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Back to episode — Episode 2397 CWSA 02/27/24

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re are just so many things that didn't look real. Now it could be that the only problem is my low level of understanding of physics. But the more I looked into it, the more obvious it was that the physicists really didn't understand their own field. And I don't know if that's what Eric Weinstein is getting at. I think his point is a little more nuanced and a little more interesting than that. But…

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we would have talked about it forever, but we kind of would have accepted it. It was one person who caused two-thirds of the country to think the elections are rigged. Now that's my current belief without the benefit of any proof.

Would you like to see my argument for why I believe that climate change is almost certainly a lie, and that our elections are almost certainly a lie, and that the war in Ukraine is almost certainly a lie, and maybe a few more things? And it's all going to be with one graph on one whiteboard, and it'll be the most magnificent thing you've ever seen. I give you now the explanation for everything that was confusing you. I call it the money versus lies graph.

If you're listening to this, on the lower line of the graph we've got money, and then on the other side we've got lies. And there's a hockey stick kind of a graph there showing that the more money is involved, the more lies. What things are expensive? Name something expensive. Let's see how about changing the energy sources of the planet Earth everywhere. Climate change. That's some super expensive stuff, huh? What do you think happens when things get that expensive? Right, the line goes through the roof because people want some of that money.

Now how about Ukraine? That Ukraine war is pretty expensive, huh? Have there been any lies about the Ukraine war? Nothing but war. War is the thing you can guarantee is all lies. It's also the most expensive thing we do. Iraq war, all lies, all BS, right? Now how about what else do we have here? See, climate science is expensive and war is expensive. How about just the economy in general? Oh, how about COVID? Was expensive. How about those vaccinations? How about healthcare? How about reparations? How about college?

I'm just reading your comments. Do you see it yet? Everything expensive is a lie because it brings out the liars, and it's a system problem. Wherever there is money, there are moths going toward the flame. Ah, there's money there, so you're going to get 10 crooks for every honest person. And eventually the 10 crooks will overwhelm the honest person, if you even have one. Right? So and there's no real other way this can go. There's not a second way this goes. You know that, right? Do you all get that? It doesn't go this way som

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etimes. It's every time. It doesn't have the option of going any other way. As soon as there's enough money, it becomes completely corrupt. Now at a lower level of money maybe you can get away with stuff, but once you get to the big numbers, it's all lies. It's all lies. Now let us develop that theme a little bit, shall we? So the fact that there's a Cambridge climate scientist who's coming out…

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