Episode 694 Scott Adams: Swampy Hunter, The Dumbest Man in NBA, The Hypnosis Coup, Syria

Date: 2019-10-15 | Duration: 56:13

Topics

My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu Kurd situation and the many variables in play Bryan Dean Wright’s strong insights Is LeBron James the Hunter Biden of the NBA? NBC’s interesting defense against Ronin Farrow’s allegations Hypnosis coup update: Intelligence services and the media High end hypnosis techniques are being deployed Repetition, framing by professionally trained persuaders Our opinions are being assigned to us by controlling the media Rick Perry is leaving the Department of Energy How about Bill Gates to replace him?

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pom pom pom pom pom pom hey everybody come on in it's good to see you is it my imagination or do you look smarter and sexier than even yesterday I swear everyone of you is looking brighter and you're just glowing today what is it about you did you change your diet well a good job whatever you doing well I know why you're here you're here to have the simultaneous hip you found the right place this is coffee with Scott Adams and you are about to enjoy the unparalleled pleasure yeah all you need is a copper Margaret glasses time to tell us tank to thermos flasks canteen Grail goblet vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I'm partial to coffee and if you'd like to have the dopamine the end of the day the thing that makes everything better you'll join me right now are you ready you ready you ready go oh yeah oh yeah

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you ready you ready go oh yeah oh yeah good stuff y'all get to watch the or y'all when did I become southern hey y'all are y'all gonna watch the debates tonight good stuff will the Democrats go easy on Joe Biden or do they think Joe Biden will simply take care of himself well well I've got a joke man goes into the doctor and he says doctor I have been in a terrible industrial accident and my mail unit is hanging from a thread can you save it the doctor of Luxy goes now we're gonna have to remove it and the man says no I need a second opinion he runs to another doctor says doctor doctor my manhood is hanging by just a thread do you think we can save it and the doctor says no I don't think we can he goes the next doctor an actor and he says doctor doctor are you gonna have to amputate and doctor says no we

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have to amputate and doctor says no we will not the man says thank you and the doctor says you know I have to amputate that that's gonna fall off on its own and that is the story of Joe Biden it may be that the other Democratic candidates do not have to attack him at all not at all they may just have to wait for it to fall off on its own so that they can be good people and still get rid of Joe Biden speaking of Joe Biden hunter Biden gave his first interviews and saw the stuff when Darren about Ukraine and he said that he did absolutely nothing wrong by taking that role on the board or isma but he had ended that it was a swampy situation I did nothing wrong but I was involved in a swampy situation ooh that's very close to doing something

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ooh that's very close to doing something wrong what was it that made it swampy and yet not wrong was it legally wrong well apparently not it wasn't illegal I was listening to a CNN pundit say that what hunter Biden did was not illegal and not unethical what even-even hunter Biden said it was swampy where is the dividing line between swampy and unethical is there a line doesn't swampy kind of mean unethical sorta is there a difference between swampy and unethical if if hunter Biden goes on TV and he himself labels the situation swampy how does a pundit who's watching it say it's on earth it's not unethical or that's a

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on earth it's not unethical or that's a stretch all right yeah speaking of Project Veritas so we we got to see James O'Keefe's latest offering undercover camera from a CNN I think it was a contract or something but he had a lot to say and there were a few other people who were undercover camera subjects I think what we found out is that the boss Jeffrey Zucker only wants to push impeachment as a story and nothing else seems to matter over there he's got that one concern and he's just gonna go after a pitcher so I don't think there's any question any more about CNN's bias but I don't know that that was necessarily new however sometimes when you put faces and names and stories to things you take something that was a concept people knew and you activate it so it becomes active in people's minds as opposed to just a concept that floats through that they could they could talk to it if they had

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could they could talk to it if they had to write an essay report but it doesn't have much persuasive power on them soon as you both faces on it you're you're in good hands all right you're in good hands meaning is if you're both faces on something it's more persuasive so the outrage continues over the Kingsmen video showing the president slaying various members of the media with their well you've all seen the video by now so the original movie the Kingsmen got a whole lot of attention and apparently they have a third Kingsman movie in the works what a great time to be working on a third one of those but now that we found out that the entire meme that everybody was concerned about was running on a little television set in the corner of a room that not many people went to it was just in a room by itself a little TV that probably

