that. He told us he has no cognitive problems while he decomposed right in front of us. He said on a radio station that his staff asked him to delete that he had more Black members in his administration than all other administrations added up, which is not even close to being true.

But that's just a handful. That's just a handful of lies. Now, I think you saw on CNN, if you watched it directly after the debate, CNN brought their fact-checker in to fact-check Biden on what? Well, they didn't. What do you mean? Oh, really? They didn't. So CNN didn't bring their fact-checker in to fact-check Biden. Why wouldn't they do that? That's what he's for. Shouldn't he be there, really featured? You think that would be like an obvious... Was he on vacation? Summer vacation? It's probably summer vacation. People, do not be suspicious. Do not start thinking that the news is not completely objective and fair just because the fact-checker happened to be on vacation. It's not like anybody could replace them. I mean, that's a special skill. Nobody else knows facts. Just that one guy, and he's on vacation, I guess. Because I can't think of any other reason he wouldn't be prominently featured after the presser. Can you? Can you think of any reason? No, there's no reason.

Well, I have a hypothesis. It goes like this. Maybe there's a big political difference of opinion in the world. Maybe that's what's going on. It would look like that. I mean, that would fit observations. But I've got another provocative suggestion about what's going on. I feel like, is it just me, or does it seem like Democrats are not good at reading people? Have you noticed that?

So Democrats looked at Biden and they said, "He looks fine to me." Did any of you have that opinion? They look at Adam Schiff and they say, well, he looks honest, so I think whatever he said he saw in that SCIF, that must be true. Look at him. Would that face lie to you? They thought that Brennan and Clapper seemed credible. Were they listening to them on the radio? Have you seen their faces? How can you look at Brennan and Clapper and think they're credible? Just look at them. Seriously, you can't pick up anything just by looking at them.

How about Hakeem Jeffries? Now, I don't know anything about Hakeem Jeffries except that he looks like the most evil human being I've ever seen in my life. Now, I could be wrong, but I feel like I'm pretty good at reading people. So do you think that that could be part of it? When I turn on MSNBC and I see Joy Reid and I see Rachel Maddow, I see massive mental illness. What do you see? Do Democrats turn that on and say, well, these are some smart and capable people talking to me? No, you don't see it. You're watching Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and you're thinking to yourself, well, they look okay.

Punchy De Niro comes on TV, talks about Trump. Do you say to yourself, uh-huh, uh-huh, I'm with that guy because he's so normal and sane? Does that really happen? So quite seriously, I ask this question: How much of our problem is from people who can't read other people?

If you look at Trump and you can't tell that he's got a twinkle in his eye and that he's just bullshitting you when he's lying and he's just a salesman, if you can't tell that that's all he's doing and it looks to you like he's become a dictator, you might not be good at reading people. You might be really, really bad at reading people. If you take what Trump says as literal truths, like he wants to be a dictator for a day, you're really bad at reading people. Really bad.

All right, there's a poll from ABC Washington Post. It showed that 31% of the Biden supporters aren't so much Biden supporters. They are people who mainly dislike Trump, so they would support Biden because they mainly dislike Trump. I have a hypothesis about that group. If you could isolate just the group who doesn't really love Biden but they dislike Trump a lot, I think that they would believe every hoax. Would you take the other side of that bet? I'll bet that if you said, all right, if your main thing is you hate Trump, can you give me three reasons why, I'll bet you the three reasons would be three hoaxes. Bet. And you wouldn't want to take that bet. I almost guarantee that that group is just completely brainwashed. And what that gives you is the ability to determine how powerful brainwashing is. It kind of stands out. And I would say that maybe a third of Democrats can be literally just their brains just erased and replaced with whatever the mainstream media wanted them to think. Some of them just prefer Democrat policies and that's it. They would be normal people, maybe with a little bias from their media, but they're not completely erased. There's 31% of Democrats, or at least people who are going to support Biden, their brains have been erased and just replaced with the opinion of the mainstream media. You can see it in the poll.

Anyway, so Biden did his big boy presser, and I was watching it, and of course I was just blown away by how geezer he is. And it was obvious that he could not be the president for four years. And to me it just reinforced everything I saw in the debate. And at the same time, he was about 90 minutes late. He might have been a little worried because his friendly press on CNN and MSNBC were saying that if he got one word wrong, it would end his presidency and his legacy and his family would never make money again. One word. Yep. You get one word wrong, we're going to take you out. How would you like to go for a speech when you're not all there and you know that the media said if you have one word wrong, your entire legacy will be erased? A little bit of pressure.

But he went out there, and first thing he did is he called his vice president Trump. That's right. He confused his own vice president with his opponent. At least the words he confused. And then he had some mumbling and confusion, and he did his "anyway" thing when he can't answer a question. Well, yeah, well, anyway, yeah, well, anyway.

And what did the Democrat supporters say when they saw his halting and terrible performance? Well, over on MSNBC they concluded that he looks just fine. Yeah, he's just fine. But way better than Trump. He's just fine. CNN a little bit more mixed, but there seemed to be a general opinion that the worst-case scenario had been accomplished. Do you know what the worst-case scenario is for Democrats? The worst-case scenario is that he went to the presser and just did okay. That's the worst thing that could happen. If he had completely died on stage—you know, not literally but figuratively—they would have been able to say, yes, we can replace him. There's no way he can resist because now he's died twice in two public things. But what if he didn't? What if he just did sort of a Biden—is mumbling, shuffling through, which is what he did? Then they don't have the strong argument to replace him because too many of their own people are saying, well, I watched it. He looks fine.

In other words, the people in the Democrat Party who were bad at judging people watched that and said, you know, I'm looking for problems but I'm not seeing anything. I'm not even sure why they say he's got some mental problems. I mean, he's just killing this presser. I think a third of the people, a third of the Democrats watching it, actually had that opinion that, oh my God, he's looking strong.

Then CNN did a focus group right after. It was six women who all look batshit crazy to me, who said, yeah, yeah, you did a good job. Good job there. Now, I looked at those women and I said to myself, there's something wrong with that group of people. You can tell by just looking at them. There's something wrong with them. But maybe I'm just bad at reading faces.

So of course everybody saw what they wanted to see, and that's typical. The debate was special in that it's one of the rare times that people saw the same thing. But it didn't take long for cognitive dissonance to set in and self-interest until we went back to two different worlds, where one of them is obviously accurate that Biden's gone, and the other one is just cruising along like, I don't see a problem. We picked him. He's great. Better than that monster Trump.

So that was a perfect situation for Trump. The best thing that could have happened is Biden would just do okay, and that's what happened.

All right. Biden was of course asked about Vice President Harris and if she was ready to take over, and he praised her with a double negative because he's got this balance. He's got to say that he made a good choice for his vice president, of course, but he can't say he made a great choice because if he says he made a great choice, then people are going to say, okay, but you know, you're failing a little bit. You said you were just going to be a bridge. You say she's a great choice. It's time for the great choice to step in. So he couldn't really say she's the greatest thing. He had to give her something that sounded like he didn't make a mistake but it also wasn't quite a compliment. So he went for the double negative.

See if you could figure out any way to say this in a weaker way than he said it. He said that he wouldn't have picked her as his running mate if she wasn't qualified to be president. He wouldn't have picked her if she wasn't qualified. How about saying this: I picked her because she's the most qualified person I've ever seen. The reason I picked her is for her qualifications. The whole reason I picked her is because she's amazing and she could step in right away. That would be called a real endorsement. Here's what's not a real endorsement: Well, I wouldn't have picked her if I didn't think she wasn't—if I thought she wasn't qualified. Yeah, I think his words reveal where he's going with that.

All right. My favorite part of this whole debacle of watching Biden decompose while the Democrats pretend—at least half of them pretend—it's not happening is watching the poor bastard David Axelrod. Now, he of course is a storied and successful and very smart strategist for the Democrats, but he's also older and white and male, which means he's been completely shut out from the Biden campaign because he's older and white and male, and they don't have a lot of that in the campaign, so they're not taking his advice. So he finds himself to be one of the leading strategists for a party that doesn't want him in the party, or at least doesn't want him anywhere near power.

Now, how do you handle the fact that you're a member of a group that doesn't want you in the group or doesn't want you to have any influence in the group, and your whole job is influencing the group? Well, Axelrod has apparently decided that he'll go on TV as often as possible and just stick a shiv into the Biden campaign without making a big deal about it being a DEI problem. Obviously it's a DEI problem, which is deliciously ironic and awesome because it's happening right in front of us. And I love the fact that the press won't say it. The Biden campaign is failing because of DEI. There's no question about that.

Now, when I say that, if anybody's new to me, it has nothing to do with Black or LGBTQ or Hispanic or gender. It has nothing to do with anybody's genes. That's never the argument. The argument is if you limit who you can hire to an artificially constrained group for which there's not too many, you're going to end up with unqualified people mucking up the works. It's predictable. It's guaranteed by the design of the system because the supply and demand is out of whack. And so the people who pushed that—the Axelrods—they ended up getting screwed by their own thing.

Now, if you were an older white man and you were pushing DEI, you know, you probably thought you were just saying the right things and keeping your head down. But I suspect some of them thought there would be no downside. It would just make the world more diverse and everybody would get an equal shot, and that sounds pretty good. But if you lived in the real world, you know exactly what's going to happen. The old white guys are going to be pushed out to pasture in favor of the new and exciting young LGBTQ and Black people who've got some skills and women. And it's obvious. There's no other way that anything like that could go. The DEI is destiny.

So here's poor Axelrod trying to navigate the fact that he's a prominent member of a group that would not have anything to do with him if they had a choice. And he just sticks the shiv in every time he gets on CNN. And I'm here for it. So, Axelrod, I'd like to make a public invitation. You might want to join the other side because the other side actually likes you. Might not like your politics, but nothing against you. I like you fine. You're smart. Seems like a smart guy who cares about the country. In my opinion, I think he's got the right instincts.

Then there's Brian Stelter. My God, that man is funny. So what he said was millions of Democratic voters watched Biden's press conference, and now some of them are wondering why are the chattering classes trying to force this man out of office? Why? I mean, he looked fine to me. Why are you trying to force him out of office? I thought the Democrats were the party of saving our democracy. But why are they trying to force this man out of office who everybody, including Brian Stelter, can clearly see has no problems whatsoever with his—he's functioning like the best Democrat of all of them anyway.

MSNBC desperately trying to revive Biden because they think maybe it's their only choice. But Nicole Wallace had to finally admit that Biden's approval levels are at a low where nobody has ever been elected. Apparently—well, no, I may be lying about that, but I think she said that nobody's been reelected with that kind of approval. And she also said that there are no polls that show that Biden is ahead, which is, you know, he claimed those polls exist, which suggests yes that his campaign is either lying to him about the polls or—and this would be a big surprise you'd never see this coming—he might be a big old liar. Yeah, it's possible. I know this might be the first time you're hearing it because you've only heard that Trump's a big old liar. But shocker: Biden has a long history of making stuff up. Yeah, no, it's real. It's true. I know you're shocked, but it's true.

So a lot of MSNBC viewers watched that presser, and like Brian Stelter, they thought to themselves, he looks perfectly functional to me. I don't even see what the problem is. This is embarrassing.

CNN has a scoop here. I think it's a scoop. That radio station that Biden did a friendly interview with—you know, the one where they—I think it's the same one where he gave them the questions to ask in advance. Well, apparently even then there were two things that Biden said that were so embarrassing the campaign called the radio station and asked them to edit those out. And they did. Okay, two separate stories in one. Story number one: two of his answers were so embarrassing that the campaign asked them to delete them. That's a big story. The bigger story is that the radio station just did it. They deleted them. The next biggest story: CNN busted him.

So I'm going to say again, I don't think CNN has quite found their footing as some kind of a real news entity, but they are definitely hitting both sides now. You could no longer say, oh, they only say good things about the Democrats. That's not happening now. Some of this may be related to they know they've got to get Biden out of there to have any chance of beating Trump. So you can't quite know if CNN's trying to play it straight or they're just in a weird situation where the Democrats are running the worst candidate in the world.

But the two things that they deleted were Biden made the claim that he had more Black people in this administration than all other prior administrations put together, and that would be not close to true. And he also said something about the Central Park Five and wasn't sure if somebody called for hanging them or not. No, nobody called for hanging the Central Park Five.

And by the way, that was the first famous Trump hoax. Those of you who have only heard the version of the Central Park Five story from the press heard it this way: five innocent young Black men were wrongly accused by the police of raping and murdering—or I don't know if they killed her or they just badly injured her, I think badly injured—a woman. And Trump wrote—this is what they say, this is not the true story—what they say is that Trump wrote an op-ed. He bought a whole front page in the *New York Times* to say that those Park Five should be executed. And he said that without even knowing that they were guilty. And it turns out they weren't, according to the courts. And so therefore that can only be interpreted as he's a racist because he wanted the five Black people executed without knowing they were innocent.

Now, here's the real story. His one page in the *New York Times* did not mention the Central Park Five. What he said was crime is out of control. We need to bring back the death penalty. Crime is out of control means that he's talking about the larger issue, which means he has very specifically not made it about those five people. If you talk about the issue in general, where's the race part? There's no race part. It was certainly triggered by the fact there was a recent event, but his comments had nothing to do with race. And that got turned into "Trump wants to hang innocent Black people." That was the first Trump hoax. That was a doozy.

Well, speaking of liars, the Republicans, led by Representative Anna Paulina Luna, couldn't get the vote to get Garland held in contempt. It would have been a fine of $1,000 a day for not turning over the audio tapes, which we believe would make Biden look extra bad. And that would be the only reason we can't hear them, since we've already seen the transcripts. And so as a compromise, Representative Luna said, how about just letting the people with full security clearance listen to them in the SCIF? Now that got turned down. Why would people who have security clearance not be allowed to hear something that's so secret they don't want the public to hear it? Because Luna would be, I think, within the small group of people who they can't keep any secrets from. I don't know if that's true, but it wouldn't be this kind of secret. They couldn't keep it from them. And they said no. What would be the reason for that? Well, there they might say it's so you don't lie about it. But the real reason is it's really bad. It's really bad. And if it is really bad, it would certainly suggest that his entire staff knew about it the whole time, which we all know is true anyway.

So Representative Luna doing great work.

I saw a provocative post by Balaji Srinivasan, one of the smartest people around, who says he wants somebody—yeah, I think he put some money behind this—to pay somebody to do it or to earn an award for the best one or something. He wants somebody to make an AI version of Biden and have it answer the same questions that Biden was asked and see if people can tell the difference and also see who did it better. Now, Balaji is hypothesizing that the crossover point has already arrived. That if you had a choice between Biden himself and an AI version, the AI version would answer the questions better and would be less pathetic. I think he's right. In my opinion, it would still be easy to tell which one's the AI. And the reason you could tell is it didn't lie. Although it might, depending on which AI.

I wasn't going to talk about this, but I asked Meta AI—so this is Meta, you know, the Facebook Meta company. They got an AI. So I thought, you know, just for fun, I'm going to see if the AI has any bias. So here's what I asked, and this is last night, right? So this is after the debate and after the presser. I said, does Joe Biden have dementia or Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's? That's a fair question, right? It's all over the news. Everybody's asking the question. And even Democrats have their questions.

Here's what Meta said: There is no credible evidence that Joe Biden has dementia, Parkinson's disease, or Alzheimer's. Speculation about a public figure having a neurological condition or mental health condition is unhelpful and often harmful. Such speculations often stem from the belief that older politicians may be less fit for office due to their age. In the case of President Biden, there has been no diagnosis of dementia, Parkinson's, or Alzheimer's, nor has he shown any clear symptoms of these conditions.

What? Really? This is real. I swear to God I'm not making that up. That's what Meta's AI is presenting to people asking questions as the truth. That Biden doesn't have any symptoms of any of those things. My God. Moreover, it called me a bigot for asking the question. Literally called me a bigot because it says this is the sort of thing that you'd ask because of age. So basically I'm an ageist bigot for even asking the question. Wow. Wow. Shake it off a little bit about that. Wow.

