Episode 2553 CWSA 08/01/24

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More views on the X platform than either Facebook or Instagram. 13 billion views through June of this year. Facebook only had 12 billion and instead had 6 billion. Now, profitability hasn't showed up yet, but with those kind of numbers, I think. I think Elon Musk is going to be okay in the long run. But speaking of Elon Musk, in our totally normal world, we'll of course be talking about Trump's. Trump's day yesterday, but. So Venezuela had their election and Maduro staying in power. It looks like people are saying the election was fake, but somehow this ended up in Maduro challenging Elon Musk to a personal fight and Elon Musk agreeing to the fight, and then Maduro telling his military to not let Elon Musk into the country because I guess he's worried that Elon will fly in and come beat him up. I don't know how any of this is real. How is any of this real? This is really happening. And then. And then Elon posts this morning, I'm coming for you, Maduro. I will carry you to Gitmo on a donkey. How is this real? How is this real? How is any of this real? Come on. And then let's talk about Venezuela's election. You know what the news told you, right? That it was obvious that the other team won, the one that's not in power, and that the election was rigged and cheated, right? How do you know that's true? How do you know it was rigged? You do know that our CIA is trying like crazy to overthrow the country, right? Do you know how they would do it? They would claim the election was rigged. And then they would get the population all worked up and then they would organize some kind of a grassroots looking overthrow of the country. Exactly what you're experiencing now. I have no idea what to think. I don't even know who to root for. I mean, I suppose it's better if the United States conquers Venezuela indirectly like as other countries. But we're not exactly the good guys. I think we just want the oil. So I don't know who won, but I do know there's absolutely no information from Venezuela that you should trust as true. Nothing about Venezuela you should assume is true. I don't think there are any good guys. Like I don't think it's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's probably just all bad guys, at least at the political level. That's what I mean. Well, meanwhile, the legend mastermind of 9-11-KSM and I guess two others, they worked on a plea deal where they will get life in prison instead of being executed. Why do we care about that? Isn't that just saving money and torturing them for the rest of their life? I don't mind torturing them for the rest of their life. I have no problem with that. I like keeping them alive. There was a sci fi where the evil ruler of the universe put somebody in suspended animation forever instead of killing them so that they could live forever with the thoughts of what they've done and suffer. It feels like that I think I would be, you know, if revenge is what you want them being dead is sort of the end of their suffering if you want them to suffer. I kind of like the plea deal because it makes all the legal expenses go away so it's good for taxpayers and it's not like they're getting out. So I don't know. I think that's okay. Anyway, CNN has decided it's going to do away with what it calls its opinion section. I didn't even know they had opinion writers. I thought they were all just news people because they make so little distinction between opinion and news on CNN that it seems like a almost a hilarious, you know, a hilarious outcome that they're getting rid of their opinion pieces. Do you know why they're getting rid of their opinion people? Because they're terrible opinions. Their opinions are probably so far off mainstream America. You know, they are right. You know, it's going to be opinions that are just not even close to what the bulk of the country is thinking about anything. They just said, you know, let's just get rid of all of them. So that's funny. Russia has apparently agreed to release that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan. So in some kind of a prisoner swap. Now, here's the question that we must ask is, is the United States making a deal it didn't want to make because it wants to prevent Trump from making this deal? I think that's all that's happening. I think the election is the reason the deal is getting done, because I think that Biden's team said there's no way we can let Trump get in here and make this deal. I also think Trump could have made the deal before the election. I don't know if that's legal, but he could have just threatened. He could have just threatened Putin. He said, look, when I'm president, you'd better give them back or they better be back before I'm president. So I think that Trump's, you know, pending appearance, or at least potential appearance as president might be enough to have caused this to happen. Now, I don't know if that means that we made a deal we didn't want to make, maybe gave up some people we, we cared about too much, but it's hard to imagine this would have happened just when it did, just the way it did, unless the election was right around the corner. So I think this is election related. Well, let's talk about Trump. He went to the, he agreed to talk to the national association of BJ's, and I think he was quite alarmed to show up and found out that the, the BJ stands for black journalists. So not at all what he was expecting, I don't think. No, I'm just joking. It's the national association of Black Journalists, and they invited him. They also invited Kamala Harris, but she had a funeral to attend. So we shall take that as a reasonable excuse for not going. And here is what everybody's saying, and I'll add my own interpretation to it. Number one, I love the fact that Trump was not afraid to go. He knew it was going to be hostile, and he walked right into the middle of the monster, showed no fear whatsoever, and stayed Trump. He walked in as Trump, he remained Trump, and then he walked down as Trump. You tell me, how many American politicians could have walked into the national association of Black Journalists, acted exactly the same as they always do, and then walked out harder than you think, because the, the impulse to pander would be through the roof, you know, just to say what they want to hear. I don't think he said what they want to hear. That wasn't, you know, his regular stump message that he's good for the economy, for everybody. But he did make some news. He did make his points. I think that if you watch the whole thing, you'd know that he's for securing the border, reducing that inflation, lead blames on Biden and Harris and restoring energy independence. And I think that those are very popular things within the public. So in terms of his messaging, I think he got it through. He said the important things he wanted to say to an audience that you want to hear it. So it's very hard to even get your message to break through into the other side of the media silo. But he got that through. Here are the fun parts. Oh, there were a lot of fun parts. So the ABC host whose name I can't remember, there were three black female hosts. One was Harris. Why am I forgetting the last name from Fox News? Not Kamala Harris, but Harris Faulkner. Harris Faulkner. And she was, you know, she was polite and nice to him because they have a, you know, ongoing relationship. She had interviewed him before the event, etc. But the other two were a little hostile. And the one that opened up was especially hostile. Now, I sat there and I thought, oh, my God. She started her first question with a whole bunch of accusations. Any one of them could be the whole show. And I thought, what's he going to do? That's a laundry list of accusations. And I thought to myself, oh, my God, he's as trapped in this because if he starts to defend himself, if he defends himself against anything on that list, they'll just move to the rest of the list. So it's like a trap that nobody can get out of. Nobody can get out of that trap. Nobody in the world, no politician ever could get out of that trap. So then he got out of that trap by. By going directly at her for how rude she was to invite him there. He comes there. He says that they were 35 minutes late, made him wait, their equipment wasn't working, and that she starts out totally rude. Oh, my God. It was perfect. It was as good as the Rosie o'. Donnell. In my mind, this was as good as the Rosie o' Donnell play. Did he look nervous? Nope. Did he look completely comfortable the entire time he was under attack? Yes, he did. He looked like a guy who could take a bullet in the fucking ear and stand up and pump his fist and say, fight, fight, fight. That's the guy. That's the guy that showed up. If shooting him doesn't make him stop. I don't think your list of insults will. But he did not address anything on the list, which is exactly what he should have done. Instead, he addressed the rudeness from the host and. And how unprofessional and terrible it was. How much did I enjoy that? 