Episode 406 Scott Adams: Trump Investigation TDS, Political Myths, Joy Behar’s Racism, and Virginia
Date: 2019-02-07 | Duration: 51:01
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17 Unnecessary new investigations and Adam Schiff Seems obvious that Dems know Mueller has nothing Mueller is wrapping up, so new harassment begins
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pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom you know behind me that’s one of my biggest fans hey everybody come on in here coming to you at a non-standard time once again because I’m in a different time zone I apologize for that tweet that I had tweeted yesterday of my vacation here because I know it made a lot of people feel bad if you’re in cold weather but I had to do it anyway alright come on in here it’s time for the simultaneous hip it doesn’t matter if you’ve got a cup a mug a thermos a Stein a chalice any kind of a container put your favorite liquid in there I like coffee then join me for the simultaneous it oh oh yeah oh yeah so oh hello
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it oh oh yeah oh yeah so oh hello didn’t mean to do that so let’s talk about a few things in the news so I understand that Adam Schiff it’s going to open up a whole bunch of and I guess the the Democratic House is going to open up a whole bunch of investigations into the president’s personal finances on Russia what does that tell you reading between the lines everybody read between the lines the Democratic House is opening up a whole bunch of investigations on Trump’s taxes and his business dealings with Russia what did you just learn by the fact that the house opened up all those investigations you just learned that the Democrats don’t believe Muller has anything am I wrong
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anything am I wrong if the Democrats believed that Muller was going to put the hammer down and then Muller had the goods would they open up 17 unnecessary investigations for a president that would be certainly impeached if not arrested immediately yeah but then I think the fact that the Democrats are going with a whole bunch of new annoying investigations probably probably indicates that the Democrats themselves believe Muller doesn’t have anything because if he did but if he did do you really need to do anything else you just wait a few weeks get everything you want now that’s certainly not any kind of a guarantee that I know what’s in their head but it doesn’t make sense any under any other scenario if you were sure that Muller had the goods or even if he thought there was a good chance wouldn’t you wait a few weeks it’s a lot of work to get all cranked up to do more
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of work to get all cranked up to do more investigations when Muller would have already found out what’s happening in Russia to me it’s a signal that they’ve they know the let’s say what’s they know the clip is empty so that’s horrible now I I have to tell you that when when I read the news and CNN and of course the front page of CNN’s website is just all about the extra investigations it’s going to be investigations investigations investigation Palooza now as you know C then loves their investigations because it gives them something to jabber about all day long and how did they talk about it they talk about it doing the if news you know the if news if true this is big if there’s any problem in those taxes the president’s in trouble if he had any business dealings with Russia we’ll find
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business dealings with Russia we’ll find them if if if if if so it’s the if news coming up but I gotta tell you when I when I saw the you know this is obviously the new push is going to be about these investigations because they sort of run out of other material is it my imagination or let me ask you this question it wasn’t long ago maybe a year ago when Democrats were talking seriously as a no joke the president has mental problems and he’s you know should be removed for office for incompetence and he could not possibly continue in this job wasn’t that only a year ago why did they stop saying that if you think your president is actually crazy and actually needs to be removed for office because he’s actually mentally unstable do you do you make noise about it for a couple months and then if nothing happens you say well
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and then if nothing happens you say well we gave it our best try we get we gave it our best shot hey do you know what you can’t spell shift without if ya you can’t spell shift without f sorry I just got sidetracked by to my own clever observation there’s no shift without an F alright and so but my point is if it used to be the biggest priority in the world to get rid of this president because he’s mentally unstable why do you stop talking about that well what would be the justification for saying well we made some noise about it I guess people didn’t want to remove him yes he is crazy yes we we’re actually quite sure that he’s mentally unstable but we’ve decided that’s another priority anymore it’s just not a
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priority anymore it’s just not a priority so I think we can put to bed that they ever believed he was mentally unstable at least in a serious way so we know that that was crazy it looks like the molar investigation they don’t believe was going to come up with anything the the Don jr. meeting in which she had the phone call with the block number that we know is a big old nothing do you remember the other things we were worried about we were worried about the Husein let’s go down the list of things that we were not we but the Democrats were worried about they were worried that the economy would tank what’s the biggest thing that they they complain about the economy now the biggest complaint about the economy is that it’s a tremendous economy and we’re not giving enough credit to Obama for forgetting the economy of running strongly now I’ve said before many times
