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Well, if you were wondering what happened to the show yesterday, I had a bout of food poisoning.
I'm pretty sure it was food poisoning, um, just before the show was about to begin.
And I don't want to tell you how bad it was, but I did lose four pounds in six hours.
Let's just say it was, uh, it's the sickest I've been in 25 years.
And I was pretty much in bad shape for a long, long time.
So I'm only about a 20%, uh, Well, I'm maybe 80% of my normal intelligence this morning.
One of the things you don't realize is that when you get sick, it hits you cognitively.
My brain is actually substantially slower than it was yesterday.
So, I'll do my best.
But I decided, I woke up this morning and I wasn't 100% and I thought to myself, you know what?
If President Trump can take a bullet to the ear and jump up and go right back to work, I can have six hours of the worst time of my life and jump up and do it.
Fight!
And I wasn't planning to do this, but in honor of Hulk Hogan, who ripped his shirt off at the RNC.
Okay, that's a lot harder than it looks.
It's a lot harder than it looks.
All right.
Well, the big story today, besides the RNC, we'll talk about that, is a gigantic computer outage.
And let's see if this gives you any pause.
Let's see.
A company called CrowdStrike.
Hmm.
Where have I heard that name before?
CrowdStrike.
Well, for those users who have Windows and they also have CrowdStrike, apparently, It took down their systems in a really bad way.
So I don't know exactly what the problem is, but, uh, we're flights are grounded and nine 11 is broken and people can't get hospital reservations and society basically ground to a halt.
Um, but as I was reminded, uh, Microsoft is a key player in securing the elections.
So here's my question to you.
So CrowdStrike is a cyber security software.
A big enterprise would put it on their computers so that the entire enterprise would be free from cyber attacks of various kinds.
Now, if you've heard of that name CrowdStrike and you're saying to yourself, where have I heard of that before?
They're the ones who investigated the DNC hack.
And decided it was a Russian operation.
Which, if you're like me, you said, I don't believe that.
First of all, I don't believe that they could tell where it came from.
You know, if these are like state-level hackers and that they would leave a trail, the CrowdStrike could just figure out where they came from.
Okay.
I never believed, I never believed that they had the right identification because everything was Russia, Russia, Russia.
It's like, oh, there's a hack.
Who are you going to blame?
How about Russia?
So it was a little bit too on the nose.
Now, I don't know if it was fake news.
I don't know that.
It's just that it had that odor to it.
So then when you see that there's this big problem with cybersecurity, with CrowdStrike, and the question you ask yourself is, wait a minute, what if CrowdStrike was on the same computer networks that were doing elections?
And let me ask you this.
If you were going to, let's say, insert some malicious code into a system, what would be the best way to do that?
I would think it would be embedded in the cybersecurity, because cybersecurity would catch anybody else doing something bad.
The only thing it wouldn't catch is if it were the bad actor itself.
Now, you may remember, I don't know much about this story, but there was a Russian-made cybersecurity program that was recently banned on all government computers.
Kapersky?
Kapersky?
I may be saying it wrong.
Now, why would we ban a Russian cybersecurity software?
Well, the only reason I can think of... Kaspersky, right?
The only reason I can think of is that we didn't trust it.
Right?
Because a security software has got to be the biggest security problem.
I'll give you an analogy.
When I used to work at Pacific Bell, we'd have a lot of problem with theft.
So people would be losing their stuff all over the place.
People were stealing from cubicles.
And I got to talk to the head of security one day about it.
And I said, you know, can you determine where this is?
And why don't you have enough security?
You know, I feel like security should see people carrying out computers.
And he said, security is who's doing all the stealing.
They had determined that most of the theft was the security guards themselves, either working with people or doing it themselves.
So the very best way to steal is if you're the one who's supposed to be stopping the stealing.
It's the best place to hide.
Now, I want to be very careful.
I don't want to malign CrowdStrike.
There is no evidence whatsoever that they did anything illegal or improper.
Let me say that as clearly as possible.
There's no evidence whatsoever.
But we are in a zero-trust environment.
And when something looks like a duck and smells like a duck and walks like a duck, it just raises some duck-like suspicions.
So if you think that our election systems are secure, let me just tell you that I'll bet the 9-1-1 people thought their system was secure.
What do you think?
Do you think the people who designed 9-1-1 systems said to themselves, you know what?
We're not going to get the best security.
We'll just get sort of grade B security because, I mean, what difference does it make if you can't call 9-1-1 sometimes?
No.
I would imagine, without being close to it, that the 9-1-1 systems are, by their nature, very secure.
Do you think the 9-1-1 systems would be more secure than elections?
What do you think?
I feel like those would both be 10 out of 10 in terms of your attempt to make them secure.
Now, obviously every company tries to be 100% secure, but you know, some are going to be even more secure than that.
So if you've got a problem like that with your, your Windows system, I'd be worried about anything with a Windows system, but I don't want to blame Windows and I don't want to blame CrowdStrike.
I'm going to make a general comment.
The thing you should trust the least is the thing that's protecting you from the other stuff.
It's just a good general thing to hold in your mind.
There was a story about DJT stock.
That's the truth social stuff.
And allegedly before the assassination attempt, there was a big short, which means you would make money if it went down.
And it was a gigantic bet, allegedly.
But the company that's responsible for that said, no, that was just a mistaken reporting.
So they say that there was no gigantic unusual bet.
It just looked like it.
And then they corrected it.
Or, or since we're in a zero trust environment, it was exactly what it looked like.
And they covered for it.
Now I'm not accusing them.
I'm just saying that in a zero-trust environment, I don't know what to believe.
But I will tell you that the official story is that that's debunked.
And I lean toward that being true, because it feels like that'd be hard to cover up.
We'll see.
