Episode 2755 CWSA 02/19/25

good morning everybody let's check the stock market Bitcoin up Tesla up but the market in general down a little bit kind of flat not bad could be worse let's get our comments working and then then I got a show for you good morning all right comments on point 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 but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you needed for that is a cuper mro glass a tanker chel a St.

C Jer flow vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparallel pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous hip go exceptional excelsor you know who says that excelsure Stanley used to say that you know now I don't know about you this is kind of weird just start off with something weird but ever since Trump stole my uh democracy everything seems exactly the same I'm trying to figure out what's going on because I know my democracy is gone but I wake up and everything looks a lot like it used to look what am I supposed to be experiencing should I be losing my right to vote could it be some bodily autonomy I lost I don't remember losing any well it's quite the tragedy having no democracy but so far I'm struggling through I hope the rest of you are making it are you guys all are you all surviving your complete lack of democracy oh man let's talk about some news uh let's call this backwards science backwards science according to Medical Express News in a study at the University of Sheffield Shan Bon is writing there's this video game called Counter Strike I've never heard of it but apparently it's a very popular video game it's a firstperson shooter kind of a game and what they found was the scientists found at the University School of Psychology uh that the experienced and highly skilled players of that game uh are faster at decision making and executing a response so they speculate that maybe if you got people to play more video games they would also become a faster decision makers and faster executing a response does that sound right not to me to me that sounds like backwards science backwards science well let me put it this way when I was 12 years old uh I tried playing football you know because everybody plays every sport when you're you're a boy and I very quickly realized that football would not be my strength that no matter how much I practiced the football I was never really going to be a great football player didn't really have the the body or the brain for it luckily so I didn't get any brain damage but at also about 12 years old I played tennis for the first time with uh I think with my mother with a couple of rackets that we bought at Sears that were already strung back back before I knew that stringing the racket right made a difference and the moment I started hitting a tennis ball I said to myself huh I don't know might be my imagin ation but it seems like I could be kind of good at this because my hand eye coordination was good and and so for the rest of my entire life until recently I was a tennis player and sure enough I was you know for somebody who just plays on weekends and you know is a casual player I I got to a pretty high level for a casual player and so here's what I discovered people do more of what they like and what they're good at and the thing that makes you like something is being extra good at it nobody likes to lose if you sat me down in front of this shooter game and I knew it in five minutes that I would never really be good at it because I didn't have fast reactions I wouldn't play again it would bore me to be like oh well lost again oh lost again but if I sat down and right away I said oh feel like I can be good at this then I would play it a lot until I found out I wasn't good at it perhaps so I think the science is backwards here I think the people who are who just naturally have fast decision- making and execution are drawn to video games what do you think which way do you think it works I will use my telepathy to hear your response uhhuh uhhuh yeah you're right well yesterday I did a little post it was based on an encounter I had with a an individual who saw me walking by and flagged me down and want to talk about politics I may have mentioned this to some of you and here's the post I wrote after that encounter now the reason I'm reading it to you is that in one day it has garnered 24 million views it's going up something like a million views an hour now for reference a typical post of mine might get 70,000 views 24 million doesn't happen unless you know Elon Musk reposts it which he didn't so I couldn't find any big accounts to reposted it it looks like this just has some kind of a nerve with people that they all understood it and that's the point I'm going to go for so here's what I posted yesterday they got 24 million views so far I said I just met someone um oh I said today I learned that being a Democrat require is talking over anyone who knows what is real I just met someone who is sure Hunter's laptop is fake Trump was never shot in the ear and there is no evidence Hunter was running a criminal operation I didn't make a dent now why would 24 million people agree with that because you think well that's just that one person right it's just one person who who talked over me no it's because every one of you had the same experience multiple times as soon as you start a conversation about Trump you get really angry loud yelling over whatever you're saying so here's an example uh there's no way he got shot in the air and I'd say well actually I know somebody personally who saw him soon after the event and he actually took the bandage off and showed the hole in his ear and he said no it didn't happen happen I go no what I'm saying is somebody I know very well personally personally told me that Trump showed him his ear and that there was a hole in it ah but where'd all the bullets go if if if he had if there were really bullets where'd all the other bullets go and I said well one of them went into the body of a guy who died ah then changed the topic but not once did he think oh maybe I got that wrong so yeah and he thought the hunter laptop was definitely fake oh my god of course that was fake and he thought that uh there was no evidence Hunter was running a criminal operation and I said you know there's no other reason to have 20 shell companies that don't have any physical location and no form of business and yet and he's like yeah but there's no evidence no evidence I said said but you know that they've tracked the actual payments through bank accounts all the way into Joe Biden's pocket right talk over talk over so it was just impossible it was literally impossible to get through now my main point is not that there's one person who who had a you know who had this point of view or this this approach my point is have you ever noticed if you've been around atcts or especially alcoholics that there's something they have in common you ever noticed that and people were on certain kind of medications have you noticed that they can they can form a common kind of personality the the commonality of this the fact that so many people uh are having a very specific weird uh character situation I I don't know wouldn't call it character it's more like behavioral so the people are having this very specific behavioral change that they can't listen and they have to talk over you really loudly that is an indication of brainwashing the the way you know that there's an external Force that's operating on a bunch of people in the same way is that they have this very specific kind of reaction to it that's a real big tell so in the same way that um you've probably heard the it said that all addicts lie youve ever heard that if you haven't heard it you could be really happy I told you because sooner or later you're going to run into an addict who lies and even the addicts will tell you even the addicts will tell you yeah you know if we have to we're going to lie so that's a very specific behavioral thing right and it's because there's this very specific force that is affecting the same people in the same way so yes it is brainwashing there's absolutely no doubt about it in my opinion there's no doubt about it it's a brainwash effect meanwhile Eric Dolan writing for cost says there's a new study on dispair and how it affects voter turnout you'll be very surprised to hear that people who are suicidal and in despair are less likely to vote huh well surprising you know what they could have done to save some time and money they could have just asked me Scott do people who are experiencing despair are they motivated to do really anything and I would say no despair really does not motivate you doesn't motivate you to vote doesn't motivate you to get a promotion doesn't motivate you to work harder doesn't motivate you to get married despair doesn't motivate you to do anything just ask me next time I I could do this save you a lot of time and money well there's a a breakthrough battery circuit design for tiny little uh drones according to interesting engineering now the reason I like to mention all the battery stuff for drones is because it lets you predict the future if if you know what's happening with batteries in all kinds of ways that will tell you absolutely what the next 20 or 30 years look like and if you wondered will there ever be tiny little drones that are the size of a fingernail and the answer is now they will the this this specific breakthrough is for tiny drones uh micro drones and researchers at University of California San Diego and CA Ley whatever that is they've got a a novel circuit design that makes the power last a lot longer for a micr drone a lot longer so it's a big it's a big deal one of the examples they gave is if a building crumbles and they want to find survivors there might not be enough room for a regular drone to be flying through and but the micro drones could just sort of fill all the spaces and look for survivors and sense things now that's the good news the bad news is somebody can send a Micro Drone right into your house that and that thing could be flying around in your house all you know for an hour and you wouldn't even probably hear it because it's a micr drone so so the Privacy implications are pretty extreme pretty extreme uh Robbie Starbuck is writing that so there's there's a program in the United States called the snap program it's for providing money for food groceries for people who need a little extra help and Robbie staruk is pointing out that uh the snap program spends $15 billion a year but about 10 % of it goes to soda so people can buy what they want I guess within within limits it's got to be food or drink but a lot of people are buying cocacola and Pepsi so big soda is getting nearly $ 11.5 billion a year just from the government's program on what to you know helping people buy food and beverages now um so I think they're looking to you know I I think there might be some effort to scale that back so you can't buy food that's bad for you but here's the problem on paper this was always going to go that way because soda is addictive so if you add the addictive nature of soda and I know this because I was very addicted to diet coke for