Episode 739 Scott Adams - Talking to Ben Askren, Y**Tube Alternative, #Shampeachment, Cartels

hey everybody let me get my wires set here it's great to see all of you and it's an another amazing day another day to enjoy the simultaneous sip man it's gonna be good this time it's gonna be off the hook wild I tell you I'm gonna bring you on a guest a little bit after he signs on but first before I do that before we get to my special guest I would like you to enjoy with me the simultaneous if it doesn't take much to do it it doesn't take much all you need is a copper market or glass lifter Stein chalice tank or thermos flask canteen Grail gobbling a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous sip go oh yeah yep I can feel it coursing through my body as we speak uh-huh it's getting to my extremities yes a full caffeine exposure oh I'm so happy now let's see if my guest has found me yes yes let me bring him on technologically speaking and I'm gonna bring on a guest Ben Askren retired a UFC and the MMA fighter who's going to be talking to us about none of that but something more interesting and alternative to You.

Tube now you might wonder why I would want to talk about it you alternative to You.

Tube but you may have seen my tweets that Senator Ted Cruz actually retweeted this morning or last night in which I talked about how You.

Tube is suppressing my views and monetization I thought it was time to talk about some alternatives and so Ben are you there yeah I'm here can you hear me I can hear you fine so bad you are part of a startup can you tell me about that well I you know what I'm not technically part of the startup right I don't have ownership in the company it's my friend who founded a company called full Sports in 2007 it's gotten really big he branched off and started something called rock fin but really what I think we need to talk about actually I think that Ted Cruz commented on this issue because all these things become politicized and I think it's it doesn't need to be politicized the fact of the matter is there's a there's a distinct power of balance between content aggregators such as You.

Tube and content creators such as yourself oh yes you know I would I would go further and say that I would like to correct Ted Cruz on one fact which is I believe the You.

Tube D monetization is not limited to the Conservatives north right because I did hear I did hear from David Pakman who had exactly the same situation and he's as left as you can get so it definitely wasn't a left and right thing it was it was more like a lower level people talking about politics versus the cnn's and the MSNBC's I think it was that yeah yeah I'm not smart enough to know whether they are You.

Tube is censoring conservatives more than liberals or anything to that matter but you know since Martin started his company called rock firm that's our okay fi n for you guys wondering him and I really good friends had a lot of conversations and he's got me to see the greater light and a lot of people talk about this and there are a few alternatives out there trying to do something about it but the power of balance between these large media networks and their content creators is such that Scott I mean someone as big as you and you'reyou're kind of a big-time guy you're you're literally witnessing them taking your money away and there's not anything you can do about it you can't say anything to them you can't say no give me more Amati and that that in itself is what the biggest problem is so what what does rock fin do and it's is it is it up and running yes it's been up and running I believe it was April I think six months since you got up and running so well I'm gonna try to explain it really simply but you know it tries to accurately reward the content creators because it kinda the content that you provide to the network is not just valuable today but infinitely valuable into the future so for example the first thousand people on You.

Tube which got You.

Tube started they think looks like we lost our connection so I think he'll probably get back on let me fill in a couple of details that he probably would have gotten to so you probably know that there are alternatives such as bit shoot and one of the big issues with that the alternative to You.

Tube is if you create a you alternative to You.

Tube and the reason you're doing it is because a lot of people are getting banned on You.

Tube you've got a problem because all you'll get is the people were banned and and if all you get are the people who are banned bet I'm coming back I got you if all you got where the people were banned you wouldn't have much of a platform Benny back let me refocus you here so rocks Rock CENTCOM is an alternative to you - babbling over here and I have no idea what happened yeah we just had a technical glitch anyway Rock Fenton comm is up and running it's an alternative to you Tech Talk the question everybody's asking is what's the difference between that and Brent okay so I can't speak to you cuz I don't know what it is here's what Rahman does Matt it's so unique that Martin who's a creator is he's getting a bite he's applying for bunch of patents I believe then BAM let me help focus you that my audience is a very short attention span all right let's look so tell me tell me in conceptual terms tell me and I mean I'm a user I get on this system why is my experience as a user better in concrete terms so as a content creator user experience is better because on an everyday basis you get paid in a token which at that time you can exchange immediately for a US dollar of course or if you decide to hold the token did I lose you again we had cut it off again okay so where he was going on this is that the there's a crypto token component to rock FEM so apparently you you get an option because you get the token first you can cash it in immediately and get cash or you can hold it and if rock fin is more successful and if you're more successful I believe that make sure your token worth more so you'd have more of an upside you'd be getting these tokens and you could sell them right away or you could you could ride it on the upside so I think that's the basic idea now as you heard Ben is not a founder of the this startup he's just got an interest in it it's a a you know psychological interest as a friend but I wanted you to know about it and if I can't get him back take one more try oh let's see if we can get it back and wrap up here all right Ben we get what we we only have another minute or two you God how do I keep from getting cut off on this feature this is this is crazy it just keeps cutting me off yeah I don't know if it's really the periscope app or we're just getting a glitch in our communications yeah but anyway okay other networks then things like sub stack and patreon and they're you know they're they're applying some old principles obviously without a token but in that case it's one individual and so they call it the rock to the subscription consortium so essentially you're not by yourself and you have you pair up with a whole bunch of other people which makes it infinitely more valuable when you can do something like that all right Ben nobody understands it at a conceptual level yet the only way we'll understand it is I'm a user I put a video on there yeah how's my experience different from if I put a video on Bishu tour a video on You.

Tube yeah I got bit shoot on You.

Tube I think if you don't see the problem with what's happening with your lack of monetization then I guess I can't really help you but the fact that that that You.

Tube had so much power over you and you have really have no recourse to do anything about it I think that should provide kind of alarms well yeah but but that would be true with every platform every every platform every platform owner would have ability to kick anybody off the platforms so well rocks in if you get kicked off for whatever reason you don't agree you don't deal with the Terms of Service then you keep all of the emails that are attached to your account so obviously you keep a personal relationship with your customer which is also something that the larger digital networks don't want you to have Scott you don't have it you don't have everyone's you to about you never was email who's following you on You.

Tube of course true so that so that would be good but if you got kicked off you'd still be kicked off correct and what what are they thinking a preview you the things you would get kicked off we're not for just being a conservative or being a liberal yeah you don't you have to go full nazi to get kicked off right yeah I sent you the Terms of Service yesterday it's yeah it literally it literally spells out some examples white supremacists your and here not so you round here kick off people for political reasons and then they have hardcore pornography on their site I mean it's kind of all right well Ben Ben got cut off again but then if you can hear me thank you so much that's what we want to get out of that people will go and take a look at themselves so got a are okay if I am calm if you want to see an alternative now I want to say again that first of all thank you too senator Ted Cruz it's always great to wake up in the morning and find out that one of the most prominent Senators and in the country just retweeted your tweet because he thought the issue was was worthy and it's the issue of people being demonetised and especially conservative voices being demonetised here's here's my take on what's going on and this is just speculation all right so I don't want to say this is a conspiracy theory this is pure speculation so I'm not asking you to believe it I'm just trying to understand my world and thinking out loud if I were You.

Tube and what it looks like what they're trying to do is continue to evolve upscale so the content on You.

Tube is more like a television show quality so they're de-emphasizing things of lower production values in favor of things with higher production values now David Pakman as I mentioned before that was also impacted the same way I was and we're pretty much opposites on a lot of stuff so it wasn't the political leaning it was the fact that we were a low level production political talk I think that's the the key that's that's getting us put in the same bin now here's why this actually is not completely fair if you were to remove from You.

