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my view, and this is my actual view. So this is not like weird sophistry. This is my actual view. That a life well lived is where you start very imperfect and you try to improve and that you do the best you can to improve over the arc of your life. And I would say we all started from a low place. You've got a picture of my starting place. The only thing I would defend is where I went. I'm not goin…

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le procreation model.

Now how much, how seriously should you take this? Here's how seriously. Remember I told you there are only two things you can know. The first thing you can know is that you exist because you're noodling with the question of who you are. So there's something that exists. You just don't know what that is. The second thing that you can know is that it's your impression that some things are predictable. That's it. You know, science in particular is more predictable than most things. But if that's all you know and I give you these various models of predicting, does follow the money predict well? It does, doesn't it? I don't know if it should but it seems to. Now here's the second thing. Does follow procreation as the dominant way of understanding things to happen, does that predict? I think it does. But I don't know if it predicts as well as follow the money. If you ever got into a situation where it was one or the other, I don't know. Does abortion follow the money? Sort of does, because if you say to people you're going to have to have a baby that you will financially support for 18 years, that's a pretty big expense. You would expect that people would say I would like the option of not having that expense. So even abortion follows the money. It's a very good predictive way.

Now I don't know if there's a reason for it or it's a coincidence. It doesn't seem like a coincidence. I mean you could come up with an obvious reason why money affects things. So follow this. Let's see if we can make a prediction. If the Democrat Party is the woman-first party, would they nominate somebody like Joe Biden to lead them? Yes they would, because he's not a strong male figure at the moment. You know, when he was younger he was, but at the moment he's not a powerful male and they don't really like powerful male figures. They want somebody who just looks like grandpa will watch the kids when you have a date night. So that's what Biden is. Biden is basically your grandparent who watches the kids while you have a date night. He's very safe. Whereas Trump is scary to women.

All right, let's see what else you could predict based on that model. Is there any other thing that you could predict? What about climate change? Could you predict that Democrats would be more concerned about it? Maybe indirectly. No, you're an idiot. Orange out. Orange out. You're out. So every time somebody imagines they know what's in my mind you get banned. Stop imagining. You could just ask. It's not like I don't tell you my opinion. I'm the last person who you should have to try to read my mind. I literally tell you everything I think. You don't have to guess. I'll give you my reasons, right?

And to be clear I'm not supporting Trump for re-election, just so you hear it as clearly as possible. Could I change my mind? Do you think I could change my mind? Yeah, absolutely. Sure. Good. I'm just saying at the moment it's not my choice. At the moment. But you know I have to make real-world decisions as well.

All right, is there any prediction you would make about what prediction would you make based on only the gender procreation model? Is there anything you would predict based on that? Socialism. Yeah, I mean you would predict that the Democrats would want more socialism. Got in control. Yeah. Yep.

There was a story in the news of some woman who was getting carjacked and she just blew the head off of one of the carjackers and the second one returned fire and she got wounded but survived. And I thought, you know, when you see women taking men's heads off, well we're in a whole different world. But good for her.

So Twitter amnesty is coming. So I guess Musk has said he did a poll and 72 percent said they wanted full amnesty. You heard my opinion that if you were ever going to do full amnesty this would be the one best time to do it because then you don't say it's a precedent. You're just saying it's a once-only new ownership and you know if you get banned again don't expect to come back. It's a perfect time to do it.

Now will the experiment work? Do you think Twitter will become a hellhole of racists and KKK and everything else? I'm going to say a little bit. A little bit. You know, so some of the bad people will come back and they'll test the system. The first thing some of the bad people are going to do is what? They're going to try to get banned again. So they're going to say some just to get banned again and they're going to push the envelope, right? So stuff will just get banned again. And I would be happy if all Twitter did was stick to its own guidelines for who to ban next time because those same people will disappear if they violate Twitter terms of service. So I'm not really too afraid of it. Is anybody worried about it? I think there'll be a little churn and turmoil there for a little bit but yeah, no big deal.

Now if you're saying to yourself this is a good decision or a bad decision, which one is right? It's a good decision to bring them back or it's a bad decision. Who's right? Go in the comments. Who's right? Go. How could you fall for, how did you fall for my trick? Okay, if I told you that's a trick question. It's a trick question. Now answer it again. It's a trick question. Oh come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Oh I totally primed you so that you can't see it. So I created a cognitive blindness in you. Here's the cognitive blindness. When I tell you the real answer you're going to go, oh how did I miss that? This is going to piss you off.

Now the real answer is he's A/B testing rapidly. There's no right or it's not good or bad. It's something he's going to try. If it doesn't work he can immediately reverse it. If you're talking about whether it's a good idea or a bad idea you're not even on the right page. You're not even in the right conversation. The question is, is testing it smart or not smart? And for that there's not really much debate. Of course testing it is smart. Of course. Now if you test it and it doesn't work, what would be the smarter thing to do then? Reverse it. Reverse it. Okay, or put in some rules that you know gradually reverse it or something. So if you don't understand that what he's doing is moving fast, breaking things and then adjusting, then you're missing the show, right? The show is not Elon Musk doing correct things. If you're looking for is that correct, is that incorrect, you're missing the whole show. The whole show is that he doesn't know either. None of us know. Nobody knows the right answer. He's finding out. You just put it out there completely transparent. Here it is. Did that work? Oh that didn't work. I guess I'll do something else.

Scott waited for two years to speak up against forced masking and lockdowns. Jaina you stupid. That's not true. Completely false. Never been in favor of mandates. Boom. Stupid.

All right. By the way that's something I couldn't say with full immunity before. Do you know why I can call my trolls stupid and I don't get knocked off of social media? Do you know why? Not because of Elon. No, it's because I do it with respect. The reason I could call women stupid is the same reason I could call men dicks. Because I respect their full humanity. Like if you come at me I'm not going to take it easy on you. I mean if it were a physical fight I'd take it easy on you but I'm not going to take it easy on you because you're a woman. You don't get that. Not on Twitter. On Twitter it's just you. That's the whole conversation.

All right, so what was I talking about? Oh the Twitter amnesty. So yeah it's just a good idea to try it. We'll find out later if it's a good idea to keep them there but it's definitely a good idea to try it.

And all right let's talk about that Mar-a-Lago situation and Nick Fuentes and Yay and Milo. All right, so in my opinion, well first of all Trump responded. He said he basically had a good conversation with Yay that went well according to Trump. And just at the end of his statement he goes, and I didn't know who Nick Fuentes was. Do you believe that? Do you believe that the president didn't know who Nick Fuentes was? I wouldn't have believed it except for Axios's reporting. So Axios, if you don't know, they're not in the bag for the left or the right, which is very unique. People always ask, hey why can't you have a news source that's neither bigoted left or bigoted right? We have one. Axios actually does genuinely, I think, follow where the news goes. And Axios reports some verbatims from it. And we do know from Axios that Trump was asking Nick Fuentes who he was. So if we know that Trump asked him who he was and even asked him if he represented the extreme part of his party, you could see that Trump was catching on who he had a

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t the table, right? If Axios has the right reporting, and they do, before you make fun of Axios go do your own research on that. I think you'll find out that they play us right. If I'm wrong let me know but I think they try to play us right anyway. If it's true that Trump was asking who he was and asked him directly if he represented the extreme part of the party, you can see that Trump was worki…

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