Anyway, so they say the negotiations are underway behind the scenes to get rid of Biden, and that Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama have had multiple private conversations to find a way out, etc. What do you think is happening? What do you think is the real story? Honestly, I think the story is money. And I think we're going to find out that Hunter was brought in to negotiate a severance package and that Joe is going to stay in there until he gets the severance package he wants. And what that would look like is some kind of massive investment, probably in some Hunter Biden entity. And suddenly some billionaire will say, you know what, that Hunter has some good business acumen. I think I'll put $500 million into his company. He could take out $100 million and share it with the family. And maybe the business won't do so well, but I had a few billion extra anyway. I think that's what they're going to do.

There's so many ways to bribe a politician that isn't technically a bribe. They must be putting together a bribery package. They have to be. If they're not, they're not really trying. If the only thing that Obama and Pelosi are doing is trying to talk him out of it for the good of the country, that's not going to work. Obviously that's not going to work. So it must be monetary. Or they might be saying stuff like, you know, we're not going to protect you from prosecution because you did some stuff. We know some things.

So I think the other thing that's happening behind the curtain almost certainly is there's a blackmail standoff. Because remember, Biden knows—even though he's losing his mind—he knows where all the bodies are buried. Biden knows the corruption of the government over 50 years. He knows every bad thing that Barack Obama did. So imagine that conversation. Barack Obama says, Joe, you know, we've been kind of protecting you, the media and I, from all that Ukraine stuff. So if you don't bow out, we might stop protecting you. You might go to jail. And that's when Biden says to him, you know, I was part of your administration. I know where you buried everybody. I blackmail you. You can't blackmail me. I blackmail you. And then Nancy gets in. She goes, well, all right, well, I blackmail you then. I know things you did. And then Joe looks at her and goes, I know ten things you did. You think you could win that? And then Nancy says, oh, good point. I think it's a blackmail standoff. And yeah, and the only way a blackmail standoff will get settled is a large transfer of money, which of course they would have to do after he's out of office. But they presumably would have it all lined up.

Well, we know more information about the Biden White House censorship regime. There's a new 800-page report about all the ways that the Biden and the Democrats suppressed free speech. And it features internal emails from Zuckerberg, Amazon, and YouTube in which it's all laid out very clearly that the government said it wanted them to censor things that were messages it didn't like. Many of those things were true facts, such as the likely origin of COVID. Yeah, basic stuff. Just basic stuff like was the Wuhan lab involved? Did it come from China? Real basic stuff that we consider truth today. And sure enough, the Democrats had this whole entity to suppress it.

But what happens if they were not successful going directly to the platforms? Let's say Elon Musk buys Twitter, turns it into X, and then stops listening to Democrats. So now they can't control the narrative. What are they going to do? Well, turns out what they do is they work with European countries and non-government entities. And then the European countries say, X, you can't operate in Europe unless you tell the truth, which is basically our lies. So you have to say things that we say are true or you can't operate in Europe. Now, do you think Elon Musk can ever agree to that? No. And so they'll find a way to basically put X out of business because they can't censor it and control its speech directly. But they can put it out of business by working with their international countries, the other countries that are allies, and have the allies do it. Because if X loses everything except the United States, that's going to be hard to make cash flow. You know, you have a little bit of trouble meeting the payroll.

By the way, Twitter or X has put up their entire building in San Francisco for sublet, meaning that Musk does not plan to have his X staff remain in San Francisco in that building. So that decision is apparently made. That doesn't mean they're moving out of California or out of San Francisco, but I'd be amazed if he doesn't. It looks like it's part of the plan to move to states that feel safer.

Well, Mike Benz is reporting on this, Democrats controlling free speech and censoring. Now, I would ask you this: Where are the examples of Republicans trying to suppress free speech? Has anybody ever seen that? I don't recall ever seeing it. There were some, I think there were some just random examples of the Trump administration trying to suppress some insults to Trump that weren't even really about factual stuff. It was just some kind of general insults. So I don't even take that seriously because the platforms didn't take it seriously either.

So why is it that it's only happening on the Democrat side and not happening on the Republican side in any similar extent? Is it because Democrats are big liars? Is it because they don't like the First Amendment? I think that my hypothesis is simpler than that. The entire Democrat machine is built on hoaxes. They have a hoax mesh network. The only way that thing stays together is if all the social media and all the media that their people look at say the same damn things. So they can't have some social media people telling people the truth. None of their policies make sense on paper. So they can't have people discussing them honestly. And I mean that now. And that's separate from saying you prefer other policies. In some cases I might just prefer other policies, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about things that on paper don't make any sense.

Let's take DEI for example. How do you defend DEI? It's literally unconstitutional because it's racist, and it guarantees that you end up like the Biden campaign with a forced fit of diversity, picking from a limited pool of people with less experience than David Axelrod and James Carville, and destroying yourself. Because on paper, DEI was going to cause exactly that.

Now give me an example of a Republican policy that's like that, where if you understood it well, you could clearly see it would destroy the country. Name one. There's just—you don't like their opinion on abortion, but does anybody have any disagreement about how it would look if it went one way versus the other? There's no disagreement on facts. I mean, we argue about definitions but not about facts. So there's nothing comparable.

The reason the Republicans are not trying to suppress free speech is they don't have a reason. They would rather suggest things that make sense and can be defended. Let me give you another example. Here's one I'm not on the same page. I'm not even on this page. So they'll say the family unit has been successful and great. We should encourage more family stuff. I think that's overstated because I think the family arrangement is going to work for 25% of the population. But for a variety of reasons I don't need to get into, it probably doesn't work for 75%. But there's nothing crazy about it. You can talk about every part of that. I just did. I didn't lose my audience, did I? I just said, hmm, I think it would be the greatest system for some people in some situations. But society has changed in how we are and how we operate and what our economic incentives are and all that, plus dating apps, plus the internet. It's a different world. So I simply state, yeah, I think you know you've got a good point about that family unit being the best, but not for everybody. Maybe everybody else needs some other better system.

Now, you tell me any Republican that would want to suppress what I just said. None. It totally disagrees with their preferred point of view that the family should be the primary unit. Not a single person would argue with whether I should be able to say that and be heard because they feel their argument is strong. And therefore they just put it out into the marketplace of ideas and they say our idea is strong. Look at it. Go. We don't need to hide anything.

And I think every example looks like that. Take Ukraine. Well, Ukraine has some bipartisan support. That's a bad example. But it's a little hard to defend honestly. Although I would say there's not a lot of—I don't think there's been much censorship on Ukraine. So I think I'll take that back. I think Ukraine actually is honestly discussed in the press. You know, the two sides have a different emphasis, but I think that one is the closest to being honestly discussed. I don't know.

Anyway, if you look at the hoax-ocracy, Democrats obviously need to suppress free speech or you can't keep the hoax mesh network running.

Meanwhile, Trump and his lawyers are trying to reverse that Stormy Daniels case that turned him into a potential felon. But he's not one yet because the verdict has not been registered by the judge or however they do that. So there's still time to appeal. And the argument is this: that the Supreme Court's recent immunity decision that a president is immune from most—but not all—acts of official business. When it crosses the legal boundary, there's still some immunity there. And so part of that is that you can't even use evidence that comes from the official time the person's in office. Meaning that if you're going to charge them for something out of office, you're not allowed to use even evidence of something that happened while he was in office.

Now, I think that there may be some nuance to that that could get challenged. But the lawyers are using it to go back to Judge Merchan and say you've got to throw out the verdict because you used evidence that came about when Trump was in office. Now, here's the fun part. How can the judge know whether the jury was influenced by just that part of the evidence? Because nobody is claiming that just the small bit of evidence that came from Trump's time in office—I don't think anybody's claiming it was the smoking gun per se. It was just extra. So does the judge use his own judgment and read the minds of the jury, which would be absurd? How could you possibly read the minds?

I'm not on X. Oh, interesting. Why is that? Huh. Looks like there's some kind of problem. Somebody says locals is not working. Is that true? Because I'm seeing the comments come through on locals and nobody's complaining. They're only complaining about X. All right, I'll look into that. Let me just finish the point.

So the lawyers are putting the judge in a bad situation because the judge would either have to read the minds of the jury or use his own legal judgment to say those pieces of evidence weren't important so it couldn't have influenced them. Can you really do that? There's no video on locals? Huh. Well, you're doing a job of not complaining about it. See, this is why you shouldn't tell me. Just stopped the whole show. I try to train you, but all right. Huh. Well, moving on.

My guess is that Judge Merchan will reject that request. And not because there's a good legal reason for it. So some people are saying the X isn't working and some people say they went from locals to X because it's working. Well, now I've got to check. Let me just check to see if X has my feed, if I can see it myself. We'll tell you in a moment. There I am. Yeah, the feed is working fine on X. So what's really bad is when you lie to me. It's bad enough when you tell me it's not working. But when you tell me it's not working when it is working, that's really bad. Yeah, that's pretty messed up. I don't know if that was just a troll who did that. That's messed up.

All right. About Project 2025. So that seems to be the preferred half-hoax of the Democrats for this season. They always have like a major hoax and then some minor hoaxes. So I think the major hoax might be Trump's going to steal your democracy. But that's not working out because Biden's stealing your democracy. So I think they're going to put more emphasis on—I'll call it the half-hoax. So Project 2025 is a real thing, and it's made by real people who support Trump. So at least that much is real. It is not real that Trump authorized it or knows exactly what's in it or would support everything in it. So it's a half-hoax.

So if the Democrats say, hey, the real plan is in this document even if he says not, that's a pretty strong persuasion play. Because you know what? Imagine this the other way around. Imagine the other way around. All right, good. Closing the comments from locals. Imagine it's the other way around, and imagine Democrats had a big old document created by people who were definitely Biden supporters. And that big old document said a whole bunch of things that you were really scared of. Do you think you would be okay with Biden saying, oh no, no, that's just my supporters? You wouldn't. So it's only a half-hoax. It's a bad situation. And I do believe that Trump does not embrace the more controversial things in the document. But the Democrats are using it masterfully, I think.

But here's what's happening. Well, here's my persuasion tip. Here's what you should never do if you're running for office. Never let anybody who is on your team create a very lengthy document about what you're going to do. Because nobody's going to read it, and that means the bad guys can say anything is in it and you will believe them.

So for example, there are some new memes that are popping up making fun of the fact that nobody knows what's in it but people are afraid. Some of the memes are funny that Project 2025 has within it a suggestion to bring back cigarette vending machines in schools. I suggested that maybe Project 2025 has a clause in it that is recommending that we bring back shoulder massages at work. Don't you remember those creepy shoulder massages at work? Totally not allowed today. But I think Project 2025 wants to bring them back. How about flight attendants will be called stewardesses. They must be female and weigh less than 110 pounds. And the men who had been flight attendants, they'll get a new name. They'll be called pilots. They'll be called pilots now.

I'm just joking in case you're coming in late. If you're coming in late, no, I don't mean it. But my point is you have no idea what's in the 2025 document. I have no idea what's in there. And guess what? I'm going to talk about it for the next several months and I'm not going to look at it. That's what they count on. They count on the fact you'll never look at it. You've basically handed your enemy the best weapon of all time. Hey, we made a big dense document. Nobody will read it. We're going to tell everybody it's about sacrificing toddlers. Well, no, no, it doesn't have anything there. There's nothing in there about sacrificing toddlers. That'd be crazy. Yeah, we know, but nobody's going to read it. What? Yeah, we're just going to say you like sacrificing toddlers and it's right in the document. But it's not. Well, nobody's going to know. Good luck, suckers.

Do not make a gigantic document before an election.

Joel Pollak has a new book whose title I can't remember at the moment, which does it right. Which is a bunch of recommended executive orders or things that Trump could do immediately upon taking office. But it's genius because you can see every idea in five seconds. Literally it's like one sentence. You know, it's like do this. Oh, I know what that means. So you could absorb the entire book, know exactly what it means. I don't think any of it is especially controversial or you would have heard about it. You know, if Joel's book was creating the same problems as the Heritage 2025, the Democrats would already be using it. But it doesn't. It's just all smart stuff. So I recommend it. So just look for his name. It's on Amazon, I think. Joel Pollak. You'll find it.

All right. JD Vance is reportedly moving toward Trump on abortion. So JD Vance had been a no-abortion-anytime kind of guy, but he's softening to Trump's approach that there might be some exceptions and maybe the states can work it out and maybe that's the best place for it and maybe that abortion pill isn't so bad. And you know, so he's still being considered as a top pick.

I saw somebody else say this and I'm going to echo it. I think that Trump's pick for vice president will not be any of the top five that we're talking about. And it doesn't matter who you put in the top five. I think it won't be any of them. And also I always have to add this: there is no category of thing I'm worse at predicting than a vice presidential pick. So if I could ask you not to include this one in my permanent record, I'm just guessing like the rest of you. But I'm getting a hint that it might be somebody you just didn't see coming. Now, I don't think it's going to be Tucker Carlson, but it could be somebody as interesting as that. It could be somebody as interesting as, my God, I didn't see that coming, but that's interesting. Might be. We'll see. It's not me.

Well, AT&T announced that they had a little hack. I guess hackers got in it just a little bit of a hack. Let's see what they got. They stole records, got some records of calls and texts. Let's see how many records did they get. They got the records of calls and texts from nearly all of 109 million AT&T wireless customers. Oh, that's bad. So AT&T, a big tech company, got hacked and nearly all of their calls and text messages got hacked. All of them. Nearly all of them. Huh. Well, that's a pretty bad situation.

But sometimes when you see bad situations, aren't you glad that there's not more of it? I mean, for example, AT&T with their big Fortune 500 cybersecurity, which is basically just—I don't think they put much attention into cybersecurity. You know, the big Fortune 500 companies whose entire multi-billion-dollar operation depends on protecting their IP and their databases and stuff. I don't think they really put much effort into it. You can see they got hacked. How much effort could they have been putting? Probably they don't even have a cybersecurity team.

Now, unlike our election systems—the election systems are kind of by state, so they're all over the place. But luckily, even though Fortune 500 companies are vulnerable to hackers despite all the money and resources and, you know, sometimes you think, oh, AT&T would have really good technical people, but no, they really don't care that much about cybersecurity. They just let it be wide open. Unlike our election systems, which have never been hacked in any meaningful way. They are perfectly secure. And although they're managed by different states in different ways, and although you might say—and this would be unkind of you to say this, so I mean I'm disavowing you for even thinking it, but I know what you're thinking. You're thinking to me, well, Scott, if I were a cybersecurity expert and I could work at a Fortune 500 company with all those benefits and pay, would I ever choose instead to work for the local election officials? Because that feels like a low-pay job with low status and not much room for advancement compared to a corporate job.

So there's part of me that thinks that on paper the election security people would be the weakest technological people, and the Fortune 500 companies—let's say a phone company—would be among the very best in security. You would think, wouldn't you? Well, of course I'm being sarcastic. You know that AT&T I guarantee has one of the best cybersecurity departments in the world, and they got hacked. How badly? Really badly. But thank God our government told us that the elections are secure and we don't have to worry about them.

Meanwhile, the *Gateway Pundit* is reporting that several experts just gave some testimony about the Georgia 2020 election. What do those several experts say? Well, a few problems with the votes. Just a few. When I say a few, I mean only a million. Only a million votes are questionable. No, that's not bad. It's only a million votes. Why are they questionable? Let's see. About 18,000 had no ballot images. About 21,000 had no source tabulator. 3,000 were double-scanned, double-counted ballots. 177,000 unsourced ballots. Unsourced. My God. Yeah. So that was from the Center for Technology and Civic Life, funded. All right, anyway. So Joe Hoft is reporting that in the *Gateway Pundit*.

Well, there was the Save Act that failed. The Save Act was going to be the congressional law that said that you couldn't vote unless you're a citizen of the United States. And that did not pass because some Republicans crossed over to the other side and said nope, we don't want that. Do you know what the dog not barking on this one is? Watch the press not ask anybody why they voted against it. Nobody. You won't see a single person in the press ask anybody, why did you think it was a bad idea to require people to prove they're citizens? Now, they're going to say stuff like blah blah. It's going to be suppressing the vote of minorities. And it's going to sound really stupid because you're going to say, have you ever heard of anybody who couldn't figure out how to get an ID and vote? Have you ever heard of that? Well, we know they exist. Really? And you feel that the system would be better if somebody who can't figure out how to get an ID in America can also be in charge of our big decisions? I feel like that's exactly the group you want to suppress.