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10? Yeah. Who. Who, who changed the conversation about all of politics? Trump did. Trump did. Do you remember yesterday they had so little to talk about, they had to say, he's weird. Did you hear the word weird yet today? Haven't heard it once except when I said it. Nope. He managed to change the entire cycle from why are you being so mean? To. From. From, you know, weird things and couches to why are you being such a. Basically. So, basically, she was just a total. And he just treated her like a. That's what happened. Now, if you want to throw in, oh, she's also black. I don't think it mattered. I think he treated her like a. Because she was acting like a. Had nothing to do with color. And how much did I love the fact that he treated her like a. I loved it. I loved it. What do you think the audience thought? Probably a little bit mixed. We'll talk about that. You know, you can imagine that some of the people were acting like they were entertained. Some of them were acting aghast. So it was sort of a mixed. Mixed bag. But I suspect that the male opinions were different than the female opinions, you know what I mean? Because that was Trump coming home to an angry wife. You know what I mean? That's what I saw. I saw Trump coming home to an angry bitch wife, and he treated her like the bitch that she was and went about his day. How much do I like that? I can't even explain how much I like that. I like that so much. It's the best thing I've ever seen in politics. That's how much I liked it. Now, has nothing to do with politics either. Has everything to do with a human interaction where if somebody treats you the way she treated him, she should slap her. Not physically. Not physically, of course, but in terms of verbally, he should slap her down like a. And that's what he did. Now, if you tell me that the men sitting in the audience hated that. Did they? Did they? Did the men hate that? I don't know. I don't think they're going to tell you if they liked it. I don't think they'll mention it. I don't think they're going to mention it to Their wives. You know, I kind of like the way. No, no, no, no, no, no. I think the men are going to get quiet. I think they're gonna let the women lead and the men who are supporting the women, I guess. So what else did he do? He, he mentioned that the people coming in the border, crossing the border, are taking black jobs. So then the host wanted to trap him. We're gonna trap him. We're gonna, we're gonna make you explain what these black jobs are. Oh, are you suggesting that black people can only have low paying jobs? Is that what makes them black jobs? And he just ignores her stupid question. He's like, you know, black jobs, like jobs, everybody gets a job. Everybody knows what he means when he says black jobs. He means that the black population, because of the current socioeconomic situation, means that the migrants may be competing a little bit more with the people at the lower end of the economic strata. That's where there's a disproportionate number of black employees. Everybody knew what he meant. Nobody was surprised, nobody was offended. But you have to act like it. Let's act like we're offended. So we're all going to pretend after it's over that you're offended. And that's the funny part. We'll talk about that in a minute. Let's see then. Of course, the best part was, you know, this, this is. You can't believe it went there. But of course, is Trump. So he did so. So keep this context in mind. Kamala Harris was selected by Biden explicitly for being a black woman. He said, so he said, I'm going to pick a black woman. And then he did. And then Trump goes to an organization which is specifically for black journalists, not for white journalists. It's an organization of black journalists. So he's going into a world where the people are very clear on how race matters and race is central to not only their organization. He was invited to. That was central to their organization, their race, but also the selection of Kamala Harris. And certainly the energy behind her entering the presidency campaign is probably 50 because she's black and 40 because she's a woman, and 10 because policies or something. So in the real world, everybody knows it's about her being black and female. Everybody. Everybody who is acting like they, like they didn't notice or something. Everybody. We're all on the same page, but some of us have to pretend we're not. So he mocked her for allegedly identifying more as an Indian American earlier in her career. And there's lots of evidence where she sort of accepted that explanation when she was in different public settings. But of course, she's always identified as both black and Indian American. So it's not like the reality matches exactly Trump's characterizing it, but he characterized it in a way that everybody understands what he's saying, which is that she's presenting herself as black because there's an advantage electorally, and that when she was presenting herself as Indian American, maybe that audience wanted to hear it that way. So she does present herself in the way that will get votes. And if that's the only thing that you're pointing out, that's totally fair. Is that racist? Of course they wanted to make it racist because they wanted to make it. I mean, basically it was a setup to get them to say some things they could interpret as racist. That's what the whole thing was, was just a setup. So he did give them their red meat, but he gave it to them in a you way, which was so delightful. I just can't. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it. It was. He gave them their quotes, but it was, in a way, it wasn't anything that was really racist. It was everything that would make them talk about racism, but they would have to hear his points while they're doing it. And his point is, maybe you're selling yourself to a black audience a little bit too hard. What do you think the black audience thought when they found out? I don't know if they found this out, but I. Somebody in the comments was saying she's 25 black because she's got a white grandfather. Is that true? I don't know if that's true. So we're talking about half black or 25 black. I don't think it matters to me either way because I don't see her as either of those things. Let me. Let me remind you, the only smart way to look at anything, there's only one of her. There's exactly one of her. That's it. You don't have to talk about how black she is or how Indian American or how American or how female or what age. There's only one of her. She's completely different than everybody else, just like everybody else. Everybody else is unique and 100 completely their own person. But if she wants to sell herself as part of a group, she's going to have to explain why she's maybe not even a majority