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room by itself a little TV that probably nobody stood there and watched so approximately zero people saw the meme except who ever complained to printer apparently but then they got literally tens of millions of views once people complained so what are we making that outraged the theater that's our second oral scene all right is it is it my imagination or is Trump being proven right about a Syria it feels like on day one it looked kind of questionable day one looked like oh my god we're abandoning our allies and that was sort of all we knew right that was the whole story day one abandoning our allies day 2 day 3 we get more information more detail and turns out it's this might surprise

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and turns out it's this might surprise you you didn't see this coming so I might be the first person who's ever told you this but it turns out and and don't don't spread this around it turns out that the Middle East is a complicated place I know I know it's the first time you've heard that but it's complicated over there turns out did you know this there's more than one variable one variable is whatever commitment we have morally or otherwise to the Kurds that's a variable I didn't know this but it turns out there are other variables there's this group called Isis have you heard of them there's Syria there's Russia there's a Saud there's a Rand there's Turkey turns out there's a lot of variables in play there and I was just reading it analysis by an ex CIA operations person and let

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by an ex CIA operations person and let me be specific former CIA ops officer brian dean right right spelled WRI tht Brian Dean right Brian with hawai and he sort of walks walks us through what's happening over there and he puts it in the framework of let's say a plan or a strategy although I don't like to use those words now wandering points out is that by even if forces the players to find some kind of balance as long as we stayed things could stay permanently and a balance because we were artificial power in the region but as soon as we left suddenly everybody got flexible did you notice that by everybody having the curds what was it about the curds that allowed them to make this deal with Russia and Syria a few days after Turkey attacked but they were unwilling to deal with Syria

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they were unwilling to deal with Syria and Russia at least productively before the attack was there any point at which the Kurd said whoa whoa whoa Turkey can you give us a few days to see if we could work something out where you're happy we're happy everybody gets what they want do you remember the Kurds ever doing that I don't and now I don't know that they didn't try that but as a consumer of the news and somebody who's trying to form an opinion I'm looking at it and I'm saying to myself there's a step missing there should have been a step where the Kurds said hey United Nations hey Turkey hey everybody can you just hold your fire for a couple days let's talk there's probably some way you can get what you want while we can get something like what we want I don't see why we have to be at war did that ever happen did that ever happen now there might be a perfectly good reason why that never happened it could be that the Kurds know darn well that the Turks were

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Kurds know darn well that the Turks were not going to talk to them in any productive way but it's still conspicuously missing it just seems like you should have done that anyway even if your odds were very small that it would make a difference so there's something that the Kurds need to explain and one of the things that the Kurds need to explain is why is it that we're the ones responsible for their decisions because they make decisions too and their decisions affect us and if what they decided to do was fight when there was still some possibility to talk that's sort of their decision that's not our decision but again we're ignorant consumers of the news maybe they tried we just don't know about it if they did try and we don't know about it that's a big part of the story is it you know that would that could modify what you think about the whole thing changes how you think of the Kurds but

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changes how you think of the Kurds but here's what we've learned in the in the following days we've so the public has been educated that there are such a thing as good Kurds and bad Kurds if I can simplify bad Kurds being people that even the United States has labeled terrorists turkey has labeled them terrorists and Turkey should not be expected to put up with terrorists on their border who could ask Turkey to put up with terrorists on their border when the United States went halfway around the world to kill some terrorists just so they didn't come to their border again so I don't know how you could blame Turkey for wanting to get rid of people that we even we consider terrorists on their border there's there's clearly that was a real military risk so you got that going on and I think that people are starting to understand that Turkey is not attacking another country for fun yeah they're not doing it for entertainment they had they're not doing it for a conquest

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they're not doing it for a conquest there doesn't seem to be any ambition on Turkey side for conquering territory for the purpose of you know having a greater turkey or anything like that so I think people are getting into the details a little bit and they're seeing the following that Brian Dean right lays out pretty well in his tweet and he talks about how our absence will cause a quagmire for Russia and Syria and Iran and they also have a reason to fight Isis so we don't need to be there because the people who are already there have enough power and resources and they're all on the same side in terms of fighting Isis so I think what's going to happen is that the president will take lots of heat there will be Kurds getting killed and civilians getting killed that we very much wish had not happened that's sort of where we are now but it does look like he shook the box in a way that will get you

