Episode 2623 CWSA 10/09/24

okay you know what I love is when a stock that I sold a long time ago goes down I shouldn't enjoy it when a stock goes down but it's only if it's one that I already sold a long time ago so I guess I'm not a good person is the bottom line all right let's find there you go now we've got it all together good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time in your whole darn life but if you'd like to take it up to a level that nobody's ever seen with their tiny shiny human brains all you need is a gupper muger glass a tanker cheles a can you Jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure the dope me of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous Sip and it happens now go the technology is working thank you Paul well if you're not subscribed to Dilbert reborn which you can only see if you're a member of locals at Scott adams.

locals.com or or you can be subscribing on the xplatform if you only want the comic over at locals we do political stuff too but if you were reading the Dilbert reborn you would know that uh Dilbert's company is taking a lesson from p didy uh I can say no more say no more let's just say that b Diddy did really well in business and the pointy aired boss has noticed and so he's going to try to see what he can learn see if he can pick up any business tips from p and uh I can't tell you how this works out but just I'll give you one hint uh a shook the intern it doesn't go well for him that's all you need to know all right next story uh according to Oxford University Health caffeine is linked to better vascular health oh yeah if you're feeling stronger it's because of me you had an extra sip because you're watching this you're a little bit heart healthier than you were a moment ago that's called science meanwhile scientists something called IFL science is reporting that they gave rats some psilocybin no magic mushrooms and the Rats became more optimistic became more optimistic now you might ask yourself why do I want to make my rats more optimistic and I think the obvious answer is do you want sad rats I mean it's bad enough if you have a rat but do you want a sad one no you want happy one so they give them mushrooms and make them happy I think they're thinking there might be some connection to making humans happy but I don't know I think take the win if you made some rats happy that's not nothing I like happy rats uh there's a new kind of 3D printing according to Concordia University that I don't understand exactly but they call a holographic 3D printing and involves sound uh using acoustic Holograms so in other words somehow they can concentrate sound waves and then the sound waves will be the force that puts the materials into its shape but you know what's cool about it because it's sound waves you could actually create something on the other side of a barrier so you could actually 3D create something inside somebody's body without opening them up now I guess you'd have to have some material that you got inside the body one way or the other so maybe you have to open them up to put some 3D print in material in their body but once it's in there then they can put in the sound waves and actually turn it into something like a heart valve or some damn thing once it's already in your body now I don't know if there'll ever be an application for that but there is some thinking that this will completely change 3D printing that'd be cool that's getting a lot closer to the replicator and Star Trek because it' be one thing to see you know the replicator do that printing one like at a time you wait forever but imagine if they could just Sho some sound waves at something and you just see a form like forming as a a solid that would be completely different anyway that's on the way so the uh is she the president I guess that would be the title of Italy Georgia Milani she's uh she's in court um because she's trying to get deep fakes that pornographic of her band so she doesn't want people to make deep fake porn of her apparently they exist and uh she says it's a form of violence now this opens up many deep and interesting questions number one I can certainly see your point if you made a porn of a public figure and you put it online uh you could see how if you were a woman especially it would seem like effectively violence right it would be sort of a psychological violence but violence uh and I can see the point I I completely understand that now I don't know if it'd be the same for man um but I'm willing to find out so if if anybody wants to make if anybody wants to make an x-rated porno involving me uh go ahead I promise I won't I won't accuse you of violence just just be generous that's all I'm asking just be generous now there's no it's no laughing matter if this is done to you know a woman or somebody's who's underage obviously this is a sort of crime that's not going to hit every victim the same uh in my case it would just be funny but you could certainly see how if you were a woman or especially if you were a minor uh it would be devastating so don't make uh we're not going to make fun of it um unless it's about me and then you can make fun of it but this raises a question so you've all seen that AI can take some real person and then put them in a scene we've seen that it can take real people like a photograph of a person and turn it into into a talking kind of an icon is there yet an app where you can take a picture of the woman who turned you down and then turn her into your permanent digital girlfriend does that exist because it feels like only the parts exist like there's one app that can make somebody talk there's another app that can make it look like the picture that you gave it and probably there's a third thing that doesn't do either of those two things that can turn it into a like a conversational app I don't think we're yet at the point where you could just take the photograph from Facebook of the the girl that you know rejected you in in high school and it just turned her into your digital girlfriend now here's my question obviously that will exist would you agree there's no way around that people will absolutely be taking real real life photographs of people sometimes they don't even know which is somebody they they like and turning it into their digital servant now is that a crime suppose you're just doing it for personal use suppose you took a real life person took a photo even added their let's say there's some audio of them so you add even their voice if you create a whole digital sex slave that's based very closely on a real person person does the real person have any claim against you or should they this is such un such new territory that it's it's hard to imagine even how you'd respond to it but but here's the part that you can know for sure 100% sure people will be taking pictures of real people and turning them into digital sex slaves and companions why wouldn't they if you had the technology and it was just an app and all you had to do is feed it a picture or a video why wouldn't you like I I don't even know the argument for not doing it of course you would if you were lonely and you wanted to wanted something to keep you company you might as well make it something you like a little extra why wouldn't you well anyway uh CNN is reporting that uh it's not true that the Afghan refugees that have been coming into the country since the Afghan war w wound down with the United States it's not true that the Afghan refugees have not been adequately vetted so all you people are saying oh they're letting in a bunch of Afghans and some of them might be terrorists CNN is here to tell you in a big headline it is not true not true that the Afghans have not been effectively vetted also CNN would like you to know that an Afghan National Refugee has been charged with uh planning a mass murder on Election Day so I suppose you can pick either one of those headlines one of them is true either they were carefully vetted or there's an Afghan Refugee who just got caught plotting a mass murder on Election Day one of those is definitely true so 50/50 not bad um the question I have is how many disasters will we have around election day um probably hurricanes uh we got the monkey pox uh the Isis terrorist attack that was thwarted but maybe there's some more maybe something with drones maybe World War II maybe something nuclear earthquake rods from God space lasers UFO contact I don't think we have any idea how wild things are going to get but I'll tell you one thing no matter what happens on its own like just naturally it was a coincidence we're going to blame on somebody if there's an earthquake you know we're going to be talking about the cia's technology for triggering earthquakes you know we are right so if there's a solar flare somebody's going to say that there's CIAA technology that can create a solar flare and that's not it's no accident that happened on election day if it does meanwhile Tik tok's getting more lawsuits uh I guess 14 States and it's bipartisan so this is not just Democrats and not just Republicans it's both uh getting together because I think Tik tok's dangerous for young people why is Tik Tok even available for young people minors why yeah I feel like there's almost Universal agreement that it's bad for young people below you know maybe you could pick 16 as your starting age but is there anybody who disagrees with that now I guess there's a you know Free Speech element to it but does that apply to children do children have free speech I'm pretty sure they can't stand up in class and start cursing you know there there's limits on what kids can do so it's weird that this is even a question but but uh I have a feeling that whoever wants to keep Tik Tock alive has a lot of power maybe it's our intelligence people maybe they want to keep it alive so they can eventually control it I don't know meanwhile uh have you heard of the the app called Roblox if you if you're haven't been around young kids for a while you've maybe never even heard of it but wow Roblox is a sort of a what do you call it a a sort of a social media game mask game app where you can acquire building parts and build yourself a little home and get some furniture and interact with the other people now if you've ever seen a child who is playing Roblox there's something completely hypnotizing about it you should see the eyes of anybody who just played you the the eyes are just completely hypnotized I don't know what it is about it I haven't I haven't spent even a minute looking at it but wow if you if you've seen any kid stand up and walk away from Roblox just look at their eyes there is something going on with that thing like I I watch that you know watch that AFF one person in particular and I thought I don't even believe what I'm seeing the the level of addiction was beyond anything I've ever seen on social media it's it was a video game I I guess you'd say it's a video game level addiction it's pretty strong but the latest news is uh something called the Hindenburg report says that the uh the app is a uh a pedophile hellscape so I guess if you build a platform where it's mostly kids interacting you're going to get a lot of people who are not kids so not a big surprise this is the post millennial the post millennial is reporting on this so there's there stock plunged and they've got some financial problems anyway well I'm wondering if the reports or the allegations about Doug emof KL Harris's husband I'm wondering if those reports are getting to anybody on the left because if they had concerns about Donald Trump's interactions with women they would really have a problem with the Doug mhof stories if they're true now keep in mind there there's going to be a theme to Today's Show which is that none of the first person reports a month before an election or true or at least you shouldn't give them credibility I'm need to talk about a number of stories in the news that are all well somebody said there is a report from a Anonymous person uh to be fair I think we have to give the same treatment to mhof which is I'll tell you what the allegations are because it's political so therefore it's important to know what the allegations are are they true well they would be within the lowest credibility domain they might be true also some of the other stories I'm going to tell you about that I don't think are true might be they might be it's just you shouldn't believe them if the only evidence you have is that it's a it's a month before an election and somebody who doesn't give their name is making a claim about somebody I'm sorry that is the lowest level of credibility but um the reports coming in is that is he worked at a law firm and uh the attorneys who worked with him said he was uh misogynist and had men only cocktail hours and he would not be he would flirt with all the women and uh he would revoke work perks for anybody who didn't flirt back and uh he hired attractive assistants because they were attractive um if I could summarize that um all the all that behavior uh I'm going to summarize it all for you and the summary is uh Doug mhof once worked at a law firm which actually captures all of the other Behavior does anybody work in a law firm do any of you work for a law firm I want to see if you agree with my summary summary he worked for a law firm no I don't think it's too far off it's not too far off I've got a feeling your law firms are not not exactly the most uh polite places to work all right well here's another thing that um I'm trying to fight off the persuasive effects I'm completely aware that the average citizen in the United States has never seen any news report about anything in our elections that looked like it was fraudulent probably the vast majority of citizens have never even seen one story of anything current where an election was you know a little bit questionable but if you if you uh live in the right leaning you know Silo as I do you see them all day long so I think I saw four of them today four different stories of either the election roles had to be corrected or somebody's suing to make a change that they know needs to be changed but somebody's resisting there's a door that needs to be unlocked because there might be some bad ballots back there but they won't unlock the door there's a new lawsuit that got turned down for reasons that sound technical but maybe the the allegation was true and all day long I'm hearing this now and they're different states it's not like it's one situation it's all different states and they usually the swing States Etc and you know here's another one let's see uh Oregon according to Fox News mistakenly registered hundreds more voters and then the last minute they cleaned it up they've cleaned up over about 1,600 mistaken registrations now that's just the stuff they caught if all day long I'm hearing stories about well we we caught a th000 in this state but we fixed it and then the next day well there are 20,000 were a little questionable but we couldn't fix it and all if you hear that all day long you wouldn't possibly think that our elections are secure and accurate but if You' never heard any of these stories you'd say well I would have heard if there was a problem somebody would have told me I'm sure it would have been in the news it is in the news but not your news so I don't have any opinion about this specific report it's just that there are a lot of them uh but on the positive sign on the positive uh end yeah I'm I'm going to give you this recommendation again just because I like boosting the uh independent um news but if you're not following the account on X called George just one word George uh he go his uh handle is beesy tweets b b i z y tweets anyway he does some of the best reporting every day I don't know how I don't know exactly how he's doing it or if somebody's backing him or what but um almost every day I tell you something story that I only heard from him so here's one of them um there's a project called move the needle uh and it's in Milwaukee and where uh people are going door Todo in black neighborhoods specifically trying to quote I don't like this word but educate black voters on why they must vote for Trump I would have used used a different word than educate maybe persuade or something but um here's my take on that I feel as if people are wising up to the fact that 100% of election or political stuff they see on their glowing screens is absolute would you agree so even the things that agree with me you know especially this month even if it's like something to be positive for Trump I at it and go yeah yeah but you know and a context right so it's not like it's not like the stuff that agrees with you is true and the other side got everything wrong we don't live in that world we live in a world where most of what you see is that in context or if has any political element to it and certainly anything involving a war you completely nonsense reporting but uh here's my take if people do give up on the glowing screens and the internet and the News being the persuasive things in person is stronger so if you can get a human being to stand in front of you and you allow them to talk for a little while and you maybe you're undecided or you have some confusion about what's true and what's not it could be super persuasive if the people doing it are trained to be persuasive and so I have two comments on this number one it's an excellent experiment to find out if it worked because if it does work you could easily imagine that the election process is just armies of people trying to persuade other people now there's always some of that but we seem to leave it to the news to inform I think we're going to lose that model I think the you know the foreshadowing that you can see already is that people are going to say I just need to talk to another person who's done the work and then I can ask some questions of the person and that probably works so I'd love to know if it is successful but if they're well trained it probably is and I would like to add this point correct me if I'm wrong compared to let's say 2015 Republicans have grown an army of trained persuaders true or false the the number of Republicans specifically Republicans who have learned persuasion well enough to apply it in the political context successfully is way different because people like me are literally training people you know I I've probably personally trained a 100,000 Republicans and had to be more persuasive but also how to recognize propaganda how how to identify lies but mostly how to persuade somebody so what happens if I train 100,000 persuaders and they go out and just have conversations with 100,000 people I probably makes a difference probably makes a difference I remember in the first Trump election uh after the election I asked how many of you changed your vote to Trump because of something I said and even though this was a highly you know unscientific it was just a poll on what was Twitter uh I think 1,500 people responded and said I changed their vote now keep in mind that if 1500 people said yes that wasn't an opinion they weren't giving an opinion they were saying yes I was going to vote the other way you changed my mind 1,500 and that's only the ones who saw the poll and responded now what's the real number well I don't know but it's probably in the tens of thousand I I wouldn't be surprised if I moved a six-digit number of people over 100,000 maybe no way to know but uh yeah the Republicans have a major advantage in that there are people like me who are literally training them how to be good persuaders that's not happening on the other side and it might not be able to be possible on the other side because if Democrats were trained on propaganda and persuasion they would recognize that it's happening to them but the Democrat persuasion is sort of standard political stuff so even if you see it you just say oh I get it Trump is uh exaggerating again it doesn't mean anything but if you were a Democrat you'd be finding out that the Democrats made up entire stories and got all the press to sell them like the fine people hoax so if Democrats find out how the game is played they're going to abandon Democrats if Republicans find out how the game is played they're going to say oh my side tells some Tales too but I'm just going to you know that's just sort of normal business but the other side just got the intelligence Community to sign something that was a lie that's a whole different level that is these are not the same that's not the same Trump says his crowd size is bigger than you think it is and compared to uh the Russia collusion hoax that lasted years and tried to remove a president these are not the same no 51 Intel people signing the hoax letter about hunter's laptop no no Republicans ever done that there's nothing since at least I've seen nothing since 2015 at least in which anybody Republican has done anything like that the the whole fine people hoax just nothing like that on the other side you there there are some stories on the right that are generally believed but they're not like made up as a as a hoax it's just people come to believe things that they come to believe anyway there's a report on uh MSNBC that Trump tried to weaponize the IRS against Comey and Mc.