you know decades it took me a long time to get off it if you have an addictive substance in a grocery store and you give people free money that they can use in the way they want in the grocery store they're going to buy the addictive substance there's no way around that so if you didn't prevent that from the start who who couldn't see that coming like who in the world couldn't now on the other hand you don't want to be the nanny State and tell people what they can and cannot have but I would think that the exception would be what they can have with my money if they're spending their own money do whatever you want get the soda but if you're spending my money well maybe I don't want you to have the soda maybe I think you should get a potato anyway so you probably heard that uh Trump's going to order all the Biden era attorneys us attorneys to be fired because he's got he says we must clean house immediately Fox News is reporting uh and he says the justice department has we been weaponized and politicized against him you know given the degree of obvious lawfare that we saw I'm 100% in favor of this in a more functional world where you could depend on attorneys to just do the job of attorneys and not be political I would be totally against it but the attorneys not all of them of course but enough of the attorneys have shown that they're not really playing for anything but a team they have to go and if the best you can do is replace them with your own cronies who will then of course be fired in three and a half years four years uh it's the best you can do so yeah I'm in favor of that well meanwhile let's talk about Trump's negotiating skills this is my favorite topic the reason I like it is that it reminds me how many people don't know how to negotiate um I did negotiating for a job back in my corporate days it was my job to negotiate contracts and of course I studied hypnosis and persuasion and stuff so have a unique insight into it so it's fun to watch Trump work so right now there's a team of I guess Americans talking to a team of Russians about what to do about Ukraine now what do you think's going to come out of that let me tell you what's going to come out of it absolutely nothing absolutely nothing so is that bad news is it bad news that this team of people are probably going to work for who knows how long and Saudi Arabia now and nothing will get done so that's all bad right nope nope if if you understand negotiating there's there's a thing that's happening I I call it a softening up the room once you get uh Russia and most of the United States and Europe and everybody else to think that there's no way to get a deal when it's absolutely impossible that's when Trump comes in because Trump's the only one who could get both sides to give something up nobody else could do that the the people who are the underlings have orders from whoever sent them don't give up anything of course you think Putin told his team all right if you have to give this up no he didn't he said don't give anything up and what did Trump tell his team okay if you have to you know you can back off on this no he didn't say that he said you can't give them anything you tell them what you want and that's it and then you see if he can get it now how in the world is that going to work underlings cannot negotiate because the underlings can't make the tough decisions that's why they're the underlings so what you're trying to do is exhaust each other you you want to reach the point of uh oh this is actually impossible it looks like it's Forever War oh God you know we really really wanted this to end but it doesn't look like there's any path there's just no way we can get there and then Trump calls Putin and Trump and Putin say all right here's the deal we're not going to get anywhere unless we both give up a little something here's what I need you to give up maybe he says what he needs you to give up and then they make a deal but you have to exhaust everybody and make it look impossible before the the real people come in and make a deal now what the negot negotiators could do and maybe this is useful they could find out maybe what's completely off the table and maybe they can't even find that out but they might they might at least raise some new ideas maybe maybe something come up that nobody said before so Trump and Putin will both be a little bit better informed about what looks practical and possible by the time they talk but nothing's going to happen nothing's going to happen until the two of them talk that's the only negotiating everything else is theater and exhaustion and and what I call softening the room so softening the room is a negotiating tactic um this is I used to write about this when when I was in the corporate world go into a meeting and everybody's got an idea about what it is we should do and the ideas are not that good and they argue and they argue and they argue if I had a better idea in my own opinion I'd wait until the last 10 minutes that there that we have the room scheduled for and then after everybody's so frustrated that they can't get anything done that's when I dropped my idea go you know you could do this and everybody's so exhausted and they don't want to talk about it anymore they just want to be done in 10 minutes they've got some other meeting to go to and everybody will look at me and say well that might work the number of times I did that the last 10 minute strategy it's called softening the room I just wait till the room is soften up and then I give them the solution Trump's going to do that um so the top DC prosecutor this is reported in the hill a top DC prosecutor is resigning as uh at the EPA oh because the EPA not at the apaa because the EPA is Seeking a criminal probe of Biden's climate funding so what this is about is that $20 billion went out the door to several climate related entities just as the Biden Administration was ending now the accusation is that they were really just trying to park it with maybe their cronies or they were just trying to make sure that Trump didn't have it available to him or or they just really like climate change and wanted to make sure it was fully funded and was hard to get back that money now I guess uh lee zeldon is trying to get it back anyway but so the top DC prosecut resigned rather than opening some kind of a criminal investigation of how that 20 billion got transferred and well it looks like a hasty and maybe sketchy way but I've got this question what is the crime I get that it's sketchy and I get that it's suboptimal and I get that it's sort of a political weasel thing to do but was there a crime and if if I were a top prosecutor and somebody said go investigate this crime and I said what crime and they said well there's no crime but I think if you look around you might find one I don't know I might resign I might resign so I assume that most of these things are purely political and has nothing to do with principle I mean that's it's kind of hard to imagine anybody's operating a principal at this point but uh I would like to see a little more indication of crime before I see the investigation now I assume in the real world sometimes there are investigations under the assumption that there's probably a crime but I don't know where that standard starts and and ends but I'm a little worried I don't want uh I don't want the team that I'm backing to be doing unrestricted lawfare now e even if it's you know getting revenge nope not good enough so this might be totally appropriate and I'm definitely concerned about this 20 billion I would definitely like it to be clawed back I definitely think it looks sketchy but is there a crime I'm going to need to hear there was a crime for me to be in favor of this uh Department of Homeland Security helicopters have been getting struck by lasers uh near the Mexican border so presumably that's the cartel Fox News Michael Le's reporting on this and I guess I've been targeted by lasers about six times now lasers meaning not a laser weapon but like a laser pointer apparently if you point that at a Pilot it can blind them so uh even though it might not do it if you were closer to it there's something about the distance I guess that that could make it blind the pilot so it's very very dangerous and it's an attack so even though it's not the kind of laser that slices the plane and half or the helicopter in this case it's deadly it's potentially deadly and the question I wonder is uh I wonder if it would be legal to respond with deadly force now I think this helicopter probably wasn't armed but if it were a military helicopter and it's near the border but it's on our side and somebody lasers it could you not treat that as a military attack and just light them up and just take out cuz they know where it comes from I mean they can literally see the the laser origin part I'd be in favor of military action so to me that would seem entirely Justified I mean I don't care if it's a teenager who thinks it's funny if you're trying to take down an aircraft and it's our aircraft and it's it's armed yes it can it can kill you that that seems entirely fair to me so we'll see where that goes so I was asking the other day about that the discrepancies in the Social Security database that Doge found and I think a lot of people were interpreting it as uh that they found corruption because there was indication that there were a lot of uh death fields that were set to false or something as if they never died and it would give you the indication that there were social security numbers that can be used for illegal devious corrupt purposes U of people who were actually dead for a long time now when I asked for a clarification on that uh I got a good clarification from data Republican on X now that's an account you should follow um I always tell you you should follow the explainers they're the valuable ones you know the the Mike Ben The Glenn Greenwald the and I'm going to add data Republican it's one word data Republican if you're on X uh just she's just a great analyst so she does with data just a tremendous job and so she gave this answer which uh Elon said exactly so we know that musk agrees with this exact interpretation now how how valuable is that that's really valuable that I've got this question data Republican gives me this good answer that I'm going to read to you and then Elon says yes that's exactly right like how in the world and then and then the rest of you get to read it so you get the benefit from that interaction the the fact that musk personally can tell you that something is on point or not that's just it's mindblowing it's just absolutely mind-blowing that this is even possible anyway data Republican answered my question about the social security database and said I believe the most accurate interpretation is that the Social Security Administration lacks a reliable and consistent source of Truth making its records inherently flawed without an authoritative and accurate data set internal Audits and reported figures on benefit recipients cannot be fully trusted so the problem is not that they found a specific dollar amount of crime the problem is you wouldn't know if there was crime there or not