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strongly now I’ve said before many times and I’ll say again I to give credit to Obama for the economy so that you know what he did to get us from the brink of total destruction to a solid and growing base cannot be ignored if we’re going to give any if will give you of any president credit for the economy even if you’ve got a two-term president and the economy’s up that’s that’s got to be on the present likewise we’ve got two years in this new president you can’t ignore that the economy is better than it’s ever been ever so so he says you’ve lost me I tell you if you if you can’t listen to an objective statement that the economy was good under Obama and and improving if that’s too much for you and you’re out I’m out I’m out there are people in the comments saying I’m out and you’ve gone too far now you lost
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out and you’ve gone too far now you lost me anyway that’s funny I would like to have fewer people watching my periscopes who care handle the fact that maybe maybe another president did something right right so they they gave up on he’s gonna ruin the economy talking about Trump so that was one belief they gave up on their giving up it looks like I’m the Moller investigation they’re kind of giving up on that rush had made any serious difference to the election they’re giving up I think that Trump would be a person who had start wars was it wasn’t one of the one of the things they were afraid of is like my god he’s going to start wars now nothing like that you remember he was gonna be the anti-gay president because a lot of the LGBTQ community was was worried well
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LGBTQ community was was worried well what was one of the big focuses of his State of the Union eradicating aids so he went hard at aids I don’t know if anybody saw that coming right so I think Trump has been the most in a weird way maybe the most Pro LGBTQ president in part because he’s the current president and I think you could say that most of the presidents have sort of evolved as time has evolved so you know realistically speaking whoever was president they would probably be the most evolved president on that topic just because it’s today that just happens to be Trump he just happens to be the president and he happens to be the most evolved president on LGBTQ the the fact these Republican doesn’t seem to make any difference I’ve said this before and this is one of those reframing things that make some people’s minds spin if
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that make some people’s minds spin if you wanted to have a more Perot LGBTQ world and by Pro let’s say just everybody’s equal you know not not putting anybody had you would mostly want to have convinced conservatives because the Conservatives are the ones who had issues with the LGBTQ community Trump is the one who convinces his own side because the left didn’t need any convincing you know they were already Pro LGBTQ and if there were any questions it was more on the conservative side Trump comes into office and who does he persuade he doesn’t persuade the left as we can obviously see they they haven’t changed in a serious way but you just don’t even hear anybody on the right saying anti LGBTQ stuff it just completely went away and I think probably one of the biggest
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and I think probably one of the biggest sort of stealth accomplishments of this president is that by being so comfortable from the start being so comfortable from the very first day with you know all things LGBTQ marriage is emits a special question but I think that’s settled law at this point I think that he he changes yeah I think that Trump changes the tone on the right in a way that the left is should like but probably doesn’t the mill the military situation is the the most special case of all special cases meaning that the military explicitly has the right to discriminate so you can’t compare the military to any other situation the the military has the explicit right to discriminate when it makes sense now they could be wrong
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makes sense now they could be wrong about what it makes sense but if the argument is that there’s any readiness or extra expense I’m not the expert on that so if the argument is based on practical stuff and the practical stuff is say we think this community will have more medical issues and that would affect readiness that’s either true or false that’s either true or false if it’s false then then we should not be making rules around false facts if it’s true then the military has has every right to discriminate they discriminate against people with all kinds of situations at times you come off as quite pompous somebody says are you telling me there are times I do not come off as pompous I think when when I come off as pompous you’re just saying that I disagree with you because it feels that way because
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you because it feels that way because what I agree with you with confidence what do you say if I confidently agree with you do you ever say that guy’s pompous no you say that guys pretty smart because he agrees with me what what do you say when I say with exactly the same level of confidence that there’s something that that you think that’s not quite true well you say a lot guys arrogant what an arrogant douche it’s kind of all the same I I say everything with the same degree of confidence that I probably shouldn’t have let’s talk about confidence I read about this in my upcoming book called lose I think and so here’s a little mini lesson haul I’ll insert here if you believe that your ego if you believe your ego is
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that your ego if you believe your ego is who you are then your I would say your your disadvantaged in life because if you’re managing to protect your ego you’re probably making all the wrong choices but if you usually go as a tool that you can dial up when you want to and dial down when you want to then you’re probably in a good place I would argue that President Trump uses his ego as a tool because you’ve seen him go into situations where you know he will be mocked mercilessly and he seems to be willing to do it anyway you’ve seen him say I can take the heat and sure enough it can take the heat so the president as as completely opposite of what people say about him which is he’s a narcissistic we observe that he seems to uses ego as a tool when it’s when it’s important to say that his his