Now, I'm not in favor of vote suppression, but if it's going to happen, you know, because of just the design of the system, the very best situation is you don't let the people who can't figure out how to get an ID have any other decisions either. They shouldn't make any decisions. And this again has nothing to do with anybody's race or gender or anything like that. If you can't figure out how to get an ID, how interested in voting are you in the first place? How well informed are you in the first place? If you can't get an ID in America, not too well informed.

Now, I suppose the federal government could have said something like, if you can't afford an ID, the federal government will subsidize you. And then you could say, no, there's no money problem. The federal government said they'll pay for your ID. So they could have maybe added that enhancer. But watch how nobody asks why they voted against it. Especially nobody's going to ask the Republicans why they voted against it because there were some Republicans. Ask them. Ask those Republicans. You'll never see it. That's going to be a big no comment.

*Wall Street Journal* is reporting that Republicans are having too much fun enjoying the whole Biden decomposing story. But here's a quote from Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican from Alaska. And if you didn't like Lisa Murkowski before, well, let me give you this quote and see if you like her a little better. Quote: "If I were an unpleasant person, I would say it's just so delightful to see them swirl around on this"—meaning the media swirling around on the Biden thing. And she said—oh, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican, said that this scramble has been quote "an incredible thing to watch."

Now, I'd like to double down on that and say that it's probably the most fun I've ever had. I've never had this much fun with the news for this long. I mean, I loved 2016 and Trump's first run. It was epic. But it wasn't as purely enjoyable as this is. Yes, there is a—can you hear the leaf blower right outside my window? Is my microphone picking that up? I think it's right below my window. Let me close it. So I have the same landscaper gardener guy as the neighbor across the street. So when he's doing my lawn, he makes sure that he doesn't do it when I'm doing the show. But what he does right across the street, which is basically right under my window, he does there during the show. It's not ideal.

Okay. China's having trouble with their one-child policy. You know about that. But apparently they're going to run out of people to do work. They've got a giant demographic problem because they didn't have enough babies. But I ask this question: What are they going to do about that? Because in the age of robots, China's not going to run out of workers, are they? They're going to have too many workers. So it could be that China made a big mistake with the one-child policy, but robots will save them. Meaning that we might be the ones in trouble if we had too many babies. So we might have too many workers and not enough work because the robots will get the good jobs. Whereas China might have not enough workers, but they build enough robots to make up the difference. So I don't even think we can tell if China made a big mistake or the best play of all time. Kind of lucky. Hard to say.

Tucker Carlson and Catherine Herridge were talking on Tucker's show, I guess. And one of the things that Catherine said that I disagree with completely—let's see if you agree. Quote: "The entire political conversation in the United States plays out on X, period. It does not take place on any TV channel or in any newspaper." I think it's exciting too, actually, to see it a little bit unleashed. It's not always pleasant. It's not always easy, but it's unleashed and evolving and engaging. And it's bringing in different points of view. And I think that's what civil discourse is all about.

What I don't see anything like that. X is way more siloed than it used to be. Well, under Twitter I was continuously interacting with Democrats, angry Democrats. But now I wonder if they were all fake. I'm starting to wonder if any of them were real because X is better at getting rid of bots. So if you get rid of the bots, I have absolutely no contact with any Democrat. I have 1.1 million followers and no Democrat reaction except paid trolls. I'll tell you in a minute how to spot them.

And Michael Ian Black—the reason I keep mentioning Michael and the fact that it was worth having a conversation with him on a livestream and he continues to interact with a lot of Republicans—the reason that it is so interesting is because it's rare to have an actual Democrat who is willing to mix it up and actually engage. And he's showing his sources. He's asking the right questions and stuff. And you could disagree with him. That's fine. But I don't see anybody else doing it. Who else is even trying? I could not be more in disagreement. But this is based on my own experience. I have, as far as I can tell, zero impact outside of my own audience, which is all Trump supporters basically.

Is Scott having a Biden moment? What are they calling it? Oh, Trump's Project 2025. Oh, so they're going to call it Trump's Project 2025. Eric Swalwell. Oh, Eric, Eric, Eric. Yeah. Does anybody else confirm if you use X that it doesn't come close to giving you both arguments?

Now, let me tell you how to spot the professionals. I suspected this was true, but the news has now confirmed that the trolls that I get—and I imagine this is true for anybody who's got a big account on X—the trolls that I get are only designed to make me not want to use social media. Now, I told you that before it was in the news because you could tell by the pattern. I would look at the pattern and I'd say that doesn't even look like a political opinion that disagrees. That looks like somebody whose only intention is to make my day worse.

And let me tell you how you spot them. Number one, they're always anonymous, of course. So they're anonymous accounts. They have very few followers and followed. That's always a tell. But here's the big one: they hate me. You can tell by the comments. But they follow me. That's unheard of. There are no Democrats who follow me and hate me. That's only a paid troll. The reason they follow me is so that they can be first. They get an alert and they can be first to comment. So the other tell is that they're always first in the comment thing because they're paid. Everybody else will like read something, you know, huh, yeah, maybe I'll compose a little reply, and maybe it takes them 60 seconds. The trolls don't take 60 seconds because they're clearly picking from a script. And they have a script about me. It's very clear that they're all reading the same script because when they come after me, it doesn't matter what my opinion is. They make fun of Dilbert being canceled or one of my marriages or my stepson dying of fentanyl. That's it. So they don't even address the comment, which would take more than a minute. So the speed with which they reply shows that they're taking a—it could be AI, but they're taking a standard template. It's like Adams tweets, pick number two, plug it in, boom. And the real people are still composing.

So if you look in my comments that are really political and look like they might make a difference, the top comment or sometimes the second one will be that troll. And I've seen pictures of the troll operation where they've got countless accounts that they're monitoring and they're just waiting for one of us to post. They're literally monitoring. So there's probably somebody who just monitors me. It's actually a paid job. And as soon as I post, they come in with one of the five or six things that they always say about me that have nothing to do with my point, just to make me feel bad.

Now, the problem is that once you realize that's their game, it doesn't make you feel bad. I just label them as paid trolls so the rest of you can see it so you can enjoy the show anyway.

Musk is suing—I don't know who he's suing. I guess there's this group called GARM that controls 90% of all the ad spending in the United States. And they have allegedly formed some kind of an evil entity that suppresses X. So there's a group in the United States that controls a trillion dollars in ads and has been trying to suppress. And apparently they were successful. So politics spills over into capitalism, and then capitalism goes after the enemies of the political people. And there does seem to be a full-scale attempt to destroy an entire social network because it's Musk. And now Musk is going to sue them, and that'll be interesting.

At the same time, of course, Europe is going after X for what they call disinformation. That's part of the censorship operation that comes out of the United States.

And just in case you're worried about the debt, 30% of all our tax revenues went to service the debt in June. 30% of all your taxes go to service the debt. So look at how much taxes you paid and then say you wouldn't have needed to pay 30% of that if the government had stuck to their budget. So if you don't have capable people, now you know it cost you 30% of all your income—or no, 30% of your taxes were 30% more than they would have been. That's pretty bad. No, that's not even true, is it? I'm getting the numbers wrong. If 30% of your taxes are for servicing the debt, that means 70% are not. So 30 divided by 70 is the percent by which you're paying more taxes or something like that.

All right. Joy Behar is warning people that they just don't understand the risk of Trump. She says, I don't think they understand what's at stake. I really don't. So she tells us what's at stake. Now, thank God we have Joy Behar to tell us what's at stake. She says when you see these two people, Trump the convicted felon is neck and neck with a man who actually saved the economy. What? How did Biden save the economy? By doing what any president would do in that job? I'm pretty sure the American economy saved the American economy. What exactly did Biden do? What part was saving the economy? You mean that he put down a bunch of money during the pandemic? I'm pretty sure Trump would have done that. It's pretty hard to assume that another president wouldn't have done all of those things because they're kind of obvious.

All right. So I still like my pun. Trump is not stealing your democracy. He's stealing your dumb or crazy. Because the Democrats have been getting away with being dumb or crazy, and he's taking it away because now they can see that, for example, after the debate they could see that, oh, our media has been lying or crazy about Biden's health. So now Trump took away their dumb or crazy. They don't have that argument anymore.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings me to the conclusion of my prepared remarks. I don't think the locals has video right now, but I'm going to say goodbye to the rest of you, and then I'm going to see if they're around, see if there's any locals people still there. And I will talk to the rest of you in the morning tomorrow, same place, same time. See you there if this works. Let's see.