in that group. Isn't that a fair question? If. If identity is your primary game, and that's what The Democrats are pushing. It's their primary filter. Then you can talk about it. They're the ones who created the filter. Now, him, if he had created the filter, that would be really racist, wouldn't it? If Trump were the only one talking about somebody's race as they're running, that would be racist. But he's not. That's their game. He's simply entering their own game and then winning at their game. So they invented him to the. Invited him to the home court, and then he won the home court game. They don't like it. All right, he did mention that. This is so funny. God, he's funny. He. He mentioned that he would definitely take a cognitive test, but he wanted Kamala Harris to take one, too, because he mentioned that she failed the. The bar exam for her lawyer license the first time she took it. I guess she passed the second time, which is not that uncommon, by the way, to fail the first one. But I thought it was brilliant and funny that he worked that in there, that she should take a cognitive exam because she filled the bar. You can't forget that. Like, it's impossible not to remember that. So the things that you remember are that she was lying about her ethnicity. You know, allegedly. You know, the. The truth of it, of course, is more complicated, but, you know, he. He can sell that interpretation and that she. She didn't pass the bar exam the first time. So now the fun part is the reactions. If you didn't take some time to look at CNN and MSNBC to watch their horrified reactions, you missed a good show. To my mind, the gears of the machine are all very obvious. Now, you knew that this was a setup so that all the. All the commentators could act aghast. So it was like a competition this morning to see who could act the most offended when none of them are offended. None of them. In my. In my personal opinion, nobody was offended because they didn't hear anything offensive. It was just stuff that they thought they could interpret as offensive. So Joy Reed said she watched in absolute horror as a person named Trump acted exactly like he always acts, saying normal things that everybody agrees with. God. Oh, my God. And then there was. Trump is coming after black people like he always does. What? Trump's coming after black people. That's happened exactly zero times that I'm aware of. And then there was. My favorite was. I can't remember her name. Another one of the black pundits on MSNBC said it was a shock and awe moment, and it made my chest hurt. And I thought that's going to be tough to beat. So there was somebody who was in physical pain, much like a heart attack, or Chester, like. All right, let's see if you can, see if you can top that for pretending to be offended. So one after another, everybody pretended to be offended. The AP said Trump falsely suggests Harris misled voters about her race. Well, let me ask you this. If you were to poll black voters, what percentage of them would be fully aware of Kamala Harris's Indian part of her ethnicity? What do you think? I think 60% would know and 40% would not. 40% would say she's black. Now, is that misleading? I think so. To me, that would look misleading. Now, maybe not intentionally. I guess I, I guess that would be more of an argument, but I would think that the, the black public maybe is not fully informed about her ethnic background. Now, keep in mind that I'm not saying it should matter. I'm saying she's an individual. Like 8 billion other individuals should be judged as an individual. But she's the one who made it part of the race. Joe Biden made it part of the, part of the conversation. I didn't. It wouldn't be part of the conversation if it were up to me. Ari Melber on MSNBC said, we're not going to re air this now. I'm just going to put up some check because he made this false and racially incendiary claim. You know that that's convenient, isn't it? Simply say he made a racial incendiary claim but don't show it because don't you think you'd show that? I pretty sure they showed the, everything else he said that they didn't like. Maybe it's because the news is fake. And let's see. This is what Kamala Harris said. The divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just say the American people deserve better. Grin. John Pierre said it was repulsive and insulting. Nobody has a right to say what someone else is. And then somebody named El Cinder. I was sitting in the room and people were stunned to take you behind the scenes. People were stunned. People were gasping. Some people were shouting back him saying, that's a lie. All right, let me say it as clearly as I possibly can. I don't give a what any of them felt about it. You know why? Because there's not one of these people who would give a what I feel about anything. Why do I care? I, I don't, I don't care whatsoever how, how, how angry they were. They Wouldn't care if I were angry. But are. Are they the magic group? Are the, Is the National association of Black Journalists a magical group where their concerns and their problems are the special ones? No, they're not. I don't give a. About any of their problems. I don't care about their systemic racism, which is real, by the way. I don't care that the, the legacy of slavery is bad news for people. That seems real. I got problems, too. How about my problems are just as good as your problems? Well, I don't have that many problems, but other people do. There are other people who have a lot of problems, and I don't think anybody's problems are special. I think everybody's got their own little problem. If you're, if you got an alcoholic parent that beat you as a kid, well, that's a little bit bigger than your systemic racism problem because you can go to any Fortune 500 and you're the first in line. Right? So we don't care how offended you were at all. And I think that's new. I, I feel like that attitude is maybe becoming more prevalent. Don't pretend we care because we don't. We just don't care that you're offended by it. We're going to talk about normal things in normal ways, like normal people. And if you're really, really offended by that, who cares? There's no interest to me whatsoever. You don't have magical problems. So Trump managed to completely change the conversation from, you know, everything about Kamala Harris is the best in the world to now the energy monster has taken over the conversation as he does the. The energy monster. He creates energy, aims at himself and then turns it into, you know, conversation about policies and other things that are useful. So let's see what else we got here. There's some. Now, of course, people are going to look into Kamala Harris's background. There's Fox News at a flashback where in which Harris was comparing ice, you know, the people collecting up the illegal immigrants, comparing them to the KKK and said the images of border patrol agents evoked slavery. So there's your border czar, who is not really a czar. Have you ever noticed you can't spell crazy without czar? Like tsar is four of the letters and crazy. I'm a little dyslexic, so it just looks that way to me. Doesn't mean anything then we've heard that separately they have a Venezuelan gang. This is what something Trump said trend. Aragua has a green light to shoot U. S Cops. And according to Homeland Security, so now we have a Venezuelan gang that has some kind of alleged authority to kill American cops. Are we going to be taken over? Is the invasion on? I don't know. Let's talk about the VP choice. In my opinion, whoever Kamala Harris picks for VP will be a negative for her polling. I don't think there's anything that would improve it. You know, you can think of situations where you got some generic white guy running for office, Biden, and he could improve his situation by adding some diversity to the ticket. So that's a real thing. But anything that Kamala Harris does is going to make somebody mad. If she. If