Tube the independent voices both on the left and the right what would be the result of that do you see it if you were if you if you get rid of the independent voices on the platforms like you know the social media platforms but You.

Tube in particular what would that do with what's left well what's left is overwhelmingly mainstream media plus a little fox news so it seems to me that the net effect of getting rid of the let's say the lower lower production value independent people like me and even David Pakman is that you would get rid of more people like me then you would get rid of David Ackman even if we were sort of held to the same standard well let me put it another way I don't think that I don't think I could support that there would be more conservatives than liberals that's anecdotal what would be true is that all that would be left and therefore would be magnified in value would be the mainstream media is that is that a side benefit to You.

Tube just wanting to get a higher production value I don't know but I will tell you that there are a lot of people like me who believe that they got on You.

Tube because You.

Tube had a certain set of rules and opportunity and it feels like they change the rules after we got there now as a trained economist in case you didn't know that one of the worst things you can do in an economic system is changed the system midstream unless you're really fixing it in this case it's a change that was good for You.

Tube presumably but certainly not good for many creators such as myself so anyway enough on that have you heard the story that Nunez is being accused by a an indicted Ukrainian that he went over and met with Shokan over and over in Ukraine and tried to get dirt on Biden now what I tweeted what I saw that is when you can't find an anonymous source to make a claim your next best choice is an indicted Ukrainian because if you want the truth you really want to know what's going on talk to an indicted Ukrainian because you can depend on them to give you accurate information so I'm not too worried about any stories about newness that originated from and indicted Ukrainians in fact if you wanted to if you if you're doing a comedy routine in which you are trying to come up with the least credible witness that you could ever imagine you'd use brainstorming saying all right let's say I'm writing a story and I need a character who's the least credible human being on the planet what could it be maybe a indicted Ukrainian that would be that would be a good choice in other no other news the United Kingdom is pushing for the UN to have access to I think is Shin Xinjiang I don't know how to pronounce it it's the area where the we Gers are being rounded up and put in concentration camps it is one of the big three holocausts going on in China the the one of the Holocaust is they're rounding up the we Gers and assigning rapists to their wives I'm not even making that up you know that was in the news that the state of China is assigning a rapist for the wives left behind when they rounded up the man and put him in concentration camps that's the allegation the other as you know the other Holocaust is they're harvesting the organs from the flung Falun Gong folks practitioners and of course they're sending fenton all over here so will the UK be successful in getting UN monitors to go see what the Weir's are up to not a chance let me ask you this if you were China and you were not running a holocaust would you let people come take a look to make sure that everybody was sure you were not involved in a Holocaust I think you would I think if you were not involved in a Holocaust and people said you were and all you had to do to prove you're not is to say what do you mean it's a Holocaust come on over I'll buy you a ticket bring your cameras come talk to us there's no Holocaust find me a Holocaust there's no Holocaust here that's what you do when you're innocent what do you do when you're actually perpetrating a holocaust you say get out of here you K stop bothering us and no the UN doesn't have any right to come and check us out stop bothering us in our sovereign decisions that's what you say so is it confirmed that there is a Holocaust of the Uighur community I would say yes I would say that there China's denials of anybody to come in and take a look it'd be one thing if you know if an individual country wanted to come in and take a look by asking the United Nations to take a look if you say no to that you got some explaining all right in other news the president and the administration have said that they're looking into and they plan to it's just a long process I designate the Mexican cartels as terrorist groups how about that huh now the main reason that you want to designate them as terrorist groups is so you can go after their banking relationships and smart people are saying that that will make a big difference I don't know what's going to happen to the price of Bitcoin I'm going to check that today in theory if you announce that you're going after the banking relationships of the cartels well we should expect is a response and we should expect that Bitcoin would be up up 2.2% this morning okay I don't know if that's cause and effect but if you take the banking relationships away from the cartel where are they going to put their money crypto maybe so and I don't know if the government can actually track down crypto stuff these days maybe they have a way maybe they don't anyway um that's good news now it doesn't necessarily mean yeah as somebody saying in the comments a two percent move of Bitcoin is just in the noise you know Bitcoin here you up and down you know eight nine percent a day without any effort so what we'll look for is to see if the moves are mostly up based on that well I don't know maybe the cartels don't have enough money to make a difference although that seems unlikely so designated the car to the cartels as terrorist groups does not necessarily therefore give us military options you know I think Congress probably still has to get involved I don't know what the president can do on his own legally in terms of combating the cartels without Congress on its side but this is a big deal I think it looks to me like a big deal to designate the cartels as terrorist groups I think we're getting serious now the smart people have also warned that if we do get serious with the cartels especially if we get serious in a military way that there will be blowback you know they're they're not going to just roll over they're gonna go completely savage on innocent citizens you know Americans will be kidnapped and tortured is it's gonna get really ugly but at the moment I don't think it could get much worse now I would like to suggest that if you want to take the cartels out designating them as terrorist groups is a good start but out also we we need to take a look at legalizing legalizing their product we have to look at legalizing the drugs that are being shipped from Mexico and you know wrapping those users in some kind of a protective medical you know wrapping if you will so I think we have to legalize because we're out of options even if we were to go in with the military and wipe out every cartel member it would take about ten minutes before there was another fentanyl path into the United States so if you really want to take them out you got to make their stuff legal and take away all of their options now you could make it all legal and still wipe them out but I don't see any any point and why can't wipe in them out other than revenge which I have in favor of so we'll see what happens there all right Milania went to an event in Baltimore I think a youth summit on opioid awareness and and the news is reporting that she got booed she got booed by the youth at the youth summit for opioid awareness ah I I just don't know what to say about that first of all Melania is not Trump not Donald Trump Melania is Melania and is there anything that Melania has done since you know we became aware of her as as the you know candidates wife is there anything that Melania has done that isn't just positive I mean really you know if anybody deserved some kind of a metal it's got to be Melania because not only does she put up with her husband but she she does it with class and grace and completely just one of the best first lady's we've ever had I would say so the fact that she gets booed what she's just trying to help keep in mind she did run for office if she's had an opioid awareness summit it's because she's just trying to help it's just trying to help like there's no politics on opioids there's nobody on the other side of this issue booing her over that that's that's just something wrong with the country there all right CNN has met produced a new poll saying that that impeachment is still at 50% approval so because the news was working against CNN the other news was saying that an other poll said that there was less support for impeachment after the hearings what do you know CNN comes up with a new poll there quite coincidentally quite coincidentally says that impeachment is still just as popular it's not more popular so the the impeachment hearings did not make it more popular but it's exactly the same as before the hearings isn't that a convenient convenient poll for CNN do you believe that one I'm gonna say no on that one so Buddha judge has surged into second place and at least one CNN poll I'm not sure the other polls are going to back that up yet but it looks like Buddha judge is really making a play for it now I would like to run by you a Joel Pollak hypothesis that I find very compelling Joel Pollak of Breitbart I had this thought on Twitter and it goes like this actually I think he had an article about it it goes like this there are so many candidates running for Democrats the Democratic nomination and nobody seems to be getting a dominant purchase on the on the nomination who also could win in the general election so Biden as the highest poll numbers but nobody thinks he could win in the general Sanders and Warren who would destroy the economy and could not win in the general and there they were 1 2 & 3 now Buddha judge is surging up into the top maybe he's second you know depending on the the polls shape up but Buddha judge has an african-american problem which makes them probably unelectable in a general election so what do you do if you're the Democrats and you go into the convention and nobody who could win has a dominant position and let's say you do the first round of votes and there's no decision now not an expert on the new rules about super-delegates etc but my understanding is if you don't get if you don't get a clear result in the first round of voting I think it's after the first round then the delegates are released in other words they can they can negotiate and they can work out a deal behind closed doors now what would happen if the Democrats and let's say the super-delegates can't work out a deal somebody in the comments just said I'm Connell Harris and I approve this message yeah you know where I'm going on this if it's a brokered deal they're gonna broker the candidate they're gonna end up with the candidate who the smart people in the party the people with the money the people with the power the the Democrat you know the the bigwigs whoever the candidate is if it's brokered is gonna be somebody who could bring together the so-called Obama coalition because that's how you can win as a Democrat and who could do that right Kamala Harris now couple of Harris's policies still look a little sketchy she'd have to work on her policies but that's not unusual it's not unusual to have to you know how to modify your policies toward the middle or something if you become the the can state so do not rule out the Carla Harris is in the strongest position already does keep in mind that that she has the second most endorsements from important Democrats and apparently that's a pretty predictive a pretty predictive thing well no I don't see anybody outside of the the group of Democrats getting nominated in a brokered convention you know anything could happen but I think that there would be a revolution in the party if somebody who who is not even running got nominated that would I think that would be an internal revolution and they couldn't they couldn't survive that I didn't mention in Bloomberg because I don't think that the party leaders feel strongly that he could win in the general election but I think they could they might be able to turn Kamala Harris into a good candidate well let me tell you this what what is Connell Harris is biggest problems so far you probably have different answers to that but I'll give you my answer the biggest problem with common law Harris's campaign so far is her campaign staff in my opinion because it looks like she had been getting terrible advice just terrible advice about how to run a campaign what happens if you become the National candidate if you become the National candidate suddenly you've got money but you also have the best advisors that the Democrats can come up with does Comley Harris have the best advisors now she does not probably not even close but if she were the candidate if she became the candidate in a brokered convention the fixers would get busy fixing her she would be you know she would be scrubbed up and and polished by the people who are really good at it now we would assume that in order for her to get the nomination she probably have to agree to help you know she would have to agree that the party would take a role in shaping her message and her candidacy but I think she could do that I think that she would be flexible enough and she's smart enough that she could learn and sort of grow with the with the party so I'm gonna stick with my original bet I'm Camilla Harris based on the the Joel Pollak theory that if it goes to a broker convention you're gonna end up with somebody who's not in the top four necessarily and once you're after the top four only a few choices and only one of them has a realistic chance of getting the coalition you could say Cory Booker but there has to be some reason that he's not getting