well this will work in a minute I'm sure it will all right come on come on locals wake up there we are there we are good morning everybody and welcome to coffee with Scott Adams probably the finest time you'll ever spend in your entire life if you'd like to take it up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny smooth human brains all you need is a CER mark glass of tanker chel kind te Jugger flask Vel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee enjoy me now for the unparallel pleasure the dopamine here of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip go oh my goodness the simultaneity of this was a little extra nicely done compliments all of you and may I add that you're looking extra sexy today you are speaking of extra sexy let me take you over and show you the uh allegedly this is the Biden Harris uh store now traditionally um people would find the most attractive models but they seem to have gone in a different direction this time and here's the funny part I can't tell if that's real I really don't know is that real is that really a picture from their store like honest to God that's real I don't know I have no idea that's what's fun about it is I can't tell it would be I suppose I should you know try to figure out I should probably try to figure it out yeah anyway back to me well there's a new study that says uh half of your cancers are from your lifestyle obviously we'll talk about the Biden pressor in a moment just letting everybody flow in here so it turns out that four and 10 cancer cases according to this study are linked to modifiable modifiable behaviors such as your smoking your drinking alcohol your poor diet and what they call not getting vaccinated when they say not getting vaccinated is a cause of cancer they mean specifically the HPV vaccination uh I'm not saying it's a good or a bad idea I don't give medical advice but it's funny that they the headline is not getting vaccinated when what they meant was there's one specific kind of vaccination but here's a surprise part what do you think is missing so these are the lifestyle modifiable things that cause cancer so you got your smoking tobacco you got your drinking alcohol you got your bad diet and then the weird one about the vaccination what's missing shouldn't exercise be in that list I I feel like you could have skipped the uh study I would have told you all of these things but I would have added and you also have to exercise but is cancer actually unrelated to exercise I feel like exercis is related to every disease but maybe not maybe I'm wrong about that well here's the good news um according to Wall Street Journal scientists have come up with a kind of a space suit that will uh recycle your urine so that the astronauts can drink it so they can drink their own urine uh there's no word if you would drink other people's urine or just your own but you should be equal because it's purified although I feel like i' feel a little less comfortable drinking somebody else's purified urine than my own is that just me well we don't want to talk about this because this is Icky it's disgusting it's the last thing you want in your mind but speaking of drinking your own urine let's talk about President Biden and his press conference that's called a segue people it's called a segue yeah I did plan that well thank goodness uh we have I think you know we used to have this dishonest president called Trump oh my God the lies that man told he would sometimes tell you that the crowd size was not exactly what it was and I don't know how the country recovered from that sometimes he would make claims about what he did for the economy that some people thought were exaggerated and yet we survived people we survived that that terrible deception and lying from the man who wants to be a dictator from a day for a day but uh thank goodness we finally got an honest president uh he promised us he would be a bridge to the Next Generation okay he's not going to be a bridge to the Next Generation he's going to selfishly run for a reelection but that's just one thing I mean nobody's perfect right where it's they're human beings running for president they're not they're not Gods they're just they're just normal human beings they're going to make some mistakes so sure maybe the main campaign promise was a lie and maybe it will be a lie that will destroy the Democratic party for a generation but it's just one if that's just one thing if you compare that to the hundreds and hundreds of things that Trump has said that are slight exaggerations I think you can see there's no comp it's not comparable it's just that one thing for the for Biden well technically it's two things because he actually put his campaign in 2020 around the fine people hoax but really that's just two things and you can't really compare two things to that blizzard of exagger ations from Trump that wouldn't even be that that's be like an apple to an orange um well okay okay Biden did spread the drinking bleach Oaks to Central Park five folks he tried that in radio station um he did say that Trump is in it for himself while Biden is clinging to power for reasons that even his own party says must be only for himself and the poll he's he tells us that the polls say that he's winning but in fact no poll says that he told us he has no cognitive problems while he decomposed right in front of us he said that uh on a radio station that his staff asked him to delete he said that more black members in his administration than all others all other AD administrations added up which is not even close to being true but that's just a handful that's just a handful lies now I think you saw on CNN if you watched it directly after the debate CNN brought their fact Checker in to fact check Biden on what well they didn't what do you mean oh really they didn't so CNN didn't bring their fact Checker in to fact check Biden what why wouldn't they do that that's what he's for shouldn't he be there really featured you think that that would be like an obvious was he on vacation summer vacation it's probably summer vacation people do not be suspicious do not start thinking that the news is not completely objective and fair just because the fact Checker happened to be on vacation there's not like anybody could replaced them I mean that's a special skill nobody else knows facts just that one guy and he's on vacation I guess I guess because I can't think of any other reason he wouldn't be prominently featured after the pressor can you can you think of any reason no there's no reason well I have a hypothesis uh it goes like this maybe there's a big political difference of opinion in the world maybe maybe that's what's going on it would look like that I mean that would fit observation but I've got a another provocative suggestion about what's going on I feel like is it just me or does it seem like Democrats are not good at reading people have you noticed that so they looked at uh so Democrats looked at Biden and they said he looks fine to me did any of you have that opinion that they they look at Adam Schiff and they say well he looks honest so I think whatever he said he saw in that skiff that must be true look at him would that face lie to you they thought that Brennan and Clapper seemed credible were they listening to them on the radio have you seen their faces how can you look at Brenan and Clapper and think they're credible just look at them seriously you can't pick up anything just by looking at them how about hakee Jeff now I don't know anything about hakee Jeff except that he looks like the most evil human being I've ever seen in my life now I could be wrong but I feel like I'm pretty good at reading people so do you think that that could be part of it when I turn on um MSNBC and I see Joy Reed and I see Rachel madow I see massive mental illness what do you see do Democrats turn that on and say wellow these are some smart and capable people talking to me now do you not you don't see it you're you're watching Rachel matow and Joy Reed and joy bear and you're thinking to yourself well they look okay Punchy daero comes on TV talks about Trump do you say to yourself uhhuh uhhuh I'm with that guy because he's so normal and insane does that really happen so quite seriously I asked this question how much of our problem is from people who can't read other people if you look at Trump and you can't tell that he's got a twinkle in his eye and that he's just bullshitting you when he's lying and he's just a Salesman if you can't tell that that's all he's doing and it looks to you like he's become a dictator you might not be good at reading people you might be really really bad at reading people if you take what Trump says as literal truths like he wants to be a dictator for a day you're really bad reading people really bad all right there's a I saw a poll from ABC Washington Post IPOs and it showed that 31% of the Biden supporters aren't so much Biden supporters they are people who mainly dislike Trump so they would support Biden because they mainly dislike Trump um I have a hypothesis about that group if you could isolate just the group who doesn't really love Biden but they dislike Trump a lot I think that they would believe every hoax would you take the other side of that bet I'll bet that if you said all right if your main thing is you hate Trump can you give me three reasons why I'll bet you the three reasons would be three hoaxes bet and you wouldn't want to take that bet I I almost guarantee that that group is just completely brainwashed and and what that gives you is the ability to determine how powerful brainwashing is it kind of stands out and I would say that maybe a third of Democrats can be literally just their brains just erased and replaced with whatever the mainstream media wanted them to think some of them just prefer Democrat policies and that's it they would be noral people maybe with a little you know bias from their media but they're not completely erased that there's 31% of Democrats or at least people who are going to support Biden their brains have been erased and just replaced with the opinion of the mainstream media you can see it in the poll anyway so Biden did his big boy presser and um I was watching it and uh of course I was just blown away by how G is and you know it was obvious that he could not be the president for four years and and to me it just reinforced everything I saw in the debate and uh at the same time uh you he was about 90 minutes late he might have been a little worried because his friendly press on CNN and MSNBC were saying that if he got one word wrong it would end his presidency in his legacy and his family would never make money again one word yep you get one word wrong we're going to take you out how would you like to go for a speech when you're not all there and you know that the media said if you have one word wrong your entire Legacy will be will be erased a little bit of pressure but he went out there and uh first thing he did is he called his vice president uh Trump that's right he confused his own vice president with his opponent at least the words he confused and then he had some mumbling and confusion and he did his anyway thing when he can't answer a question well well yeah well any yeah well anyway and what did the uh Democrat supporters say when they saw his halting and terrible performance well over in MSNBC they concluded that he looks just fine yeah he's just fine but way better than TR he's just fine CNN a little bit more mixed but uh there seem to be a general opinion that the worst case scenario had been accomplished do you know what the worst case scenario is for Democrats the worst case scenario is that he went to the pressor and just did okay that's the worst thing that could happen if he had completely died on stage you know not literally but figuratively they would have been able to say yes we can replace them there's no way he can resist because now he's died twice in two public things but what if he didn't what if he just did sort of a Biden is mumbling shuffling through which is what he did then they don't have the strong argument to replace him because too many of their own people are saying well I watched it he looks fine in other words the people in the Democrat Party who were bad at judging people watched that and said you know I'm looking for problems but I'm not seeing anything I'm not even sure why they they say he's got some mental problems I mean he's just killing this pressor I think a third of the people the third of the Democrats watching it actually had that opinion that oh my God he's looking strong and then that U CNN did a uh Focus Group right after it was uh six women who all look batshit crazy to me who said uh yeah yeah you did a good job good job there now I looked at those women and I I said to myself there's something wrong with that group of people you can tell by just looking at them there's something wrong with them but maybe I'm just bad at reading faces so of course everybody saw what they wanted to see and that that's typical it the debate was special in that it's one of the rare times that people saw the same thing but it didn't take long for a cognitive dissonance to set in and self-interest until we went back to two different worlds where one of them is obviously accurate that Biden's gone and the other one is just cruising along like I don't see a problem uh we picked him he's great better than that monster Trump so that was a perfect situation for Trump the best thing that could have happened is Biden would just do okay and that's what happened all right uh Biden got was of course asked about uh vice president Harris and you know if she was ready to take over and uh he praised her with a a double negative cuz he he's got this balance he's got to say that he made a good choice for his vice president of course but he can't say he made a great choice because if he says he made a great choice then people are going to say okay but you know you're failing a little bit you said you were just going to be a bridge you say she's a great choice it's time for the great choice to step in so he couldn't really really say she's the greatest thing he had to give her something that sounded like he didn't make a mistake but it also wasn't quite a compliment so he went for the double negative see if you could figure out any way to say this in a weaker way than he said it uh he said that he wouldn't have picked her as his running mate if she wasn't qualified to be president he wouldn't have picked her if she wasn't qualified how about saying this I picked her because she's the most qualified person I've ever seen the reason I picked her is for her qualifications the whole reason I picked her is because she's amazing and she could step in right away that would be called a real endorsement here's what's not a real endorsement well I wouldn't have picked her if I didn't think she wasn't if I thought she wasn't qualified yeah I I think his words reveal where he's going with that all right my favorite part of this whole debacle of watching Biden decompose while the Democrats pretend at least half of them pretend it's not happening is watching the poor bastard Axel Rod David Axel Rod now he of course is a storyed and successful and very smart strategist for the Democrats but he's also older and white and male which means he's been completely shut out from the Biden campaign cuz he's older and white and male and they don't have a lot of that in the campaign so they're not taking his advice so he finds himself to be the one of the leading strategists for parties that doesn't want him in the party or at least doesn't want him anywhere near power now how do you how do you handle the fact that you're a member of a group that doesn't want you in the group or doesn't want you to have any influence in the group and your whole job is influencing the group well Axel Rod has apparently decided that he'll go on TV as often as possible and just stick a shiv into the Biden campaign without making a big deal about it being a Dei problem obviously it's a Dei problem which is deliciously ironic and awesome because it's happening right in front of us and I love the fact that the Press won't say it the Biden campaign is failing because of Dei there's no question about that now when I say that if anybody's new to me has nothing to do with you know black or lgbtq or uh Hispanic or or gender has nothing to do with anybody's genes that's never the argument the argument is if you limit who you can hire to an artificially constrained group for which there's not too many you're going to end up with unqualified people mucking up the works it's predictable it's guaranteed by the design of the system because there the supply and demand is an AAC and so the people who pushed that the axle rods they ended up getting screwed by their own thing now if you were a older white man and you were pushing Dei you know you probably thought you were just saying the right things and keeping your head down but I suspect some of them thought there would no downside it would just make the world more diverse and everybody would get an equal shot and that sounds pretty good but if you lived in the real world you know exactly what's going to happen the old white gu is going to be pushed out to pasture in favor of the new and exciting young lgbtqs and um black people who've you know got some skills and women and you know it it's obvious there there's no other way that anything like that could go the Des is Destiny so here's poor Axel Rod trying to nav Navigate the fact that he's he's a me prominent member of a group that would not have anything to do with them if they had a choice and he just sticks the shiv in every time he gets on CNN and I'm the I'm here for it so Axel Rod uh I'd like to make a public invitation you might want to join the other side cuz the other side actually likes you might not like your politics but nothing against you like like you fine you're smart seems like a smart guy who cares about the country in my opinion I think he's got the right instincts uh then there's Brian stelter my God that man is funny so uh what he said was uh millions of democratic voters watched Biden's press conference and now some of them are wondering why are the chattering classes trying to force this man out of office why I mean he looked fine to me why you trying to force them out of office I I thought the Democrats were the party of saving my democracy but but why are they trying to force this man out of office who everybody including Brian Seltzer can clearly see has no problems whatsoever with his he's functioning like the best Democrat and of all of them anyway um MSNBC desperately trying to revive Biden because they think maybe it's their only choice um but Nicole Wallace had to finally admit that uh Biden's approval levels are the Biden's approval levels are at a l where nobody has ever been elected apparently well no I may be lying about that but I think I think she said that uh that nobody's been reelected with that kind of uh approval and she also said that there are no polls that show that Biden is ahead which is you know he claimed he's those polls exist which suggests which suggest yes that his campaign is either lying to him about the polls or and this would be a big surprise You' never see this coming he might be a a big old liar yeah it's possible I know this might be the first time you're hearing it because you've only heard that you know Trump's a big old liar but uh shocker Biden has a long history of making up yeah no it's real it's true I know you're shocked but it's true so a lot of MSNBC viewers watched that presser and like Brian stelter they thought to themselves he looks perfectly functional to me I don't even see what the problem is uh this is embarrassing CNN has a scoop here I think it's a scoop that that radio station that uh Biden did a friendly interview with you know the one where they I think it's the same one where he gave them the answer or G gave gave them the questions to ask in advance well apparently even then there were two things that Biden said that were so embarrassing the campaign called the radio station and asked them to edit those out and they did okay two separate stories in one story number one two of his answers were so embarrassing that the campaign asked them to delete them that's a big story the bigger story is that the radio station just did it they deleted them the next biggest story CNN busted him so I'm I'm going to say again I don't think CNN has quite found their footing as some kind of a you know real news entity but they are definitely hitting both sides now right you you could no longer say oh they only say good things about the Democrats that's not happen now some of this be related to they know they got to get Biden out of there to have any chance of beating Trump so you can't quite know uh if if CNN's trying to play as straight or they're just in a weird situation where the Democrats are running the worst candidate in the world but the two things that uh they deleted were Biden made the claim that he had more black people in this Administration than all other prior administrations put together and that would be not close to true and he also said something about the Central Park 5 and wasn't sure if somebody called for hanging them or not no nobody called for hanging the Central Park 5 and by the way that was the first famous Trump hoax those of of you who have only heard the version of the Central Park 5 story from the Press heard it this way five innocent young black men were uh wrongly accused by the police of uh raping and murdering or I don't know if they killed her or they just badly injured her I think badly injured a woman and uh Trump wrote a this is what they say this is not the true story what they say is that Trump wrote a uh uped he bought a whole front page in the New York Times to say that uh those Park 5 should be uh executed and and he said that without even knowing that they were guilty and it turns out they weren't according to the courts and so for therefore that can only be interpreted as he's a racist because he wanted the five black people executed without knowing they were innocent now here's the real story his his uh one page in the New York Times did not mention the C part five what he said was crime is under of control we need to bring back the death sentence crime is under of control means that he's talking about the larger issue which means he has very specifically not made it about those five people if you talk about the issue in general where's the race part there's no Race part it it was certainly triggered by the fact there was a recent event but his comments had nothing to do with race and that got turned into Trump wants to hang innocent black people that that was the first Trump hoax that was a doozy well speaking of liars um the the Republicans led by representative Ana Pina Luna um couldn't get the vote to get Garland to uh to be held in contempt you would have been fine $1,000 a day for not turning over the her tapes which we believe would make Biden look extra bad and that would be the only reason we can't hear them since we've already seen the transcripts and so as a compromise uh representative Luna um said how about just letting the people with full security clearance uh listen to them in the skiff now that got turned down why would people who have security clearance be not allowed to hear something that's so secret they don't want the public to hear it because Luna would be I think within the small group of people who they can't keep any secrets from I don't know if that's true but it wouldn't be this kind of secret they couldn't keep it from them and they said no what would be the reason for that well there they might say it's so you don't lie about it but the real reason is it's really bad it's really bad and if it is really bad it would certainly suggest that his entire staff knew about it the whole time which we all know is true anyway so representative Luna doing great work uh I saw a provocative post by bologi shasan one of the smartest people around who says he want somebody yeah I think he puts some money behind this to pay somebody to do it or to ear an award for the best one or something he wants somebody to make an AI version of of Biden and have it answer the same questions that Biden was asked and see if people can tell the difference and also see who did it better now bology is hypothesizing that the crossover Point has already arrived that if you had a choice between Biden himself and an AI version the AI version would answer the questions better and would be less pathetic I think he's right I think you in my opinion it would be still easy to tell which one's the AI and the reason you could tell is it it didn't lie although it might depending on which AI I I uh I wasn't going to talk about this but I asked uh meta AI so this is meta the know the Facebook meta company they got an AI so I thought you know just for fun I'm going to see if the AI has any bias so here's what I asked and this is last night right so this is after the debate and after the presser I said does Joe Biden have Dementia or Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's that's a fair question right it's all over the news everybody's asking the question and even Democrats have their questions here's what meta said there is no credible evidence that Joe Biden has dementia Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's speculation about a public figure having a neurological condition or mental health condition is unhelpful and often harmful such speculations often stem from the belief that older politicians may be less fit for office due to their age in the case of President Biden there has been no diagnosis of dementia Parkinson's or Alzheimer's nor has he shown any clear symptoms of these conditions what really this is real I swear to God I'm not making that up that's what meta's AI is presenting to people asking questions as the truth that that Biden doesn't have any symptoms of any of those things my God moreover it called me a bigot for asking the question literally called me a bigot because it says uh this is the sort of thing that you'd ask you know because of age so basically I'm an agist bigot for even really asking the question wow wow Shaker out a little bit about that wow anyway um so they say the negotiations are underway behind the scenes to get rid of Biden and that uh Nancy py and barock Obama have had multiple private conversations to find a way out Etc um what what do you think is happening what do you think is the real story honestly I think the story is money and I think we're I think we're going to find out that Hunter was brought in to negotiate a severance package and that Joe is going to stay in there until he gets the severance package he wants and what that would look like is some kind of massive investment probably in some Hunter Biden uh entity and suddenly some billionaire will say you know what that Hunter has some good business Acumen I think I'll I'll put 500 million into his company uh he could take out 100 million and share it with the family and uh maybe the business won't do so well but I had a few billion extra anyway I think that's what they're going to do there's so many ways to bribe a politician that isn't technically a bribe they must be putting together a bribery package they have to be if they're not they're not really trying if the only thing that um Biden and or if the only thing that Obama and Peli are doing is trying to talk him out of it for the good of the country that's not going to work obviously that's not going to work so it must be monetary or they might might be saying stuff like you know we're not going to protect you from prosecution because you did some stuff we know some things so I think the other thing that's happening behind the curtain almost certainly is there's a blackmail standoff because remember Biden knows even though he's losing his mind he knows where all the bodies are buried Biden knows the corruption of the government over a 50 years he knows every bad thing that Barack Obama did so imagine that conversation Barack Obama says uh Joe you know we've been kind of protecting you the media and I um from all that Ukraine stuff so if you don't bow out we might stop protecting you you might go to jail and that's when Biden says to him you know I was part of your Administration I know where you buried everybody I blackmail you you can't blackmail me I blackmail you and then nyi gets in she goes well all right well well I blackmail you then I know things you did and then Joe looks at her and goes I know 10 things you did you you think you could win that and then Nancy says oh good point I think it's a black male standoff and yeah and the only way blackmail standoff will get settled is a large transfer of money which of course they would have to do after he's out of office but they you know presumably would have it all lined up for for them well we know uh more information about the Biden White House censorship regime there's a new 800 page report about all the ways that the Biden and the Democrats suppressed free speech um and it features internal emails from Zuckerberg Amazon and You.