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the box in a way that will get you closer to something like a stable permanent situation with America than if he had not done this now you could ask well could he have done it in a more gradual way yeah and they weren't to work probably I I think that he probably reached the point I'm talking about the president remember he's wanted to do this for however many years it wasn't an impulsive decision he's been pushing against this door for three three years if he thought he could get the door to budge with some other method after three and a half years of pushing I think he would have used the other method I have to think that the president simply ran out of options and he just said to himself well here's the deal no matter what we do people are gonna die I have a little bit of control over who it is I don't have control over whether or not people die he doesn't have that kind of

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people die he doesn't have that kind of power it's that's the kind of region where people gonna die so you can get the Americans out of the way and you can use it as an excuse to do whatever else you need to do over there rearrange troops etc but he just needed to shake the box and he shook the heck out of it and I feel as though history is going to be very kind to him for this there may still be a forever complaint about maybe there the exact way that he did it but I don't know that there will be a historical judgment against the president for pulling out it does look like this is gonna end up being the right decision now what I say pulling out apparently we're going to leave a thousand troops there to help mop up any Isis that starts to you know rear his head here's the other thing that's different drones because we have such a drone presence you don't really need people on the ground so much as long as everybody

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the ground so much as long as everybody who's on the ground also hates Isis so if you see some Isis call a Russian call the Syrian call occurred call a Turk call anybody you know anybody call anybody except Isis and they'll take care of it right they all have the same interest so I feel as though the president is on the path to not just a win but maybe a win for the ages like like the kind that historians talk about forever and they say man he took a lot of heat for that but we really had to get out of there and nobody else could figure out a way to do it because there was no clean way to do it so he did it the dirty way he did it with people dying he made an adult decision people died he knew it but we had to get out of there oh no I think history's gonna be okay with us let's talk about the China trade deal what trying to try the trade deal so

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what trying to try the trade deal so I've been telling you that there's no chance of a China trade deal and the reason that there's no chance this is just my own opinion is that they have no interest in the fair deal and we have no interest in an unfair deal and that's the only thing both of us are offering we're offering something that's fair they're only offering something that isn't how do you make a deal with that there there's no room for a deal so decoupling I think is a guarantee but I think it'll be a soft two decoupling where we just do less business in the future as opposed to immediately pulling everything out of China I don't think that's gonna happen so and even the question of whether the Chinese had agreed to buy a bunch of our agricultural products that's not so clear is it I just saw an article that says China says oh yeah we we already bought talking about with things they've already done we've already bought a whole bunch of your agricultural products in line with our domestic

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products in line with our domestic demand to which I say what you bought a bunch of agricultural products in line with your domestic demand that sounds like you didn't do anything this sounds like business as usual don't they wake up every day and buy agricultural products in line with their domestic demand so China has agreed as of today yesterday they have confirmed what the president said that there that the Chinese and the Americans are on the same page whatever that means does that mean that they're on the same page as in they're gonna make a deal cuz I don't see it happening here's the thing to watch for if you sum if you hear that China has locked up their major fentanyl dealer whose name they know they know where he lives they know what he does we know it 60 minutes interviewed the guy China knows who's sending us the fence adult that's

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sending us the fence adult that's killing tens of thousands of people in this country every year if you hear that they have arrested that guy or that he's disappeared or something then you could imagine that we're close to a trade deal as long as that guy's alive and and free and sending us fentanyl there isn't any chance of a trade deal let me say that as clearly as possible as long as you hear that one guy is still free ban and still something goes fentanyl you are not even close to a trade deal because that happens first right they China needs to shut that down like nothing's ever been shut down then you can get serious about the other stuff but that's not really a subject of negotiation that's more like a ticket to a negotiation if you're dealing with somebody who's killing your people as you're negotiating the killing is not part of the negotiating the killing is

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part of the negotiating the killing is what you have to do to get a ticket to the negotiating all right so tryna has not bought yet a ticket to the game you're talking about who's winning the game or what the final score is your way out of yourself China has not purchased a ticket to attend the game speak of China and the game let's talk about the dumbest guy in the NBA LeBron James now they're probably other dumb people in the NBA but maybe they're less visible so I'm just gonna come right out and say it LeBron James might be the dumbest guy in the NBA because of his response to the whole tweet about China and Hong Kong etc so the general manager some other team said some pro Hong Kong stuff everybody went crazy and then LeBron James comes out with this so Darryl Moray was the guy who started it all with his tweet in support of Hong Kong