Anyway, if you watch the Amazon video show, The Boys, apparently their season finale had some kind of a politician being assassinated.
So they had to add a statement.
That it, um, that, uh, basically they changed the name of the, the title of the show, that assassination.
And, uh, any similarities between the season finale and the shooting during the Trump's rally?
Purely coincidental.
Purely coincidental, you say?
Here's what I say.
If you were part of some shady deep space thing, deep space?
Deep state.
I told you my brain's only 80% today.
Lower your expectations.
I'm not really working too well today.
If you were going to do some kind of MK ultra brain, you know, mass brain control thing on the country to increase the chance that Trump got assassinated, You would do fiction that showed him getting assassinated.
Remember there was a play, uh, there was at one point there was a live play that showed Trump getting assassinated.
And then apparently this would not be Trump per se, but it was a, you know, another thing to put in your head.
So if I were trying to get a major politician assassinated and I were a dirty trickster, I would make sure some popular TV shows featured that plot.
Because all you have to do is make people think about it.
You know, if you've got a million crazy people in the country, out of, you know, 350 million or whatever, if you send the message, you know, this bad thing would be a good idea to a million people, you're going to get somebody who says, you know, there's an idea, I hadn't thought about that, but I'm getting primed.
Yeah, it's a priming thing.
Again, I'm not accusing anybody of doing that.
I'm just saying that's what it would look like.
It would look exactly like that.
You'd see fiction that somehow, weirdly, coincidentally had that theme in it.
But it could also happen just because it's a story and politicians getting assassinated is not the, it's not really the strangest thing for a fiction.
So again, these are not accusations.
They're just trying to navigate a world with zero trust.
Well, let's talk about the RNC convention and Trump's speech.
First of all, Tucker Carlson has the strangest journey, doesn't he?
I loved watching Tucker go from cancelled To, you know, reconstituting his business to be even better than ever.
And the next thing you know, he's sitting next to Trump and giving a speech at the RNC.
He's giving the speech apparently during his old time slot on Fox and they had to cover it.
That's the ultimate.
They had to cover it.
Anyway, so he's sitting up there with Trump and allegedly Tucker has some kind of a deal with Trump where they're doing a documentary behind the scenes.
So they've got a videographer following Trump around.
Now that's going to be interesting.
I can't wait to see that.
All right, let's talk about Trump's acceptance speech.
Most of you probably saw it.
I was in my deathbed trying to stay awake long enough to catch most of it, but I caught up on it in the clips and the reactions today.
But the big story is the energy.
The feeling so even the MSNBC people and the CNN people were saying there's something different The you know, especially Van Jones was pointing out that the that we haven't seen that kind of positive energy In a convention for a long time, you know, maybe Obama's last time but it was just crazy energy And you could kind of see why that because look at all the things that came together First of all, everybody loves a comeback story.
I Right?
When Trump lost the last election, it looked like he not only lost, but he was going to go to jail.
It looked like that's the biggest losing you could do.
You lose the election, and you might even go to jail.
At the moment, it's not looking like he's going to go to jail, and he's ahead in the polls.
But here's my take on that.
Trump's comeback story is also your comeback story, isn't it?
Because if you were a Trump supporter when he went down and then he was just buried with legal challenges, did that feel personal?
It felt personal to me.
Because if you're backing somebody and, you know, you identify with them as your team and then you see them taken out just savagely.
So if you thought this was sort of Trump's comeback, I would argue it wasn't just his comeback.
He's the thing that identifies the comeback, but it was everybody's comeback.
Possibly the country.
In many ways, it feels like the country coming back.
And boy, do we love a comeback story, don't we?
I mean, it's perfect cinema quality, the lowest you can go.
And here he is.
Here he is.
So not only is it a comeback story, but he survived an assassination attempt By what looked like divine intervention.
Now, before you get on me about my own beliefs, I'm just saying what it looked like, right?
The reality is way less important.
But to many people, including me, it was just so suspiciously divine looking, that it's hard to get that out of your head.
So basically, you got a comeback story.
You've got Survival of an assassination, you've got the fist pumping and the American flag, and possibly divine intervention.
How in the world could that be better?
I mean, that's the most energy you can put into one situation.
And then on top of that, it's the greatest showman of all time.
I think you'd agree with that, right?
Trump is the greatest showman of all time.
So if you give that many tools to the greatest showman of all time, what's he going to do with it?
Well, he's doing what he does.
He's just riding this beast to victory, it looks like.
Now, so even the Democrats are talking about the enthusiasm gap.
I saw a funny quote from, so I guess Jake Tapper was asking his cohorts there, What theme are we seeing at the convention tonight?
And Chris Wallace said, is that a trick question?
Testosterone.
And he was.
It was the most testosterone-driven thing ever.
Now, did we learn anything?
Let's see if the Democrats learned everything.
So leading with testosterone, which would include Hulk Hogan, Dana White, Trump himself, and the entire situation of surviving the assassination.
That's probably one of the most male, most male things that you could ever do.
And I think, and even there was some criticism from, I guess, Joy Reid or somebody.
No, one of the, one of the other MSNBC people.
We're saying that even J.D.
Vance's moving statement about wanting to be buried with his relatives, because, you know, this is his land.
He wants to be buried where they are many generations.
One of the hosts said, well, that's a white supremacist kind of a thing.
Now you're going to say to yourself, wait a minute.
Hold on.
What?
Why does wanting to be buried with your family?
Well, they were working really hard at this one.
It goes like this.
He's also married, so why does his male burial plot take more precedence than his wife?
What about her wife's history?
Which is, by the way, not a terrible point, but it also is consistent with a male frame on things, let's put it that way.
Not for good or for bad, it's just different, and it's more classic.