much purchase even within the Democrats he's just not lighting anything on fire there so I don't know that they could change that oh yeah and we heard the theory yesterday that the reason that Bloomberg might be a candidate as opposed to just putting his money into hurt Trump is that as I can today he gets lower lower prices for advertising I don't know how that works so don't take it from me it's just something I heard on heard on Fox News yesterday that there's something about being a candidate that gets you some economic advantages and they're pretty big ones so maybe that's why he's running all right so if you if you've been noticing the two movies on one screen situation about impeachment over on CNN there are a whole bunch of bombshell happenings and these new bombshell happenings on impeachment are definitely definitely going to take this president down it's a lot of new stuff it's very damning for the president and he's he's really in trouble now that's on CNN if you click over to Fox News do you know how they're covering that stuff if they're not they're not even covering it I don't even know if they have an article on it it's so uninteresting the Fox News just looked at it and said yeah but on CNN it's the beginning of the end and I want to give you some of the the language because this always amuses me however CNN can make something sound like more than it is so the basic new new is if I can get this right is mostly about timeline stuff so we know now that when the president was quoted as telling which whichever one of the diplomats Sandman he told Salman that he didn't want any quid pro quo but we don't know that that was after he already knew that he was going to get accused of a quid pro quo so the president's statement to son sunland they he didn't want to quit pro quo doesn't mean what we thought it meant because he said it after he after somebody had already complained about a quid pro quo so of course you're gonna say it then so that's one of the things and then there's some issue about when the hold was put on the the funds and apparently the hold was officially put on right after the phone call making it look more like a quid pro quo etc so here are the ways that these important revelations have been described by CNN on their website the president's claims of innocent innocence looked even more incredulous all right so there must be some good reasons coming because his claims of innocence are looking more incredulous so whatever follows that statement would be something about this new information after the New York Times reported that Trump released the hold on Ukraine aid after he was briefed on the whistleblower report outlined did his dealings with Ukraine what so he released the aid that literally everyone wanted him to release everyone but because he did it after the whistleblower thing came up that must be evidence of his guilt but it would also be evidence that he was doing the right thing isn't it because can you ever go to jail for doing the right thing if literally everybody in the world said you should release this aid and then he releases the aid do you go to jail for that is that is that is that evidence of guilt that you did what everybody thought was a good idea to do doesn't matter when you did it it doesn't matter when you did it if you did something that was a reasonable thing to do it's hard to it's hard to see that at putting you in jail the wait there's more there's more from CNN's website but the timeline revealed Tuesday in conjunction with the transcript of testimonies from Office of Management and Budget official embarks Andy listen to the lead up now remember complexity is a big part of the story so if the public can't understand the story it's like it didn't happen so see how hard it is to understand the story but the timeline revealed Tuesday in conjunction with the transcript of testimony from Office of Management and Budget official marks Andy and that's just the beginning of the sentence I have it I have not even gotten to the content to the sentence yet so after all that outlines an indisputably clear set of facts about the bizarre way the Ukraine aid was handled what it outlines and indisputably clear set of facts about the bizarre away the Ukraine age was handled his bizarre against the law in who's in whose opinion was it bizarre what kind of accusation is bizarre okay when we go to jail for being bizarre now then they also say new revelations put Trump on shaky ground that's that's the headline okay he's on shaking your ground because because here's the because the developments on Tuesday illuminated the fact that there's still much to learn about the president's actions regarding Ukraine way is it against the law that there's much to learn does that put you on shaky ground because there's much to learn about it that's not much how about the confusion that sandy the OMB guy and other line level OMB aides have felt about why the Ukraine aid was being withheld along with their inability to get answers showing how the Trump administration's unusual enterprise was shrouded in secrecy even from the very people who are handling the money shrouded in secrecy now this is quite a shocking allegation because the allegation here is that a large bureaucracy was not communicating well I've never heard of this before are you kidding me CNN's breaking big news the large bureaucratic government of the United States has people within it who don't know what the others intend and they're not communicating well first time I've ever heard of something like that so they're turning you know a normal bureaucracy where people are complaining about the boss they don't know why the boss is doing what the boss is doing I literally got rich just writing about that I mean that's that's the Dilber office every single day in Dilbert's office the employees don't know why the boss is doing what the boss is doing and they imagine it's for the wrong reasons that's every employee with a boss but it's got turned into news because it's bizarre and there's and it's putting them on shaky ground so that's how a CNN had to turn a lot of nothing into or something by words through the power of words they turned nothing really this new evidence against the president it is evidence against the exculpatory stuff in other words it's less exculpatory than it was but it's not evidence of crime which is completely different so I thought I made a note but I didn't so biron New York was tweeting around a lawyer's analysis of why the president Trump is not necessarily in any trouble illegally in a sort of a clever legal argument about why why the bribery charge won't be a good play but I tweeted back and I'm starting to get some some good agreement with us that everybody's thinking past the sale in fact this is one of the greatest persuasion plays I've seen in years better than maybe better than anything Trump has done but the Democrats have managed to make everybody think past the sale so if we're arguing about whether there was bribery or quid pro quo or who said what or what it was a time line all of those things were talking about a hundred percent of them are past the sale that we haven't talked about and the sale is whether the president was appropriately asking for an investigation was it the president's job to look into it and the answer is yes it was unambiguously unambiguously in the interest of many of the citizens in the United States not all of them not every single person cared but there certainly were plenty of citizens in the United States who were aware of the Biden verismo thing who wanted some more information on that and they would be happy to know that nothing happened because this is a potential next president of the United States and they'd be happy if they found that something happened and we'd be glad we found out so we didn't get into any kind of blackmail situation or influenced by Ukraine so now just the fact that many of the people in the United States were not following the story and therefore were not interested in calling for this investigation doesn't change the fact that if they did know about it it would be a legitimate there's there's much that our government does that we the citizens are not you know voting on or clamoring for they're just ordinary the business of the government so the government knows what it needs to do this serves the public so it doesn't the president was asking the same question of Ukraine that many citizens that voted for him would also want to like to know and also people who did not vote for him would also like to know the answer to that they might not ask for it they might prefer he didn't ask for it but that's a political question they still want to know the answer the information still important now even if it comes out that there's nothing there which I imagine would be the outcome we'd like to know we'd like to know if there's nothing there so I'm waiting for the world to catch up to me and realize that the entire thing has been thinking past the sale so you saw me tweet and talked about Michael Harriet's article in the route in which he was talking about Buddha judge and I said it was really good writing and you should read it ben shapiro wrote an article that was rerun on fox news and he was talking about the route article going viral on on twitter and i thought did I do that who else was talking about this this obscure little article in the route did I make that viral well it was I part of making that viral I don't know the answer of that actually but so Ben had some some disagreements with the article which are worth reading I will not repeat them because I know Ben will be called all kinds of bad names for having an opinion as he often is so then I hope you can survive the case the pushback on that article all right so Steve Cortez has an article I just tweeted talking about how it seems to be a more coordinated strategy by the Democrats to slander Republicans and supporters of the president so there there's more and more we're seeing it's it's not brand new but it seems like it's picking up steam the the labeling of Trump supporters as being bad people this is kind of new this is kind of new I don't know if I can't think of any time in the past when the supporters of a candidate were demonized for being you know the devil because they support the devil I guess so we went through the phases of being deplorable and racists and now the latest is cultists so Steve Cortes has a great article and that check it out it's in my Twitter feed or his you can see the link and I've started to wonder is that something that Republicans should do back in the other words is that something that should be returned and I suppose you could say it is already happening because Trump supporters like to call people on the Left socialists and communists except those are names they use for themselves so it doesn't really hurt anybody to call him a socialist when they're labeling themselves socialists calling them communists goes another level but that feels more like hyperbole it doesn't really feel like an insult yeah we unless that's true we do refer to them as zombies sometimes but I don't think there's any equivalent kind of thing I I'm going to go back to a general gross generalization all right here's a gross generalization the thing that describes conservatives the best and I think I'm the only person who's ever said this I've never heard this anywhere else well I'm sure somebody said it but I'm not aware of anybody else the thing that defines conservatives is a collective agreement that everybody should be following the same set of rules not the same outcomes but that we should all have the same set of rules and that those rules must be agreed upon in a printable way such as the Constitution and such as the laws now I'm always impressed by conservatives who think that and I'm not going to argue I'm not going to argue abortion here so my opinion will not be present in the next comments I'm talking about other people conservatives believe that abortion is literally murder it's murdering babies and it's happening by the millions every year have you ever been amazed the conservatives who are armed to the teeth believed that murders are happening by the tens of millions babies they believe that babies are being murdered by the tens of billions in this country they're armed to the teeth and they allow it in other words there's no revolution now you get a crazy person now and then who shoots an abortion doctor but I'm not talking about that I'm talking about in general conservatives have not taken up arms against the thing that they would describe as tens of millions of babies being murdered every year by the by the state in a sense because they made it legal now how can we have a stable country with that going on and the reason is the Conservatives have a tremendous respect for the process the process in this case is the Constitution the Supreme Court our laws and as long as the the process was followed even though they didn't get the result they wanted and even though they complained bitterly about the Supreme Court making up laws it still went through the process and look at this look at the power of that I mean there's an incredible power to the fact that conservatives will even under these extreme extreme conditions what they imagined to be tens of millions of murders of babies they still stay you stay within the system they don't leave the system because that's the most basic belief is that the system is the only thing that can protect us all in the long run because if you violate the system everything falls apart it's chaos whereas the people who are not conservatives people on the left are increasingly driven by hate and fear that seems to be hate and fear and that's not much of a system so it's no surprise that they're not winning winning the presidency recently okay that's all I got yeah the Conservatives are still fighting for pro-life positions but they're doing it within the system but boom Scott one of your best threads ever well thank you the fourth Holocaust is abortion well you could say that in China even more than the u.s.