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with his tweet in support of Hong Kong and here's what LeBron says quote I don't want to get into a word or sentence feud with daryl morey yeah you don't want to get into a word or sentence feud those are the worst kind
but I believe he wasn't educated on the situation they had and he spoke he wasn't educated on the situation to hand what exact situation they hand are you talking about it's a little unclear so many people could have been harmed this is LeBron still not just financially but physically what emotionally spiritually what who was being spiritually harmed by this who was being physically harmed by a by a tweet about Hong Kong I don't know what LeBron was talking about so just be careful what what we tweet and what we say and what we do even though yes we do have freedom of speech but there could be a lot of negative that comes with that too then later when he

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comes with that too then later when he got some pushback because it if you read between the lines you would imagine that he was talking about that he was talking about the situation with China and Hong Kong and he clarified that he was only talking about tweeting or not tweeting so he wasn't talking about the content of the tweet he was talking about the free speech and whether the talking about the topic was bad or not
- did it sound like that's what he was doing so his clarification is he's only talking about tweeting can get you in trouble so you should think about what you tweet that's not what he exactly said though he says but I believe he meaning the original tweeter Darryl Worley wasn't educated on the situation at hand what exactly is the situation at hand that that LeBron thinks Darryl Moorea was not educated on Twitter what

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Moorea was not educated on Twitter what is LeBron saying now with his clarification that daryl morey doesn't know how Witter works or he doesn't know that if he says things in public people will hear him what exactly is it that LeBron thinks that daryl morey needed to go to school for to get educated hey Darryl I'm gonna send you to school it's called Twitter school did you know Darryl that wouldn't you tweet other people cause it and Darryl will be like whoa you're blowing my mind I didn't know that tweeting is something other people say because you see as LeBron has educated us daryl morey had not been educated about the situation at hand which LeBron has defined later as tweeting in public so let's educate Daryl Daryl Morey with some things that he should know about Twitter Darryl Twitter's in public did you know that because LeBron thinks that you are not educated on how tweeting works LeBron thinks you don't know that when

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LeBron thinks you don't know that when you tweet other people see it did you know that maybe you should go to school daryl morey if you think that tweeting is just something that you see because LeBron is educating you right now he's telling you other people say it and this may be surprising - this is something Darryl boring needs to go get educated about did you know Darryl and this may shock you people have different opinions on stuff did you know that and then if you tweet number one it's public you didn't know that and number two there might be people with different opinions shocking I know this a sort of thing you don't learn unless you go to Twitter of college and you get educated on how Twitter works did you know that when people disagree with you and you say something in public there could be this thing called pushback it's a thing called criticism were you aware of that because according to lebron daryl morey was not aware that twitter

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daryl morey was not aware that twitter is public that when you say your opinion people might disagree with it and that when they disagree with it they might push back and that there might be some implications to your life beyond social media if a lot of people hate you these are a lot of things that LeBron is educating daryl morey on because daryl morey could not know these things on his on his own because apparently LeBron thinks that daryl morey has the IQ of I don't know crustacean is there anybody who doesn't know that Twitter is a public vehicle and that if you say an opinion that's unpopular it could have some blowback I don't know that daryl morey needed and the education LeBron all right but I think so LeBron failed as hard as you can fail in the public statements that's just about as hard as you can fail I would say this is hunter Biden quality right here yeah

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is hunter Biden quality right here yeah so LeBron James is sort of the hunter Biden of the NBA a guy who maybe just shouldn't talk so if that helps you LeBron James is the hunter Biden of the NBA somebody who can talk but perhaps he should take his own advice and not do so much so here's the irony LeBron James telling somebody else that they don't understand the implications of making statements in public and then LeBron James makes a statement in public that he did not understand the ramifications of is this fun or what LeBron James commits the crime in public in front of the entire world these complaining about them so while he's complaining about it he's committing it it's sort of like robbing

