Episode 2407 CWSA 03/08/24
Date: 2024-03-08 | Duration: 1:17:17
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good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of civilization coffee with Scott Adams only for the locals people today although it might get uploaded to another platform later we’ll see I’ve got a little internet problem today so I’m coming off of my 5G if the 5G fails and it might uh we’ll see what we we can do but in the meantime all you need to make this experience special special in a 5G low Fidelity kind of way is you need a cup or Mar glass of tanker chel Stein canteen suar flas vessel V kind f with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for unparallel pleasure the dope meting of the day thing that makes everything better nice let’s see how many people we have here got a thousand people that’s about our normal for locals how many of you watched the uh State of the
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State of the Union I saw somebody describe it this morning as old man yells at the tell teleprompter old man yells at the teleprompter I wish I’d thought of that was pretty good all right well here are some things we know um look at this fake news a ask yourself if this sounds like fake news that uh Haley voters uh 63% of them say they’re going to back Biden so that’s the story Haley voters 6 63% say they’re going to back Biden what’s left out of the story what’s left out of the story is that you know some percentage of them are Democrats if you leave out the fact that they’re Democrats and they were just gaming the system for the most part there’s no story here at all Am I
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all Am I Wrong there’s no story all right anyway here’s some fake news from the hill so they say that Biden quoted Trump with alarm for boasting that he would encourage Russia and Vladimir Putin to quote do whatever the hell they want to NATO allies if those countries do not spend enough on defense is that true did that actually happen how many of you watched it and can confirm no it didn’t happen no that’s this is false this is fake here’s what did happen what what uh Biden did do is he said that Trump said he wouldn’t defend NATO Biden left out that it was in the sort of negotiating for NATO to pay its fees if you leave out that you can’t add it in in the story after the fact you can’t add it in the
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after the fact you can’t add it in the story no it’s not part of the story he didn’t say it and there’s a reason he didn’t say it so that’s the hill fake news from the hill well let’s talk about the head of the Union um of course it was two movies on one screen uh it’s no surprise that the Democrats thought it was a masterful performance and it’s no surprise that people like me saw it as angry dementia yelling and disunity which one of those is true neither I mean these are just Impressions but let’s go through uh what’s going on so he starts with freedom and democracy you’re under attack both at home and abroad when you say democracy is under attack you make it possible to assassinate anybody who’s opposed to it so it sounds like they’re calling for assassination or Biden is for Trump but doing it indirectly in that mafia boss
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that mafia boss way the secret assassination whistle that’s fair right if if there could be a secret racist dog whistle can’t there be a secret assassination whistle it’s what it looks like to me anyway U he didn’t say Trump’s name one he referred to him as quote my predecessor but he said it 13 times which apparently 13 times U is a lot so it was some say therefore it was more of a political speech than the State of the Union speech I think that’s half true it was definitely more political than usual could have been a lot more political than it was so it was somewhere in between um and of course Biden was pushing hard on the the January 6 hoax so it looks like they’re going to focus on the January 6 hoax he did not mention the fine people hoax once think about that now that’s more political than State of the Union so
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political than State of the Union so maybe maybe that’s the only reason it wasn’t in there he did mention shrink flation I can’t believe he put shrink flation in the speech the state of the union we don’t have enough chips so RFK Jr quite rightly and cleverly does his response in which he says the entire country is suffering from chronic disease because our food supply is bad and Biden wants to give more chips to the kids our biggest problem is the food he wants to give more drunk food to kids am I wrong or do Democrats prefer every policy that’s bad for children let’s say we’re going to increase the amount of your unhealthy snacks we’re going to bort you in nine months I don’t know how true that is but let’s throw that in the mix um we’re
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let’s throw that in the mix um we’re going to not let you have school choice we’re going to transition you with surgery while you’re a child uh we’re going to keep you home from school during the pandemic it’s consistent isn’t it I feel as if that’s a theme that needs to be explored because in every single situation they do what’s bad for children including the lack of you know family as an emphasis yeah there so Pro everything that’s bad for children basically um the exception would be IVF how many of you are opposed to IVF in vitro fertilization how many of you are opposed to that honestly I didn’t even know that was a thing you’re you’re opposed to it under under what logic are you
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it under under what logic are you opposed to it because the baby doesn’t have a soul are you saying the baby doesn’t have a soul Now give me a reason as some of you gave you a daughter doesn’t work very well well it works well enough but nobody has a reason right so I think I the anti-f thing is probably the dumbest thing that the Republicans have ever done it might be the number one dumbest thing they’ve ever done because the the entire Republican thing is more babies right help you bring a child into the world yeah now the I being opposed to IVF has no logical religious or moral backing it it’s just ridiculous and it’s it’s really bad for your own politics so
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it’s really bad for your own politics so you pick the least important thing but it um it’s the least important thing because you don’t care about somebody else’s IVF do you if it’s not your own why do you care that someone else is doing it why is that even your business you got really quiet when I said why are you opposed to it right so that that proves my opin that proves my point there isn’t a reason for it I think it must be some reflex kind of thing but yeah I mean money is not the problem the people are doing it are not complaining they’re still doing it yeah interesting well but yeah buying a baby is a different situation than oh is that why is it an anti-gay thing are they opposed to IVF because it’s an anti-gay thing is that is that is that why they’re opposed I’m not even aware of any reason I’ve never heard of reason
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of any reason I’ve never heard of reason so basically that’s just handing the Democrats a victory I think they I think Democrats would literally vote a corpse into office if it look like they could predi abortion rights and and the IVF stuff looks like a slippery slope to them so basically it’s just giving the election away I don’t know why I have no idea why Republicans would do such a thing anyway um did you see all the factchecking you know you turn on the network CNN MSNBC and they got the fact Checker there and the fact Checker is just like oh that’s right there weren’t any fact Checkers did anybody see one did anybody see a fact Checker I didn’t see one now I didn’t look at everything all the time but they were usually pretty prominent how many things did Biden say that were literally not true in a pretty
