e somebody you think owns it? Or do you think that I'm not me? And they say banned for life confirmed. We'll get we'll five days we'll get a look at it again.

Now it took me a while because these were email exchanges with the support. It took me a while to realize I'm talking to an AI. I'm pretty sure the responses didn't have any tells for a human. Now they were signed by a human name, so several of the messages had different names. There's Christopher and there's somebody else. But the message — and two of them came back identical, right? So I know they weren't reading the message. Now I made sure that I wrote my message in a way, the last one, that it would be impossible to ignore what I said and simply say some canned response. But I got a canned response. So it would have been impossible for a human to ignore what I said. So I don't have any way to even figure it out. So we're going to look for alternatives and we'll see if we can solve it.

Now before you go all conspiracy theory, there's no indication it's anything but maybe a system problem. Probably if I had to guess it's because my old publisher had some placeholders online for the future book and maybe those are confusing the system. It's probably some AI system that checks content to make sure you own it. Now it is not a conspiracy theory. Don't think this is part of cancellation. Now it is true that I was canceled in newspapers primarily because the Washington Post I think was the leading entity that canceled me, and then the other newspapers said oh if the Washington Post does it we all have to do it. So the Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, who's a notable Democrat. And he also owns Amazon, which just banned me for life. So the two Jeff Bezos properties have banned me for life to make it impossible to be a public figure and earn a living. But we're still going to call that a coincidence.

All right. Now here because the problem is he owns so many things that the odds of running into him are pretty high, right? The odds of running into a Bezos something is pretty high. So it doesn't mean that he's behind anything. However, if I were him I'd be deeply embarrassed. Imagine being the guy who owns Amazon, which is basically a bastion of free speech. In my opinion Amazon's one of the greatest companies ever created. Amazon is more than just a company. It's amazing. They do such a good job at Amazon, the software and the technology, that you forget how many mistakes somebody could make with this business. The fact that they operate so well — I mean it's not perfect, but they operate so well in an amazingly complex environment. It's just jaw-dropping every time I see it. So I think Amazon is one of the greatest companies of all time. I mean that's not saying anything shocking. So great company.

And I don't think Jeff Bezos is sitting around worrying about what Scott does. So I think it would be highly unlikely that he had made some personal decisions in any way. But if I were him I'd be pretty embarrassed if two of my major properties had banned me for life. So that's where we are. Well, I'm working with Joshua Lisec. We'll work out the business options. We do apparently have some options. So it's not like they'll be banned and never be able to put the book out. It'll be available somewhere, probably in the next week or two. Probably the hardcover so far has not been stopped because it's going to come through a different path. But they might stop it. That would be consistent. So that's the update on that.

All right. Mike Sirovich's warning of genocide. He says that the situation in the United States is fitting a pattern of polarization and demonization. And there's a pretty well-known pattern that gets you to genocide. Dehumanization by the media, debanking — we see that — and then you'll see prosecutions that you think are. So every one of those things is happening right now in the United States. Does that mean we're going to have a full breakdown of civilization and people will be killing people in the streets? I don't think so. I actually don't. I just don't feel it. I don't feel it in the zeitgeist at all. I don't feel it outside of social media. And social media doesn't have arms and legs. So I don't know. I don't feel it at all. But you know I don't spend a lot of time around people. So do you? Do you feel in your real life, in your real life, is anybody cleaning their guns and getting ready to go to war? When you say you feel it, but do you feel it in your daily life? Forget about social media. In your daily life, you feel like there's a civil war coming? I don't see anything like that.

A lot of people say yes, by the way. But my opinion is that you may be biased by social media to see it. Although some of you probably have family members who are so spoiled even your own family looks like a civil war at this point.

So I'm going to be counter to that. But I think he makes a warning that you should pay attention to, which is this stuff can get out of hand really quickly. So where he and I will agree completely: two places. All the signs are there. I agree with that. If you go down the list, all the signs are there. And number two, it can happen quickly. So you can say to yourself yeah yeah it's got the signs are there but we'd have lots of warning before it got that bad. No, no you wouldn't. That's really important to know. You wouldn't have a lot of warning because you have a lot of warning right now. So if you're telling yourself we'd have lots of warning to correct this, this is the warning. Where's the correction? You're warned. You couldn't be warned any clearer than this.

But as somebody else pointed out, what's it mean when the country is heavily armed? And the answer is we're going to stay solid because we're too heavily armed. And the arming gives you a little confidence and you can make the political system do what you want eventually. So I think we'll be fine. It could get worse before it gets better, b