that's a really big problem so yeah needs to be solved but you can't put a dollar amount on it so that's that's what I wondered I wondered how you could put a dollar amount on it meanwhile um meta created as you know the metaverse and we saw the first ad for it that uh showed what the metaverse it's a virtual reality kind of world that uh Zuckerberg is trying to make big so he's been working us for a number of years he's got a $60 billion doll into it so far and uh they showed and it's been working since 2020 so $60 billion like one I think it might be the major possibly the major thing that meta is working on and they released their first advertisement and it was so pathetic that they had to pull the advertisement it was just on uh Instagram and it showed the little virtual reality world you know as if you were looking at if he were in the virtual reality and the characters look like cartoons with movements that look like had not been well planned so as people sitting in a chair who just literally looked like cartoons and and their arms would be floating like this why now here's the problem that might be it might be an example of the very height of what virtual reality can do because you know there limits on Hardware there's limits on processors there's limits on memory if you take into consideration all the physical Computing limits trying to create a full existing virtual world with you know lots of characters and stuff it might be really well not might be it's really hard to do so it might have been just the best that can be done with current technology however it has the very bad luck of coming at the same time that AI can produce photorealistic images on demand so my brain just like almost every one of you says wait a minute there's a virtual reality product that they they plunked 60 billion dollars into it one of the top technology companies in the entire world and it doesn't look like it's photo realistic your brain just can't accept that so even if it might be the very best you could do within that domain and it's not it's not equivalent to AI giving you a 3se second clip of something photorealistic there those are entirely different levels of complexity uh but my brain my brain can't accept a cartoony weird floating person once I've seen what AI can do now I don't know if AI can ever you know fix what's happening with the virtual reality I think the the challenges are completely different there but that is really bad luck um but here's the fun part so looking at these characters from the outside I can tell that they just look like cartoons but what do the characters if the characters were let's say autonomous what would they think of each other would they think oh there's a low resolution character that must be created by a computer or would it say there's a high resolution character that looks normal just like I am well the answer is it depends how you code it so it might be one line of code to say each character imagines that everything they see is High Fidelity that's it the character just has to think it's seeing High Fidelity you just program as so it does it doesn't have to see high fidelity it only has to think it does and then it will argue to its death that it can see detail and it would never know the difference so if we were a simulation and we were also low Fidelity is it possible that we wouldn't know it because we're programmed to think it's High Fidelity well let me take it to the next level everything in my room right now is High Fidelity as far as I know but I can't see it the only thing I know is High Fidelity is maybe a few words that I'm looking at on the comments as they go by everything else is sort of imagined High Fidelity you see what I mean I imagine it's High Fidelity but I'm not even looking at it it's not registering in any way in my brain but my brain is programmed to think that I sort of do see it it's so easy to program a character to think it's high fidelity but the only High Fidelity is what they're really really focusing on in this narrow little cone because that's the only part your brain is dealing with so it could be if we were a simulation the only High Fidelity is this narrow cone of whatever we're really focusing on at the moment and everything else is low Fidelity we wouldn't know the difference I know you love that simulation talk well Elon Musk said he's gonna talk to Trump about the idea of uh refunding at the rate of $55,000 a piece to taxpayers um some of the Doge savings so they saved they saved 55 billion so far and uh if they only gave a portion of that back to taxpayers it be for somebody says $5,000 a piece I'm looking at an article in Tech Times by Isaiah Richard but here's the obvious question that people in the comments were saying and I said immediately I thought the point of Doge was to reduce our deficit I didn't think it was creating a piggy bank that could be doled out now I like the fact that people could get $5,000 I mean that would make a really big difference to a lot of people it's a big deal but I feel like it might create a precedent where everybody thinks that the Doge savings are a new piggy bank I'm already worried the Congress looks at the Doge savings as oh that's money we didn't have to spend before but he's reduced our expenses by 100 billion so I guess I have another 100 billion to spend that's not how it's supposed to work so here's the argument for it though the argument in favor of it is that V voters are not really following the politics very carefully they know there's a doge and they may have heard some good things about it and some bad things about it if you wanted them to be on board with Doge before it does the hard stuff like the Pentagon budget the Social Security the you know Health Care budgets you might want to bribe them I could say bribe but it wouldn't be illegal it would be all all transparent uh you might want to say hey doge is so cool here's $5,000 and then suddenly your Doge approval would go from I think it's over 50% but like it it would hit 60 plus% almost immediately because people would say I don't know much about this but I just got to check for $5,000 so keep going Elon maybe I'll get another check so if you're looking at it from a persuasion perspective to make it easier for Doge to get the the final work done you know the the big savings to sort of soften the room as it were this would be a way to do it now if Elon is thinking it that way as a way just to make Doge more successful in the long run get people on board that makes sense that makes sense but I definitely wouldn't want this to be the beginning of hey we created some free money that can be used in this way or that way meanwhile the uh Mexican government says that is seized $40 million worth a meth before it crossed the border and the Daily colar News Foundation is reporting this Jason Hopkins and there's a photo of some Mexican authority over six big blue barrels of something that presumably are some kind of drug and the question I ask is this how do we know what's in those barrels is it possible that the Mexican Government working with the cartels just says every month or so all right do you have those blue barrels yeah we got the six blue barrels can you put them in a different building and we'll photograph our guys with a heavy Weaponry standing by them and we'll say we captured uh what's a good number I don't know 20 30 million worth let's go 40 let's go 40 million worth all right everybody stand by these barrels click click click click there we go doing a great job just stop 40 million dollar worth of meth from coming into the United States how would we know that they stopped anything that would be the easiest thing in the world to fake right you wouldn't expect anybody to be I mean it would take the smallest number of people to be involved in the fraud and they probably wouldn't talk now I'm not saying it is fraud I'm just saying if it's indistinguishable from something that could easily be faked why would you believe it so I'm going to put it in the category of things I just don't believe could be true it absolutely could be true not buying it not buying it at all it's a little too on the nose hey Mexico we're going to give you uh big tariffs if you don't stop a lot of drugs uh look at these six barrels we just stopped and and uh a few weeks from now oh look it's another six barrels well those look like the same barrels yeah they they often use the same kind of barrel material they like they like to use the blue barrels oh but we found another one but is that the same six barrels no it's not the same six barrels It's Five Barrels how easy would that be come on meanwhile some good news PJ media is reporting Victoria Taft that uh Trump's losing some serious weight um he was asked uh how much he he lost and I think he said he was guessing 15 to 20 pounds he does look lighter now he attributed to being busy and having no time to eat but I don't think that's exactly the whole story uh there's some kind of source that Victoria Taft had I guess that says that Melania is sort of behind it and that she's been pushing him to eat more healthy food but here's the part I just love uh allegedly now this is from a source anonymous source so put it in context uh the Milani has on occasion I don't know what on occasion means but on occasion been cooking family dinners at Trump Tower for the president and their son Baron I love that I love that so do you ever put yourself in Trump's position and just just try to imagine what it's like he can have any any luxury he spends his time around luxury and you know everything basically he just has access to everything but the one thing that somebody in his position would have trouble getting is a home-cooked meal with his son and his wife to me that's worth more than all the other stuff so to me that just makes me happy if it's true I mean I assume it's true I would love to know that Melania enjoys cooking that she's good at it and that sometimes she just cooks for the two of them that would be amazing that would be amazing yeah but there's more to it it's much bigger imagine if you will that Trump loses I don't know if he has more to lose but but let's say he becomes felt like he just looks really good on the golf course imagine seeing him on the golf course completely trimmed down now put that in the context of Maha make America healthy again and RFK Jr and Nicole Shanahan and all the push toward staying away from the bad foods and toward the good ones and what how good that will be for us imagine if Trump made the move away from processed foods and then you could just watch here's why this is a big deal um during the Kennedy administration JFK he was I guess he was one of the first politicians to not wear a hat and it killed the entire hat industry because when JFK didn't wear a hat people thought I don't have to wear a hat this Hat's kind of a pain in pain in neck so I won't wear a hat it killed the entire industry so it's it's hard to uh you know it's hard to appreciate the degree to which the role models make a difference and if Trump found a way to you know just sort of gently relax his weight down without using the without using the weight loss drugs and by