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Well, would you like to mock all the dumb people today?
Anybody?
Is anybody up for mocking the dumb people?
All right, well, we'll give you some good news first.
There, you know, there was the CES, the big consumer electronics show.
And so we're seeing some of the inventions coming out of that.
A lot of cool stuff.
But my favorite is a machine that turns air into water.
So it sucks the moisture out of the air.
And it makes a lot of water.
So it's not just a little bit.
And so I ask you this question.
Is that going to change everything?
If you could make your own water right at your house and all you need is power?
Yeah, I think it's like a super diminutive dehumidifier or something like that.
So wouldn't that change everything?
I feel like the only thing missing now is a septic system.
So you can be totally off the grid.
Because you can make your electricity, you can make your water, You just need some way to get rid of that waste a little bit better.
All right.
Well, that's a big deal.
All right.
There's a new study that says girls outdo the boys at school and at universities.
So the girls are getting better grades compared to boys, not only in school, but in upper education as well.
So what's that tell you?
Nothing.
Stop measuring the average of people.
There are no average people.
There's no average boy.
There's no average girl.
And by the way, if you know anything about the real world, you know that boys tend to the extremes.
There are more boys who are super dumb.
And there are more boys who are crazy smart.
And women tend to be closer to the mean.
So what is it?
What does it tell you that women Or girls are getting better grades than boys on average.
Nothing.
It literally tells you nothing.
Yeah.
I don't know what it tells you besides nothing.
But we need to really stop imagining that measuring the average of any two groups tells you something you can use.
As soon as you say, well, I can use that information, then you're lost.
It might be curiosity.
But you can't use it that has no purpose, because there are no people who are average.
As soon as you start using the average to manage the people, you're discriminating.
Let me say that again.
If you think the average of the group means anything, has any value, you're a racist or a sexist.
By definition, as soon as you think the average means something.
I say it doesn't mean anything.
Therefore, I'm a good person compared to people who measure averages.
Well, here's a diet reframe.
Here's one of the most useful diet reframes you could ever have.
I base this on my own experience, which is at the moment... This is not bragging, by the way.
I'm getting to some advice that will be good for you.
At the moment, I eat as much as I want of anything I want.
As often as I want.
And my target weight is exactly my weight.
I'm actually below it.
I'm actually below my target weight.
With no effort.
It took zero effort.
Now, what's the trick?
There's a trick.
The trick is, it's really, really hard to manage your willpower and just eat less food.
You know why?
Because willpower doesn't even exist.
There's no such thing as willpower.
It's an illusion.
So if you manage your weight by managing to something that doesn't even exist, it's not even real, your willpower, your free will, those aren't even things.
Instead, I manage to my preferences.
So the reason I can eat everything I want to eat is that I changed my food preferences.
So the only things I want to eat are good for me.
I love broccoli.
For example, I can eat as much as I want, because I don't really have a need to eat so much broccoli and good food.
It's kind of satisfying by itself.
So I can eat as much as I want of anything I want, and as long as I keep to foods that are, you know, not full of sugar and bad stuff, I can eat as much as I want, whenever I want.
All day long, I just look for things and just eat them.
All day long.
And it makes no difference to my weight.
Now you're going to say to yourself, or you should, well, I bet you exercise a lot, don't you?
I'll bet you, you must be running 10 miles a day.
Because then, you know, then it's easy to keep your weight if you're so active.
Nope.
Nope.
I'm at the lowest level of physical activity of my entire life.
It's just age related.
You know, my knees don't go as far as they used to.
So I do, I work out regularly.
But it's a light workout.
You know, smaller weights and stuff like that.
So it has nothing to do with anything except that I'm a hypnotist.
So that's the bottom line.
Because I'm a hypnotist, I know something that a lot of you don't know.
That I can manage my preferences.
I can actually change what I like.
Now, if you don't know how to do that, you're kind of stuck with imagining you have willpower and good luck.
But you don't.
But change your preferences.
With food, it's easy.
You just don't eat something for a while, and you'll lose your craving for it.
That's about the whole trick.
All right.
Now that I've changed your lives, let's talk about the news.
There's a report that Trump had a pretty good joke back when he was in office.
And he was visiting Kim Jong-un, and I guess he had Sarah Huckabee Sanders with him.
And reportedly, Kim Jong-un winked at her.
And reportedly, Trump wittily said to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sarah, you're going to have to take one for the team.
Your husband and kids will miss you, but you'll be a hero to your country.
How do you not like that?
How do you not like that?
First of all, it's funny because he said it in North Korea.
He's standing in, well, South Korea, but he's standing near the DMZ and he's cracking jokes about Sarah Huckabee Sanders having an affair with Kim Jong Un.
Come on!
You have to like that.
You don't have to like everything about him, but that's pretty funny.
All right.
Let's talk about my new fear of flying.
So, United Airlines, as has been widely reported, is Getting really big into DEI.
And there's a video of the CEO talking about the emphasis they're going to put on hiring minorities and increasing their diversity.
Now, I think all of us agree, that's the last thing you want to hear from your airline is that they're trying to focus on anything except safety.
Now, I get that in a perfect world, you can do it all.
In a perfect world.
