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Back to episode — Episode 2579 CWSA 08/28/24

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nswer is no one. No one. That's how you should have known it was a hoax without needing to check that the video was in fact edited. Who would stand in front of the world and say maybe you should drink bleach or inject bleach or inject a household disinfectant into your body? No one. No one. Not Trump, not anybody unless they were quote stupid or mentally ill. Who would say in front of a general th…

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all their models? Well probably not because you know this is one maybe one study. Maybe they need to see some more before they're convinced. But I remind you that when you have a model that has I don't know hundreds of variables or whatever there are that it doesn't take much change to even one of those variables to get a wildly wrong answer. And that's why people who have never done any kind of predicting or modeling don't really understand how bad the models are. Models are not real. They're all fake. And the way they do it is they throw away the ones that don't work this year. They add another one and then they tell you models work. Know what works is if you throw away the ones that don't work and replace them with a new one it will always look like the models are working. It's literally nothing but a trick. And the entire scientific community are idiots when it comes to any kind of magic tricks or how they get fooled. They're brilliant people. I mean it's hard to be a scientist without being brilliant but they are notoriously easy to fool in some cases because they're a little bit too literal I guess. There may be something to it but scientists tend to be easy to fool with scams.

So there's a report that the US is helping Israel hunt down the head of Hamas that Yahya Sinwar guy. The most simulation-sounding name in the world, Sinwar. And did you know that we have a technology that's this deep penetrating radar or sonar, I forget what it is, that they can map out the tunnels. So apparently the US has some kind of attach where they can actually just map the tunnels. Did you know that was true? I wish I knew about that a long time ago. So if they've got complete control of the territory which they seem to and they can map out the tunnels it's only a matter of time before they get everybody they need to get. But apparently we're doing a lot and the story is that the US wants to find Sinwar and take him out because they think that would be the administration, American administration, Biden believes that that would give Israel a reason to say the war is over. So the war doesn't have an over point. There's just sort of more of what you're doing. Like it would be hard to identify well what would be the end of the war. What's the end? And so you could sort of artificially have a fake because I've taught you that if people want to do something but they can't come up with a reason but they want to do it and that's this. People want to have an end to the war but they don't have a reason. They're going to need a reason then. The war. So from a persuasion perspective the fake because, the reason that you use to do your thing because you wanted to do it anyway but you needed something that sounded like a reason, would be that Sinwar gets captured or killed. Now in my view that makes no difference to anything because I just replace him with number two and go on. But in the fake because persuasion world it might be a strong argument that the public thinks well you got the head guy it's time to wrap things up. So I'm not entirely sure that that's what the US is thinking. It's just reported that that's what they're thinking. Maybe a lot of people thinking different things in the administration but just know that we now have the tech to pretty much capture all of those tunnels or most of them or a lot of them.

All right that's what I got for you today. That is the end of my prepared remarks. I'm going to talk privately to the wonderful, sexy, good-looking people on Locals subscribers. And for those of you on X and YouTube and Rumble, thanks for joining. And I've got lots of fun coming up in the next few weeks. I'll let you know about lots of things happening but until then I'll see you tomorrow. The rest of you but Locals hang in with me. I'm going to have an extra sip of coffee to wrap things up and then it will be Locals alone.