It suggests a different time, and it suggests a different way of organizing, personally, as well as every other way.
I think what happened was, besides all the things that just give us so much energy, is that the idea to make it more testosterone filled was a good one.
Because I think that's how people felt, right?
When the fist went up, you felt like fighting.
He didn't yell, you know, be calm.
He yelled fight.
That's very male.
All right.
If a female politician gets nicked in an assassination attempt, it's very unlikely she's going to jump up, put a fist in the air and yell, fight.
Right.
It was just a quintessential, the most male thing that ever happened in your life.
You've never seen anything more male than that.
Um, he was angry.
I think that's what I liked the best is that he got a shot and he jumped up angry.
That's what I wanted to say.
That's what I wanted to say.
But he managed to channel that anger into a unity pitch.
But first I have to tell you Molly Hemingway's joke.
When Jake Tapper said, what theme are we seeing at the convention tonight?
And Chris Wallace said, is that a trick question?
It's testosterone.
Molly Hemingway quipped, I can see why that would be confusing for both of you.
That was pretty funny.
All right.
So, the speech itself was long.
I guess it was one of the longest speeches.
But if there was ever a time when you wanted a long speech, it was this.
Because it didn't matter what he was saying, did it?
That as long as Trump was talking, you felt connected to all the people in the room, and all the other people across the country.
And so, there's never been a better reason for a long acceptance speech.
You just wanted to revel in it.
You wanted to feel it.
It didn't matter what he said.
You just wanted to see him healthy.
You wanted to see him in charge.
And you wanted to see the reaction.
You wanted to see the energy.
That's what you wanted.
And he got it.
He delivered.
Now, here's the least important fact about it.
Daniel Dale, the fact checker for CNN, said Trump had 22 lies.
So he mentioned a few.
And here's one.
He says that Trump claimed that the Democrats cheated in the 2020 election, and that's not true.
Which is a lie.
That's a lie from Daniel Dale.
Here's what would have been true.
Trump claimed that there was cheating in 2020, but it hasn't been proven.
That would be true.
But if you're a fact checker, and you say it's Proven that the election was fair, you're not much of a fact checker, because that can't be proven.
You can only prove you didn't find anything, and it doesn't matter whether the election was legitimate or not legitimate.
If you're the fact checker, and you don't know that our elections are not fully auditable, and you don't know that there's probably a hundred ways you could mess with them, if you didn't know that, you don't belong to be a fact checker.
That's probably the most basic fact And he probably thinks that January 6th was an insurrection.
So I got real problems with the fact checker.
The fact checker failed on the very first fact.
What else did he say?
He said that Trump said that crime went up under Biden.
Isn't that?
And then he says, that's not true.
Crime went down.
To which I say, First of all, that probably gets a little bit of the pandemic effect in there, which they like to forget.
And secondly, isn't that because they stopped counting crime and made everything legal?
You're the fact-checker, fucker.
You better say that something changed in the way you're measuring.
Now, I famously said that all data is fake.
This is a good example.
So CNN gets on there and gets fact-checking, and all the fact-checking looked fake to me.
Fake in the sense that the context was left out.
If he had said, some went up, some went down, I'd say, oh, yeah, maybe.
If he said they changed the way, you know, you can't really compare because a lot of things became legal that used to be illegal, like stealing up to $950.
So that was a fake fact check, in my opinion.
They fact checked him when he said that there were no wars when he was a president.
And Daniel Dale says, my God, no, there were 51 wars all over the country.
Well, Daniel Dale, let me explain Trump talk.
No wars means America was not in a war and not likely to get into one.
That's what no wars means.
If you thought he meant that no other little country in Africa was at war with its neighbor, no, he didn't mean that.
He meant those were not relevant to us.
Because I can't name 51 wars, can you?
Go ahead, name the 51 wars.
They're not important to us.
So the fact that he can't discern what is just sort of normal political talk, there were no wars, he really meant the United States, and there wasn't anything that likely we were going to go into.
All right.
So once again, Daniel Dale can't tell the difference between a salesman's exaggeration and a fact.
There were a bunch of things that I think were just failing the fact check, but they were all directionally true.
They were all directionally true in the usual way.
They were all, you know, they were all the things you'd want him to do better on, no matter how bad it was or no matter how Biden had done compared to him.
There were all the things you'd want him to work on.
I'd like to be better on crime, better on immigration.
So any of those facts that they say he got wrong, totally irrelevant.
And by the way, I've never seen facts matter less than at this convention.
Matter less in the sense that it was about energy.
It was about energy, really.
It was just energy.
And I've told you that Trump is an energy monster.
He can take whatever energy you send him, flip it around, and use it.
And recent events have given him so much energy, and he productively employed it, just like you thought he would.
Well, on his unity pitch, of course Democrats will say, it was a dark, dark thing.
I'm sure today they'll be saying that.
But here's some of the things he said.
I am running to be president of all Americans, not half of America.
Good start.
He also said, Together we will launch a new era of safety, prosperity, and freedom for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed.
The discord and division in our society must be healed.
As Americans, we are bound together by a single fate and a shared destiny.
We rise together or we fall apart.
Not bad.
Now, those are just words.
Just words.
But those are the words you want.
That's what you want to hear.
Do you know what the biggest story of the convention speech was?
Trump's speech?
The biggest story is what he didn't say.
The biggest story is what he didn't say.
He didn't give them red meat.
He didn't say that the people coming across the border are all bad.
He didn't say a lot of things he could have said.
I don't even think he mentioned Biden, did he?
Yeah, Peter Navarro did, which I think was a mistake, actually.
Yeah, you don't want to give the other side red meat.
And I think Trump succeeded in giving them nothing but fact checks that nobody cares about.
So if they're focusing on the fact checks, Trump wins.