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committing it it's sort of like robbing a bank while complaining about somebody robbing banks it would be like swearing while you're complaining about somebody using curse words LeBron if you were really worried about saying the wrong thing in public and that it can hurt people maybe you shouldn't talk in public because you hurt a lot of people I mean LeBron you were opinion about President Trump do you think that having impact on the NBA yeah it did LeBron maybe you should take your own advice all right so enough about that did you see NBC's defense against the Ronan Farrow allegations in the new book so Rowan's got a new book in which he says effectively the NBC squashed his story about Harvey Weinstein which he then took to someplace else that it got published and so Ronan is alleging that

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published and so Ronan is alleging that NBC was probably trying to protect Weinstein by slow-walking the story and you know keeping it under wraps and then actually told Ronan to stop working and at one point Andy and the thought is that Weinstein maybe had some dirt on NBC because NBC had its own Matt Lauer problem and apparently they've paid off a number of people they've been settlements etc but here's what I wanted to say about that NBC put up a pretty good defense now I'm not gonna pick a side here I'm just gonna tell you that I'm always impressed when somebody could put up a good defense even if they're really guilty a good defense is still worth noting because I like to talk about what is persuasive and what is not here was NBC's defense they said we have a standard that if you can't I'm roughly gonna describe the standard I might get the details wrong but it's something like if you can't get some on camera to back up your allegations

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on camera to back up your allegations you don't have a story for NBC right and at the time apparently Ronan could not find somebody to put on camera with a name and a face to make the allegations and they had asked them to go get that person they'd asked them to go get Rose McGowan or somebody to be on camera because that's their standard now that's a pretty good defense isn't it because I think factually they can back up the fact that that is their standard and I think factually they can back up the fact that he had not met it at the time that they told him to stop working on it now if you ever had a boss who told you to stop working on something that you thought you should still work on yeah most of you probably the most ordinary thing in the world is that your boss tells you to stop working on something you still have a passion for it and you think your boss is wrong it's like the most common thing in the world now NBC

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most common thing in the world now NBC also defends saying that they did numerous extensive reporting lots of other people who had sexual me too allegations and they list them it's a pretty long list they go right down the list we did this story the story the story the stories this story so clearly we've never backed away from a story about a me to sexual allegation because look at all these examples we do them all the time you had one story where nobody would go on camera and that was our standard pretty good defenses this now Ronen pharaoh's allegations are also pretty darn good so I'm not saying that their defense Trump's his allegations I'm saying it's a really good defense you know if it's almost certainly incomplete meaning that Ronan would certainly respond with yeah but what about and there may be some gaps in their story so

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there may be some gaps in their story so I'm not saying their story is true I will say
it's a little bit credible it's a little bit credible credible meaning that you can't really determine if it's true or false but it's in the category of things that don't smell wrong so NBC's defense doesn't smell as bad as you think it is which doesn't mean they're innocent I still I'm fully open to that Ronan's Ronan's interpretation of why they did things is accurate I think it's a you know he does his homework he does his research he's credible he doesn't you know so I think he's credible but so is the defense it's an interesting story so my guess is that the truth is maybe somewhere in between who knows maybe we'll find out someday so Congress then Mack gates he crashed

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so Congress then Mack gates he crashed the impeachment inquiry hearings so you know the Republicans are not invited it's a little closed or Democrat thing and in which they're interviewing witnesses to see if there's enough to take forward an impeachment process and of course all the Republicans are complaining about it because it's behind closed doors but Matt Gaetz decides to just show up and sit down and see if they'll kick him out now here's now of course eventually they you know he got to say his thing he got on camera he got a lot of attention for it it's a national story it's on the headlines but of course he was asked to leave and he did now here's my question about that why is he the first one who thought of that where does this sound familiar do you remember when Rand Paul tried to crash a budget meeting and he had the cameras follow him around and he had a big pile of budget documents and he was going door-to-door it was pretty good

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going door-to-door it was pretty good got it got attention made his put him in the put him in the spotlight do you remember when a OSI I forget the exact situation but a OSI went to crash maybe it was mitch mcconnell's off and I think maybe Mitch Pacala wasn't even in the office that day but the cameras followed a or C and she sort of went without an appointment to try to crash I think it was Mitch McConnell's office and of course nothing happened from it but she got a lot of attention you know she got attention personally she got attention for issue it was good so here's this here's this free money sitting on the table with this the Matt gage situation so we know the play the play is that you go crash the meeting because the cameras will follow you you get to have your say and you bring attention to the fact that you should have been in there in the first place it's a strong play so this cash you know