the way we wouldn't know if he used one or not but if he managed to do it through just eating right that would be amazing for the country just the benefit of the country would be amazing but it also be good for him so this is one of the the things that makes me happiest today and then Trump does this this is reported by Jim hofton the Gateway pundit so he's signed an executive order to expand and reduce the cost of uh in invitro fertilization so he wants to make fertility treatments more accessible for American families now the executive order just says that he's putting together a group to study it and find a way to make it less expensive it's super expensive so if you want to have a baby and and you're going to need Inver invitro fertilization uh it could cost you up to 25,000 per cycle uh and it might not work so you might have to do more than one cycle 25,000 a shot and health insurance uh covers some of it but it's limited and only a quarter of employers offer it um and uh apparently 85,000 infants were born as a result of IVF in 2021 now this is in the context of the natural birth population of the United States dropping so it's important it's important that we have ways to make as many babies as possible in ways that you know are healthy and family supports them and stuff like that um but what I wondered was wasn't this one of the biggest things that the Democrats worried about that they used to lie and say that he doesn't like IVF or I think they said JD Vance doesn't like it or something it was all fake because he's always been in favor of it but I tried to think okay I'll put myself in the shoes of a Democrat how do they explain that one of the biggest things that they were complaining about Trump is he would take your bodily autonomy which would include IVF that you take it away and not only is he not taking it away he is doing serious things to make it more available and cheaper and then I realized oh here's the natural attack line do you see it yet let's see if you have it in the comments do you see the do you see the natural attack line where they're going to get him it jumps out as soon as I tell you you're going to say oh how did I not see that here it is Trump's trying to make more white babies boom because I don't know this I don't have any statistics but I'll bet you given that it cost $25,000 per cycle I'll bet you the high income people are the people with good jobs and good insurance and a little extra cash a lot of extra cash are probably the only ones that have used it so far which would suggest probably it's concentrated in maybe white and Asian-American families because they're high income and how easy would it be for Joy Reed to say well it looks like white supremist say Trump has figured out a way to make more white babies oh that is so coming when it should be oh I guess we lied about everything when we said he was going to get rid of IVF that should be the story that MSNBC and his critics lied about everything it was never true and this is you know proof it was never true they're still going to say you racist in other news a law firm that uh apparently handles Elon musk's stuff um is putting together a draft for a uh legislative change in Delaware now of course it's just a law firm so they don't get to vote on it but they're proposing it through probably some I assume some politicians are on board CNBC is reporting this Laura kadney and so the law firm is trying to get a change in Delaware that would possibly open the door for Elon musk to get that big uh was it 56 billion pay package or whatever it was that he was denied because a Delaware judge said that that pay package agreement is invalid because Elon Musk had too much control over the C over the company that uh gave it to him and since it was basically conflict of interest uh the judge say we're throwing it out now I don't believe the company had any complaint about it I think there was one stockholder who bought a few shares and did it just to take down uh Elon but his uh Law Firm is making a very creative uh attack and the attack is that Delaware has become sort of poison for corporations because of exactly this sort of thing you you saw Bill lman moved to his company on of Delaware uh that they just register in Delaware it's they're not based in Delaware but uh they're they're saying that they can make Delaware what it used to be a place you could trust to register your corporation because now people don't trust it so he said they we can get back to Delaware having the advantage of being this great place to register your corporation with just a few changes one of the changes would be that if you owned uh less than one-third of the stock of the company you would be presumed not to control it 1/3 now that's pretty reasonable if you owned 51% obviously you do control it if you own 40% you kind of almost control it but 30% seems fair that seems quite reasonable that if you're below 30% you uh you're you're not by definition you're not controlling the company now you could argue whether you know some personalities could still control the company with 30% but uh that got adopted it would make other corporations feel a little more comfortable having their corporation registered there but here's the best part of the story the name of the law firm is Richards Leighton and finger Richards Leighton and finger now when I see Richard in this case it's the last name not a first name it always makes me think a dick because you know dick is the nickname for Richard so even though it's Richards with an s I I just see a dick and then there's Leon first three letters are lay lay a ton I guess and that makes me think of sax because leay you know and then the last last name is finger so it's really dick lay finger like when I read it and I'm thinking come on of all the law firms in the world Elon Musk picked the one that makes me think of dick L and finger perfect it's just perfect anyway we we'll keep an eye on that um Judicial Watch is asking for a probe of uh the exgen Millie for what he did in planning January 6 this is being reported by Paul Bard Washington examiner um so let's call a Judicial Watch a legal watchdog that would be a good description and they're trying to figure out if they can get uh Records about what the exact conversations were between uh Mark Millie and his top Pentagon and other and other officials Homeland Security Etc now the the thinking is that uh you've probably heard people who know more than I know say General Millie General Millie is the you know probably behind the whole uh January 6 operation you know maybe he intentionally made security light so that they could turn into what looked more like a an Insurrection or they could at least frame it that way now I don't know if any of those accusations are true I'll just say that he's long been accused by members of the you know the right as being the obvious culprit if in fact there's a culprit um but here's my larger comment I want you to just think about this for a moment have you ever noticed how rarely the United States has a large scale protest unless it's funded and organized by shadowy forces has it ever happened in my lifetime in my whole life H have citizens of the United States ever self-organized because they really cared about a thing no matter what that thing was black lives matter that was not organic we know that now that was just funded and organized antifa went away as soon as Biden became president which is a little sketchy right we've seen all the color Revolutions in other countries where all the protests are literally organized by shadowy external forces and so but let me ask this question to the best of your knowledge has there ever been a self-organized large scale protest about anything in the United States during your lifetime Vietnam War maybe maybe not probably organized by shadowy forces but I don't know but let's just say in the last 20 years in the last 20 years do you think there's ever been a large scale organic protests do you think uh uh that what what was the name of the Wall Street one that kind of went away then there was a tea party then that kind of went away I've got a feeling that Americans just can't organize spontaneously if it doesn't if it's not funded by people who know how to make things happen I don't think it happens take for example the government spending us into certain Doom you know with our with our deficit and then every year they'll just sign some continuing resolution which says well we'll just add to the deficit because we don't want to make decisions don't you think that watching your elected representatives send you into certain Doom not maybe certain Doom you don't think that that would be enough to organize uh a million people on the street of course it would if we cared about topics if if if people were simply outraged by bad performance of people or policies that don't like you would see gigantic protests every week or two because there's plenty of stuff to protest all kinds of stuff what about Doge what about all the um you know all the people who think doge is a bad idea where's the protest nobody's paid for one yet there might be one but it will be funded and organized by shadowy people so I'm going to I'm going to just put down this marker don't know if it's completely true but I don't believe there's any evidence that Americans ever organize in large scale like January 6 unless there's somebody shadowy behind it I just don't think it ever happens I'd love to be proven wrong well I wouldn't love it but it' be interesting I I try to think I I've told you this before but you know when I built my house I built a home theater it's very small but you know it's like um 10 seats 10 seats in a little home theater and I thought oh how great this will be to invite friends over to watch a movie I could never get two people who wanted to watch the same movie at the same time and then I'm watching black lives matter and antifa get like you know thousands and thousands of people in the street and I'm saying to myself in what country can you do that but where can you get all those people to do that thing if I can't get two people to even watch a movie at the same time so no I don't think that Americans organize no without shadowy forces behind them I don't think the tea party was organic do you I don't believe in at all and again I don't have evidence that it wasn't organic but I doubt it seems very unlikely all right um that's all I got for now I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately um for the rest of you thanks for joining the truckers is the only one in Canada well the truckers um were also non American yeah yeah that's a good one the the truckers as far as I know did not have any shadowy U influence as far as I know all right but they also didn't they were they were in their trucks so it makes me wonder how many there were you know but there's a difference between driving your truck somewhere and being on the street just seems different all right um continue challenging me on that no no uh organic protest in the United States Canada might be different all right everybody I'll see you tomorrow same time same place if you're on rumble or You.

