insurrection? An unarmed insurrection. Why would they think such a ridiculous thing? Because they're brainwashed. They're brainwashed, right? There's no, that's obviously no critical thinking going on there. It would take like this much critical thinking, like a dollop, to know that an unarmed Republicans are not trying to take over a country. Like you don't have to do deep thinking to figure that out. But still, but still half of the country believes it's true and it would be the most obviously untrue thing of all time.

So but you know why we can't blame the brainwashers, right? There's a reason besides just political. It's because the entire justice system depends on the illusion of free will. If you take away the illusion of free will you can't punish anybody. If you can't punish anybody then there's no legal system. As there's no legal system civilization falls apart. So the illusion that people have this thing called free will as opposed to being hypnotized by obvious brainwashers, you have to put the responsibility on the person who does the act because it's the only way civilization works. But it's not rational. It's completely irrational. Well except that it works, right? But the logic of it doesn't hold up.

I know it makes people score you when I say free will is an illusion but usually it's just people are defining it differently. If they just say I can observe that somebody could choose this way or choose this way so therefore that's free will. To which I say you can't observe that. You can't see the physics happening inside their brain. I say whatever they did was the only thing they could have done because physics only worked one way in that case.

All right. What presented this is a Rasmussen poll. What percentage of the country in June of this year believed that Russia was winning the war? In June, 25 percent. That's right, pretty close. Yep, 25 actually, 24. And so in June 24 percent of the country thought Russia was winning. Now it's 14 percent. 14 percent of likely voters in America think Russia is winning. Now about I think about half of the people think that it looks like a stalemate and the rest think that Ukraine is winning.

Now how many of you think Russia is winning? Are you in the 14 percent? How many of you think Russia is winning? Yeah you know it's hard to separate Russia will win in the long run from Russia is winning. So the question is a little unclear. I'll give you that. Already won somebody says. Yeah.

Well have I ever mentioned to you that things tend to go my way? And you remember I keep reminding you that although I was a hundred percent wrong when I said that Putin wouldn't actually invade Ukraine, the reason I said it was wrong is because he couldn't win and that it was almost immediately obvious he was going to get waxed. His army was. Now when I said that at the time that he invaded, would you say that close to 90 percent of the public would have said Russia is totally winning and going to win? Would you agree that at the point that I was saying that Russia couldn't win, 90 percent of the people were on the other side? Now it's completely reversed. That the vast majority of America believes what I believed would happen from the start. That Ukraine would surprise everybody with a better performance than anybody thought.

So I'm only going to point out that things tend to go the way I want them to and I don't know why. I don't. I honestly don't know why. To me it feels like I'm in a simulation and I'm either imagining the things are going my way or you know I'm influencing it somehow or I'm the world's best predictor. You know even getting notable ones wrong I'd still be the world's best predictor. I don't understand it. I honestly don't. But it's so consistent. It's hard to find any major topic that isn't going the direction that I thought it would publicly. I don't know why.

All right. Let's see. There's a new study out that we don't believe because we don't believe studies but it says that metformin, I think it's an over-the-counter diabetes drug that lowers your blood sugar levels, and it allegedly helps with long COVID. With long COVID like fairly substantially.

First question, how many of you believe long COVID exists? Because I had to do a Google search today because you know in the beginning people were saying there'd be this long COVID and then there was a period where we weren't sure if it was real and I didn't know where that ended up. So if you do a Google search on is long COVID real, Google will, I'll only just tell you what the search reveals. I don't know if it's true but the search reveals that most of the media is saying long COVID is real. The studies say it's real. But at the same time there are studies saying it's not real in the same time period in April, May of this year. So there's a little bit of a difference but overwhelmingly Google will say it's real. Doesn't mean it's real. Just Google will say that.

Now is it interesting that metformin lowers blood sugar levels? Because we knew that the diabetics were having the worst time with the COVID, right? Wasn't diabetes the number one comorbidity? You know sort of co-morbidity with obesity at the same time I imagine. So is sugar the villain in everything? Like I saw some experts saying that it wasn't the lower blood sugar that makes the metformin work if in fact it works. There was some other mechanism. But I'm not sure I believe that because the thing that we keep seeing over and over again is that having too much sugar in you is just always bad for everything. Am I wrong about that? There's like almost no exception, right? Did you put sugar in your body? Yes it's bad for you. I mean except for normal carbs and stuff of course. So I don't know. That would be my guess without any medical training that if everything that adds sugar is bad for you in every possible way and everything that decreases sugar in your body is good for you in every possible way, I would think metformin would work. So I guess I'll believe this one because it matches my presumption. That's as good as you can do.