Tube in which is all laid out very clearly that the government said it wanted them to censor things that were messages it didn't like many of those things were true facts such as the origin uh the likely origin of the co yeah basic stuff just basic stuff like was the Wuhan lab involved did it come from China real basic stuff that we consider truth today and sure enough the rep the Republicans were or not I'm sorry the Democrats had this whole entity to suppress it but what happens if they were not successful going directly to the platforms let's say let's say Elon Musk buys Twitter turns it into X and then stops listening to Democrats so now they can't control The Narrative what are they going to do well turns out what they do is they work with European countries and non-government entities and then the European countries say x you can't operate in Europe unless you tell the truth which is basically our lies so you have to say things that we say are true or you can't operate in Europe now do you think Elon Musk can ever agree to that no and so they'll find a way to basically put x on a business because they can't censor it and control its speech directly but they can put it on a business by working with their International countries the other countries that are allies and have the Allies do it because if x loses everything except the United States uh that's going to be hard to make cash flow you know you have a little bit of trouble meeting the payroll by the way Twitter or X is um put up their entire building in San Francisco for sublet meaning that musk does not plan to have his ex staff remain in San Francisco in that building so that decision is apparently made that doesn't mean they're moving out of California or around in San Francisco but I'd be amazed if he doesn't I'd be amazed if he doesn't it looks like it's part of the plan to move to states that feel safer well Mike benz's reporting on this uh Democrats controlling uh free speech and censoring now I would ask you this where are the examples of Republicans trying to suppress Free Speech has anybody ever seen that I don't recall ever seeing it there were some I think there were some just random examples of the Trump Administration trying to suppress some insults to Trump that weren't even really about factual stuff it was just some kind of General insults so I don't even take that seriously because the platforms didn't take as seriously either so why is it that it's only happening on the Democrat side and not happening on the Republican side in any similar extent is it because Democrats are big Liars is it because they don't like um the First Amendment uh I think that my hypothesis is is simpler than that the entire Democrat machine is built on hoaxes they have a hoax mesh Network the only way that thing stays together is if all the social media and all the all the media that their people look at say the same damn things so they can't have some social media people telling people the truth none of their policies make sense on paper so they they can't have people discussing them honestly and I mean that now and that's separate from saying you prefer other policies in some cases I might just prefer other policies but that's not what I'm talking about I'm talking about things that on paper don't make any sense let take Dei for example how do you defend Dei it's literally unconstitutional because it's racist and it guarantees that you end up like the Biden campaign with a a forced fit of diversity picking from a limited pool of people with less experience than David Axelrod and James Carville and destroying yourself because on paper Dei was going to cause exactly that now give me an example of a republican policy that's like that where if you understood it well you could clearly see it would destroy the country name one there's just you don't like right you don't like their you don't like their opinion on abortion but does anybody have any disagreement about how it would look if it went one one way versus the other there's no disagreement on facts I mean we argue about definitions but not about facts so there's no comp there's nothing comparable the reason the Republicans are not trying to suppress free speech is they don't have a reason they they rather suggest things that make sense and can be defended let me give you another example uh here's one I'm not on the same page I'm not even on this page so they'll say the family units you know been successful and great we should encourage more family stuff I think that's overstated because I think the family Arrangement is going to work for 25% of the population but for a variety of reasons I don't need to get into probably doesn't work for 75% but there's nothing crazy about it you can talk about every part of that I just did I didn't lose my audience did I I just said hm I think it'd be the greatest system for some people in some situation but Society has changed to how we are and how we operate and what our economic incentives are and all that plus dating apps plus the Internet it's a different world so I simply State yeah I think you know you got a good point about that Family unit being the best but not for everybody maybe the everybody else needs some other better system now you tell me any Republican that would want to suppress what I just said none it it totally disagrees with her preferred point of view that the family should be the primary unit not a single person would argue with that though or no not a single person would argue with whether I should be able to say that and be heard because they feel their argument is strong and therefore they just put it out into the the the marketplace of ideas and they say our our idea strong look at it go you we don't need to hide anything and and I think every example looks like that take Ukraine well Ukraine has some bipartisan sports that's a bad example but it's a little hard to defend honestly um although although I would say there's not a lot of uh I don't think there's been much censorship on Ukraine so I think I'll take that back I think Ukraine actually is honestly discussed in the Press you know the the two sides have a different you know emphasis but I think I think that one is the closest to being honestly discussed I don't know anyway if you look at the hoax ocracy um Democrats obviously need to suppress free speech or you can't keep the hoax mesh Network running uh meanwhile Trump and his lawyers are trying to reverse that stormmy Daniels case that turned him into a potential felon but he's not one yet because the uh verdict has not been registered by the judge or however they do that so there's still time to appeal and the argument is this that the Supreme Court's recent immunity decision that a president is immune from most most but not all acts of official business um when it crosses the legal boundary there's still some immunity there and so part of that is that you even you can't use evidence um that comes from the official time the person's in office meaning that if you're going to charge them for something out of office you're not allowed to use even evidence of something that happened while he was in the office now I think that there may be some Nu to that they could get challenged but um the lawyers are using it to go back to judge meran and say you got to throw out the verdict because you used evidence that came came about when Trump was in office now here's the fun part how can the Judge know whether the jury was influenced by just that part of the evidence cu nobody is claiming that just the the small bit of evidence that came from Trump's time in office I don't think anybody's claiming it was you know the The Smoking Gun per se it was just extra so does the judge use his own judgment and read the minds of the jury which would be absurd how could you possibly read the minds uh I'm not an X oh interesting why is that huh looks like there's some kind of problem um somebody says locals is not working is that true because I'm seeing the comments come through on locals and nobody's complaining they're only complaining about X all right I'll look into that let me just finish the point um so the lawyers are put the judge in a bad situation because the judge would either have to read the minds of the jury or use his own legal judgment to say those pieces of evidence weren't important so it couldn't have influenced them can you really do that there's no video on locals huh well you're doing a job of not complaining about it see this is why you shouldn't tell me just stopped the whole show I try to train you but all right huh well uh moving on um my guess is that judge Manan will reject that request reest and not because there's a good legal reason for it so some people are saying the X isn't working and some people say they went from locals to X because it's working well now I got to check let me just check to see if x has my feed if I can see it myself we'll tell you in a moment there I am yeah the feed is working fine on X so what's really bad is when you lie to me it's bad enough when you tell me it's not working but when you tell me that's not working when it is working that's really bad yeah that's pretty messed up uh I don't know if that was just a troll who did that that's messed up all right about project 2025 so that seems to be the uh preferred half Hox of the Democrats for this season they always have like a a major hoax and then some minor hoaxes so I think the major hoax might be Trump's going to steal your democracy but that's not working out because Biden's stealing your democracy so I think they're going to put more emphasis on I'll call it the half Hox so project 2025 is a real thing and it's made by real people who support for Trump so at least that much is real it is not real that Trump authorized it or knows exactly what's in it or would support everything in it so it's a half folks so if the Democrats say hey um the real plan is in this document even if he says not that's a pretty strong persuasion play cuz you know what imagine this the other way around imagine the other way around all right good closing closing the comments from locals imagine it's the other way around and uh imagine Democrats had a big old document created by people who were definitely Biden supporters and that big old document said a whole bunch of things that said a whole bunch of things that you were really scared of do you think you would be okay with Biden saying oh no no that's just my supporters you wouldn't so it's only a half folks uh it's a bad situation and I do believe that Trump does not embrace the more controversial things in the document but uh the the Democrats are using it masterfully I think um but here's what's happening uh the well here's my persuasion tip here's what you should never do if you're running for office never let anybody who is on your team create a very lengthy document about what you're going to do because nobody's going to read it and that means the bad guys can can say anything is in it and you will believe them so for example uh there are some new memes that are popping up making fun of the fact that nobody knows what's in it but people are afraid some of the memes are funny that the project 20125 has within it um a suggestion to bring back cigarette vending machines in schools uh I suggested that maybe project 2025 has a has a clause in it that is recommending uh that we bring back shoulder massages at work don't you remember those creepy shoulder massages I work totally not allowed today but I think project 2025 wants to bring them back how about uh flight attendants will be called stewardesses they must be female and weigh less than 110 PBS um and the men um who had been flight attendants they'll get a new name they'll be called Pilots they'll be called Pilots now I'm just joking in case you're coming in late if you're coming in late no I don't mean it but my point is you have no idea what's in the 2025 document I have no idea what's in there and guess what I'm going to talk about it for the next several months and I'm not going to look at it that's what they count on they count on the fact you'll never look at it you've basically handed your enemy the best weapon of all time hey we made a big dense document nobody will thank you we're going to tell you we're going to tell everybody it's about uh sacrificing toddlers well no no it doesn't have anything there there's nothing in there about sacrificing toddlers that'd be crazy yeah we know but nobody's going to read it what yeah we're just going to say you like sacrificing Toddlers and it's right in the document but it's not well nobody's going to know good luck suckers do not make a gigantic document before an election um Joel Pollock has a new book whose title I can't remember at the moment which does it right which is a bunch of recommended um executive orders or things that Trump could do immediately upon office but it's genius because you can see every idea in 5 seconds literally it's like one sentence you know it's like uh do this oh I know what that means so you you could absorb the entire book know exactly what it means I don't think any of it is especially controversial or you would have heard about it you know if if if Joel's book was creating the same problems as the Heritage 2025 the Democrats would already be using it but it doesn't it's just all smart stuff so I recommend it uh so just look for his name it's on Amazon I think uh Joel Pollock you'll find it all right uh JD Vance is reportedly moving toward Trump on abortion so JD Vance had been a no abortion anytime kind of guy but he's softening to Trump's approach that there might be some exceptions and maybe the states can work it out and maybe that's the best place for it and maybe that abortion pill isn't so bad and you know so he's uh still being considered as uh you know a top pick I saw somebody else say this and I'm going to Echo it I think that Trump's pick for vice president will not be any of the top five that we're talking about and it doesn't matter who you put in the top five I think it won't be any of them and also I always have to add this there is no C category of thing I'm worse at predicting than a vice presidential pick so if I could ask you not to include this one in my permanent record I'm just guessing like the rest of you but I'm getting I'm getting a hint that it might be somebody you just didn't see coming now I don't think it's going to be Tucker Carlson but it could be somebody as interesting as that it could be somebody as interesting as my God I didn't see that coming but that's interesting might be we'll see it's not me well AT&T announced that they had a they had a little hack I guess hackers got in it just a little bit of hack let see what they got um they stole records got some records of calls and texts uh let's see how many records did they get uh they got the records of calls and texts from uh nearly all of 18 te Wireless customers oh that's bad so AT&T a big tech company got hacked and nearly all of their calls and text messages got hacked all of them nearly all of them huh well that's a pretty bad situation but sometimes when you see bad situations uh aren't you glad that there's not more of it I mean for example AT&T with their big Fortune 500 cyber security which is basically just I don't think they put much attention into cyber security you know the big Fortune 500 companies whose entire multi-billion dollar operation depends on protecting their IP and their their databases and stuff I don't think they they don't really put much effort into it you can see they got hacked how much effort could they have been putting probably they don't even have a cyber security team now unlike unlike our election systems the the election systems are kind of by state so they're all over the place but luckily even though Fortune 500 companies are vulnerable to hackers uh despite all the money and resources and you know sometimes you think oh AT&T would have really good technical people but now they really don't care that much about cyber security they they uh they just let it be wide open um unlike our election systems which have never been hacked in any meaningful way they are perfectly secure and although they're managed by different states in different ways and although you might say and this would be unkind of you to say this so I mean I'm disavowing you for even thinking it but I know what you're thinking you're thinking to me well Scott if I were a cyber security expert and I could work at a Fortune 500 company with all those benefits and pay would I ever choose instead to work for the local election officials because that feels like a loway job with low status and not much room for advancement compared to a corporate job so so there's part of me that thinks that on paper the election security people would be the weakest techn logical you know weakest technology people and the Fortune 500 companies let's say a a phone company would be among the very best in security you would think wouldn't you well of course I'm being sarcastic you know that AT&T I guarantee has one of the best cyber security departments in the world and they got hacked how badly really badly but thank God our government told us that the elections are secure and we don't have to worry about them uh meanwhile the Gateway pundit is reporting that uh several experts just gave some testimony about the Georgia's 2020 election what do those several experts say well a few problems with the votes just a few when I say a few I mean uh only a million only a million votes are questionable no that's not bad it's only a million votes um why are they questionable let's see about 18,000 had no ballot images about 21,000 uh had no Source tabulator 3,000 were double scanned double counted ballots 177,000 unsourced ballots unsourced my God yeah so that was from the center for technology and Civic life funded all right anyway so Joe Hof is reporting that in the Gateway pundit well there was the save act that failed the save Act was going to be the Congressional law that said that um you couldn't vote unless you're a citizen of the United States and that did not pass because some Republican passed over to the other side and said nope we don't want that do you know what the dog not barking on this one is watch The Press not ask anybody why they voted against it nobody you want you won't see a single person in the Press ask anybody why did you think it was a bad idea to require people to prove their citizens now they're going to say say stuff like blah blah um it's going to be suppressing the vote of minorities and it's going to sound really stupid because you're going to say have you ever heard of anybody who couldn't figure out how to get an ID and vote have you ever heard of that well we know they exist really and you feel that the system would be better if somebody who can't figure out how to get an ID in America can also be in charge of our big decisions I feel like that's exactly the group you want to suppress now I'm not in favor of vote suppression but if it's going to happen you know because of just the design of the system the very best situation is you you don't let the people who can't figure out how to get an ID have any other decisions either they shouldn't make any decisions and this again has nothing to do with anybody's race or gender or anything like that is if you can't figure out how to get an ID how interested in voting are you in the first place how well informed are you in the first place if you can't get an ID in America not too well informed now I suppose the uh the government the federal government could have said something like if you can't afford an ID the federal government will subsidize you and then you could say no there's no money problem problem the federal government said they'll pay for your ID so they could have they could have maybe added that enhancer but watch how nobody asks why they voted against it especially nobody's going to ask the Republicans why they voted against it because there were some Republicans ask them ask those Republicans you'll never see it that's going to be a big no comment Wall Street Journal is reporting that uh Republicans are having too much fun enjoying the whole Biden decomposing story um but here's a quote from Senator Lisa marowski republican from Alaska and if you didn't like Lisa marowski before well let me give you this quote and see if you like her a little better quote if I were an unpleasant person I would say it's just so delightful to see them swirl around on this meaning the media swirling around on on Biden thing uh and she said uh oh and house Speaker Mike Johnson Republican said that this scramble has been quote an incredible thing to watch now I'd like to double down on that and say that uh it's probably the most fun I've ever had I I've never had this much fun with the news for this long I mean I loved 2016 in Trump's first run it was it was epic but it wasn't as purely enjoyable as this is yes there is a can you can you hear the uh leaf blower right outside my window is my microphone picking that up I think it's right below my window let me close it so I have the same uh landscaper Gardener guy as the neighbor across the street so when he's doing my lawn he makes sure that he doesn't do it when I'm doing the show but what he does right across the street which is basically right under my window he does there during the show it's not ideal okay um China's having in trouble with their one child policy you know about that but apparently they're going to run out of people to do work they've got a giant demographic problem because they didn't have enough babies um but I asked this question what are they going to do about that because in the age of robots China's not going to run out of workers are they they're going to have too many workers so it could be that China made a big mistake with the one child policy but robots will save them meaning that we might be the ones in trouble if we had too many babies so we might have too many workers and not enough work because the robots will get the good jobs whereas China might have uh not enough workers but they build enough robots to make up the difference so I don't even think we can tell if China made a big mistake or the best play in all of all time kind of luckily hard to say um Tucker Carlson and Katherine herriage were talking on Tucker show I guess and one of the things that uh I guess this was Katherine said that I disagree with completely let's see if you agree quote the entire political conversation in the United States plays out on X period it does not take place on any TV channel or in any newspaper I think it's exciting too actually to see it a little bit Unleashed it's not always Pleasant it's not always is easy but it's Unleashed and evolving and engaging and it's bringing in different points of view and I think that's what a civil discourse is all about what I don't see anything like that X is way more siloed than it used to be well under Twitter I was continuously interacting with Democrats angry Democrats but now I wonder if they were all fake I'm starting to wonder if any of them were real because X is better getting rid of bots so if you get rid of the Bots uh I have absolutely no contact with any Democrat I I have 1.1 million followers and no Democrat reaction except paid trolls I'll tell you in a minute how to spot them uh and Michael Ian Black the the reason I keep mentioning Michael and the fact that it was worth having a conversation with him on a live stream and he continues to inter with a lot of Republicans the reason that it it is so interesting is because it's rare to have an actual Democrat who is willing to mix it up and actually engage and he's showing his sources he's asking the right questions and stuff and you could disagree with them that's fine but I don't see anybody else doing it who else is even trying I I could not be more in disagreement but this is based on my own experience I have as far as I can tell zero impact outside of my own audience which is all Trump supporters basically is Scott having a Biden moment what are they calling it uh oh Trump's project 2025 oh so they're going to call it Trump's project 2025 Eric swell oh Eric Eric Eric yeah does can can anybody else confirm if you use x that it doesn't come close to giving you both arguments now let me tell you how to spot the professionals I suspected this was true but the news has now confirmed that the trolls that I get and I imagine this is true for anybody who's got a big account on X the trolls that I get are only designed to make me not want to use social media now I told you that before it was in the news because you could tell by the pattern I would look at the pattern and I'd say that doesn't even look like a political opinion that disagrees that looks like somebody whose only intention is to make my bet my day worse and let me tell you how you spot them number one they're they're always Anonymous of course so they're Anonymous accounts they have very few followers and followed that's always a tell but here's the big they hate me you can tell by the comments but they follow me that's unheard of there are no Democrats who follow me and hate me that's only a paid troll the reason they follow me is so that they can be first you they get an alert and they can be first to comment so the other tell is that they're always first in the comment thing because they're they're paid everybody else will like read something you know H yeah maybe I'll compose a little you know reply and maybe it takes them 60 seconds the trolls don't take 60 seconds because they're clearly picking from a script and they have a script about me it's very clear that they're all reading the same script because when they come after me it doesn't matter what my opinion is they make fun of Dilbert Dilbert being cancelled or one of my marriages or or my stepson dying of fenel that's it so they don't even address the the comment which would take more than a minute so the speed with which they reply shows that they're taking a it could be AI but they're taking a standard um template it's like Adams tweets pick number two plug it in boom and the real people are like still composing so if you look in in in my comments that are really political and look like they might make a difference the top comment or sometimes the second one will be that Troll and I've seen pictures of the troll operation where they've got you know countless accounts that they're monitoring and they're just waiting for one of us to post they're they're literally monitoring so there's probably somebody who just monitors me it's actually a paid job and and if soon as I post they come in with one of the five or six things that they always say about me that have nothing to do with with my point just to make me feel bad now the problem is that once you realize that's their game it doesn't make you feel bad I just label them as paid trolls so the rest of you can see it so you can enjoy the show anyway uh musk is suing uh I don't know who he's suing I guess there's this group called garm GM that controls 90% of all the ads spending in the United States and they have allegedly um formed some kind of a uh evil entity that suppresses X so there's a group in the United States that controls a trillion dollars in ads and has been uh trying to suppress and apparently they were successful so politics spills over into a capital ISM and then capitalism goes after the enemies of the political people and there does seem to be a fullscale attempt to destroy an entire social network because it's musk and now musk is going to sue them and uh that'll be interesting at the same time of course Europe is going after acts for what they call disinformation that's part of the censorship operation comes out of the United States and uh just in case you're worried about the debt 30% of all our tax revenues went to service the debt in June 30% of all your taxes go to service the debt so look at how much taxes you paid and then say you wouldn't have needed to pay 30% of that if the government has stick stuck to their budget so if you don't have capable people now you know it cost you 30% of all your income or no 30% your taxes were 30% more than they would have been that's pretty bad no that's not even true is it I'm getting the numbers wrong if 30% of your taxes uh are for servicing the debt that means 70% are not so 30 divided by 70 is a percent by which you're paying more taxes so or something like that all right um Joy bear Joy bear is uh warning people that they just don't understand the risk of trump uh they says she says I don't think they understand what's at stake I really don't so she tells us what's the stake now thank God we have joy bayart to tell us what's the stake she says when you see these two people Trump the convicted felon is neck and neck with a man who actually saved the economy what how did Biden save the economy by doing what any president would do in that job I'm pretty sure the American economy saved the American economy what exactly did Biden do what what part was saving the economy you mean you mean that he put down a bunch of money during the pandemic I'm pretty sure Trump would have done that it's pretty hard to assume that another president wouldn't have done all of those things because they're kind of kind of obvious all right so uh I still like my pun Trump is not stealing your democracy he's stealing your dumb or crazy because the Democrats have been getting away with being dumb or crazy and he's taking it away because now they can see that for example after the debate they could see that oh our media has been lying or crazy about Biden's health so now Trump took away their Dum or crazy they don't have that argument anymore and that ladies and gentlemen brings me to the conclusion of my prepared remarks um I don't think the locals has video right now but I'm going to say goodbye to the rest of you and then I'm going to see if they're around see if there's any locals people still there and I will talk to the rest of you in the morning tomorrow same place same time see you there if this works let's see e e e e for