But we don't really live in one of those.
We live in a world where if you're focusing on something, you're going to get more of it.
And if you diversify your focus, you better be careful where you diversify it to.
So we've got the problem that the airlines are pushing for diversity.
But I think there are at least two fake news in the stories I'm going to tell you.
Fake news number one, I think, There are some pictures of the CEO himself, CEO of United Media, dressed in drag.
And the suggestion is that he's a cross-dressing LGBTQ person, and therefore, no wonder he's pushing diversity.
However, when I looked at the photo that alleges to be him dancing in front of his staff dressed in drag, it doesn't look real to me.
Does it look real to you?
Looks AI-generated.
It's sort of too on the nose.
But there is another photo that does look real to me.
There's a picture of him dressed as a woman, standing next to another woman.
Well, not another woman.
Standing next to a woman who's dressed in what looks like a Halloween costume.
That's right.
It looks like he dressed once as a woman for Halloween, but then it looks like maybe, I'm just guessing, AI created another picture that made it look like it was something he does naturally.
So the first thing I would question is, are any of those photos real?
And are we counting the Halloween photo as meaning something more than it does?
I see in your comments that some of you are screaming, it's real!
Look at this other photo!
I don't believe any of the photos.
So here's the thing.
If you believe a photo in 2024 because it looks real, you really have to stop that.
Looking real doesn't mean anything.
It's 2024.
So I'm going to say I don't believe the story about him being a crossdresser.
Now, if it turns out that I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
But you shouldn't believe it because there are pictures.
That's not good enough reason.
That's a little too on the nose.
Yeah.
All right.
Then there's the FAA, who says they're actively recruiting workers who suffer a, quote, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion thing.
Now, how many of you think your FAA, in charge of flying, should be putting their concentration in getting people We have serious mental and physical disabilities.
I'm going to call this one fake news.
Fake news.
Fake news.
Do you think that they were going to hire pilots who are blind?
When you read this story, is that what you thought?
Did you think the FAA was going to, like, get some flight control people who have IQs of 10?
The part that's left out of the story is what jobs they're looking to fill.
Don't you think there are, you know, plenty of jobs that you could legitimately give people who have all manner of mental and physical problems and they would do just fine?
Let's not get too excited about this one, this story, until we find out what those jobs are.
If it turns out they're literally looking to hire pilots and, you know, flight You know, flight, what do you call the radar people?
Flight controller people?
If they're really looking to hire people who can't do the jobs for those jobs, that's a problem.
That seems pretty unlikely.
So yeah, I don't think they're going to be, you know, fixing the plane necessarily.
So I'm just going to say for both of these stories could be real.
It could be.
But what we have so far would not suggest that they are.
But they could be.
So if I'm wrong, I'm not wrong.
I'm trying to hedge.
If I'm wrong, I'm not wrong.
Because I'm telling you that they're not credible.
They could also be true.
But what we have now is not credible on the surface.
Anyway, there's a story.
Wall Street Journal that the mentions from big companies and their earnings calls, that the number of times they mentioned ESG had peaked a few years ago, but now is heading down.
Because ESG is sort of a dirty word, and it's actually embarrassing to say you're involved in it.
So, that's good.
So there's lots of pressure on these companies to not admit they're involved with ESG.
That's a step in the right direction.
Now, unrelated to all of this ESG and the FAA and United Airlines, two planes collided in Chicago.
It looks like nobody got hurt.
I think it was just on the runway.
Two planes collided in Chicago.
Now, again, if you're connecting all these stories, And you're saying, hey, United Airlines is increasing their diversity hiring.
The FAA is trying to hire more people with mental and physical disabilities.
It can't be a coincidence that a plane knocked into another plane.
But it probably is.
It probably is exactly that.
Just stuff happens.
It's an icy cold time.
Things bump into other things.
Let's talk about Iowa and all the candidates.
So here's what I've noticed, and this is just anecdotal.
I'll just see if this matches what you think.
I have seen people change their minds about candidates.
So change their minds about Republican candidates.
Have you?
Have you seen anybody who was supporting one candidate and then decided to support another?
A few.
Seen a few.
Yeah.
And even in the news, even on social media, we see a few people.
But here's what I haven't seen yet.
I've never seen anybody change their vote to Haley.
I haven't seen it.
Every person who's changed has changed to Vivek.
Everyone.
Every person who used to support a different candidate, but has changed in the last three months, changed to Vivek.
everyone.
I think in the comments, have you seen any exception to that?
You know, it's just anecdotal, so you can't take it too seriously.
But I've only seen one direction.
I've only seen one direction.
Well, I don't know.
It's kind of striking when I only see it one direction.
But the rumors about Vivek are just, they're so wild that they're funny.
So I'm just going to read them all.
Now, I want to see how many of you actually believe any of these.
If you do, you should be embarrassed.
But I know you won't be.
So let's see how embarrassed you want to be.
So here are the top reasons I saw.
There are eight of them.
Eight reasons to not support Vivek.
Number one, that he's a World Economic Forum Soros puppet, and he took a scholarship from a Soros family member.
Not George Soros, but some Soros family member.
All right.
Now, do you think that's a good, is that a good attack?
How many think that's a good attack?
