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I'm going to do a test on both the YouTube channel and over on Locals.
I want to see what the lag is between my comments and your response.
I'm going to say an unusual word and the first person who repeats it back to me in the comments That will tell you how long the lag is, all right?
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So the first one who retypes this word, that'll tell me how long the lag is.
The word is octopus.
Go.
One, two, three, four.
Oh, three seconds?
Three seconds.
That was very fast.
Looks like we got the lag down.
Now that might change a little bit as the traffic comes in.
I don't know if it's traffic related, but that's a, yeah, that's very good.
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Now, there might be a difference on the browser version versus the app.
I don't know about that yet.
Well, let me tell you about my AI experience yesterday.
If you were like me, and I like to think everybody is, you probably said to yourself sometime in the last year or so, I should spend some time working with AI just so I don't get left behind.
Anybody say that to themselves?
A lot of you are probably already using it for work.
But I said to myself, I'm going to wade in.
So what I thought I would do was build a little app, which in the AI world, if you're using OpenAI, chat GPT version, would be called a GPT.
So it lets you talk your way into creating an app.
And so I tried that and I said to myself, what can a clever person in his senior years who doesn't work with technology all the time anymore, like how far can I get?
Here's the problem.
The interfaces for using AI are weirdly way behind the AI.
So no matter how powerful the AI is, getting you to use it as a user is weirdly, it's almost ridiculously non-obvious.
For example, I probably spent an hour yesterday not knowing that there was a switch where I could intentionally change it from version 3.5, which wouldn't do anything for me, because it didn't have the features I needed for what I was doing, to 4.0.
I spent the whole time trying to debug why it wasn't doing what I wanted, and I wasn't even in the right version.
Now, why does it not default to the current version?
Or why doesn't it flash and tell you, I'm definitely on this version, so you can do these things right now.
I mean, that's just a user interface total botch.
That's all it was.
So I spent hours just trying to figure that out.
Do you know how hard it was even to find The official chat GPT app.
You go to the App Store, and there's so many crazy little apps that have the same name, and they try to make a logo that looks sort of like the official one, but different.
It's 90% garbage apps, or apps that are not the ones you want.
So I spent maybe an hour, maybe an hour, even trying to look for the app.
Have you ever spent an hour looking for the app when you knew the name of the company?
I mean, that's so weird.
Why was it so hard?
But then when I had the actual experience of building it, what's new about version 4 is it can access an external file.
So you can feed it a file and then ask questions about it and build a little app around its special knowledge of maybe that one file or what you taught it.
And that little special knowledge would be your GPT.
It was actually a freaky experience building an app by talking to it.
But that kind of worked, meaning I just had a conversation with it.
And the thing that's really mind-blowing is that it makes suggestions after it fails.
So you'll say, can you do this?
You will try, and it will say, I can't do that with the file you've given me, but I'm going to try this instead.
And I'm like, what?
Seriously?
You're actually keeping me informed while you're trying a whole new look?
And then it tries another one?
But it was freaky.
It talks to you.
It talks to you without being asked, and tells you what it's doing, and it tells you it's going to try a new way to solve your problem.
Your brain just goes, what?
What am I dealing with?
It's awesome.
Now, I did not succeed, but I believe I learned enough yesterday that in a very short time, I could create a GPT that would look at a text file that has everything a Dilbert comic ever said, And then separately, it can find that Dilbert comic in a different way.
And it can take those two pieces of knowledge and marry them and become a search engine for any Dilbert topic.
So maybe by the end of today, just by talking to AI, I'll be able to announce that there's a GPT that you'd have to have access to the app, I guess, that you could do a search.
Or I could do a search, or I could hire somebody to do a search for you if you wanted to reprint, that sort of thing.
But that's how easy it was, just talking to it.
But you have to get past the interface glitches first.
Well, Iceland is in a state of emergency, at least part of it.
I guess there's a big-ass volcano there that has been so active, they've had 1,400 earthquakes in 24 hours.
A number which is surely bigger than that since I read the post on it.
And they're at least, it looks like they've told one town to completely leave.
So there's one town that's right in the right in the death area.
But it looks like they have time.
So it looks like they're gonna get out, but they're gonna lose their homes.
So it looks like an entire town might disappear.
So we'll see.
If it gets worse it could affect air travel.
I understand.
Somebody smart told me that.
All right.
Here's what bothers me especially about this Iceland story.
I have to be honest.
I spent a lot of my time thinking what my backup escape place would be.
You know, if the place you live goes to hell for whatever reason, natural disaster, or let's say you get cancelled and you can't live among the population anymore, something like that.
And I always look for, all right, what's my worst case scenario?
Where can I go?
And Iceland was on my short list.
Because they're like, wow, you know, I bet you could go there and just hide from the rest of the world for a while.
And now the whole place might turn into a volcano.
So no place is safe.
There's a study on willow bark extract.
I know, you were waiting to find out about that, weren't you?
You're all like, I hope he talks about the willow bark extract, because that's some news right there.
Well, it turns out this willow bark, you put it in tea or something, make a tea out of it, and it can thwart all kinds of viruses.
So everything from seasonal colds to COVID-19 to viruses that affect, you know, completely different conditions.
So it's sort of a broad spectrum virus killer.
But it might be so easy to obtain and maybe so hard to patent that you'll never be able to take it.
But if things go bad, go find yourself a... Well, I don't want to tell you to take bark off a tree and consume it.