right I I think there's massive abortion in China so you could certainly make that case Oh anything on Omar at Qatar yeah let's talk about that I've been watching with interest and I don't know if any of you have noticed this that the the Imam the Imam of peace is that what he goes by on Twitter so I think I've got that right the Imam of peace that's how he labels himself on Twitter he believed he sang that he has evidence that would tie Ilan Omar representative Omar to funding by Qatar and that would be a Middle East connection that would be super super bad were it's exactly the way he's described it now he has gone into great detail with his various sources and I've been sort of following it casually because I don't I don't want to get too excited about it until until what he's saying crosses over into at least one of the major news organizations and I don't think that's happened yet so I keep watching for the the sultan of the Imam of peace his story about Omar to cross over into the more fact-checked mainstream or or Fox News kind of world and it hasn't and I don't know why so I would say I'm gonna put a big question mark on that story it could be that you know we need to learn a little bit more could be that Qatar has too much control over I had over what over the media here or something I don't know what the reason is but for some reason his story which looks gigantic if true is not passing a passing into the mainstream media so just keep an eye on it I'm not gonna say I would say my understanding is that the source of this is credible is that your understanding as well by the way though so those of you who are familiar with who I'm talking about the Imam of peace would you agree that historically that he's credible he's not a conspiracy theory guy at all somebody here says do not trust the Imam of peace well so where I'm at is you should put a big question mark next to it I'm not gonna tell you to trust him or not trust him but if it doesn't ever pass over into the professional news organizations you're gonna have to ask yourself why that why that didn't happen yeah that's all I have for today I'll talk to you later

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retired a UFC and the MMA fighter who's