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that you know now I don't know about you

this is kind of weird just start off

with something weird

but ever since Trump stole my uh

democracy everything seems exactly the

same I'm trying to figure out what's

going on because I know my democracy is

gone but I wake up and everything looks

a lot like it used to

look what am I supposed to be

experiencing should I be losing my right

to vote could it

be some bodily autonomy I lost I don't

remember losing any well it's quite the

tragedy having no democracy but so far

I'm struggling through I hope the rest

of you are making it are you guys all

are you all surviving your complete lack

of

democracy oh man let's talk about some

news uh let's call

this backwards science backwards

science according to Medical Express

News in a study at the University of

Sheffield Shan Bon is writing there's

this video game called Counter Strike

I've never heard of it but apparently

it's a very popular video game it's a

firstperson shooter kind of a game and

what they found

was the scientists found at the

University School of

Psychology uh that the experienced and

highly skilled players of that

game uh are faster at decision making

and executing a

response so they speculate that maybe if

you got people to play more video games

they would also

become a faster decision makers and

faster executing a

response does that sound right not to me

to me that sounds like backwards science

backwards science well let me put it

this

way when I was 12 years

old uh I tried playing football you know

because everybody plays every sport when

you're you're a boy and I very quickly

realized that football would not be my

strength that no matter how much I

practiced the

football I was never really going to be

a great football player didn't really

have the the body or the brain for

it luckily so I didn't get any brain

damage but at also about 12 years old I

played tennis for the first time with uh

I think with my mother with a couple of

rackets that we bought at Sears that

were already

strung back back before I knew that

stringing the racket right made a

difference and the moment I started

hitting a tennis ball I said to myself

huh I don't know might be my imagin

ation but it seems like I could be kind

of good at this because my hand eye

coordination was good and and so for the

rest of my entire life until recently I

was a tennis player and sure enough I

was you know for somebody who just plays

on weekends and you know is a casual

player I I got to a pretty high level

for a casual

player and so here's what I discovered

people do more of what they like and

what they're good at and the thing that

makes you like something is being extra

good at it nobody likes to lose if you

sat me down in front of this shooter

game and I knew it in five minutes that

I would never really be good at it

because I didn't have fast reactions I

wouldn't play

again it would bore me to be like oh

well lost again oh lost again but if I

sat down and right away I said oh feel

like I can be good at this then I would

play it a lot until I found out I wasn't

good at it perhaps so I think the

science is backwards here I think the

people who are who just naturally have

fast decision- making and execution are

drawn to video games what do you think

which way do you think it works I will

use my telepathy to hear your response

uhhuh uhhuh yeah you're

right well yesterday I did a little post

it was based on an encounter I had with

a an individual who saw me walking by

and flagged me down and want to talk

about politics I may have mentioned this

to some of you and here's the post I

wrote after that encounter now the

reason I'm reading it to you is that in

one day it has garnered 24 million

views it's going up something like a

million views an hour now for reference

a typical post of mine might get 70,000

views 24 million doesn't happen unless

you know Elon Musk reposts it which he

didn't so I couldn't find any big

accounts to reposted it it looks like

this just has some kind of a nerve with

people that they all understood it and

that's the point I'm going to go for so

here's what I posted yesterday they got

24 million views so

far I said I just met someone um oh I

said today I learned that being a

Democrat require is talking over anyone

who knows what is

real I just met someone who is sure

Hunter's laptop is fake Trump was never

shot in the ear and there is no evidence

Hunter was running a criminal

operation I didn't make a

dent now why would 24 million people

agree with

that because you think well that's just

that one person right it's just one

person who who talked over me no it's

because every one of you had the same

experience multiple times as soon as you

start a conversation about Trump you get

really angry loud yelling over whatever

you're

saying so here's an

example uh there's no way he got shot in

the air and I'd say well actually I know

somebody personally who saw him soon

after the event and he actually took the

bandage off and showed the hole in his

ear and he said no it didn't happen

happen I go no what I'm saying is

somebody I know very well

personally personally told me that Trump

showed him his ear and that there was a

hole in

it ah but where'd all the bullets go if

if if he had if there were really

bullets where'd all the other bullets go

and I said well one of them went into

the body of a guy who

died

ah then changed the topic but not once

did he think oh maybe I got that wrong

so yeah and he thought the hunter laptop

was definitely fake oh my god of course

that was

fake and he thought that uh there was no

evidence Hunter was running a criminal

operation and I said you know there's no

other reason to have 20 shell companies

that don't have any physical location

and no form of business and yet and he's

like yeah but there's no evidence no

evidence I said said but you know that

they've tracked the actual payments

through bank accounts all the way into

Joe Biden's pocket

right talk over talk over so it was just

impossible it was literally impossible

to get through now my main point is not

that there's one person who who had a

you know who had this point of view or

this this approach my point is have you

ever

noticed if you've been around atcts or

especially alcoholics that there's

something they have in common you ever

noticed that and people were on certain

kind of medications have you noticed

that they can they can form a common

kind of

personality the the commonality of this

the fact that so many people uh are

having a very specific

weird uh character situation I I don't

know wouldn't call it character it's

more like behavioral so the people are

having this very specific behavioral

change that they can't listen and they

have to talk over you really

loudly that is an indication of

brainwashing the the way you know that

there's an external Force that's

operating on a bunch of people in the

same way is that they have this very

specific kind of reaction to it that's a

real big tell so in the same way that um

you've probably heard the it said that

all addicts lie youve ever heard that if

you haven't heard it you could be really

happy I told

you because sooner or later you're going

to run into an addict who lies and even

the addicts will tell you even the

addicts will tell you yeah you know if

we have to we're going to lie so that's

a very specific behavioral thing right

and it's because there's this very

specific force that is affecting the

same people in the same way so yes it is

brainwashing there's absolutely no doubt

about it in my opinion there's no doubt

about it it's a brainwash

effect meanwhile Eric Dolan writing for

cost says there's a new study on dispair

and how it affects voter

turnout you'll be very surprised to hear

that people who are suicidal and in

despair are less likely to

vote huh well surprising you know what

they could have done to save some time

and

money they could have just asked me

Scott do people who are experiencing

despair are they motivated to do really

anything and I would say no despair

really does not motivate you doesn't

motivate you to vote doesn't motivate

you to get a promotion doesn't motivate

you to work harder doesn't motivate you

to get married despair doesn't motivate

you to do anything just ask me next time

I I could do this save you a lot of time

and

money well there's a a breakthrough

battery circuit design for tiny little

uh drones according to interesting

engineering now the reason I like to

mention all the battery stuff for drones

is because it lets you predict the

future if if you know what's happening

with batteries in all kinds of ways that

will tell you absolutely what the next

20 or 30 years look like and if you

wondered will there ever be tiny little

drones that are the size of a fingernail

and the answer is now they will the this

this specific breakthrough is for tiny

drones uh micro drones and researchers

at University of California San

Diego and CA Ley whatever that is

they've got a a novel circuit design

that makes the power last a lot longer

for a micr drone a lot longer so it's a

big it's a big

deal one of the examples they gave is if

a building crumbles and they want to

find survivors there might not be enough

room for a regular drone to be flying

through and but the micro drones could

just sort of fill all the spaces and

look for survivors and sense things now

that's the good news the bad news is

somebody can send a Micro Drone right

into your house that and that thing

could be flying around in your house all

you know for an hour and you wouldn't

even probably hear it because it's a

micr drone so so the Privacy

implications are pretty extreme pretty

extreme uh Robbie Starbuck is writing

that so there's there's a program in the

United States called the snap program

it's for providing money for food

groceries for people who need a little

extra help and Robbie staruk is pointing

out that uh the snap program spends $15

billion a year but about 10 % of it goes

to

soda so people can buy what they want I

guess within within limits it's got to

be food or drink but a lot of people are

buying cocacola and Pepsi so big soda is

getting nearly $ 11.5 billion a year

just from the government's

program on what to you know helping

people buy food and

beverages now um so I think they're

looking to you know I I think there

might be some effort to scale that back

so you can't buy food that's bad for you

but here's the problem on paper this was

always going to go that way because soda

is

addictive so if you add the addictive

nature of soda and I know this because I

was very addicted to diet coke for you

know decades it took me a long time to

get off

it if you have an addictive substance in

a grocery store and you give people free

money that they can use in the way they

want in the grocery store they're going

to buy the addictive substance there's

no way around that so if you didn't

prevent that from the start who who

couldn't see that coming like who in the

world couldn't now on the other hand you

don't want to be the nanny State and