That seems like bad advice.
You should probably listen to a doctor before you eat any tree bark or make tea out of it.
But it's good to know it's an option.
This is one of these news stories that I like to give you toward the beginning to show you that even though the news might look like it's all doom and gloom at the minute, at the moment, there might be some really, really big things that are brewing.
To make things better.
I mean, suppose they did come up with a broad spectrum antiviral that just, like, took a big piece out of every virus.
Totally possible.
That could actually happen.
I mean, that would be very transformational for life on Earth.
Have I ever told you that science isn't real and they're mostly just making shit up?
I didn't used to think that.
When I was a kid, I thought science was, like, the best way to understand the world.
And, of course, I was born right around the time that science was telling you cigarettes were good for you.
That's about when I was born.
And I was born about the time that the government was telling you that the food pyramid was how you should eat.
Nope.
Nope, nope, nope.
Not true.
But it just keeps getting funnier and funnier at how bad science has always been and we didn't know it.
I've told you this before.
So in the late 90s, I wrote a book called The Dilbert Future.
And I've said this before, but it's a good lead up to what I'm going to talk about.
And I said to myself, I'll bet you I could pick anything that science knows to be true for sure.
I could predict that it will be overturned by science in the future, and that I would be right and I would look like a prophet.
And so I had two choices.
I was like, I'm either going to pick the Big Bang, or I'm going to pick the theory of evolution.
Because I thought, OK, those are two things that nobody, nobody is going to say, you know, is going to change.
We really get those things.
We understand them.
And in my lifetime, Sure enough, the Big Bang has been at least thrown into great question because our better microscopes, or not microscopes, telescopes, can see that there are galaxies formed that don't make sense if there was a Big Bang.
So did anybody see that that would be overturned?
I mean, I don't know what it's been replaced with.
I mean, that's still a mystery.
And I would argue that evolution has been debunked.
But you're welcome to disagree.
And I would say that evolution has been debunked by the simulation theory.
Now, we don't know that we're a simulation.
It's just that it's, you know, a trillion to one odds that it is.
Which would make evolution more of a perceptual thing and not any part of reality.
So I picked the two most basic things of science, and in my opinion, This is my opinion.
They've both been debunked to my satisfaction in my lifetime.
I was right on both of them.
Now, the one I picked was evolution.
But yeah, I could have picked the Big Bang.
But here's another one.
So yesterday I was talking about why is it that if we all evolved from people who came from Africa, why is it that when I do my 23andMe, it doesn't have any African in it?
And I thought, well, is that just because it gets so diluted over time that it eventually effectively disappears?
Is that why?
Because it didn't really smell right.
Because I've got some Neanderthal in there, a solid 2% or something.
And I thought, hmm, it does seem like stuff lasts a long time.
So why wouldn't there be a little bit more African in me?
And then I found out.
Apparently, there's been this whole debunking of the out of Africa theory.
How many of you knew that?
How many of you knew that there is some serious debunking about the theory that we all started in Africa and everything spread out from there?
Well, I've only just touched the surface, but apparently books have been written and there are a whole bunch of alternative theories that seem to make more sense than the end of Africa.
And here's the realization that came from it.
The out-of-Africa theory was always a racist theory, wasn't it?
Did it grow out of science, or did it grow out of scientists being fucking racist?
It looks like it was just a racist theory the whole time.
Because nobody says this directly, right?
But imagine you're an anthropologist in... What year did we come up with the out-of-Africa idea?
Can you give me a historical... Give me a calendar on that.
Was it 1800s or 1900s?
When did we decide that people evolved out of Africa?
Early 1900s?
1860s?
Somebody says mid-1800s.
That's when people started finding fossils and whatnot.
So here's what I think.
I think that the world was a super racist place.
And that the anthropologists, because they were super racist, they came up with this idea that the Africans were more primitive, and that the people like them were the ones who evolved from the more primitive stuff.
Literally the most racist thing you could ever come up with, and then they embedded it into basic science.
When in fact, the evidence seems to suggest that humans started in maybe more than one place, And that's the whole story.
But there was a lot of interspecies banging.
The early days of humanity must have been wild.
Because it turns out you could bang a monkey, you could bang a Neanderthal, you could get those Denisovans or whatever they are, the little ones.
How wild is that?
Like today we're like, Would you date somebody Irish?
Oh, no.
I'd never date somebody Irish.
Actually, I've never heard anybody say that, but I suppose they did.
But back then it was like, I had a little Neanderthal tang last night.
How was it?
Well, it was wild.
It was wild.
I recommend it.
Have you ever tried a Denisovian homo erectus?
I can't wait to get some homo erectus action.
All right, sounds worse than it is.
All right, let's talk about, so everything is wrong about science, and always was.
Ronna McDonald.
Damn it.
I can't do it.
I swear to God, I was looking at the name and trying to read Ronna McDaniel, and my brain couldn't actually do it.
My brain turned her into a clown, a fast food clown.
Now, was it Laura Ingram who made the same mistake on TV and had to correct herself in real time?
I think I watched somebody else just do the same thing and then quickly correct herself.
What could be more damning than being criticized and people keep calling you accidentally a clown's name?
I mean, there aren't that many famous clowns, right?
How many clowns can you name?
Go.
How many clowns?
There's Ronald McDonald.
And then?
Bozo.
Good.
Give me another clown.