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but something more interesting and

alternative to YouTube now you might

wonder why I would want to talk about it

you alternative to YouTube but you may

have seen my tweets that Senator Ted

Cruz actually retweeted this morning or

last night in which I talked about how

YouTube is suppressing my views and

monetization

I thought it was time to talk about some

alternatives and so Ben are you there

yeah I'm here can you hear me

I can hear you fine so bad you are part

of a startup can you tell me about that

well I you know what I'm not technically

part of the startup right I don't have

ownership in the company it's my friend

who founded a company called full Sports

in 2007 it's gotten really big he

branched off and started something

called rock fin but really what I think

we need to talk about actually I think

that Ted Cruz commented on this issue

because all these things become

politicized and I think it's it doesn't

need to be politicized the fact of the

matter is there's a there's a distinct

power of balance between content

aggregators such as YouTube and content

creators such as yourself oh yes you

know I would I would go further and say

that I would like to correct Ted Cruz on

one fact which is I believe the YouTube

D monetization is not limited to the

Conservatives north right because I did

hear I did hear from David Pakman who

had exactly the same situation and he's

as left as you can get so it definitely

wasn't a left and right thing it was it

was more like a lower level people

talking about politics versus the cnn's

and the MSNBC's I think it was that yeah

yeah I'm not smart enough to know

whether they are YouTube is censoring

conservatives more than liberals or

anything to that matter but you know

since Martin started his company called

rock firm that's our okay fi n for you

guys wondering him and I really good

friends had a lot of conversations and

he's got me to see the greater light and

a lot of people talk about this and

there are a few alternatives out there

trying to do something about it but the

power of balance between these large

media networks and their content

creators is such that Scott I mean

someone as big as you and you'reyou're

kind of a big-time guy you're you're

literally witnessing them taking your

money away and there's not anything you

can do about it

you can't say anything to them you can't

say no give me more Amati

and that that in itself is what the

biggest problem is so what what does

rock fin do and it's is it is it up and

running

yes it's been up and running I believe

it was April I think six months since

you got up and running so well I'm gonna

try to explain it really simply but you

know it tries to accurately reward the

content creators because it kinda the

content that you provide to the network

is not just valuable today but

infinitely valuable into the future so

for example the first thousand people on

YouTube which got YouTube started they

think looks like we lost our connection

so I think he'll probably get back on

let me fill in a couple of details that

he probably would have gotten to so you

probably know that there are

alternatives such as bit shoot and one

of the big issues with that the

alternative to YouTube is if you create

a you alternative to YouTube and the

reason you're doing it is because a lot

of people are getting banned on YouTube

you've got a problem because all you'll

get is the people were banned and and if

all you get are the people who are

banned bet I'm coming back I got you if

all you got where the people were banned

you wouldn't have much of a platform

Benny back let me refocus you here so

rocks Rock CENTCOM is an alternative to

you - babbling over here and I have no

idea what happened yeah we just had a

technical glitch anyway Rock Fenton comm

is up and running it's an alternative to

you Tech Talk the question everybody's

asking is what's the difference between

that and Brent okay so I can't speak to

you cuz I don't know what it is

here's what Rahman does Matt it's so

unique that Martin who's a creator is

he's getting a bite he's applying for

bunch of patents I believe then BAM

let me help focus you that my audience

is a very short attention span all right

let's look so tell me tell me

in conceptual terms tell me and I mean

I'm a user I get on this system

why is my experience as a user better in

concrete terms so as a content creator

user experience is better because on an

everyday basis you get paid in a token

which at that time you can exchange

immediately for a US dollar of course or

if you decide to hold the token did I

lose you again we had cut it off again

okay so where he was going on this is

that the there's a crypto token

component to rock FEM so apparently you

you get an option because you get the

token first you can cash it in

immediately and get cash or you can hold

it and if rock fin is more successful

and if you're more successful I believe

that make sure your token worth more so

you'd have more of an upside you'd be

getting these tokens and you could sell

them right away or you could you could

ride it on the upside so I think that's

the basic idea now as you heard Ben is

not a founder of the this startup he's

just got an interest in it

it's a a you know psychological interest

as a friend but I wanted you to know

about it and if I can't get him back

take one more try oh let's see if we can

get it back and wrap up here all right

Ben we get what we we only have another

minute or two you God how do I keep from

getting cut off on this feature this is

this is crazy it just keeps cutting me

off yeah I don't know if it's really the

periscope app or we're just getting a

glitch in our communications yeah but

anyway okay other networks then things

like sub stack and patreon and they're

you know they're they're applying some

old principles obviously without a token

but in that case it's one individual and

so they call it the rock to the

subscription consortium so essentially

you're not by yourself and you have you

pair up with a whole bunch of other

people which makes it

infinitely more valuable when you can do

something like that all right Ben

nobody understands it at a conceptual

level yet the only way we'll understand

it is I'm a user I put a video on there

yeah how's my experience different from

if I put a video on Bishu tour a video

on YouTube yeah I got bit shoot on

YouTube I think if you don't see the

problem with what's happening with your

lack of monetization then I guess I

can't really help you but the fact that

that that YouTube had so much power over

you and you have really have no recourse

to do anything about it I think that

should provide kind of alarms well yeah

but but that would be true with every

platform every every platform every

platform owner would have ability to

kick anybody off the platforms so well

rocks in if you get kicked off for

whatever reason you don't agree you

don't deal with the Terms of Service

then you keep all of the emails that are

attached to your account so obviously

you keep a personal relationship with

your customer which is also something

that the larger digital networks don't

want you to have Scott you don't have it

you don't have everyone's you to about

you never was email who's following you

on YouTube of course true so that so

that would be good but if you got kicked

off you'd still be kicked off correct

and what what are they thinking a

preview you the things you would get

kicked off we're not for just being a

conservative or being a liberal yeah you

don't you have to go full nazi to get

kicked off right yeah I sent you the

Terms of Service yesterday it's yeah it

literally it literally spells out some

examples white supremacists your and

here not so you round here kick off

people for political reasons and then

they have hardcore pornography on their

site I mean it's kind of all right well

Ben Ben got cut off again but then if

you can hear me thank you so much that's

what we want to get out of that people

will go and take a look at themselves so

got a are okay if I am calm if you want

to see an alternative now I want to say

again that first of all thank you too

senator Ted Cruz it's always great to

wake up in the morning and find out that

one of the most prominent Senators and

in the country just retweeted your tweet

because he thought the issue was was

worthy and it's the issue of people

being demonetised

and especially conservative voices being

demonetised

here's here's my take on what's going on

and this is just speculation all right

so I don't want to say this is a

conspiracy theory this is pure

speculation so I'm not asking you to

believe it I'm just trying to understand

my world and thinking out loud

if I were YouTube and what it looks like

what they're trying to do is continue to

evolve upscale so the content on YouTube

is more like a television show quality

so they're de-emphasizing things of

lower production values in favor of

things with higher production values now

David Pakman as I mentioned before that

was also impacted the same way I was and

we're pretty much opposites on a lot of

stuff so it wasn't the political leaning

it was the fact that we were a low level

production political talk I think that's

the the key that's that's getting us put

in the same bin now here's why this

actually is not completely fair if you

were to remove from YouTube the

independent voices both on the left and

the right what would be the result of

that do you see it if you were if you if

you get rid of the independent voices on

the platforms like you know the social

media platforms but YouTube in

particular what would that do with

what's left well what's left is

overwhelmingly mainstream media plus a

little fox news so it seems to me that

the net effect of getting rid of the

let's say the lower lower production

value independent people like me and

even David Pakman is that you would get

rid of more people like me then you

would get rid of David

Ackman even if we were sort of held to

