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You know the story about Fauci. You probably noticed I've talked less about Fauci than anybody who does what I do, you know talking about the news. You probably wondered about that. Why don't you talk about Fauci more? We hate Fauci. Help us hate Fauci some more. Well one of the reasons I don't is that I'm very reluctant to go after individuals, right? I'd rather talk about, you know, unless they're president that's different. But I don't like to go after individuals unless I have really solid something solid. It just feels like a dick move to go after an individual because the news is always so wrong that whatever you're accusing somebody of is like what are the odds that's even true? Look at the number of people who came after me in the past couple weeks. How many of them actually knew the story? The ones who came after me, heart, almost none. Almost none. So why do I think this is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect? Why do I think that the reporting on Fauci is accurate? I've seen what the reporting on me is. I know what that looks like, don't I? But why do you think Fauci's is accurate? That would be the most ridiculous assumption that the reporting on Fauci is accurate. That would be ridiculous because it's never accurate when you're talking about public figures. It just never is. It just isn't. You know there's nothing you could do about that. So that's why I hold off with people like Fauci.
I heard horrible damning things which didn't seem totally credible to me. But our current understanding, and I'll say this is all allegations and what other people believe, is that Fauci indirectly funded gain of function in Wuhan. Then when it got out he redirected attention away from the lab. And then he became the leading figure in fixing the pandemic. That if this reporting is true he caused, not by himself of course, but he would be a primary cause. Did this really happen? This whole story is too on the nose, right? It looks like it happened. It looks like that narrative might survive a challenge. It might. But that is just too like a book. And what are the odds that the one guy who funded it is the highest paid person in the government who became a superstar for trying to defeat the virus that he created? Allegedly. Yeah with indirect funding to the lab. That does just on the surface doesn't that strike you as just too, it's a little too neat. You're saying it happened and I'm not even disagreeing because I don't know, right? But that would be the weirdest simulation story of all time if he caused it and then he was in charge of fixing it and then we didn't find out. And how much money do you think Fauci's made? We have no indications but we also don't know what stock he holds, right? Do we know what stock he holds? I don't believe he, he has to report that. If I had to guess and this would be just a guess, probably 80 million dollars he made during the pandemic. If I had to guess just based on he probably over the years he's probably collecting a lot of stock in companies that would make money in a pandemic. Patents maybe. Yeah I don't know. Did he have an interest in Remdesivir? Did somebody say it is some kind of interest in the company that does Remdesivir? I don't know about that. So I'll say that I'm not going to make any accusations about financial gain because I don't have details. But if I had to guess and this isn't even about Fauci, if you just take Fauci out of it and say somebody is a million years old and they've been the central person working for Big Pharma in the virus area for all those years, does he own a substantial stock? Remember he was the highest paid government employee so he had presumably investable funds. But he also probably had some connections where he would get some stock from I don't know startups and stuff. He probably had let's say 10 million dollars of pharma stock before it all started. I don't know if that's true. I'm just speculating. If he had 10 million it probably went to 80 million because everything went through the roof. So he might have made I don't know 20, 80 million dollars during the pandemic. That wouldn't surprise me. Would you be surprised if he had a 10 million dollar portfolio and a lot of it was in pharma? Maybe because he does speeches or worked with people who've got stock. You don't know. He's been around for a long time. Well I'm going to say I'm not totally believing all the stories about Fauci but if it is what it looks exactly like it is that's pretty alarming. That's pretty alarming. It might be. It might be exactly what it looks like.
