Episode 1500 Scott Adams: The United States Has Lost Civilian Control of the Military and More Headlines
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1 in 500 Americans have died of COVID
CA Governor Newsom wins
President Biden's microphone
COVID and moving air
Do women like men to make decisions?
Did General Milley really do that?
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Well, what a wonderful, wonderful day it is, except for all the other people.
Have you noticed that life would be great, except for the people?
Oh, it's people. It's people who are the problem.
Not all of them. Some of you are awesome.
In fact, every single one of you are awesome.
But other people, people who are not watching this live stream, oh yeah.
They're a problem. You're probably saying, Scott, why is your microphone not on for the YouTube?
But that might be better. Now, if you'd like to take this up a notch, and I think you do, all you need is a cupper mug or a glass of tank or a chalice or a cup.
What is it? A canteen jug or a flask?
You'd think I'd memorize this by now.
Nope. A vessel of any kind.
Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
It's a simultaneous sip.
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Well, I'm gonna start with the shittiest news so that everything else doesn't seem so bad.
Are you with me? You probably all heard that Norm MacDonald passed away yesterday, age 61.
I have several thoughts on this.
Number one, I don't like it when people younger than me, when people younger than me die.
Well, it looks like we have people complaining about the microphone over there.
Oh, it isn't working. Interesting.
How about that? Can you hear me now?
All right, so I just unplugged the microphone.
So I think we would be on the iPad's microphone over on YouTube.
All right, but there's nothing I can do about it.
Sorry. So my Rodecaster apparently just died.
That's my mixer.
So my mixer is just sitting there with all the settings just sitting there like nothing's happening.
I'll tell you. I'll tell you.
Anyway, back to Norm Macdonald.
So, I had a strange interaction with Norm Macdonald, and I think a lot of people...
No, the microphone's unplugged because the mixer died.
Just gonna show you. My floor right now.
I like this close.
I don't know if I can resist it.
Because I'm just trying to pick it up and show it to you.
And you know, it's all curled up.
It's like not working.
You see the levels not even moving or anything.
So I'm trying to resist.
I've got a sledgehammer in my garage.
And I want to take you down to the garage and destroy this thing in front of you really badly.
Really badly. Oh, God, do I want to break this thing.
There's only one person in the world who knows exactly how I feel right now.
You know who you are.
You know who you are.
I'm going to shake that off.
I'm going to shake it off. Mm-mm-mm.
I don't know what it is with audio in me.
But anyway, back to my topic.
Norm MacDonald passed away and a lot of people will tell you their little story about meeting Norm and I've got mine.
So one day, Norm MacDonald contacted me.
And I ended up talking to him on the phone.
And this was maybe three or four years ago.
And he called me, just asked me for some life advice.
Which is the weirdest thing in the world because I'm a gigantic fan.
I had no contact with him whatsoever.
But he had some issues and I guess he was familiar with my work and thought I might have some suggestions.
So we chatted a while.
I don't know if I said anything that was useful.
But I've got this other weird connection to him.
Two other weird connections.
It's just weird how many connections I have to like the headlines.
One is that if you're familiar with Akira the Don and the music he makes by taking podcasters' voices and manipulating them and adding music to them.
And so he did that with some of mine.
And one of them that did well was where I read a Norm Macdonald quote about good versus good, yes.
And it really, really worked out well as a lyric for a song.
It's just a Norm Macdonald tweet.
I just happened to read it, and it got turned into music.
So that's out there.
But the weirdest part about this is that in the past month, I had chosen two people as my role models.
One for my hobby of learning to drum.
I'm trying to become a drummer.
And the other for comedy.
And I think I mentioned both of them in public.
One of them was Charlie Watt, and the other was Norm MacDonald.
And they both died this week.
I don't know how I feel about that.
I mean, it's not funny.
It's not funny. But the two people I chose as my role models for my two fields of interest, they both died this week.
Now, on a personal note, when celebrities die, I generally, you know, it's not like I'm going to cry about it.
They're people I don't know. But I've cried twice.
When celebrities died.
Once was John Levin and...
So, um...
Sorry. Sorry.
Sorry.
CNN continues to Sorry, I had a bad week.
Anyway, CNN. CNN continues to brainwash you with anecdotal stories of people having bad experiences with COVID. I like to read the one per day.