Cabe when he was back when he was in office now this comes because of uh General uh Kelly said that uh Trump said behind closed doors to use the IRS to go after them now here's the test to see if I've successfully trained you for spotting propaganda and it's remember you have to know who the players are remember rule number one the story is not the story it's never the story and indeed even people who want you to hear the wrong story might be accurately given giving you the details of the story but the story is never the story it's the people involved that's the story right because depending Who's involved it gives you a completely different image all right let's say let's say that the story that uh Trump wanted to use the IRS to go after his political enemies let's say that came from Don Jr and he said it out loud in public many times times Well if that happened which did not happen I would have said oh well because of the source that looks pretty reliable like I don't know why you'd be saying that but it must be true right because the source would tell you everything now know that it's General Kelly now do you believe it do you believe it's correct and in the proper context well you shouldn't you shouldn't because he would not be within the context of this story he's not a reliable source now it doesn't matter that this one is bad for Trump if you reverse this and it was something on the other side but you knew that the character it came from couldn't be trusted or or had a an ax to grind with the person they were talking about you shouldn't believe it at all yeah so I would say it's coming from MSNBC they are a propaganda platform pretending to be news and by the way when I say that that's not an exaggeration MSNBC is a propaganda platform by Design By Design they didn't accidentally drift into it and they're pretending to be news that's what makes the propaganda work and then the person that they're using you know it's a somebody said something behind closed doors and I can't prove it yeah no you should give this zero credibility now I don't know if it's true and I can't know there's probably no way to know if it's true but I would treat it like it's not because it's coming from the lowest credibility kind of a source all right um what else we got going on uh apparently there was no wrongdoing found by some Inspector General so you've got the report of this Badness but then some people looked into it and said no we didn't see anything so it's kind of a it's the weakest of the weakest reports and it's exactly the kind of thing you could have predicted because I did I did predict it that you would see all these uh Anonymous or sketchy reports of something that somebody heard behind a closed door those you're going to get more of those probably all right let's talk about the Hurricanes you know hurricane Milton coming toward Florida and Helen messed up the center of the country there North Carolina and Milton so bad this got like almost a mini hurricane in front of the real hurricane there's like a storm in front of the storm and it's been as high as a category five I think it's down to four but it's still super dangerous it's going to bring gigantic flooding um and the real question that everybody keeps asking me is Scott do you think that bad people made these hurricanes worse or aim them using their secret hurricane technology and sure enough just like the UFO stories there's a credible sounding person who's willing to talk to Congress to say that he's a whistleblower and he knows for sure that the United States can manipulate the weather and there's no doubt about it that Helen was manipulated and aimed and intensified so it Go tear up North Carolina so what do you think and the the story is that we have we I guess the CIA or somebody defense department somebody has some secret technology for rapidly intensifying hurricanes and we've seen them rapidly intensify in ways that we haven't seen before so clearly it's that now I don't know if this is just the the uh the story that's trying to counter the fact that it might be climate change you know if we say it's a if it was done by people then we don't have to accept that hey is this climate change doing anything by the way I don't think there's evidence that climate change is a problem uh allow me to tell you what the news told you about climate change and the hurricane you ready here are things the news told you it looks like climate change made it worse because it's one of the worst it's one of the top five hurricanes in the last I don't know 50 years do you see any problem with that climate change made it worse and so much worse is one of the top five hurricanes do you see the problem if it's in the top five it means that they happen on their own how did the other top five get in there were they all caused by climate change no if it's only in the top five it's not even the top one then the obvious conclusion is that this kind of hurricane happens on its own now if it has like a special character that no hurricane has ever had before well now you have my attention now you have my attention so we could talk about you know any specific Oddity of it that's fair game I'll listen to that argument but just the fact that it's one of the worst no it's not unusual to get something that's in the top five that is not indication of anything but there might be some weird things about these I just don't know so I've been asked do I believe that uh these have been manipulated hurricanes uh I would say 5% chance so I'm not going to give it a zero because it's sort of in the category of well anything's possible I doubt it um here are the things that I don't doubt I don't doubt that you can make it rain more than it was going to rain so if you see the clouds that seems like acceptable stuff I don't doubt that there have been experiments and maybe more than experiments of trying to put something in the atmosphere that would dull the uh the impact of the Sun for climate change I think that's real at least in the Prototype phase and I think it's been tested somewhere but do you think they have technology using lasers or whatnot to steer a storm here's what I think it's probably been studied and there might even be a theoretical way to do it but if do I think that Americans to let's say change the outcome of an election used hurricane modification to create a mass murder in the United States to change the election outcomes I say no I'm going to go with 95% no and it's sort of the same 95% that I put on the UFOs not being real because the the nature of the of the the people who are saying I'm a whistle blower I can tell you for sure it's real it looks like the same people to me like they're not the same but they could be if you sat them down next to each other you put the UFO whistleblower next to the hurricane modification whistleblower you would think you're talking to the same guy now I'm not going to ignore that that that the whistleblowers have this this kind of vibe to them if you know what I mean and their stories all sound the same whether it's a earthquake or a I'm sorry whether it's a hurricane or UFO they they sound the same when they're telling the story I can't ignore that I know so I'm going to say uh no uh now now I'm seeing the angry people saying God Scott on some subjects you're so obtuse well here's the context you should look at compare all the things that I've predicted publicly to all the things you've predicted publicly and maybe you should get a little bit more humble about how certain you are that you know that there's earthquake or or hurricane modifications now I'm allowing you the 5% because I don't rule it out it could be could be I mean there have been horrible things that have happened in history this just seems unlikely all right so I'm going to say unlikely I do believe I do believe that our government has looked into it I do believe they may have even tested something that's possible I do believe they may have a theoretical weapon that would that would be really bad if they Unleashed it on an enemy I don't believe they tested it on the United States I don't believe anybody ran a hurricane through the middle of the country for a strategic reason I don't believe that all right but uh I will accept that many of you are spring-loaded to believe that um 60 Minutes had some propaganda on um I assume 60 Minutes is primarily a propaganda platform um that's just what it looks like it doesn't look like it's trying to be news sort of an MSNBC situation uh it looks like it's purely before controlling the public opinion here's an example so they had on somebody named Shelby Bush and she believes that the 2020 election was rigged so how do you think 60 Minutes treated her and why do you think they had her on before the election do you think it was to take seriously her claims and really dig into them and see if they have substance or is it to ask a question like why do you believe in a conspiracy theory oh it's the latter yeah so the questioner uh basically has a total attitude and saying you but why why do you believe in the conspiracy theories now if somebody goes on TV and tells you something is a conspiracy theory that is propaganda if it had not been propaganda if if it had not been the intention of it simply to make it look like nobody in their right mind could think the election was that's the point of it right they're trying to make sure that we don't claim it in this coming election by demonizing people who claimed it in the last election it's not news it's not news it's propaganda so they're setting the stage and they're priming you do you want to be treated like Shelby was because she said in public she thought the election wasn't real in 20120 so you know you might be next one who stopped by 60 minutes to be told that you're a conspiracy theorist in front of the whole world so that they can ruin your life yeah to me it looks like it's just a shot across the bow to warn people not to complain about the election which is another way of telling me that they plan to steal it not confirmed but the message I get from 60 minutes is that they're part of a network of people who know that the election is going to be stolen and they want to put down some suppressive fire so that when you do challenge it you know that you're going up against strong forces and that you might be jailed like the J Sixers or you might be maligned and defamed like Shelby bushes here are the tells the fact that the questioner labels or a conspiracy theorist is all you need to know the average person who watches any kind of news related show if they hear that the questioner who you trust is calling it conspiracy theory they're not really going to listen to the details of the claim they're going to be oh it's a story about how dumb Republican conspiracy theories are got it got it uh number two the mocking way the question was asked it it was more like but you think the election was stolen which is way different from well you've made some claims about the election and others have said the election's fine but we want to look into your claims and and see what the basis is for them that's what a what that's what a news report would do a news report doesn't mock you for your conspiracy theory if they can't tell if an election was stolen or not so the other thing they're trying to sell you and they did try to sell this is like but you you know the courts you you fool you you piece of you you stupid you know the courts didn't find anything wrong the courts found nothing wrong you you stupid piece of now I'm exaggerating they didn't say those words but did say that the court was the basis upon what is true now you all know that's propaganda right the courts are not the determin of whether an election was fair it is true that if you found something and you had standing and you brought it to him in time there's there's a very narrow little window of things that maybe the courts could be useful for but mostly they don't know what true what did the court audit the election no did the people bringing stuff to the court audit the election no they didn't have an option usually no so the fact that 60 Minutes who clearly knows better is selling to Their audience that the only way you can know if the election was stolen is if the court said so no you brainwashing pieces of no you don't need the court to tell you if an election was stolen now I don't know what it would take because we don't have access to really know because it's not an auditable process the way it is but certainly anybody who tells you the courts are the determinant of whether the election was fair they are bad people they're either idiots and that's probably not what's happening or they're just trying to brainwash you because they know they're stealing the election and they don't want to get asked questions yeah the whole every time the court gets brought into it you're you're into brainwashing propaganda it's not a conversation it's no longer a conversation it's not news it's just propaganda as soon as the courts are brought into it so remember that rule so there's a report by bottle Raiders I don't know who the bottle ERS are but they're talking about the uh purported drinking problem of kamla Harris and they're they're talking about how Saturday Night Live was mocking her for you know portrayed her as having a glass of wine in her hands and suggesting that maybe she really liked your alcohol and here's how this was covered uh they talk about how Newsweek talked about um how this started they said Newsweek reported that a trump Trump Ally James Blair I think he has something to do with the campaign may have originated the claim on X so somebody named James Blair is being blamed for suggesting that K Harris has a drinking problem and uh they they think he suggested it or started it on August 17th so let's do a little fact check here so Newsweek which as you know is a news publication allegedly um August 17th so that wasn't very long ago right August 17th is uh August 17th the first time you heard somebody on the xplatform suggest that commers had a drinking problem was it August 17th does anybody remember anything anything from anybody that happened maybe before August 17th a little bit earlier anybody here's my question was that me did I do this cuz I don't remember anybody saying it before I did I don't have my dates right but it was well before August I'm sure yeah so remember I always tell you about