tell people what they can and cannot

have but I would think that the

exception would be what they can have

with my

money if they're spending their own

money do whatever you want get the soda

but if you're spending my money

well maybe I don't want you to have the

soda maybe I think you should get a

potato

anyway so you probably heard that uh

Trump's going to order all the Biden era

attorneys us attorneys to be fired

because he's got he says we must clean

house immediately Fox News is

reporting uh and he says the justice

department has we been weaponized and

politicized against him you

know given the degree of obvious lawfare

that we saw I'm 100% in favor of this in

a more functional world where you could

depend on attorneys to just do the job

of attorneys and not be political I

would be totally against it but the

attorneys not all of them of course but

enough of the attorneys have shown that

they're not really playing for anything

but a team they have to go and if the

best you can do is replace them with

your own cronies who will then of course

be fired in three and a half years four

years uh it's the best you can do so

yeah I'm in favor of

that well meanwhile let's talk about

Trump's negotiating skills this is my

favorite topic the reason I like it is

that it reminds me how many people don't

know how to

negotiate um I did negotiating for a job

back in my corporate days it was my job

to negotiate

contracts and of course I studied

hypnosis and persuasion and stuff so

have a unique insight into it so it's

fun to watch Trump work so right now

there's a team of I guess Americans

talking to a team of Russians about what

to do about Ukraine now what do you

think's going to come out of

that let me tell you what's going to

come out of it absolutely nothing

absolutely nothing so is that bad news

is it bad news that this team of people

are probably going to work for who knows

how long and Saudi Arabia now and

nothing will get done so that's all bad

right

nope nope if if you understand

negotiating there's there's a thing

that's happening I I call it a softening

up the

room once you get uh Russia and most of

the United States and Europe and

everybody else to think that there's no

way to get a deal when it's absolutely

impossible that's when Trump comes in

because Trump's the only one who could

get both sides to give something up

nobody else could do that the the people

who are the underlings have orders from

whoever sent them don't give up anything

of course you think Putin told his team

all right if you have to give this up no

he didn't he said don't give anything up

and what did Trump tell his team okay if

you have to you know you can back off on

this no he didn't say that he said you

can't give them anything you tell them

what you want and that's it and then you

see if he can get it now how in the

world is that going to

work underlings cannot negotiate because

the underlings can't make the tough

decisions that's why they're the

underlings so what you're trying to do

is exhaust each other you you want to

reach the point of uh oh this is

actually impossible it looks like it's

Forever War oh God you know we really

really wanted this to end but it doesn't

look like there's any path there's just

no way we can get

there and then Trump calls

Putin and Trump and Putin say all right

here's the deal we're not going to get

anywhere unless we both give up a little

something here's what I need you to give

up maybe he says what he needs you to

give up and then they make a deal but

you have to exhaust everybody and make

it look impossible before the the real

people come in and make a deal now what

the negot negotiators could do and maybe

this is useful they could find out maybe

what's completely off the table and

maybe they can't even find that out but

they might they might at least raise

some new ideas maybe maybe something

come up that nobody said before so Trump

and Putin will both be a little bit

better informed about what looks

practical and possible by the time they

talk but nothing's going to happen

nothing's going to happen until the two

of them talk that's the only negotiating

everything else is theater and

exhaustion and and what I call softening

the room so softening the room is a

negotiating tactic um this is I used to

write about this when when I was in the

corporate world go into a meeting and

everybody's got an idea about what it is

we should do and the ideas are not that

good and they argue and they argue and

they argue if I had a better idea in my

own opinion I'd wait until the last 10

minutes that there that we have the room

scheduled for and then after everybody's

so frustrated that they can't get

anything done that's when I dropped my

idea go you know you could do this and

everybody's so exhausted and they don't

want to talk about it anymore they just

want to be done in 10 minutes they've

got some other meeting to go to and

everybody will look at me and say well

that might

work the number of times I did that the

last 10 minute strategy it's called

softening the room I just wait till the

room is soften up and then I give them

the

solution Trump's going to do

that um so the top DC prosecutor this is

reported in the hill a top DC prosecutor

is resigning as uh at the EPA oh because

the EPA not at the apaa because the EPA

is Seeking a criminal probe of Biden's

climate funding so what this is about is

that $20 billion went out the door to

several climate

related entities just as the Biden

Administration was

ending now the accusation is that they

were really just trying to park it with

maybe their cronies or they were just

trying to make sure that Trump didn't

have it available to him or or they just

really like climate change and wanted to

make sure it was fully funded and was

hard to get back that money now I guess

uh lee zeldon is trying to get it back

anyway but so the top DC prosecut

resigned rather than opening some kind

of a criminal investigation of how that

20 billion got transferred and well it

looks like a hasty and maybe sketchy way

but I've got this

question what is the

crime I get that it's sketchy and I get

that it's suboptimal and I get that it's

sort of a political weasel thing to

do but was there a

crime and if if I were a top

prosecutor and somebody said go

investigate this crime and I said what

crime and they said well there's no

crime but I think if you look around you

might find

one I don't know I might resign I might

resign so I assume that most of these

things are purely political and has

nothing to do with principle I mean

that's it's kind of hard to imagine

anybody's operating a principal at this

point but uh I would like to see a

little more indication of crime before I

see the

investigation now I assume in the real

world sometimes there are investigations

under the assumption that there's

probably a crime but I don't know where

that standard starts and and ends but

I'm a little worried I don't want uh I

don't want the team that I'm backing to

be doing unrestricted lawfare now e even

if it's you know getting revenge nope

not good enough so this might be totally

appropriate and I'm definitely concerned

about this 20 billion I would definitely

like it to be clawed back I definitely

think it looks

sketchy but is there a crime I'm going

to need to hear there was a crime for me

to be in favor of

this uh Department of Homeland Security

helicopters have been getting struck by

lasers uh near the Mexican border so

presumably that's the cartel Fox News

Michael Le's reporting on this and I

guess I've been targeted by lasers about

six times now lasers meaning not a laser

weapon but like a laser pointer

apparently if you point that at a Pilot

it can blind them so uh even though it

might not do it if you were closer to it

there's something about the distance I

guess that that could make it blind the

pilot so it's very very dangerous and

it's an attack so even though it's not

the kind of laser that slices the plane

and half or the helicopter in this case

it's deadly it's potentially deadly and

the question I wonder is uh I wonder if

it would be legal to respond with deadly

force now I think this helicopter

probably wasn't armed but if it were a

military

helicopter and it's near the border but

it's on our side and somebody lasers it

could you not treat that as a military

attack and just light them up and just

take out cuz they know where it comes

from I mean they can literally see the

the laser origin part I'd be in favor of

military action so to me that would seem

entirely Justified I mean I don't care

if it's a teenager who thinks it's funny

if you're trying to take down an

aircraft and it's our aircraft and it's

it's armed yes it can it can kill you

that that seems entirely fair to me so

we'll see where that

goes so I was asking the other day about

that the discrepancies in the Social

Security database that Doge

found and I think a lot of people were

interpreting it as uh that they found

corruption because there was indication

that there were a lot of uh death fields

that were set to false or something as

if they never died and it would give you

the indication that there were social

security numbers that can be used for

illegal devious corrupt

purposes U of people who were actually

dead for a long time now when I asked

for a clarification on that uh I got a

good clarification from data

Republican on X now that's an account

you should follow um I always tell you

you should follow the explainers they're

the valuable ones you know the the Mike

Ben The Glenn Greenwald the and I'm

going to add data Republican it's one

word data Republican if you're on X uh

just she's just a great analyst so she

does with

data just a tremendous job and so she

gave this answer which uh Elon said

exactly so we know that musk agrees with

this exact interpretation now how how

valuable is that that's really valuable

that I've got this question data

Republican gives me this good answer

that I'm going to read to you and then

Elon says yes that's exactly

right like how in the world and then and

then the rest of you get to read it so

you get the benefit from that

interaction the the fact that musk

personally can tell you that something

is on point or not that's just it's

mindblowing it's just absolutely

mind-blowing that this is even

possible anyway data Republican answered

my question about the social security

database and said I believe the most

accurate interpretation is that the

Social Security Administration lacks a

reliable and consistent source of Truth

making its records inherently flawed

without an authoritative and accurate

data set internal Audits and reported

figures on benefit recipients cannot be

fully trusted so the problem is not that

they found a specific dollar amount of

crime the problem is you wouldn't know

if there was crime there or not that's a

really big problem so yeah needs to be

solved but you can't put a dollar amount

on it so that's that's what I wondered I

wondered how you could put a dollar

amount on

it meanwhile um meta created as you know

the

metaverse and we saw the first ad for it

that uh showed what the metaverse it's a