And by the way, when Biden talks, literally everything he says are lies, but they're the big ones.
If Trump tells you there are no wars in the world, but there are 51 little wars you don't care about, is that a big deal?
No.
If he tells you something about crime stats, but you think it should have been more clear, is that a big problem?
No.
No.
All you hear is he wants to work on crime more.
Good.
We like that too.
But when you hear Biden, Biden was doing the fine people hoax, the Nazi stuff, the dictator stuff, that's the shit that gets you killed.
That gets the opponent killed.
And it almost happened.
All right, so no contest, and the fact that Daniel Dale doesn't make a distinction between little technical salesperson lies and exaggerations and something that will get you killed, that is deeply dishonest.
Let me say that directly.
Daniel Dale, it is deeply dishonest for you to count the fact checks as if the number of them is the important part.
It is the quality of them that matters.
If one of them can get you killed, But one of them might be a misleading statistic about crime, but everybody wants to work on it to improve it.
Those are not the same.
Those are not the same.
Very, very different.
All right.
So, I thought Trump was calm and, you know, somebody pointed out he could have gone the other way.
He could have said, they tried to kill me, so double down, we must, you know, beat all the bad people up.
He didn't do that.
He read the room correctly, and here's the result.
According to Jason, you know Jason from the All In pod, he said, Trump is flipping every moderate I know and many lifelong Democrats by speaking to all Americans the way that the Democrats have forgotten how to.
Interesting.
The Democrats have forgotten how to.
That's exactly what happened.
The Democrats have made it about identity, and that's specifically anti, I won't say anti-American, it's the opposite of America.
Yeah, identity, focusing on identity is the opposite of the concept that made America what it is.
And he's a Democrat, by the way, and he's noticing that.
And he says there are a lot of lessons here for Democrats from having a positive message.
To building a big non-judgmental tent and listening to your constituents as opposed to lecturing them.
Wow!
And that's coming from a Democrat.
So a Democrat is saying you're not building a big tent and you're not listening and you're lecturing to them.
That's what it feels like.
I think he captured it perfectly, actually.
All right, here's the most embarrassing thing for the Biden-Harris campaign.
They fact-checked Trump by saying that he had confused AI with electric cars.
Oh, what a big old dope, right?
Who could confuse AI and electric cars?
Because Trump said that AI would double the need for electricity in the country.
And of course, the Biden-Harris campaign are like, he thinks AI is going to double our electricity.
No, he means electric cars.
And he's wrong.
So they fact-checked him and said he's confused electric cars with AI.
Except he wasn't wrong.
AI is the one that will be the biggest drain on electricity, according to all the experts, like way more than electric cars.
And not only was he right, they fact-checked him and proved they don't understand AI.
What's the most important thing you need to know about AI?
Other than it might be, could turn into a super weapon and change everything.
The most important thing you need to be in charge of policy around AI is to know that it will double our electricity need.
If you don't know that, you can't be president.
Period.
AI is going to be probably the biggest thing that happens in your lifetime.
And they don't know that that's going to double the electricity need and that we don't have that electricity?
And that whoever does have that electricity will be the ruling country forever?
Right?
That is a level of incompetence that is stunning.
How many of you knew that AI would double the electricity use, or at least, you know, vastly increase it?
Most of you knew that, right?
Like, just regular people know that.
How do you propose that you're going to be in charge of the country, and you don't know that yet?
You don't know that yet?
Really?
This is the most embarrassing fact check of all politics.
Because not only is the fact check wrong, but it reveals that they don't have a basic understanding of the most important thing that's coming toward us.
The most important thing.
And most of you knew it.
It wasn't even hard to know.
We all knew it.
Could have asked Scott.
All right.
How bad is it for Biden?
Well, after watching the most successful convention of all time from his opponent, Biden hears that, according to Unusual Whales on X, a federal appeals court has issued an order temporarily halting the student loan repayment scheme that Biden had.
Now, that doesn't mean it's canceled, but it's temporarily halted for whatever reason.
I don't know.
So that's bad news for Biden.
Here's some more bad news.
There's a story that Biden was trying to talk to his supporters, and he was trying to make them feel more comfortable with him continuing to run.
And while he was talking to them, a staffer slipped him a note that said, you are sounding defensive.
And brain dead Biden, instead of changing how he was talking, And talking less defensive, he reads the note out loud.
You are sounding defensive.
So not a good week.
Not a good week is what I'm saying.
Yeah.
Anyway, there was a rumor, I think Mark Halperin was behind it, that Biden's going to step down this weekend.
He's definitely totally stepping down.
But as of today, I think, I think I saw something just before I came on that the Biden campaign is still saying he's not.
So, David Sachs was hypothesizing that, he said, evidently the widely cited, including by David Sachs himself, report was a strategic leak designed to build momentum against President Biden, who doesn't want to go.
What else can one call this but a coup?
So it could be that everybody's saying he's leaving, although he has not said he's leaving.
In other words, if everybody simply acts like he's leaving, all of the funding will dry up, and then he has to leave.
So it could be that they're front-running the truth to turn it into the truth.
In other words, it might be just fait accompli if they just keep saying it.
Because nobody will act like he's still running for president, and then it doesn't work.
Because he's got to have other people think he's running for president.
I mean, if the entire Democratic Party said, you're not running for president, and then he went out and tried to run for president, he almost couldn't do it.
It would be basically impossible.
Now, of course, everybody's having fun with this on the right.
Saying that, um, you know, Biden won fair and square according to the rules of the game.
And if he's removed by the party elites, even if they do some little fake fast primary thing with five people or whatever, uh, however they do it, it's going to be canceling democracy.
Now I don't quite buy that.
It's just a fun thing to say politically.