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it's a strong play so this cash you know this idea of doing this I'll call it an elegantly cash is just sitting on the table there and one by one every politician is walking past the table with free cash let's just say then it's available for anybody Matt Gaetz walks by and says I see a table full of free cash is it anybody does this belong to anybody seriously this is just free cash and nobody is claiming this money it's just cash just sitting on the table okay picks it up puts it in his pocket who's the smartest person in Congress not the people who walk past the cash it's the person who picked it up so I say this about the president all the time as well that he seems to be able to see free cash sitting on the table and so he picks it up not not in terms of money all the time but in terms of you know policies and what he's doing he'll take the free cash every time and so here's Matt Matt gates taking the free cash

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Matt Matt gates taking the free cash which is a really good sign for his future if he can't take the free cash you're not even trying all right let's give a update on the hypnosis - so the hypnosis COO is instead of the old days where you fought a where you had a coup was military military where he had bullets and guns and stabby things and explosions to take over a government it appears that the intelligence services working with the news organizations on the Left have created a hypnosis coup in other words they're creating a persuasion reality in people's minds such that they will be able to use legal means let's say impeachment or even the election to take over the government

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election to take over the government now we've always had a situation where when people ran for office they were trying to persuade so you could always say that every election is sort of a persuasion battle but what's different is that the persuasion is happening between elections now now it's bleeding into the election season but it happened on day one of the president getting in office so now the intelligence groups clearly are using high-end hypnosis techniques they are literally brainwashing the public to be okay with them doing what they need to do within the legal framework so that nobody goes to jail and they can actually have a coup and replace the president with hypnosis what is the only defense that the sitting president would have against the most highly trained group of mental

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manipulators the actual people who are trained brainwashers you know between the news media and and the intelligence groups that are anti-trump they are literally trained persuaders they know how to hypnotize through repetition through framing through what kinds of pictures and images they show and so you the country is now being we're in the middle of the strongest well probably the maybe the biggest hypnosis battle of all time so we're in a war right now in which one side is using the best most powerful mechanisms of brainwashing to get away with a coup I used to say essentially a coup but it's not essentially a coup it's a coup they're just using different weapons the weapons are using is persuasion and fake news and all that now what's the defense

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news and all that now what's the defense somebody asked me yesterday when I said that what do you do about it well isn't it the weirdest situation that they're using these techniques against the most powerful persuader we've ever seen there's nobody else who could have made a dent against this attack there's no other president who could have survived this long with the entire intelligence and the and the news media majority so solidly against him nobody else could have gotten this far you saw that the president has a unique talent they accused him and his side of fake news he owned it turned that into an attack against the other side who can do that who can do that really have you ever seen that done before he's done it several times he doesn't right in front of him he does it by being the louder more clever more interesting voice using repetition I mean he has a lot of techniques that are pretty standard techniques but he's the best he's the

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techniques but he's the best he's the best we've ever seen in persuading against such an offensive charge now there's another interesting thing that's happening the president by strange coincidence has on his side you might say a variety of let's say generals or lower-level lower-level supporters who are also unusually well trained in persuasion wouldn't you agree
would you not agree that the president has the supporters who were unusually good at persuasion take a microfiche for example check boo Sabich for example take me for example this is just some games take a Candace Owens for example take a charlie Kirk for example

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example take a charlie Kirk for example I could probably go on right but you can you the president has a sort of a motley crew of people who were unusually skilled at this carpet carpet Duncan who by the way I think is been allowed back on Twitter didn't he get suspended yesterday I didn't know the details of that but I think he's back so you have the entire persuasion brainwashing mechanism of these intelligence agencies the Brennan's the clappers the Democrats the entire Democratic Party plus the media all of that persuasion against Trump and this ragtag group of people who have sort of learned persuasion however now of course I and some of the people that I mentioned have in effect trained a number of other people because if you're if you're watching my content