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that were literally not true in a pretty easily demonstrated way a lot there was a lot that wasn’t true or at least was in a context I think he said a lot of things that are true is but you know the context is all whacked all right so let’s see what else um Biden had a good little uh line there he said you can’t love the country only when you win now of course yeah that’s propaganda and narrative and uh it’s horrible but in terms of politics is a pretty good line I would say the speech was pretty well written well would you say well separately we’ll talk about how he performed but I thought the speech was pretty well written for the you know for his base in a political year and um he had some actually good good sounding little economic things you know where he could say that he negotiated lower drug prices I didn’t know anything about that
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prices I didn’t know anything about that but uh and there was something about insulin capping insulin and I saw on social media somebody said that Trump tried capping it and Biden reversed it is there something to that story so basically everything has a but what would Trump have done that’s always left out is there any reason that Trump would not have negotiated better drug prices you who stood in his way was it the Republicans that were stopping Trump from negotiating better drug prices I don’t think so I I don’t think any Republicans were stopping Trump from doing it so it must have been the Democrats right I mean I sort of missed that story yeah so all these things are in a context if you if the only thing you heard was he reduced your insulin costs uh but at the same time he’s recommending more snacks so you’re going
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recommending more snacks so you’re going to need more insulin kind of a break even situation the good news is I’m going to lower your insulin costs the bad news is I’m going to make sure there’s a lot more snacks in your bag so you get more diabetes anyway um so he made so Biden started with that really scary you know Hitler likee reference and I at first I thought he was entirely talking about uh Trump but then he made it something about Putin but then he said foreign and domestic so it was like he tried to have it both ways well I’m really just talking about Putin but it’s foreign and domestic problem so Hiller yeah it did sound like he went full Hitler right away uh as others have pointed out he seemed to be uh quite hard on Russia but soft on
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soft on China H hm I wonder if he’s got any lost diamonds that would explain that all right he proposed a minimum tax for billionaires of 25% do you think there’s something missing in that a minimum tax for billionaires of 25% 25% of what of what do you know why the billionaires are not paying as high a tax rate it’s because it’s not income what are they going to be taxing in other words they get their gains and capital gains and take out loans and do clever things but it still has to be income you can’t tax somebody’s assets what is he even talking about I think we need a little uh yeah I think we well unearned income
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income well can’t tax their worth well you know that was uh was not Elizabeth Warren’s plan she was actually going to tax their worth like 2% of their net worth that’s crazy oh my God that’s crazy so it looks like he wants to uh raise taxes on everybody who makes over 400,000 a year as well so he’s running for president on raising taxes uh he’s not good at explaining how how economies work because if you raise taxes on the billionaires well they’re going to find some other country probably they should all right he says uh no billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a teacher a sanitation worker or a nurse what if I taught you when people use the percentage but not the total dollar amount or they use the dollar amount but not the percentage in every
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amount but not the percentage in every casee if they do one without the other it is a lying propaganda persuasion technique right it doesn’t matter which one you see if you see one without the other it’s always it’s just propaganda um let’s say you want to put a cap on credit card fees and make the credit card companies only recover you know the amount it costs them to recover you know I’ll tell you I used to work for the the phone company as you know so I got to hear things behind the curtain what people really thought about things and we used to laugh that our most profitable line of business in the phone company was unpaid bills unpaid bills were our most profitable line of business because we would we would charge somebody you know I don’t know 5 we weren’t going to pay but the reason it
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weren’t going to pay but the reason it was like free money is that everybody has to pay their phone bill if you don’t pay your phone bill or at least in those days was one local phone company if he didn’t pay your phone bill you didn’t have an option of another phone company in those days so they could guarantee that you would pay you had to so they could just give you any penalty they wanted you’d pay it so yeah we were evil bastards and we knew it what about the banks do you think the banks know that the credit card late fees are really abusive of course they do yeah of course they know it’s abusive but they were getting away with it so I’m uh I have to back Biden on capping credit card fees and you maybe doing something with drug prices I don’t know that Trump wouldn’t have done something with drug prices I don’t think you would have kept credit cards if that feels like anti-competitive doesn’t seem like something you would have done and I’m not sure it’s necessary in
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done and I’m not sure it’s necessary in a competitive environment you think that at least one credit card company would come up with the idea of not having that penalty you think the free market would take care of that really easily credit cards are a pretty competitive business right nobody nobody wanted that business you know so is these are things that sound great in context they might be very different they’re in bed with the banks you say all right um so Trump tried to be uh doing live um posting on truth now I couldn’t get into truth last night because it was unavailable did anybody try to get in it kept crashing was it crashing because it was getting uh attacked I’ll bet it was hacked I’ll bet it wasn’t a regular capacity problem yeah to me that sounds like a dirty trick oh so was x x had a problem well
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trick oh so was x x had a problem well maybe it’s the same thing to knock down my internet I guess we’ll find out are there any Californians here any Californians with no especially Northern California anybody with no internet in Northern California besides me is that a yes anybody Northern California with no internet no you’ve got it or not I guess it’s just me all right um so Brien Biden was well prepared and he was well prepared for his critics as well so when the critics started yelling say the name of uh leak Riley because she was a victim of a undocumented person um he was ready and he he had a pin with her face on it and he said her name uh it looked a little too prepared well some say he said her name wrong is Lincoln uh but that’s probably just cuz he slurred a lot so he did a good job of