There are very few clowns that you can name.
Right?
I mean, Red Skelton, a million years ago.
Right.
So they're all, yeah.
I don't know about the Burger King.
That's more of a weird king thing.
Krusty the Clown.
Thank you.
Krusty the Clown.
Clown Adams.
Clever.
Okay.
Yeah.
But it's very unfortunate to be criticized and also have a name people think sounds like a clown.
But she was, Rana was interviewed by Laura Ingraham on Fox and I have to say she came off as not capable.
Now I don't, I have no Inside knowledge to know if she does a good job or a bad job.
I don't have any opinion on that at all.
I wouldn't know what a good job looked like, actually.
You could tell that Republicans aren't winning as much as they'd like to.
But, you know, I can't tell from the outside who's doing what or who should do what better.
You should have accountability, though, so it doesn't matter.
The details don't matter.
If you're not getting it done, you're not getting it done.
Time to try something else.
But she did not come across as capable.
Did anybody else watch it?
Did you have the same impression?
I could have been primed, you know, too primed to see it that way.
So Laura Ingram asks her a basic question, and she runs off on this long thing and uses up all her time answering the wrong question.
And then Laura calls her out like, that wasn't even really the question I asked.
I mean, she looked like she couldn't handle even an interview.
So it wasn't a good look.
So it was a good day for Vivek.
Who by the way has merchandised, remember when Nikki Haley in the debate called him scum under her breath?
Now he's created a line of merchandise that you can buy for his campaign with kind of a cool logo.
I have to admit, whoever did the graphic design on his stuff, really good.
It shows Vivek looking powerful in some military outfit and some American looking V behind him for victory or Vivek.
And it's called Rebel Scum.
So he added rebel to it.
Rebel Scum.
I'll tell you, this works every time the Republicans do it, and it works never when the Democrats do it.
Have you noticed that?
Maybe that's just a bias on my part.
But when the Democrats try to monetize or turn one of their insults into a positive, it doesn't quite work.
You know, like the Power Brandon thing they tried to do about Biden?
It didn't really connect.
But I feel every time a Republican tries it, it works.
Like the deplorable mugs?
I'll bet a lot of deplorable mugs were sold.
And we still call ourselves deplorable, you know, jokingly.
So, yeah, it doesn't work the other way for some reason.
Well, this little story is funny.
This is where the level of trust is with our government.
Here's how much we trust our government.
I'll just read, so you might know that there was a big bust, there was a DC brothel that was taken down by the FBI.
On the same day that a number of people voted in Congress to authorize the building of an FBI new headquarters, $300 million Death Star bigger than the Pentagon.
And 70 Republicans even voted for it.
And Molly Hemingway had this post, she said, is it bad I assume all 70 GOP who voted to reward the FBI with a brand new headquarters are also clients of this brothel?
So that's saying out loud what a lot of us were thinking.
On the very same day, it's almost like they're sending a message.
It sounds very much like they were sending a message, doesn't it?
Like, you know, we do have the client list from the DC brothel.
Here it is.
I mean, it could leak.
Leaks happen.
You know, it's funny the timing.
It's funny that the timing of when there could be this leak just happens to match up, and this is a coincidence, people.
With the time that we needed Congress to do something that they didn't want to do, but was good for us and the FBI.
So, you know, those two stories, they're just sort of coincidentally.
There's no cause and effect.
And maybe there isn't.
But do you trust it?
Or does it?
How many times has there been a story where your worst suspicion was exactly what was true?
Way too many times.
Way too many times.
So when you see this coincidence, you say to yourself, I don't even think that is a coincidence.
So I don't know what's true, but we have been trained, if you're paying attention, you've been trained not to trust this and to assume that this is a dirty vote and that they just took $300 million of your taxpaying money and put it into something because of blackmail.
Maybe.
I'm not saying that's true.
I'm saying that if you have that as an operating assumption, you probably have a good operating assumption, even if it's not right every time.
All right.
Jake Novak posted this today on X. He said, was at my local gun shop again yesterday.
I like the fact that it's again.
He was at his local gun shop twice recently.
Now, Jake has worked for Israel, and so he's got a good insight into this world.
And he says he was at the gun shop twice, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that there was a minivan of religious Jews inside within 20 minutes after the store opened.
And then Jake says, and I'll say it again, Jews arming up like this is the effective end of the gun control movement in America.
Agree?
Do you agree with that statement?
That conservative Jews, well Jews in general, arming up in America is the end of the gun control movement.
No, it's not the end of the debate.
Definitely not the end of the debate.
But it does create a almost impossible force to overcome.
Because not only do Jewish Americans and people all over the world have now seen this model of what a bunch of people with rifles can do to a bunch of people who don't have them, right?
If you always wondered what could that look like, that's what it looks like.
The people with the rifles slaughter and torture and rape the people who didn't have rifles.
That's it.
That's your entire story.
So if you wanna be one of those people someday, the ones who were tortured, raped, and had no guns, well, you know which way to go.
But if you like to have a gun, you also know which way to go.
I'm gonna add this to my list of, are you ready for this?
Add it to the list of what?
What is the list I'm building?
That I'm adding the Jews arming up with guns.
Trump was right.
The Trump was right list is really impressive at this point.
From the border, to the wars, to gun control.
I mean, he's racking it up by just staying quiet.
And I'm going to say it directly.