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important to say that his his accomplishments were great and he’d be a great president and all the things that candidates say he dials it up and tells the world he’s the greatest thing ever which is actually quite useful it’s a it’s a it’s a tool and then when he needs to take the heat for something instead of worrying about how it will make him look he just takes the heat it doesn’t matter how horrible the heat is he just goes and he takes it so that’s a good model you will note that I do the same so when you hear me talking in ways that you you think are too confident what are the other things people say narcissistic well less that in this case too confident arrogant and whatever the other word was used here that’s because of what I’m doing do you know how do you know how annoying it would be do you know how annoying it would be pompous
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know how annoying it would be pompous yes do you know how annoying it would be if I said everything with uncertainty you would hate it so the venue I’m in is about talking confidently about things does that that’s part of the show when I’m wrong and you saw the classic example of it with the Covington kids my first opinion was was the wrong opinion and I immediately apologized and corrected but was I embarrassed was I embarrassed about being so spectacularly wrong in public no not at all all because I like the president I treat my ego as a tool in that case my ego would have been the wrong tool for the job the right tool for the job was an immediate apology with the correction that was the right tool for the job so I use that tool the right
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the job so I use that tool the right tool for this job is to give you my opinions with confidence because you wouldn’t like it any other way now and when I say things you don’t like that’s part of the show saying stuff you don’t like is why you watched the this periscope people don’t watch this periscope to just hear stuff they already agree with there there are other there are other shows that give you that this isn’t it all right what else did I say I was going to talk about you know after I started the periscope I’ve got the little title subjects and oh joy behar so it turns out that there have there were quite a few people who at one time in their life have warned some kind of blackface costume and joy behar is the latest one now she might get a pass for two reasons one of course
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get a pass for two reasons one of course she’s a famous liberal and I don’t think anybody thinks she’s an actual racist so it should matter that people know for sure you’re not a racist look that should matter right and again here’s something you don’t like to hear I know you don’t want to hear that anybody would go soft on the people you don’t like but that shouldn’t matter it should matter to everybody will she get in trouble for it probably not now part of what she part of what she did which was slightly different is she used a darker makeup which is different than blackface at least different only in the color I suppose but that might be enough might be enough for her to get away with it oh my god I’d love to see what Whoopi Goldberg says I’m sure they’ll talk about it anyway let’s talk about
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about it anyway let’s talk about Virginia so I feel like I’m getting to this Virginia thing late because everybody has already made all the good jokes and said all the things they can but I swear to God I had literally forgotten that the the governor had said what he said about late term abortions you know where this all started with the governor talking about the late term abortions and quite literally I’d forgotten because of this blackface thought it just took over all the news and then the then the lieutenant governor’s accusations and then you’ve got the he the Attorney General which is the funniest I think the Attorney General just took this to a whole new level of funny because he actually called for the governor’s to step down and then and then he gets up you said he was misquoted yes the the governor was
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was misquoted yes the the governor was misquoted is probably that’s not exactly the wrong miss Florida’s not exactly what happened because it wasn’t about the exact words it was that the meaning out of context was taken wrong so I’m gonna give you I’m gonna give you a comparison that you’re not gonna like do you know how I always talked about the Charlottesville hoax and how the news reports that when the president said they’re fine people on both sides what he was talking about was the both sides of the statue question but the news illegitimately reported that he was talking about the waste premises being fine people that’s still reported like its effect on CNN and it’s just not it’s just clearly not a fact likewise something analogous to that’s happening with this late term abortion stuff if you go to the New York Times for example they will tell you in clear language that everything you
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clear language that everything you thought about that was fake news has been fact checked and the real news is that the only situations where these late term abortions happen typically they only happen like a little bit after the cutoff for the legal abortions you know the early term abortions so they don’t typically happen you know it would be the rarest thing in the world to have a late term abortion you know the day you were going to deliver right so what late term means is just not early but it could be just slightly later than is legal so that would be the majority of them and in most of those cases there would be a non-viable fetus meaning that they could deliver it but it’s just going to die it doesn’t have any chance of living so the the right is still reporting on this serious people as though the law intended and and the intention is the important point