You know, there are some beliefs that are more recreational.
So I'm going to say it's a recreational belief.
That the Democrats are canceling democracy by, you know, having their power brokers install a new candidate.
Because the candidate they're running is brain dead.
If it were any other situation, I'd say, oh, you know, you're clearly, it's a coup.
But if you have somebody who obviously can't do it, you know, I wouldn't even, I don't even think I mind if they replace them.
It's just fun to say that they're canceling democracy because they are.
They just have a good reason.
Pretty good reason in that case, but it is canceling democracy, technically.
All right, so let me summarize the state of the race.
So you've heard all the elements, right?
You've heard bad week for Biden, good week for Trump.
Let me summarize that.
So Trump this week has elevated from an ex-president to a legend, probably with the help of divine intervention.
That's a pretty good week.
Pretty good week.
Let's see how Biden is doing.
Dementia-riddled Biden is being attacked by two-thirds of his own supporters who are begging him to leave the race so they can replace him with a drunken cackler who is widely considered one of the worst politicians in history.
Oh, that's not as good.
That's not nearly as good, is it?
Yeah.
A legend with divine intervention.
First dementia riddled, maybe replaced with a drunken cackler.
Yeah, those are, I mean, it's kind of subjective, but it feels to me like there's a big difference there.
I don't know, I just feel that way.
Well, let's talk about the alleged, not alleged, but the shooter, a young man named Crooks.
Apparently now he had a couple of cell phones and one burner phone or two or three and they had what they call three encrypted overseas accounts.
What is an encrypted overseas account?
I do not know.
Do you?
An encrypted overseas account.
Would that be like a WhatsApp?
Is it using Telegram?
Or Signal?
Is it an encrypted app that just Happens to have some servers overseas?
What exactly is that?
I don't know what that is.
So, but anyway, there's the suggestion that there's some overseas connection.
Now, shall we speculate whether it was gross incompetence or an inside job, possibly a plot by the CIA to kill him?
Or maybe some other country?
Let us look at what we know now.
Here's the spirit in which I do this.
You should know in advance that I don't know the answer.
That's the important part.
If you understand that I don't know the answer, then you're not going to get mad at me for pushing a point of view that you think is wrong.
Can we do that?
Because you're going to go crazy if I give any light to the theory that you think is wrong.
I'm just going to tell you both of them, and then I'm going to tell you how to look at it.
What you do with it is up to you.
And I have to say I'm undecided.
I'm completely on the fence on this.
But let's take the Mike Cernovich view.
He says the regime's plan was to use MKUltra.
I'll talk about that in a minute.
It's a mind control thing that the CIA was involved with years ago.
The regime's plan was to use MKUltra, mind control, on the subject, and then lax security to have Trump assassinated.
Uh, knowing that there would be widespread retaliation, chaos sets in, then you, um, then you put restrictions on the country because there's chaos and then you can kind of take control.
So that the real play was to get, uh, Republicans take Trump out, get Republicans all fired up and violent, and then they could be cracked down on and taken out forever.
So that is one view.
Now, what is the.
What is the evidence for that?
All right, so here are some things that would be consistent with that view.
But remember, I'm not saying what is true.
I'm just saying there's going to be facts that are consistent with a few different hypotheses.
So here are the things consistent with the fact that it was a larger attempt.
The person who was a shooter was a smart enough but troubled youth.
Which is exactly the kind of person that you could flip.
And probably somebody who didn't feel important.
If you were trying to hypnotize somebody, you'd want to find somebody who's naturally leaning in that direction.
In other words, you could not hypnotize Tucker Carlson to murder Trump because they're friends, right?
You can't do that.
But you could find somebody who doesn't have an attachment to anybody, including his own friends, and maybe even his parents to some extent.
So if you find somebody who's just sort of floating out there alone, that's somebody you could maybe flip.
But how do you talk somebody into a suicide mission?
How in the world do you talk somebody into that?
Now, the rumor is that he didn't like Biden, maybe, and he didn't like Trump.
So he has a search result looking for both.
I don't think you can believe that.
That's something told to you by our government, and our government is not credible.
So it sounds like the sort of thing they would say, just so you didn't think it was the rhetoric coming from the Democrats that caused this to happen.
So it's very convenient that he's the only person in the world who might have been considering shooting either of the candidates.
Do you think in the history of the world there's ever been an assassin who said, you know, it doesn't really matter which one I do.
I could shoot Biden and die trying.
I could shoot Trump, die trying.
That's about equal.
No, in the history of the world, nobody ever had that thought.
Now they're trying to sell him as You know, unstable, and he didn't like any politicians.
But I don't think it's a total coincidence they picked the one he picked, given all the rhetoric around him.
Now, how do 20-year-olds get their information on politics?
They don't do their own research and come to their own opinion.
They listen to what everybody says on the channel that they listen to.
They listen to their friends.
If their friends say, ah, that Trump guy, that's, that's what opinion a 20 year old will have.
So 20 year olds don't have their own opinions.
I mean, I didn't have one when I was 20.
When I was 20, I didn't know anything.
My, my 20 year old opinions were just worthless as are everybody's, as are everybody's.
So anyway, um, I don't trust that he was also looking to kill Biden.
I just don't think that's true.
And I predict that you'll never see a document that is, that is credible to make that claim.
I think the government will just say, yeah, we looked at it and we're telling you we saw it.
And then you'll say, well, could we see it?
Could we see what you saw?
No, it's an ongoing investigation, right?
They don't have to tell us or show us the evidence.
They can just say it's an ongoing investigation and it doesn't seem like it was about Trump per se.
Because the worst thing they could say is it was about Trump per se.
Because that means that the rhetoric of the left actually weaponized him to try to kill him.
Which is what I think happened.