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he slurred a lot so he did a good job of knowing what the criticism would be in the room and having his little prepared thing um oh marjerie Taylor green gave him the pin well he was ready he he was ready because he immediately said her name and then went into a thing about how bad it was she got so he was very ready for it um I would say that I would give his see the trouble is you have to either decide whether you’re ranking him for how well he did considering his age or are you ranking him compared to everybody if I rank him compared to good speakers let’s say Obama or Reagan or Bill Clinton or Trump I would say all of those four I just mentioned would be and a and I would give him maybe c c minus for actual presentation but um he’s he really only had to survive and he did he
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really only had to survive and he did he survived so he did everything he needed to do for his base and the people who don’t like him still don’t like him so didn’t make any difference at all I don’t think um I did see maybe it was Charlie Kirk saying that it looked like there was a change in strategy and that maybe they found out that the dictator thing wasn’t working so he didn’t say extreme or Mega or dictator did he W which seemed a little obviously missing so it looks like maybe he got the idea that we were going to mock him mercilessly for for doing the you know the real obvious stuff uh it ruined our Bingo too all right so he didn’t do he did do he did do something about chaos though right so he used chaos he used Hitler I don’t know if he used extreme he used predecessor a lot yeah so we
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he used predecessor a lot yeah so we don’t know if this signals anything about the campaign because the state of the union is its own animal all right speaking of Freedom well I guess Nancy Pelosi slammed Joe not slammed him but said Joe Biden should have uh talked about Lauren or leak Riley’s killer as an undo undocumented whereas he referred to the killer as illegal man all right um are you amazed that they’re actually telling Democrats that there’s no immigration problem and basically they’re saying there’s not really a problem it’s kind of unbelievable that that’s happening all right um six according to rasmon 65% of Democrats think Trump should be banned from uh the xplatform 2third of Democrats think the
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xplatform 2third of Democrats think the guy who’s going to be probably the next president uh or at least if the elections not rigged um and that he should be banned from the major political platform it’s almost amazing now Biden is running to restore freedom in democracy what freedom is he restoring he’s putting people in jail for free speech they want to ban uh free speech on the platform the the only Freedom that uh Republicans are trying to take away is reproductive uh reproductive options for end end ending terminy well actually reproductive options including IVF so the only thing that Republicans want to do is limit what women can do with their own own bodies so Republicans have no argument about Freedom unfortunately now that’s
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about Freedom unfortunately now that’s not my opinion I’m saying politically speaking politically speaking Republicans have given up Freedom asn’t you you really can’t claim Freedom you really can’t you could try but it would just sound crazy yeah so I would say that both uh both sides are trying to take your freedom away they’re just doing it in different ways so the Republicans are definitely limiting what uh what women would call their freedom and it doesn’t matter what you call it I know you would call it saving a baby or you know not having something that God doesn’t want so you’d have a different framing on it but it doesn’t matter what your framing is yeah I I know that think it’s Banning murder I get it I’m not making any arguments about abortion I’m saying that to the Democrats he has a completely um credible argument that uh Republicans are the ones who want to ban your freedom it’s a good argument said no
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freedom it’s a good argument said no matter how much you hate it it doesn’t matter no matter how much you say he’s using the wrong words you should call it we want to murder babies doesn’t matter what you think it’s unrelated to whether it works it works so his people think you’re trying to take their freedom and they even say you know what’s next if you can’t do IVF what’s next uh so they’re they’re telling their people that um birth control will be banned next how many of you would like to ban birth control ban birth control how many of you nope nope nope nope nope nope I’ve seen not a single yes but it’s it’s credible to Their audience do you think Democrats think it’s credible of course they do because the IVF thing is just too far let me let me say it as you know in a clear way if Republicans are going to die on
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way if Republicans are going to die on the the IVF Hill they deserve to lose you really deserve to lose I mean if you’re going to do something you just get hand it to him you deserve to lose uh but the other team deserves to lose too because they’re running Biden who runs Biden if they if they think they should try to earn the election so I it’s like both sides are trying to lose um what is what is Trump’s take on IVF Trump is pro IVF right oh so that probably protects him yeah yeah Trump is pro IVF and I think the Republicans should take a note from that all right so here is how the Democrats are taking your freedom they’re stealing elections allegedly now remember this is just the framing that the opposing party would would put on so they’d say he’s stealing the election he’s jailing people for their free speech he’s limiting it on the or at
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speech he’s limiting it on the or at least the government is limiting that on the platforms Free Speech we know that from the Twitter files and the the open borders are sort of taking away your freedom to be safe in your own country now that’s not a explic explicit freedom but we had it before yeah we had it before so I think the uh Republicans could probably say more about the Democrats taking your freedom they’re taking your money yeah all right um so Jerry Nadler came up to Biden afterwards and said nobody’s going to talk about cognitive impairment Now Jerry you were just talking about cognitive impairment as you were saying nobody’s going to talk about cognitive impairment you can’t say nobody’s going to talk about cognitive impairment when you’re talking about it in other words
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you’re talking about it in other words it was at the top of his mind and that was basically saying well it’s the first thing I was thinking about but you limp through here’s what Paul Krugman said uh Paul Krugman sort of the economic wing of the turd caucus the turd caucus are the Democrats who are willing to say the most absurd lies that even other people who agree with them on most of stuff would never say in public so here’s what Paul kman says uh a thought the whole Biden is two old thing was kind of a bubble in the sense that people were buying it mainly because other people were buying it did Biden just burst that well I don’t think we saw something that tells us the big picture just CU they drugged him out for one hour you tell me
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drugged him out for one hour you tell me what drugs were in his system and I’ll tell you if if I’m concerned about his dementia at his age uh no I think everybody who thought he was too old saw an old man yelling at a teleprompter and it didn’t look good and everybody who’s trying to pretend he’s not too old saw him in command and full of energy and seizing the moment and winning the day so let’s not pretend any of this is objective well as uh Adam Townson said and acts s Senator state senator Katie Britt is some kind of a rising GOP star so she did the rebuttal uh I would like to give you my impression of listening to Katie Brett give the rebuttal click let’s see what the rebuttal looks like oh god oh oh god oh