uh Gilman Amnesia so that's the phenomenon where if you know the truth of an event when you look at the news you know the news got it wrong because you knew what really happened in this case do you see it so each of you watched in person you watched me talk about this hypothesis before anybody did you know that a lot of people see this and and you know that uh in the past I've influenced events and Newsweek is blaming somebody who said it on August 17th now check the number of followers that uh that James Blair has and then compare it to the number of followers I have and in both cases they're primarily probably political people following both of us now do you see the Gilman the galman Amnesia every time you know the real story you can tell that the news is wrong every time here's one of those examples yeah this is clearly wasn't him let me tell you for sure it wasn't him it didn't start there he might have been a fast follower but no didn't start there now but you all see it right you you got to see the real event and then you got to see the news get it wrong that's Gilman and meesia once you realize that that's every time then you move to the next level of awareness if you're still at the point of wow that that's weird that you found that one example Scott no we're not talking about one example this is just the way it all works all the news is fake about anything important and by fake I mean just some context is left out usually speaking of fake uh Bob Woodward has a book coming out next week and there's some hints about what's in it and one of one of them is so MSNBC and all the propaganda networks are trying to make a big deal out of the fact that uh according to Woodward um that Trump had uh made available to Putin during the pandemic some uh covid tests because Russia was having trouble getting them and uh Trump made them available to Putin personally not not for the country of Russia but just for Putin's own use now the uh the news is trying to make that look like a bad thing when I read that I said what why is that a bad thing well what am I missing here's what I understand see if compare this to what you understand the job of a president is to manage relationships with all the dictators and allies and everybody else so how well you manage your relationship with the most important allies and even adversaries is the key to you doing a good job now you could call that a sales job it's a persuasion SL sales job you're trying to sell yourself and the country to a variety of different world leaders have you ever heard of the salesman trick called reciprocity the most basic persuasion trick hey I'm going to give you something that you couldn't easily get yourself I'm not asking anything in return that's it that's the trick that's what salespeople do when I worked for the phone company I'm sorry not the phone company when I work for a big Bank uh it was my job to pick vendors you know which vendor would be selected for you know big contracts they were multi-million dollar deals and so AT&T which was always one of the vendors that was under consideration uh would offer me tickets to sports events why were they offering me tickets to sports events was it because it was my birthday no is because they were creating reciprocity they were giving me something so that when I was deciding or helping the the company decide which vendor to choose that maybe just maybe I'd be a little bit more biased to the people who like to give me gifts now of course I was a good employee so I just reported it and didn't accept the gifts so so my boss said nope you do not have the right no you're not going to accept those tickets and I would say really I can't accept those even if I promise not to be biased no you're not going to accept those tickets so I didn't now so you see so you see Trump the the salesman in Chief he tells you he's a Salesman he says I'm trying to sell the country and then you see him do the most common most reliable salesman trick hey how would you like some covid tests so that the next time they have to talk about something important Putin is not going to have a you know this giant hard-on bad feeling about Trump he's going to have a little bit of a you know what when I got in trouble you gave me a little little hand there now it's not going to completely change the relationship between the two countries but persuasion 101 is to make the person you're pers persuading feel good about you that's rule number one if you start out with you're a face I'm going to do everything I can to kill you all right let's negotiate that's what the Democrats do we're going to try to put you in a business kill you let's negotiate what no you give him some covid tests and then you negotiate that's how it's done that's how persuasion works it's what Trump understands and of course the news can count on the public not knowing how anything works so they'll just say well he must be Putin's puppet because he's giving him stuff that he could have used in America which is dumb so for the price of a few covid tests the smallest price you could ever pay Trump bought some Goodwill that probably remains to this day if this is true by the way we don't know if it's true all right what else did Woodward have um he says that uh well this is weird uh apparently according to Woodward Joe Biden thinks that Obama is to blame for being too weak when Crimea was taken over and that the reason that Putin went into Ukraine is Obama's fault now hold on hold on so we're going to have to figure out what this means so Bob Woodward you would expect would be totally in the tank for the Democrats right but yet his book seems to be um negative about Obama which wouldn't make sense if they're all part of the same deep State Network which which you probably thought they were so why would Bob Woodward throw Obama under the bus on something this important this is not trivial it's a war he's throwing Obama under the bus on a war well here's my take I think this is a better indication of who's really running things you know we like to say that Obama is the real power behind the power and that Obama is like puppet mastering the Democrat Party but then how would you explain this if Obama's the Puppet Master how does Woodward who's you know deeply connected to that whole part of the world how does he print something that's so obviously anti-obama well here's a possibility here's a solid rule the people who are really in charge only care that were tough on Russia this seems to be the only through thread the one thing that connects everything the one thing that connects everything is that we have to be you know hard on Russia so it could be that the Deep State you know the military industrial complex is not exactly on board with Obama and maybe never has been so it could be that in truth Obama is you know manipulating the puppet strings of the Democrats but that there's a power higher and that the military industrial complex is above Obama in their influence when it comes to war at least so it looks like the Woodward take is to make sure that anybody who allows Putin to do anything including in the past Crimea anybody who does that is a bad person and that you know pushing on Putin is the only thing that works so so there are two Putin related stories in Woodward's book one to make uh one to make Trump look bad for trying to work with Putin and one making uh Obama look bad for caving into him that tells me that whoever is really in charge if you assume that Woodward is connected to you know any deep forces in the government it would be that there's somebody who's a higher rank than Obama and Trump and Biden at least when it comes to war and we do suspect that might might be the case so I think the the most accurate way to look at who's really in charge behind the curtain is more than one person and that they have areas of Interest where when it comes to the war stuff it's maybe names we don't even know anyway um I wouldn't trust anything that comes out in a Woodward book or any political book that involves what somebody said behind closed doors this getting back to my earlier comment um I don't think there's any credibility about a political book saying that something was said behind closed doors so this one also is low credibility all right uh as you know Kell Harris is on her media blitz and uh she had been sort of doing the hiding from the Press thing for most of the summer but now apparently the the campaign has decided they better Str is to send them out send her out to the friendliest interviewers you could possibly send her to so avoiding the hard news by sending her to the friendliest people possible now here's what that means imagine being the the K Harris campaign and you narrow down your two best strategies to these these are your two top strategies number one hide her so the public can ever hear her and that that strategy hide her so that the people can't know who they're voting for was at least almost equal to the second choice strategy which which is actually the first choice because they did it and the First Choice was to send Dr to talk to people who would absolutely be in the bag for the Democrats and would try to make her look good now both of those choices are pathetic they're pathe patic imagine that being your only two choices imagine if Trump the only choices he had were well he's going to hide he's going to hide or he's only going to talk to Hannity and nothing else would you support that you wouldn't even support the Republican under those situations would you would you even support your own team if they said I'm only going to let him talk to Hannity but nothing else just Hannity of course not of course not the the fact that that they're campaign their two best choices were to completely abandon political campaigning one hide and the other only talk to Friendly people who are going to be on your side the only choices the only ones that's as pathetic as you can get so what happens when one candidate has a track record of success as president a number of policies that are far more popular with the public than the the other one and one of them is hiding Andor only talking to people who won't make her look too embarrassed it's a tie according to the pollsters it's a tie how is that even impossible now keep in mind that the people living in the other movie where Trump is Hitler if you're living in the other movie you're saying the same thing but in Reverse how in the world is anybody voting for Trump I mean I watched The Daily Show I watched Bill Maher and then I watched uh Howard Stern and I just don't understand how anybody could vote for that guy so that's the other movie but so far she has turned every single uh outing that wasn't scripted into a disaster so it's a whole week of total disasters and the Trump campaign is using her public appearances without editing as their campaign ads ouch ouch now you might say but that's what they do with Trump they they show things out a context except it's not the context in this case with Trump they actually have to change the context or clip something out so it looks worse than it is my digital device just weighed um so with Trump you have to take him out of context and imagine that he's using words in a way that people don't use words to turn it into something bad with Harris you just have to show the actual interview in fact in fact the Trump campaign is doing the opposite of clipping it the the CBS interview allegedly uh edited Harris's answer so that it didn't look like word salid stupidity apparently we have access to at least the the real one and then the fake one now somebody said that they switched their answer from one question into the other one so it didn't look so stupid I'm not 100% sure that the claim they edited it is what the rep uans are saying because I don't want to fall for a hoax because this this definitely could be a hoax so since I haven't seen the original I've only seen the claim that it was edited I don't buy into it yet totally possible but um and if if some of you have seen any confirmation from CBS that they edited it let me know but if CBS doesn't confirm it and they don't give you the full video I don't know what would convinced me it really happened I'd have to see a little bit more but uh people on the right say it did happen and um let's just go down the list here in my opinion she's done the worst performance of any public figure doing interviews now I saw somebody in the news say some people are saying it's the worst of anybody ever I think that's important to say if you just say she didn't do a good job were laughing at this answer yeah I think you're missing the bigger picture the bigger picture is nobody ever ever who ran for president was this bad I mean that's that's completely different this is not like business as usual we have a let me just say it she's clearly a when it comes to at least talking in public I maybe she can do a standard test pretty well I don't know but she's a in public there's just no other way to say it all right so here's what she's been up to uh she want on Howard Stern I don't know about you but when I see Howard Stern talking to anybody I spend the entire time looking at his bad hairpiece I assume it's a hairpiece that couldn't possibly be his real hair right at his current age okay does anybody have a confirmation he's he's wearing a hairpiece right I I mean I I hope I'm not making up a rumor but isn't it obvious it's obvious right so I can't get past it because it's not that he has a hairpiece or I think he does again I'm not 100% sure but looks like it to me it it's that why would you have a hairpiece of the worst hair person could have it would be like Einstein getting a hairpiece that looked like his regular hair why would you do that so the whole time he's talking I can't even listen to what he's saying because I I I don't think he has any useful political ideas uh I think he is just clearly in the bag for one side so nothing he says is should have any importance but uh it was cringy and it's a weird choice for uh somebody who's running against Trump to have a friendly interview with a guy who has done way worse when it comes to race and misogyny now I will support Howard Stern in saying that all of those things were in the context of humor and when Trump says something that's not totally serious or in the context of humor I I give him the same pass it's like it's a joke people he's talking about you know Mc.