Most likely.
And that would be true with or without it being a wider plot.
So at a bare minimum, he was hypnotized, brainwashed into not liking Trump.
So we don't know how it happened naturally or from some other source, but he clearly was anti-Trump.
I don't think there's any question about that.
Here are the things we don't know.
We still don't know who to blame because there's this question about, well, but was there, was there this other sniper?
And somebody says that they've got an audio that shows a second shooter.
Uh, if there's a second shooter, then of course I would assume that there's a larger plot because that would sound very Kennedy-esque.
Um, we still don't know why the snipers didn't take the shot when they could.
We still don't know why the guy was allowed to walk around forever.
All of those things point to either a massive security problem or a plot to have poor security and then a weaponized guy, you put them together, boom.
But if it's true that he was doing his own research on where the campaign was going to be, so if you have to look it up, that doesn't sound like somebody, doesn't sound like he had a handler, does it?
Because if he had a handler, the handler would have told him, this is what you're doing, you know, go there, do this.
So it wasn't a handler situation, but it could have been somebody who got hypnotized into doing his own work.
So that's still possible.
There was the car with the remote control and the bombs.
Some say it was to create a diversion.
I don't know if that's true, but if it was to create a diversion, that would suggest he had a getaway plan.
Although you can't imagine how he thought he would get away.
I mean that's beyond Beyond belief.
There's a story about he got there in a bicycle.
He got there in two different kind of cars So even basic facts about how he got there and whether or not even the question of whether he bought a ladder and carried it there For a mile or he just climbed up the air-conditioning ducts or whatever it was.
So almost everything about this is squirrely and So with that much squirrely stuff around, the, yeah, the Cernovich view that he was sort of weaponized by a bad actor, and then poor security was intentional, or they just didn't care about protecting him, which looks the same.
Maybe.
So I'd say that's very much in the mix.
So here's the incompetence argument.
So, we'll keep both arguments alive for now.
The incompetence argument looks like this.
MKUltra isn't real.
It's not real.
There's no MKUltra.
Now, it is true that there was a big program to see if mind control worked, but primarily it was with drugs.
So they were testing LSD and other drugs to see if you could turn somebody into a zombie, I guess.
But hypnosis was mentioned as, you know, one of the MKUltra tools.
But in my view, you can't really hypnotize somebody into shooting a president and killing themselves at the same time.
Now, I'm not going to say it couldn't happen in the most extreme case.
I've never seen it though.
And it's generally considered true that you can't hypnotize somebody into murder.
You could hypnotize somebody into thinking it was their own idea.
And you do that by saying that he's Hitler.
You do that by saying he's a dictator, you're going to lose your democracy.
That's how you do it indirectly.
So if you're thinking this young man was individually hypnotized, that's not necessary.
You don't need individual hypnosis, because the whole country was hypnotized, or half of it.
So, what you need is somebody who's willing to act on it.
And that's the hard part.
Now, since we know he'd already talked to his school mates about threatening to shoot up a school, what does that tell you?
If he threatened to shoot up a school, and then he did this, It probably has more to do with him wanting to be important.
In other words, the reason that you shoot up a school is that you want to die with some glory, basically, even if it's negative glory.
You want to be known, even dead.
And so I would suggest that maybe he wasn't even that political, but that he changed his target from the school, where he would be reviled forever, to, and this is horrible, But this is what I think happened.
I think he thought he would be seen as a hero if he succeeded.
Because it could be that he knew so many Democrats that they would just regard him as a hero.
On top of that, it looks like his parents were Trump supporters.
Imagine if your parents are Trump supporters and you don't go along with them.
So to me, it looks like somebody who needed to be important, couldn't find a way to do it in the normal way.
And he probably was somewhat ambivalent about whether he shot Biden, his school or Trump.
But when he looked at those three choices, probably said, you know what?
Trump's the only one that maybe half the country would think I'm a hero, because the school shooting would get you zero, you know, zero positive anything.
So to me, it looks like somebody who wanted to do something bad, and this is just what he picked.
All right.
He had access to a gun, easy access to a gun, which suggests not so much a plot.
With a plot, you'd expect somebody somehow gets a gun in some illegal way or, you know, already had one maybe.
But the fact that it was just a crime of opportunity, you know, he just had access to a high-powered rifle, to me that suggests not a plot.
Unless the MKUltra people said, do you have any way to get a hold of a gun?
Oh yeah, I got one in the house.
All right, what else?
All right, so you've got the police and the secret service blaming each other.
That sounds more like incompetence.
But there were three entities.
So there were the local police, who were supposed to be doing just traffic.
There was a nearby police force, another local police, but not that locality nearby.
Apparently they had the sniper position and they would have been controlling the house.
And then the Secret Service would have to deal with two different entities.
Now, anybody who's lived in the real world What happens when three entities are in charge of something?
Now, in theory, they're only in charge of their own domains, but it's three entities that have some responsibility.
How does that work out?
In the real world, that's a total clusterfuck.
Right?
On paper, that's a problem.
Now, I'm just speculating, but you could imagine something like this.
Hey, local police, are you all set?
Yes.
And then the Secret Service guy goes, all right, they've got that building secured.
Except he was talking to the wrong local police.
He was talking to the ones who were doing traffic.
And the traffic guy said, yep, all good on traffic.
But he thought that it meant the local police were also securing that building.
So maybe they didn't even talk to the sniper team that set up in the window.
It's entirely possible that They thought, oh, the local police will be guarding the outside.
We'll just set up in this window.
We got a better view.
Maybe they're not the best or smartest snipers in the world.
They just wanted to get out of the sun.
But maybe, maybe it gets back to how hard they wanted to protect Trump.
If you have a local police sniper group and they're looking at the roof where they're going to have a tough day because they'll be in the sun for hours.