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rebuttal looks like oh god oh oh god oh oh God turn it off turn it off turn it off did any of you make it through that her voice and her Charisma are like anti- charismatic who in the world thought she’s the next Obama that’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen it was a total car wreck now if I’m saying that now remember I’d like I’d like to see the Republicans do well in this election why in the world did they pick her what what is going on with that and then uh one of the other I forget who one of the women in Congress I think said why did you put her in a kitchen they put her in a kitchen so so the Republicans finally you know which I suppose is not uh I’m sure they’ve had women do the response before but it’s uh you know if they’re trying to show that they’re
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they’re open-minded that they put their rising star in a kitchen seriously and then have addressed you know semi you know maybe like business casual but something you might have been wearing in the kitchen as well terrible oh my God uh Haley did the 2016 response yeah now Haley is a very credible speaker I mean there’s a reason she did relatively well she had I I would consider haly very good very good public speaker above average but uh poor Katie Britt yeah she’s she’s not ready and she doesn’t sound like a serious person actually all right so that didn’t work out for the Republicans um tuer Carlson is doubling down on saying that uh the Biden can’t win and that’s that’s obviously going to be rigged and he says
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obviously going to be rigged and he says that they’re basically saying it loud and um they meaning Democrats and he talks about the U attorney general um what’s his name what’s our attorney general’s name Merrick Garland um and how he is out there in public talking about getting rid of IDs for voting and doing more mail-in ballots and basically everything that makes your vote less credible so he’s literally out there just strongly promoting things that really don’t have a purpose other than cheating they they really don’t there’s no other purpose and to even pretend there’s some other purpose other than cheating is a little too far I I can’t go there I can’t wrap my brain around the fact that there’s any legitimate reason to not require ID you know the whole black people don’t have ID thing is is beyond absurd because you know what I don’t want to fix here’s a
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what I don’t want to fix here’s a problem I don’t want to fix I I don’t want to get more votes from people who can’t figure out how to get an ID does anybody want that if you were to talk to black American voters you say uh you know Hey sir do you vote well yes I do all right well as a as a voter do you think that uh black voters black people who can’t get an ID do you think that they should vote what would a black voter say I don’t know actually but what would a black voter say to the idea that um black people who can’t get an ID should be adding to the political process what exactly are they adding they’re they’re Brilliance their preferences why are we trying to solve this problem what problem is being solved none yeah they’re they’re doing the disenfranchised stuff do you think somebody who doesn’t have a government ID
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ID is worried about being disenfranchised that might be the last thing they’re worrying about oh I’d hate to be disenfranchised I don’t have a bank I don’t have a job I don’t have a I don’t have a credit card I don’t have a a way to buy things without cash and cash is going to go away no you have much bigger problems than being disenfranchised from voting for somebody you haven’t paid attention to anyway um so Tucker is right but the funniest thing he said was he referred to Chris Hayes on MSNBC and I quote as the most famous lesbian in television uh uh I I laugh because it’s so
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wrong now now the thing is that’s not an insult to lesbians is it I don’t believe I don’t believe anybody’s trying to insult lesbians with that it’s more like it’s more like Chris Hayes is just morphing to whatever he needs to be so to me it just sounds like a Chris Hayes insult it’s kind of funny but I wouldn’t say it if I thought it was intended to be insulting to lesbians I love my lesbians I’m Pro lgbtq you know I always say the same thing it I I’ll be anti-lgbtq the same day that you say we don’t want to go into that neighborhood because it’s you know kind of a crappy neighborhood it’s full of lgbtq people never happened it will never happen yeah there’s no such thing as that dangerous gay neighborhood or or the the the lesbian neighborhood where they didn’t clean up their yard or something like it just doesn’t happen probably if you were going to you know just be a jerk and rank people they would rank near the
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rank people they would rank near the top yeah if if you just said what do you want a citizen to contribute to the world and just ranked everybody they’d be toward the top toward the top so no I’m as Pro lgbtq as you can get but you know everybody every interest group can go too far uh but I’m very Pro Pro all right RFK Jr uh said neither my uncle nor my father would recognize the version of America that we have today and he talks about we’re becoming a nation of chronic illness so I mentioned this and violence and loneliness He also mentioned the loneliness and depression you know I think this whole loneliness and depression thing uh is maybe a lot more complicated than we think you know your first thought is well go make a friend if you’re all if you’re all lonely go make a friend that doesn’t
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lonely go make a friend that doesn’t really work for a men do you know most men have zero friends I I saw some somebody say that like you’re lucky if you have one you know and by friend I mean somebody who comes over to your house and you go over their house that sort of thing yeah and a lot of people are zero um a lot of people are saying it in the comments you have zero friends that’s a lot of people with zero friends so why is that well I would like to offer some possibilities uh one is you know we spend a lot of time on our devices of course the obvious but I think people don’t have anything in common anymore that we’re we’re so divided and so different in our interests it’s hard to find somebody that you want to spend time with on a regular basis because your interests are so different and then of course I remember a day when um it’s funny that this used to be true
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um it’s funny that this used to be true and it’s not anymore do you all remember a day when if you got invited to a party it didn’t matter what the politics of the host were do you remember that didn’t make any difference like literally zero difference five not five years ago but before Trump but after Trump uh I lost 100% of you know my Democrat only friends which was most you know where I live it was most of them so that just you know wiped out most of my social life yeah and then you’ve got the dating problem as well so there are pretty good reasons why we’re uh lonely and a lot of it has to do with being uh you know out of shape and having chronic illness and and all that stuff so I think our food supply is part of it I think our food supply is everything from our health care cost to our quality of living to depression to