There is a feeling of Trump's third act That is so strong in my bones that I'm finding it almost impossible to believe that by election day 2024, we will not have a major breaking news scandal about our election process.
You can just feel it.
It's just sort of like trying to get out in every possible way.
Does anybody else feel that or is that just my imagination?
At this point, I would place a substantial bet on a big story about elections between now and 2024.
Don't know if it'll be Georgia, don't know if it'll be Fulton County, but I'm going to go with my prediction that the alleged, you know, some people allege there are a bunch of unfolded fake ballots in a room and they know what the room is.
I'm going to go with my prediction that the room will be empty.
Or at least those ballots will be gone.
You just watch.
If the ballots are gone, so is your democracy.
Would you agree with that?
If the ballots are gone and we never know where they are, that's the end of your democracy.
You could call it dead at that point.
All right.
Here's a little test of your understanding.
I'm going to give you two names that are in the news, but not in the most mainstream of news.
And I'm going to make the following claim.
If you don't recognize these two names, you don't understand anything that you're seeing in the news.
That's a big claim, isn't it?
So this will be your test.
If you recognize the names, and you understand their role, and who they connect to, and who they work with, and who funds them, and all that, then you have a good idea of what you're seeing.
Here are the two names.
Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos.
Krebs, K-R-E-B-S, and Stamos, S-T-A-M-O-S.
How many of you know both of those names and their role in the political informational world?
I feel like this is sort of a dividing point between Democrats and well-informed Republicans.
If you're a well-informed Republican, you'd recognize both names, and you would know that they're part of the misinformation structure created by the Democrats.
And you would also know, if you're well informed, that the misinformation structure, which on the surface is to get rid of misinformation, is effectively a Democrat censoring machine, which could be applied to the social media platforms, etc.
If you didn't know that that entire structure exists, and the names of the people who are central to it, then you don't know that your news is fake.
You don't know that your social media experience is changed by them.
So I'm not going to say what's good or bad about them.
I don't want to get sued for some kind of weird accusation.
I'm saying that as a news consumer, if you've not gotten down to the level where you recognize those names and their role and stuff, you really don't know what's happening.
Because then the news won't make sense.
You'll think it's real.
The moment you think the news is real, and that the one you watch is the real one, and the ones your enemies watch is the wrong one, as soon as you think that, you don't understand anything.
Everything's confusing after that.
Well, let's talk about brainwashing.
I saw a post by a user on X, it goes by Kordalyakrosh, and I thought it was an interesting thought.
And the user said, I've begun to think that education was always supposed to be politicized.
People just forgot about this and ended up giving the keys to this henhouse to the wolves, i.e., those who want to subvert the minds of impressionable children.
Thus, we now have students cheering on Hamas.
Now, to which I say, yes, education was always intended to be politicized.
If you do it right, it's politicized.
And I would point out that I was brainwashed as a kid, like really, really heavily brainwashed, as were most of you, I would say.
But I was brainwashed for, let's say, capitalism, and loving my country, and patriotism, and the so-called melting pot.
Now, those things have a negative.
The culture that I was brought up in, the brainwashing in school, turned us into America is great and we can do anything and we'll go over and bomb your people if we don't like you.
So I think America went almost too far in saying Americans are special.
I'm not sure that was helpful.
But the collective brainwashing was very effective in creating enough cohesion in the country and enough, you know, the capitalism emphasis.
Made you work hard and it worked out.
It was good software for the country for where the country was.
It was just the right, right operating system.
But it had its flaws.
Because it was successful, And only because it was successful.
We could stop talking about, you know, daily survival.
And then you start talking about more theoretical, philosophical things.
And suddenly you say, hey, this system is brainwashing people into a certain system that's not making everybody thrive.
Something you didn't talk about until you had the, you know, the, let's say the luxury of being able to talk about it.
And, and then, You know, people want to be flexible because it did seem unfair on some level, people would imagine.
And so, you know, we've evolved into a different system.
Let me give you an idea of how powerful brainwashing is.
So Jewish students at MIT were blocked from attending classes by hostile anti-Israel protesters.
Do you think TikTok had anything to do with that?
Yeah, there's very good information to suggest that TikTok is where the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish protesters are getting their fire from.
So TikTok clearly is a brainwashing thing.
But how bad does it get?
It was a video of a Palestinian grandmother on something called Hamas TV.
I don't know how there's a Hamas TV, but I guess there is.
It's not MSNBC, it's a Hamas TV.
You could get those two confused, I know.
The grandmother said that the Jihad against the Jews is a top priority of the Palestinian people and she said directly that she's ready to sacrifice all of her 17 children.
She has 17 children and 65 grandchildren.
So she's willing for all of her children and all of her grandchildren to become martyrs for the cause of killing Jews and taking over the Jewish land.
Now, Can Israel get any luckier with its enemies?
If you ever had a chance to choose your enemies, the one you should choose would be the one who says, yes, go ahead and please kill all of my children and all of my grandchildren, because we'll be quite happy about that situation.
You know, we go to heaven and stuff.
I mean, they're making it kind of easy for Israel to do what it must do to protect itself.
Now isn't the biggest conversation about Gaza has been who killed whose babies, right?
Because we don't care about adults as much as babies.
So it's like your babies, you killed my babies, you killed my children.
No, you killed more of my children.
It's all about killing children because that's the most powerful Mental models, that alarms us the most.
So of course we'd see the most of that.