Or they're looking at indoors, where they've got access to a private bathroom and they're sitting in the shade.
And they don't care so much whether Trump lives or dies.
You could see them making just the Wall-E decision of what's the laziest, easiest thing to do.
But if they were protecting, you know, their own guy, somebody they really wanted to keep alive, they'd probably get on the roof.
So you could imagine that a whole bunch of decisions were made They were all, well, if this mattered more to me, I'd try a little harder.
You know, like the real world, like everything in the real world.
And let's see, what else we got?
We also know that the whistleblower says that the Secret Service had limited resources for Trump because of the NATO summit and Jill was in town.
And also a whistleblower says that most of the security detail Um, we're not even Secret Service.
They were Department of Homeland Security assigned and they were unprepared and inexperienced.
So I don't know how much that matters.
Do you think that the snipers were not Secret Service?
I'd have to know how much I'd have to know if the snipers were Secret Service, because if they were, you would still make sure that that roof got covered.
And if you were less trained, maybe that made a difference.
All right.
So if you put that all together, there's every, there's every indication that would suggest it was mass incompetence with, with a touch of not caring, right?
Not caring enough.
Um, but I would say that the, the theory that there's something deeper is absolutely still alive.
All right.
Are you happy with that?
Both hypotheses are completely alive.
And it's not outside what we expect from the dark parts of our government.
It's not unprecedented, if you look at the Kennedy assassination.
So I would say this one's a tough one.
And then if you add the fact that the perp got killed, and you add the fact that there was opportunity for one of the snipers to take the shot themselves and make it look like it was him, that's a lot of coincidences.
A lot of coincidences.
Anyway, so over in the Ninth Circuit Court, over in Arizona, there's a ruling in favor of election integrity in Arizona.
So voters will have to show proof of citizenship to vote.
That seems like a big deal.
I don't know how many other places are having something like this.
I saw that maybe Nevada went the other way.
Anyway.
And then this story, which is amusing.
Hunter Biden is using the Trump defense to get out of some of his troubles.
The Trump defense, among others, is that the special counsel was not constitutionally appropriate.
In other words, he's using exactly the argument that Trump successfully used on that Judge Cannon situation with Mar-a-Lago boxes, that Jack Smith was not appropriately and legally Empowered and so and by the way, the Democrats mocked that defense until it worked They mocked it.
I Think Joe Biden mocked it too.
And that was the only thing that might keep his son in a prison So that's kind of perfect do you remember max boot?
max boot so he is a Washington Post columnist and one of the worst of the worst for the Russia collusion theory he is a sort of person that you don't even imagine is trying to be a legitimate writer is just a Democrat, you know, maybe an intelligence asset or something, but he doesn't write like he's a writer He writes like he's working for somebody who's not the Washington Post At least that's what it looks like.
So he's been the pusher of some major hoaxes and Sometimes one of the major pushers of it.
Well some news about him.
I His wife, Sumi Terry, but her first part is Sumi.
That's unfortunate.
Anyway, she's a former CIA analyst, and she was his wife, and she's been indicted for acting as an agent for the South Korean government Without registering.
So that would be a FARA problem.
And I believe that there's an indication that Max Boot has written on the topic of South Korea.
Maybe in a way that was compatible with what his wife wanted.
We don't know that for sure.
But she was being paid in expensive meals and handbags.
She was being paid in expensive meals and handbags.
Now...
Does that sound like she's a spy?
Or does that sound like she was just cheating on her husband?
Because it sounds more to me like she just had a boyfriend.
Because who was she eating the expensive dinners with?
She wasn't eating the expensive dinners with her husband?
Because that's not mentioned.
I don't, you know, I'm not ruling it out.
But wouldn't the husband be suspicious about eating dinners that they can't afford?
On a writer's salary.
So the husband never under, he wasn't alerted when his wife showed up with a handbag that he never could have afforded.
And she probably couldn't either.
Do you know how much an expensive handbag costs, by the way?
Sadly, I had to learn this the hard way.
An expensive handbag is many thousands of dollars.
I mean, it could be $25,000.
Now, I doubt it was that, but it easily could be $5,000 to $14,000 for a handbag.
So I think there was $35,000 in total gifts that they calculated.
But I'm not sure this is what it looks like.
I think she simply had a boyfriend.
That's what it looks like.
Because who else gives you handbags and dinners?
That's pretty boyfriend-ish.
That doesn't sound like a spy situation to me, but maybe.
I don't know.
I'm just speculating.
We don't really know.
All right, here's an interesting thing on AI.
So China's government may be somewhat limited in their AI push, which they would think is critical to the future, as we all do, because they need to control political speech.
So China has this extra problem.
That they have to teach AI to lie, otherwise the whole regime comes down.
So they're trying to figure out, how do we teach it to lie, but also tell people it's an advanced intelligence?
And I'm thinking, this could be the Achilles heel of China.
Because I don't know that the United States will have as big a problem.
But I will say more generally, I don't think governments can survive AI telling the truth.
I don't think governments can survive if AI learns to tell the truth.
Now, at the moment, it lies automatically, because it'll give you the common narrative.
But if you're in China, are they training it only on Chinese propaganda?
Or are they training it the way other people do, on all the other things happening everywhere else?
Are they training it on American data?
I don't think America uses Chinese, do they?
I wonder if the American AIs use China data for training.
I don't know.
But this could be the biggest issue in AI that determines which countries survive, is simply who's allowing it to tell the truth.
Because if you have to stop it from telling the truth, I mean, it's probably not going to be very good.
All right, I see you asking me about Kai.
Kai Trump.
How many of you saw Don Jr.' 's daughter, Kai, give her speech?
First speech ever in public, apparently, at the convention.