So today's is, let's see, the anecdotal persuasion is a woman who got vaccinated in Mississippi and she got COVID and died because she was immunocompromised.
Sorry. So, all right, I'll be fine.
Okay. So apparently 1 in 500 Americans have died of COVID. Does that sound like a lot?
1 in 500?
Why are no thumbnails working?
I don't know. So 1 in 500 people died of COVID in the United States, I guess.
And that doesn't sound like a lot, but here's the question.
How many seniors and obese people died?
How many seniors and obese people died?
It's not 1 in 500, right?
Is it 1 in 50, maybe?
1 in 50? Because if 1 in 50 of that crowd died and you were in that crowd, that'd be pretty scary.
1 in 500? Not too scary.
1 in 50? You have my attention.
At 1 in 50, I'm going to pay attention.
And I'm wondering, where would that rank in terms of causes of death?
If it's 1 in 500 for people in general, where would that be?
Like how many people die in cars?
It's more than 1 in 500, right?
How many people die riding, I don't know, how many people die swimming?
Probably less than 1 in 500.
So I don't know where that stacks up.
There was a tweet by Laughing Jesus.
That's his name. Don't blame me.
So Laughing Jesus tweets.
He says, I stopped reading Dilbert because of Scott's support of the Trump.
Of the Trump. I may revisit that decision.
Dilbert is pretty effing funny at times.
And so I thought I would like to encourage more of my critics to take this approach.
So if you're a critic of mine and you have a problem with me for whatever problem, I think you should punish yourself.
Because that'll show me.
So if there's anything else you would like to deny yourself that you enjoy, I think that would be a pretty good protest.
It worked for Gandhi.
Gandhi enjoyed eating, but he decided to not eat as part of this protest.
There's a good history for this.
And I think that my critics should learn from Gandhi.
I mean, really.
Can you think of anybody who would be a more morally inspiring figure than Gandhi?
I don't think so. And Gandhi did a hunger strike to try to get freedom from Great Britain.
And I think that my critics should take a note.
If you're mad about anything that I've ever said, consider a hunger strike.
And if the hunger strike doesn't feel enough, have you ever tried hitting yourself with a blunt object?
I mean, I haven't, but then again, I don't really need to punish myself.
But if you'd like to punish yourself as part of a principled, morally and ethically proper demonstration, I recommend something painful for all of my critics, because that'll really show me.
You should either try to run 25 miles without training, don't eat for a week, don't sleep, Sleeping would just make me happy.
Because you know what makes me happy?
I love it when you get enough sleep.
So don't do that if you want to protest me.
So in fact, I would like you to be really healthy.
I would like all of you to eat right, get sleep, and don't drink too much.
But if you want to protest me, there are lots of things you can do to yourself to really, really make it hurt.
Drink too much, overeat, don't sleep.
And if you do those things, I promise you, I'm gonna feel it.
It's gonna be bad for me if you hurt yourself.
So I sure hope you don't do that.
Well, the more I think about it, the more I think that leaving the Taliban to China is a stroke of genius.
Reportedly, a major brawl broke out last week inside Kabul's presidential palace.
And at least one leader of the government is missing, possibly dead.
And the Taliban taking over is a little bit like, you know, what happens if the dog chasing your car actually catches it?
Like, what's he going to do when he catches it?
So I don't feel like the Taliban won.
I feel like the Taliban has some issues.
Maybe some internal fighting.
Maybe the Taliban are not all on the same side.
Maybe the only thing that unified the Taliban was fighting against the existing government.
I've got a feeling things aren't going to go so well for the Taliban.
And I mean, it's tragedy for the Afghan people, of course, but the Taliban themselves, I don't think that's going to be a good day for them.
And I don't think they're going to love it when China gets their hooks in them.
Because China doesn't really want to just work with the Taliban, do they?
Does China just want to have a little commerce with the Taliban?
Nope. No, China wants to own the Taliban.
China wants to dominate the Taliban.
I'm sure that'll go over well.
Don't see any problems ahead for them.
Seems like that should work out pretty, pretty well.
So good luck, China.
I hope you enjoy your Taliban.
Let's talk about the California recall.
Newsom won, it looks like, easily.
Larry Elder has conceded.
It looked like it was close there for a while, didn't it?
Remember the polls that said it was close?
Well, we were quickly informed that those polls were not accurate.