But here's somebody who actually says, you know, I don't mind if you kill my children and grandchildren, you know, as long as we're working on this mission to kill you.
That really does give Israel a free hand.
Can I say this directly?
I don't know if I can say this directly and stay on social media, so I'll say it.
Maybe indirectly?
If you create a situation where your enemy has no choice but to kill your children, your enemy has a free pass.
They have an ethical and moral free pass to kill all of your children.
If you've stated, I have trained my children to grow up and kill you even at the risk of their life, nothing shall stop my children.
My children I encourage you to go out and kill the enemy.
The enemy has an absolute, total ethical right to kill all of your children.
Let me say it as directly as possible.
People like this grandmother, and she does not speak for all Palestinians, I should say that for sure, doesn't speak for all of them.
But, unfortunately, the world is gonna see messages like this, and they're gonna say, you know what?
If Israel killed all of their children, It would be a horror beyond imagination and completely justified from a self-defense perspective.
Those both can be true.
From a conscious, conscience perspective, it's the worst thing you can even imagine.
Killing anybody's children intentionally.
From a self-defense perspective, absolutely necessary.
So let me say it directly.
It's hard for me to have sympathy for people who have weaponized their own children.
How do I do that?
I'm not sure I can even muster any, honestly.
It's a cruel world, and terrible things happen, and I wish it didn't happen.
You know, I very much wish nobody's children got killed.
But if you weaponize your children, and then you brag about it, the other team gets to kill your kids.
That's just the way it is.
So, that's good for Israel.
That takes a lot of pressure off them from at least the mental part that people would put on them.
So, given those examples, let us go to the whiteboard.
I want to give you my impression of what's happened in the brainwashing landscape.
So, as I said, when I was a kid, the model was the government would influence TV, the CIA specifically would have lots of influence over the TV, and they'd tell the TV, do a lot of patriotic You know, stuff.
Make sure the people love America and think we're awesome.
Make sure you do a lot of melting pot stuff.
You know, make sure we're all getting along.
That sort of thing.
So they controlled largely what the schools taught and what the TV taught you indirectly.
So then the kids were taught capitalism, patriotism, and the melting pot.
So that was my experience.
Now again, the patriotism part probably turned America into a bunch of assholes.
How many of you would agree with that?
I love America.
I think we're awesome.
But I think it went too far.
I think it turned us into assholes because it made us think we're a little bit better than the rest of the world.
Now maybe that's good.
Maybe the system of America worked better because we thought we were better than other people.
We were trained to think that.
But it's definitely got its downside, right?
You get too arrogant, you get too cocky, you start thinking you're better than everybody, then it's easy to attack them and kill them because, you know, our needs are more important than your dying children.
So I think we overshot the mark a little bit.
But there's no doubt that that operating system propelled America to become the dominant power.
At the moment, it looks more like this.
You've got China that owns TikTok that's influencing the kids.
You've got Soros money that's influencing the government, which probably has a little or a lot to do with how the government runs the schools.
The teachers unions, for example, they've got their own version of what is right.
So you've got the colleges creating woke teachers, etc.
Now, this new brainwashing Let's say situation pretty much guarantees that you get a lot of kids who believe in communism and the oppressor oppressed model which guarantees the destruction of your country.
Let me say it as clearly as possible.
This isn't just a problem.
This is a guarantee of the destruction of your country because you would actually be training young people To do all the least practical things.
To fight about their oppression instead of making money.
You know, the things that drive the world.
So, the government needs to be in charge of the kids, but the government is no longer unified.
There are two versions of what the government would want that are pretty different.
It wasn't so different in the 50s.
I don't think the Democrats and the Republicans were Two different, were they?
When it came to patriotism, melting pot, capitalism.
Wasn't Democrats and Republicans pretty much the same when I was a kid?
I don't even remember a difference.
Yeah, the Democrats wanted more welfare stuff, but they were certainly completely in favor of the brainwashing model that was the common one.
So now you've got kids brainwashed all over the place.
what it should do is drive society apart, and it should destroy America.
Now, keep in mind that the...
That's a straight line prediction.
A straight line prediction says there will never be a counterforce.
Everything will keep going the way it was going.
But nothing goes like that.
In the real world, nothing goes straight line forever.
There's always a counterforce.
What will be the counterforce in this case?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Could it be that the X platform will become dominant?
And then maybe But I don't see that happening, because I don't see children on X. Could it be that our government might get its stones back and get rid of TikTok?
That could be a big step.
But here's what I think.
I think the federal government should federalize the schools.
And I think they should come up with one common curriculum that gets to brainwashing, right?
There could be lots of variety in some of the details, but there should be a brainwashing standard federal message that says to raise good children, you got to teach them they're not oppressed or oppressors.
You can't have DEI, you can't have this whole oppressor-oppressor thing, and you have to teach them that capitalism is better than communism, with a little socialist flavor to it.
We prefer it that way.
And some version of patriotism, but maybe without the excesses of that.
So, do you think that Congress Could collectively come up with a set of maybe three missions that people would accept.
At the moment, the Democrats wouldn't be able to say yes to that.
But here's what I'd like.
I would love a national debate so that everybody shows their work.
I would want the Democrats to say, here's what we want to teach kids.
You know, oppressor, oppressed, whatever it is.
Socialism is good.
Communism wasn't so bad.
Whatever it is.
Just put it out there.
This is what we want to teach them.