the same standard well let me put it

another way I don't think that I don't

think I could support that there would

be more conservatives than liberals

that's anecdotal what would be true is

that all that would be left and

therefore would be magnified in value

would be the mainstream media is that is

that a side benefit to YouTube just

wanting to get a higher production value

I don't know but I will tell you that

there are a lot of people like me who

believe that they got on YouTube because

YouTube had a certain set of rules and

opportunity and it feels like they

change the rules after we got there now

as a trained economist in case you

didn't know that one of the worst things

you can do in an economic system is

changed the system midstream unless

you're really fixing it in this case

it's a change that was good for YouTube

presumably but certainly not good for

many creators such as myself so anyway

enough on that have you heard the story

that Nunez is being accused by a an

indicted Ukrainian that he went over and

met with Shokan over and over in Ukraine

and tried to get dirt on Biden now what

I tweeted what I saw that is when you

can't find an anonymous source to make a

claim your next best choice is an

indicted Ukrainian because if you want

the truth you really want to know what's

going on talk to an indicted Ukrainian

because you can depend on them to give

you accurate information so I'm not too

worried about any stories about newness

that originated from and indicted

Ukrainians in fact if you wanted to if

you if you're doing a comedy routine in

which you are trying to come up with

the least credible witness that you

could ever imagine

you'd use brainstorming saying all right

let's say I'm writing a story and I need

a character who's the least credible

human being on the planet what could it

be maybe a indicted Ukrainian that would

be that would be a good choice in other

no other news the United Kingdom is

pushing for the UN to have access to I

think is Shin Xinjiang I don't know how

to pronounce it it's the area where the

we Gers are being rounded up and put in

concentration camps it is one of the big

three holocausts going on in China the

the one of the Holocaust is they're

rounding up the we Gers and assigning

rapists to their wives I'm not even

making that up you know that was in the

news that the state of China is

assigning a rapist for the wives left

behind when they rounded up the man and

put him in concentration camps that's

the allegation the other as you know the

other Holocaust is they're harvesting

the organs from the flung Falun Gong

folks practitioners and of course

they're sending fenton all over here so

will the UK be successful in getting UN

monitors to go see what the Weir's are

up to not a chance

let me ask you this if you were China

and you were not running a holocaust

would you let people come take a look to

make sure that everybody was sure you

were not involved in a Holocaust I think

you would I think if you were not

involved in a Holocaust and people said

you were and all you had to do to prove

you're not is to say what do you mean

it's a Holocaust come on over I'll buy

you a ticket bring your cameras come

talk to us

there's no Holocaust find me a Holocaust

there's no Holocaust here that's what

you do when you're innocent what do you

do when you're actually perpetrating a

holocaust you say get out of here you K

stop bothering us and no the UN doesn't

have any right to come and check us out

stop bothering us in our sovereign

decisions that's what you say

so is it confirmed that there is a

Holocaust of the Uighur community I

would say yes I would say that there

China's denials of anybody to come in

and take a look it'd be one thing if you

know if an individual country wanted to

come in and take a look by asking the

United Nations to take a look if you say

no to that

you got some explaining all right

in other news the president and the

administration have said that they're

looking into and they plan to it's just

a long process I designate the Mexican

cartels as terrorist groups how about

that huh

now the main reason that you want to

designate them as terrorist groups is so

you can go after their banking

relationships and smart people are

saying that that will make a big

difference I don't know what's going to

happen to the price of Bitcoin I'm going

to check that today in theory if you

announce that you're going after the

banking relationships of the cartels

well we should expect is a response and

we should expect that Bitcoin would be

up up 2.2% this morning okay I don't

know if that's cause and effect but if

you take the banking relationships away

from the cartel where are they going to

put their money crypto maybe so and I

don't know if the government can

actually track down crypto stuff these

days

maybe they have a way maybe they don't

anyway um that's good news now it

doesn't necessarily mean yeah as

somebody saying in the comments a two

percent move of Bitcoin is just in the

noise you know Bitcoin here you up and

down you know eight nine percent a day

without any effort so what we'll look

for is to see if the moves are mostly up

based on that well I don't know maybe

the cartels don't have enough money to

make a difference although that seems

unlikely so designated the car to the

cartels as terrorist groups does not

necessarily therefore give us military

options you know I think Congress

probably still has to get involved I

don't know what the president can do on

his own legally in terms of combating

the cartels without Congress on its side

but this is a big deal I think it looks

to me like a big deal to designate the

cartels as terrorist groups

I think we're getting serious now the

smart people have also warned that if we

do get serious with the cartels

especially if we get serious in a

military way that there will be blowback

you know they're they're not going to

just roll over they're gonna go

completely savage on innocent citizens

you know Americans will be kidnapped and

tortured is it's gonna get really ugly

but at the moment I don't think it could

get much worse now I would like to

suggest that if you want to take the

cartels out designating them as

terrorist groups is a good start but out

also we we need to take a look at

legalizing legalizing their product we

have to look at legalizing the drugs

that are being shipped from Mexico and

you know wrapping those users in some

kind of a protective medical you know

wrapping if you will

so I think we have to legalize because

we're out of options even if we were to

go in with the military and wipe out

every cartel member it would take about

ten minutes before there was another

fentanyl path into the United States so

if you really want to take them out you

got to make their stuff legal and take

away all of their options now you could

make it all legal and still wipe them

out but I don't see any any point and

why can't wipe in them out other than

revenge which I have in favor of so

we'll see what happens there all right

Milania went to an event in Baltimore I

think a youth summit on opioid awareness

and and the news is reporting that she

got booed she got booed by the youth at

the youth summit for opioid awareness ah

I I just don't know what to say about

that

first of all Melania is not Trump not

Donald Trump Melania is Melania and is

there anything that Melania has done

since you know we became aware of her as

as the you know candidates wife is there

anything that Melania has done that

isn't just positive I mean really you

know if anybody deserved some kind of a

metal it's got to be Melania because not

only does she put up with her husband

but she she does it with class and grace

and completely just one of the best

first lady's we've ever had I would say

so the fact that she gets booed what

she's just trying to help keep in mind

she did run for office if she's had an

opioid awareness summit it's because

she's just trying to help it's just

trying to help

like there's no politics on opioids

there's nobody on the other side of this

issue booing her over that that's that's

just something wrong with the country

there all right

CNN has met

produced a new poll saying that that

impeachment is still at 50% approval so

because the news was working against CNN

the other news was saying that an other

poll said that there was less support

for impeachment after the hearings what

do you know

CNN comes up with a new poll there quite

coincidentally quite coincidentally says

that impeachment is still just as

popular it's not more popular so the the

impeachment hearings did not make it

more popular but it's exactly the same

as before the hearings

isn't that a convenient convenient poll

for CNN do you believe that one

I'm gonna say no on that one so Buddha

judge has surged into second place and

at least one CNN poll I'm not sure the

other polls are going to back that up

yet but it looks like Buddha judge is

really making a play for it now I would

like to run by you

a Joel Pollak hypothesis that I find

very compelling

Joel Pollak of Breitbart I had this

thought on Twitter and it goes like this

actually I think he had an article about

it it goes like this there are so many

candidates running for Democrats the

Democratic nomination and nobody seems

to be getting a dominant purchase on the

on the nomination who also could win in

the general election

so Biden as the highest poll numbers but

nobody thinks he could win in the

general Sanders and Warren who would

destroy the economy and could not win in

the general and there they were 1 2 & 3

now Buddha judge is surging up into the

top maybe he's second you know depending

on the the polls shape up but Buddha

judge has an african-american

problem which makes them probably

unelectable in a general election so

what do you do if you're the Democrats

and you go into the convention and

nobody who could win has a dominant

position and let's say you do the first

round of votes and there's no decision

now not an expert on the new rules about