she picks a man, like a generic white guy, then all the people who are happy because she's a person of color, whichever one you'd like, are going to say, well, are you just picking him because he's white? Like, why can't. Why can't the person who would be next in line to be the next president also be a woman or also be a person of color? Because if you think it's important that you know that part of the country is represented, why would you just set up for the next white guy to be another president? So she's gonna have to explain how this is setting up the next presidency. That's always part of the conversation with the vp and it's going to be harder to explain. Now, the person who keeps bubbling to the top is the Pennsylvania governor, Shapiro, who is Jewish. And then today I'm reading the news saying that that might be a problem with Muslim supporters in Michigan or maybe other places. Do you think it would be? Maybe. I don't know. Maybe. But would it. Would it gain votes? Is there anybody who would vote for her that wasn't planning to because she picked a Jewish running mate? I don't know. I don't know if anybody would vote for that who wasn't already going to vote Democrat. So I don't see any Republicans jumping over and saying, oh, I'm a Republican and I'm Jewish. Let's. Let's go for the Jewish vice president. That doesn't seem like a big reason to switch parties. So it seems to me that every choice would be a slight negative, and there's nobody really who could be a positive. If she hired another blood hired or she picked another black woman, people would say, isn't that too much? One thing. There's almost no way to go that doesn't. Doesn't make it look worse. Anyway, here's what Hotel Jesus says About the nabj, Hotep says they want you focus on race and gender in this election so you don't demand discourse about economics. My black people, he says that is exactly right. You know, everything in the news is about focus and attention and distraction and energy and it's not much about what's true. So yes, once you can see the gears of the machine, everything looks different, doesn't it? And would you agree that you can see the gears now? You can see the plays before they're executed. I'm looking at somebody yelling, you know, oh, Jenny, the all caps troll. Why does Scott. This is an all cap. So I'll read it from Jenny the idiot. Jenny idiot says, why does Scott ignore the role of Musk owned X when he says Kamala Harris has a clear path to victory because of the brainwashed media. Scott used to say Twitter controlled the hive mind narrative. All right, so Jenny idiot, you got your attention and now you can maybe act like a regular person for a little while. So let me, let me answer that question. Currently the mainstream media has enough control of Democrats as do social media that I don't think X will make enough difference. Now X does make a big difference because it allows free speech, but I'm completely siloed. I don't know about you, but there are no Democrats hearing me talk. And I have the potential to actually change people's opinions because, you know, I'm good at reframing things etc. So if I have no access to anybody on, you know, the other voting, then how does X make any difference at all there? I'm completely siloed. Just no. The only ones, the only ones I see are literally paid trolls. And there's one on every post. One page rule comes in and insults me in a broad general way. So I don't think X is making the difference you think it is. It's completely siloed. And we did see that all that mattered to Democrats is that they got a black woman as they would define it. And that seems to be all they cared about. The, the identity seems to be the thing that matters. That's it. So by the way, I don't you have to see Michael Moore, he was invited on one of the left leaning shows. Can't remember if it was CNN or msnbc, but he was one of the few white people that they invited on to talk about how offended they were about what Trump said. And because he was one of the few white people so he didn't really have standing to say he was offended by that. He had to act extra, extra offended. So you have to look at his mouth. Somehow he did a full clapper mouth where he was frowning harder than. I think the frown line, like, exceeded his chin and went down to his neck. So he had to. I'm so sad. I'm so sad about what I'm seeing. So sad. Anyway, you need to watch it with the sound turned off to watch the sad faces. The sad faces, they're all fake. It's all theater, and I wouldn't care either way anyway. So here's some great things that Trump said. He went to Pennsylvania and did a rally after that, and he started bragging about his mug shot being the number one selling mug shot and that it'd be Elvis and it be Frank Sinatra. Okay, that's just perfect. Do you remember when you thought the mug shot was going to be bad for him? And he's just compared it to two people you love? You know, at least white people love Elvis and Frank Sinatra. And. And he just put himself in that category and he said he didn't even really know what the other ones did. Like, he wasn't even aware of what they were charged with. But it didn't matter because they were just popular people. And he's popular, so he's in their same gang. That was just great because we just want to laugh about it. Nobody takes it seriously on the right. All right? And here's my best line. I'm gonna say this might be the funniest thing a politician ever said. Are you ready for this? This is my claim. It's the funniest thing a politician ever said in a campaign. All right? So I'm building it up, but I have to deliver. Now, here's a quote from Trump. I think he posted this just yesterday. It was reported that more than a thousand members of the savage Venezuelan gang Trenda Aragua are plotting to conduct ambush attacks on police and law enforcement in the United States, all while Harris and Biden sit in the White House and try to figure out who is dumber. Okay, you can't beat that. Remember, I've told you he always makes you think past the sale. What's the sale? The sale is that they're so dumb that they're sitting there trying to decide who's dumber. Now, now, that wouldn't be funny if we didn't have one of them with serious dementia and one of them who is considered not the highest IQ person who ever ran for office and didn't pass the bar on the first try. Now, so, because he's got some real world evidence that they're neither of them are the brightest candles, saying that they're sitting in the White House. First he, he draws this incredibly dangerous picture of the. This gang from Venezuela that's going to be, you know, ambushing police and law enforcement, you know, like the scariest thing you could ever think of. And then he adds that Harrison Biden are sitting in the White House trying to figure out who is dumber. You can't top that. You just can't top that. That. You know, the. One of the things I always say that he'll. He'll never get enough credit for, he's one of the greatest writers in American history. Now you're going to say writers. You know, somebody wrote his books for him. No, I'm not talking about the books. If you just look at his short form, which is kind of long form, he does long posts. If you just look at his writing and you ignore, you know, there's a spelling error every now and then and, you know, some grammar issues. If you just ignore that, because editors fix that kind of stuff anyway. He just doesn't use an editor. If you just look at how evocative his writing is, you can't top it. He is. He is legitimately, and this is coming from somebody who writes for a living. He is legitimately one of the best writers I've ever seen. He just does it his own way, which makes it voicy. Have you ever heard that term about writers? A writer is voicy. It means you can feel the personality when they write. It's not some generic thing just talking about a thing. And the wall is made of bricks. And the bricks