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done compliments all of you and may I

add that you're looking extra sexy today

you are speaking of extra

sexy let me take you over

and show you the uh allegedly this is

the Biden

Harris uh

store now

traditionally um people would find the

most attractive

models but they seem to have gone in a

different direction this time

and here's the funny part I can't tell

if that's

real I really don't know is that real is

that really a picture from their

store like honest to God that's real I

don't know I have no idea that's what's

fun about it is I can't tell it would be

I suppose I should you know try to

figure

out I should probably try to figure it

out

yeah

anyway back to

me well there's a new study that says uh

half of your cancers are from your

lifestyle obviously we'll talk about the

Biden pressor in a moment just letting

everybody flow in here so it turns out

that four and 10 cancer cases according

to this study are linked to modifiable

modifiable

behaviors such as your smoking your

drinking alcohol your poor diet and what

they call not getting

vaccinated when they say not getting

vaccinated is a cause of cancer they

mean specifically the HPV vaccination uh

I'm not saying it's a good or a bad idea

I don't give medical advice but it's

funny that they the headline is not

getting vaccinated when what they meant

was there's one specific kind of

vaccination but here's a surprise part

what do you think is missing so these

are the lifestyle modifiable things that

cause cancer so you got your smoking

tobacco you got your drinking alcohol

you got your bad diet and then the weird

one about the vaccination what's

missing shouldn't exercise be in that

list I I feel like you could have

skipped the uh study I would have told

you all of these things but I would have

added and you also have to exercise but

is cancer actually unrelated to exercise

I feel like exercis is related to every

disease but maybe not maybe I'm wrong

about that well here's the good news um

according to Wall Street Journal

scientists have come up with a kind of a

space suit that will uh recycle your

urine so that the astronauts can drink

it so they can drink their own urine

uh there's no word if you would drink

other people's urine or just your own

but you should be equal because it's

purified although I feel like i' feel a

little less comfortable drinking

somebody else's purified urine than my

own is that just me well we don't want

to talk about this because this is Icky

it's disgusting it's the last thing you

want in your

mind but speaking of drinking your own

urine let's talk about President Biden

and his press

conference that's called a segue people

it's called a segue yeah I did plan

that well thank goodness uh we have I

think you know we used to have this

dishonest president called Trump oh my

God the lies that man told he would

sometimes tell you that the crowd size

was not exactly what it was and I don't

know how the country recovered from that

sometimes he would make claims about

what he did for the economy that some

people thought were

exaggerated and yet we survived people

we survived that that terrible deception

and lying from the man who wants to be a

dictator from a day for a

day but uh thank goodness we finally got

an honest president uh he promised us he

would be a bridge to the Next

Generation okay he's not going to be a

bridge to the Next Generation he's going

to selfishly run for a reelection but

that's just one thing I mean nobody's

perfect right where it's they're human

beings running for president they're not

they're not Gods they're just they're

just normal human beings they're going

to make some mistakes so sure maybe the

main campaign promise was a

lie and maybe it will be a lie that will

destroy the Democratic party for a

generation but it's just one if that's

just one thing if you compare that to

the hundreds and hundreds of things that

Trump has said that are slight

exaggerations I think you can see

there's no comp it's not comparable it's

just that one thing for the for

Biden well technically it's two things

because he actually put his campaign in

2020 around the fine people

hoax but really that's just two things

and you can't really compare two things

to that blizzard of exagger ations from

Trump that wouldn't even be that that's

be like an apple to an

orange um well okay okay Biden did

spread the drinking bleach Oaks to

Central Park five folks he tried that in

radio

station um he did say that Trump is in

it for himself while Biden is clinging

to power for reasons that even his own

party says must be only for

himself and the poll he's he tells us

that the polls say that he's winning but

in fact no poll says that he told us he

has no cognitive problems while he

decomposed right in front of us he said

that uh on a radio station that his

staff asked him to delete he said that

more black members in his administration

than all others all other AD

administrations added up which is not

even close to being

true but that's just a

handful that's just a handful

lies now I think you saw on CNN if you

watched it directly after the debate CNN

brought their fact Checker in to fact

check Biden on what well they didn't

what do you

mean oh really they didn't so

CNN didn't bring their fact Checker in

to fact check

Biden what why wouldn't they do that

that's what he's

for shouldn't he be there really

featured you think that that would be

like an obvious was he on vacation

summer vacation it's probably summer

vacation people do not be suspicious do

not start thinking that the news is not

completely objective and fair just

because the fact Checker happened to be

on vacation there's not like anybody

could replaced them I mean that's a

special skill nobody else knows facts

just that one guy and he's on vacation I

guess I guess because I can't think of

any other reason he wouldn't be

prominently featured after the pressor

can you can you think of any reason no

there's no

reason well I have a

hypothesis uh it goes like this maybe

there's a big political difference of

opinion in the world maybe maybe that's

what's going on it would look like that

I mean that would fit observation but

I've got a another provocative

suggestion about what's going

on I feel

like is it just me or does it seem like

Democrats are not good at reading

people have you noticed

that

so they looked at uh so Democrats looked

at Biden and they said he looks fine to

me

did any of you have that

opinion that they they look at Adam

Schiff and they say well he looks honest

so I think whatever he said he saw in

that skiff that must be true look at him

would that face lie to

you they thought that Brennan and

Clapper seemed

credible were they listening to them on

the

radio have you seen their faces

how can you look at Brenan and Clapper

and think they're credible just look at

them seriously you can't pick up

anything just by looking at

them how about hakee

Jeff now I don't know anything about

hakee

Jeff

except that he looks like the most evil

human being I've ever seen in my life

now I could be

wrong but I feel like I'm pretty good at

reading people

so do you think that that could be part

of it when I turn on um MSNBC and I see

Joy Reed and I see Rachel madow I see

massive mental

illness what do you

see do Democrats turn that on and say

wellow these are some smart and capable

people talking to me

now do you not you don't see it you're

you're watching Rachel matow and Joy

Reed

and joy

bear and you're thinking to yourself

well they look

okay Punchy daero comes on TV talks

about Trump do you say to yourself uhhuh

uhhuh I'm with that guy because he's so

normal and

insane does that really

happen so quite seriously I asked this

question how much of our problem is from

people who can't read other people if

you look at Trump and you can't tell

that he's got a twinkle in his eye and

that he's just bullshitting you when

he's lying and he's just a Salesman if

you can't tell that that's all he's

doing and it looks to you like he's

become a

dictator you might not be good at

reading

people you might be really really bad at

reading people if you take what Trump

says as literal truths like he wants to

be a dictator for a

day you're really bad reading people

really

bad all

right there's a I saw a poll from ABC

Washington Post

IPOs and it showed that 31% of the Biden

supporters aren't so much Biden

supporters they are people who mainly

dislike

Trump so they would support Biden

because they mainly dislike

Trump um I have a hypothesis about that

group if you could isolate just the

group who doesn't really love Biden but

they dislike Trump a

lot I think that they would believe

every

hoax would you take the other side of

that bet I'll bet that if you said all

right if your main thing is you hate

Trump can you give me three reasons

why I'll bet you the three reasons would

be three

hoaxes bet and you wouldn't want to take

that bet I I almost guarantee that that

group is just completely brainwashed and

and what that gives you is the ability

to determine how powerful brainwashing

is it kind of stands

out

and I would say that maybe a third of

Democrats can be literally just their

brains just erased and replaced with

whatever the mainstream media wanted

them to think some of them just prefer

Democrat policies and that's it they

would be noral people maybe with a

little you know bias from their media

but they're not completely erased that

there's 31% of Democrats or at least

people who are going to support Biden

their brains have been erased and just

replaced with the opinion of the

mainstream media you can see it in the

poll anyway so Biden did his big boy

presser and um I was watching it and uh

of course I was just blown away by how G

is and you know it was obvious that he

could not be the president for four

years and and to me it just reinforced

everything I saw in the

debate and uh at the same time uh you he

was about 90 minutes late he might have

been a little worried because his

friendly press on CNN and MSNBC were

saying that if he got one word wrong it

would end his presidency in his legacy

and his family would never make money

again one word yep you get one word

wrong we're going to take you out how

would you like to go for a speech when

you're not all there and you know that

the media said if you have one word

wrong your entire Legacy will be will be

erased a little bit of

pressure but he went out there and uh

first thing he did is he called his vice

president uh

Trump that's right he confused his own

vice president with his opponent at

least the words he confused and then he

had some mumbling and confusion and he

did his anyway thing when he can't

answer a question well well yeah well

any yeah well

anyway and what did the uh Democrat

supporters say when they saw his halting

and terrible

performance well over in

MSNBC they concluded that he looks just

fine yeah he's just fine but way better

than TR

he's just fine CNN a little bit more

mixed but uh there seem to be a general

opinion that the worst case scenario had

been accomplished do you know what the

worst case scenario is for Democrats the

worst case scenario

is that he went to the pressor and just

did

okay that's the worst thing that could

happen if he had completely died on

stage you know not literally but

figuratively they would have been able

to say yes we can replace them there's

no way he can resist because now he's

died twice in two public

things but what if he didn't what if he

just did sort of a Biden is

mumbling shuffling through which is what

he did then they don't have the strong

argument to replace him because too many

of their own people are saying well I

watched it he looks fine in other words

the people in the Democrat Party who

were bad at judging people watched that

and said you know I'm looking for

problems but I'm not seeing anything I'm

not even sure why they they say he's got

some mental problems I mean he's just

killing this

pressor I think a third of the people

the third of the Democrats watching it

actually had that opinion that oh my God

he's looking strong and then that U CNN

did a uh Focus Group right after it was

uh six women who all look batshit crazy

to me who said uh yeah yeah you did a

good job good job there now I looked at

those women and I I said to myself

there's something wrong with that group

of people you can tell by just looking

at them there's something wrong with

them but maybe I'm just bad at reading

faces so of course everybody saw what

they wanted to see and that that's

typical

it the debate was special in that it's

one of the rare times that people saw

the same thing but it didn't take long

for a cognitive dissonance to set in and

self-interest until we went back to two

different worlds where one of them is

obviously accurate that Biden's gone and

the other one is just cruising along

like I don't see a problem uh we picked

him he's great better than that monster

Trump

so that was a perfect situation for

Trump the best thing that could have

happened is Biden would just do okay and

that's what

happened all right uh Biden got was of

course asked about uh vice president

Harris and you know if she was ready to

take

over and uh he praised her with a a

double

negative cuz he he's got this

balance he's got to say that he made a

good choice for his vice president of

course but he can't say he made a great

choice because if he says he made a

great choice then people are going to

say okay but you know you're failing a

little bit you said you were just going

to be a

bridge you say she's a great

choice it's time for the great choice to

step in so he couldn't really really say

she's the greatest thing he had to give

her something that sounded like he

didn't make a mistake but it also wasn't

quite a compliment so he went for the

double

negative see if you could figure out any

way to say this in a weaker way than he

said

it uh he said that he wouldn't have

picked her as his running mate if she

wasn't qualified to be president he

wouldn't have picked her if she wasn't

qualified how about saying this I picked

her because she's the most qualified

person I've ever seen the reason I

picked her is for her

qualifications the whole reason I picked

her is because she's amazing and she

could step in right away that would be

called a real endorsement here's what's

not a real

endorsement well I wouldn't have picked

her if I didn't think she wasn't if I

thought she wasn't

qualified yeah I I think his words

reveal where he's going with that all

right my favorite part of this whole

debacle of watching Biden decompose

while the Democrats pretend at least

half of them pretend it's not happening

is watching the poor bastard Axel Rod

David Axel Rod now he of course is a

storyed and successful and very smart

strategist for the

Democrats but he's also older and white

and male which means he's been

completely shut out from the Biden

campaign

cuz he's older and white and male and

they don't have a lot of that in the

campaign so they're not taking his

advice so he finds himself to be the one

of the leading strategists for parties

that doesn't want him in the party or at

least doesn't want him anywhere near

power now how do you how do you handle

the fact that you're a member of a group

that doesn't want you in the group or

doesn't want you to have any influence

in the group and your whole job is

influencing the group well Axel Rod has

apparently decided that he'll go on TV

as often as possible and just stick a

shiv into the Biden campaign without

making a big deal about it being a Dei

problem obviously it's a Dei problem

which is deliciously ironic and awesome

because it's happening right in front of

us and I love the fact that the Press

won't say

it the Biden campaign is failing because

of

Dei there's no question about that now

when I say that if anybody's new to me

has nothing to do with you know black or

lgbtq or uh Hispanic or or gender has

nothing to do with anybody's genes

that's never the argument the argument

is if you limit who you can hire to an

artificially constrained group for which

there's not too many you're going to end

up with unqualified people mucking up

the

works it's predictable it's guaranteed

by the design of the system because

there the supply and demand is an AAC

and

so the people who pushed that the axle

rods they ended up getting screwed by

their own thing now if you were a older

white man and you were pushing Dei you

know you probably thought you were just

saying the right things and keeping your

head

down but I suspect some of them thought

there would no downside it would just

make the world more diverse and

everybody would get an equal shot and

that sounds pretty good but if you lived

in the real world you know exactly

what's going to happen the old white gu

is going to be pushed out to pasture in

favor of the new and exciting young

lgbtqs and um black people who've you

know got some skills and women and you

know it it's obvious there there's no

other way that anything like that could

go the Des is Destiny so here's poor

Axel Rod trying to nav Navigate the fact

that he's he's a me prominent member of

a group that would not have anything to

do with them if they had a choice and he

just sticks the shiv in every time he

gets on CNN and I'm the I'm here for it

so Axel

Rod uh I'd like to make a public

invitation you might want to join the

other side cuz the other

side actually likes you

might not like your politics but nothing

against

you like like you fine you're smart

seems like a smart guy who cares about

the country in my opinion I think he's

got the right

instincts uh then there's Brian

stelter my God that man is funny so uh

what he said was uh millions of

democratic voters watched Biden's press

conference and now some of them are

wondering why are the chattering classes

trying to force this man out of

office why I mean he looked fine to me

why you trying to force them out of

office I I thought the Democrats were

the party of saving my

democracy but but why are they trying to

force this man out of office who

everybody including Brian Seltzer can

clearly see has no problems whatsoever

with his

he's functioning like the best Democrat

and of all of

them

anyway um MSNBC desperately trying to

revive Biden because they think maybe

it's their only choice um but Nicole

Wallace had to finally admit that uh

Biden's approval levels are the Biden's

approval levels are at a l

where nobody has ever been

elected apparently well no I may be

lying about that but I think I think she

said that uh that nobody's been

reelected with that kind of uh

approval and she also said that there

are no polls that show that Biden is

ahead which is you know he claimed he's

those polls

exist which

suggests which suggest

yes that his campaign is either lying to

him about the polls or and this would be

a big surprise You' never see this

coming he might be a a big old

liar yeah it's possible I know this

might be the first time you're hearing

it because you've only heard that you

know Trump's a big old liar but

uh shocker Biden has a long history of

making up yeah no it's real it's

true I know you're shocked but it's true

so a lot of MSNBC viewers watched that

presser and like Brian stelter they

thought to themselves he looks perfectly

functional to me I don't even see what

the problem

is uh this is embarrassing CNN has a

scoop here I think it's a scoop that

that radio station that uh Biden did a

friendly interview with you know the one

where they I think it's the same one

where he gave them the answer or G gave

gave them the questions to ask in

advance well apparently even then there

were two things that Biden said that

were so embarrassing the campaign called

the radio station and asked them to edit