He literally has the opposite opinions of the WEF and the Soros organizations.
He's literally the opposite.
They're not going to fund him.
Of all the people in the world, they would never give him a penny, but he took their money.
So you're telling me you feel bad because he took money from a Soros family member And he's not a climate alarmist, and he's not in favor of all this equity stuff.
He's basically the literal opposite of Soros and the WEF.
And you think he's their puppet?
They're very bad at puppetry.
If you're going to be a puppet master, your rule number one is your puppet has to do something related to the strings you're pulling.
If you're pulling the strings and your puppet is doing literally the opposite of what you want it to do when you're pulling the strings, You're very bad at puppet master.
So if you think that he's going to take office and suddenly change all of his opinions, that doesn't work.
People do definitely change an opinion.
Maybe more than one.
They can soften an opinion or something.
But he's not going to go from climate change is bullshit to fully embracing it.
That's not going to happen.
He's not going to suddenly decide diversity is his top priority.
Or equity.
None of that's going to happen.
If you think any of that's possible, that's just silly.
How about number two?
He's too smart.
I'm hearing a lot of people complain he seems too smart.
Okay.
I guess our standards are so low that we think smart is a red flag.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
What are they trying to pull with us?
Trying to put a smart candidate in there?
I don't know about that.
I'm a little suspicious of all those brains.
That's actually one of the top complaints.
All right, what else we got?
I heard this morning, I've heard this a lot, that Viveca is the Manchurian candidate.
You know why they say that?
Because it's a movie they've heard of.
That's why.
About 25% of all public opinions are based on the movie you watched.
Yeah.
How about as soil and green as people?
And we're in the Matrix.
Yeah.
Now, if your opinion happens to exactly match a movie title... No.
If your opinion matches a movie title, I'm not gonna listen to you.
You're gonna have to do better than that.
All right, how about...
He reminds us too much of Obama because he's really capable and he's a good talker and he came out of nowhere, so therefore that's bad, right?
What?
He literally, again, has the direct opposite policies of Obama.
The part that people are comparing him to Obama is somebody who's really smart and can exceed expectations.
That's the criticism.
Let me say it again.
The criticism is that he's really smart, like Obama, and maybe he'll exceed expectations.
Okay.
That's what you have?
Really, that's what you have, is that he might be so Obama that he exceeds expectations, because he's also smart.
He has opposite policies of Obama, and you're worried about that?
Okay.
He's the big pharma candidate.
He's the big pharma candidate because he worked in pharma.
How many of you think that?
He's the big pharma candidate.
Let me explain something about big pharma.
Pfizer doesn't give a fuck about the other big pharma.
What, you think they're working together?
You think the big pharma is one thing?
They're competing.
There's no big pharma company that gives one fuck about another big pharma company.
They don't care.
Yeah, they might have some like an interest in common somewhere here and there, but no.
The fact that he once owned a company that was in that space, it doesn't mean he supports the other pharma companies.
There's no connecting tissue to that.
There's no logical if this, let that.
That's just crazy.
He's just a guy who had a company that he doesn't have now.
Because he made his billion dollars or whatever.
All right, so you're gonna have to do better than he is the pharma candidate.
Somebody also said he somehow made money on every shot.
How's that a criticism?
If I could have made money on every vaccination, I certainly would have.
Would you not?
If you could have made money on every vaccination, legally, legally, you wouldn't have done it?
Seriously?
You wouldn't have done that if you knew it was going to happen anyway.
If you knew it was going to happen anyway.
Now, first of all, I don't know that he did it.
It seems unlikely that it's true.
But what's wrong with making money?
Why are you complaining about that?
Now, if he was the one promoting the shots, then you might have an argument.
There's no evidence of that.
Is there?
Anyway, I don't think he was in favor of the mandates.
People say he has no political record, but of course that's why they liked Trump.
He has no political record.
Why is that negative?
To have no political experience?
Have we not learned that that doesn't matter?
It's like saying Reagan can't be president because he's an actor.
Trump can't be president because he's a real estate guy and he was on a TV show.
I don't know.
Seems like positive not to have a political record.
And then the strangest one, but really it's a compliment to Trump's persuasion.
There are a lot of people who say that it needs to be Trump because he deserves your loyalty.
It needs to be Trump because he's earned it, he was robbed, and he deserves your loyalty.
Would you vote based on that basis?
Now, first of all, those are true statements.
So let's distinguish between what's a true statement and what's a reason.
Here are some true statements.
It does feel like he got robbed.
I mean, I can't prove it, but it feels like it.
It does feel like, you know, he does ask for loyalty and he does get it.
He has a very loyal base.
And, you know, maybe he got robbed.
And maybe he deserves it.
I would actually go so far as to say he deserves it.
Why would you vote against your own interests?
That's the opposite of what you're supposed to be doing.
You're supposed to vote for what is good for you, and ideally it's good for the country as well.
But first you.
There are a number of people who have said directly that their interest is Trump.
And I kind of like that, because he's so good at what he does, and he shows loyalty to his base, and they show it back.
But that's why you'd vote for him?
The reason you should vote for him is you think he'll do the best job.
And I don't see that.
I think people are actually saying that they're MAGA, so they're voting for him.