Cain being uh he liked people who don't get caught don't take that seriously that's a joke so I don't take Howard Stern seriously uh but it's really cringey that he would be the most misogynistic person in the public domain and that Harris who's got all these women supporters would go to see him now my question is this is that going to get her any votes being on Howard Stern how would that get you any votes because it's mostly men who watch it right do you think the men who were watching Howard Stern are going to be oh that was a good performance I don't know I think that was probably a mistake Harris also went on The View and they they gave her the softball question of all softballs like what would she do different from Biden and if she would do something different from Biden why isn't she trying to do it now now I'm going to give you some uncharacteristic uh support for Harris in this case she's in a bad position because she's the vice president and she's running for office has that ever happened before yeah yeah I guess that's happened before but um here's the problem we don't expect a vice president to disagree with a sitting president nor would I want her to if if she's being paid to be a vice president I don't want her going in public and saying that that my boss is getting this wrong do you like even if even if she believed it no I no she's being paid to agree with her boss the go you know the country is paying her and very specifically we're paying you to agree with your boss so if you put her in public and ask her hey where where would you disagree with your boss and then she gives you a word salid answer I'm okay with that I'm okay with it yeah just change the subject word salad me give me some lie to me no your job is to agree with your boss and I don't want any foreign leaders to see Biden having two opinions coming out of his office I don't want that even if I disagree with his opinion I don't want two opinions coming out of his office that looks makes us look like idiots no she should say here the best answer she should give and she's given terrible answers I mean it's a tough question but her answers have been terrible here's what I would like to do I think she should say uh you know I'm sitting vice president I'm running for president but as vice president my job what you're paying me for is to be on board with the Biden policies and am there are some there are some things where my focus might be a little different and there are some things that have just changed over time so we can see that maybe what we did before wasn't working well enough it's time to Pivot so mostly what I would do would be to look to upgrade Things based on how it's gone so far and then there are a few few programs that I like such as you know then mentioned the $5,000 thing the $6,000 thing and say uh you know that the time to recommend them is during a campaign so I'm recommending them during the campaign but I hope you all understand that I'm being paid to agree with my boss and that's what you're paying me for so I'm not going to leave that domain too much but if you want to get a flavor for what I would do uh these proposals are are different and uh I probably have a let's say a greater interest in this or that so there's probably a way you could finesse it but you'd have to be in the top 2% of good of good communicators she's not so as much as I have sympathy for the fact that the question is a little unfair it's important and unfair at the same time it's the right question I would definitely ask the question but it's unfair it's a little bit like you know do you still beat your spouse there's just no way to handle that question so watching her handle a question that can't be handled is interesting could uh could Trump have answered that question just imagine that Trump were in the same same position of course he could he'd probably tell you exactly what you're thinking oh I'm vice president so I've got to agree with that guy but when you set me free I've got some interests that are a little bit different let me tell you about him he could do it so it's doable but you'd have to be in the top 2% of communicators anyway uh then she went on Cole bear and had a beer which was the dumbest thing they could ever do because there are rumors of her having a drinking problem and uh she responded to him with a bunch of word salad that will probably turn into a campaign ad she did act like a blithering idiot she acted like a blithering idiot um and uh let's see so all of her I would say all of her uh campaign stops so far the ones that are in the media have been total disasters um and and there disasters that I think are the kind that even Democrats can see but I'm not sure you know I'm sure that there are lots of interviews that Trump has given over the years where you could say oh that was bad for him that was a disaster but none like this usually it's just Trump said something provocative that could be taken out of context so it looks bad for him but it's not full out incompetence what you're seeing is somebody proving she doesn't have the goods to be president every day usually you don't get that from a campaign usually both candidates run a pretty good campaign maybe one's a little better but when you're done you say oh those are two people who ran you know full National campaigns that's not nothing but no she's not succeeding even a little bit the the machine is pushing her but she's not made she hasn't done anything worthy not not a single good day and and the funniest is when she tries to avoid questions by going into an inspirational speech have you seen that yet uh K Harris I'd like to ask you this question uh you've proposed some new programs how do you think you'll pay for them Americans are ambitious and they have goals and and and and they're looking forward and we're going forward and you just say oh my God what's wrong with you what is wrong with you so that's what makes me the f I laugh the most because she can't sell the serious stuff at all you could easily imagine uh a trump and Obama uh Bill Clinton they could sell all that stuff about you know hope and change and moving forward and making America great they could sell that you know RFK Jr he could sell it but but wow she can't sell that at all it just looks like she was trying to memorize a speech in sixth grade um and then and then we'd move forward and then we'd come together uh then the then the country would work together and then when she thinks she's got a good sentence she'll look at you like she's so proud like she nailed it it's like and then we'll work together like she's waiting for you to be all happy because she said something something that everybody thinks is a good idea working together anyway Christopher Ray head of the FBI was asked again by Congress if there were confidential informants on January 6 and uh he said well I have to be very careful about that which means yes um without saying yes and because obviously if the answer was no what would the answer be if the answer was no the answer would be no you wouldn't say I can't tell you there's no world in which I can't tell you is the right answer if the answer was no there were no no informants as given that it's you know a normal thing to do um also we can rule out that there were only a few I'm going to rule out the option that there were only a few do you know why because if Ry had said um it's standard procedure to embed some resources in an event like this uh we had a few resources they were there to watch they did not participate in anything you know that would make it worse now if that were true would it be a problem if he said so if I said there there were a few I don't want to give you the exact number but we had a few and they were just there to observe and that's all they did why wouldn't he say that because if he said that I would say to myself Oh you mean the FBI was doing its job it it wouldn't matter who the group was or why they're protesting I would think if it's a political thing especially around the capital I would think the FBI should have some informants in the group and I think there should be several you know one or two would be not enough I think there be at least a handful so if he said yeah we had we had several I don't want to give you the number um and there were there just there to observe and collect information I would have said oh good job there Christopher Ray thanks thanks for telling us and it sounds like you were on top of it it can't be that then if it would be so easy to say the truth if you did a good job and it was just a few informants and its normal procedure there's something they're hiding so what I see is that there were a lot of them and that they were more active than they should have been that's what I say so to me this looks like a confession of extreme guilt what would you say now I'm biased of course but it no matter what the topic is if somebody's answering in this indirect way when you know that an honest answer would be simple and clean it would be no risk whatsoever what am I supposed to think the the obvious conclusion is that there were a lot of them and they were up to no good obviously now remember what I always tell you if you're talking about a citizen citizens are innocent to proven guilty yeah you government you better have the goods or don't go after a citizen but it's opposite when the government is involved in this case the FBI if the government's being Ki then you should assume guilt which is what I do I assume guilt not only do I assume that they had more than a few people there but that they were explicitly involved in illegal or bad behavior I'm going to take that as a confession likewise when the F folks in is it fton County when they refuse to unlock the door that some people say have some fake ballots behind them that were used in 2020 I don't need them to open the door no the refusal to open the door is a confession that there there's a room full of fake ballots or there used to be and they removed them and burned them but I definitely don't think that there's nothing behind the door if you refuse to open the door and you're a citizen I'm going to say well that looks sketchy but you're a citizen and you have the right of privacy so if we don't know there's a crime behind that door and you don't want to show us behind that door innocent will proven guilty but not the government if the government doesn't open it you're guilty and that is the working assumption that you should all have government you don't have the right to keep something like that from the people now the government does have a right to keep some Secrets if it was some big military secret yeah sure keep the military Secret that's fine but not this we need to know who won the election I think we have a right to that anyway um Israel uh is apparently still prepping for some kind of an Iran response we know that America the American government want or at least Biden doesn't want them to go too hard and doesn't want them to go so hard on Iran that Iran will respond in some kind of a aggressive way um and maybe that's going to start today um I think it made sense that they didn't do something on October 7th they probably thought about it but it's better to keep October 7th remember for what it was you don't want to muck it up with a gigantic response because then they can say well now it's our October 7th it's not your October 7th it's ours now so it's probably good that they waited but they're not going to wait long and if you look at the options the options would either be uh a decapitation strike which would be pretty risky a strike on their nuclear facilities which I'm hearing the Biden campaign doesn't want them to do that I don't know why so I'd like to hear the argument I suspect the Biden campaign or the Biden Administration uh I expect the administration know more about the Iranian nuclear program maybe they think that they're going to do a breakout in two weeks if you don't kill it all I don't know maybe they think there's another way to take it down so they don't want to do it you don't want to waste some bombs so we don't know what's really going on in terms of the targeting uh we're just going to know what the outcome is if I had to guess the US is is trying to convince them to bomb some you know meaningless military targets just just to say they hit them back um I don't think that Israel is going to take on the oil refineries because that would change the politics in the United States really quickly so if you want if you're Israel and you want um support from the American citizens you don't want to increase the price of our gas so I'm pretty sure Netanyahu understands that lesson of persuasion if there's one thing you can't do do not increase the cost of our gas at the moment especially there might have been a time you know when when gas was cheap and everybody could pay their rent you know maybe you could take a risk on that but today if if Israel bombs something and the News tells you that it made your gas go up 10 cents you're going to be pissed and that would be a disaster for Israel so think that the oil refineries are probably safe um I wouldn't be surprised has Israel gone after the hoodies yet probably have we just don't know about it but maybe maybe Israel will just wipe out the hoodies instead of hitting Iran's Homeland something like that I wouldn't rule that out it might be the hoodies are going to have a bad week we'll see we we'll see and that would make us happier I think because the hoodies are making our cost go up with their their uh putting a risk on the shipping all right ladies and gentlemen that's all I got for you today went way too long again and um I'm going to talk to the locals people privately because they're awesome all right um and I'll see the rest of you next uh well tomorrow I guess so if you're on X or You.