And then have the Republicans and the moderate Democrats say, hmm, here's a better idea.
How about teaching them, you know, patriotism, but not too far.
And melting pot, and you know, everybody has a chance to make it, and all that.
And I think that this is a huge opportunity for Republicans, except they have that whole states' rights thing.
The worst thing you could do for America is let all the states run their education systems on their own without any federal influence.
In my opinion, that would be the worst thing you could do.
Because it guarantees some states are going to be garbage.
Here's one thing you can't take a chance on.
Do you know why the federal government handles the military?
We all prefer that authority be driven down to the state and local and individual level.
But still, the federal government handles the military.
Why?
Because it's the only thing that works.
There's no other reason.
The federal government handles the military because nothing else would work.
It's the only thing that works.
The education system is closer to being like the military than it is to picking up the garbage.
Do you get that?
I love the fact that my local, local municipality is in charge of picking up my garbage.
Why would the federal government be part of that?
So I love it for the little stuff.
Drive it down there, right?
Personal decisions.
But the education, or let's say the brainwashing, You know, even more than the education and the brainwashing.
The brainwashing of our children is national defense.
It's not like it.
It's not reminding you of it.
It's not similar to.
It's not, oh, this should be also in the conversation.
It's not another variable you should consider.
It is your whole fucking game.
It's the whole game.
Your military is worthless, worthless, if you haven't brainwashed your young people to be productive citizens who contribute.
So, the big problem with education is that we treat it like a social thing instead of a national defense thing.
What is Hamas doing?
Hamas is treating their children Like a social thing?
Or like a national defense thing?
Well, they've weaponized their children.
They've actually, they at least get one thing right, which is that they know their children are their weapons.
They know that their cultural defense, or offense in this case, might be to weaponize kids.
And we're letting our enemies weaponize our kids against us.
We're literally, not just figuratively, we're literally allowing our enemies to brainwash our children to be on the enemy's side.
And we're allowing that under free speech.
Right?
We're allowing it.
And the federal government should clamp that shit down immediately.
Now the reason this would be hard to do is that unless you follow this livestream, I don't think you'd have quite the same feeling that the right frame to look at this is the persuasion frame.
If you're looking at everything from a political frame, it looks like you don't know what to do.
If you look at it from a follow the money frame, which usually works, It also doesn't work because the money isn't as obvious.
You know, there's some Soros money in there and there's some China money, but it's a little harder to follow the money.
But if I say to you, follow national defense, that's your frame, protecting the country.
And then on top of that frame is the persuasion frame.
If you get those two frames right, the persuasion frame, and you understand how bad TikTok is and what a risk it is to our whole civilization, and you understand the national defense frame, then you can make the right decisions.
But you would need somebody at a Vivek level of communication to sell to the public what they need, but maybe they don't understand they need it.
Trump maybe could do it.
He's more of a, you know, he creates a dumpster fire no matter if he's doing the right thing or the wrong thing.
So he's controversial.
I know Vivek would hate to hear this because he's running for president.
And I think he actually has a shot.
People ask me, does Vivek have a shot?
Yes, because the two leading candidates for president both have a cloud hanging over them.
And what happens if Trump actually goes to jail?
What happens if he's at a certain age and a medical problem pops up that you weren't expecting?
So Vivek, I think, could take DeSantis If anything took Trump out, God forbid, but we're in a world where anything could happen.
If anything took Trump out, you'd have a Vivek who looks like a younger Trump, with advantages, without the baggage.
And then you'd have a DeSantis who looks like DeSantis.
I don't know.
I feel like Vivek would almost immediately take a slight lead if not a larger lead.
If you imagine a moment where something happened to Trump, God forbid.
So, could he become president?
Absolutely.
But if it didn't happen, let's say you straight line it and Trump becomes the nominee and let's say he wins.
I would hate to see Vivek wasted as a vice president.
Would you agree?
That would be the biggest waste of talent.
It would be almost unimaginably a waste of talent.
And I think that's the reason why Vivek has said, you know, I'm not really built for the number two job.
And that's why the model that would work the best, way best, would be a... Remember how Jared was to Trump.
Now, people didn't like Jared for all their reasons, but Jared was like a strong partner who could simply execute things in the smartest possible way.
So it was just an amazing, you know, amazingly good luck and well smart, I guess, that Trump trusted Jared to do various portfolios of things.
But if a vague If it came to that, and Vivek was considering a vice presidency, he should only consider it if he's empowered even more than Al Gore was empowered during the Clinton years.
You want a vice president who's got a portfolio, and maybe, here's the key part, maybe the most important stuff instead of the bullshit stuff.
Am I right?
Just have him do the important stuff.
The most important stuff.
I think he'd be great at that.
Because then you could honestly say, you know, at the end of four more years of Trump, you would find yourself saying, I love things the administration did, and you'd probably look at what the Vice President did in that case and say, you know, he really nailed these two or three areas that were just so critical.
So, watching somebody with Vivek's talent Taking on our strongest or hardest problems would be exhilarating to me.
That would be exhilarating.
Do you know what it feels like?
Well, here's an example.
Do you remember what it felt like to many of you?
I realize some people thought it was the end of the world.
But do you remember what it felt like when Elon Musk bought Twitter?
If you leaned right at all, didn't you immediately feel like things were heading in the right direction?
Like it took, you know, it took Musk an amazing amount of work.
I mean, almost I can't even hold it in my head how much work was involved to turn Twitter or X into what it is now.
