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Oh, that's really good.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Interesting.
Well, have you ever thought to yourself, I know what somebody else is thinking, because that's what I would think if I were in that situation.
I'd like to give you just a little snapshot of what happened in my brain this morning so you can understand how different you are from other people.
So as you know, I famously have a problem with dates, calendar dates.
I always get them confused and sort of a dyslexic thing, but I compensate by really, really trying hard.
I mean, I really, really try hard to make sure that if I post a comic and I put the date on it, it's the right date.
So today, for example, just to give you an idea of what would happen in my head, I look at today's date and then my task is to look at today's date and then write it down for the comic I'm about to post.
That's the entire task.
Look at a date, try to remember it, Write it down immediately.
All right?
That was the task.
Here's me doing that task.
All right?
Today is 2.
2 is February.
2.
A positive.
That's right.
It's a check date.
Check date.
It's the 28th.
Got it.
Got it.
So it's February 28th, year 29.
So I write it down.
Then I look at it to make sure it's right.
2-28-29.
Okay, that's right.
And I check it again to make sure it's still right.
Okay, it's definitely 2-29.
No, wait, it's 2-28, but the year's 29.
Okay, got it.
And then I published it.
Did pretty good, didn't I?
Yeah, except for the fact that it's year 24.
Now, that's an example of every day.
Every time I look at a date, every time I look at a phone number, the numbers are dancing around.
Now it's not that I see them visually dancing, although sometimes it's almost that bad, but they dance around in my head.
So I can read them in in the correct order, but then they immediately scramble.
It's sort of a defect, but also a superpower.
The superpower is that I don't understand anything by looking at it.
Reading, numbers, nothing.
I only understand things by putting it into my brain and then resorting it, once it's in there, to what it must have been.
But I can't do that with numbers, because my brain doesn't know what it must have been.
Right?
But with words, I can.
So with words, I could put a sentence in my head in any order and I would know what it said.
Just automatically.
Anyway, so people are very different from you.
Just keep that in mind.
That's not the only way.
We're just so infinitely different on the inside.
It's just one of those cautionary tales.
Just don't assume anybody ever thinks the way you do.
The differences are insanely large.
The CEO of Kellogg's is recommending that you eat cereal for dinner if you want to save some money.
Yep, cereal for dinner.
And the CEO says, you know, it's because food is more expensive.
And so they started doing some advertising to suggest cereal for dinner.
Now, many of you are saying, what goes well with cereal?
Because, you know, it'd be kind of boring to eat a cereal on its own.
So you'd be looking for a good pairing.
I recommend cigarettes.
Cigarettes.
The best pairing for cereal is cigarettes.
Biden is going for a checkup at Walter Reed, he says.
And I wonder, how does Biden do a medical checkup?
Do you get a regular doctor or do you use a coroner?
Because if you're actually slightly more dead than alive, you know, relatively speaking, don't you just get the coroner in there to maybe start poking around and see what's going on?
No?
You use a regular doctor still?
All right, all right, I'll take your word for it.
I'm not like a doctor, so I'm just guessing, but for me, I guess I would have called the coroner.
But the question is, and let's see if I can use my ESP to determine how this might go.
A lot of people are saying you should request a cognitive exam Will he do the most obvious, useful, important thing that the president could do in this situation?
No.
Now, I'm going to remind you of the theme that I might carry through for some time.
Yeah.
If there's anything that doesn't make sense, it's probably the CIA.
Because is there anybody in the country who thinks it makes sense that Biden is running for a second term?
I mean, really?
Does anybody really think that makes sense?
So to me it looks like probably the CIA needs him in there for covering up whatever they need to cover up.
And it has nothing to do with who's qualified or who's about dead.
Watch how many times if you just say, well, maybe it's some kind of CIA op.
You're not always going to be right.
Often it will not be a CIA op.
But it does explain everything.
Like all the things that don't make sense, they're all explained with the same explanation.
Well, maybe there's some intelligence group that has some advantage coming out of this.
Because we do assume that they would have the power to change any president.
All indications are that they could.
So if they're not, there's a reason.
Well, Elon Musk is teasing that they're going to redo the Tesla Roadster, and it's going to go from zero to 60 in less than one second.
Now, isn't that basically a death trap?
Yeah, well, one of the things I look for in an automobile is survivability in the second second.
Yeah, I like to say if I get a new car, oh that's a new car.
I know all cars are dangerous by their nature, but if I get this car and really, you know, really press it, I could live two or three seconds.
But with the Roadster, you might be gone in a second and a half.
I can't even imagine going 60 miles an hour in one second.
How in the world doesn't that scramble your brain?
Your brain would be flattened against the back of your skull.
All right.
Yeah, the CIA just texted me.
Cut it out, they said.
So Mike Benz gives us another example of why he's suggesting there should be sanctuary states for, essentially, for conservatives.
Here's a perfect example.
You know the online guy, Mackey?
I think it's Doug Mackey?
He's being indicted in a Brooklyn court under the theory that something he did online, I guess he did a meme that said to vote at the wrong time, which is technically illegal.
Even though it was a joke, they're saying it's technically illegal.
Now, if you did something like that that was Technically illegal, but it would be really hard to demonstrate anybody was harmed by it because it was just a joke.
If you tried that in Florida, what do you think would happen?
I think the jury would say, seriously?
You can't demonstrate that anybody voted on the wrong day because of that silly meme that looks like a joke to me?
Yeah, I think he would be easily set free.
What happens if you do it in Brooklyn and somehow they learn that he's a Trump supporter?
We all know the answer.
There is no chance, no chance of a fair trial.
And yet we all know it, and then we're watching it happen.
How do we let a fellow citizen go to jail while we watch On a process that I don't think any reasonable person thinks is anything but corrupt.
Yeah, the January 6th thing, same thing.
And I'm going to double down on this.
I really think that we need a sanctuary state.
Someplace you can go where the New York and California can't get you.
Mostly New York and D.C.
So this really needs to be done.
I don't know if it's actually as feasible as I imagine it to be.
Maybe it's not feasible.
But I'd love to see some governor step up.
It would be very popular.
Well, let's see.
The Hill says there's pressure on Mitch McConnell to either endorse Trump or don't endorse him, or basically just weigh in on it.
And I say that Mitch needs to come out of his shell.
He needs to come out of his shell.
And I say it's time to turtle up.
Turtle up.
Come on.
Turtle up.
Get out of your shell.
Do it, Mitch.
Now here's some good news.
There's a video going around of Mitch in the 80s giving a speech about how there's massive election fraud in the country and it's ongoing and everybody knows it.
This is the 80s.
And he said that in rural places where there's sort of a one party in control that it's well known that it's massive fraud.
And he said that in some urban areas, it's also well known that there's massive fraud in the election.
Now this is in the 80s, and it was coming from Mitch McConnell, who one assumes would know what he was talking about.