That's not really a reason.
Or that he got cheated, so they'll vote for him.
That's not a reason.
Those are not reasons.
Those are just truths.
Oh, as you see it.
I don't know if they're true.
But they're just facts.
Or maybe not.
But you need a reason.
The reason is, you're sure he'll do a better job than the other alternatives.
Now, you might say to me, but Scott, I just say it that way.
Obviously, it's his policies that I'm responding to.
I don't think so.
I think that you're responding to him first, and then it's lucky that you also like his policies.
That's a dangerous place to be.
You know when the Democrats say that the Trump supporters are a cult?
Well, it's not a cult in any traditional way, but it's definitely true that he has created almost a love or a loyalty that people are putting above their own self-interest.
They're putting Trump's benefit above their own self-interest.
And part of it is because you think he did that for you.
Which he did, by the way.
He did put America's best interests above his own.
I think he actually did that.
Now, obviously, he probably wanted everybody to work out, including himself.
But he took a pretty big personal risk to help the country, in my opinion.
So I think you can love Trump.
I love Trump.
Honestly, I just love the guy.
So I agree with you if you have a good feeling about him.
And also, if you ever have the opportunity to meet him in person, it's hard to walk away without loving him.
I mean, he's really nice.
generous in person.
It's hard to walk away and have a bad feeling.
So I have a good feeling about him.
If he's the candidate, I'll support him completely.
But don't vote for him because of your feeling.
That's just the worst reason.
Vote for him because of what's good for you.
Now, here's my argument for Vivek.
Even if you love Trump more, even if you think he's the original and Vivek is the imitation, How do you ignore the fact that they're going to come for Trump in a way they would never come for anybody else?
How do you not count that in your calculation?
Because you can say, well, that's not Trump's fault.
Maybe.
Maybe it's the Democrats' fault.
It's how they come after him.
But it's still a fact.
You can't say, I wish it weren't true, and then say, I'm not going to include it because I wish it weren't true.
It's actually true.
A Trump presidency could cause the destruction of the entire country.
That's not a zero risk.
It's above zero.
I don't think it's a big risk, but it's above zero.
And that's a risk you don't have to put up with.
You can get younger, stronger, more likely to make change.
Without that?
So that's the calculation that some of us are making.
But, realistically, will Vivek make it to the finish line?
Well, probably a lot depends on the next two primaries, but he's also said directly, Vivek has, that he's basically the emergency candidate under glass.
I'm paraphrasing, he doesn't say that.
But the idea is that The bad people will stop at nothing to stop Trump.
And there's no limits to what they'll do.
Therefore, if you don't have a backup plan ready, you're going to regret it.
I actually agree with that.
People like Tucker Carlson are saying directly, very directly, it looks like they're going to kill Trump.
Now, I'm not going to predict that happens.
I think it's more likely they don't.
But I do believe it's under, it's being discussed.
You know, I'm sure there's somewhere in that big, ugly mess of, you know, political activity.
There's somebody talking about it.
Probably.
Yeah.
And I do think we live in a country where that could happen.
I do think that the dark forces are that dark.
Yeah.
And wouldn't be surprised if it's happened before.
So let's see.
I'm seeing a lot of activity in the anti-Vivek space of people who look like paid trolls, but maybe they're just supporting other candidates, but they're not acting rationally.
The complaints about Vivek are not rational.
They really aren't.
But if you said, All right, let me give you the best arguments against him.
The best ones are terrible.
The best one is you haven't seen him in a political office, so you don't know what happened.
True.
Do you think you'd know what's going to happen if Trump got elected?
Do you think you knew what was going to happen when Biden got elected?
It's all unpredictable.
So if you think that The Vake's performance is unpredictable, and therefore that's a problem for you.
They're all unpredictable.
They're all unpredictable.
You can tell directionally which way he's leaning.
You can tell he's a high-end entrepreneur, CEO type.
But you don't know what's going to happen.
Pretending you know is kind of strange.
I'm going to go on record saying that Trump would never pick the Vake as Well, I'm going to say that differently.
I don't think Vivek would ever take the vice presidency under Trump.
And the reason is simple.
He's just too smart.
It would be maybe great for the country.
Might be great for the country, but it would be absurd for Vivek to take a job that would destroy him for the rest of his life.
Right?
We don't ask our politicians to destroy themselves.
Like, that's not something you could ask of him.
And I don't think anybody's going to survive being Trump's vice president.
Do you?
Who in the world is going to survive being Trump's vice president?
It's a suicide mission.
It's just a suicide mission.
Somebody will do it, probably.
But it's a suicide mission.
So I don't wish that on Vivek.
He would be far more valuable to wait four years and run again.
Wouldn't you agree?
If you had a choice of a VP Vivek, and you thought he could get a lot done, but you would certainly be destroyed in the process, wouldn't you rather just keep him fresh, as he likes to say, keep a fresh horse?
I think that would be the better play.
If you think he's that strong, I'd keep him out of trouble for four years.
Let's see, apparently the Haley supporters in Iowa, 50% of them would vote for Biden if it's not Haley.
So this is not really a real caucus.
I'm not even sure a caucus is real in general.
This is totally artificial.