super-delegates etc but my understanding

is if you don't get if you don't get a

clear result in the first round of

voting I think it's after the first

round then the delegates are released in

other words they can they can negotiate

and they can work out a deal behind

closed doors now what would happen if

the Democrats and let's say the

super-delegates can't work out a deal

somebody in the comments just said I'm

Connell Harris and I approve this

message

yeah you know where I'm going on this if

it's a brokered deal they're gonna

broker the candidate they're gonna end

up with the candidate who the smart

people in the party the people with the

money the people with the power the the

Democrat you know the the bigwigs

whoever the candidate is if it's

brokered is gonna be somebody who could

bring together the so-called Obama

coalition because that's how you can win

as a Democrat and who could do that

right Kamala Harris now couple of

Harris's policies still look a little

sketchy

she'd have to work on her policies but

that's not unusual it's not unusual to

have to you know how to modify your

policies toward the middle or something

if you become the the can state so do

not rule out the Carla Harris is in the

strongest position already does keep in

mind that that she has the second most

endorsements from

important Democrats and apparently

that's a pretty predictive a pretty

predictive thing well no I don't see

anybody outside of the the group of

Democrats getting nominated in a

brokered convention you know anything

could happen but I think that there

would be a revolution in the party if

somebody who who is not even running got

nominated that would I think that would

be an internal revolution and they

couldn't they couldn't survive that I

didn't mention in Bloomberg because I

don't think that the party leaders feel

strongly that he could win in the

general election but I think they could

they might be able to turn Kamala Harris

into a good candidate well let me tell

you this what what is Connell Harris is

biggest problems so far you probably

have different answers to that but I'll

give you my answer the biggest problem

with common law Harris's campaign so far

is her campaign staff in my opinion

because it looks like she had been

getting terrible advice just terrible

advice about how to run a campaign what

happens if you become the National

candidate if you become the National

candidate suddenly you've got money but

you also have the best advisors that the

Democrats can come up with does Comley

Harris have the best advisors now she

does not probably not even close but if

she were the candidate if she became the

candidate in a brokered convention the

fixers would get busy fixing her she

would be you know she would be scrubbed

up and and polished by the people who

are really good at it

now we would assume that in order for

her to get the nomination she probably

have to agree to help you know she would

have to agree that the party would take

a role in shaping her message and her

candidacy but I think she could do that

I think that she would be flexible

enough and she's smart enough that she

could learn and sort of grow with the

with the party so I'm gonna stick with

my original

bet I'm Camilla Harris based on the the

Joel Pollak theory that if it goes to a

broker convention you're gonna end up

with somebody who's not in the top four

necessarily and once you're after the

top four only a few choices and only one

of them has a realistic chance of

getting the coalition you could say Cory

Booker but there has to be some reason

that he's not getting much purchase even

within the Democrats he's just not

lighting anything on fire there so I

don't know that they could change that

oh yeah and we heard the theory

yesterday that the reason that Bloomberg

might be a candidate as opposed to just

putting his money into hurt Trump is

that as I can today he gets lower lower

prices for advertising I don't know how

that works so don't take it from me it's

just something I heard on heard on Fox

News yesterday that there's something

about being a candidate that gets you

some economic advantages and they're

pretty big ones so maybe that's why he's

running all right so if you if you've

been noticing the two movies on one

screen situation about impeachment over

on CNN there are a whole bunch of

bombshell happenings and these new

bombshell happenings on impeachment are

definitely definitely going to take this

president down it's a lot of new stuff

it's very damning for the president and

he's he's really in trouble now

that's on CNN if you click over to Fox

News do you know how they're covering

that stuff if they're not they're not

even covering it I don't even know if

they have an article on it it's so

uninteresting the Fox News just looked

at it and said yeah but on CNN it's the

beginning of the end and I want to give

you some of the the language because

this always amuses me

however CNN can make something sound

like more than it is

so the basic new new

is if I can get this right is mostly

about timeline stuff so we know now that

when the president was quoted as telling

which whichever one of the diplomats

Sandman

he told Salman that he didn't want any

quid pro quo but we don't know that that

was after he already knew that he was

going to get accused of a quid pro quo

so the president's statement to son

sunland they he didn't want to quit pro

quo doesn't mean what we thought it

meant because he said it after he after

somebody had already complained about a

quid pro quo so of course you're gonna

say it then

so that's one of the things and then

there's some issue about when the hold

was put on the the funds and apparently

the hold was officially put on right

after the phone call making it look more

like a quid pro quo etc so here are the

ways that these important revelations

have been described by CNN on their

website the president's claims of

innocent innocence looked even more

incredulous all right

so there must be some good reasons

coming because his claims of innocence

are looking more incredulous so whatever

follows that statement would be

something about this new information

after the New York Times reported that

Trump released the hold on Ukraine aid

after he was briefed on the

whistleblower report outlined did his

dealings with Ukraine what so he

released the aid that literally everyone

wanted him to release everyone but

because he did it after the

whistleblower thing came up that must be

evidence of his guilt but it would also

be evidence that he was doing the right

thing isn't it

because can you ever go to jail for

doing the right thing

if literally everybody in the world said

you should release this aid and then he

releases the aid do you go to jail for

that is that is that is that evidence of

guilt that you did what everybody

thought was a good idea to do doesn't

matter when you did it it doesn't matter

when you did it if you did something

that was a reasonable thing to do it's

hard to it's hard to see that at putting

you in jail the wait there's more

there's more from CNN's website but the

timeline revealed Tuesday in conjunction

with the transcript of testimonies from

Office of Management and Budget official

embarks Andy listen to the lead up

now remember complexity is a big part of

the story so if the public can't

understand the story it's like it didn't

happen so see how hard it is to

understand the story but the timeline

revealed Tuesday in conjunction with the

transcript of testimony from Office of

Management and Budget official marks

Andy and that's just the beginning of

the sentence I have it I have not even

gotten to the content to the sentence

yet so after all that outlines an

indisputably clear set of facts about

the bizarre way the Ukraine aid was

handled what it outlines and

indisputably clear set of facts about

the bizarre away the Ukraine age was

handled his bizarre against the law in

who's in whose opinion was it bizarre

what kind of accusation is bizarre okay

when we go to jail for being bizarre now

then they also say new revelations put

Trump on shaky ground that's that's the

headline okay he's on shaking your

ground because because here's the

because the developments on Tuesday

illuminated the fact that there's still

much to learn about the president's

actions regarding Ukraine way

is it against the law that there's much

to learn

does that put you on shaky ground

because there's much to learn about it

that's not much how about the confusion

that sandy the OMB guy and other line

level OMB aides have felt about why the

Ukraine aid was being withheld along

with their inability to get answers

showing how the Trump administration's

unusual enterprise was shrouded in

secrecy even from the very people who

are handling the money shrouded in

secrecy now this is quite a shocking

allegation because the allegation here

is that a large bureaucracy was not

communicating well I've never heard of

this before are you kidding me

CNN's breaking big news the large

bureaucratic government of the United

States has people within it who don't

know what the others intend and they're

not communicating well first time I've

ever heard of something like that so

they're turning you know a normal

bureaucracy where people are complaining

about the boss they don't know why the

boss is doing what the boss is doing I

literally got rich just writing about

that I mean that's that's the Dilber

office every single day in Dilbert's

office the employees don't know why the

boss is doing what the boss is doing and

they imagine it's for the wrong reasons

that's every employee with a boss but

it's got turned into news because it's

bizarre and there's and it's putting

them on shaky ground so that's how a CNN

had to turn a lot of nothing into or

something by words through the power of

words they turned nothing really this

new evidence against the president it is

evidence against the exculpatory stuff

in other words it's less exculpatory

than it was but it's not evidence of

crime which is completely different