One assumes that he's not guessing.
Because he didn't say, I have personally looked into it, or it's my personal opinion.
He said in front of everybody, it's just understood, it's well known, it's observable, it's a fact.
Now here's the good news.
Apparently all that got fixed.
Yeah, and don't you think it's sort of an oversight by our news business that we had this enormous problem with the Republic back in the 80s?
But then all that got fixed.
Now, I don't remember seeing the story.
Did you?
You probably saw it.
I mean, maybe I wasn't paying attention.
But did you all see the story about the massive election problems we had in the 80s that they got fixed?
So what?
You didn't see it?
Oh, it's almost like they weren't fixed.
No.
No, I assume it's just an oversight by the news.
What do you mean it's the dog not barking?
OK, you're not really saying that in the comments, but if you're listening to this, it sounds like you were.
I'll just have a conversation with myself and pretend you're on the other side of it.
What do you mean I'm handsome?
That's off topic.
I know I'm sexy, but stop saying it.
Stop saying it.
Give me a break.
I won't take off my shirt.
No, no.
All right.
So thank God all that election fraud got fixed.
Let me just say it.
If you think our elections are fair, you're a fucking idiot.
You are a fucking idiot.
Now, it's one thing to say it's not been proven to be unfair.
I'll give you that.
I will grant you that the courts have not decisively shown our elections to be anything but good enough.
But if you look at the totality of things we know for sure, not the stuff we're guessing at, just look at the totality of things we know for sure.
To imagine that our elections are fair is absolutely absurd.
Now, Tucker did an interview on Lex Friedman, which, by the way, was incredible.
I've only watched maybe 40% of it.
I ran out of time.
But I couldn't stop my jaw from falling on the ground.
I mean, it was just one interesting thing after another.
I was like, what?
I mean, it was really good.
So I definitely recommend it.
One of the things that Tucker said is that the recent elections are absolutely, especially 2020, absolutely rigged, but he makes his argument without any vote counting comments.
He says if you look at how the media is completely rigged, and we get all our opinions about who to vote for from them, that's pretty rigged.
If you look at how the laws were changed, Right before the election to allow, you know, massive mail-in ballots.
By the way, what was one of the things that Mitch noted was the primary source of fraud in the 80s, which, by the way, has all been fixed.
Thank God it's all been fixed.
No reporting on it, but all been fixed.
I assume.
I assume.
Was mail-in ballots.
Yeah.
In the 80s, Mitch was saying, everybody knows, basically, mail-in ballots are just, you know, massive fraudulent situation.
So don't do that.
But we did that.
And, of course, whoever changed the rules knew that that would cause a massive Democrat victory, or at least a victory.
And so did voting matter?
Not so much.
Yeah, if you control the media, and you can determine which rules are in play, you can actually determine who wins.
Watch this.
Let's do a law that gets rid of mail-in ballots.
Who wins?
The Republican.
Let's do a law that says mail-in ballots are, you know, massively encouraged.
Who wins?
The Democrats.
So what did voting have to do with anything?
Voting wasn't even part of the process.
We've actually removed voting as an important part of the democratic process.
Now that's without even any reference to any accusations about alleged, you know, vote miscounting or anything like that.
You don't even need that.
So I do like Tucker's approach of just saying straight out, the things we all agree on are enough to say it's rigged.
And I think that's fair.
It's all legal.
By the way, I'm not suggesting any of that's illegal, but it's definitely rigged.
I mean, there's no way around that.
Not if you're reasonable about it.
Well, the cable news ratings are out, and Gutfeld has topped the key demo of people 25 to 54, because nobody cares about people over 54.
We don't even buy things.
So you don't even need to advertise to us, because we're, you know, halfway dead anyway.
But in the key demographic, Gutfeld's killing it.
And it's the most DVR'd show in cable news.
Wow.
If there was one thing that says you're doing a good job, it would be most DVR'd.
Because a lot of the shows are just because you happen to be awake.
Right?
You just happen to be awake and you're done with the work at 8 p.m.
So the 8 p.m.
slot, you know, is gonna look good.
But if you're willing to DVR it, That's like the ultimate vote.
You know, it's not just I happen to be there and I happen to be on.
Well, what else?
How's everybody else doing?
Well, The Five was the number one show, and that features, oh, Greg Gelfeld.
So basically, Greg Gaufeld pretty much owns cable news at the moment.
Good job there.
And of course, there are four other people on The Five, but since they don't have another show, well, Jesse does, actually.
Oh, and Dana Preena does, too.
So I guess they're doing great.
But CNN didn't make the top 100, I think.
And Guff El beat all the other shows.
I was watching the interview recently of Biden.
He went on Seth Meyers' show.
And I watched that interview a few times.
I was going to talk about it.
And do you know why I decided not to talk about it?
I couldn't remember the name of the host.
All I remembered was, it was one of the guys who's not Guffeld.
I was like, which one is that?
Is that, is that Jimmy?
Is that, is that Stefan?
Was that Seth?
It's funny, in my mind, they all just became non-Guffeld.
There's just Guffeld and miscellaneous other.
So, that's what we know.
I believe I'm outdrawing an audience right now, beating CNN's primetime, but I'm not sure about that.
I'd like to introduce a concept that I call a wrap-up poll.
You've heard of a wrap-up smear.
Nancy Pelosi famously explained it.
A wrap-up smear would be where you plant something in the news, a fake story, you leak it to the news, then the news reports it, and then you use the news as your source of truth.
Even though you are the source of the news.
But the public doesn't know you're the source.
They just know it's in the New York Times or someplace else.
And so when you say, hey, don't look at me, it's in the New York Times.
That's called a wrap-up smear.
But I'm introducing a concept I'm going to call the wrap-up poll.
So Reuters I had a big poll that said 21% of respondents said that political extremism or threats to the democracy is their top worry.
And of course, that was almost all Democrats.
So the Democrats were all worried according to this poll.
It's a Reuters-Ipsos poll.
And now Reuters-Ipsos, would you say they lean left or right?
What's your opinion?
Does Reuters lean left or right?
Yes, you're saying far left, because that's what it seems like to you.
Seems like it to me as well.
So, an entity which you believe, and I believe, leans left, found that the biggest concern in the whole country, the number one issue, was political extremism.
Why is it that the poll found that there was political extremism?
It's because the news sources for the Democrats told them the biggest problem in the country is political extremism.
And then the poll is done to find out what the public thinks.
And then they put it in the news, and you say to yourself, well, people must think that political extremism is bad, which makes me think it must be bad because it's the majority problem.
Except, nobody would have had that opinion independently.
You might have an opinion independently about crime, Because you might experience more of it, and you say, oh, that's a big issue.
You might have an issue with war, because you'd be aware that there's a war, and maybe you don't like it.