Yeah, it's a bunch of Democrats.
The Democrats, because there's no Democrat primary, They can declare themselves whatever they want because they don't have to save themselves to vote for a Democrat.
So the Independents and the Democrats can pretend the Republicans try to game the system.
There are probably enough people gaming the system that the vote won't really be the will of the people.
Wouldn't you say?
I don't believe the will of the people will be expressed in Iowa.
Whatever it is, It's some weird combination of effort and media and trickery and influence and all that stuff.
Now, I do think there's a high likelihood Vivek will overperform.
Because I think that his supporters are hard to reach in a poll.
Don't know.
And I would say that Vivek's in good shape if he beats any one of the candidates.
So if Vivek We're to edge out DeSantis, for example.
And we looked at Haley and said, oh, wait a minute.
It looks like Vivek legitimately beat DeSantis.
And the only person who beat him was Haley.
And her votes are fake.
They're Democrats.
Then how do you like it?
Think about it.
This is a very, a pretty solid possibility.
If he beats DeSantis, That's serious.
But if he comes in still quite behind Haley, he still looks like he beat her.
Because you would suspect her votes are fake.
Right?
Just think about the day after.
If he places above DeSantis, he's your strong number two, even if he comes in number three.
I don't think you're prepared for that.
Because as long as Haley looks like an illegitimate vote-getter, because of all the Democrat trickery, it's going to look like Vivek won.
And by the way, coming in second to Trump is going to look like winning it.
Because that would be the surprise.
So when Vivek says he's got a surprise coming, nobody can guarantee anything.
Nobody can guarantee anything.
But boy, does he have a possibility.
He really has a possibility to shake the planet.
So much of the rest of your life will be decided in little frozen Iowa today.
Much of the rest of your life will be decided today.
Could be.
Could be.
Don't know.
All right.
There's a poll of ABC News, Ipsos, asked people about their support.
Apparently only 33% said they approve of Biden now, and that's just about the lowest a president's ever had since, I don't know, George Bush or something.
So, how in the world are we even talking about this being a competitive race?
The Democrat has the lowest numbers.
And you know what else is at an all-time low?
Or almost?
The number of registered Democrats.
So the number of Democrats has decreased while Biden's in office.
People are literally running scared from even being associated as a Democrat.
I think they're probably just registering Democrats.
I think they're just registering Independents.
They're not changing to Republicans.
So you just can't tell who they are.
Which is an interesting thing, because if you can't tell who the Democrats and the Republicans are, if they all start registering as independents, that could get confusing.
And it already is.
All right, so let me ask you this.
I'll bet you can get pretty close to guessing this answer.
And if you're just joining us, watch how smart my audience is.
That's right.
That's the answer before I ask the question.
Yeah.
The number of respondents who say that Biden has the adequate mental sharpness for the job, 28%.
Let me repeat that.
Of all voters, not just Republicans, all voters, only 28% think the President of the United States is mentally fit.
And he's running dead even with Trump practically in Poland.
28%.
But don't get too cocky, because 47% say Trump is not mentally sharp enough to be president.
So about half of the people say Trump's not capable mentally.
28% say that Biden is.
And you're going to let Vivek not be a candidate?
Just hold this in your mind for a moment.
That the two major parties have probably settled, and we'll find out today, but may have settled on the two least mentally capable people that we all know who are in politics.
Because there's nobody else who would have gotten these scores.
You can't think of any other candidate who would have gotten so low scores for being mentally fit.
Now, I think Trump is fine.
He's not giving off any Suggestion of not being mentally fit.
But he is a certain age, so if it happens, it's going to happen fast.
How in the world do you look at Vivek, probably the smartest person who's run for president since Jefferson, and not want that?
How do you not want the G20 to look at your president and say, oh, I better up my game if I'm going to talk to that guy.
You want the G20 to be a little bit intimidated by your president.
You know, and not just because he's a bully.
But I don't think we're sending a fear into the other countries.
If our own country thinks our president at least would be 50% would think he's not mentally sharp enough, or maybe 70%.
Anyway, here are all the Nikki Haley rumors.
One is that Trump has already picked Nikki Haley as his VP, at least mentally, and that she will drop out and endorse Trump in return for the vice presidency.
How many think that's going to happen?
I'd say nope, nope, no.
I do not see Trump shooting himself in the foot, the head, and the chest.
There's no chance.
That wouldn't be just shooting yourself in the foot.
That would be like a chest, a head, a double tap.
How in the world does anybody think that's going to happen?
No way.
I wouldn't support him.
By the way, let me say that.
If he picked Nikki Haley, I wouldn't support Trump.
That would be lights out.
So I know he's not going to do it.
He's not going to do that.
Because he knows a lot of people would say the same thing.
Here's some more Nikki Haley rumors.
Mark Cuban has actually tweeted or posted that, you know, how many, how many Iowa crossover voters are out there for Haley.
So he's actually acknowledging, as we know, that Haley's voters will not be genuine.
Well, they say it out loud.
So the Iowa caucus is really just a joke with the crossover votes.
Vivek says the plan is to take Trump out after he wins the nomination, but after he's picked, I guess, Haley as a VP, and then she can be slotted in there after they take him out.