were made in Canada. All right, that's boring. Like, you'll talk about the wall falling on you and crushing your chest and, you know, like, his writing is off the chart. Anyway, Pennsylvania, just Pennsylvania court did a ruling that might be a big deal, saying that the digital images of completed absentee and mail in ballots are public record, meaning that there might be some way to audit whether your vote got counted or something like that. I'm not sure this is as big a deal as it's reported to be, but the reporting is that after the election, voters and candidates can obtain the original images for inspection. I suppose you could compare it to the totals or can you only get your own? So I don't know yet that this is really a thing. But I will tell you this. If we live in a simulation, there's one thing that has to happen and God, the simulation is winking. If you can't feel the wink, you're in a different reality than I am, which is possible. And it looks like this almost every day, probably three times a day now. There's a story about the 2020 election and about something that looks really, really suspicious. But on top of that story is usually something like, we now know what to look for next time. You know what I mean? So there's some places where things got tightened up by legislation, some places where maybe Lara Trump and her army of volunteers will be able to maybe look for trouble. So they know exactly what they're looking for now and they know where to look for it. So the odds of any cheating, should it exist, hypothetically, if it exists, the odds of getting caught at it this time are much higher than the last time. Would you agree with that statement? The odds that the Republicans know where to look and how to look and when to look and what to do about it, and you know, what would constitute a legitimate court case and what you should ignore. The, the level of knowledge and skill is completely different. Now. Is it enough? I don't know. It would depend entirely upon how many ways there are to cheat, if there are any. And that's unknowable, because the only way to know that would be if the news was dependable and could report on it. And we don't really have that kind of news. We, we only have opinion people at this point, so we can't know. But, boy, does the simulation need this election to be rigged. Here's what it needs. It needs the election to be rigged so badly that Kamala Harris wins and another late night surprise, everything looks suspicious way, and then we find out immediately how it was done and then the court reverses it. That's what we need, because Trump needs to be cleared for 2020. And the only way to do it is if this election is rigged and Republicans catch it. And I think there's a really, really good chance that's going to happen because the cheating seems almost guaranteed to me because the, the, the way Trump is treated as though he's a monstrous risk to, the risk to the world, so that guarantees cheating. Let me say it again. When, when you say one of the candidates is Hitler and you actually sell that and people agree that it's true and those people are in charge of the election, of course they cheat. Of course they do. You'd have to be a idiot to think that people are going to treat it like a normal election if they really believe one of the candidates is Heller. It's ridiculous. Now, do I have proof that the election was rigged? No. No, I don't. Is it possible that it got rigged and nobody would notice? Of course it is. I. I saw again yesterday somebody who said comparing the U. S. Elections to Venezuela was so ridiculous because our elections have all these checks and balances and audits and, you know, ways to know that they're true and accurate. To which I said, who told you that? Where in the world would you learn something so completely obviously false? You don't have to be an expert on any election stuff to know they can't be audited. Tell me, how would you audit the. The illegal immigrant who, when they signed up for their driver's license, they automatically got registered, even though they're not, or they got a ballot, I think, and then somebody else filled it in or they filled it in. Is anybody checking on that? No. And it's going to be a major, you know, giant part of the process. Do you think that they will relax their signature matching thing again this year? Of course they will. Of course they will. Because if they did signature matching with any credible process, it would throw out all the fakes. So we know it's going to be rigged. Let's just say we know that everybody. Okay, that given the situation, the fear of Trump, of course it's rigged. And by the way, I would rig it. If I were in that situation, I would rig it. So would you, if you cared. If you'd really been brainwashed to think you were in charge of being the only person who could stop Hitler because you drove the truck with the fake ballots just to pick some hypothetical. Of course you'd do it. I would do it. You'd do it. We'd all do it. So there's not any question that people are going to try to rig it. I think trying to rig it is guaranteed. That that's guaranteed. Whether they can rig it enough, whether they can rig it on time, whether they can get not caught, whether getting caught makes any difference at all. Because the courts might be so biased at this point that even being caught doesn't matter. Those are big questions. But I think the simulation requires the election to be rigged and to get caught. So that's my prediction. Kamala Harris will win on election day and the. And the election will be rigged and they'll get caught. What happens next is anybody's bet. But there will be rigging and they will get caught. I think that's what's going to happen. I can't really imagine a situation where they say it's too hot this time. We can't rig it because they're watching. I don't think that's going to happen. I mean, you watched, you watched the Secret Service try to protect the President. And I told you, no. It's probably just massive incompetence. And maybe it's more than that, but so far it looks like it's just massive incompetence. Do you think the elections are run better than the Secret Service? Who, who thinks the election security people are more high end than the people guarding the ex President of the United States while he's running for president? I think Trump should have had the best of the best. And even if some people were being shared with other people because there was a big need for security that day, Stiller would have been the best of the best. Who runs our elections? The best of the best? No, probably the worst of the worst in some cases anyway. Biden is not going to be at the DNC convention. Somebody said, I don't know if that's confirmed, but it does make sense, doesn't it? When was the last time we saw Biden? We just forgot Biden exists. Right, because we're all assuming that Kamala Harris is running the country, you know, along with staff. So I don't know if we'll see Biden again. Yeah, we might just not see him again because it's. They, they can't put him out for questions. That's not going to happen again. So we'll see. All right. Well, Iran is allegedly planning the revenge. The news is saying that top Iranian officials are going to get together, they're going to talk with people from Lebanon and Iraq and Yemen, and they're going to figure out how they're going to collectively get back. Let me see. So some top people from Iran are going to get together with some top potential terrorists from Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen, and then they're all going to be in the same place. Well, I've got a little security advice for the group you should really think about Zoom. Have you heard of it? Yeah, Yeah. I wouldn't really go to the same location because I don't know if you've heard, but Israel's kind of pissed. They're a little bit pissed off. And I don't think there's anything that's not a target anymore. So maybe