spending money we have we're spending money we don't have. And we always could have spent that you know more of the money we don't have by borrowing it. We could have always spent that in Black America but apparently we had figured out whatever level worked and we were at that level. I don't believe it's true that the more money you give to the migrant community the less is available for Black Americans. I think they just borrowed more than they would have. So but it feels that way doesn't it? Imagine if you were in the inner city and you saw that the Venezuelans were getting checks from the government and like free rent and stuff for a while and you weren't. You would definitely feel like the guy standing next to you who got a big check from the government because he's Venezuelan and you got nothing and you've been living here all your life. It would be quite normal to think that that could go to me if it didn't go to you. I don't think it's true. I think the decision of what you get is just a separate decision. It's not like they took your money but it's going to feel like it. Oh my goodness it's going to feel like it. Yeah well I don't know if it's envy. Envy might be the, it doesn't feel like the right word but I get I see where you're getting at. It would be yeah envy isn't quite the right word but it's in the right domain so I see why you're saying that anyway. We'll see what happens there. I think there's going to be a lot more support for Trump especially among Black male Americans that we've ever seen before.

People mock me for saying that all data about important stuff is unreliable. Sometimes they say it's not credible. Sometimes I say it's fake. But how many of you have a reaction to that like well that's not true. All data about everything important is fake. Does your body just rebel against that and say no it's not. Obviously Scott there is real data in the world. Are you sure? Are you sure there's real data in the world about important things? Now there's definitely real data about unimportant things but about important things do you think there's real data? Would you die on that hill that there's real data in the world? All right let's look at an example. What about crime in the United States? Did crime in the United States under Obama under Biden did it go up or is it now down? That's pretty easy right? We collect all this crime data so give me the answer. Is crime up or down because data is real right? For those of you who think data is real and you can do your own research and find out what the truth is say up or down.

Well today I saw two movies on one screen so I won't name names but a popular person on X showed some data showing that two cities were missing from the crime data and that's why it looks like it's low but that's fake. That's the story you've heard right? Have you all heard the story that the crime data from the FBI I guess left out Los Angeles and St. Louis and then I looked at it and sure enough it wasn't there. And then somebody else said oh this image is cropped. If you don't crop the image it is there. So which reality were you in? Were you in the reality where that information was left off which would have been ridiculous or are you in the reality where somebody cropped a data page so it looked like it was left off but of course it was there? So which reality are you in? Oh but the data is real right? The data is real and you can do your own research and find out the truth. Yeah you could find out more than you knew but all you're going to do is get to the next level of something that might also be fake. So you might learn a new thing but the new thing you don't know if that's real because you'd have to research that thing and then you'd have to research the thing that said that thing was real. You'd have to know all the players to know that the person who said it could be credible and not somebody's in the bag for one side or the other. No there's no data that's real. There is data that you can convince yourself is right. Oh that exists and I convince myself data is right all the time because we're built so we have to accept some reality. So we end up clicking to what do they call it snap to grid. If we get nearer reality we like to snap to it. All right that's my reality now. I'll think about something else. No all data is fake.

How about if you don't believe that about the crime how about the data on the economy? Is the economy better under Biden or was it better under Trump? I don't know because I don't believe any reports about this. If you assume that the pandemic was sort of in between the two administrations it just means that any data comparing them would be ridiculous. So even if the data is correct on the economy we don't know how to analyze. So you got one case where the data might be correct but half of the country is seeing a cropped view of it so they have a whole different opposite view. So that's useless. The economic information even if it were accurate which I doubt you still wouldn't know how to analyze it because the country doesn't know how to analyze somebody who had a pandemic at the end of his administration to somebody who had a pandemic at the beginning of their administration. Nobody knows how to do that. Like there might be a few experts who could do it but you don't know how to do it.

How about the border? Democrats believe they've looked at the border and immigration is at a low, illegal immigration, and Republicans think it's at an all time high. The truth probably has something to do with the fact that the administration has turned illegal immigration into legal immigration by putting them through the asylum door. So technically they're all legal. They're just not citizens. They're legal. They came under asylum but they lied about the asylum but since that's not proven in any kind of court they're innocent till proven guilty. So it's not really illegal unless it's proven illegal and you can't read somebody's mind to know that they really didn't have you know they were really not motivated by asylum and getting away from trouble. We have no way to know. So I would say that our information on the economy and the border are garbage. Crime we can't figure out what's going on there. Climate of course is just a big old mess. You know we're going to argue about whether climate can be even measured or predicted. Of course it can't. And of course you've seen that numbers on inflation. Harris says it's down. Trump says it's up but we're looking at different stuff. One is looking at the base the other is looking at the rate of increase. Now those are the biggest things.

Now even when you come to something like abortion where you think well abortion is not about data at all is it? There's no data argument about abortion. It's just is it a life is it not is it right is it wrong is bodily autonomy more important than what some would say is a life though we pretend that that matters but it's actually a data question and we don't agree on the data. Here's why. If I told you you know the Democrats do say that they would allow abortion for any reason at any age you know even up to the ninth month but suppose you knew that it never happened. I'm not saying that's the truth this is hypothetical. Suppose you knew that nobody had ever aborted a baby at 9 months for just not wanting a baby. They had done it maybe plenty of times when the mother actually thought they would die and the baby wasn't viable or you know special cases but it's a data argument. You wouldn't even care about the law if you knew that there was no case where anybody would a