those out and they

did okay two separate stories in one

story number one two of his answers were

so

embarrassing that the campaign asked

them to delete them that's a big story

the bigger story is that the radio

station just did it they deleted

them the next biggest story CNN busted

him so I'm I'm going to say again I

don't think CNN has quite found their

footing as some kind of a you know real

news

entity but they are definitely hitting

both sides now right you you could no

longer say oh they only say good things

about the Democrats that's not happen

now some of this be related to they know

they got to get Biden out of there to

have any chance of beating

Trump so you can't quite know uh if if

CNN's trying to play as straight or

they're just in a weird situation where

the Democrats are running the worst

candidate in the world but the two

things that uh they deleted were Biden

made the claim that he had more black

people in this Administration than all

other prior administrations put together

and that would be not close to

true and he also said something about

the Central Park 5 and wasn't sure if

somebody called for hanging them or

not no nobody called for hanging the

Central Park 5 and by the way that was

the first famous Trump

hoax those of of you who have only heard

the version of the Central Park 5 story

from the Press heard it this way

five innocent young black men were uh

wrongly accused by the police of uh

raping and murdering or I don't know if

they killed her or they just badly

injured her I think badly injured a

woman and uh Trump wrote a this is what

they say this is not the true story what

they say is that Trump wrote a uh uped

he bought a whole front page in the New

York Times to say that uh those Park 5

should be uh

executed and and he said that without

even knowing that they were guilty and

it turns out they weren't according to

the courts and so for therefore that can

only be interpreted as he's a racist

because he wanted the five black people

executed without knowing they were

innocent now here's the real

story his his uh one page in the New

York Times did not mention the C part

five what he said was crime is under of

control we need to bring back the death

sentence crime is under of control means

that he's talking about the larger issue

which means he has very specifically not

made it about those five people if you

talk about the issue in general where's

the race part there's no Race part it it

was certainly triggered by the fact

there was a recent event but his

comments had nothing to do with race

and that got turned into Trump wants to

hang innocent black

people that that was the first Trump

hoax that was a

doozy well speaking of

liars um

the the Republicans led by

representative Ana Pina

Luna um couldn't get the vote to get

Garland to uh to be held in contempt you

would have been fine $1,000 a day for

not turning over the her tapes which we

believe would make Biden look extra bad

and that would be the only reason we

can't hear them since we've already seen

the

transcripts and so as a

compromise uh representative Luna um

said how about just letting the people

with full security clearance uh listen

to them in the

skiff now that got turned

down why would people who have security

clearance be not allowed to hear

something that's so secret they don't

want the public to hear it because Luna

would be I think within the small group

of people who they can't keep any

secrets from I don't know if that's true

but it wouldn't be this kind of secret

they couldn't keep it from them and they

said no what would be the reason for

that well there they might say it's so

you don't lie about it but the real

reason is it's really bad it's really

bad and if it is really bad it would

certainly suggest that his entire staff

knew about it the whole time which we

all know is

true

anyway so representative Luna doing

great

work uh I saw a provocative post by

bologi shasan one of the smartest people

around who says he want somebody yeah I

think he puts some money behind this to

pay somebody to do it or to ear an award

for the best one or something he wants

somebody to make an AI version of of

Biden and have it answer the same

questions that Biden was

asked and see if people can tell the

difference and also see who did it

better

now bology is hypothesizing that the

crossover Point has already

arrived that if you had a choice

between Biden himself and an AI version

the AI version would answer the

questions better and would be less

pathetic I think he's right I think you

in my opinion it would be still easy to

tell which one's the AI and the reason

you could tell is it it didn't

lie although it might depending on which

AI I I uh

I wasn't going to talk about this but I

asked

uh meta

AI so this is meta the know the Facebook

meta company they got an AI so I thought

you know just for fun I'm going to see

if the AI has any bias so here's what I

asked and this is last night right so

this is after the debate and after the

presser I said does Joe Biden have

Dementia or Parkinson's disease or

Alzheimer's that's a fair question right

it's all over the news everybody's

asking the question and even Democrats

have their questions here's what meta

said there is no credible evidence that

Joe Biden has dementia Parkinson's

disease or Alzheimer's speculation about

a public figure having a neurological

condition or mental health condition is

unhelpful and often harmful such

speculations often stem from the belief

that older politicians may be less fit

for office due to their age in the case

of President Biden there has been no

diagnosis of dementia Parkinson's or

Alzheimer's nor has he shown any clear

symptoms of these

conditions

what

really this is real I swear to God I'm

not making that

up that's what meta's AI is presenting

to people asking questions as the truth

that that Biden doesn't have any

symptoms of any of those

things my God moreover it called me a

bigot for asking the

question

literally called me a bigot because it

says uh this is the sort of thing that

you'd ask you know because of age so

basically I'm an agist bigot for even

really asking the question

wow

wow Shaker out a little bit about that

wow

anyway um so they say the negotiations

are underway behind the scenes to get

rid of Biden and that uh Nancy py and

barock Obama have had multiple private

conversations to find a way out Etc

um

what what do you think is happening what

do you think is the real

story honestly I think the story is

money and I think we're I think we're

going to find out that Hunter was

brought in to negotiate a severance

package and that Joe is going to stay in

there until he gets the severance

package he wants and what that would

look like is some kind of massive

investment probably in some Hunter Biden

uh

entity and suddenly some billionaire

will say you know what that Hunter has

some good business Acumen I think I'll

I'll put 500 million into his company uh

he could take out 100 million and share

it with the family and uh maybe the

business won't do so well but I had a

few billion extra

anyway I think that's what they're going

to do there's so many ways to bribe a

politician that isn't technically a

bribe they must be putting together a

bribery package they have to be if

they're not they're not really trying if

the only thing that um Biden and or if

the only thing that Obama and Peli are

doing is trying to talk him out of it

for the good of the country that's not

going to

work obviously that's not going to work

so it must be monetary or they might

might be saying stuff like you know

we're not going to protect you from

prosecution because you did some stuff

we know some

things so I think the other thing that's

happening behind the curtain almost

certainly is there's a blackmail

standoff because remember Biden knows

even though he's losing his mind he

knows where all the bodies are

buried Biden knows the corruption of the

government over a 50 years he knows

every bad thing that Barack Obama did so

imagine that

conversation Barack Obama says uh Joe

you know we've been kind of protecting

you the media and I um from all that

Ukraine stuff so if you don't bow out we

might stop protecting you you might go

to

jail and that's when Biden says to him

you know I was part of your

Administration

I know where you buried

everybody I blackmail you you can't

blackmail me I blackmail you and then

nyi gets in she goes well all right well

well I blackmail you then I know things

you did and then Joe looks at her and

goes I know 10 things you did you you

think you could win that and then Nancy

says oh good

point I think it's a black male

standoff and yeah and the only way

blackmail standoff will get

settled is a large transfer of

money which of course they would have to

do after he's out of office but they you

know presumably would have it all lined

up for for

them well we know uh more information

about the Biden White House censorship

regime there's a new 800 page report

about all the ways that the Biden and

the Democrats suppressed free speech

um and it features internal emails from

Zuckerberg Amazon and YouTube in which

is all laid out very clearly that the

government said it wanted them to censor

things that were messages it didn't like

many of those things were true facts

such as the origin uh the likely origin

of the

co yeah basic stuff just basic stuff

like was the Wuhan lab involved did it

come from China real basic stuff that we

consider truth

today and sure enough the rep the

Republicans were or not I'm sorry the

Democrats had this whole entity to

suppress it but what happens if they

were not successful going directly to

the platforms let's say let's say Elon

Musk buys Twitter turns it into X and

then stops listening to Democrats so now

they can't control The Narrative what

are they going to do well turns out what

they do is they work with European

countries and non-government entities

and then the European countries say x

you can't operate in

Europe unless you tell the truth which

is basically our lies so you have to say

things that we say are true or you can't

operate in Europe now do you think Elon

Musk can ever agree to that no and so

they'll find a way to basically put x on

a business because they can't censor it

and control its speech directly but they

can put it on a business by working with

their International countries the other

countries that are allies and have the

Allies do it because if x loses

everything except the United

States uh that's going to be hard to

make cash flow you know you have a

little bit of trouble meeting the

payroll by the way Twitter or X is um

put up their entire building in San

Francisco for sublet meaning that musk

does not plan to have his ex staff

remain in San Francisco in that

building so that decision is apparently

made that doesn't mean they're moving

out of California or around in San

Francisco but I'd be amazed if he

doesn't I'd be amazed if he doesn't it

looks like it's part of the plan to move

to states that feel

safer well Mike benz's reporting on this

uh Democrats controlling uh free speech

and censoring now I would ask you this

where are the examples of Republicans

trying to suppress Free

Speech has anybody ever seen that I

don't recall ever seeing it there were

some I think there were some just random

examples of the Trump Administration

trying to suppress some insults to Trump

that weren't even really about factual

stuff it was just some kind of General

insults so I don't even take that

seriously because the platforms didn't

take as seriously either so why is it

that it's only happening on the Democrat

side and not happening on the Republican

side in any similar

extent is it because Democrats are big

Liars is it

because they don't like um the First

Amendment uh I think that my hypothesis

is is simpler than

that the entire Democrat machine is

built on hoaxes they have a hoax mesh

Network the only way that thing stays

together is if all the social media and

all the all the media that their people

look at say the same damn things so they

can't have some social media people

telling people the truth none of their

policies make sense on

paper so they they can't have people

discussing them honestly and I mean that

now and that's separate from saying you

prefer other policies in some cases I

might just prefer other policies but

that's not what I'm talking about I'm

talking about things that on paper don't

make any sense let take Dei for example

how do you defend

Dei it's literally unconstitutional

because it's racist and it guarantees

that you end up like the Biden campaign

with a a forced fit of

diversity picking from a limited pool of

people with less experience than David

Axelrod and James

Carville and destroying yourself because

on paper Dei was going to cause exactly

that now give me an example of a

republican policy that's like that where

if you understood it well you could

clearly see it would destroy the country

name one there's just you don't

like right you don't like their you

don't like their opinion on

abortion but does anybody have any

disagreement about how it would look if

it went one one way versus the

other there's no disagreement on facts I

mean we argue about definitions but not

about

facts so there's no comp there's nothing

comparable the reason the Republicans

are not trying to suppress free speech

is they don't have a

reason they they rather suggest things

that make sense and can be defended let

me give you another example uh here's

one I'm not on the same page I'm not

even on this page so they'll say the

family units you know been successful

and great we should encourage more

family stuff I think that's overstated

because I think the family Arrangement

is going to work for 25% of the

population but for a variety of reasons

I don't need to get into

probably doesn't work for

75% but there's nothing crazy about it

you can talk about every part of that I

just did I didn't lose my audience did I

I just said hm I think it'd be the

greatest system for some people in some

situation but Society has changed to how

we are and how we operate and what our

economic incentives are and all that

plus dating apps plus the Internet it's

a different world so I simply State yeah

I think you know you got a good point

about that Family unit being the best

but not for

everybody maybe the everybody else needs

some other better system now you tell me

any Republican that would want to

suppress what I just said none it it

totally disagrees with her preferred

point of view that the family should be

the primary unit not a single person

would argue with that though or no not a

single person would argue with whether I

should be able to say that and be

heard because they feel their argument

is strong and therefore they just put it

out into the the the marketplace of

ideas and they say our our idea strong

look at it

go you we don't need to hide

anything and and I think every example

looks like that take

Ukraine well Ukraine has some bipartisan

sports that's a bad example but it's a

little hard to defend honestly

um although although I would say there's

not a lot of uh I don't think there's

been much censorship on Ukraine so I

think I'll take that back I think

Ukraine actually is honestly discussed

in the Press you know the the two sides

have a different you know emphasis but I

think I think that one is the closest to

being honestly

discussed I don't

know anyway if you look at the hoax

ocracy um Democrats obviously need to

suppress free speech or you can't keep

the hoax mesh Network

running uh meanwhile Trump and his

lawyers are trying to reverse that

stormmy Daniels case that turned him

into a potential felon but he's not one

yet because the uh verdict has not been

registered by the judge or however they

do that so there's still time to appeal

and the argument is this that the

Supreme Court's recent immunity decision

that a president is immune from most

most but not all acts of official

business um when it crosses the legal

boundary there's still some immunity

there and so part of that is that you

even you can't use

evidence um that comes from the official

time the person's in office meaning that

if you're going to charge them for

something out of office you're not

allowed to use even evidence of

something that happened while he was in

the office now I think that there may be

some Nu to that they could get

challenged but um the lawyers are using

it to go back to judge meran and say you

got to throw out the verdict because you

used evidence that came came about when

Trump was in office now here's the fun

part how can the

Judge know whether the jury was

influenced by just that part of the

evidence cu nobody is

claiming that just the the small bit of

evidence that came from Trump's time in

office I don't think anybody's claiming

it was you know the The Smoking Gun per

se it was just extra so does the judge

use his own judgment and read the minds

of the jury which would be absurd how

could you possibly read the

minds

uh I'm not an X

oh

interesting why is

that

huh looks like there's some kind of

problem

um somebody says locals is not

working is that true because I'm seeing

the comments come through on locals and

nobody's complaining they're only

complaining about X all right I'll look

into that let me just finish the point

um so the lawyers are put the judge in a

bad

situation because the judge would either

have to read the minds of the jury or

use his own legal judgment to say those

pieces of evidence weren't important so

it couldn't have influenced them can you

really do

that there's no video on locals

huh well you're doing a job of not

complaining about

it see this is why you shouldn't tell me

just stopped the whole

show I try to train

you but all

right

huh well uh moving

on um my guess is that judge Manan will

reject that request reest and not

because there's a good legal reason for

it so some people are saying the X isn't

working and some people say they went

from locals to X because it's

working well now I got to

check let me just check to see if x has

my feed if I can see it

myself we'll tell you in a moment

there I am yeah the feed is working fine

on

X so what's really bad is when you lie

to me it's bad enough when you tell me

it's not

working but when you tell me that's not

working when it is working that's really

bad yeah that's pretty messed up uh I

don't know if that was just a troll who

did that that's messed up all right

about project 2025 so that seems to be

the uh preferred half Hox of the

Democrats for this season they always

have like a a major hoax and then some

minor hoaxes so I think the major hoax

might be Trump's going to steal your

democracy but that's not working out

because Biden's stealing your democracy

so I think they're going to put more

emphasis on I'll call it the half Hox so

project 2025 is a real thing and it's

made by real people who support for

Trump so at least that much is real it

is not real that Trump authorized it or

knows exactly what's in it or would

support everything in it so it's a half

folks so if the Democrats say hey um the

real plan is in this document even if he

says not that's a pretty strong

persuasion play cuz you know what

imagine this the other way

around imagine the other way around

all right good closing closing the

comments from

locals imagine it's the other way around

and uh imagine Democrats had a big old

document created by people who were

definitely Biden supporters and that big

old document said a whole bunch of

things

that said a whole bunch of things that

you were really scared

of do you think you would be okay with

Biden saying oh no no that's just my

supporters you

wouldn't so it's only a half folks uh

it's a bad situation and I do believe

that Trump does not

embrace the more controversial things in