But do you think that the country would have thought that there was really a threat to the democracy, or that political extremism was our biggest risk, unless the news told them that every day?
Every single day, the news is telling Democrats that the white supremacists are getting ready to make their move.
And there are so few white supremacists that they have to create a fake group of them to march around every now and then, just so there's a visual.
Because there's no other visual.
There aren't enough white supremacists that you can get a picture of them.
It's like Bigfoot.
We're going to have to create some and have them march around in masks and pretend not to be feds to get our visual.
So the wrap-up poll.
That's when the news brainwashes the citizens to tell them their biggest problem is X, and then the pollsters poll them and find out it's a surprise.
The biggest problem is exactly what the news told them was the biggest problem.
What do you think the people who are not left-leaning and don't watch left-leaning news And let's call them conservatives or Republicans.
What do you think they thought was the number one issue?
Just take a guess.
The border, of course.
Now, do you think that Republicans would think that the border was the biggest crisis if their sources of news, and that would include me, by the way, had not hammered on it every single day?
Well, if you lived in a place that had tons of immigrants coming in, it would definitely be your biggest problem.
But most people in the country don't live anywhere near an immigrant.
Most of us don't.
So you probably wouldn't notice.
But I do believe, independent of the brainwashing on the news, I do think it's obvious that once you reach 10 million people from another country and you're not checking them very well, that's pretty much objectively, obviously, clearly a massive problem.
Right.
But, if the news didn't tell you, you wouldn't know.
Would you?
Would you know it was a massive problem?
Think about your own personal life.
If there was no news, no news existed.
If you walked around in downtown New York City, you'd say, whoa, big problem.
And other cities as well.
But most people don't live in the city, do they?
Most Republicans?
If you lived in a rural place, would you even know there was an issue?
I'm just curious.
It is a big issue.
I'm not downplaying it.
To me, it seems like the biggest one.
The one we have to solve first.
All right.
Peter Schiff.
Economist type of guy.
Famous for his economic predictions.
He says that the news has adjusted the inflation numbers and that instead of going down, it was actually going up in the fourth quarter.
Do you believe that?
That instead of inflation heading down, it was heading up, and we got it completely wrong?
Do you believe that economic news is real?
No.
It's an election year, and the administration that controls the sources of news about the economy Are you going to put it on the most positive light?
But one of their tricks, it's well understood by at least this audience, is that you say it's all good news and there's a big news cycle about it.
And then later you downgrade and say, oh, we got that wrong.
And you wind it back a little bit and nobody notices the correction.
And then you just repeat.
It works.
So of course they'll keep doing it.
Now, I don't know that Peter Schiff is right, but I would say if you believe inflation numbers, I don't know why you would.
Because inflation can be either up or down, depending on what you decide to look at, and when you decide to look at it, and are you looking at the rate of change or the absolute?
You can make inflation anything you want, and the public won't know which method you picked.
They'll just say, oh, it's up or it's down.
And then they'll look at their own price tag when they buy groceries, and they'll say, what?
All right.
If you'd like to know how bad the situation is in Ukraine, and how badly they need extra funding, it's not just dire, but the administration says it's very dire.
Now, very dire is worse than dire.
Unless you're a writer, in which case you know that dire and very dire are pretty much exactly the same.
Do you know why you say very dire instead of dire?
Why would you feel you had to say very dire?
Because before it even came out of your mouth, you realized that 70% of the country doesn't know what the word dire means.
I'll bet.
I'll bet 70% of the country could not correctly define the word dire.
I'll bet you at least, I don't know, 40% of them would say, well, Dire Straits.
It's probably a good thing.
It's the name of a band.
Yeah.
So, you say very because you're not sure that anybody understands that dire is bad, but very dire.
Well, that's a heads up that it's something bad you should pay attention to.
But the question that I would ask is, why do they use a word like dire?
If you're asking me for money, the argument should be how I will benefit.
That's how you ask for money.
I'd like you to give me some money.
Why?
Well, here's the benefit to you.
Now, if you don't put it in terms of the benefit to the people who are giving the money, or potentially giving the money, then I'm not going to pay attention to you.
I don't care what you say after that.
You tell me why it's good for me, and then we can maybe make a deal.
But if your argument is that my money is good for somebody else, even really good, like even somebody who's in not just dire situation, but I'm talking very dire, that's not really the right sales pitch.
Now, why is it that they have to put it in these terms instead of telling me, the potential source of their funding, Why I should give my money to someone else.
The reason that they don't say it that way is that they don't have an argument.
If they had an argument for why I should give them money, they would tell me.
They wouldn't leave that out.
It's a pretty clear signal that it's not for the benefit of the country.
It's a pretty clear signal.
The way they talk about it is not in terms of how it's good for us.
And when they do, it all sounds like a college essay, not something they really believe.
Do they really believe that Putin's going to rule the rest of Europe if we were to make a peace deal with him now?
Do they really believe that?
Because I don't think the public was buying it.
I think the public was saying, but aren't the people that they're trying to conquer largely Russian-speaking people who would rather be Russian?
How's that like anything else?
Now you might say, but he'll keep, you know, doing a Hitler technique where he'll say, well, there's a, there's three Russian people in Germany, so we should own Germany.
But I don't think that's going to happen.
I really don't think that's going to happen.
So, um, what it sounds like to me when they ask for money is we made a huge mistake, but we can make that mistake much bigger if you let us steal money from voters.
You know what it reminds me of?
And I've used this example before.
I used to work in a big bank, and we had this employee that we were told he's very unpleasant to work with, but he can never be fired, because he's the only one who knows how to, you know, keep our important computer systems working.
A bank.
There was literally a bank who believed that the bank would have to go out of business if this one guy was somehow lost.
Now, by the way, that guy became the physical model for Dilbert because he had an interesting body shape.
It was like Dilbert.
So I actually, I created Dilbert based on that one guy that we couldn't fire.
I always wondered if he, I never told him, so I always wondered if he knew he was a model for Dilbert.
Like, did he ever go to the grocery store and have the cashier say, you, You remind me of someone, but I can't put my finger on it.
Well, that's me.
Yeah, I did that.
But anyway, I remember being told over and over again that he was the most valuable key employee, and if he got fired, we couldn't even keep the computers running.
They literally said that, that the computers would stop running.
Basically, the whole business would have to close, because this one guy.
And then one day, he left.
He got a better job.
Whoa!
And then the bank closed.
No, it didn't.
You know what actually happened?
Eh, nothing.
Turns out, it wasn't that important.
We talked ourselves into it being the most important thing in the world, but there was no justification for it.
None at all.
And by the way, how many times have you seen something just like that?
Right?
Just like that.
So, I'm not too worried about funding Ukraine in terms of the U.S.
I'm not even sure it's good for Ukraine.
If the argument was this was good for the people of Ukraine, I would say I would care about that.