virtual reality kind of world that uh

Zuckerberg is trying to make big so he's

been working us for a number of years

he's got a $60 billion doll into it so

far

and uh they showed and it's been working

since 2020 so $60 billion like one I

think it might be the major possibly the

major thing that meta is working on and

they released their first advertisement

and it was so

pathetic that they had to pull the

advertisement it was just on uh

Instagram and it showed the little

virtual reality world you know as if you

were looking at if he were in the

virtual reality and the characters look

like

cartoons with movements that look like

had not been well planned so as people

sitting in a chair who just literally

looked like cartoons and and their arms

would be floating like

this why now here's the

problem that might be it might be an

example of the very height of what

virtual reality can do because you know

there limits on Hardware there's limits

on processors there's limits on memory

if you take into consideration all the

physical Computing limits trying to

create a full existing virtual world

with you know lots of characters and

stuff it might be really well not might

be it's really hard to do so it might

have been just the best that can be done

with current

technology however it has the very bad

luck of coming at the same time that AI

can produce photorealistic images on

demand so my brain just like almost

every one of you says wait a minute

there's a virtual reality product that

they they plunked 60 billion dollars

into it one of the top technology

companies in the entire world and it

doesn't look like it's photo

realistic your brain just can't accept

that so even if it might be the very

best you could do within that domain and

it's not it's not equivalent to AI

giving you a 3se second clip of

something photorealistic there those are

entirely different levels of

complexity uh but my brain my brain

can't accept a cartoony weird floating

person once I've seen what AI can do now

I don't know if AI can ever you know fix

what's happening with the virtual

reality I think the the challenges are

completely different there

but that is really bad

luck um but here's the fun

part so looking at these characters from

the outside I can tell that they just

look like

cartoons but what do the characters if

the characters were let's say

autonomous what would they think of each

other would they think oh there's a low

resolution character that must be

created by a computer

or would it say there's a high

resolution character that looks normal

just like I

am well the answer is it depends how you

code it so it might be one line of code

to say each character imagines that

everything they see is High

Fidelity that's it the character just

has to think it's seeing High Fidelity

you just program as so it does it

doesn't have to see high fidelity it

only has to think it does and then it

will argue to its death that it can see

detail and it would never know the

difference so if we were a simulation

and we were also low Fidelity is it

possible that we wouldn't know it

because we're programmed to think it's

High

Fidelity well let me take it to the next

level everything in my room right now is

High Fidelity as far as I know

but I can't see

it the only thing I know is High

Fidelity is maybe a few words that I'm

looking at on the comments as they go by

everything else is sort of imagined High

Fidelity you see what I mean I imagine

it's High Fidelity but I'm not even

looking at it it's not registering in

any way in my brain but my brain is

programmed to think that I sort of do

see

it it's so easy to program a character

to think it's high fidelity but the only

High Fidelity is what they're really

really focusing on in this narrow little

cone because that's the only part your

brain is dealing with so it could be if

we were a simulation the only High

Fidelity is this narrow cone of whatever

we're really focusing on at the moment

and everything else is low Fidelity we

wouldn't know the

difference I know you love that

simulation talk well Elon Musk said he's

gonna talk to Trump about the idea of uh

refunding at the rate of $55,000 a piece

to

taxpayers um some of the Doge savings so

they saved they saved 55 billion so far

and uh if they only gave a portion of

that back to taxpayers it be for

somebody says $5,000 a piece I'm looking

at an article in Tech Times by Isaiah

Richard but here's the obvious question

that people in the comments

were saying and I said

immediately I thought the point of Doge

was to reduce our

deficit I didn't think it was creating a

piggy bank that could be doled out now I

like the fact that people could get

$5,000 I mean that would make a really

big difference to a lot of people it's a

big deal but I feel like it might create

a

precedent where everybody thinks that

the Doge savings are a new piggy bank

I'm already worried

the Congress looks at the Doge savings

as oh that's money we didn't have to

spend before but he's reduced our

expenses by 100 billion so I guess I

have another 100 billion to spend that's

not how it's supposed to

work so here's the argument for it

though the argument in favor of it is

that V voters are not really following

the politics very carefully they know

there's a doge and they may have heard

some good things about it and some bad

things about it if you wanted them to be

on board with Doge before it does the

hard stuff like the Pentagon budget the

Social Security the you know Health Care

budgets you might want to bribe

them I could say bribe but it wouldn't

be illegal it would be all all

transparent uh you might want to say hey

doge is so cool here's

$5,000 and then suddenly your Doge

approval would go from I think it's over

50%

but like it it would hit 60 plus% almost

immediately because people would say I

don't know much about this but I just

got to check for

$5,000 so keep going Elon maybe I'll get

another

check so if you're looking at it from a

persuasion perspective to make it easier

for Doge to get the the final work done

you know the the big savings to sort of

soften the room as it were this would be

a way to do it now if Elon is thinking

it that way as a way just to make Doge

more successful in the long run get

people on board that makes sense that

makes sense but I definitely wouldn't

want this to be the beginning of hey we

created some free money that can be used

in this way or that

way meanwhile the uh Mexican government

says that is seized $40 million worth a

meth before it crossed the

border and the Daily colar News

Foundation is reporting this Jason

Hopkins and there's a photo of some

Mexican authority over six big blue

barrels of something that presumably are

some kind of

drug and the question I ask is

this how do we know what's in those

barrels is it possible that the Mexican

Government working with the cartels just

says every month or so all right do you

have those blue barrels yeah we got the

six blue barrels can you put them in a

different building and we'll photograph

our guys with a heavy Weaponry standing

by them and we'll say we captured uh

what's a good number I don't know 20 30

million worth let's go 40 let's go 40

million worth all right everybody stand

by these barrels click click click click

there we go doing a great job just stop

40 million dollar worth of meth from

coming into the United

States how would we know

that they stopped

anything that would be the easiest thing

in the world to fake right you wouldn't

expect anybody to be I mean it would

take the smallest number of people to be

involved in the fraud and they probably

wouldn't

talk now I'm not saying it is fraud I'm

just saying if it's indistinguishable

from something that could easily be

faked why would you believe it so I'm

going to put it in the category of

things I just don't believe

could be true it absolutely could be

true not buying it not buying it at all

it's a little too on the nose hey Mexico

we're going to give you uh big tariffs

if you don't stop a lot of drugs uh look

at these six barrels we just

stopped and and uh a few weeks from now

oh look it's another six barrels well

those look like the same barrels yeah

they they often use the same kind of

barrel material they like they like to

use the blue barrels oh but we found

another

one but is that the same six barrels no

it's not the same six barrels It's Five

Barrels how easy would that be come

on meanwhile some good news PJ media is

reporting Victoria Taft that uh Trump's

losing some serious weight um he was

asked uh how much he he lost and I think

he said he was guessing 15 to 20 pounds

he does look lighter now he attributed

to being busy and having no time to eat

but I don't think that's exactly the

whole story uh there's some kind of

source that Victoria Taft had I guess

that says that Melania is sort of behind

it and that she's been pushing him to

eat more healthy food but here's the

part I just love uh allegedly now this

is from a source anonymous source so put

it in context uh the Milani has on

occasion I don't know what on occasion

means but on occasion been cooking

family dinners at Trump Tower for the

president and their son

Baron I love that I love that so do you

ever put yourself in Trump's position

and just just try to imagine what it's

like he can have any any

luxury he spends his time around luxury

and you know everything basically he

just has access to everything but the

one thing that somebody in his position

would have trouble getting is a

home-cooked meal with his son and his

wife to me that's worth more than all

the other stuff so to me that just makes

me happy if it's true I mean I assume

it's

true I would love to know that Melania

enjoys cooking that she's good at it and

that sometimes she just cooks for the

two of them that would be amazing that

would be amazing yeah but there's more

to it it's much bigger imagine if you

will that Trump loses I don't know if he

has more to lose but but let's say he

becomes felt like he just looks really

good on the golf course imagine seeing

him on the golf course completely

trimmed down now put that in the context

of Maha make America healthy again and

RFK Jr and Nicole Shanahan and all the

push toward staying away from the bad

foods and toward the good ones and what

how good that will be for us imagine if

Trump made the move away from processed

foods and then you could just

watch here's why this is a big

deal um during the Kennedy

administration

JFK he was I guess he was one of the

first politicians to not wear a hat and

it killed the entire hat

industry because when JFK didn't wear a

hat people thought I don't have to wear

a hat this Hat's kind of a pain in pain

in neck so I won't wear a hat it killed

the entire industry so it's it's hard to

uh you know it's hard to appreciate the

degree to which the role models make a

difference and if

Trump found a way to you know just sort

of gently

relax his weight down without using the

without using the weight loss drugs and

by the way we wouldn't know if he used

one or not but if he managed to do it

through just eating

right that would be amazing for the