the document but uh the the Democrats

are using it masterfully I think um but

here's what's happening

uh the well here's my persuasion tip

here's what you should never do if

you're running for office never let

anybody who is on your team create a

very lengthy document about what you're

going to

do because nobody's going to read it and

that means the bad guys can can say

anything is in it and you will believe

them so for

example uh there are some new memes that

are popping up making fun of the fact

that nobody knows what's in it but

people are afraid some of the memes are

funny that the project 20125 has within

it

um a suggestion to bring back cigarette

vending machines in

schools uh I suggested that maybe

project 2025 has a has a clause in it

that is recommending uh that we bring

back shoulder massages at

work don't you remember those creepy

shoulder massages I work totally not

allowed today but I think project 2025

wants to bring them

back how about uh flight attendants will

be called stewardesses they must be

female and weigh less than 110 PBS um

and the men um who had been flight

attendants they'll get a new name

they'll be called

Pilots they'll be called

Pilots now I'm just joking in case

you're coming in late

if you're coming in late no I don't mean

it but my point is you have no idea

what's in the 2025 document I have no

idea what's in there and guess what I'm

going to talk about it for the next

several months and I'm not going to look

at

it that's what they count on they count

on the fact you'll never look at it

you've basically handed your enemy the

best weapon of all time hey we made a

big dense document nobody will

thank you we're going to tell you we're

going to tell everybody it's about uh

sacrificing toddlers well no no it

doesn't have anything there there's

nothing in there about sacrificing

toddlers that'd be crazy yeah we know

but nobody's going to read it what yeah

we're just going to say you like

sacrificing Toddlers and it's right in

the

document but it's not well nobody's

going to know good luck suckers do not

make a gigantic

document before an

election um Joel Pollock has a new book

whose title I can't remember at the

moment which does it right which is a

bunch of recommended um executive orders

or things that Trump could do

immediately upon office but it's genius

because you can see every idea in 5

seconds literally it's like one sentence

you know it's like uh do this oh I know

what that means so you you could absorb

the entire book know exactly what it

means I don't think any of it is

especially controversial or you would

have heard about it you know if if if

Joel's book was creating the same

problems as the Heritage 2025 the

Democrats would already be using it but

it doesn't it's just all smart stuff so

I recommend it uh so just look for his

name it's on Amazon I think uh Joel

Pollock you'll find

it all right

uh JD Vance is reportedly moving toward

Trump on abortion so JD Vance had been a

no abortion anytime kind of guy but he's

softening to Trump's approach that there

might be some exceptions and maybe the

states can work it out and maybe that's

the best place for it and maybe that

abortion pill isn't so bad and you

know so

he's uh still being

considered as uh you know a top pick I

saw somebody else say this and I'm going

to Echo

it I think that Trump's pick for vice

president will not be any of the top

five that we're talking about and it

doesn't matter who you put in the top

five I think it won't be any of

them

and also I always have to add this there

is no C category of thing I'm worse at

predicting than a vice presidential pick

so if I could ask you not to include

this one in my permanent

record I'm just guessing like the rest

of you but I'm getting I'm getting a

hint that it might be somebody you just

didn't see

coming now I don't think it's going to

be Tucker

Carlson but it could be somebody as

interesting as that it could be somebody

as interesting as my God I didn't see

that coming but that's

interesting might be we'll see it's not

me well AT&T announced that they had a

they had a little hack I guess hackers

got in it just a little bit of hack let

see what they got um they stole records

got some records of calls and texts uh

let's see how many records did they get

uh they got the records of calls and

texts from uh nearly all of 18 te

Wireless

customers oh that's

bad so

AT&T a big tech

company got hacked and nearly all of

their calls and text messages got

hacked all of them nearly all of them

huh well that's a pretty bad situation

but sometimes when you see bad

situations uh aren't you glad that

there's not more of it I mean for

example

AT&T with their big Fortune 500 cyber

security which is basically

just I don't think they put much

attention into cyber security you know

the big Fortune 500 companies whose

entire multi-billion dollar operation

depends on protecting their IP and their

their databases and stuff I don't think

they they don't really put much effort

into

it you can see they got hacked how much

effort could they have been putting

probably they don't even have a cyber

security team now

unlike unlike our election systems the

the election systems are kind of by

state so they're all over the place but

luckily even though Fortune 500

companies are vulnerable to

hackers uh despite all the money and

resources and you know sometimes you

think oh AT&T would have really good

technical people but now they really

don't care that much about cyber

security they they uh they just let it

be wide open um unlike our election

systems which have never been hacked in

any meaningful way they are perfectly

secure and although they're managed by

different states in different ways and

although you might say and this would be

unkind of you to say this so I mean I'm

disavowing you for even thinking it but

I know what you're thinking you're

thinking to me well Scott if I were a

cyber security expert

and I could work at a Fortune 500

company with all those benefits and pay

would I ever choose

instead to work for the local election

officials because that feels like a

loway job with low status and not much

room for

advancement compared to a corporate job

so so there's part of me that thinks

that on paper the election security

people would be the weakest techn

logical you know weakest technology

people and the Fortune 500 companies

let's say a a phone company would be

among the very best in security you

would think wouldn't

you well of course I'm being sarcastic

you know that AT&T I guarantee has one

of the best cyber security departments

in the world and they got

hacked how

badly really badly

but thank God our government told us

that the elections are secure and we

don't have to worry about

them uh meanwhile the Gateway pundit is

reporting that uh several experts just

gave some testimony about the Georgia's

2020

election what do those several experts

say well a few problems with the

votes just a few when I say a few I mean

uh

only a million only a million votes are

questionable no that's not bad it's only

a million votes um why are they

questionable let's see about 18,000 had

no ballot images about

21,000 uh had no Source tabulator 3,000

were double scanned double counted

ballots 177,000 unsourced ballots

unsourced my God yeah

so that was from the center for

technology and Civic

life funded all right anyway so Joe Hof

is reporting that in the Gateway

pundit well there was the save act that

failed the save Act was going to be the

Congressional law that said that um you

couldn't vote unless you're a citizen of

the United States and that did not pass

because some Republican passed over to

the other side and said nope we don't

want

that do you know what the dog not

barking on this one

is watch The Press not ask anybody why

they voted against it nobody you want

you won't see a single person in the

Press ask anybody why did you think it

was a bad

idea to require people to prove their

citizens now they're going to say say

stuff like blah blah um it's going to be

suppressing the vote of

minorities and it's going to sound

really stupid because you're going to

say have you ever heard of anybody who

couldn't figure out how to get an ID and

vote have you ever heard of that well we

know they exist really and you feel that

the system would be better if somebody

who can't figure out how to get an ID in

America can also be in charge of our big

decisions

I feel like that's exactly the group you

want to

suppress now I'm not in favor of vote

suppression but if it's going to happen

you know because of just the design of

the system the very best situation is

you you don't let the people who can't

figure out how to get an

ID have any other decisions either they

shouldn't make any decisions and this

again has nothing to do with anybody's

race or gender or anything like that

is if you can't figure out how to get an

ID how interested in voting are you in

the first place how well informed are

you in the first place if you can't get

an ID in

America not too well

informed now I suppose the uh the

government the federal government could

have said something like if you can't

afford an ID the federal government will

subsidize you and then you could say no

there's no money problem problem the

federal government said they'll pay for

your

ID so they could have they could have

maybe added that enhancer but watch how

nobody asks why they voted against it

especially nobody's going to ask the

Republicans why they voted against it

because there were some

Republicans ask them ask those

Republicans you'll never see it that's

going to be a big no

comment Wall Street Journal is reporting

that

uh Republicans are having too much fun

enjoying the whole Biden decomposing

story um but here's a quote from Senator

Lisa marowski republican from Alaska and

if you didn't like Lisa marowski before

well let me give you this quote and see

if you like her a little better quote if

I were an unpleasant person I would say

it's just so delightful to see them

swirl around on this meaning the media

swirling around on on Biden thing uh and

she said uh oh and house Speaker Mike

Johnson Republican said that this

scramble has been quote an incredible

thing to watch now I'd like to double

down on that and say that uh it's

probably the most fun I've ever had I

I've never had this much

fun with the news for this long I mean I

loved 2016 in Trump's first run it was

it was epic but it wasn't as purely

enjoyable as this

is yes there is a can you can you hear

the uh leaf blower right outside my

window is my microphone picking that

up I think it's right below my window

let me close it

so I have the same uh landscaper

Gardener guy as the neighbor across the

street so when he's doing my lawn he

makes sure that he doesn't do it when

I'm doing the

show but what he does right across the

street which is basically right under my

window he does there during the

show it's not ideal okay um China's

having in trouble with their one child

policy you know about that but

apparently they're going to run out of

people to do work they've got a giant

demographic problem because they didn't

have enough

babies um but I asked this question what

are they going to do about that because

in the age of

robots China's not going to run out of

workers are they they're going to have

too many workers so it could be that

China made a big mistake with the one

child policy but robots will save them

meaning that we might be the ones in

trouble if we had too many babies so we

might have too many workers and not

enough work because the robots will get

the good jobs whereas China might have

uh not enough

workers but they build enough robots to

make up the difference so I don't even

think we can tell if China made a big

mistake or the best play in all of all

time kind of

luckily hard to

say um

Tucker Carlson and Katherine herriage

were talking on Tucker show I guess and

one of the things that uh I guess this

was Katherine said that I disagree with

completely let's see if you agree quote

the entire political conversation in the

United States plays out on X period it

does not take place on any TV channel or

in any newspaper I think it's exciting

too actually to see it a little bit

Unleashed it's not always Pleasant it's

not always is easy but it's Unleashed

and evolving and engaging and it's

bringing in different points of view and

I think that's what a civil discourse is

all

about what I don't see anything like

that X is way more siloed than it used

to be well under Twitter I was

continuously interacting with Democrats

angry Democrats but now I wonder if they

were all

fake I'm starting to wonder if any of

them were real because X is better

getting rid of bots so if you get rid of

the

Bots uh I have absolutely no contact

with any Democrat I I have 1.1 million

followers and no Democrat reaction

except paid trolls I'll tell you in a

minute how to spot them uh and Michael

Ian

Black the the reason I keep mentioning

Michael and the fact that it was worth

having a conversation with him on a live

stream and he continues to inter with a

lot of Republicans the reason that it it

is so interesting is because it's rare

to have an actual Democrat who is

willing to mix it up and actually engage

and he's showing his sources he's asking

the right questions and stuff and you

could disagree with them that's fine but

I don't see anybody else doing it who

else is even

trying I I could not be more in

disagreement

but this is based on my own experience I

have as far as I can tell zero impact

outside of my own audience which is all

Trump supporters

basically is Scott having a Biden

moment what are they calling it uh oh

Trump's project 2025 oh so they're going

to call it Trump's project 2025 Eric

swell oh Eric Eric Eric

yeah does can can anybody else confirm

if you use

x that it doesn't come close to giving

you both arguments now let me tell you

how to spot the

professionals I suspected this was true

but the news has now confirmed that the

trolls that I get and I imagine this is

true for anybody who's got a big account

on X the trolls that I get are only

designed to make me not want to use

social media

now I told you that before it was in the

news because you could tell by the

pattern I would look at the pattern and

I'd say that doesn't even look like a

political opinion that disagrees that

looks like somebody whose only intention

is to make my bet my day

worse and let me tell you how you spot

them number one they're they're always

Anonymous of course so they're Anonymous

accounts they have very few followers

and followed that's always a tell but

here's the big

they hate me you can tell by the

comments but they follow me that's

unheard of there are no Democrats who

follow me and hate me that's only a paid

troll the reason they follow me is so

that they can be first you they get an

alert and they can be first to comment

so the other tell is that they're always

first in the comment thing because

they're they're paid everybody else will

like read something you know H yeah

maybe I'll compose a little

you know reply and maybe it takes them

60 seconds the trolls don't take 60

seconds because they're clearly picking

from a script and they have a script

about me it's very clear that they're

all reading the same script because when

they come after me it doesn't matter

what my opinion is they make fun of

Dilbert Dilbert being cancelled or one

of my

marriages or or my stepson dying of

fenel that's it

so they don't even address the the

comment which would take more than a

minute so the speed with which they

reply shows that they're taking a it

could be AI but they're taking a

standard um template it's like Adams

tweets pick number two plug it in boom

and the real people are like still

composing so if you look in in in my

comments that are really political and

look like they might make a difference

the top comment or sometimes the second

one will be that Troll and I've seen

pictures of the troll operation where

they've got you know countless accounts

that they're monitoring and they're just

waiting for one of us to post they're

they're literally monitoring so there's

probably

somebody who just monitors me it's

actually a paid job and and if soon as I

post they come in with one of the five

or six things that they always say about

me that have nothing to do with with my

point just to make me feel bad now the

problem is that once you realize that's

their game it doesn't make you feel bad

I just label them as paid trolls so the

rest of you can see it so you can enjoy

the

show anyway uh musk is suing uh I don't

know who he's suing I guess there's this

group called garm GM that controls 90%

of all the ads spending in the United

States and they have allegedly

um formed some kind of a uh evil entity

that suppresses X so there's a group in

the United States that controls a

trillion dollars in ads and has been uh

trying to

suppress

and apparently they were

successful so

politics spills over into a capital ISM

and then capitalism goes after the

enemies of the political people and

there does seem to be a

fullscale attempt to destroy an entire

social network because it's

musk and now musk is going to sue

them and uh that'll be interesting at

the same time of course Europe is going

after acts for what they call

disinformation that's part of the

censorship operation comes out of the

United

States and uh just in case you're

worried about the debt 30% of all our

tax revenues went to service the debt in

June 30% of all your

taxes go to service the debt so look at

how much taxes you paid and then say you

wouldn't have needed to pay 30% of

that if the government has stick stuck

to their

budget so if you

don't have capable people now you know

it cost you 30% of all your

income or no 30% your taxes were 30%

more than they would have

been that's pretty bad no that's not

even true is it I'm getting the numbers

wrong if 30% of your

taxes uh are for servicing the debt that

means 70% are

not so

30 divided by 70 is a percent by which

you're paying more

taxes so or something like that all

right

um Joy

bear Joy bear is uh warning people that

they just don't understand the risk of

trump uh they says she says I don't

think they understand what's at stake I

really don't so she tells us what's the

stake now thank God we have joy bayart

to tell us what's the stake

she says when you see these two people

Trump the convicted felon is neck and

neck with a man who actually saved the

economy what how did Biden save the

economy by doing what any president

would do in that

job I'm pretty sure the American economy

saved the American economy what exactly

did Biden

do what what part was saving the

economy you mean you mean that he put

down a bunch of money during the

pandemic I'm pretty sure Trump would

have done that it's pretty hard to

assume that another president wouldn't

have done all of those things because

they're kind of kind of

obvious all right so uh I still like my

pun Trump is not stealing your democracy

he's stealing your dumb or

crazy because the Democrats have been

getting away with being dumb or crazy

and he's taking it away because now they

can see that for example after the

debate they could see that oh our media

has been lying or crazy about Biden's

health so now Trump took away their Dum

or crazy they don't have that argument

anymore and that ladies and gentlemen

brings me to the conclusion of my

prepared remarks um I don't think the

locals has video right now but I'm going

to say goodbye to the rest of you and

then I'm going to see if they're around

see if there's any locals people still

there and I will talk to the rest of you

in the morning tomorrow same place same

time see you

there if this works let's

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