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if you're if you're watching my content if you're watching Mike Shinoda pitch for example you're seeing you're seeing the the mechanism you seem the method described to you so you can see it from other people Rush Limbaugh's another good example Rush Limbaugh very persuasive Sean Hannity very persuasive Tucker Carlson very persuasive Greg Gutfeld very persuasive these are very persuasive people so yeah I could go on but there uses you know all the names so it's a very interesting war and we're right in the middle but yeah mark mark levin very dan bunch you know yeah i'm seeing other names people are saying here in the comments and they're all correct there there is a weird coincidence that the Trump team has a smallish group of unusually talented persuaders and I

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unusually talented persuaders and I think that's the only reason he's holding on so far because one of the things that this president does better than any president's never done and I think you would agree with this that so here's a statement that I think you'll agree with president Trump does a better job than any president ever has of staying connected to the the immediate right now feelings and opinions of his followers you know his supporters I think he's tatted he's he's pretty well tied in now part of it is cuz he watches TV news so he's watching the same thing that is brainwashing the masses and and so he's tuned into it all the time and I've said before that he's seeing what other people are doing and when when something works it gets a lot of attention on social media for example he often will adopt it so you're saying the president in this interactive continuous dance with his supporters of of people like me

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with his supporters of of people like me and other people will try will try an approach will explain something a certain way it will frame it a certain way and when the White House likes it they notice and it becomes one of the things it's obvious then it becomes one of the things that they talk about hey we've see this social-media influencer or this Fox News host or anybody else Breitbart for example we saw somebody make a good argument or they did something persuasive let's amplify that so I think any other president with any other mechanism for staying connected to the to the base I don't think they would have survived this long I think there's something completely unique about Trump and the way his base interacts with him that gives him sort of a superpower that makes him able to withstand the hypnosis war so that's what I'm going to call this I'm gonna call this the hypnosis

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this I'm gonna call this the hypnosis Civil War well what's better the hypnosis coup or the hypnosis Civil War which of those describes what's happening better I'll wait for your answers because they're a little bit backed up all right so I want to run this by you again so that you you get this full sense of the hypnosis ku and how strong this is and this is a this is a thought experiment that I tried yesterday but it's so powerful I'm gonna say it again in case anybody missed it it goes like this imagine somebody who had not been following any politics and they didn't they had never even heard of the Ukraine phone call and it's a man on the street interview person on the street interview and you go up to him and put the microphone in this person's face and you say I want to get your opinion about this yeah president Trump made a phone

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this yeah president Trump made a phone call with President of the newly elected president of Ukraine and he asked him for some help on a matter of great interest to the public which is we need to know if foreign countries are going to have influence or have influenced our elections or a political process there's a situation with Biden who's leading in the polls his son is taking a lot of money from Ukraine and Ukraine is one of the countries that Biden had is his portfolio it's enough to ask questions can you look into this for us and by the way man on the street it's the president's job you can't expect the lower-level people to really work on this project until the bosses have talked so the bosses were talking and it's something that we knew that the president was interested in because he said it publicly before and by the way we have a treaty with with Ukraine for exactly this kind of judicial cooperation so person on the street who has never watched the news and never

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has never watched the news and never heard anybody else tell you what to think what do you think of President Trump following up on the Biden situation what would the person on the we'd say let's say they didn't already have an opinion about the president that they were just going to retreat to their bias they just weren't paying attention to any politics what would they say if you described accurately everything that the President did with that phone call left nothing out you just described it would that person say my god you're describing a traitor who sold out the United States for personal gain I don't think so I don't think so I think you could only have that opinion if it's been assigned to you by the hypnotists in the deep state working with the media if they had not assigned the opinion that that was traitorous behavior I don't think anybody would get there on their own I don't think the facts come

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their own I don't think the facts come anywhere close to making that case in fact every time I hear it I have to my head like shakes a little bit like what is anybody seeing in that phone call there isn't the president following one of the top priorities of the country completely legally and with witnesses and then he released the the transcript because he was so sure that nothing was wrong with it I think that the person on the street who is not hypnotized by the media simply would not see anything wrong with it I don't it's it's a completely a artificial hypnosis made problem if you take the hypnosis out of it there's nothing there all right let me throw out the the weirdest idea of the day are you ready do you wait until the end so you get the weird stuff weird stuff coming Rick Perry is apparently