Let me tell you the polls that were accurate, the ones that showed that Newsom was going to win by a while, and then we did.
But you know, but you know, Well, so why did Gavin Newsom win?
Is it because the vote was R-I-G-G-E-D, which I'm not claiming.
I'm just asking. Is it because it was always going to be that way and the polls were wrong?
Why is it we can't have a time when the polls are right and the vote is right?
Can we have that?
Here's a case where we think the election was maybe right, but the polls were wrong, but then they were right.
How's your credibility?
I don't know if you could have a lower credibility for an election than everything that happened in California.
Maybe 2020 was lower credibility, but I have no reason to believe there was any massive fraud.
Do you? Has anybody seen anything that would indicate massive fraud?
Now, here's the good news.
If Gavin Newsom were to win...
Oh my God, Richard.
Thank you. You didn't need to do that.
Here's the good news.
If Gavin Newsom were to win, and apparently he has, the only way I wanted him to win was big.
Because if it were close, yuck.
If it's close, it's all going to be about the election itself and the integrity of the election and was there fraud and where's my mail-in ballot and all that stuff.
But luckily, and I say luckily because it's a weird kind of luck, if you can call it that, it was so not close that maybe it wouldn't matter even if there was some fraud.
Now, we have not detected any that has been confirmed, but We're probably better off, probably better off that it was a big win.
At least there's one less thing to worry about.
Now the question about why, why did he win?
Well, I think Joel Pollack had some of the most insightful comments about this.
Part of it might be that kids went to school.
You know, if you're a parent in California The thing you cared about most was kids going back to school.
And then everything else, you know, was a bother and some of you complained about.
School's a big deal and he got that done, right?
So, you know, other states got it done too, but at least it was one thing.
Imagine, imagine this recall with kids not in school.
Can you imagine? I don't think the vote would have gone the same way.
I think if Newsom hadn't gotten kids in school, it could have gone the other way.
But the other thing is that Newsom did a good job of painting Larry Elder as just Black Trump.
If your opponent can turn you into Black Trump, He did a good job, and it looks like he did a good job there on the persuasion.
So, but I think the bigger story is there are twice as many Democrats.
That's it. There are twice as many Democrats.
That's the end of the story.
You know, you can look for the little things that tweak this or that, but, you know, there's twice as many Democrats, so that's pretty much the whole thing.
So there's this right-wing conspiracy, or is it, that There's somebody in charge of turning off Biden's microphone in certain situations.
And I guess Senator Risch, if I'm pronouncing it correctly, was asking about this.
And Tony Blinken was just laughing at him, saying, no, there's nobody in charge of that.
And apparently it doesn't pass the fact check that there's anybody who even could be in charge of it, because the examples of it are just the normal way things work.
There's no actual example of this happening.
But let me ask you this.
The first time you heard this, that the idea that there's somebody who has control of turning off Biden's microphone, and Rich was asking, who's that person?
Because that would indicate who's really in charge.
Who is the person in charge of Biden's microphone?
The first time you heard that, what was your impression?
Because I'll tell you what it should have been.
It should have been a little bit too much on the nose, right?
A little too perfect? That the person who's really in charge of the country is literally the same person in charge of the microphone.
That is way too on the nose, right?
It'd be one thing to say, oh, I think there are powers in the wings, you know, it's Susan Rice, it's Obama, whatever.
That's actually kind of reasonable because we do know that ex-presidents could be influential and, you know, the deep state.
There's enough to suggest that people could have power without being in power.
That's not crazy. But that the same people or one person got control of the microphone.
I mean, anything's possible, but a little too much on the nose.
So look for that too much on the nose thing.
It's so predictive. All right.
Tonight, tonight, I will be a guest on Gutfeld!
on Fox News.
Check your local Times.
We're talking about the evening one.
I guess it's different time zones, different places.
You can all find it.
Anyway, I'll be doing that remotely tonight.
And that is the answer to the question on locals that they asked me before I came here on YouTube.
And the answer is, no, I will not be stoned today because I'll be on live TV later.
Have I ever been stoned on live TV? Okay, yes.
But you didn't know it.
All right. I think I solved COVID, in case anybody wants to know.
So there's an article I just tweeted around, which questions how we've handled COVID, and it questions whether social distance is the thing we should have concentrated on versus the time that we spend together.