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this you're a little bit heart healthier

than you were a moment ago that's called

science meanwhile

scientists something called IFL science

is reporting that they gave rats some

psilocybin no magic mushrooms and the

Rats became more optimistic became more

optimistic

now you might ask yourself why do I want

to make my rats more

optimistic and I think the obvious

answer is do you want sad

rats I mean it's bad enough if you have

a

rat but do you want a sad one no you

want happy one so they give them

mushrooms and make them happy I think

they're thinking there might be some

connection to making humans happy but I

don't know I think take the

win if you made some rats happy that's

not nothing I like happy

rats uh there's a new kind of 3D

printing according to Concordia

University that I don't understand

exactly but they call a holographic 3D

printing and

involves

sound uh using acoustic

Holograms so in other words somehow they

can concentrate sound waves and then the

sound waves will be the force that puts

the materials into its

shape but you know what's cool about it

because it's sound waves you could

actually create something on the other

side of a

barrier so you could actually 3D create

something inside somebody's body without

opening them

up now I guess you'd have to have some

material that you got inside the body

one way or the other so maybe you have

to open them up to put some 3D print in

material in their body but once it's in

there then they can put in the sound

waves and actually turn it into

something like a heart valve or some

damn thing once it's already in your

body now I don't know if there'll ever

be an application for that but there is

some thinking that this will completely

change 3D printing that'd be cool that's

getting a lot closer to the replicator

and Star Trek because it' be one thing

to see you know the replicator do that

printing one like at a

time you wait forever but imagine if

they could just Sho some sound waves at

something and you just see a form like

forming as a a solid that would be

completely different anyway that's on

the

way so the uh is she the president I

guess that would be the title of Italy

Georgia Milani she's uh she's in court

um because she's trying to get deep

fakes that pornographic of her band so

she doesn't want people to make deep

fake porn of her apparently they

exist and

uh she says it's a form of

violence now this opens up many deep and

interesting questions number one I can

certainly see your point if you made a

porn of a public figure and you put it

online uh you could see how if you were

a woman especially it would seem like

effectively violence right it would be

sort of a psychological violence but

violence uh and I can see the point I I

completely understand that now I don't

know if it'd be the same for

man um but I'm willing to find out so if

if anybody wants to make if anybody

wants to make an x-rated porno involving

me uh go ahead

I promise I won't I won't accuse you of

violence just just be generous that's

all I'm asking just be

generous now there's no it's no laughing

matter if this is done to you know a

woman or somebody's who's underage

obviously this is a sort of crime that's

not going to hit every victim the same

uh in my case it would just be funny but

you could certainly see how if you were

a woman or especially if you were a

minor uh it would be devastating so

don't make uh we're not going to make

fun of it um unless it's about me and

then you can make fun of

it but this raises a question so you've

all seen that AI can take some real

person and then put them in a scene

we've seen that it can take real people

like a photograph of a person and turn

it into into a talking kind of an

icon is there yet

an app where you can take a picture of

the woman who turned you down and then

turn her into your permanent digital

girlfriend does that exist because it

feels like only the parts exist like

there's one app that can make somebody

talk there's another app that can make

it look like the picture that you gave

it and probably there's a third thing

that doesn't do either of those two

things that can turn it into a like a

conversational app I don't think we're

yet at the point where you could just

take the photograph from Facebook of the

the girl that you know rejected you in

in high school and it just turned her

into your digital girlfriend now here's

my question obviously that will exist

would you agree there's no way around

that people will absolutely be taking

real real life photographs of people

sometimes they don't even know which is

somebody they they like and turning it

into their digital

servant

now is that a

crime suppose you're just doing it for

personal use suppose you took a real

life person took a photo even added

their let's say there's some audio of

them so you add even their voice if you

create a whole digital sex slave that's

based very closely on a real person

person does the real person have any

claim against you or should

they this is such un such new

territory that it's it's hard to imagine

even how you'd respond to it but but

here's the part that you can know for

sure 100% sure people will be taking

pictures of real people and turning them

into digital sex slaves and

companions why wouldn't they

if you had the technology and it was

just an app and all you had to do is

feed it a picture or a video why

wouldn't you like I I don't even know

the argument for not doing it of course

you would if you were lonely and you

wanted to wanted something to keep you

company you might as well make it

something you like a little extra why

wouldn't

you well anyway uh CNN is reporting that

uh it's not true that the Afghan

refugees that have been coming into the

country since the Afghan war w wound

down with the United States it's not

true that the Afghan refugees have not

been adequately vetted so all you people

are saying oh they're letting in a bunch

of Afghans and some of them might be

terrorists CNN is here to tell you in a

big headline it is not true not true

that the Afghans have not been

effectively vetted also CNN would like

you to know that an Afghan National

Refugee has been charged with uh

planning a mass murder on Election

Day so I suppose you can pick either one

of those

headlines one of them is

true either they were carefully vetted

or there's an Afghan Refugee who just

got caught plotting a mass murder on

Election Day one of those is definitely

true so

50/50 not

bad um the question I have is how many

disasters will we have around election

day um probably

hurricanes uh we got the monkey pox uh

the Isis terrorist attack that was

thwarted but maybe there's some more

maybe something with drones maybe World

War II maybe something

nuclear

earthquake rods from God space lasers

UFO

contact I don't think we have any idea

how wild things are going to get

but I'll tell you one thing no matter

what happens on its own like just

naturally it was a coincidence we're

going to blame on somebody if there's an

earthquake you know we're going to be

talking about the cia's technology for

triggering earthquakes you know we are

right so if there's a solar

flare somebody's going to say that

there's CIAA technology that can create

a solar flare and that's not it's no

accident that happened on election day

if it

does meanwhile Tik tok's getting more

lawsuits uh I guess 14 States and it's

bipartisan so this is not just Democrats

and not just Republicans it's both uh

getting together because I think Tik

tok's dangerous for young

people why is Tik Tok even available for

young people

minors why yeah I feel like there's

almost Universal agreement that it's bad

for young people below you know maybe

you could pick 16 as your starting age

but is there anybody who disagrees with

that now I guess there's a you know Free

Speech element to it but does that apply

to children do children have free speech

I'm pretty sure they can't stand up in

class and start cursing you know there

there's limits on what kids can do so

it's weird that this is even a question

but but uh I have a feeling that whoever

wants to keep Tik Tock alive has a lot

of power maybe it's our intelligence

people maybe they want to keep it alive

so they can eventually control it I

don't know meanwhile uh have you heard

of the the app called

Roblox if you if you're haven't been

around young kids for a while you've

maybe never even heard of it but wow

Roblox is a sort of a what do you call

it a

a sort of a social media game mask game

app where you can acquire building parts

and build yourself a little home and get

some furniture and interact with the

other people now if you've ever seen a

child who is playing

Roblox there's something completely

hypnotizing about it you should see the

eyes of anybody who just played you the

the eyes are just completely hypnotized

I don't know what it is about it I

haven't I haven't spent even a minute

looking at it but wow if you if you've

seen any kid stand up and walk away from

Roblox just look at their eyes there is

something going on with that thing like

I I watch that you know watch that AFF

one person in particular and I thought I

don't even believe what I'm seeing the

the level of

addiction was beyond anything I've ever

seen on social media it's it was a video

game I I guess you'd say it's a video

game level addiction it's pretty strong

but the latest news is uh something

called the Hindenburg report says that

the uh the app is a uh a pedophile

hellscape

so I guess if you build a platform where

it's mostly kids interacting you're

going to get a lot of people who are not

kids so not a big surprise this is the

post millennial the post millennial is

reporting on this so there's there stock

plunged and they've got some financial

problems

anyway well I'm wondering if the reports

or the allegations about Doug emof KL

Harris's husband I'm wondering if those

reports are getting to anybody on the

left because if they had concerns about

Donald Trump's interactions with

women they would really have a problem

with the Doug mhof stories if they're

true now keep in mind there there's

going to be a theme to Today's Show

which is that none of the first person

reports a month before an election or

true or at least you shouldn't give them

credibility I'm need to talk about a

number of stories in the news that are

all well somebody said there is a report

from a Anonymous person uh to be fair I

think we have to give the same treatment

to mhof which is I'll tell you what the

allegations are because it's political

so therefore it's important to know what

the allegations are are they

true well they would be within the

lowest credibility domain they might be

true also some of the other stories I'm

going to tell you about that I don't

think are true might be they might be

it's just you shouldn't believe them if

the only evidence you have is that it's

a it's a month before an election and

somebody who doesn't give their name is

making a claim about

somebody I'm sorry that is the lowest

level of

credibility

but um the reports coming in is that is

he worked at a law

firm and uh the attorneys who worked

with him said he was uh misogynist and

had men only cocktail hours and he would

not be he would flirt with all the women

and uh he would revoke work perks for

anybody who didn't flirt

back and uh he hired attractive

assistants because they were

attractive um if I could summarize that

um all the all that behavior uh I'm

going to summarize it all for

you and the summary is uh Doug

mhof once worked at a law firm

which actually captures all of the other

Behavior does anybody work in a law firm

do any of you work for a law

firm I want to see if you agree with my

summary summary he worked for a law

firm

no I don't think it's too far off it's

not too far off I've got a feeling your

law firms are

not not exactly the most uh polite

places to work all right well here's

another thing that um I'm trying to

fight off the persuasive effects I'm

completely aware that the average

citizen in the United States has never

seen any news report about anything in

our

elections that looked like it was

fraudulent probably the vast majority of

citizens have never even seen one story

of anything current where an election

was you know a little bit

questionable but if you if you uh live

in the right leaning you know Silo as I

do you see them all day long so I think

I saw four of them today four different

stories of either the election roles had

to be corrected or somebody's suing to

make a change that they know needs to be

changed but somebody's resisting there's

a door that needs to be unlocked because

there might be some bad ballots back

there but they won't unlock the door

there's a new lawsuit that got turned

down for reasons that sound technical

but maybe the the allegation was true

and all day long I'm hearing this now

and they're different states it's not

like it's one situation it's all

different states and they usually the

swing States

Etc and you know here's another one

let's see uh Oregon according to Fox

News mistakenly registered hundreds more

voters and then the last minute they

cleaned it up they've cleaned up over

about

1,600 mistaken

registrations now that's just the stuff

they

caught if all day long I'm hearing

stories about well we we caught a th000

in this state but we fixed it and then

the next day well there are 20,000 were

a little questionable but we couldn't

fix it and all if you hear that all day

long you wouldn't possibly think that

our elections are secure and

accurate but if You' never heard any of

these stories you'd say well I would

have heard if there was a

problem somebody would have told me I'm

sure it would have been in the news it

is in the news but not your

news so I don't have any opinion about

this specific report it's just that

there are a lot of

them uh but on the positive sign on the

positive uh end

yeah I'm I'm going to give you this

recommendation again just because I like

boosting the uh

independent um

news but if you're not following the

account on X called George just one word

George uh he go his uh handle is beesy

tweets b b i z y tweets anyway he does

some of the best reporting every day I

don't know how I don't know exactly

how he's doing it or if somebody's

backing him or what but um almost every

day I tell you something story that I

only heard from him so here's one of

them um there's a project called move

the

needle uh and it's in Milwaukee and

where uh people are going door Todo in

black neighborhoods specifically trying

to quote I don't like this word but

educate black voters on why they must

vote for Trump I would have used used a

different word than educate maybe

persuade or something

but

um here's my take on that I feel as if

people are wising up to the fact that

100% of election or political stuff they

see on their glowing screens is absolute

would you agree so even the

things that agree with me you know

especially this month even if it's like

something to be positive for Trump I at

it and go yeah yeah but you know and a

context right so it's not like it's not

like the stuff that agrees with you is

true and the other side got everything

wrong we don't live in that world we

live in a world where most of what you

see is that in context or if

has any political element to it and

certainly anything involving a

war you completely nonsense

reporting but uh here's my take if

people do give up on the glowing screens

and the internet and the News being the

persuasive things in person is

stronger so if you can get a human being

to stand in front of you and you allow

them to talk for a little while and you