And by the way, my current view of X, oh my God, it's so much better.
The interface on X, The fact that you can pull your video windows out, you can scroll videos, and it's no longer, I'm not throttled.
I mean, everything about the experience.
The trolls are way down.
The number of trolls I get is down 95%.
95%?
I think my trolls are down 95% compared to pre-Musk.
I'm not sure why.
But so that's the same feeling I would have if somebody like Vivek had real power and the authority to go after some of our biggest problems.
Because I think he could poke a hole in places that nobody could touch before.
All right.
And then he'd be an obvious one for president after that.
Let's talk about the zombie apocalypse in San Francisco.
So as you may know, San Francisco is cleaning up because President Xi of China and Biden are going to be visiting.
There's going to be a big economic summit in San Francisco.
So apparently all of the zombie street people and addicts have been rounded up and everything's been power washed and they moved them all somewhere.
But here's the question.
Where'd they go?
And why couldn't they do that before?
And I was laughing hard this morning because Musk, not only does he own the X platform, but he's probably one of the all-time best posters.
Here's Musk as a four-word comment about the fact that all the zombies in San Francisco were We're moved, right?
So now the main parts of San Francisco seem, you know, clean.
And here's what Musk said in four words.
And these four words sum up the last five years of your existence.
You ready for this?
Four words from Musk about the fact that the San Francisco people, that they're somewhere.
Here's his four words.
Where did they go?
Have four words ever said more?
more.
Where did they go?
Because there's so much in that question.
Because the first part of the question, I mean, it's implied.
Why couldn't you do this before?
If wherever they are is acceptable, why did you wait till now?
Right?
That's the last five years in four words.
Where did they go?
I don't know where they went.
So part of it is that you don't have news that works anymore.
Imagine listening to the story and the news, the news doesn't know where they went.
Is that mind-blowing?
So everything you need to know about the state of news is in this question, where did they go?
Then everything you need to know about politics is also in the question.
Where did they go?
Because if they went someplace acceptable, we could always have done it.
Do you know what I'm going to add to the list?
I'm going to add to the list.
You know what list it is, right?
Trump was right.
Remember what Trump's solution to this was?
Move them somewhere where they're simply away from the people who are in danger from them, but just move them someplace safe.
Is that not Trump's idea?
That was Trump's idea.
Now I think they're moved within the city probably, but I'm sure that they put the resources into making sure that they're somewhere where they're not bothering the residents too much.
And someplace where they're as safe as they were, maybe not any safer.
Yeah, this is Trump being right again.
That if there's nothing you can do about the fact that they exist in a free country, you gotta at least move them where they can exist without bothering you.
That's Trump's idea.
Greg Gotfeld's idea also.
You've seen him talk about it.
So Gotfeld and Trump both get the, they were right on this one.
Bill Maher on his show was talking about how all these examples of kids attacking their teachers.
Apparently half of teachers are planning to quit.
Kids attacking teachers.
Now, my childhood might have been different from yours, but kids having fistfights with teachers wasn't that unusual in my day.
Was that unusual in your day?
Is there anybody who's older?
I remember it was always a free-for-all.
No?
Never?
So you went to a school where you never saw a teacher and a student get into a fistfight?
I can think of two or three cases from my experience.
It was the guys.
Well, I'll tell you what I never saw.
I never saw anybody attack a female teacher.
I never saw that.
Do you know what would have happened if a male teacher had ever attacked a female teacher?
You would have been ripped apart.
Yeah, you would have been ripped apart.
The students probably would have killed you.
But when it was man-on-man, you know, older student and a male teacher, sometimes it just came to punches.
It wasn't that unusual.
All right, so it's not good.
I'm not explaining it away.
It looks pretty bad.
Here's some good news for you.
Did you know that Trump and his advisor Stephen Miller created this America First legal thing?
And it's basically to root out illegal discrimination against white male Americans.
And apparently they're going after NASCAR that has been discriminating against white people.
And they've already gone after, let's say, Morgan Stanley, Major League Baseball, McDonald's, and Starbucks, and accusing all of them of discrimination and having DEI practices that are discriminatory.
Now, remember I always tell you that my objection to the slippery slope Is that a better way to look at the world is not that some things have the quality of slipperiness, but rather that there's not yet a counterforce.
And the slipperiness almost always creates a counterforce to stop the slipping.
So this would be one example of a counterforce.
So if it's well funded, and here's my guess, I'm just going to guess that there are a few billionaires who are the main funding of this.
It's probably open to anybody who wants to contribute to the fund.
But I'll bet you there's a few billionaires who are like the main funders.
So it's not exactly everybody funding it, it's maybe a few individuals.
And I think that they're putting their money where their mouth is, which is if these organizations are going to blatantly discriminate against white people, as they have for 40 fucking years, ever since I was in my 20s, then finally, after 40 years of slipping, when it's at the point where Republicans are literally being hunted, it was finally time for a counter force to appear.
It's Trump.
Turns out Trump is the counterforce.
So he's backing it anyway.
So I'm very much in favor of the counterforce.
Everything that's good needs to have a counterforce, right?
Even if you think it was, you know, a good impulse, things go too far, you always need the counterforce, even for good things, not just bad things.
All right.
Ladies and gentlemen, there's very news that I should have mentioned that I didn't.
That was a tight hour.