And the argument is this.
If If your virus is spread on spittle, like water droplets, then distance makes a big difference because those droplets will come out and hit the ground.
So if you're far enough away, those droplets don't get there.
But if you have an aerosol virus, like coronavirus, where it just sort of floats in the air for a while, it's not like the droplets are hitting the ground right away, the idea is that the time you spend in the room could be the thing that matters.
Not so much the distance.
Because you could be right next to somebody and your plume is going up through your mask and their plume is going up, but it's sort of diluting and filling the room.
So wherever you are, if it's in the aerosol, it's just hanging in the air.
So what matters is the time you spend in the room and the ventilation, not so much the distance.
Does that make sense? It's a reasonable hypothesis, right?
That we manage the We managed it wrong because we didn't understand the importance of the hanging in the airport.
But here's my question, which I add to this, which I believe will now completely solve the pandemic.
Are you ready? Are you ready?
Solution to the pandemic right now.
Drum roll, please.
Fans. Turn on your fans.
Here's my reasoning. And I would like to get a fact check on this.
I asked on Twitter if anybody studied this and I didn't see a response before I got on.
But the hypothesis goes like this.
And by the way, this is just ignorant speculation.
This next thing is just for fun.
Not a doctor, not a virologist, not a fluid movement expert.
But I'm going to give you some common sense.
And let's just think it through.
It goes like this.
The odds of you getting COVID, I believe, are determined by the viral load.
So it's not just that you were exposed to it.
So fact check me on every part of this, right?
Fact check me on my assumptions and then my conclusion.
So assumption. The amount that you're exposed to makes a big difference.
Second assumption, and this has no scientific basis that I'm aware of, I feel as if a small amount, small enough, might give you some protection from the COVID without giving you COVID. Now, that's purely speculation, and it's based on the fact that your body might say, hey, I feel like there's something out there that didn't quite infect me.
I detected it, but maybe I should just get ready for it.
Now, I don't know if your body can do that.
Pure speculation, not based on any knowledge or research or anything else.
If we know, the only thing we need to know for this following thought is that the amount of load matters.
Now it matters two ways.
One, it matters whether you get it at all, right?
And the other way it matters is how badly you're sick.
So two ways it could matter a lot.
Now the how badly you're sick part, we know that's real, right?
So I don't have to speculate that the amount of initial load you get could determine how sick you get.
So let's say that's the only thing we know for sure is how sick you'll get.
But we're not for sure whether a little bit of exposure might actually help you in some weird way.
So that part, forget about that for now.
Just that reducing the load could be good.
Now turn on the fans.
Here's my question. Did the aerosol virus tend to move in clouds?
So this is the big question to fact check.
Anybody who's got, you know, fluid expertise, do me a fact check on this.
So let's say you're in a room and you've got just normal ventilation.
The windows are not open, right?
So windows closed, normal ventilation through the AC. Not enough to stop anything apparently.
But now let's say you turn on fans.
If you have fans on and there's movement, Do you get the same viral load or does the fan distribute it faster such that there's more virus, let's say below your waist and more virus maybe above your head and not as much in a cloud that's sort of surrounding the people who are putting it off?
What do you think? Now, how hard would it be to test it?
I think you could test it somehow.
So here's my question.
Turn on the fans in every room.
Make sure you've got airflow.
Or open a window if you've got that option.
And see if the people who had put on fans and opened windows everywhere they went.
Or even carry like a little portable fan.
You know those little portable fans you carry?
Would you be better off having a portable fan that you just held here and blew people's You know, particles away than having a mask?
Maybe, right?
If you had just a little fan that you walked around with when you talked to people, just distribute the air.
And here's a question on locals, a perfectly good question.
What about a blowjob?
Now, I'm no doctor.
But I feel that that's a perfectly good question because as far as I know, there's not a single case of anybody getting COVID while giving a blowjob.
So if you're worried about the COVID, ladies and gay men, if you're worried about getting the COVID, nobody has ever contracted COVID while giving a blowjob.
I don't know that to be true, but I'd like it to be true.
So just think about that.
There's an interesting story in the New York Post by Melanie Notkin about why progressive women want to date men who act like conservatives.
So apparently even progressive women like men who act like men and do things like hold doors and pay for dinner and Walk on the curb side of the sidewalk to protect them from puddles and god knows what from the street.