maybe you're undecided or you have some

confusion about what's true and what's

not it could be super persuasive if the

people doing it are trained to be

persuasive

and so I have two comments on this

number one it's an excellent

experiment to find out if it worked

because if it does work you could easily

imagine that the election process is

just armies of people trying to persuade

other people now there's always some of

that but we seem to leave it to the news

to inform I think we're going to lose

that

model I think the you know the

foreshadowing that you can see already

is that people are going to say I just

need to talk to another person who's

done the work and then I can ask some

questions of the person and that

probably works so I'd love to know if it

is successful but if they're well

trained it probably is and I would like

to add this point correct me if I'm

wrong compared to let's say

2015 Republicans have grown an army of

trained

persuaders true or

false the the number of Republicans

specifically

Republicans who have learned

persuasion well enough to apply it in

the political context

successfully is way

different because people like me are

literally training people you know I

I've probably personally trained a

100,000 Republicans and had to be more

persuasive but also how to recognize

propaganda how how to identify lies but

mostly how to persuade somebody

so what happens if I train 100,000

persuaders and they go out and just have

conversations with 100,000 people I

probably makes a difference probably

makes a difference I remember in the

first Trump election uh after the

election I asked how many of you changed

your vote to Trump because of something

I said and even though this was a highly

you know unscientific it was just a poll

on what was Twitter uh I think 1,500

people responded and said I changed

their vote now keep in mind that if 1500

people said yes that wasn't an opinion

they weren't giving an opinion they were

saying yes I was going to vote the other

way you changed my mind 1,500 and that's

only the ones who saw the poll and

responded now what's the real

number well I don't know but it's

probably in the tens of thousand

I I wouldn't be surprised if I

moved a six-digit number of people over

100,000 maybe no way to know but uh yeah

the Republicans have a major advantage

in that there are people like me who are

literally training them how to be good

persuaders that's not happening on the

other

side and it might not be able to be

possible on the other side because if

Democrats were trained on propaganda and

persuasion

they would recognize that it's happening

to

them but the Democrat persuasion is sort

of standard political stuff so even if

you see it you just say oh I get it

Trump is uh exaggerating again it

doesn't mean anything but if you were a

Democrat you'd be finding out that the

Democrats made up entire stories and got

all the press to sell them like the fine

people hoax so if Democrats find out how

the game is played they're going to

abandon

Democrats if Republicans find out how

the game is played they're going to say

oh my side tells some Tales too but I'm

just going to you know that's just sort

of normal business but the other side

just got the intelligence Community to

sign something that was a lie that's a

whole different level that is these are

not the same that's not the same Trump

says his crowd size is bigger than you

think it is and compared to uh the

Russia collusion hoax that lasted years

and tried to remove a president these

are not the same no 51 Intel people

signing the hoax letter about hunter's

laptop no no Republicans ever done that

there's nothing since at least I've seen

nothing since 2015 at least in which

anybody Republican has done anything

like that the the whole fine people

hoax just nothing like that on the other

side you there there are some

stories on the right that are generally

believed but they're not like made up as

a as a hoax it's just people come to

believe things that they come to

believe anyway there's a report on uh

MSNBC that Trump tried to weaponize the

IRS against Comey and McCabe when he was

back when he was in office now this

comes because of uh General uh Kelly

said that uh Trump said behind closed

doors to use the IRS to go after

them now here's the test to see if I've

successfully trained you for spotting

propaganda and it's remember

you have to know who the players are

remember rule number one the story is

not the story it's never the

story and indeed even people who want

you to hear the wrong story might be

accurately given giving you the details

of the story but the story is never the

story it's the people involved that's

the story right because depending Who's

involved it gives you a completely

different image all right let's say

let's say that the story that uh Trump

wanted to use the IRS to go after his

political enemies let's say that came

from Don Jr and he said it out loud in

public many times times Well if that

happened which did not happen I would

have said oh well because of the

source that looks pretty reliable like I

don't know why you'd be saying that but

it must be true right because the source

would tell you everything now know that

it's General

Kelly now do you believe it do you

believe it's correct and in the proper

context well you shouldn't you shouldn't

because he would not be within the

context of this story he's not a

reliable source now it doesn't matter

that this one is bad for Trump if you

reverse this and it was something on the

other side but you knew that the

character it came from couldn't be

trusted or or had a an ax to grind with

the person they were talking about you

shouldn't believe it at all yeah so I

would say it's coming from MSNBC they

are a propaganda platform pretending to

be news and by the way when I say that

that's not an

exaggeration MSNBC is a propaganda

platform by Design By Design they didn't

accidentally drift into

it and they're pretending to be news

that's what makes the propaganda work

and then the person that they're

using you know it's a somebody said

something behind closed doors and I

can't prove it yeah no you should give

this zero credibility now I don't know

if it's

true and I can't know there's probably

no way to know if it's true but I would

treat it like it's not because it's

coming from the lowest credibility kind

of a

source all right

um what else we got going on uh

apparently there was no wrongdoing found

by some Inspector General so you've got

the report of this Badness but then some

people looked into it and said no we

didn't see anything so it's kind of a

it's the weakest of the weakest reports

and it's exactly the kind of thing you

could have predicted because I did I did

predict it that you would see all these

uh Anonymous or sketchy reports of

something that somebody heard behind a

closed

door those you're going to get more of

those

probably all right let's talk about the

Hurricanes you know hurricane Milton

coming toward Florida and Helen messed

up the center of the country there North

Carolina and Milton so bad this got like

almost a mini hurricane in front of the

real hurricane there's like a storm in

front of the storm and it's been as high

as a category five I think it's down to

four but it's still super dangerous it's

going to bring gigantic

flooding um and the real question that

everybody keeps asking me is Scott do

you think that bad people made these

hurricanes worse or aim them using their

secret hurricane technology and sure

enough just like the UFO stories there's

a credible sounding person who's willing

to talk to Congress to say that he's a

whistleblower and he knows for sure that

the United States can manipulate the

weather and there's no doubt about it

that Helen was manipulated and aimed and

intensified so it Go tear up North

Carolina

so what do you

think and the the story is that we have

we I guess the CIA or somebody defense

department somebody has some secret

technology for rapidly intensifying

hurricanes and we've seen them rapidly

intensify in ways that we haven't seen

before so clearly it's that now I don't

know if this is just the the uh the

story that's trying to counter the fact

that it might be climate

change you know if we say it's a if it

was done by people then we don't have to

accept that hey is this climate change

doing anything by the way I don't think

there's evidence that climate change is

a

problem uh allow me to tell you what the

news told you about climate change and

the hurricane you ready here are things

the news told you it looks like climate

change made it worse because it's one of

the worst it's one of the top five

hurricanes in the last I don't know 50

years do you see any problem with

that climate change made it

worse and so much worse is one of the

top five

hurricanes do you see the

problem if it's in the top five it means

that they happen on their own

how did the other top five get in

there were they all caused by climate

change no if it's only in the top five

it's not even the top one then the

obvious conclusion is that this kind of

hurricane happens on its

own now if it has like a special

character that no hurricane has ever had

before well now you have my attention

now you have my attention so we could

talk about you know any specific Oddity

of it that's fair game I'll listen to

that argument but just the fact that

it's one of the worst

no it's not unusual to get something

that's in the top five that is not

indication of anything but there might

be some weird things about these I just

don't know so I've been asked do I

believe that uh these have been

manipulated hurricanes uh I would say 5%

chance so I'm not going to give it a

zero

because it's sort of in the category of

well anything's

possible I doubt it um here are the

things that I don't doubt I don't doubt

that you can make it rain more than it

was going to

rain so if you see the clouds that seems

like acceptable stuff I don't

doubt that there have been experiments

and maybe more than experiments of

trying to put something in the

atmosphere that would dull the uh the

impact of the Sun for climate change I

think that's real at least in the

Prototype phase and I think it's been

tested somewhere but do you think they

have technology using lasers or whatnot

to steer a storm here's what I think

it's probably been

studied and there might even be a

theoretical way to do it but if do I

think that Americans to let's say change

the outcome of an election used

hurricane modification to create a mass

murder in the United States to change

the election

outcomes I say

no I'm going to go with 95% no and it's

sort of the same 95% that I put on the

UFOs not being

real because the the nature of the of

the the people who are saying I'm a

whistle blower I can tell you for sure

it's real it looks like the same people

to me like they're not the same but they

could be if you sat them down next to

each other you put the UFO whistleblower

next to the hurricane modification

whistleblower you would think you're

talking to the same guy now I'm

not going to ignore

that that that the whistleblowers have

this this kind of vibe to them if you

know what I mean and their stories all

sound the same whether it's a earthquake

or a I'm sorry whether it's a hurricane

or UFO they they sound the same when

they're telling the story I can't ignore

that I know so I'm going to say uh

no uh now now I'm seeing the angry

people saying God Scott on some subjects

you're so

obtuse well here's the context you

should look at compare all the things

that I've predicted publicly to all the

things you've predicted

publicly and maybe you should get a

little bit more humble about how certain

you are that you know that there's

earthquake or or hurricane

modifications now I'm allowing you the

5% because I don't rule it out it could

be could be I mean there have been

horrible things that have happened in

history this just seems unlikely all

right so I'm going to say unlikely I do

believe I do believe that our government

has looked into it I do believe they may

have even tested something that's

possible I do believe they may have a

theoretical weapon that would that would

be really bad if they Unleashed it on an

enemy I don't believe they tested it on

the United

States I don't believe anybody ran a

hurricane through the middle of the

country for a strategic reason

I don't believe that all right but uh I

will accept that many of you are

spring-loaded to believe

that um 60 Minutes had some propaganda

on um I assume 60 Minutes is primarily a

propaganda platform um that's just what

it looks like it doesn't look like it's

trying to be news sort of an MSNBC

situation uh it looks like it's purely

before controlling the public opinion

here's an example so they had on

somebody named Shelby Bush and she

believes that the 2020 election was

rigged so how do you think 60 Minutes

treated her and why do you think they

had her on before the election do you

think it was to take seriously her

claims and really dig into them and see

if they have

substance or is it to ask a question

like why do you believe in a conspiracy

theory

oh it's the

latter yeah so the

questioner uh basically has a total

attitude and saying you but why why do

you believe in the conspiracy theories

now if somebody goes on TV and tells you

something is a conspiracy theory that is

propaganda if it had not been propaganda

if if it had not been the intention of

it simply to make it look like nobody in

their right mind could think the

election was

that's the point of it right they're

trying to make sure that we don't claim

it in this coming election by demonizing

people who claimed it in the last

election it's not news it's not news

it's

propaganda so they're setting the stage

and they're priming you do you want to

be treated like Shelby was because she

said in public she thought the election

wasn't real in 20120

so you know you might be next one who

stopped by 60 minutes to be told that

you're a conspiracy theorist in front of

the whole world so that they can ruin

your

life yeah to me it looks like it's just

a shot across the bow to warn people not

to complain about the election which is

another way of telling me that they plan

to steal it not confirmed but the

message I get from 60 minutes is that

they're part of a network of people who

know that the election is going to be

stolen and they want to put down some

suppressive fire so that when you do

challenge it you know that you're going

up against strong forces and that you

might be jailed like the J Sixers or you

might be maligned and defamed like

Shelby

bushes here are the tells the fact that

the questioner labels or a conspiracy

theorist is all you need to know the

average person who watches any kind of

news related show if they hear that the

questioner who you trust is calling it

conspiracy theory they're not really

going to listen to the details of the

claim they're going to be oh it's a

story about how dumb Republican

conspiracy theories are got it got

it uh number two the mocking way the

question was asked it it was more like

but you think the election was

stolen which is way different from well

you've made some claims about the

election and others have said the

election's fine but we want to look into

your claims and and see what the basis

is for

them that's what a what that's what a

news report would do a news report

doesn't mock you for your conspiracy

theory if they can't tell if an election

was stolen or not so the other thing

they're trying to sell

you and they did try to sell this is

like but you you know the

courts you you fool you you piece of

you you stupid you know the

courts didn't find anything wrong