I would say, hey, they're allies, we should probably give them something.
But they're not making the argument it's good for the people of Ukraine, are they?
Wouldn't that be the most obvious argument?
But it seems obvious that the people of Ukraine would be better with an immediate peace deal.
Am I wrong about that?
Is that not obvious?
Now, if they made a peace deal, they might be very unhappy about how it looks.
But it's going to be way better than continuing the war.
Way better.
Do you think there's anybody in the non-occupied part of Ukraine who thinks that their life would be better if they kept fighting to get Crimea back?
Is there anybody who thinks that?
Like even one person?
I doubt it.
Well, James Comer is saying that the FBI informant who at one point claimed that he had information that Biden got bribed, but then he got arrested, the informant did, and he went from somebody that Christopher Wray said, highly, highly credible, for years we've been using him, he's just the greatest source, but as soon as he said something about Biden, turns out he was a lying bastard and they immediately locked him up.
So, Comer is saying that he doesn't trust the FBI to be giving it to him straight.
And so we are left to sort this out ourselves, because there's no way to know.
I don't believe we're ever going to know the answer of whether the FBI informant was telling the truth.
I just think we'll never know.
So we have to pick.
You have to make a working assumption About what is more likely?
That the FBI is lying?
Or that the informant is lying?
Now, if this were 20 years ago, I'd say, come on, that's easy.
Why would the FBI lie?
Dumb.
You know, obviously the informant's a liar.
He's a Russian guy.
He's an informant.
I mean, that's low credibility right off the bat.
But suppose I told you that for years and years, the informant had an impeccable record of accuracy.
But for years and years, the FBI has an impeccable record of being corrupt.
At least that's what it looks like from the outside, right?
I'm not saying anybody's been necessarily, you know, indicted or anything.
But from the outside, it appears they've been corrupt for a number of years.
So we would be forced to believe that the entity, the FBI, that has looked corrupt to us for several years, is now suddenly more credible Then the guy that even the FBI said was telling the truth for years.
And then suddenly he turned bad on this one question.
Now there is some indication that he was politically biased against Biden.
So is he telling the truth?
I don't know.
There's a good chance he's not.
But why would you trust the FBI?
I mean, it has all the look of them covering up an embarrassing thing.
So my working assumption is that the FBI informant told the truth, but I wouldn't say it's credible.
I wouldn't say the informer is credible, but the FBI is even less so.
So I'm going to make my pick based on recent history.
Recent history suggests the FBI is less credible than a random informant who has been credible up to this point.
I love the fact that we're talking about whether Fannie Willis had sex with her boyfriend, Wade, in the office or not.
So somehow that question became important in the proceedings.
And some friend of Wade came in and this poor bastard had to answer questions about how much he knew about when it started.
Because when it started is a real issue, not the fact that it happened.
And he got, he was pretty nervous answering questions.
And he ended up with, uh, the, the, the question he was asked was, were you told by Wade that he would have sex in the office with Fonny?
No, I just love that that was a legitimate question.
Cause again, it's about the timeline.
It's not about whether they had sex, but the fact that it came down to, did they have sex in the office?
I am very entertained.
Very entertained.
Now the friend, who some think did hear that they had sex in the office, said he did not recall that conversation.
Now when he said it, he did not look honest, because he didn't recall that it happened, and he didn't recall that it didn't happen.
Which is not really a thing.
In your entire life, Has anybody ever told you about a real sexual encounter in an office and you couldn't remember the conversation in your whole life?
Because you've probably heard stories like that.
It's like this one, that one had sex in the office.
You'll never forget it because it's so visual.
You imagine the office, you imagine the two of them and whether you like it or not, it's very visual.
You will remember that forever, even if they say, well, let me put it this way.
You would know it didn't happen, because you would know you would have remembered it.
But, since memory is a, you know, it's a fluid thing, it's not impossible that he wouldn't remember.
So the friend, I tell you, you need to get a friend like this one.
Like, I watched the friend try to navigate this difficult situation, because I'm sure he doesn't want to break the law, doesn't want to go to jail, doesn't want to lie under oath, but at the same time he doesn't want to destroy his friend.
And to my subjective opinion, and it's purely subjective, he looked like he was lying to protect his friend, and I actually appreciated it.
I have a rule that you can lie about sex.
Now, there might be some exception, like, you know, if you have AIDS or something.
But outside of the normal and of the dangerous realm, I think that if somebody asks you if you banged your boss on her desk, you can lie.
I don't find any problem with that.
I have no problem, even in a legal process.
As long as the sex was consensual.
Alright, that's important to the story.
Gotta be consensual.
But if you lie about consensual sex, even under oath, I get that it's illegal.
But my personal standard is, that's fine.
Yeah.
Do you know who doesn't get to ask about your sex life and where you put your penis?
Your government.
Unless that was a crime, like if you were raping somebody, of course.
If it was some other dangerous situation, of course.
But if it's just an ancillary question to some timeline, No.
No, you don't have access to that information.
You don't have a right to it, even if the law says so.
I'm sorry.
No.
My standard is, if the friend, I'll say if, if the friend lied his ass off, About his friend's sex life?
Totally okay with it.
I don't care what it does to the case.
Totally okay with it.
If you can't prove your case without asking the friend to narco his friend, well then forget it.
Then forget it.
You gotta let it go.
If you need that, let it go.
Cause, no.
Nope.
I would certainly want my friend to lie for me in this case, and I have total respect for the friend who it looks like, I don't know for sure, but it looks like he lied to protect his friend, and I appreciate it.
Well, apparently, Fonny Willis is a huge racist, and that's now in evidence.
So apparently, former employees say that she had extreme DEI training, and part of the training was, That people were forced to say that whiteness is bad.
So Breitbart has that story.
Wendell Huzeboe has some kind of sources, former employees.
Now that's obvious racism.
So we now know she's racist.
Tennessee just passed a law that would ban pride flags from classrooms.
Now, as you know, I am pro-LGBTQ.
I say, let people be people, generally speaking.
But it makes me wonder, why did anybody think their thing was important enough that you get a flag in the schoolrooms?
So I agree with Tennessee that no matter how much I love the LGBT community, And I love them a lot.
They don't get a flag.
You don't get a friggin' flag.
Where's my bald white guy flag?
Like, everybody's got a reason for a flag.
You don't get a special flag.
Now, you know, maybe there was a time when it was sort of a bigger issue and, you know, maybe it made sense to, you know, push a little harder because Well, I would say the LGBTQ community is the most successful of what you had once called a marginalized community.
Would you agree?
Have you ever said, ooh, we better not visit that part of the town?
Because that's a heavy gay area.
Because the crime will be so high in the gay area.
Never.
Did you ever want to not hire somebody because they were gay?
Well, there was a day that that was a thing.
But in 2024, is that even a thing?
Like, have you ever seen anybody who couldn't do their job because they had some cock last night?