And also to make the plans.
To make the plans. And what do you think about that?
How many of the women, the few women who are Brave enough to watch this.
By the way, if you're a woman and you're watching this, you're special because I don't think most women can hang with this.
For some reason. I mean, my audience is 90% plus men.
Alright, now, let me ask you this.
Men, I've heard that what women like more than...
And I've heard this so many times.
Tell me, men, if you've heard this also.
That women, no matter whether they're left-leaning or right-leaning, that all women like it when men take the initiative to make a plan.
Say, oh, we're going here and, you know, put on your nice clothes and we'll be going there.
Women, can you confirm that you like it when men make the plans?
And do you like it because it seems like the man is being alpha or being assertive or being sort of a man?
Is that what it feels like?
All right, well, you're all wrong.
Although your opinions can't be wrong, of course, so your opinion is right.
But let me tell you what you're missing.
Let me tell you as a man how I feel if I'm part of a couple And the expectation is that I'm supposed to make the plans.
How does that make me feel?
Ladies, how does that make me feel?
Women? Anybody? Tell me how it makes me feel as the man when I'm the one who has to make the plans.
Does it make me feel like an alpha male, strong, in control?
Nope. It makes me feel like your fucking secretary.
So let me say this again because your husbands can't tell you this.
Husbands, just shut up for a minute.
Guys, guys, don't say a thing.
I got this.
Alright? I got this for you.
Disagree with me privately.
When you're talking to your spouse in a minute and you're gonna, don't say you agree with me.
You don't need to. I got this for you.
Okay? Don't get into this.
You will get divorced if you get into this.
Just agree with your wife.
Let me do the hard lifting here, okay?
If you expect your man to make all the plans, you're treating him like your secretary.
And it doesn't fucking work.
Here's how it goes.
Hey wife, I just made some plans for us at 8 o'clock.
Ooh, ah!
I wish I told you I had plans to go out with my girlfriends tonight.
Okay, well, okay, I tried, but at least you know I made some plans.
Tomorrow? Put on your good dress.
We've got dinner reservations, 7 o'clock.
Ooh, ah, not tonight.
Tonight I've got a little bit of a headache.
I wish you'd asked me earlier.
All right, well, okay, we'll take this, we'll take a run at it again.
How about the weekend? Weekend comes.
I got some plans. We're gonna take a trip.
Ooh, there?
Yeah, I just went there.
I went there with my ex.
That's like sort of the last place I want to go.
Okay, well, we'll try it again tomorrow.
I'm gonna make you a new plan.
Watch me be all alpha.
I'm a man. I'm a man and I'm gonna take charge.
Take charge of this situation.
Alright, so, I got new plans.
We're gonna go watch the monster trucks.
Monster truck rally.
So that'll be at 6 o'clock on Saturday.
What? Oh, you don't like the monster truck rallies?
No. You don't like those?
Okay. Well, I already bought tickets.
Well, I'll throw them away. We'll try it again tomorrow.
So, men, Just don't say anything.
Ladies, I know what you're thinking, that you like your man to take charge and make plans.
Shows he loves you.
You're treating him like a secretary and you're making it impossible for him to even fucking do anything.
Don't ask him to do something that isn't a thing.
He can't make plans for you.
Do you know what does work?
Let me tell you what works.
Wife, hey husband, I made plans tonight, 6 o'clock, for dinner.
Husband says, oh, that's great.
I told Bob we were going to get together.
I'll call and cancel. And then you go out to dinner.
It's different. It's pretty different, right?
How about walking on the curb side of the sidewalk?
How many of you men Walk on the curbside of the sidewalk.
Because it protects your woman from whatever danger there is in the sidewalk.
Okay. Now, when you walk on the curbside, and let's say you cross the road, and let's say you're at an intersection or something, how often does the woman who you would like to not be on the curbside, how often does she take the curbside, just because that's the way it works when you turn the corner, And then you have to move her away from the curbside.
So how many times does she do that if you're taking a walk?
All the time, right?
You're trying to walk on the curbside and she keeps walking on the curbside.
And you got to move her back.
It just doesn't work.
Anyway, it's a great article by Melanie Notkin.
I enjoyed it. I think chivalry is maybe not exactly what you think it is.