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stuff coming Rick Perry is apparently going to be leaving the Department of Energy my interpretation from the outside is he did a good job there are a number of things that the Department of Energy funded and made priorities especially in the nuclear energy field that looked very productive so I I thought there were some good things happen there now who replaces it okay ready Bill Gates just think about it Bill Gates secretary for the Department of Energy yeah your first impression is whoa that can't work can't it well here's one problem I don't think Bill Gates is a Republican right as far as I know he's not a Republican but you know what else Bill Gates is not an idiot he's also one of the smartest people who have ever been born like actually one of the

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been born like actually one of the smartest people who have ever been born I was watching the special about him and you forget this little fact but I think when he was in eighth grade he got the highest math score and some kind of standardized test of any high schooler in the state in eighth grade so in eighth grade he was already smarter than all the seniors in his state in math and that's just math I mean who knows what how else how what else he knows so if you put somebody who is completely dedicated to objective fact into a job Department of Energy which you shouldn't have any political element to it shouldn't why would there ever be a political element to Department of Energy if anything if there was ever if there were ever a department there should be just factually run its energy right you should be able to take all of

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right you should be able to take all of the politics out of that and still get to a place where everybody's happy with it Bill Gates to do that name the second person who could do that that's right can't think of one name the second person who knows as much about the entire spectrum of you know green energy carbon scrubbing nuclear energy and generation four and is credible to everybody in the United States name the other one you can't you can't there's nobody else there's nobody as qualified as Bill Gates now Bill Gates has other things to do he's running the Gates Institute he's building you know toilets for Africa which is a big big deal because they need to separate their drinking water from their toilet facilities which I won't get into the details but let's just say it's a big problem and he's you so he's working on a lot of stuff so I don't think he'd have the bandwidth to be the you know for four

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bandwidth to be the you know for four years of being the head of the Department of Energy but how about for a year how about for one year I'll bet one year of part-time Bill Gates in the Department of Energy would fix the whole damn world fix the whole world I think that that would happen because the main thing that has to happen is to get get your thinking right get your priorities right and probably get rid of some obstacles there's nobody who can see the whole field the way he can see the field cuz one he's so smart and two he's looked into it you put Bill Gates there as the head of the Department of Energy for one year part time because he's got his other stuff to do I believe he could sort it out and probably what would happen is we would end up with a more robust and practical plan for iterating

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robust and practical plan for iterating our nuclear technology to the point where we have a dominant American industry where nuclear and if anybody in another country wants to build a nuclear plant who do they go to well you want them to come to the United States and say you know the plants that you're building in the United States are the safest cheapest best supported designs can we work with you United States to help us build one in our smaller country that's where you need to be because every time some other country builds with your technology you've got a little bit of sway with them right you've got a little influence and it's a good kind it's kind both would be happy with that would think so Bill Gates one year Department of Energy sorted out and then find a permanent permanent person to fill in do I think that it's likely the Bill Gates would be

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that it's likely the Bill Gates would be eager to take the job no I don't think it's likely but let me ask you this you're Bill Gates you seriously want to fix the world I mean he's working on it every day there's no question about it he's not running for office he's not trying to make money he's using his money he's trying to fix the world if you say the Bill Gates you know I know the last fricking thing in the world you'd want is a job a job I know it's the last thing you want to be the Secretary of Energy but while it's the last thing you'd want you see it right you see that if you take this job for one year you change the whole world you see that Bill Gates because he would write he would see it it would give him the power the leverage the influence the platform the voice it would give him everything he needs to make a gigantic

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everything he needs to make a gigantic impact in the future future of civilization because this what we do with nuclear energy is probably one of the biggest factors that will influence civilization for the next hundred years I think he'd hate it and I don't know if he could say no because it would just be too important by comparison let me just tell you what he's working on Bill Gates is working on the hardest most disgusting unsexy problem in the world which is sanitation in Africa it's a gigantic problem people are dying from you know the diseases they get by their sanitation in their fresh water mingling and he's fixing that you watch Bill Gates toilets in Africa you tell me that he wouldn't make a hard choice if he thought the world would be better off for it there's a man who knows how to make a hard choice like nobody you've ever met can make a hard choice he knows

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ever met can make a hard choice he knows how to make a hard choice so I just put that out there shut up administration if you'd like to just shake the box and just just make everything different bill gates one year one year only head of the Department of Energy you'd fix everything all right that's my suggestion don't know how practical it is what I'd love to see it happen and for now let's all go have an amazing day if I can turn this off