country just the benefit of the country

would be amazing but it also be good for

him so this is one of the the things

that makes me happiest

today and then Trump does this this is

reported by Jim hofton the Gateway

pundit so he's signed an executive order

to expand and reduce the cost of uh in

invitro fertilization so he wants to

make fertility treatments more

accessible for American families now the

executive order just says that he's

putting together a group to study it and

find a way to make it less expensive

it's super expensive so if you want to

have a baby and and you're going to need

Inver invitro

fertilization uh it could cost you up to

25,000 per

cycle uh and it might not work so you

might have to do more than one cycle

25,000 a shot and health insurance uh

covers some of it but it's limited and

only a quarter of employers offer

it

um and uh apparently 85,000 infants were

born as a result of IVF in

2021 now this is in the context of the

natural birth population of the United

States dropping so it's important it's

important that we have ways to make as

many babies as possible in ways that you

know are healthy and family supports

them and stuff like that um but what I

wondered was wasn't this one of the

biggest things that the Democrats

worried about that they used to lie and

say that he doesn't like IVF or I think

they said JD Vance doesn't like it or

something it was all fake because he's

always been in favor of it but I tried

to think okay I'll put myself in the

shoes of a Democrat how do they explain

that one of the biggest things that they

were complaining about Trump is he would

take your bodily autonomy which would

include IVF that you take it away and

not only is he not taking it away he is

doing serious things to make it more

available and cheaper and then I

realized oh here's the natural

attack

line do you see it yet let's see if you

have it in the

comments do you see the do you see the

natural attack line where they're going

to get him it jumps out as soon as I

tell you you're going to say oh how did

I not see that here it is Trump's trying

to make more white babies

boom because I don't know this I don't

have any statistics but I'll bet you

given that it cost $25,000 per cycle

I'll bet you the high income people are

the people with good jobs and good

insurance and a little extra cash a lot

of extra cash are probably the only ones

that have used it so far which would

suggest probably it's concentrated in

maybe white and Asian-American families

because they're high

income and how easy would it be for Joy

Reed to say well it looks like white

supremist say Trump has figured out a

way to make more white

babies oh that is so coming

when it should be oh I guess we lied

about everything when we said he was

going to get rid of

IVF that should be the story that MSNBC

and his critics lied about everything it

was never true and this is you know

proof it was never

true they're still going to say you

racist in other

news a law firm that uh apparently

handles Elon musk's

stuff um is putting together a draft for

a uh legislative change in Delaware now

of course it's just a law firm so they

don't get to vote on it but they're

proposing it through probably some I

assume some politicians are on board

CNBC is reporting this Laura kadney and

so the law firm is trying to get a

change in Delaware that would possibly

open the door for Elon musk to get that

big uh was it 56 billion pay package or

whatever it was that he was denied

because a Delaware judge said that that

pay package agreement is invalid because

Elon Musk had too much control over the

C over the company that uh gave it to

him and since it was basically conflict

of interest uh the judge say we're

throwing it

out now I don't believe the company had

any complaint about it I think there was

one stockholder who bought a few shares

and did it just to take down uh

Elon but his uh Law Firm is making a

very creative uh attack and the attack

is that Delaware has become sort of

poison for corporations because of

exactly this sort of thing you you saw

Bill lman moved to his company on of

Delaware uh that they just register in

Delaware it's they're not based in

Delaware but

uh they're they're saying that they can

make Delaware what it used to be a place

you could trust to register your

corporation because now people don't

trust it so he said they we can get back

to Delaware having the advantage of

being this great place to register your

corporation with just a few changes one

of the changes would be that if you

owned uh less than one-third of the

stock of the company you would be

presumed not to control it

1/3 now that's pretty reasonable if you

owned 51% obviously you do control it if

you own 40% you kind of almost control

it but 30% seems fair that seems quite

reasonable that if you're below

30% you uh you're you're not by

definition you're not controlling the

company now you could argue whether you

know some personalities could still

control the company with

30% but uh that got adopted it would

make other corporations feel a little

more comfortable having their

corporation registered there but here's

the best part of the story the name of

the law firm is Richards Leighton and

finger Richards Leighton and

finger now when I see Richard in this

case it's the last name not a first name

it always makes me think a dick because

you know dick is the nickname for

Richard so even though it's Richards

with an s

I I just see a dick and then there's

Leon first three letters are

lay lay a ton I guess and that makes me

think of

sax because leay you know and then the

last last name is finger so it's really

dick lay finger like when I read it and

I'm thinking come

on of all the law firms in the world

Elon Musk picked the one that makes me

think of dick L and

finger perfect it's just

perfect anyway we we'll keep an eye on

that um Judicial Watch is asking for a

probe of uh the exgen Millie for what he

did in planning January 6 this is being

reported by Paul Bard Washington

examiner um so let's call a Judicial

Watch a legal watchdog

that would be a good description and

they're trying to figure out if they can

get uh Records about what the exact

conversations were between uh Mark

Millie and his top Pentagon and other

and other officials Homeland Security

Etc now the the thinking

is that uh you've probably

heard people who know more than I know

say General

Millie General Millie is the you know

probably behind the whole uh January 6

operation you know maybe he

intentionally made security light so

that they could turn into what looked

more like a an Insurrection or they

could at least frame it that way now I

don't know if any of those accusations

are true I'll just say that he's long

been accused by members of the you know

the right as being the obvious culprit

if in fact there's a

culprit

um but here's my larger comment

I want you to just think about this for

a

moment have you ever noticed how rarely

the United States has a large scale

protest unless it's funded and organized

by shadowy

forces has it ever happened in my

lifetime in my whole

life H have citizens of the United

States ever

self-organized because they really cared

about a thing no matter what that thing

was black lives matter that was not

organic we know that now that was just

funded and organized

antifa went away as soon as Biden became

president which is a little sketchy

right we've seen all the color

Revolutions in other countries where all

the protests are literally organized by

shadowy external forces and so but let

me ask this question to the best of your

knowledge

has there ever been a self-organized

large scale protest about anything in

the United States during your

lifetime Vietnam War

maybe maybe not probably organized by

shadowy forces but I don't know but

let's just say in the last 20 years in

the last 20 years do you think there's

ever been a large scale organic

protests do you think uh uh that what

what was the name of the Wall Street

one that kind of went away then there

was a tea party then that kind of went

away I've got a feeling that Americans

just can't organize spontaneously if it

doesn't if it's not funded by people who

know how to make things happen I don't

think it happens take for

example the government spending us into

certain Doom you know with our with our

deficit

and then every year they'll just sign

some continuing resolution which says

well we'll just add to the deficit

because we don't want to make

decisions don't you think that watching

your elected representatives send you

into certain Doom not maybe certain Doom

you don't think that that would be

enough to organize uh a million people

on the street of course it would if we

cared about topics

if if if people were simply

outraged by bad performance of people or

policies that don't like you would see

gigantic protests every week or two

because there's plenty of stuff to

protest all kinds of stuff what about

Doge what about all the um you know all

the people who think doge is a bad idea

where's the

protest nobody's paid for one yet there

might be one but it will be funded and

organized by shadowy people so I'm going

to I'm going to just put down this

marker don't know if it's completely

true but I don't believe there's any

evidence that Americans ever organize in

large scale like January 6 unless

there's somebody shadowy behind it I

just don't think it ever

happens I'd love to be proven

wrong well I wouldn't love it but it' be

interesting

I I try to think I I've told you this

before but you know when I built my

house I built a home theater it's very

small but you know it's like um 10 seats

10 seats in a little home theater and I

thought oh how great this will be to

invite friends over to watch a movie I

could never get two people who wanted to

watch the same movie at the same time

and then I'm watching black lives matter

and antifa get like you know thousands

and thousands of people in the street

and I'm saying to myself in what country

can you do that

but where can you get all those people

to do that thing if I can't get two

people to even watch a movie at the same

time so no I don't think that Americans

organize no without shadowy forces

behind them I don't think the tea party

was organic do

you I don't believe in at all and again

I don't have evidence that it wasn't

organic but I doubt

it seems very unlikely

all right um that's all I got for now

I'm going to say hi to the locals

people

privately

um for the rest of you thanks for

joining the truckers is the only one in

Canada well the

truckers um were also non American yeah

yeah that's a good one the the truckers

as far as I know did not have any

shadowy U influence as far as I

know all right but they also didn't they

were they were in their

trucks so it makes me wonder how many

there were you know but there's a

difference between driving your truck

somewhere and being on the street just

seems different all right um continue

challenging me on that no no uh organic

protest in the United States Canada

might be

different all right everybody I'll see

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