I think that what women think is an alpha man is a man being your secretary and having no chance of succeeding, right?
If one in ten times the guy makes a plan and it works out, he's a hero, I suppose that's good.
But it's a dumb fucking idea and it doesn't work and you should get over it.
All right. Let's talk about the TDS General.
This is the biggest news.
So General Milley, according to a new book by Woodward and somebody else, Costa, I guess, he was so afraid that Trump might spark a war with China that he called China to reassure them and make some plans on his own.
Now, Trump says he doubts this really happened.
And Trump has pretty good instincts, and Trump also knows how many stories were totally made up about things that happened during his administration.
So, given that so many things were just made up, we don't know.
Now, I don't think we've heard a confirmation or denial from Milley himself, so we'll wait on that to find out if this is true.
But, let's imagine it's true for a moment.
Isn't it treason? And isn't this taking civilian control away from the government and giving us military control?
Because the reason that Milley gave is that he wasn't sure that Trump was mentally capable, mentally capable, in his judgment, his personal judgment.
Did I say his professional medical judgment?
No, no.
He's a military guy.
Did I say that Milley consulted with a band of psychologists and psychiatrists and they told him, hey, Trump is dangerous.
You better do something. Nope.
Nope. It was General Milley himself who just decided that Trump was mentally unfit and that he better make his own foreign policy with China.
Military policy.
That's treason, isn't it?
If you're making military plans with not an ally, not an ally, was Milley warning China of an attack?
Yeah. Now, suppose the worst case scenario happened and we had actually attacked China.
There's no chance of that China.
By the way, China, if anybody's listening, there was never any chance we were going to attack China.
We don't want to attack China.
Can you think of anything dumber than attacking China?
Do you know, I don't even think that Milley, the general, would have had to be the one to stop it.
I think every soldier would have just stopped.
Can you imagine being in the military?
And the order comes down to attack China?
What do you do? Do you run and grab your gun and go attack China?
Or do you say to yourself, hold on.
Let's say you're just a soldier, you're just a Marine, and you hear that the order has come down for the United States to attack China, and you haven't even heard a reason.
There's not even a reason.
What do you do? Well, I don't think you attack China.
I think you literally say, slow your roll.
Are you telling us China's not attacking us, there's no immediate danger from China, and you want us to attack China?
I just don't think, I just don't think anybody would do it.
I mean, you'd have to have at least a reason.
So I don't think Billy had any, you know, there was no real risk.
So how bad is this guy's judgment?
His judgment is awful.
And this is the same guy who was the key player in Afghanistan withdrawal.
This is the guy who said it was a mistake to walk with Trump with the Bible or whatever to the church.
This guy has terrible judgment as far as we can tell.
And on top of that, he looks stupid.
Do you know who he reminds me of?
Years ago, I was a supervisor of a group of people in the bank.
And one of my employees, I asked him to put some data in a spreadsheet.
And I walked by and I saw him with his calculator, his hand calculator.
And I said, what are you calculating?
He said, well, I'm adding up the row and the spreadsheet so I can put in the total.
And I said to him, well, you know, that's what the spreadsheet does.
And let me show you how, because he never used one.
So I said, you just put this, you know, little equal sign here and do this.
And he goes, oh, okay. Came back an hour later, he still had his calculator out.
And he said, no, it's just faster.
It's faster to do it on the calculator.
He was a dumb guy.
He was a dumb, dumb guy.
And all I'm saying is that Milley looks like that guy to me.
He looks like the same guy.
Like the guy who couldn't reason himself out of a paper bag.
And he has to be fired.
Biden has to fire this guy.
Do you know why? Because General Milley has said, well, if the reports are true, I mean, first you'd have to get his confirmation that any of this happened.
But if the reports are true, Biden has to fire him because it means that Biden doesn't have control of the military.
This guy gets to decide if Biden is mentally sound and then to decide whether to do what he wants or make up his own decisions.
Milley If the report is true, that's a big if.
Even Trump thinks it's not true.
But if it's true, he can't work for Biden.
Because Biden is obviously mentally challenged.
Obviously. Everybody can see it.
And if being mentally unfit means you don't have to listen to his commands, then we've lost civilian control of the military.
Now, of course, there's a separate argument which says maybe we should, because it's Biden.
I don't know if he's capable either.
But I'd like to think there would be enough people, even civilians, that we wouldn't really have to worry about some problem.