So the one thing I want to accomplish is to get people to think in the brainwashing frame, but don't think brainwashing is always bad because there's no choice when it comes to but don't think brainwashing is always bad because there's no choice Yeah, let me say this as directly as possible.
Children have to be brainwashed.
We just call it, you know, Teaching them, or educating them, or raising them right.
There are other words on it.
But children do not have developed brains.
You can't let them make up their own minds.
Right?
You know, depending on the age, you give them more and more freedom as they get older.
But you can't let children make up their minds about what's right and wrong.
It just is the worst process in the world.
You have to brainwash them and you have to do it from the federal level because you can't trust the states not to be infected with a bunch of communists, which is the current situation.
It should be illegal to teach the oppressor oppressed.
OK, I'm just going to say it.
It should be against the law to teach that some of your citizens are oppressors and some are oppressed.
That should be illegal.
Does anybody agree?
It's the main operating system of our country, and in my opinion, it should actually be illegal.
It should be as illegal as, you know how Germany has these really strict rules about denying the Holocaust?
You can actually go to jail.
In Germany, you could go to fucking jail for denying the Holocaust.
Now, that seems way, way over the line for Americans, right?
But is it over the line for Germany?
I mean, nothing's like Germany.
You can't compare it to anything.
So if Germany said, all right, even at the risk of jailing some people, they shouldn't be jailed, we are never, ever, ever going to let this anti-Jewish thing surface to the level where it causes another world war.
So Germany understands that they will control the brainwashing of their children so carefully That you will go to jail if you try to tell the children that the Holocaust didn't happen.
You'll go to fucking jail!
That's some serious brainwashing commitment.
But, is it wrong?
Probably not, right?
From our perspective outside of Germany, it seems way too far.
Like, hey, free speech, right?
This was a problem that caused a really, really, really big problem like the biggest you could probably have, you know, the Holocaust.
So, yeah, you have to brainwash that shit out of people's minds.
And you have to do it aggressively, and you have to do it unapologetically.
You just have to brainwash people that they don't need to be, you know, killing other groups of people.
All right.
Nazism only worked because they got to the young minds.
Well, is that true?
I mean, that was a big part of it.
But didn't Hitler take over so quickly it wasn't really a generational change?
I thought people were already primed.
I think Hitler had the right message.
I hate to say it.
When I mean right, I mean for his purposes, not for the good of the world.
For his purposes, because World War I created this feeling in the German people that they were owed something or they were oppressed.
Sort of an oppressor-oppressed model.
But it wasn't wrong.
They were pretty oppressed.
So it was the perfect situation to brew a World War.
Scott, Scott, Scott.
Moody's threatening downgrade to U.S.
debt.
Yes, the U.S.
debt problem had better get at least its debt commission going.
I mean, I definitely would like to see Romney and Joe Manchin doing an independent debt reduction thing.
I think somebody, maybe a Vivek or a Trump, needs to say, if you can't settle the debt, we need some kind of a 2% cut no matter what rule.
And I'd like to see somebody at least selling that.
Give us a 2% across the board, unless you can agree to a budget, that cuts it by 2%.
Limit spending to 20% of GDP.
Yeah, or something like that.
What about Eric Adams being raided?
Is that in the news today?
Did Mayor Adams, oh, he got, yeah, that was old story, right?
That was about his campaign got raided.
Yeah, I don't know that, I don't know what that's about, but it doesn't look, it doesn't look organic.
It looks like some fuckery.
His phone got taken, my God.
Oh, no iPhone taken, somebody says.
Well, we don't know if that was true.
Oh, they took all of his devices?
They took all of his devices, somebody says.
Perry Johnson, is Perry Johnson running third party?
Perry Johnson is in favor of a 2% cut.
Oh, okay.
Adam's phone and iPad were seized by the Feds, I'm seeing.
Wow.
All leads to where we are today.
and Kiroku's charging all leads to where we are today.
Okay, I don't know them.
All right, you're gonna burn your devices.
Well, I'll tell you again, this advice.
Assume that all of your communications are going to be public eventually.
Because I think they might be.
I think there's a day where quantum computing simply makes everything you've ever said public.
Because it can crack everything.
And we're on the verge of that.
So You should make sure that you don't have any murder plots or any felonies.
I don't think you can get rid of anything that anybody else would criticize.
If anybody saw your private conversations, they'd have plenty to criticize, because there's always somebody on every side of every issue.
But don't have any felonies there.
Do not have felonies on your digital communication.
Misdemeanor?
Bad behavior, saying some incautious things, a little bit of bigotry.
If you've got those things, you can probably survive them.
Because if everybody's communication is public, we're all going to look pretty similar.
Similarly bad.
But don't do a felony and put it on your digital communications.
You can't tell if he's trolling.
Do you mean me?
You think Mayor Adams is being taken down for challenging the illegal alien policy?
See.
Again, the obvious interpretation is that that's exactly what's happening.
So we're in a period where assuming the worst is also the most reasonable assumption.
So I hate that.
All right.
That's all for you, YouTube.
Thanks for joining.
I'm going to do one more test of traffic, and you're going to have to repeat the word I say so I can see how long it takes for it to show up in the comments.
It's going to be a new word.
You ready for this?
The new word is bison.
B-I-S-O-N.
Bison.
Bison.
Got it right away.
Bison.
All right, well, that's almost no delay on both platforms.
Very good.
I think there might have been a technical delay that got worked out.