so I thought I made a note but I didn't

so

biron New York was tweeting around a

lawyer's analysis of why the president

Trump is not necessarily in any trouble

illegally in a sort of a clever legal

argument about why why the bribery

charge won't be a good play but I

tweeted back and I'm starting to get

some some good agreement with us that

everybody's thinking past the sale in

fact this is one of the greatest

persuasion plays I've seen in years

better than maybe better than anything

Trump has done but the Democrats have

managed to make everybody think past the

sale so if we're arguing about whether

there was bribery or quid pro quo or who

said what or what it was a time line all

of those things were talking about a

hundred percent of them are past the

sale that we haven't talked about and

the sale is whether the president was

appropriately asking for an

investigation was it the president's job

to look into it and the answer is yes it

was unambiguously unambiguously in the

interest of many of the citizens in the

United States not all of them not every

single person cared but there certainly

were plenty of citizens in the United

States who were aware of the Biden

verismo thing who wanted some more

information on that and they would be

happy to know that nothing happened

because this is a potential next

president of the United States and

they'd be happy if they found that

something happened and we'd be glad we

found out so we didn't get into any kind

of blackmail situation or influenced by

Ukraine

so now just the fact that many of the

people in the United States were not

following the story and therefore were

not interested in calling for this

investigation doesn't change the fact

that if they did know about it it would

be a legitimate

there's there's much that our government

does that we the citizens are not you

know voting on or clamoring for they're

just ordinary the business of the

government so the government knows what

it needs to do this serves the public so

it doesn't the president was asking the

same question of Ukraine that many

citizens that voted for him would also

want to like to know and also people who

did not vote for him would also like to

know the answer to that they might not

ask for it they might prefer he didn't

ask for it but that's a political

question they still want to know the

answer the information still important

now even if it comes out that there's

nothing there

which I imagine would be the outcome

we'd like to know we'd like to know if

there's nothing there

so I'm waiting for the world to catch up

to me and realize that the entire thing

has been thinking past the sale so you

saw me tweet and talked about Michael

Harriet's article in the route in which

he was talking about Buddha judge and I

said it was really good writing and you

should read it

ben shapiro wrote an article that was

rerun on fox news and he was talking

about the route article going viral on

on twitter and i thought did I do that

who else was talking about this this

obscure little article in the route did

I make that viral well it was I part of

making that viral I don't know the

answer of that actually but so Ben had

some some disagreements with the article

which are worth reading I will not

repeat them because I know Ben will be

called all kinds of bad names for having

an opinion as he often is so then I hope

you can survive the case the pushback on

that article all right

so Steve Cortez has an article I just

tweeted talking about how it seems to be

a more coordinated strategy by the

Democrats to slander Republicans and

supporters of the president so there

there's more and more we're seeing it's

it's not brand new but it seems like

it's picking up steam the the labeling

of Trump supporters as being bad people

this is kind of new this is kind of new

I don't know if I can't think of any

time in the past when the supporters of

a candidate were demonized for being you

know the devil because they support the

devil I guess so we went through the

phases of being deplorable and racists

and now the latest is cultists so Steve

Cortes has a great article and that

check it out it's in my Twitter feed or

his you can see the link and I've

started to wonder is that something that

Republicans should do back in the other

words is that something that should be

returned and I suppose you could say it

is already happening because Trump

supporters like to call people on the

Left socialists and communists except

those are names they use for themselves

so it doesn't really hurt anybody to

call him a socialist when they're

labeling themselves socialists calling

them communists goes another level but

that feels more like hyperbole it

doesn't really feel like an insult yeah

we unless that's true we do refer to

them as zombies sometimes but I don't

think there's any equivalent kind of

thing I I'm going to go back to a

general gross generalization all right

here's a gross generalization the thing

that describes conservatives the best

and I think I'm the only person who's

ever said this I've never heard this

anywhere else well I'm sure somebody

said it but I'm not aware of anybody

else

the thing that defines conservatives is

a collective agreement that everybody

should be following the same set of

rules not the same outcomes but that we

should all have the same set of rules

and that those rules must be agreed upon

in a printable way such as the

Constitution and such as the laws now

I'm always impressed by conservatives

who think that and I'm not going to

argue I'm not going to argue abortion

here so my opinion will not be present

in the next comments I'm talking about

other people conservatives believe that

abortion is literally murder

it's murdering babies and it's happening

by the millions every year have you ever

been amazed the conservatives who are

armed to the teeth believed that murders

are happening by the tens of millions

babies they believe that babies are

being murdered by the tens of billions

in this country they're armed to the

teeth and they allow it in other words

there's no revolution now you get a

crazy person now and then who shoots an

abortion doctor but I'm not talking

about that I'm talking about in general

conservatives have not taken up arms

against the thing that they would

describe as tens of millions of babies

being murdered every year by the by the

state in a sense because they made it

legal now how can we have a stable

country with that going on and the

reason is the Conservatives have a

tremendous respect for the process the

process in this case is the Constitution

the Supreme Court our laws and as long

as the the process was followed even

though they didn't get the result they

wanted and even though they complained

bitterly about the Supreme Court making

up laws it still went through the

process and look at this look at the

power of that I mean there's an

incredible power to the fact

that conservatives will even under these

extreme extreme conditions what they

imagined to be tens of millions of

murders of babies they still stay you

stay within the system they don't leave

the system because that's the most basic

belief is that the system is the only

thing that can protect us all in the

long run because if you violate the

system everything falls apart it's chaos

whereas the people who are not

conservatives people on the left are

increasingly driven by hate and fear

that seems to be hate and fear and

that's not much of a system so it's no

surprise that they're not winning

winning the presidency recently okay

that's all I got

yeah the Conservatives are still

fighting for pro-life positions but

they're doing it within the system but

boom Scott one of your best threads ever

well thank you the fourth Holocaust is

abortion well you could say that in

China even more than the u.s. right I I

think there's massive abortion in China

so you could certainly make that case Oh

anything on Omar at Qatar yeah let's

talk about that I've been watching with

interest and I don't know if any of you

have noticed this that the the Imam the

Imam of peace is that what he goes by on

Twitter so I think I've got that right

the Imam of peace that's how he labels

himself on Twitter he believed he sang

that he has evidence that would tie Ilan

Omar representative Omar to funding by

Qatar and that would be a Middle East

connection

that would be super super bad were it's

exactly the way he's described it now he

has gone into great detail with his

various sources and I've been sort of

following it casually because I don't I

don't want to get too excited about it

until until what he's saying crosses

over into at least one of the major news

organizations and I don't think that's

happened yet so I keep watching for the

the sultan of the Imam of peace his

story about Omar to cross over into the

more fact-checked mainstream or or Fox

News kind of world and it hasn't and I

don't know why so I would say I'm gonna

put a big question mark on that story it

could be that you know we need to learn

a little bit more could be that Qatar

has too much control over I had over

what over the media here or something I

don't know what the reason is but for

some reason his story which looks

gigantic if true is not passing a

passing into the mainstream media so

just keep an eye on it

I'm not gonna say I would say my

understanding is that the source of this

is credible is that your understanding

as well by the way though so those of

you who are familiar with who I'm

talking about the Imam of peace would

you agree that historically that he's

credible he's not a conspiracy theory

guy at all

somebody here says do not trust the Imam

of peace well so where I'm at is you

should put a big question mark next to

it I'm not gonna tell you to trust him

or not trust him but if it doesn't ever

pass over into the professional news

organizations you're gonna have to ask

yourself why that why that didn't happen

yeah that's all I have for today I'll

talk to you later

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