the courts found nothing wrong you

you stupid piece of now I'm

exaggerating they didn't say those words

but did say that the court was the basis

upon what is true now you all

know that's propaganda right the courts

are not the determin of whether an

election was fair it is true that if you

found something and you had standing and

you brought it to him in time there's

there's a very narrow little window of

things that maybe the courts could be

useful for but mostly they don't know

what true what did the court audit the

election no did the people bringing

stuff to the court audit the election no

they didn't have an option usually

no so the fact that 60 Minutes who

clearly knows better is selling to Their

audience that the only way you can know

if the election was stolen is if the

court said so no you

brainwashing pieces of no you don't

need the court to tell you if an

election was

stolen now I don't know what it would

take because we don't have access to

really know because it's not an

auditable process the way it is but

certainly anybody who tells you the

courts are the determinant of whether

the election was fair they are

bad people they're either

idiots and that's probably not what's

happening or they're just trying to

brainwash you because they know they're

stealing the election and they don't

want to get asked questions yeah the

whole every time the court gets brought

into it you're you're into brainwashing

propaganda it's not a conversation it's

no longer a conversation it's not

news it's just

propaganda as soon as the courts are

brought into it so remember that

rule so there's a report by bottle

Raiders I don't know who the bottle ERS

are but they're talking about the uh

purported drinking problem of kamla

Harris and they're they're talking about

how Saturday Night Live was mocking her

for you know portrayed her as having a

glass of wine in her hands and

suggesting that maybe she really liked

your alcohol and here's how this was

covered uh they talk about how

Newsweek talked about

um how this started they said Newsweek

reported that a trump Trump Ally James

Blair I think he has something to do

with the campaign may have originated

the claim on

X so somebody named James Blair is being

blamed for suggesting that K Harris has

a drinking problem and uh they they

think he suggested it or started it on

August

17th so let's do a little fact check

here so

Newsweek which as you know is a news

publication

allegedly um August

17th so that wasn't very long ago right

August

17th is uh August 17th the first time

you heard somebody on the xplatform

suggest that commers had a drinking

problem was it August 17th does anybody

remember

anything anything from anybody that

happened maybe before August 17th a

little bit earlier

anybody here's my

question was that

me did I do

this cuz I don't remember anybody saying

it before I did I don't have my dates

right but it was well before August I'm

sure yeah so remember I always tell you

about uh Gilman Amnesia so that's the

phenomenon where if you know the truth

of an event when you look at the news

you know the news got it wrong because

you knew what really happened in this

case do you see it so each of you

watched in person you watched me talk

about this hypothesis before anybody did

you know that a lot of people see

this and and you know that uh in the

past I've influenced

events and Newsweek is blaming somebody

who said it on August

17th now check the number of

followers that uh that James Blair has

and then compare it to the number of

followers I

have and in both cases they're primarily

probably political people following both

of

us now do you see the Gilman the galman

Amnesia every time you know the real

story you can tell that the news is

wrong every time here's one of those

examples yeah this is clearly wasn't

him let me tell you for sure it wasn't

him it didn't start there he might have

been a fast follower but no didn't start

there now but you all see it right you

you got to see the real event and then

you got to see the news get it wrong

that's Gilman and meesia once you

realize that that's every time then you

move to the next level of awareness if

you're still at the point of wow that

that's weird that you found that one

example

Scott

no we're not talking about one

example this is just the way it all

works all the news is fake about

anything important and by fake I mean

just some context is left out usually

speaking of fake uh Bob Woodward has a

book coming out next week and there's

some hints about what's in it and one of

one of them is so MSNBC and all the

propaganda networks are trying to make a

big deal out of the fact that uh

according to

Woodward

um that Trump had uh made available to

Putin during the pandemic some uh covid

tests because Russia was having trouble

getting them and uh Trump made them

available to Putin personally not not

for the country of Russia but just for

Putin's own

use now the uh the news is trying to

make that look like a bad thing when I

read that I

said what why is that a bad

thing well what am I

missing here's what I understand see if

compare this to what you understand the

job of a

president is to manage relationships

with all the dictators and allies and

everybody else so how well you manage

your relationship with the most

important allies and even adversaries is

the key to you doing a good

job now you could call that a sales

job it's a persuasion SL sales job

you're trying to sell yourself and the

country

to a variety of different world

leaders have you ever heard of the

salesman trick called

reciprocity the most basic persuasion

trick hey I'm going to give you

something that you couldn't easily get

yourself I'm not asking anything in

return that's it that's the trick that's

what salespeople do when I worked for

the phone company I'm sorry not the

phone company when I work for a big Bank

uh it was my job to pick

vendors you know which vendor would be

selected for you know big contracts they

were multi-million dollar deals and so

AT&T which was always one of the vendors

that was under

consideration uh would offer me tickets

to sports

events why were they offering me tickets

to sports events was it because it was

my

birthday no

is because they were creating

reciprocity they were giving me

something so that when I was deciding or

helping the the company decide which

vendor to choose that maybe just maybe

I'd be a little bit more biased to the

people who like to give me gifts now of

course I was a good employee so I just

reported it and didn't accept the gifts

so so my boss said nope you do not have

the

right no you're not going to accept

those tickets and I would say really I

can't accept those even if I promise not

to be biased no you're not going to

accept those tickets so I didn't

now so you see so you see Trump the the

salesman in Chief he tells you he's a

Salesman he says I'm trying to sell the

country and then you see him do the most

common most reliable salesman trick hey

how would you like some covid tests so

that the next time they have to talk

about something

important Putin is not going to have a

you know this giant hard-on bad feeling

about Trump he's going to have a little

bit of a you know what when I got in

trouble you gave me a little little hand

there now it's not going to completely

change the relationship between the two

countries but persuasion 101 is to make

the person you're pers persuading feel

good about you that's rule number one if

you start out with you're a face

I'm going to do everything I can to kill

you all right let's

negotiate that's what the Democrats do

we're going to try to put you in a

business kill you let's

negotiate what no you give him some

covid tests and then you

negotiate that's how it's done that's

how persuasion works it's what Trump

understands and of course the news can

count on the public not knowing how

anything works so they'll just say well

he must be Putin's puppet because he's

giving him stuff that he could have used

in America which is dumb so for the

price of a few covid tests the smallest

price you could ever

pay Trump bought some Goodwill that

probably remains to this day if this is

true by the way we don't know if it's

true all right what else did Woodward

have

um he says that uh well this is

weird uh apparently according to

Woodward Joe Biden thinks that Obama is

to blame for being too weak when Crimea

was taken over and that the reason that

Putin went into

Ukraine is Obama's

fault now hold on hold on so we're going

to have to figure out what this means so

Bob Woodward you would expect would be

totally in the tank for the Democrats

right but yet his book seems to be um

negative about

Obama which wouldn't make sense if

they're all part of the same deep State

Network which which you probably thought

they

were so why would Bob Woodward throw

Obama under the bus on something this

important this is not trivial it's a war

he's throwing Obama under the bus on a

war well here's my

take I think this is a better indication

of who's really running things you know

we like to say that Obama is the real

power behind the power and that Obama is

like puppet mastering the Democrat Party

but then how would you explain

this if Obama's the Puppet Master how

does Woodward who's you know deeply

connected to that whole part of the

world how does he print something that's

so obviously

anti-obama

well here's a

possibility here's a solid rule the

people who are really in charge only

care that were tough on Russia this

seems to be the only through thread the

one thing that connects

everything the one thing that connects

everything is that we have to be you

know hard on

Russia so it could be that the Deep

State you know the military industrial

complex is not exactly on board with

Obama and maybe never has been so it

could be that in truth Obama is you know

manipulating the puppet strings of the

Democrats but that there's a power

higher and that the military industrial

complex is above Obama in their

influence when it comes to war at least

so it looks

like the Woodward take is to make sure

that anybody who allows Putin to do

anything including in the past Crimea

anybody who does that is a bad person

and that you know pushing on Putin is

the only thing that works so so there

are two Putin related stories in

Woodward's book one to make uh one to

make Trump look bad for trying to work

with Putin

and one making uh Obama look bad for

caving into

him that tells me that whoever is really

in

charge if you assume that Woodward is

connected to you know any deep forces in

the government it would be that there's

somebody who's a higher rank than Obama

and Trump and

Biden at least when it comes to

war and we do suspect that might might

be the case so I think the the most

accurate way to look at who's really in

charge behind the curtain is more than

one person and that they have areas of

Interest where when it comes to the war

stuff it's maybe names we don't even

know

anyway um I wouldn't trust anything that

comes out in a Woodward book or any

political book that involves what

somebody said behind closed doors this

getting back to my earlier comment um I

don't think there's any

credibility about a political book

saying that something was said behind

closed doors so this one also is low

credibility all

right uh as you know Kell Harris is on

her media

blitz and uh she had been sort of doing

the hiding from the Press thing for most

of the summer but now apparently the the

campaign has decided they better Str is

to send them out send her out to the

friendliest interviewers you could

possibly send her to so avoiding the

hard news by sending her to the

friendliest people

possible

now here's what that

means imagine being the the K Harris

campaign and you narrow down your two

best strategies to

these these are your two top strategies

number one hide her so the public can

ever hear her and that that strategy

hide her so that the people can't know

who they're voting for was at least

almost equal to the second choice

strategy which which is actually the

first choice because they did it and the

First Choice was to send Dr to talk to

people who would absolutely be in the

bag for the Democrats and would try to

make her look

good now both of those choices

are

pathetic they're pathe

patic imagine that being your only two

choices imagine if Trump the only

choices he had were well he's going to

hide he's going to hide or he's only

going to talk to

Hannity and nothing

else would you support

that you wouldn't even support the

Republican under those situations would

you would you even support your own team

if they said I'm only going to let him

talk to Hannity but nothing else just

Hannity of course not of course not the

the fact that that they're campaign

their two best choices were to

completely abandon political campaigning

one hide and the other only talk to

Friendly people who are going to be on

your side the only

choices the only

ones that's as pathetic as you can get

so what happens when one candidate has a

track record of success as president a

number of policies that are far more

popular with the public than the the

other one and one of them is hiding

Andor only talking to people who won't

make her look too

embarrassed it's a

tie according to the pollsters it's a

tie how is that even impossible now keep

in mind that the people living in the

other movie where Trump is Hitler if

you're living in the other movie you're

saying the same thing but in Reverse how

in the world is anybody voting for Trump

I mean I watched The Daily Show I

watched Bill Maher and then I watched uh

Howard Stern and I just don't understand

how anybody could vote for that guy so

that's the other

movie but so far she has turned every

single uh outing that wasn't scripted

into a disaster so it's a whole week of

total disasters and the Trump campaign

is using her public appearances without

editing as their campaign

ads

ouch ouch now you might say but that's

what they do with Trump they they show

things out a

context except it's not the context in

this case with Trump they actually have

to change the context or clip something

out so it looks worse than it

is my digital device just weighed um so

with Trump you have to take him out of

context and imagine that he's using

words in a way that people don't use

words to turn it into something bad with

Harris you just have to show the actual

interview in fact in fact the Trump

campaign is doing the opposite of

clipping it the the CBS interview

allegedly uh edited Harris's answer so

that it didn't look like word salid

stupidity apparently we have access to

at least the the real one and then the

fake one now somebody said that they

switched their answer from one question

into the other one so it didn't look so

stupid I'm not 100% sure that the claim

they edited it is what the rep uans are

saying because I don't want to fall for

a hoax because this this definitely

could be a hoax so since I haven't seen

the original I've only seen the claim

that it was edited I don't buy into it

yet totally possible but um and if if

some of you have seen any confirmation

from CBS that they edited it let me know

but if CBS doesn't confirm it and they

don't give you the full video I don't

know what would convinced me it really

happened I'd have to see a little bit

more but uh people on the right say it

did happen

and um let's just go down the list here

in my opinion she's done the worst

performance of any public figure doing

interviews now I saw somebody in the

news say some people are saying it's the

worst of anybody

ever I think that's important to say if

you just say she didn't do a good job