But, you know, because I think the civilians control Biden, so there are enough adults in the room.
I'm not worried about him starting a war.
But if this guy can just decide that the president isn't fit, just on his own, We don't have civilian control.
It's the most basic thing, well, one of the most basic things we need in this country is civilian control of the military.
It's like so fundamental to the whole system staying in place.
Biden has to fire him immediately.
And here's the catch, if it's true.
Biden has to fire Milley for what Milley did to Trump.
And I would have a whole new respect for Biden if he does.
Because that's nonpartisan.
It's also the right move.
And he gets a twofer because Milley was part of the Afghanistan thing.
All right. Would Milley take directions from China?
He was talking to China.
Suppose China said, look, here's the deal.
What we need you to do is X, and then we'll do Y. And then between the two of us, you doing X and me doing Y, we can overcome Trump.
To some extent, even indirectly, he would have been kind of in a position to take orders from China, if you know what I mean, sort of indirectly.
That's not good. And Trump said, I've had so many calls today saying that's treason, number one.
I'll bet that's true. And Trump continued acknowledging that he was tough on China regarding trade and COVID, and he went on to describe the idea that he would unilaterally attack China as, quote, totally ridiculous.
That is totally ridiculous.
Was there anything, even the slightest whiff, That Trump would attack China?
Or to put it another way, is there anybody in the United States, man, woman, child or unidentified, who would have said let's attack China?
Can you find me one person In the whole United States, in politics, privately, in the alley behind your house, anywhere, is there any person who thinks we should attack China unprovoked?
Remember, it's unprovoked.
Are you serious?
And yet Milley was dumb enough to think that Trump would be the one person in the whole world The one person who would attack China unprovoked, at least militarily unprovoked.
Now, if Trump had sent a team in to kill the fentanyl dealers, and maybe that sparked a war, I would say that was worth it, because the fentanyl is a military action.
So we can certainly respond to a military action with military action.
So if Trump had militarily gone into their country and killed their dealers, their fentanyl dealers, I of course would support that completely.
Even though that's a military action.
But it's a military reaction to a military action.
"Sounds like he was being brainwashed by the media.
That's exactly what it sounds like.
It sounds like General Milley was brainwashed by the media and believed CNN. I mean, in a way, CNN probably turned this guy.
Silly Millie. All right, yeah, Taiwan's got a real problem.
Okay, so that's what I got for today, or is it?
Yes, I do.
I'd love to hear an answer on the idea of using fans.
You know, did you ever see that there's an M. Night Shyamalan movie With Mel Gibson, somebody will tell me the name of the movie.
Somebody tell me the name of the movie.
But there are signs.
God, that was fast. You were so fast.
Yeah, the movie is signs.
And the, you know, I don't want to give away the movie.
Yeah, I'm going to give away the movie.
Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert.
If you've not watched an old movie called Signs, I'm going to give away the plot.
Spoiler alert. In the end, they find that there's some simple solution to beating the aliens.
I'll just keep it that way. And I keep thinking that there's going to be some simple solution to beating COVID. Like, I just feel like it.
But not really based on any smartness or research or anything.
It just feels like there's something there.
Yeah, it could be mouthwash.
It could be mouthwash and fans.
It could be that. Mouthwash and fans.
In fact, I'll bet you...
They will find out something like, you know, soda.
You know, if you drank a Diet Coke every half hour, you probably wouldn't get COVID because Diet Coke kills everything.
I'm not suggesting that.
Yeah, it could be smoking.
It could be nutty pots. It could be dope.
I feel like there's something out there that is just going to make a difference.
Yeah, vitamin D we know about.
All right, that's it for now.
I'll talk to you all. Tomorrow and I'll see what I can do about fixing my...
You know what's weird? So this is weird.
So today I have this problem with my mixer, the Rodecaster.
Last night I looked at it and I realized I'd been leaving the power on overnight so I didn't have to change anything in the morning.
It would just always be ready to go.
And I looked at it and I said, I feel like I should turn the power off sometimes because I wonder if just being on all the time could ever cause it to glitch.
I literally thought that for the first time last night and I left it on anyway and it glitched.
Is that a coincidence? I've never had that thought before.
The one time I had that thought That leaving it on might be a problem.
It glitched. How many times have I used this thing?