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anxiety um all right so there’s another story of in the OS n Defender account I saw there’s a a US Army intelligence analyst who’s who sold a whole bunch of top secret military things to China for 42,000 it makes me wonder does China have any problem at all buying our secrets this guy sold like really important secrets about our air defenses and stuff like that our technology for 42,000 so I don’t know if this is uh you know he’s innocent till proven guilty but it doesn’t sound good the leftover fetuses from IVF bother
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you uh all right let’s talk about Tick Tock the house panel unanimously approved a bill now that doesn’t mean the bill has been voted on it’s just the panel that’s coming up with the bill uh that could ban Tik Tok from all us phones and tablets if if enacted us phones and tablets okay um now here’s the thing do you think that’s going to get voted on and it’s going to get banned because I think I think the ban is really a ban only if uh bite dance doesn’t sell it to an American interest now uh my information as of this morning is that there’s no buyer now that doesn’t mean there won’t be but at the moment there’s no buyer so that would mean that uh if the bill passed Tik Tock would just be shut down now I I just don’t think there’s any chance of it happening what do you think is there any chance that the
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think is there any chance that the larger Congress and Senate will vote to kill Tik Tock because Tik Tock is very popular with the young and the Democrats need the Young and there might be people who are working for China and then you’ve got your Rand Pauls who uh don’t want to ban it because of free speech all right let me deal with the Rand Paul complaint so you know that typically I love my ran Paul uh but he’s in my opinion analytically just totally wrong on this one now he he says it’s a free speech thing and you don’t want to be against free speech so don’t ban it now I like the simpl ly the argument however it’s not really a free speech question let me give you um another example as a say a mental experiment let’s say you had a terrorist who captured a US citizen in a foreign
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who captured a US citizen in a foreign country and the terrorist was probably going to kill them and they were you know under duress and then uh the captured person produces a of those captive videos where they say Isis is great you know and all the things you know are lies now should let let’s say that the military uh gets a hold of it should the military provide it to the world because you know Free Speech or should they say this is more of a military thing and we should prevent it because we don’t want more of these videos is it would it be a violation of free speech to prevent a terrorist video that featured an American saying something with their own voice would it would it be a violation of free speech to suppress that for military purposes now remember it’s h it would be coming from another country and the video is not being made by the person
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video is not being made by the person speaking but they are it’s an American speaking now I would say that’s not free speech that there’s you know a minor element of somebody who’s American who’s saying something but he’s not saying something he believes and it’s being done for military purposes you know terrorist purposes I would say that’s not free speech that’s a enemy using a weapon I believe we can stop a weapon but not free speech so the fact that a weapon has some free speech embedded in it shouldn’t stop you from being able to stop a weapon do you agree and I say that Tik Tok is a weapon the way it’s used now because although the H the people using it probably are mostly looking at American content they’re producing it and consuming American content mostly um but who gets to decide who sees What whose Free Speech are we protecting
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What whose Free Speech are we protecting see the the free speech of an American to say something is still available because they can go to any platform and say it except Tik Tock if it if the ban happens but if they say it on Tik Tock the presumption is that how many people see it and hear it is is going to be determined by a Chinese company so what’s only being banned is the ability for a Chinese company to determine how much free speech Americans have we’re not we’re not Banning the Americans Free Speech we’re Banning China’s ability to regulate our Free Speech because that same person can just walk over to Facebook or meta or any place else and just do the speech right so really it’s about the the the danger of the tool and the fact that there’s a free speech element in it is true and it’s it’s not nothing but it’s so much less
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it’s not nothing but it’s so much less important than the fact that we’re brainwashing our youth to rip off their own genitals I mean I think that matters all right um I have a suspicion that something else is going on here which is if if it turns out that this gets voted um let’s say here my guess is it’ll get um defeated because I think there are too many people in Congress who either rely on Tik Tok for their election or you know don’t want to make their young voters mad or um some other reason but I think it’ll be turned down now I haven’t heard anybody say uh that the vote counter say that it has the votes usually you hear that pretty early don’t you am I wrong usually with something like this a high-profile thing you hear right away whether whether it’s likely to pass that’s completely missing in the story that that’s like a giant dog not
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story that that’s like a giant dog not barking isn’t it I mean just like think about that that we don’t we don’t hear whether it’s likely to pass we always know that in advance and for some reason this one that story is missing so I think it’s going to fail uh because I think Democrats are unable or unwilling to ban it but I’m going to give you a conditional um um prediction conditional prediction if it flies through and gets past then there’s something else going on because nothing really changed from the last time they tried to do it and it didn’t work the only thing that could have changed is maybe our intelligence people said you know what it would be great if we’re the ones who controlled this so if there’s a if you see suddenly there’s an American company that just pops out pops up out of nowhere and says
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pops out pops up out of nowhere and says hey I’ll buy it you maybe a Microsoft somebody else then you would have to assume that the that they’re in cahoots with the intelligence people who just want to control it like the rest of the platforms so if uh Microsoft bought it for example uh I would assume that they had already worked out an agreement in which these CIA or FBI or whoever has a back door so I think the problem with Tik Tock is our intelligence people don’t have a back door so that’s my summary that the real problem with Tik Tok from the perspective of the people who are really in charge of our government the intelligence people is that they don’t have access to it the back door and China does so certainly America wants to be the only one who has access to the social media platforms so that they can tweak it as they did with the Twitter Twitter files or at least know what people are