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and the intention is the important point here there anybody who was involved with law intended that a woman would have the right to kill a baby after it’s born for any reason isn’t that they could just not feed it or something and just let it die in the table there that was never true right it is true and a lot of lot of you were gonna argue with me just like people argue about Charlottesville but those of you who believe that that governor was in favor of letting a live baby that could have a chance of living let that baby die that was not contemplated so so that’s fake news on both sides and again let me be clear I’m not giving you an opinion my opinion on abortion I’m just telling you that the right continuously misrepresents what that law was about in exactly the same way the left misrepresents Charlottesville mental illness allowed
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Charlottesville mental illness allowed no mental mental health yeah so the people who are saying read the bill I did I read it I read the the language that mattered and it’s pretty clear that it’s just a Charlottesville example yeah the the governor was uninformed in awkward and he totally blew how he described it and it’s also true that the law seems poorly written so you’re you’re taking the fact that he was an idiot the way he described it and that the law itself was bad so the letter of the law was seemed to allow things that you wouldn’t want to allow but that clearly was nobody’s intention the letter of the law counts yeah that’s why it was defeated the letter of the law counts and that’s probably a big reason why it was defeated because the letter of law counts but he can moonwalk
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letter of law counts but he can moonwalk as somebody says yeah exactly she said abortion up to time of birth that is correct so I know you’re still flailing to make this true because you’re looking for the technicality but wait she actually said those words and wait the words on that bill actually say that and of context true and certainly nobody’s it was nobody’s intention that a live baby would be born and then somebody would say you know I’ll have mental illness if this Bobby baby continues to live so maybe we should kill the baby to take care of mine into mental illness that never happened and that’s what a lot of people on the right believe happened all right let’s play this game because I really want you to get mad at me now tell me a topic and I’ll tell you if it’s conspiracy theory or true you want to play this game I’ll
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or true you want to play this game I’ll see it a few while you’re thinking about it the Cuban embassy the sonic weapon I say conspiracy theory or at least fake news here’s another one Charlottesville Charlottesville of fake news he was talking about the statutes how about the the idea that we can tax the rich enough to pay for health care fake news what about chemtrails fake news moon-landing true and like I’m definitely not on the sandy hook conspiracy theory 9/11 true 9/11 true in the sense that it was bin Laden there’s definitely a question about building five I’ll just say I don’t believe the
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five I’ll just say I don’t believe the conspiracy theories Vegas shooting was exactly what it looked like it was a guy who wanted to show us he was evil and he wanted to die Venezuela Rothschilds I don’t believe any of the Rothschilds stuff global warming that’s its own topic because I’m still in the middle of investigating that New York State abortion law true or fake well there’s a real law I’m not sure which is the fake part Trump tax returns bombshell or nothing both there will be plenty of fake bomb shells in there but probably nothing real chemtrails are fake Q is fake deep state is true ish but maybe not in the sense of a massive group that has meetings I think they all doesn’t know what they want and there’s some there’s some embedded people who act as though the deep state
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RGB yeah Ruth gay turbans Berg is alive or as building 7 is the sketchy one yeah building seven I’ve got my questions about that Harvard scientist alien ship I don’t know about that one Faiza gate well I’m the molar investigation here’s the thing that you can’t rule out that the the deep so-called deep state people in the FBI believe what they were doing so some of it some of it might have been they believed something was there but we saw him we saw us that email that at least one of them didn’t think there was something there anyway CIA controls media true I would say that the CIA controlling the media or at least
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controlling the media or at least controlling members of the media to get their stories end is true vaccines causing autism not true North Korea D nuked no they have not yet Diamond North Korea is still making missiles unknown but possibly true trilateral commission you mean JFK Jesse Smollett I don’t want to get sued for let’s say also I’ll say that carefully the Jesse Smollett story based on what we know it would be deeply unlikely that it’s true but not impossible deeply unlikely is Brandon going to jail unlikely birth certificate yeah no comment I will say that Obama is
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comment I will say that Obama is definitely a citizen so that that part all say Clinton body count well certainly the entire body count would be fake news yeah if if anybody was ever killed by a Clinton associate in the entire time they’ve been in office I don’t know you could totally I don’t know if you could rule that out but I don’t rule it in Bigfoot no EMF pollution I don’t know that situation yeah I think Muller will come up with nothing nothing important anyway Kevin Spacey come back I don’t know how