But this also assumes that Trump picks Haley as the VP, doesn't it?
Or does it?
I suppose it could still work if she simply did well and then they just give her the nomination.
They'd have to explain why they're not giving it to DeSantis.
But if Nikki Haley does unusually well in the early states and Trump gets taken out, you can see why there'd be a fear that Nikki Haley might be waiting in the wings to be swatted in by the evil powers that are.
So in that context, Vivek offers himself as the solution to that.
Because if you've got a Vivek, who I call the Sword of Truth.
I kind of like that.
The Sword of Truth.
The Truth is his campaign thing.
I don't think they're going to take Trump out if there's a Vivek in the sidelines that can win.
That would be too dangerous.
NBC is talking about how the Democrats are organizing a military coup against Trump.
Now, I use that word advisedly.
But hyperbolically because what they're trying to do is make sure that the military the US military Doesn't necessarily do what Trump asks if he becomes president That's actually happening.
Now.
How do you not get executed for doing that?
Like how is that not literally a capital offense where if you're prosecuted you get executed for it how in the world Are our politicians allowed to talk to members of the military and try to convince them not to follow their boss, the Commander-in-Chief?
And if they were to succeed at this mission, would that not be an insurrection?
Traitors?
Isn't that the death sentence?
I thought we had a long tradition of that being literally the death sentence.
Because there's nothing worse you can do?
But not only is it being done, but NBC is just unashamedly reporting it.
Like it's somehow just sort of normal business.
You know, and NBC is the one that the smart people say is just the CIA's organ.
So that's pretty scary.
So when Vivek says they will stop at nothing, To prevent Trump from taking office.
He's serious.
That's not an exaggeration.
They would stop at nothing, including murdering him, cheating, rigging the election, whatever it takes.
I do believe they would stop at nothing.
So keep an eye on that.
The only reason that doesn't scare me more is that I think the military is Probably, I hope, still too well trained for that to be an issue.
I mean, I don't think there's anybody in the military who doesn't learn that they have a civilian rule.
Do you think there's anybody in the military who doesn't know that if a general says yes and the commander-in-chief says no, that the commander-in-chief's the boss?
I think they all know that.
So, asking the military to be traitors I don't, I can't see that they're getting a good reaction to that, but I hope not.
Anyway.
Trump was funny at his rally in Iowa.
So, you know, of course, it's just insanely cold there and there's a big snowstorm and I mean, it's just really dangerous cold.
And Trump said, quote, you can't sit home.
If you're sick as a dog, you say, darling, I got to make it.
Trump said that.
Rally?
Even if you vote and then pass away, it's worth it.
Even if you vote and pass away, it's worth it.
Now, when you see it reported, it's reported like he doesn't like his, he doesn't care about his supporters.
And the only thing he cares about is getting elected.
That's the way it's being presented.
If you watch the video, the audience thinks it's pretty funny.
And so do I. I laughed when I read it, but I laughed harder when I heard him say it.
Yeah.
To imagine that this is a negative, that this is why they love him.
This is exactly why they love him.
Because he can make them laugh.
He feels part of them.
The other big The knock I saw against Vivek.
People said they didn't like Vivek because he's not MAGA.
To which I say, uh, there's everything wrong with that opinion.
Number one, his opinions are completely compatible with what the MAGA people like.
Completely.
Number two, why should somebody be MAGA?
Why isn't it good enough that you have all the right policies and you're brilliant and capable?
You gotta put on a MAGA hat or you can't be supported?
See, that's where people talk about it being a cult.
I've never identified as MAGA, because I think identifying with something that people will call a MAGA is just a bad play.
You can see it coming.
But also, it's joining.
Why should you be a joiner?
Why can't you just support somebody because you like what they might do?
Why do you have to be on the team?
Why do you have to have, like, why do you have to get a tattoo on it or whatever it is?
Stop it.
I saw that comment.
Stop it, colonizers.
Yeah, so I wouldn't give them a ding for not being MAGA.
I think you ought to be We all need to be careful whether we're supporting ourselves or him.
And just make sure you're doing what's good for you, not voting for Trump because you're MAGA and he's owed the presidency.
Those are not good reasons.
But I love Trump.
I think he's great.
All right.
Here's my problem with Trump's chances.
So we know now that the Democrats are going to spring the, he's a dictator trap.
And the way the trap works is they prime everybody and say, he's a dictator, he's a dictator.
And then they wait for something to happen.
And then they say, there it is.
We told you there, there is acting like a dictator.
And my problem is I don't think he can escape this trap.
It's a good trap.
He's the only person in the world who can't get out of it.
I believe that 100% of the rest of us, like everybody else on the planet except Trump, could easily refute the charge that you plan to be a dictator.
You could just laugh about it.
You'd say, how am I going to do that?
Don Jr.
didn't even know that there was trouble at the January 6th.
Well, that's not true.
Don Jr.
was not part of any kind of a January 6th coup.
We can tell from the records he didn't have any idea there was any coup going on, because there wasn't.
It was a protest.
But here's what the AP says.
So here's how they characterize Trump in their title.
They say in his closing pitch to Iowa Republicans, Trump says their vote can help him punish his enemies.