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doing all right uh so so if it turns a company wants to buy it and then actually gets away with buying it that’s going to tell you a lot about that company you might not want to know that stuff all right I saw a article that uh people think they can do lie detecting by just looking at people and that it’s not true that there are no reliable nonverbal cues from Liars do you believe that do you believe that you can’t tell who’s lying uh by look looking at the body language well they did some tests and they said that um people look for when when you can’t look somebody in the eye but they found there’s no difference between liars and non- Liars in terms of eye contact probably that’s more about being shy right and then they also said there’s no correlation with fidgeting so if you look nervous it didn’t make much difference to you know predicting whether you were
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to you know predicting whether you were lying do you believe that I believe it because by the time somebody’s trying to determine if you’re lying it’s already a tense situation so I I could imagine everybody’s fidgety if they’re being accused of lying uh and it matters uh but here’s so their take is that the way you can detect lying the best is by looking at what they say or don’t say their choice of words now I’ve told you the same thing that choice of words always tells you what’s going on the day before uh Nikki Haley uh dropped out of the race do you know what she said I’m not dropping out of the race yet she actually said yet and I said oh you going to do it tomorrow and then she did it tomorrow yeah yeah if if somebody puts yet at the end of a sentence they mean yet they mean it she’s very clearly
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yet they mean it she’s very clearly was telling you she was lying cu the yet told you she was going to do it tomorrow and she did now I do agree that words are a better detector however here’s what they have wrong the eyes definitely tell you if somebody’s lying now there are a few exceptions a psychopath’s eyes will not tell you anything because they’ll tell you a lie the same as even with details the same as if they told the truth you can’t tell the difference if they’re Psychopaths or sociopaths if if somebody’s a professional let’s say a trial lawyer they would also be practiced at keeping their face you know normal while they tell something that isn’t true but if you catch somebody in a casual spontaneous situation and they’re not a professional their eyes will tell you everything you need to know you just have to look for it Rachel mow does the rapid blinking watch it when she’s listening when she’s listening she blinks normally
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when she’s listening she blinks normally when she saying something that everybody agrees with and is obvious normal but then when she does her closer it’ll be something like and that’s why Trump is uh going to give a reach around to Putin and then she goes into the rapid blinking so it it’s not a coincidence and then you look at the people the Democrats who do the wide-eyed thing the wideeye thing is just the easiest tell you can see that right away you know it’s like three fake things and then one widey thing it’s like uh yes the uh the the rate of uh let’s see the unemployment rate is uh looking pretty good and uh you know the job claims are good um but Trump is the one that let people in the border and then her eyes go big and you can see the wrinkles in the forehead because the the the eyebrows go up when they lie it’s very
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they lie it’s very obvious all right um uh Fox News is reporting that almost all the hospitals are trying to increase the racial diversity so among the leadership so uh you might have some risk of flying or going to the hospital that’s a little extra now I hasten to say not because of diversity that’s not the point there’s no risk that comes from just diversity the risk is trying too hard to get get diversity do we all agree on that the problem is not the diversity it’s the trying too hard in a situation where the pipeline doesn’t have enough to to select you know the the one thing that the Republicans absolutely get wrong like just terribly terribly wrong is is they should say that systemic racism is real and the only place you can stop it
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real and the only place you can stop it is in the early school that’s what they should say systemic racism totally real and the only place you can stop it you know practically is making sure everybody has a good education if you have a good education it won’t bother you as much you’ll be able to slice through it as an adult but if you don’t and you don’t have any skills yeah probably it does matter what your ethnicity is but you want to make it not matter by just being capable that’s usually all you need so yes the Republican should be saying we love diversity we hate forced diversity because it forces you to try too hard and then bad things happen that’s what I say say um all right all right so uh there’s a study that says a single dose of LSD can give people lasting Anxiety Relief and
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give people lasting Anxiety Relief and the US the FDA has granted uh breakthrough therapy status to LSD um amazing to treat generalized anxiety disorder now that just means uh breakthrough therapy does that mean you can do it or that means you can test it let’s see Dev must go still has to go through trials so I guess that’s just a approval to get to go into a trial right just approval for a trial yeah which is good still want to do the trial this is the funniest statement from it the most common adverse effects of the LSD um are usually only on the day of the dose uh and some of the problems are hallucinations euphoric mood abnormal thinking headache dizziness and nausea you know what I’ve known a billion people who have done LSD I’ve
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billion people who have done LSD I’ve never heard a single person said they have a headache disiness or nausea has anybody had that side effect disne or nausea because I’m sure we got some day Trippers in here I’ve never heard of it but you know like every other drug there’s some people who have bad effects I do not recommend LSD or any other drug only your doctor can recommend that um um so there’s a there’s a book I think Elon Musk was recommending it people were talking about it I forget the name of it but one of the takeaways is that the reason all of our children are uh anxious and incompetent it seems is that uh the only way you become capable and confident is by doing tasks and succeeding now that does match observation now let me ask you how many
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observation now let me ask you how many of you have had kids let’s say you know recently and have you ever tried to ask them to do something that it’s very kid dependent you know every kid’s different here’s what happens in the modern world all right kid when you come home from school uh I want you to do some um work around the house to earn let’s say to earn a uh earn an allowance what happens what happens in the real world if you say all right we’re going to give you some discipline you’re going to do some stuff around the house when you get home what happens in the real world in the real world the kid says oh I have so much homework let me do the homework first and when I’m done CU you would agree dad I mean I think you’d agree homework’s more important so I’m going to do the homework first and then if time is left you we’ll do those chores and then Dad says um okay well I
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chores and then Dad says um okay well I don’t want you to have a bad grade in School how much homework do you have oh hours oh man all right well okay we’ll do it your way yeah do your homework and then catch up with me and we’ll we’ll do those then what happens they run out of time which they always knew right they always knew they’d run out of time so what happens if your kids have shared custody have you ever been in that situation where the kids are with you half the time and half the time with another parent and then you want to tell the kids all right kids you’re you’re going to have chores to do at my house even if the other parent doesn’t do it in my house you’re going to do chores what happens then then the kid says there’s no way I’m doing chores at your house I’ll go live with the other parent and that’s it game over because no parent wants to say okay go live with the other parent because they will they