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uranium one fake news Seth rich I have to be careful and Seth rich people get sued for saying stuff about that I’ll say the you can’t rule out that it was just one of those unexplained things or you know maybe there was some sketchy police work but the the the far more likely the likely explanation for things like the Seth rich story if you’re if you’re just looking at it from the outside the likely explanation is things that you didn’t think of you know could have been the crazy guy could have been you know a jilted lover or could have been anything so Justice Scalia well Justice Scalia I’d say that’s I’ll keep that an open question that one I don’t believe that he was murdered but I also wouldn’t rule it out
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murdered but I also wouldn’t rule it out we talked about Seth Ridge I don’t know what project Merlin is Russia hacked Clinton emails possible but not confirmed in my opinion MK ULTRA what was MKULTRA was that where they were was MKULTRA where the CIA was affecting the news I forget what that one was all right aliens The Young Turks Epstein stories true well he’s pleaded guilty to his stories I read the Jeffrey Epstein a book about it and that is you you have no idea how much happened and that Jeffrey Epstein story like you you know what he was accused of but when you read the book
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accused of but when you read the book the scale of it was astonishing why do government officials go to Antarctica I don’t know my pillow guy what about the my pillow guy what’s that good for a conspiracy about that sheiva actually invented email well there’s documentation to that effect pedo gate I don’t know if anybody specifically use a pedophile mind control of course mind control definitely exists we’re all experiencing it it yeah mind control is definitely real and that’s based on solid science remote viewing you know what I don’t know if I
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viewing you know what I don’t know if I can tell you this trying to figure out a way I can tell you something that I’ve never told anybody well I never said it publicly anyway I’ll put it this way how can I say this I guess I can’t tell you I’ll tell you this I know more about remote viewing than almost anybody in the world so I know that’s a strange claim but I’ll say it again because it’s true I know more about remote viewing and whether it’s true that almost anybody in the world because I I’ll just tell you I got a I got an insider’s look at that situation and that’s all I’m going to tell you
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the Podesta artwork yeah the Podesta artwork certainly raises some questions about their at least how their minds work but that’s as far as it goes talk to us about Julian Assange I don’t fully understand the Julian Assange situation so there’s there’s something about the old Julian Assange thing that I don’t quite understand genetic diseases 23andme has weapons and I doubt that or are you saying that 23andme could tell you what kind of genetic weapon you could use on what individuals that’s probably technically true
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oh but let me let me just say this about remote viewing I don’t believe it’s true so I I will tell you it’s been used and that there are there are claims of incredible accuracy so that part we know we know remote viewing was tested by the government and we know that there are claims of it being accurate and useful but my view is that it is not what you think now I was never again D Pig Oh Chelsea Clinton is an illegitimate child of Hillary and web hubbell if you see the photos of web Hubbell and and Chelsea it’s hard to believe he’s not the dad but I wasn’t there so if you had to bet on the one I’d bet on that one
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whom well Hillary in Weinstein I don’t know what that conspiracy is Snowden I’m not up on Snowden I don’t have an opinion then did Russia really have the DNC they might have the the farthest you can go is that’s possible but it’s also possible it was somebody who just looked like they came out of Russia it’s also possible people yeah I’d say anything’s possible on the emails do penguins actually March vaccines do not cause autism that would be my opinion now I doubt I don’t think there’s any chance Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead now the most the most interesting theory is that she’s being kept alive until it’s
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that she’s being kept alive until it’s Trump’s final year of this term so that the Congress can hold it up and say yeah we gotta wait for the next president yeah we talked about the birth certificate I would just say that Obama is definitely a citizen but if you’re talking about the the document itself no comment Princess Diana I think that was just a tragic accident Danny Williams I would say is almost certainly the son of Bill Clinton that would be my belief if you see in the pictures and heard the stories chumps Trump’s childhood pastor was the power of positive thinking guy that’s confirmed
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that’s confirmed lowering testosterone the men what was the context of that I I think it’s true that testosterone is lower and maybe that’s maybe that’s soybeans or something I don’t know Atlantis well it’s certainly possible there was a civilization that’s now underwater Sharia patrol cars in New York well I saw a story that said that there are some cars being painted as though they look like police cars I don’t know the details of that is the government trying to turn men gay I’d say no and Michelle Obama is a man probably not
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it’s Kamala qualified run yes she is an American citizen wouldn’t worry about that I’ll just tell you that I don’t believe in remote viewing I don’t believe is real Norman Vincent Peale yes that was drums pastor when he was a kid Oswald the only shooter I’m going to say more likely yes than now the fire festival all right Spaghetti Monster is real as far as you know okay I think we’ve are there any other conspiracy theories you’d like to you haven’t really done any of the good ones his pot of gateway drug here’s the pot is a gateway drug thing it probably depends how you measure it