were laughing at this answer yeah I

think you're missing the bigger picture

the bigger picture is nobody

ever ever who ran for president was this

bad I mean that's that's completely

different this is not like business as

usual we have a let me just say it

she's clearly a

when it comes to at least talking

in public I maybe she can do a standard

test pretty well I don't know but she's

a in public there's just no other

way to say it all right so here's what

she's been up to

uh she want on Howard Stern I don't know

about you but when I see Howard Stern

talking to anybody I spend the entire

time looking at his bad

hairpiece I assume it's a hairpiece that

couldn't possibly be his real hair right

at his current

age okay does anybody have a

confirmation he's he's wearing a

hairpiece

right I I mean I I hope I'm not making

up a rumor but isn't it obvious it's

obvious right so I can't get past it

because it's not that he has a hairpiece

or I think he does again I'm not 100%

sure but looks like it to me it it's

that why would you have a hairpiece of

the worst hair person could have it

would be like Einstein getting a

hairpiece that looked like his regular

hair

why would you do that so the whole time

he's talking I can't even listen to what

he's saying because I I I don't think he

has any useful political ideas uh I

think he is just clearly in the bag for

one side so nothing he says is should

have any importance but uh it was cringy

and it's a weird choice for uh somebody

who's running against Trump to have a

friendly interview with a guy who has

done way worse when it comes to race and

misogyny now I will support Howard

Stern in saying that all of those things

were in the context of humor and when

Trump says something that's not totally

serious or in the context of humor I I

give him the same pass it's like it's a

joke people he's talking about you know

McCain being uh he liked people who

don't get caught don't take that

seriously that's a joke so I don't take

Howard Stern

seriously uh but it's really cringey

that he would be the most misogynistic

person in the public domain and that

Harris who's got all these women

supporters would go to see him now my

question is this is that going to get

her any votes being on Howard Stern how

would that get you any

votes because it's mostly men who watch

it right do you think the men who were

watching Howard Stern are going to be oh

that was a good performance I don't know

I think that was probably a mistake

Harris also went on The

View and they they gave her the softball

question of all softballs like what

would she do different from Biden and if

she would do something different from

Biden why isn't she trying to do it now

now I'm going to give you some

uncharacteristic uh support for Harris

in this

case she's in a bad position because

she's the vice president and she's

running for office has that ever

happened

before

yeah yeah I guess that's happened

before but

um here's the problem we don't expect a

vice president to disagree with a

sitting president nor would I want her

to if if she's being paid to be a vice

president I don't want her going in

public and saying that that my boss is

getting this wrong do you like even if

even if she believed

it no I no she's being paid to agree

with her boss the go you know the

country is paying her and very

specifically we're paying you to agree

with your boss so if you put her in

public and ask her hey where where would

you disagree with your boss and then she

gives you a word salid answer I'm okay

with that I'm okay with it

yeah just change the subject word salad

me give me some lie to me no

your job is to agree with your boss and

I don't want any foreign leaders to see

Biden having two opinions coming out of

his office I don't want that even if I

disagree with his opinion I don't want

two opinions coming out of his office

that looks makes us look like idiots no

she should say here the best answer she

should give and she's given terrible

answers I mean it's a tough question but

her answers have been terrible here's

what I would like to do I think she

should

say uh you know I'm sitting vice

president I'm running for president but

as vice president my job what you're

paying me for is to be on board with the

Biden policies and am there are some

there are some things where my focus

might be a little different and there

are some things that have just changed

over time so we can see that maybe what

we did before wasn't working well enough

it's time to Pivot so mostly what I

would do would be to look to upgrade

Things based on how it's gone so far and

then there are a few few programs that I

like such as you know then mentioned the

$5,000 thing the $6,000 thing and say uh

you know that the time to recommend them

is during a campaign so I'm recommending

them during the campaign but I hope you

all understand that I'm being paid to

agree with my boss and that's what

you're paying me for so I'm not going to

leave that domain too much but if you

want to get a flavor for what I would do

uh these proposals are are different and

uh I probably have a let's say a greater

interest in this or that so there's

probably a way you could finesse it but

you'd have to be in the

top

2% of good of good communicators she's

not

so as much as I have sympathy for the

fact that the question is a little

unfair it's important and unfair at the

same time it's the right question I

would definitely ask the question but

it's unfair it's a little bit like you

know do you still beat your spouse

there's just no way to handle that

question so watching her handle a

question that can't be handled is

interesting could uh could Trump have

answered that

question just imagine that Trump were in

the same same position of course he

could he'd probably tell you exactly

what you're thinking oh I'm vice

president so I've got to agree with that

guy but when you set me free I've got

some interests that are a little bit

different let me tell you about him he

could do it so it's doable but you'd

have to be in the top 2% of

communicators

anyway uh then she went on Cole bear and

had a beer which was the dumbest thing

they could ever do because there are

rumors of her having a drinking problem

and uh she responded to him with a bunch

of word salad that will probably turn

into a campaign ad she did act like a

blithering idiot she acted like a

blithering

idiot

um and uh let's see so all of her I

would say all of her uh campaign stops

so far the ones that are in the media

have been total

disasters

um and and there disasters that I think

are the kind that even Democrats can see

but I'm not

sure you know I'm sure that there are

lots of interviews that Trump has given

over the years where you could say oh

that was bad for him that was a disaster

but none like this usually it's just

Trump said something provocative that

could be taken out of context so it

looks bad for him but it's not full out

incompetence what you're seeing is

somebody proving she doesn't have the

goods to be president every day usually

you don't get that from a campaign

usually both candidates run a pretty

good campaign maybe one's a little

better but when you're done you say oh

those are two people who ran you know

full National campaigns that's not

nothing but no she's not succeeding even

a little bit the the machine is pushing

her but she's not made she hasn't done

anything worthy not not a single good

day and and the funniest is when she

tries to avoid questions by going into

an inspirational speech have you seen

that

yet uh K Harris I'd like to ask you this

question uh you've proposed some new

programs how do you think you'll pay for

them Americans are ambitious and they

have goals and and and and they're

looking forward and we're going

forward and you just say oh my God

what's wrong with you what is wrong with

you so that's what makes me the f I

laugh the most because she can't sell

the serious stuff at all you could

easily imagine uh a trump and

Obama uh Bill

Clinton they could sell all that stuff

about you know hope and change and

moving forward and making America great

they could sell that you know RFK Jr he

could sell it but but wow she can't sell

that at all it just looks like she was

trying to memorize a speech in sixth

grade um and then and then we'd move

forward and then we'd come together uh

then the then the country would work

together and then when she thinks she's

got a good sentence she'll look at you

like she's so proud like she nailed it

it's like and then we'll work

together like she's waiting for you to

be all happy because she said something

something that everybody thinks is a

good idea working

together anyway Christopher Ray head of

the FBI was asked again by Congress if

there were confidential informants on

January

6 and uh he said well I have to be very

careful about that which means

yes um without saying yes and because

obviously if the answer was no what

would the answer be if the answer was no

the answer would be

no you wouldn't say I can't tell

you there's no world in which I can't

tell you is the right answer if the

answer was no there were no no

informants as given that it's you know a

normal thing to do um also we can rule

out that there were only a

few I'm going to rule out the option

that there were only a few do you know

why

because if Ry had said um it's standard

procedure to embed some resources in an

event like this uh we had a few

resources they were there to watch they

did not participate in anything you know

that would make it

worse now if that were

true would it be a problem if he said

so if I said there there were a few I

don't want to give you the exact number

but we had a few and they were just

there to observe and that's all they

did why wouldn't he say that because if

he said that I would say to myself Oh

you mean the FBI was doing its

job it it wouldn't matter who the group

was or why they're protesting I would

think if it's a political thing

especially around the capital I would

think the FBI should have some

informants in the group and I think

there should be several you know one or

two would be not enough I think there be

at least a handful so if he said yeah we

had we had several I don't want to give

you the

number um and there were there just

there to observe and collect information

I would have said oh good job there

Christopher Ray thanks thanks for

telling us and it sounds like you were

on top of

it it can't be that

then if it would be so easy to say the

truth if you did a good job and it was

just a few informants and its normal

procedure

there's something they're hiding so what

I see is that there were a lot of them

and that they were more active than they

should have been that's what I say so to

me this looks like a confession of

extreme

guilt what would you say now I'm biased

of course but it no matter what the

topic is if somebody's answering in this

indirect way when you know that an

honest answer would be simple and clean

it would be no risk whatsoever

what am I supposed to

think the the obvious conclusion is that

there were a lot of them and they were

up to no good obviously now remember

what I always tell you if you're talking

about a citizen citizens are innocent to

proven guilty yeah you government you

better have the goods or don't go after

a citizen but it's opposite when the

government is involved in this case the

FBI if the government's being Ki

then you should assume guilt which is

what I do I assume guilt not only do I

assume that they had more than a few

people there but that they were

explicitly involved

in illegal or bad

behavior I'm going to take that as a

confession likewise when the F folks in

is it fton

County when they refuse to unlock the

door that some people say have some fake

ballots behind them that were used in

2020 I don't need them to open the

door no the refusal to open the door is

a confession that there there's a room

full of fake ballots or there used to be

and they removed them and burned

them but I definitely don't think that

there's nothing behind the door if you

refuse to open the door and you're a

citizen I'm going to say well that looks

sketchy but you're a citizen and you

have the right of privacy so if we don't

know there's a crime behind that door

and you don't want to show us behind

that

door innocent will proven guilty but not

the government if the government doesn't

open it you're guilty and that

is the working assumption that you

should all have government you don't

have the right to keep something like

that from the people now the government

does have a right to keep some Secrets

if it was some big military secret yeah

sure keep the military Secret that's

fine but not this we need to know who

won the election I think we have a right

to

that

anyway um Israel uh is apparently still

prepping for some kind of an Iran

response we know that America the

American government want or at least

Biden doesn't want them to go too hard

and doesn't want them to go so hard on

Iran that Iran will respond in some kind

of a aggressive way

um

and maybe that's going to start

today um I think it made sense that they

didn't do something on October 7th they

probably thought about it but it's

better to keep October 7th remember for

what it was you don't want to muck it up

with a gigantic response because then

they can say well now it's our October

7th it's not your October 7th it's ours

now so it's probably good that they

waited but they're not going to wait

long and if you look at the options the

options would either be uh a

decapitation

strike which would be pretty risky a

strike on their nuclear

facilities which I'm hearing the Biden

campaign doesn't want them to do

that I don't know why so I'd like to

hear the argument I suspect the Biden

campaign or the Biden Administration uh

I expect the administration know more

about the Iranian nuclear program maybe

they think that they're going to do a

breakout in two weeks if you don't kill

it all I don't know maybe they think

there's another way to take it down so

they don't want to do it you don't want

to waste some bombs so we don't know

what's really going on in terms of the

targeting uh we're just going to know

what the outcome is if I had to guess

the US is is trying to convince them to

bomb some you know meaningless military

targets just just to say they hit them

back um I don't think that Israel is

going to take on the oil

refineries because that would change the

politics in the United States really

quickly so if you want if you're Israel

and you want um support from the

American citizens you don't want to

increase the price of our

gas so I'm pretty sure Netanyahu

understands that lesson of persuasion if

there's one thing you can't

do do not increase the cost of our gas

at the moment especially there might

have been a time you know when when gas

was cheap and everybody could pay their

rent you know maybe you could take a

risk on that but

today if if Israel bombs something and

the News tells you that it made your gas

go up 10 cents you're going to be

pissed and that would be a disaster for

Israel so think that the oil refineries

are probably

safe um I wouldn't be

surprised has Israel gone after the

hoodies

yet probably have we just don't know

about it but maybe maybe Israel will

just wipe out the hoodies instead of

hitting Iran's Homeland something like

that I wouldn't rule that out it might

be the hoodies are going to have a bad

week we'll see we we'll see and that

would make us happier I think because

the hoodies are making our cost go up

with

their their uh putting a risk on the

shipping all right ladies and gentlemen

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