I've never heard of it.
Like, let people be people.
Let them be people.
Let them do whatever they want, if it's legal.
So, no, I think LGBTQ should take the win on this.
The win is that you don't need to flag.
Do you get that?
If it sounds like I'm saying something that's anti-LGBTQ, it's the opposite.
I'm saying, you did great.
The entire LGBTQ people, oh my God.
Like in the, I was going to say the anal, I don't know how to say the word now.
Is it in the annals of history?
In the annals of history, I would say the LGBT community has done the most incredible job of improving their standing in the community to the point where I think this is a sign I would say the LGBT community has done the most incredible job It's a sign of victory if you don't need your flag.
That's like the ultimate sign.
So take the win, LGBTQ.
I know it doesn't feel that way, but, you know, in my opinion, you guys are winners.
All right, let's talk about the increased rate of cancer.
Did you know there's excess deaths?
There's a whole bunch of cancer among especially younger people.
So what's that all about?
In the comments.
Wall Street Journal says, doctors are trying to figure out why excess deaths are so high among young people.
Go!
Come on, you're not falling into my trap!
Come on!
You're all too smart.
Say it!
You think it's the shots.
Say it.
Say it!
All right, you're all too smart.
Damn it.
All right.
So some people are going to look at a story like that, and they're going to say, hey, these excess deaths are obviously from either COVID or obviously from the shots.
But did you know, and I didn't know this, I found out this today from the Wall Street Journal, if it's true, That this increase in cancer among the young started long before the COVID pandemic.
Is that true?
I'm going to say maybe.
Because here's my problem.
Have we not all seen doctors and data experts say that there's an unexplained excess death among young people that started with the pandemic and continues or actually started about the time as the vaccinations and continues?
Have you not all seen those posts on social media?
And these are actual working doctors and some of the best data analysts ever.
And they've been saying that this excess deaths, especially cancer, specifically cancer was in here, that the excess deaths among the young started with the rollout of the vaccinations.
Now, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that it's long been known that it started way before the vaccinations.
Which one of those is true?
Now, let me tell you what you can conclude from this.
You can't trust any data about the pandemic.
You can't.
You can't trust any data from the pandemic.
Why is it that people that I thought were pretty credible were claiming that there was excess deaths that started?
I've seen the graphs.
Haven't you seen the graphs?
There's one that goes around all the time, showing that everything looked normal until the vaccinations came out and then excess deaths spiked.
Was that always made up?
Or, I could give you three possibilities for why there's one group who thinks that the data shows it started with the vaccinations, and yet the Wall Street Journal is reporting that it started years earlier.
Three possibilities.
Number one, one of the groups looked at the wrong data.
Maybe the Wall Street Journal's reporting is about people who looked at the correct data.
Perhaps the stuff on the Internet is people who looked at the wrong data.
But do you believe that?
Because how could there be more than one set of data about excess deaths?
Is it captured in more than one place and it's different?
That would be kind of a mystery.
Or two, the story is planted by Big Pharma and it's just not true that there have long been more excess deaths before the vaccination.
How many of you think that's the case?
It's just a fake story to cover up for Big Pharma who advertises?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Number three, the data is just inaccurate.
And somebody's just analyzing it wrong.
But I'm very sort of curious why there could be so many people on the X platform who are showing their data.
They're actually showing the source of their data.
And you can go check it yourself.
And it seems to show that the excess deaths spiked around the time of the vaccination.
And then this data says it didn't.
Who's right?
Well, if what you did was say, I will decide that the data of this one group is right and the data of the other group is wrong, you're not really trying very hard.
Try harder.
The conclusion is none of the data is reliable.
That's the only conclusion.
Now, it's also true that reporting is sketchy.
It's also true that, you know, everybody is sort of non-dependable in this context.
But the only thing I can take away from this is that data isn't useful.
Because maybe the data is right and we don't know how to analyze it.
That would still make it useless.
Or if we're good at analyzing but the data is wrong, that makes it useless.
Data?
Useless.
Now, here's a story that, I swear to God, I can't believe it's true.
But, you know, Jordan Peterson was interacting with the story, and a source was shown.
So maybe it's true.
Canada is introducing the HARMS Act, where the government can put you under house arrest, or make you wear an ankle bracelet, if someone else believes that you might, in the future, write something hateful online.
What?
If somebody thinks you might in the future write something hateful online, Canada can put a bracelet on you and give you house arrest.
How can that be true?
I'm going to put a stake in the story and say it's not true.
That there's something missing.
Now, I saw the source, and it looked like an official bill.
There's something wrong here.
I'm going to say this is too on the nose, and that there's no way Canada is going to punish people for a crime they didn't do.
I'm going to say no.
Too on the nose.
Now, I get that I saw the source.
I get that I saw the source.
Don't believe it.
All right, we'll see.
Gemini, as you know, is a huge embarrassment to Google, whose net worth went way down in the stock market.
I don't know what it's doing today.
But Gemini was a super racist.
I guess they've admitted that it's racist with its imaging, because it shows historical characters as black, even if they weren't.
But I don't think Google has admitted that all of their text searches are also just as bad.
Am I wrong about that?
Google did admit that the image search is a problem, but they did not admit that their text results are just as bad.
Is that correct?
I'll need a fact check on that, I just haven't seen it.
But I googled myself and asked if I'm a racist, and Gemini said yes.
Yes.
I'm a racist.
Now, how much of my story do you think was correct?
Because it talked about my situation getting cancelled.
It had almost no context.
If you remove the context, it looks like I'm the big ol' racist.
Here's the actual way it should have been reported.
Or could have been.
Because, you know, everybody's got a narrative.
But it could have been reported this way.
That there was a Rasmussen poll suggesting that a large percentage of black people thought it was not okay to be white.
Adams, tying this to the headlines and the fact that there's DEI and CRT and ESG, pulled it all together and said, if you're in the group that is being taught by the government, the government That you're an oppressor, and that even if you didn't personally do anything, you're still an oppressor group, and that your stuff should be taken from you and given to people who are victims.
Now, without even getting into the conversation of whether there are victims and there are oppressors, I say that if you can leave that situation and get to a situation where you're not considered the oppressor, that will be better for you in safety, and better for you socially, and better for you career-wise.
Now, that's a statement that 100% of the public agrees with.
Now, I will agree that I said it in the most provocative way intentionally.
Intentionally.
I wanted people to be really pissed off, and I succeeded better than I imagined.
Boy, people were really mad about that.
But if you were to tell the story the way I just did, which part of it is wrong?
Give me a fact check.
What part of my own telling of the story, which part of that do you disagree with?
Right?
Now most of you are on my team, but I submit that there's no black person who disagrees with what I just said.
And it's easy to demonstrate.
So if a black person says, yeah, but the way you said it, or blah blah, here's how I would respond.