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it probably depends how you measure it it’s probably true that someone who’s likely to get into one drug is more likely to come into contact with people who do other drugs etc so socially it probably is but in terms of chemically I haven’t seen the evidence that doing one makes you want to do the others but socially probably yes plastics lower testosterone I wouldn’t be surprised apparently we eat a lot of plastic that can’t be good for us anything you would change add to my past books yeah but you’d be kind of boring to mention them here do I have ambitions for running for a political office one day I don’t know how any sane person could have ambitions to run for politics
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could have ambitions to run for politics today can you imagine it’s it’s really it’s undoable until we start giving each others a pass for stuff that happened 20 years ago until that happens I don’t know that we’re gonna get good good candidates the pool is so small all right the simulation of conspiracy I think the simulation is most likely true just statistically can we talk about the government shutting down again I don’t know that there would be any reason to shut the government down again because he’s he’s got that you know it didn’t work the first time it’s not gonna work the second time so I think it’s going to be an emergency declaration is Trudeau Castro’s son I’m going to say yes if
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Castro’s son I’m going to say yes if you’ve seen the pictures and read the story about about the connection between Castro and Trudeau’s mother and then you see young Trudeau and you see pictures of young Castro they do look like the same guy in a sense yes so the Illuminati is not one organization running the country or the world depending on how you like it the Illuminati is there are competing powerful forces so there are competing powerful forces that are sort of like let’s say three or four Illuminati so there’s not one Illuminati there’s more
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there’s not one Illuminati there’s more like three or four forces that are powerful enough that they’re they’re vying for who’s in charge was there a Jesus that’s a longer question yeah we talked about World Trade Center seven yeah that I think that one’s an open question good Republican win in California it’d have to be a pretty special Republican oh here’s another one the one I’ve been hearing a lot is that climate change is really a globalist conspiracy to transfer wealth have you heard that one there’s a video clip in which a woman says nothing like that that people keep sending to me to say here’s proof of this elite globalist un person some woman who is saying
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person some woman who is saying explicitly that the whole point of climate change is to transfer wealth and then I played the clip and she doesn’t say that and then people say it’s right there and then I look at it was go I just listen to it nothing like that there she does say something like yet they’re they’re hoping to change the economy of the world she does say that but that’s what a that’s what an emphasis on green over carbon carbon fuel would do it would change the whole economy of the world so the the evidence for the conspiracy theory that the globalist only want climate change to to get socialism the strongest evidence is a clip in which nobody says that that’s a that was the craziest one all right
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and M key and little that’s funny am i a new Christian I don’t know what that is well so rather than rather than answer the question was there a Jesus I’ll give you the general answer how many religions are there and how many of all the religions there are true because if any one of them is true then all of the other religions are just completely made-up nonsense right and I’ll go to a quote the famous famous atheist what’s his name who’s the famous famous atheist the British guy Dorkin Dworkin whatever anyway he’s got a great quote he said that as an atheist the only difference between him and a believer is that the
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between him and a believer is that the Atheist disbelieves one additional religion because if you have religion you are also a disbeliever of all the other religions that are not your religion so there’s not that much difference between an atheist and the believer in terms of how many religions they each believe just just one difference is mr. Zach I’m doing your new book loser think he is yes he is yeah so my new book has the same publisher as my my very first big bestseller the Dilbert principle and my other recent books as well when Bigley as well Christopher Hitchens
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what is christopher hitchens Oh people are saying now he’s not the atheist I was thinking Dawkins I was saying here Dawkins his IQ a valid measure Talib disagrees with Peterson I haven’t caught the nuance of that disagreement but I’ll give you my opinion my opinion is that a very small percentage of these smart people do all of the important things that smart people have to do meaning that you and I at least most of you that this is a general generality but you and I are not inventing anything you and I are not the greatest scientists in the world so would it matter if your if your IQ is 10 points higher than mine does that matter because neither of us are using you know our IQ in any serious way you know if
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our IQ in any serious way you know if you can support yourself you’re probably smart enough so I would say maybe we put too much emphasis on it but IQs the real thing I mean it’s it’s embate it’s unambiguously true that smarter people have an advantage you know that part doesn’t seem controversial No all right jesus loves me somebody says good to know all right I think I’ve said enough and I will talk to you tomorrow bye for now