Do you want to vote for the candidate just so you can punish his enemies?
That's not a good reason.
It's also not what he said.
It's fake news.
He didn't say that.
If you read the title, it looks like he did.
If you read the quote, and at least to their credit, they give them the quote, here's what he actually said.
Well, this is what they also said.
So AP characterized him this way.
So they further characterized him as Donald Trump implored his supporters on Sunday to brave the frigid temperatures and deliver him a decisive victory, blah blah blah, saying their vote would help bring to Washington the retribution he has repeatedly promised.
So if he's all about the punishing his enemies and all about the retribution, then when they give the quote of exactly what he said, you should see punishing my enemies and retribution, right?
That's how they characterized it.
So here's the actual quote.
So you find the retribution and the punishment in the actual quote.
Quote from Trump.
These caucuses are your personal chance to score the ultimate victory over all the liars, cheaters, thugs, perverts, frauds, crooks, freaks, creeps, and other quite nice people.
Trump told the audience.
And then quote, the Washington Swamp has done everything in its power to take away your voice.
But tomorrow is your time to turn on them and say, to say and speak your mind and to vote.
His quote is about the citizens getting what they want.
And the AP turned it into punishing his enemies.
It's not even close.
That's not even close to what he said.
He very clearly put it in the terms of what's good for his voters.
He took their perspective.
He said, from your perspective, you don't want all these, you know, cheaters, thugs, and perverts.
Which is exactly what they don't want.
Yeah.
So you can see how easy it will be to craft the, he's a dictator, just wants his revenge.
Everybody's a puppet.
They can literally just make up a headline and attach it to some real story and people will just read the headline.
And it will work.
So I believe that Trump is the only candidate who would not have the ability to debunk and completely destroy the narrative that he's going to be a dictator.
I think he's too wed to the strength projection, looking strong and going after his enemies and stuff.
And as long as he does that, he's just going to fall all the way to the bottom of the trap.
So if I had to bet on him, it doesn't look good, actually.
If he gets the nomination, even with the polling, I think they will just paint him as a A dictator and it'll work.
I think it'll work.
So I worry that he can't win even if he gets nominated.
So there's that.
I'm not sure if anybody else can because, you know, the system is the system.
But they do have the one trap that he uniquely can't get out of.
I don't know how to ignore that.
By the way, does anybody disagree?
Does anybody think that Trump We'll just breezily dismiss the dictator thing and he'll just make it go away by not acting like a dictator and laughing at it.
He could.
Anybody could.
It would be the easiest thing to do to not act like a dictator.
I don't think he can do it.
So some are saying he can.
But let's take that as a bet.
You want to place a bet?
I'm going to place a bet that whether he wins or loses the election.
So that's not the bet.
So I'm not betting on the election outcome.
The bet with no money.
My bet is that he will never do anything which you will interpret as getting rid of the dictator label.
I believe he'll do nothing that helps.
He'll just say, oh, you're the dictator.
It'll just accuse the other side, which might work.
Might work.
Yeah.
So no money, but I'm going to bet that he's the only person who can't get out of this trap.
It's a good trap.
All right.
So Bill Ackman, as you know, he's been going after DEI at colleges, and he's decided to back a candidate, Dean Phillips, who's running against Biden, but not as successfully because he's not really a primary.
So Bill Ackman spends all this time publicly being the face of going after DEI for being, you know, basically a poison.
And then he backs Dean Phillips, who apparently on his website backs DEI.
Now, that's awkward.
So he's backing a pro-DEI guy while being the most famous DEI guy.
Now, when people pointed out, did Bill Ackman say, oh, shoot, I didn't know that.
I withdraw my endorsement.
He didn't.
And one of the things we like about him is he's not a quitter.
He's a fighter.
He's a gladiator.
So I have the same feeling about him that I do about Trump.
You can't be mad that he fights.
That's like what he's good for.
You can't expect him not to be a fighter one day, just to wake up and he's a different personality.
He's no longer a fighter.
No, he's a fighter.
He's going to take it all the way.
He's replacing the Harvard board.
So, once he finds out that Dean Phillips is a DEI guy, his response is that they're going to re-educate him, because Bill says he also thought DEI was good at one point, because diversity is good.
He didn't realize that the process is corrupt.
And that when they educate him, that they can get him to change his mind.
Ah, really?
Really?
I mean, really?
He's not going to change his mind?
Does Bill Ackman really think that a Democrat is going to turn on DEI?
Does he not know that his only chance is Republicans?
I mean, he apparently is an independent, doesn't want to be a Republican.
And I get why he doesn't want to be a Republican, but There's only one path.
The only path away from DEI is Republican.
There's no hope of the Democrats running an anti-DEI campaign.
That's not going to happen.
So, yeah, I hate that he got himself in a trap here, but the trap, I think, is believing the Democrats were ever legitimate and serious.
I think that's a trap.
You know, the things that Trump says, I'm absolutely convinced he thinks are the right things to do.
It would be hard to pick anything that Trump says and say, you know, I don't think you really believe that.
I think you're saying that just for effect.
I can't think of a thing.
I can't think of a thing that Trump says just for effect.
They do appear to be legitimately his opinions.