You're happily living in your home, and then the Grand Kegel of the KKK moves in next door.
Commits no crimes.
Just moves in next door.
Do you think about moving?
Or do you think, is there any way, you know, legally, I could get them out of there?
I would hope so.
I would hope so.
I would certainly support you in that.
Why?
Even though your neighbor broke no laws, let's say, hypothetically, broke no law, and is certainly not any kind of representative of all white people, but you would be crazy to hang around.
Now that's a clean example where the neighbors are just the KKK.
But suppose you were going to move into a town, And you had the freedom to resettle wherever you wanted within reason.
And one of the towns was, you know, an average town.
But another town you were considering had 20% people who associate with the KKK.
80% good people.
80% is pretty good.
good people.
80% is pretty good.
20% totally in the KKK.
Now, in that case, would you recommend that a black family, if they have an option, move into the town where we know that 20% of them absolutely hate them?
I don't know.
I wouldn't.
I would recommend to that black family, get the F away from that town.
Go to a town where people are normal, and they'll just treat you for what you contribute.
I'm asking only for the same thing.
I'm asking only for the same thing.
That when my safety, or the safety of a family is involved, that I'm going to make the decision based on anything I want.
Anything I want.
Because safety is not subordinate to your fucking wokeness.
Never will be, never can be, not ethically, not morally, Legally, I might have some problems, but certainly not an ethical or moral or, you know, any kind of religious problem.
So, given that Google is very clearly painting me in a racist way, and I printed the message you can see for yourself, what should I do about that?
I believe if I do nothing, it will remain.
Wouldn't you agree?
If I do nothing, it will remain.
If I sue, it will ruin the rest of my life.
Because I don't know if I'll win, it'll be expensive, and if I lose, they'll sue me for my legal fees, and that'll be extraordinary.
It'll take all of my time.
They'll ask for my records.
Like, would they have access to all of my private communication to prove I'm a racist?
Would that be part of their... What do you think?
Could they say... If the question is whether we're calling you a racist, let's say with good cause or not, wouldn't they be allowed to look at everything I've ever written anywhere, including privately, to determine if I'm a racist, as part of their defense?
So how in the world can suing them ever be a good idea for me?
Probably not, right?
So, what do you do?
Well, I have a suggestion.
I would recommend that we all call Google racist in all references to them.
So for example, I'm now on the racist YouTube channel, live.
Everybody who's watching me on YouTube, you know you're part of a racist entity.
And you could be watching it on Rumble, where there are no racists.
Well, I'm sure there are racists everywhere.
But at least the Rumble platform is not a racist business.
They don't prefer or disassociate from any race.
But YouTube is very clearly a racist organization who is defaming a lot of people who don't deserve it.
So I'm going to call all of their products racist.
And the reason I'm going to do it is if enough of us do it, the next time their AI trains on public information, it will find out that it's a racist.
And that's what I'm going for.
So if enough of us say their products are racist and associate it, presumably the large language model will pick that up.
And by the way, we're not wrong.
Google is a racist company.
I think it's well demonstrated by the data.
There's no question about it.
Racists against white people.
There's really no question about it.
There's some talk about whether the CEO of Google will have to step down.
And I would say no, because he's not white.
That's probably all he needs.
Just not being white should be enough to keep his job.
And unfortunately, that's just the way the world works.
If he were white, he'd be gone in a minute.
If he'd done something similar but different from a white standard, he'd be gone in a minute.
We all know that.
So, I'm wondering how long it will be before there's an alternative, because Elon Musk says that he'll have xMail as an email, and the moment I'm sure that xMail does what I want, I will switch.
So being on Gmail is crazy.
It's just crazy if you have an option.
But, you know, alternatives.
It's a pain in the ass to change your email address.
Unless I can just forward it and then it'd be fine.
So we've got Racist YouTube, Racist Gemini AI, Racist Google Search.
And how many of those things could be duplicated by X?
So X can already do video.
So it can do a lot of the YouTube stuff, but it's not a full YouTube.
And it could do Gmail.
Could it do search?
It seems to me that Grok should eventually be a search engine, right?
Just, you know, it's normal evolution, it would become a search engine.
Because the only thing you need to make an AI a good search engine is that it's not biased.
Am I wrong?
The only thing you would need for Grok to be a search engine is for it not to be biased.
And by the way, most of the things I search for are products.
If I search for news, it's all fake.
But when I look for a product, I can find it on Amazon, usually.
So... Alright.
I'm hoping that Joe Biden stays in the race.
I don't know about you.
But nothing would make me happier than seeing Joe go all the way.
Partly for the memes.
I don't know if you've seen the meme of the giant ice cream cone that's licking Biden's head in a little cone.
It's pretty funny.
I don't know if you've seen the one with... who's the dead comedian yelling at Biden to get out of the race?
Anyway, the memes are worth it.
I don't think there's anything funnier than having a guy who's on the edge of death and clearly has dementia being the number one best person that the Democrats could put in the job.
I mean, that's just funny.
And there's every day I laugh at it, and every day I laugh at the Biden memes, the Biden gaffes, the Biden mumbling.
I'm loving it.
I've never enjoyed any election like this one.
But what I love about it the most And by the way, I would not normally make fun of an elderly person with problems, except that he's a horrible racist criminal.
He's a horrible racist criminal who's trying to pollute the country to hate me and people who look like me.
So fuck him.
I believe he should be dead.
I'll love it when he dies.
I don't think I'd ever say that about any other president.
But I think Biden, you know, I hope it's a natural death, of course.
I don't want any violence.
But I'll be happy when he dies.
I'll be totally happy about it.
He's a terrible, terrible person.
What he's done to our country is inexcusable, completely inexcusable.
And I don't think he deserves any respect whatsoever.
But I'm sure enjoying him being in the race.
And I love the fact that if he were to win in November, you wouldn't have any doubt about whether the election was rigged, would you?
That would end the entire conversation.
And I kind of want that to happen.
I kind of want it.
My perfect ending would be that the cheating is so obvious that even the courts can't ignore it.
And even the court's like, oh, all right.
Yeah, that's kind of obvious.
Because what could be better than Trump losing the election and having it reversed by the Supreme Court and put people in jail on the other side?
That would be the ultimate.
So I kind of want that.
But man, I'm enjoying the whole run.
So Democrats, I know zero of you ever see me because even on X there's some kind of censoring going on.
I just don't know what Keep it up All right, did you know that if somebody has extra campaign funds And they they don't need to spend them on their campaign.
Let's say you're in a safe area that you could just spend it on yourself and Apparently that's legal.
Did you all know that?
Yeah, so there's Ryan Fournier saying on X that Eric Swalwell spent $22,000 of personal campaign funds on Super Bowl tickets.
It's probably legal, isn't it?
It makes you not want to give anybody any political contribution, that's for sure.