All right, this ladies and gentlemen was almost the end of my livestream. Let me tell you just before I got out I jumped on a Spaces call and there were a number of Black Americans talking. And when they saw me on there they invited me up and asked me to explain my comments. And how do you think it went when they asked me to explain my comments? Were they receptive? It went very well. All right. I'm actually considering re-identifying as Black because Black Americans have come out of my little drama for the last couple weeks. Black Americans have come out of this really well. Like in my opinion their reaction to it, sometimes horrified but they would be horrified and then ask questions like what did he mean, why did he do it? That's perfect. That's perfect. Because I was being hyperbolic to get people horrified. They were. But instead of canceling me they, in fact the first thing the host said was that it was the white people that canceled me and did I agree with that? Yes, yes absolutely. Black people haven't canceled me from anything. Not a single thing. They mostly say that's very alarming. What are you talking about? Exactly what I wanted. White people just had to signal so they were kind of useless to this. But then I had just enough time to tell them the entire purpose was to attract energy to a point which is if you have people who are looking backwards with their strategy such as CRT that's a backwards look and you compared them to people who have a forward-looking strategy for life. Get a talent stack together, systems over goals, all that stuff. That you just can't compare how successful one group would be to the other. So that was the message I wanted to get through. The systemic racism is real but you can slice through it if you focus on the tools for personal success which would include strategy for getting through systemic racism. And I think I penetrated a bubble because these are things that I've wanted to say for a while but I was just preaching to people who largely already agree with those things. But this was the first time I got invited into what I would consider definitely not my bubble. Now I think a number of them may be leaned right but it was definitely a sort of a Black-centric group and I don't normally get invited to that. So my original intention was to put a message that I think is really useful: focus on personal success and try to penetrate as many bubbles as I can. Now this is a very small success but I definitely got a useful, high-ground, totally practical set of ideas into a bubble where it wouldn't have been. I think that's good. I mean it's a small move but so far my plan is working weirdly well, better than I expected. And beyond that I seem to be invited everywhere. I'm invited everywhere. Remember Fox News seemed to be ignoring my story for a while. I have been invited by Hannity. Hannity invited me but I didn't want to do that yet because I would look too much like people who agree with me because I think he would do what everybody would do: condemn me for what I said. And I even condemned myself for it. I said it to get a reaction so you can't criticize me for doing the thing that I wanted to do that worked really well. I'm not going to apologize for doing a thing I wanted to do that works really well for the people who got offended. No I'm not going to apologize for that.
But Larry Elder also invited me on a show and what do you think of that? Should I do Larry Elder? So it's the same problem. He's going to agree with me. Yeah I saw an article he wrote in Real Clear Politics so I know he's going to be philosophically on the same side and he would identify as a conservative. But I feel like I'm not getting the invitations I want from the left. Do you know why the left is not inviting me? You know, yeah they're afraid. It's literally fear. Yeah you saw what happened when Russell Brand went on MSNBC. Oh he was on the Bill Maher show with the MSNBC guy. All right like you don't want somebody to bring a wildly different idea into your bubble if it could destroy your bubble. Yeah I'm kind of a bubble breaker. In the worst case scenario I'm just dangerous at this point. I'm literally dangerous, wouldn't you agree? I've made myself literally dangerous to the prevailing narrative because I'm now impossible to ignore. I'm impossible to ignore and I have a message that's a high ground message. Meaning as soon as you hear it you say okay that was better than what we were doing. Nobody is going to argue that focusing on personal success for young Black people is a good strategy. Nobody. They will only say but also other things need to be done. And then I'll say how's that working out? How are those other things working out? A lot less systemic racism this year than last? None of it's working. I can agree with all that stuff being important but nobody's doing anything about it. So instead you need to fortify the individual so the individual is invulnerable to the worst parts of systemic racism. You just slice right through it like a hot rod through butter. That's correct. Like a hot rod through butter.
All right so my plan is working out swimmingly well. Let me ask the people who are less familiar with me because there are always a few over on YouTube especially. So YouTubers, have you ever seen me influence beyond the race question? Have you ever seen me influence a national event in a positive way? So just look at the comments. If I ever influence a national event in a positive way, right? So those of you who are not familiar with what I've been doing for the last five years, look at the answers. Now you can ignore the nos because that just means they're not familiar. The yeses are telling you everything you need to know. You wouldn't have that many yeses unless people noticed there's a real thing that's happening that I'm part of. The Locals group is part of it and now you're part of it. Which is anybody who boosts my signal is doing something good. Now not the hyperbolic stuff. Don't boost my hyperbole but boost my reframe. And the reframe is work on your individual success skills and you will do fine. And there you go. Thanks for listening YouTube. I'll be with you again tomorrow. I appreciate you being here.