you should do this on Zoom is what I'm thinking anyway. The United states has deployed 12 warships to the Middle East. That's exactly the kind of story that people like me should not report. Because when you heard that you said, oh, 12 warships in the Middle east, that must mean something. Well, kind of depends what ships they are, doesn't it? Depends if they're just rotating out another group of ships. I don't know if you can tell anything from that, but it's not nothing. So we've got a presence there. In my opinion, A, a full war with Hezbollah is largely guaranteed at this point because Israel will never have more moral authority. They might never have as much military advantage. Even though Hezbollah is really scary because they got shitload of missiles, if they fire them all, Israel is going to take quite a hit. They can't stop them all. So I think Israel is going to say, do we want to live forever with a growing threat, there's more missiles every day in Hezbollah, or do we want to take the fact that we're in this unique situation where there would never be a better time to do a full attack. So I think they're going to probably look to degrade Hezbollah to the point where they're no longer a threat they used to be. I don't know if they have the military might to do it because the sheer number of rocket launchers now in Hezbollah is just thousands and thousands. I, I don't know how, how much munitions it would take to find them and get them all when they're hidden and everything else. But it does seem to me that we're reaching a point where they could just blacken the sky with drones that have a hand grenade attached and they just hang around and wait for somebody to pull out one of the missile launching know machinery and then spot it and kill it. This is exactly the kind of application for the AI drones. If I were going to put AI on a drone, I would teach it to spot these missile launchers and then I would make it autonomous and I wouldn't care if it killed some people accidentally because it's war. Well, I mean I care, but it wouldn't stop me from doing it. So I think you might see a drone related war against the missile launchers like we've never seen before. I don't know that there's any other way to combat them because I don't think they want to go in on the ground, do they? Ground assault? I'm not sure if that makes sense, but yeah, I would expect that Israel is going to take out Hezbollah and that that's going to get pretty big. Well, in Olympic boxing, a boxer who was recently considered too much of a man to fight as a woman in Other contests outside of the Olympics was allowed in by the Olympic rules. So this young lady fought another young lady. One of the young ladies had been recently considered not a lady, and the one who had recently been considered not a lady, but I'm telling you, she's a lady. Beat the living out of the other one with a few punches, and the other one just gave up and took off her helmet and said goodbye. I'm not going to do this. Now, let me tell you all the things I think about this. Boxing is the stupidest sport. I never want to see boxing in the Olympics or anywhere else. Why is this a sport? Punching people in the head until they get brain damage? Why is that a sport? Now, if it's going to be a sport? Why do I care who punches anybody in the head and gives them brain damage? I don't. You're all fucking idiots if you go into boxing unless, you know, unless it's your only way out of poverty or something. So, I mean, I certainly understand Mike Tyson. Yeah. Or if you're like, you know, a great athlete or something, and it's really your gift, I can see why you do it, but we really shouldn't encourage boxing. Now, I know what you're going to say, but, Scott, be more manly. Be more like the 300. I get it. I understand why you like it. But if you're gonna like boxing, I don't think you should be concerned that a woman got the beat out of her by somebody somebody thinks is a biological male. Boxing is about big people and better boxers beating the out of other people. Why do you care who they beat up? Now, I would think that the smart people place their bets on the boxer who is far more likely to be victorious and just made some money on it. Everybody who was in that ring wanted to be there. The. The woman who was always a woman wanted to be there. Now, of course, she didn't want to be fighting somebody who was so mismatched. But, I don't know. You get into that business, somebody's going to punch you too hard. You're going to have to live with it. I don't care. Don't care a bit, actually. Breitbart News is reporting there's a poll that says 72% of Americans oppose electric vehicle mandates, but they believe that Kamala Harris supports them, which is true. Ish. The Biden administration wants to phase out gas cars. So that looks essentially like a mandate. And I don't know if Kamala Harris has updated that opinion yet or changed it. I don't think she's going to change it. So that seems like a really strong, strong attack vector for Trump and he's used it also. Breitbart. Most voters say Kamala Harris supports the open borders. But the by a solid majority, the public is against it. 68% of voters oppose the open borders and nearly half of Democrats, 49% of Democrats and 85% of Republicans. And I ask you, who are the people who are in favor of open borders? That's only stupid people, right? Can we be honest? If you're in favor of open borders, you're either stupid or you hate the country or your relatives haven't come in yet. I mean, I suppose there's, you know, some self interest involved, but if you were just an ordinary citizen looking at the news and you didn't have a personal involvement, you'd have to be just stupid to be in favor of open borders. Like literally just stupid. So is it because they don't know what the issue is? Maybe they just are not informed what the issue is. Or, or maybe the brainwashing is so good that half of Democrats are like, oh, yeah, open that border. Oh, I don't believe that. I don't believe that half of all Democrats are literally stupid. But they're saying something that is. So is that just the brainwashing? Now, if there's one thing I, I like to say that most of you don't believe, your intelligence does not protect you from brainwashing. All know that I, I hear people say, I hear people say that only dumb people can get brainwashed. No, as a professional. Well, I'll say trained hypnotist. I can tell you that smart people are really easy to hypnotize. Do you know why? Because they're confident. The more confident you are, the easier you are to hypnotize. If somebody's afraid, oh no, you might take over my brain, then they put up their defenses. But people are smart, think, well, you're not going to take over my brain. Let's just see how this goes. Very easy to hypnotize. Yeah, that's very consistent, by the way. It's one of the few, it's one of the few things that you can really depend on to be predictive. Smarter they are, the easier they are to hypnotize. So that's probably what's happening to half of the Democrats. Now, my frame on all this is that this is a brainwashing competition and that the brainwashers on the left are fighting the brainwashers on the Right, but on the left, they're organized on the left. It's more of a populist situation. So there's also some brainwashing, but it's almost like people brainwash themselves on the right. In other words, somebody will see a post on X and they'll say, oh, that's interesting. Then they'll do their own research, find more people who claim that conspiracy theory is true. And effectively they brainwash themselves by going down the rabbit trail of something that maybe turns out to be false. However, half of the time it turns out to be true. I don't know what the actual ratio is of conspiracy theories that turned out to be 100% true, but it's at least half. Would you agree with that? I mean, jokingly, we say all of them turn out to be true, but in