And then there's a report separately that Letitia James spent a lot of her campaign funds on, you know, what looks like personal expenses.
Again, as far as I know, completely legal.
As far as I know, it's legal, right?
But it's what it looks like.
End wokeness on X's posting that there are thousands of unaccompanied minors across the border who are now just completely missing.
Compare completely missing to kids in cages, which suddenly stopped mattering.
That whole AOC crying at the fence thing was just an op.
And by the way, does anybody think that AOC is an organic politician?
Or do you think she's just a CIA?
I have no information that would say she's CIA.
She just acts like it.
Because I believe that they actually auditioned to find somebody who could pretend to be a politician.
And then she won the audition, right?
Do I have that correct?
And was the person who was in charge of the auditioning, did they have any connection to the intelligence community?
I remember seeing the name.
Who was the person who was in charge of that?
It was a familiar Democrat name.
Now, whoever did the auditioning for the position that she got?
It wasn't Cenk, was it?
I heard it was somebody.
Really?
I thought it was somebody else.
All right, well, I'll look into that.
But you certainly, if you're wondering if the news is fake, all of that fake crying about the children was just completely made up.
The children are way worse off now.
Not a peep.
Not a peep.
Well, can you believe this?
Judge Carney in Berkeley threw out some prosecutions of right-wing agitators because they got in a fight with some Antifa, and the only people who got arrested for a mutual fight were the right-wing people.
Nobody in Antifa got arrested, and they were both in a voluntary fight with each other.
And the judge, Judge Carney, just said, um, seriously?
They were voluntarily fighting each other at the same event, and not a single Antifa person was even arrested.
Only the right-wingers.
And so Judge Carney threw it out.
Hello.
Yes.
Yes.
A little bit more of this, please.
Now, I don't have any information whether this is a Democrat or Republican judge, but let me tell you, if Judge Kearney, and I don't know the gender either, but if Judge Kearney is a Democrat, good job.
I'd love to know that.
I'd love to know that was a Democrat, because if a Democrat judge will throw this out for that reason, it's a good reason.
Then my credibility in the system will be, you know, a little bit, a little bit better.
A little bit better.
So anyway, San Francisco's planning some laws to take care of some stuff.
So one of the laws is included in, you know, multiple laws that they're considering is something to work on the fentanyl problem.
Now watch me make a prediction.
San Francisco is doing something about the fentanyl problem.
I predict that it will not involve stopping it.
Let's see what it involves.
Oh, better healthcare access.
Better healthcare access, yeah.
Yeah, that was predictable, wasn't it?
So if you believe that the fentanyl business is not controlled by our intelligence agencies, then you have to explain to me why nothing is done about it.
It's the only reason.
The only reason that we're not militarily battling the cartels is because our intelligence people must be working with them.
Tell me there's any other explanation.
I'd love to know that's not true.
There's no other explanation.
It's pretty obvious.
And if it's not true, I'd love to be wrong, but it's my working assumption at the moment that it can't be stopped.
So I also predict that neither Vivek nor Trump will make any military move against the cartels.
Because I think they all get the same story when they get into power.
It would explain why Trump hadn't done enough either.
Here's an interesting loophole in the San Francisco law that they're trying to block.
Apparently, if you steal a car, you will not be prosecuted if you can't be proven that the car was locked when you got into it.
Because if your car was unlocked, well, you're just asking for a stolen car.
That's not like stealing.
It's more like borrowing it or something.
I don't know.
So believe it or not, if you couldn't prove your car was locked, you couldn't get a conviction on the crook.
I suppose it'd be different if there was other evidence, like an eyewitness.
So one of the things that the crooks could do is they could break the window, get in your car, unlock it, get caught, And then when the police see that the window is broken, you were still able to say, yeah, but it was also unlocked.
Well, who broke the window?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Was there any, any witnesses?
No, there are no witnesses, but you're here in a stolen car with a broken window, so it's obvious you broke the window to steal the car.
Yeah, but you know, you know what you can't prove?
You can't prove it was also unlocked.
So, they quite wisely think they should block, they should maybe end that little loophole.
They're also going after the, so here's another problem.
There's too much looting in the stores.
So finally, San Francisco is going to do something about the looting in the stores.
Aren't you glad?
Finally?
I mean, it's one of the biggest problems, because the stores will leave if there's too much looting.
But finally, they're considering a new bill.
That would go after the marketplace of people who sell the stolen stuff and require them to prove they know it's not stolen.
Which is sort of impossible.
And sort of is putting a burden on the online people who didn't steal anything.
Yeah, the online people didn't steal anything from a store.
Wouldn't you think that if you were going to deal with all the shoplifting, you might want to change the laws to make it, I don't know, a little bit more illegal or allow them to have armed guards or something, something along the lines of stopping it instead of making it slightly harder to sell, which we're told isn't even real because they usually just sell it on the street anyway.
So yeah, San Francisco is so bad that you can predict what they'll do just by whatever is the worst thing you can do.
Carrie Lake is up in the polls in the Senate race there for Arizona, whether it's a two-person or a three-person Lake.
Does anybody think Carrie Lake can actually win, no matter what the polls say?
If you say yes, you believe that the election will be not rigged?
To me, it seems obvious it would be rigged.
Well, I don't know.
It won't be fair.
Yeah.
So I don't have any evidence that it is rigged or was rigged or will be rigged, but it's my working assumption that they will.
Because they presumably could.
Mark Andreessen is one of the most useful voices on AI and the AI risks, if you don't know him.
One of the most respected, successful VCs invented the browser.
I mean, he's got a long history of doing the right things for a long time.
So a smart guy, you should listen to him.
And he's pointing out that People are going after the technology for being, you know, too woke.
But you're making a big mistake.
The technology can't be fixed.
Because the problem is the people.
The people have been trained that what they did with the AI is the truth.
All they did is good things, and it's the same people.
So they might change the names of things, and hide some things, and move some balls, and hide some things under cups, but it's the same people.
They're not going to suddenly say that everything they said was the opposite.
So, no, you can't fix it.
So Andreessen saying it's unfixable, so the only possibility is an open AI, where everybody can see how it was created, or Elon Musk's version.
So that's what Andreessen says.
And apparently he's on the board of Meta, and Meta is, he says, promoting the OpenAI.
That feels smart to me.
That feels like a Zuckerberg-getting-this-one-right situation, doesn't it?
Because if Meta says, you know, AI is a tool, and we just want to use it like everybody else, you want it to be open, because that's the best tool.
And I think that AI just needs to be baked into everything we do, if it's done right.
So that by far is the better social outcome, an open AI where everybody can see how it got trained.
All right.
Tucker Carlson, before he talked to Putin, he said that his own legal counsel, at least American legal counsel, counseled him that he could get arrested in America.
Not in Russia.
He could get arrested in America if he asked the wrong questions.