So I heard Dr. Robert Malone, famous co-inventor of the mRNA technology and a famous critic of the lockdown and vaccination kind of regimen, and he told his reasons for getting vaccinated. Because if you didn't know now he's vaccinated. He gave two reasons. One, concern about long COVID as opposed to concern about dying. And he believed he actually had long COVID. And at the time it looked like a vaccination would reduce your long COVID symptoms even after you had the long COVID. Now he's not so sure that's true anymore but a Google search suggests that Google is telling you it is still true a little bit. It's a little unclear.

But so Dr. Malone said he got the vaccination because he wanted to do international travel. It was the only way he could do it practically. And he wanted to reduce his risk for long COVID. Does that sound familiar? Is there anybody else you know who made a decision exactly the same? Exactly the same and about the same time? Yeah I did. I did.

So for those of you who are here to tell me I made the wrong decision, you could be right but I need you to know I made exactly the same decision as the world expert critic of the vaccinations. So the smartest person in the whole world on this topic made the same decision I did because he was working with the same data as we all were.

So somebody says copium. Kyle says that agreeing with the person that you believe is the best source, that agreeing with your expert is a bad decision. That's your point of view. Is it a cope or is it just a fact that the person you believe is the most qualified agrees with me? Is that a problem that your expert agrees with me? I'm just rubbing it in. I just like feeling right. So that's just for me now.

I'll tell you my current opinion. My current opinion is I doubt the vaccinations help with long COVID. I doubt it. Oh did Dr. McCullough get vaccinated? Does anybody know? Because I was wondering if Malone was the only sort of, I don't know if I call him anti-vaccination but a vaccination program critic anyway. I would call, okay so I'm gonna call it McCullough. And did he get it? He got COVID though, right? Did McCullough get COVID? I assume everybody did at this point. Don't know, don't care. All right we'll look into that or I will.

Well ladies and gentlemen we're still in the slow week of news. Somebody says yes he's vaccinated but I don't know. Steve Kirsch is crushing the pro-vax peeps. Let me ask you this. Are the anti-vax doctors, the Malone's and the McCullough's, I don't want to call them anti-vax because that's my labeling. I shouldn't do that. But are those doctors that are prominent critics of at least some parts of the vaccination issue, do they think that the vaccinations are still a good idea for older Americans? Does anybody know that? Is there anybody who says the vaccinations are a mistake for old people?

Well I asked the question wrong so now I don't know what your answers mean. Is there a general agreement that over 65 it still saves lives or is even that up in the air as well? So Malone thinks older people should get it. Even Kory and Bhattacharya I think it's okay above 65. Okay so you're saying that even the biggest critics would agree that I should have gotten vaccinated. Is that true? Is it true that the biggest critics of vaccinations that were the most expert people believe I made the right choice? So the only people who don't believe that I made the right choice for myself are the people who don't believe their own best experts. So the people who believe their experts believe I made the right choice but the people who believe that the people that they trust the most are not credible would think I made a mistake.

And by the way I don't know if I made a mistake or not. How would I know? Scott has other comorbidities. Not really. I thought I had asthma but it turns out I don't. So as long as you all agree that I made the smartest decision that anybody could have made in my situation and I think now that you all agree with that. I remember that a lot of people were mocking me until they found out that I made the choice that their experts would recommend. Not me. I only did what my critics' godlike experts recommended. So that's all I did.

Yeah I thought I had asthma at the time and I was concerned about it and that you know so under my bad information from my own medical people I was misinformed. I didn't do it just for vacation but that was the reason I did it when I did it. But the decision to do it was also largely because of I didn't want a long COVID problem. But probably you know I'm not sure it makes any difference.

Yeah all right. You were misinformed on everything COVID. Was I? Did you just miss the entire last five minutes? Was I misinformed on everything COVID when we all just agreed that all of the experts including the critics say people in my category shoul