reality, half, maybe 50% turn out to be true. So whatever is happening on the Republican side is also a whole bunch of people, you know, believing things that are not true, but not because somebody told them with a purpose of hypnotizing them. It was people who thought something was true, and then other people got convinced it was true. Confirmation bias, basically. And that's very different. The, the left is a massive brainwashing machine. Now, I said this on the Post and I don't remember if I said it live, so I'll say it live. You need to know this fact to understand the world. Are you ready for this? This is one fact you should never forget. It's not obvious and you're going to disagree when you hear it, but think about it and it'll sink in. Are you ready? No government, whether a democratic forum or a dictator, no government of any kind ever can survive a free press that does a good job. It can't be done. Every government has to control their press to survive as a government. No exceptions. America, Canada. Pick Europe. Pick a country that you think would never do that. Yes, they are doing that different ways. Now, if you're a dictator, you just say, if you do bad stories, I'll put you in jail. So the dictators have the easy way to do it. How do you think we do it in the United States? Well, let's say you're an owner of a big media enterprise, whatever it is, you could be the CEO or you could be the, you know, owner if you just own it outright. And your job is to talk to politicians and get the stories. And then the politicians say, we're never going to talk to you unless you're kind of good to us. And then they Say, oh, I can't really be in the news business if I can't even talk to people, so they won't even talk to me. I'll never even get an interview with the presidential candidate unless I play ball a little bit. All right, I'll play ball a little bit. Then the CIA contacts you and says, you know, you've heard a story that's kind of bad for the United States. It'd really be good if you were a patriot, if you kind of didn't tell that story. And then the publisher or the CEO says, oh, no, we are a news organization. That is the news. We're going to tell the news. And then the CIA guy says, well, I mean, you're free to do that, but probably there'll be situations in which you'd like, let's say, the law to go your way. You know, maybe regulation is a little too strong. Maybe there's something that you've invested in separately from your media entities that you'd like to go a good way. But all that's going to start getting really tough for you. The government's going to look at you as sort of a unfriendly entity, and suddenly you're going to get audited. Your businesses will come under pressure. The Department of Justice will start investigating things you've done, and it's going to be really, really tough for you to stay in business. But if you write things that we like, you get to be invited to all the parties. The president will have you over at the White House. So in a million different ways, they can either blackmail or bribe media entities. And then at some point, it becomes like Stockholm Syndrome. Stockholm syndrome is where you, if you kidnap somebody, like Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Limit Liberation army decades ago. It's a known thing that you end up identifying with your captors. So our media has been captured for so long that I don't think they're aware that they're owned, at least most of them. I think they look around and they say, okay, if I tell the story this way, I could probably get promoted and write a book and be invited on all shows. If I write the story this other way, as soon as there's a financial problem in the company and they have to reduce the staff, I'm first in line to go. So you don't have to explain it to anybody. Everybody understands at some point, and it becomes a Stockholm syndrome. We've got to protect our side, and it's all fake. So there is no country that has Real news. Does anybody disagree with that? There's no country that has real news and never has and never has. And anything that you believe in, which some countries have free press, never it. There is no way the government can survive if the free press can tell the public the truth. Never. It's completely 100 unsurvivable. So all news has to be fake, everywhere, all the time. About the political stuff, other stuff could be real. How many of you didn't know that? Is there anybody here saying, really? Wait, you're telling me we can't fix it? No, you can't. Fix is fixed. The fake news is the fix. It's not broken. The only way that we can have a strong country or anybody else, China, anybody, is to have fake press. There's no other way. And once you realize that the gears of the machine are that, well, then you can see it, then, then it just becomes transparent. All right, so Zuckerberg says Meta is going to need 10 times more computing power to train their next version of AI llama 4. So 10 times more than they needed for llama 3. And that's just one generation. 10 times more computing, which means 10 times more energy. So you know how you may have seen that Vi Ramaswami is saying that the, the introduction of Connell Harris maybe was a bit of a surprise, bit of a blind spot for Republicans and they weren't ready to run against her and that what they need is a new approach that's less, you know, Biden focused and something that's more future oriented and optimistic and tells a. Tells a better story of what Republicans will do. Now the first time I heard him say that, I said to myself, do they? Do they? Because it seems like Republicans are saying exactly what they want to do, you know, close the borders and better on crime and stop the wars and stuff. So I thought, well, if all those things are good things and they poll well, why not just keep doing that? But because it's Vivek, I don't treat it the way I might treat it if it were somebody I didn't respect intellectually. And so I thought about it a little bit more and I said, really? What would that look like? And I thought, oh my God, it's obvious. He's right. Here's what the story is that only the Republicans can tell. It's energy. Energy is the only story. We're in a global competition for energy. Because if you don't have energy, you're not going to be able to avoid wars. Because you know us, if we don't have enough energy, we're going to go get it and you might be in the way. So might need a war. We need energy to survive wars. If you don't have energy, you're not going to look very good as a defensive, you know, operation. We need more energy to lower inflation because we're going to have to produce a ton of it so that we can lower the cost and then the energy cost gets into every product. So energy would lower. It would be the most direct inflation fighting thing you could do is create more energy. We're going to need that energy for electric cars whether they're mandated or just free market wants them. We're going to need it for the self driving taxis which Tesla and others will be rolling out. Those will be mostly electric. I think we're going to need it for robots. Right? Elon Musk is still talking about the mindboggling size of the robot market. He thinks, he thinks there could be 10 billion sold at $20,000 a piece, which is like $200 trillion or something. The size of the robot market will be bigger than anything we've ever seen by a lot. And they all need electricity all day and the AI will need even more electricity. Like crazy amounts. Like, you know, if, if you're new to the topic, when I say AI is going to need more electricity, your brain says, oh wow, we're going to need 20% more electricity. No, no, it's more like a hundred times like we're not even close. We need something like a hundred times more energy than we have and we need it really fast. It's the only story. It's, it, the only story is energy. And the Republicans can make that case because Democrats don't have any energy