Now, apparently the wrong question would be anything that made Putin look good relative to the war in Ukraine, especially.
Now, apparently it didn't happen, and he didn't get arrested.
But what do you make of legal counsel Advising Tucker, definitely don't go to Russia, because if you ask the wrong question, you'll be arrested for being out of treason or something.
Now, Tucker basically said, go to hell and just went to Russia.
Now, that was the right choice, I think.
But do you think that the legal counsel was doing a good job or a bad job?
I would say that probably most legal counsels would have said the same thing.
Do you know why?
Most legal counsels probably would have said the same thing.
Because the legal counsel is only in the job of keeping you out of legal risk.
That's it.
Nobody asked the legal counsel, hey legal counsel, How can I make the most money in a way that the risk reward is well balanced?
Now that's what Tucker decided.
Tucker decided the information is good for the world, probably good for his brand, it's worth the risk.
But the law firm isn't in that job.
Their job is to tell you there's a risk, and if there's a risk that doesn't exist here, but it's only a risk if you go over there and ask those questions, It's pretty reasonable legal advice to don't do that thing that puts you at great risk.
Now keep in mind there's also an expected value calculation.
The risk of a parking ticket is not the same as the risk of your own government putting you in jail for treason.
Very different.
So I agree with the legal counsel saying don't do it.
Don't do it.
Very strongly said don't do this.
It's a risk.
Because their context is Risk or no risk.
But of course, the real world has a lot more variables and that's why you make the decision and you don't let your lawyers make the decision.
How many of you have ever overruled your own lawyers on a business decision?
I have.
Yeah.
Routinely.
Normal.
It's very normal.
Normal procedure.
And it's always the same reason, because their sense of risk is going through the legal filter, and yours is not.
One of the things that Tucker said is that Putin seemed visibly nervous.
Isn't that interesting?
Tucker himself said he was never afraid for his life, and he didn't look nervous to me.
I mean, maybe he was, but he said he wasn't.
But he said Putin was.
No, I completely understand that, because you're saying to yourself, oh, he's the leader of the country, you know, why would he be nervous talking to, you know, one guy?
But I think that Putin completely understands that whatever Tucker told you was true.
was going to be true to 30% of the country.
And Putin really needs America to see things his way for him to stay alive and for Russia to do well.
So the funny thing about it is that Putin was under way more danger than Tucker was.
It wasn't even close.
Yeah, if Putin had said the wrong thing, or even if Tucker had decided to twist it from the right thing into a wrong thing and sell it, he doesn't do that.
But if he had decided to, that would be terrible for Putin.
It could cost him the war, it could cost him his life, his legacy.
I mean, there were really big stakes for Putin.
I'm not sure that the stakes were as high for Tucker.
Because I don't think there was a big risk of him being arrested.
The country would have just gone crazy if that happened.
So it makes sense that Putin was actually nervous because the media actually is more powerful than even Putin.
And clearly he seems to have understood that.
All right.
Biden was chomping on some ice cream the other day and said that he hoped to get a ceasefire with Hamas for a temporary ceasefire to exchange some prisoners.
And I don't know about you.
But when he said that as he was eating his ice cream cone, I said to myself, that's not going to happen.
Why does he think that's going to happen?
And of course, you know, Hamas rejected it completely.
And, you know, probably Israel would have rejected it completely.
And it looks like it's already rejected.
Another hoax that Biden is pushing is that Trump couldn't remember his own wife's name.
But I think that was from just a fake news story where he was actually talking about somebody else.
He wasn't talking about his wife.
He was talking about Mercedes Schlapp.
And then the news said, oh, he doesn't know who his own wife is or some damn thing.
Fake news.
So, again, Again, Mike Benz has got some good takeaway and analysis on the New York Times story that apparently has, the New York Times tells us that there were 12 CIA bases in Ukraine and have been there for years, even before the war, and that the New York Times tells us that there were 12 CIA bases in Ukraine and have been there for years, even before the war, and that they're there
And so I think that's a good point.
And again, not just for the Ukraine war, but this has been in action for a long time.
Was Putin justified in attacking Ukraine if you knew that the CIA had 12 bases with offensive purposes on Russia's border?
I'm going to have to go full pro-Russia.
Sorry.
Assuming the New York Times reporting is true, if we put 12 CIA bases on the border of Russia, which we would never put up with if they did that to us, their invasion of Ukraine is absolutely justified and I don't care about anything else.
Everything else you want to say, I don't care.
If this one fact is true, we're the bad guys.
Sorry.
If it's true, and this is the New York Times, if it's true, we're the bad guys.
I don't have any other way to imagine that.
Now, I'm not saying Putin's good.
You know, that's how it'll get spun.
They'll take that out of context and say, he loves Putin.
No.
No, I think all dictators are probably murderous, you know, sometimes.
I think it does show that we probably could have worked with him productively, but that's a naive thing to say, too.
It's naive for me to say, you know, if we just made peace, Putin would love it, we'd all be friends.
But I do think you could do something comprehensive over time.
I don't think any one deal is going to necessarily go well.
But if we made it a long-term point to bring Russia closer to the Western orbit and not as an enemy, I'm pretty sure we could do that.
But if we're putting 12 CIA bases with offensive intentions, as well as defensive, on their border, Yeah, they're gonna attack.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's not the only thing.
I mean, everything about, you know, the CIA coup and taking over the country that had been, you know, their cousins and brothers for, you know, a long time.
It just looks like we're the bad guys.
I'm having trouble seeing the argument that this pushed our national interest forward.
It looks like it was exactly what the critics say.
It looks like it was corrupt from top to bottom.
And it looks like it was about money and maybe nothing else.
Maybe nothing but money.
And as Mike Benz points out, that it wasn't a scoop by the New York Times, but rather, since the New York Times did some of their interviews in the facilities, at least one of the facilities, they were actually there in person, that could only happen if they were invited.
Because it's a CIA base.
You don't just wander in and start asking questions.
So yeah, the New York Times was invited.
Why would they invite the New York Times in For a story that by any measure would be super embarrassing and damning of the CIA.
Why would the CIA invite the New York Times to do a story that would be very damning to the CIA?
Well...
One assumes that they're priming you so you don't find out some other way.
It's a common process that if you know bad news is going to come out, that you release it yourself so that the first impression of it is managed as much as possible.
Still bad, but you've managed the narrative as much as possible.
You get that sticky narrative in there, and then future things like corrections don't have as much effect because you've got a nice sticky narrative.
So...
Maybe that's what's happening.
I would certainly be looking for that to be the reason for it.
Anyway, were there any stories I missed today?
Did I miss anything?
All right, I'm going to say goodbye to the racist platform of YouTube and the good people on Rumble and the awesome people on X. You should stay away from those people who use YouTube like me, because it's a racist platform.
I don't have good feelings about my monetization today, but we'll see.