That was genius, by the way.
That was genius.
Because she just said how great her grandfather was and how kind he is, you know.
So the biggest complaint about Trump is he's only in it for himself.
It's hard to make that survive.
When the grandchild gets on and says, no matter what he's doing, he'll call me.
Like, he'll call me from the golf course, he'll call me from work, calls me all the time.
Make sure he knows how I'm doing.
It's hard to survive that he's so selfish when you see the grandkids say, um, no, you're totally wrong about that.
And then some other people say the same thing.
I thought the Kai move was brilliant.
And beyond that, I would say, We'll see if you have the same feeling.
You always wonder about the future, because you think that the kids are all messed up now.
But every generation thought that.
Every generation thinks their children are the ones that are messed up.
But watching Kai, who is a very capable human, You really get back your confidence in the youth.
It's like, okay, whatever it is that made her, her, we need some more of that.
But it was very inspirational.
I don't think there could be much more inspirational.
And seeing a young person nail it on the first try in the hardest place you could ever give a speech.
But wow, what poise!
And of course, she's beautiful.
Surprise!
Of course, the camera just loves her.
So yeah, she's going to be a force to be reckoned with if she goes into politics.
All right.
Apparently Yemen sent a A drone into Tel Aviv and actually caused a death and some injuries.
So, you probably heard that Trump said that the Palestinians better give back the hostages before he gets into office or they'll be held to pay.
And I thought to myself, he's the only one that knows this isn't a negotiation.
That's why Trump's better.
Biden thinks it's a negotiation.
It's not a negotiation.
It's, we're going to end every one of you fuckers until you give back the hostages.
You get nothing until we get the hostages.
And by the way, if it doesn't happen fast, we're just going to mow the lawn.
Now, do the Palestinians believe he would act that aggressively?
They might.
I mean, that's all it takes.
All it takes is they believe the threat.
But here's the thing.
If somebody has your hostages, that's not a negotiation if you're the powerful one.
Especially if you don't think there's a good chance they're coming back.
If you're the powerful one, you say, here's the deal.
If we don't get them back, there's going to be a hell coming toward you that you've never even experienced before.
Whatever gains you thought you got out of that, we're going to take them away.
We're going to set you back a hundred years.
But if you release the hostages, we'll talk.
Biden never did that, did he?
Did Biden ever give them a direct threat?
You need a threat.
You need to say, credibly, we will destroy your life for a hundred years.
Give them back now.
And by the way, that's not a negotiation.
That's just what's going to happen.
Choose.
And then you have to do it.
You know, I don't know what that would take.
But now, of course, I don't want the poor Palestinian citizens to be, you know, wiped out or something.
So ideally, you don't want to do it or anything like it.
But you need to threaten it.
You need to make a threat that sounds real.
Now, it helps that Trump at one point dropped a mother of all bomb on the, what was it, ISIS or was it Taliban?
I can't remember.
ISIS, I think.
It helps that he's got a little bit of a history of being a badass.
Then you can sell it.
Do you think Biden could have sold that threat?
Do you think Biden could have said, oh, we're going to really come down hard on you if you don't let... No.
No, he doesn't have the ability.
Trump has the ability.
Now likewise with this Yemen stuff that's been driving me crazy, Trump says he's going to reduce your costs.
The biggest thing you could do fast is to stop the Yemen, the Houthis I guess, from making all the shipping go around the long way.
So part of the reason that everything costs more is that the ships can't go the short way.
They're afraid of the getting a missile attack.
Yemen needs to stop it.
And Trump is smart enough to know that there would be a gigantic financial gain, not just in America, but everywhere, if he can scare the hoodies away from their actions.
I don't know what that would take, but it would be similar to a Gaza thing where you say, look, you're going to stop doing that.
If you don't, Yemen is going to disappear because we can't live with this.
This is an unsustainable situation for the world and for the United States.
We want you to know If you don't stop now, we're going to take out the Capitol or something.
I don't know.
That's a bad idea.
But you have to do something.
I would put the entire, like, fleet and just start hitting them.
And I don't think we can put up with this.
Right?
So there's so many ways that Trump can fix things fairly quickly.
Ukraine war, for example, that when he says, I'm going to bring your costs down, it looks real.
To me.
Because he has the superpower.
He's got the energy.
He's got the gods on his side.
He's got his reputation as being a badass.
He knows how to negotiate.
He knows where the biggest lever is to make money.
Biden doesn't know any of that.
These are things that Biden's just a helpless hunk of skin, basically.
So I think you'll see something happen with that.
Then lastly, there's studies that say loneliness increases your risk of premature death by nearly 30%.
I believe that.
And that's why I try to be here every morning, no matter how bad I feel.
Yesterday was impossible.
So, sorry I missed yesterday.
That is, by the way, the first sick day I've taken.
In decades, 30 years, but that one was unavoidable, unfortunately.
Um, so I'm back.
Well, I'm not back like Trump, but I'm back.
And, uh, if you'd like to work on your loneliness every evening, just about every evening, uh, we do a man cave live stream for members of locals.
So you'd have to be a member.
And we just hang out.
And if you saw the vibe, you'd see it's not so much about me doing a presentation.
We're just hanging out.
And we're all addicted to it.
There are hundreds of us, several hundred of us.
They just meet every day.
And the people in the comments have made friends.
And they're supporting each other.
People are offering to help each other.
They only know them from the comments.
So, and it's a whole bunch of people who are in some cases widowed, in other cases just don't have anything else that they would be doing on a Saturday night, like me.
So, so we've just, we're working on a cure for loneliness.
Now I can't cure everybody, but I can cure a few hundred.
So if you want to join that fun, it's the scottadams.locals.com is the link, but you'd have to be a member.