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the other parent because they will they actually will you lose your kids so in um so let’s say you say all right kid you keep messing around uh so I’m going to punish you nobody punishes kids for doing their homework instead of their chores there’s just nothing you can do there’s just nothing you can do so modern children are basically freerange chickens that can kind of do what they want now I know every Situation’s different and there are there are kids who are born able to do their homework and their chores and they want to do both that’s a thing but there’s a whole bunch of you know average kids who are just they’ll never do the things that that make them confident when I look at the number of things I did as a kid just things like how many different things I did like my my normal weekend would be um your uncle the farmer needs somebody to help uh stack up the hay bales so one
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to help uh stack up the hay bales so one day I’m stacking hay bales uh your uncle the farmer it’s the sapping season so you could be walking through the snow and carrying big buckets of sap that came from trees all right and you know one day I’d be shoveling snow moving furniture mowing lawns um you know I’d play three different sports um it was just one thing after another that I had to navigate I had to figure out how to do it and then I had to do it and you know no screens so I developed insane confidence almost to the point of having too much because every time I did something it worked mow the lawn oh you it might be a problem but it worked yeah so uh by the time I got to college um I I’ve never I don’t know I think I told this story in the man cave by the time I got to college I practically took
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time I got to college I practically took over the college because everything I tried up to that point worked so working with some uh some of my classmates who lived in the dorm we said hey why don’t we run the dorm and get rid of the resident assistant and we’ll take the money and get single rooms for ourselves do you know how crazy that sounds we literally sat in our dorm room and said huh why is there like this adult in our dorm we’re adults why do we need an adult to watch adults how about we vote and we’ll pick you know we’ll pick somebody in the building and we’ll get paid instead you know the students will get paid from the college and we’ll just do that work so we actually pitched it to the college and you know they said well you know if you can get people to agree to it for next year we’ll try it and so we did so we went out and got people to agree to it who were going to live there next year um and then we had an election
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next year um and then we had an election and the three of us who came up with this idea we ran against other people so other people could have won the election and gotten those jobs that we created but we won because we’d created the whole situation so I ended up you know managing the dormatory but there was also one business on campus it was a coffee house so it was the only entertainment live entertainment get a beer kind of place on campus and the people who ran it were volunteers so I volunteered to take over the the finance part because I was an economics major and uh I redid the the entire account in finance uh for Class Credit I just created a class for myself I said hey there’s no accounting process here how about I work with my accounting professor and if I created an accounting process for a business he should give me credit and he thought so too so I got accounting credit for creating an accounting system for a real business
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accounting system for a real business and then maintaining it which which allowed me to learn accounting you know Inside Out by the time you’re done the way the classroom couldn’t do it it was really good so that was my college experience so I ran the biggest uh entertainment industry in the college I was one of three managers in my dormatory and then we started building uh interlocking directorates we formed an olig oligarchy this is a real thing so we uh one of our friends uh ran for the head of the student council so we had a student council head in our dorm the head of the local radio station was our best friend so we owned like all the entities you know the leaders of all the entities so anything we wanted to do we had all the free publicity you know just everything so basically because I grew up in a um do
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basically because I grew up in a um do this I don’t know how to do this well you will in a minute that was was my life do this I don’t know how to do that you will you’re going to know how to do this by the time you’re done and then you do it over and over and over and repeat and repeat by the time I was 18 I didn’t think anything could stop me now there were certainly things that could stop me so it’s you know more of a mindset but my mindset was I don’t see why anything would stop me here’s another example uh we wanted to play indoor soccer but the gym had you know limited capacity and it was always cold in the winter you couldn’t play outoors so I said how come we can’t just rent space like everybody else did and they said well the only people who can you know um Reserve time in the gym are people who have like organizations so if you were like a league or an organization or something you know you could do it so I said what’s it take to form an
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what’s it take to form an organization and he said well you know you fill out this paperwork and the dean approves it or whatever and I said where do I get the paperwork and I said well you know go to the Dean’s office or whatever it ask for it the business office so I go to the business office I get the paperwork I fill it out I hand it to the dean and I was a soccer club so I was the only one in my dorm that could uh I I could schedule time in the gym all I did was identify a problem and then I said okay what’s the solution and then I just just slog through it like everything else i’ done to that point in my my life so how do you get rid of anxiety how do you get rid of depression that’s how an unending series of challenges which you eventually succeed at almost every time you know because they’re not such big challenges that you can’t do it so by the time I got my um my big
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it so by the time I got my um my big break to become a cartoonist um I thought it would work by the time I wrote my first book my first you know book that wasn’t just Comics I said this will be a bestselling book number one bestseller book I hadn’t even taken a writing class except one two-day class in business writing and it became a number one book now I have a level of you I’m sure you’ve you’ve witnessed it I have a level of um confidence that’s unnatural because it is unnatural it’s it’s a learned preferred mindset that I’ve developed over time but it’s not based on reality you know if I take a moment to say well in reality you could definitely be stopped but I just don’t live my life like I can be stopped I just assume if I if I see something that’s wrong with the entire country like you know fentanyl or