story. They, they only have a climate change story which is the opposite of energy. It's like how do we get rid of our energy? We cannot compete against China unless we have a hundred times more energy. Not a chance, not a chance. Or anybody else. So the only way we could have a dominant position in the world is if we unleash every bit of our energy. And I've been calling Trump an energy monster because he, he attracts energy and then he uses it for his messaging. But he needs to be the energy monster for the country. He needs to be the energy monster, the person who opens Anwar, the person who pushes Gen 4 nuclear energy into the American market faster. By the way, There is a Gen 4 nuclear reactor breaking ground in the US according to the new Alice Kos, power broke ground at Oak Ridge. So we'll be building our first Gen4. If you're new to this, Gen4 would be nothing we've ever built. China's built one and tested it. And Gen4 basically doesn't melt down. Did you hear that? It doesn't melt down. The. The Gen 3 that we have have never melted down either, but they have the potential to. If you were to lose power for an extended period of time, it could melt down. That's like Fukushima. Fukushima melted, had its problems because the tsunami hit their backup generators. Right. It was pretty dumb to put the backup generators where a tsunami could potentially hit them. So it was a design problem too. But. And that. I think that was a generation two that wasn't even a Gen three. So Gen four basically takes the risk at a nuclear power. Enough. Right. There's nothing. That's zero risk, but it basically eliminates it. Then you can say, but what about the waste? Gen 4 actually uses waste for fuel. Not all of it. So there's still some waste. And I don't know about this design, just some designs do, but they've learned to just store it in big protected casks on site. You don't have to ship it anywhere. Everybody's happy. So that's a big deal. So we need Trump to open up every form of energy and go crazy on it. Democrats can't compete with that. He has to make the case that we're all dead if we don't 100 times our energy. And I think, I think that's true, by the way. I think we're in big trouble if we don't 100 times our energy. President Biden said that. Well, I don't know if he knows he said it, but in a post on X, somebody posting for him said, my administration has seized more fentanyl at our border in the last two years than in the prior five years combined. All right, people, you can all see the gears of the machine. Is that a success? They seize more fentanyl than the last five years. No, that's a giant failure. It means that so much fentol is coming across that even with the same staff, you're catching twice as much. Yeah. So Sticks and Hammer pointed that out and I think we can all see the gears of the machine. Just purely a lie. This is just a misleading lie about their success. And it's obvious you don't have to be an expert. You can just look at this and go, oh, seizing more drugs is bad news, not good news. It means more is coming in. So it's easier to catch more. That's it. That's the whole story. And here's one that will surprise you, but not surprise you. Did you know that the founder of the Patriot Front, that group that looks to us like feds, and they march around with their masks and their matching outfits, and they just sort of appear now and then, and all of us think that they're feds. Well, apparently the group's founder, Thomas Rousseau, also participated in the famous tiki march in Charlottesville. The Tiki torch march. Do you know what I've told you about the Charlottesville Tiki torch March? Definitely a Fed operation. I don't believe for a minute that it was organized only by racists. Definitely the racists. But if the feds organize something, they make sure that the racists are, you know, in the front of the operation. But maybe the real organization comes from behind the scenes. So it looks like this guy has. Has been important in two different things that, in my opinion, look like Fed operations. So is he a Fed? No way to know. But the gears of the machine seem to be somewhat obvious. Okay, it gets better. So the FBI declassified 950 pages on their research into this. This patriot group, the Patriot Front. And let's see if this surprises you. So we all suspect that it's a Fed operation, but then the FBI studies them. They've got 950 pages. How much do you think is redacted? You've all seen the gears of the machine. Now finish the story. What. What percentage of it do you think was redacted? A lot. How about nearly every page is fully redacted. Nearly every page is fully redacted. And we suspected that the real problem is it's a bunch of feds. Yep. Anyway, so that's probably exactly what you think it is. Tucker Carlson said some provocative things. He said he thinks that bitcoin was created by the CIA and that the Satoshi rumor is just a CIA rumor. So you don't know the CIA created it. Do you believe that? If the CIA created bitcoin, why would they do it? Would it be because they have some secret way of monitoring your transactions and they knew that all the bad guys would use it and then they would have a hook on all the bad guys? I don't know. But according to Tucker, he thinks the signal app was also created by the CIA. Now, again, these are his accusations. I don't have any independent, but he. But I think he's treating these like they're both obvious. As in, if you can see the gears of the machine, you don't have to wonder who made bitcoin. And if you can see the gears of the machine, you don't have to wonder who's creating encrypted apps for bad people to message. It's probably exactly what you think. It's the, the people who knew that these would exist invented it first so that they, they could spy on everybody. Now, I don't want to say that these are true accusations, especially against Signal because it's a real company. I don't have any evidence, but Tucker's been pretty close to the CIA world. He knows more than you do about what is normal and typical and expected. And while I don't have any proof that bitcoin was created by the CIA or that the Signal app was, I'm going to agree with him that the gears of the machine make that a reasonable question. So that's as far as I can go. It's a reasonable question. Oh my. My all caps troll is back. Dean Davis, the troll from hell. I, I did delete him from the Locals app, so we haven't seen him back there, but he's gone to YouTube to be a pest. Does YouTube have a way to block people on the app? I'm going through the. The Rumble studio, so I can't, I can't block from this UI anyway, and then this is very important study. Did you know that dolphins have two brains? Basically, it's connected. But half of their brain sleeps and the other half remains awake, alert for danger and to, you know, do the surfacing to get air and stuff. So dolphins have two brains and they only use one at a time. So one sleeps and the other one takes care of business. So here's my question. Is that two animals in one body, why do we assume that the left brain and the right brain have the same preferences? They would have different experiences. Wouldn't the right brain have the experience of, let's say, some trauma? You know, let's say I got caught in a fishing line and the other brain was asleep. Wouldn't that, wouldn't that dolphin have a different personality with one brain than the other? That's two animals in one, in one skin. Is that the coolest thing you've heard recently? Two animals in one? Well, I don't know if it was an accident or they did it on porpoise. And that, ladies and gentlemen, brings me to the conclusion of my prepared remarks. I'm going to talk to the locals, people who are my valuable subscribers privately, and I'm going to say goodbye to the X and rumble and YouTube people. Thanks for joining. What a fun day of news. All right, locals people, coming at you. 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