But do you think all of the Democrats have the DEI opinion?
Yeah, I don't think, I don't know what Federman said about it yet, but I'm curious.
All right, so that's a little issue there.
Speaking of DEI, let's see, Rice University.
You're gonna think this is a joke.
This is not a joke.
Rice University is, they've introduced a new course.
It's called Afrochemistry.
Afrochemistry.
So it's chemistry for African-American students, and it's chemistry with an African-American sensibility.
I know, it sounds like I'm making it up. - So, since I'm already canceled, let me say what the big problem is.
You know what the country really needs more than just anything?
It needs white people who can say no to black women who have power.
I feel like white men will just never say no to a black woman because it's just suicide in a professional sense because you don't want them against you.
Because you're gonna get, you know, you'll be accused of being a racist.
So I feel like, and I'm not saying that, you know, black women have bad opinions.
I'm saying that nobody can be good if they don't get somebody pushing back.
You know, all of our systems require pushback.
And I think white men just say, I'm not even gonna go there.
Just, you know, I'll just go hide somewhere until this blows over.
Because they're just not gonna start a fight with black women.
Black men, maybe.
I think white men would have an honest conversation with a black man.
That's been my experience.
When I got cancelled, black men all wanted to talk to me.
Find out what I was thinking.
Find out if it's a problem.
See if they could change my mind.
Find out if they should be offended.
They were actually just, hey, let's engage on this.
So, black men are all in.
They're completely down for, let's talk about this.
Let's figure it out.
But I feel like white men, in particular, are just never going to get in an argument with a black woman in a corporate or government situation.
It's just suicide.
And that's a bad system.
It's a bad system.
So, again, if you're hearing this like I'm saying there's something wrong with any of the people involved, I'm not.
It's a system problem, not a person problem.
If anybody in the system had too much power, be they the white men, right?
You don't want the white men to have all the power either, because they need as much pushback as everybody else.
But nobody can have no pushback power.
It's bad.
Well, I guess the Navy is surging in the Middle East.
Oh, big surprise!
We're sending another carrier group to the Middle East.
Well, that's the most surprising thing in the world, which everybody knew was going to happen.
Now, I don't know if it's signaling that we're taking another step of escalation, but Sweden is, quote, bracing for war with Russia.
The Swedish minister told the citizens to get moving and prepare for the end of 210 years of peace.
Sweden thinks everything's going to go to hell and Russia's going to attack.
I don't think that's going to happen.
I think that it's hard to sort out what's true and what's false about Russia.
I don't want to be the gullible person who thinks Putin tells the truth.
I don't want to be that person because obviously that's not true.
But I don't want to be the person who just agrees with everything that's ever said bad about Russia.
That feels like a bad look too.
So, so far, see if I'm wrong, I've heard this commentary but I don't, I need a fact check on it, is it true that so far Putin has only shown interest in invading countries that are majority or portions of countries that are majority Russian-speaking and if you held a vote they would say we'd rather be Russian?
True or false?
That he's only taking over parts that wanted to be Russian in the first place by majority.
Now, does that indicate that he would take over a country that is not of that character?
Because I don't think it does.
I don't think it follows that he's just playing a clever Hitler game where the first thing you take over is Austria because you say, well, Austria, you know, German-speaking.
Practically Germany.
And then you find out, wait a minute, he's taking over Poland now.
He's not stopping with the German-speaking people.
I don't think Putin's doing that, but I wouldn't call it crazy if he said, I think maybe he is.
To me, it looks like he's trying to build back a greater Russia and doing things that would be internally popular to do it.
I don't see a ton of interest in conquering China or Italy.
Am I wrong?
So I feel like we're trying to make a war with Russia that's kind of optional.
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
That completes my prepared comments.
Today's gonna be a fun day of news watching.
When do we get a final vote on the caucuses or a final outcome?
Will the caucuses have an outcome by 7 p.m.
local time, Iowa?
Not tonight?
You think it won't be tonight?
10 p.m.
That's when they stop voting, but will they have any kind of an answer?
Yemen missile attack the US cargo ship.
Well, let me ask you this question again.
Are the Iranian tankers just going back and forth in the Red Sea without any problem?
Don't you think we're going to take out an Iranian ship?
That's what I'd do.
I'd probably take out an Iranian ship and say, you know, I don't know who did that.
It was probably those hoodies.
I hear the hoodies are just terrible.
Sorry, Iran.
I think they took out your ship.
I think that's where we're ending up.
I feel like we're going to take out a ship, although you don't want to.
At some point, we're going to have to go Pretty hard on Iran.
I don't see there's any possibility of not.
On the John Bolton of California.
Well, what would you do?
Let me ask you.
Who has a good idea for what to do about Iran?
Do we just give them what they want?
What would be the alternative?
I'm open to alternatives.
I don't like war.
Give them Israel.
There's not really any alternative.
Sink our own Navy?
Color Revolution?
Yeah, I don't know.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for now.
I'm going to say bye to YouTube and Rumble and Onyx.
Somebody asked me about Rumble the other day.
They're under attack, I assume it's because they're a free speech place.
So we hope they survive.
I'm a small stock owner in Rumble, so I hope they survive, but also because I use them.