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country like you know fentanyl or anything else I say to myself I could probably put a dent in that you know I might be able to change the narrative on that uh I just don’t think anything can stop me uh and that’s how you get rid of your anxiety I just figure always a way out and so far so good all right so if you can figure out how to get your kids to do something useful in today’s world it would be really good for them just so they can succeed over and over again oh yeah uh you always say the rules don’t apply to you I say that all the the time that’s one of my favorite say is that the well I say the odds don’t apply to me yes you’re saying the rules don’t apply but I think you’re saying the odds and maybe that’s a little more expensive than what I’m saying so if I if I embark on something where it’s unlikely people would ever succeed at it I just don’t think it applies
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think it applies I just think it’s up to me and I just live my life that way all right you were yeah if you I also worked in a lab you know an engineering sort of lab and the phone company and we had unlimited daily problems that we had to solve you know why something wasn’t working pretty much we always did I don’t think there was ever case where we just said ah just give up we always figured it out right uh is there any story that I missed before I uh sign off yeah Carrie said some things about the Ukraine war jobs build confidence too yeah it’s always good to change jobs so I’ve changed jobs um oh let’s see in the comments how many times you
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see in the comments how many times you tell me how many times you’ve changed jobs so far and that that just as an adult I probably had 20 different jobs as a teenager but as an adult I’ve changed jobs now I also changed jobs within companies so I’m going to count all of that change jobs maybe um maybe 15 times if you count adding jobs maybe 12 to 15 times and every time you change jobs and you know you get up to speed and the new job there’s your confidence yeah if you include within the company yeah and a lot of you are having numbers from um six is a very common number a whole bunch of you have six that’s very common for some reason you’ve been a cook and an IT director huh
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uh oh yeah so um there’s a covid uh vaccine liability bill that’s being floated I don’t think it’ll pass but uh the idea would be that uh the company that gives you the meds would be responsible if something happens see here’s the problem the problem is the vaccine companies are going to say we won’t make any vac Vines because the liability is too too big um so it seems like a obvious and good idea um and RFK JR says the same thing but look what you wouldn’t have would would you agree that there are some vaccinations that work do you believe that I’m not talking about covid but do you believe there’s any vaccination that works you don’t think it prevents the MS yeah so here’s the thing none of those would exist if the companies had to take
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would exist if the companies had to take full liability because if you’ve got something that could make 10 million people die you don’t go into that business at all if you’re already making money yeah so the argument for not having that liability is actually pretty good um maybe they should have some kind of cap or or something there should be a cap on the liability because unlimited liability means you’re on of business and nobody would do that drug yeah if you already had let’s say you’re a big drug company you’re fiser and you have uh a dozen you know blowout money-making drugs so you’re making money on the drugs you have and then the government says oh we really need this new drug uh but you’re going to be liable and then they say how many people are going to take it well everybody so 100 million people will take it at least you go all right 100 million people if 5 million of them have a bad
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people if 5 million of them have a bad reaction I’m out of business I’m completely out of business so it would be irrational for fizer ever to make another vaccine for anything even if it was a good idea any arguments for not putting a cap on liability on any product yeah if there’s a company that makes one product and it kills people you don’t need a cap you can take 100% of their money and close them down it’s just that if you’re already profitable with other lines of business they’re all at risk with the the new Venture and that’s not normally the case so it would be bad business decision to do a new vaccine if you had all liability true with all products not really not now now do you do you think that the iPhone has the same risk as a vaccine or an
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an iPad does my microphone have the same liability risk ow it hit me in the eye no most things you can reasonably know that your limit your liability is sort of just naturally capped but vaccines have unlimited I mean it could be a hundred billion dollar fine you know or not fine but let’s say lawsuits get rid of school of act mandates yeah that’s another Mandate I wonder if we’d be talking about the Mandate if the vaccination worked and was safe do you think you’d care or would you just say H not I yeah you you’d care on an intellectual level but you wouldn’t care you know you’d put it in your next time I have an intellectual argument
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time I have an intellectual argument I’ll I’ll pull this out but you wouldn’t care you know as long as everybody did well and you did well and nobody died you wouldn’t care you really wouldn’t mandatory only matters [Music] if when they are mandated there should be compensation but would the compensation from your come from your government or from the vaccine I think the compensation would have to be from whoever mandated it not from the vaccine company because otherwise it never happens there there would be no vaccine if the vaccine company if the government mandates it they’re going to have to they’re going to have to Ure it although you could argue with it in a way they do because they they end up up being on the hook for a lot of the healthcare um yeah there’s another icton study I don’t believe in the news today and it
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don’t believe in the news today and it doesn’t matter which way it goes or anything else I just don’t believe any Ian study by the way it may very well have been a miracle drug but I don’t I don’t believe any data about the pandemic there always we have so many mandates I I don’t think you you know the medical mandates are worse I’ll give you that but we have a lot of mandates go look at the old data about I yeah it’s like there’s some things that can’t be communicated watch this here’s something that I can say it it can be very clear but I can’t make you hear it I will not under any circumstances and there’s nothing you can do that will change my mind believe any data from the pandemic and then somebody will say but
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pandemic and then somebody will say but what about this study no listen to me none of it don’t believe any of it doesn’t mean I reting doesn’t work I’m just going to say I’m not going to believe because the study said it did do not believe yeah if there’s any money linked to it it’s all you need to know yeah you can still post them I I might not be reporting them uh you’re in a weird segment space with only a few dozen people what’s that mean all right um that’s all I got for now and uh maybe no my internet’s still out so I guess that’s what I’m going to be doing all day today yes it’s massage night I will
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uh see you in the man cave earlyish and I’ll talk to you then bye for now