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Oct. 23, 2024 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
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Vote with me live -- filling in my mail-in ballot

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Vote hard, vote fast.
Vote like your life depends on it.
All right, how many of you are actually going to vote with me?
How many are just going to hang out?
Either one's fine.
But don't show your ballots on the video, okay?
Do not show your ballots.
I'm not going to show you mine except, hey, I got an envelope.
So, here's the truth.
I don't think I've ever voted by mail.
Not that I can remember.
I'm not sure I know how.
So, I usually get confused by easy stuff like this.
So, I thought that I would maybe help walk through it.
Alright, so I get my ballot in the mail.
I don't remember requesting it.
I guess you just get it.
California.
Now, normally I wouldn't care about voting in California because my vote wouldn't matter.
But it might matter who wins the popular vote this time, just in terms of credibility.
All right, so what do we got?
We got a business reply.
So I've got an envelope to put it in.
I've got a assistance al votante.
If I learn to speak Spanish, I can get some instructions.
Show us your I voted sticker.
So I guess I get to put this sticker on, but I can't get the sticker off.
All right.
Well, we'll save this.
I'll put this on after I vote.
All right, who else is voting?
Any other voters there?
I want to know that there's at least one person who's going to vote just because I'm doing this.
Someone who otherwise would have said, eh, what's the difference?
But now, because I'm doing it, the peer pressure, the peer pressure is extreme.
Alright, we got some.
We got some voters.
I didn't want to go this year without getting some people to vote who wouldn't have voted.
I feel like that was my mission.
I don't have to get a lot.
You know, if everybody just gets one, that's plenty.
So, let's see.
I guess this would be my ballot.
How long will it take me to figure out how to use this?
Alright, returning your ballot.
Oh God, look at all the instructions.
How hard are they going to make it?
I've got to separate each ballot, fold each one, insert it separately.
No postage.
Okay, so basically folding is going to be the hard part.
What's the back say?
Beck says very similar things except, And I think I got the accent perfect.
I mean, before you say it, I'll say it.
All right, so it looks like the ballot is a bunch of individual pages.
I've literally never seen one of these before.
Director of entertainment.
That can't be real.
What is this?
Oh, it's how to mark your ballot.
So there's an entertainment, there's an example one.
So this is California, so yours would be different.
So completely fill the oval.
Fill in the oval next to the word yes or no.
Basically, there's a whole page of instructions on how to fill in an oval.
Got it.
I got it.
I'm going to fill in that oval like a mofo.
Now we get to the ballots.
Now here's why I would never have voted without you.
My ADHD would never, ever have allowed me to get this far into the paperwork.
I'm now about 50% further than I could have possibly gotten on my own.
It's only because you're watching.
Which, by the way, is one of the tricks for ADHD. You just get a buddy to watch you.
Alright, looks like we've got a bunch of blanks here, but I've got a terrible lighting situation, so I'm going to have to improve my lighting.
Alright, I've got my pen.
Alright, so the first one is President and Vice President.
We've got Kennedy Chase Oliver.
Hmm.
Chase Oliver.
You know, I didn't know Chase Oliver was running for president.
But, you know, now that I think about it, Chase Oliver.
That's a heck of a name for a president.
I don't know.
I might change my vote to Chase Oliver.
No, not really.
Just joking.
But there is somebody with that name running.
Also, Jill Stein and Rudolph Ware.
Trump and Vance.
Claudia De La Cruz, Kamler, and Tim Walz.
You know, it probably does matter if your name is at the last one on the list.
I'll bet that statistically that makes a difference.
And then it makes me wonder, do they print the ballots so that they're randomized?
If they did that, they wouldn't be able to necessarily automatically count the ballots.
Interesting.
All right.
Well, we're going to vote for president.
I'm not going to tell you who I'm going to vote for.
No, I'm not even going to mention who I'm going to vote for.
You're just going to have to guess because it's sort of a secret thing.
Hmm.
Who am I going to vote for?
Let's see.
I have a real good feeling about Chase Oliver.
No, not Chase Oliver.
All right.
Oh, there is a write-in place, but it's too late to write myself in.
All right, on the back, there's going to be a whole bunch of things I don't know anything about.
Adam Schiff or Steve Garvey?
you.
I get to vote against Adam Schiff?
Oh my God, I would have, like, all you had to do is tell me I get to vote against Adam Schiff.
I'd be all over it.
I'm not going to tell you what I am voting, but sure would be fun to vote against Adam Schiff.
I don't think he could get to first base against Steve Garvey.
All right, who else we got here?
It looks like there's a separate vote if you speak Spanish.
So I can vote for Adam Schiff in English or in Spanish.
How about the 14th...
Oh, we also have Eric Swalwell and Vin Crudeventi.
I've never heard of Vin, but I've heard of Eric Swalwell.
God, this is fun.
I should vote every year.
Nobody told me there were so many people I hated that would be on the ballot.
So, Vin, might be a lucky day.
All right, Jerry McInerney is running against Jim Shoemaker.
Here's how I decide that.
One day when I was at my health club, Jerry McInerney introduced himself, because he recognized me, and sat down and talked to me, and I thought to myself, that's a nice guy.
He looks like he knows what he's doing.
Jim Shoemaker, who's the Republican running against him.
I've never heard of him and don't know anything about him.
I don't think he makes shoes.
I think that's just his name.
But, hmm, it's tough.
The guy I like?
Or the guy I never heard of?
Well, I'm not going to tell you.
You're just going to have to guess.
Because you'll have no idea who I vote for.
No idea.
All right, 16th Assembly, Rebecca Bauer-Kahn.
Are you guys all voting?
Is everybody voting with me?
By now, you should be on your first page of ballots.
Do we go for a Bauer can or a Roubaix?
I never heard of either one of them.
See, one's a Republican, one's a Democrat.
I wonder who I'll vote for.
Can't tell you.
Big old secret.
Boy, I'm terrible at filling in circles.
That's one thing I learned.
I'm in California right now.
Oh, you're talking to somebody else?
All right, how many people we got here?
So we got 800, 300, and 300.
All right, 1,400 people.
Well, more than that, because X doesn't show me the number.
So we probably have 2,000 people live.
And in the comments, I'm going to ask you again.
In the comments, tell me, is there anybody who's voting now just because we're doing this who probably wouldn't have voted?
I want to find out if there's...
You know, a few people who definitely would not have voted except that I'm prodding you and doing it with you.
Anybody?
In the comments, let it rain.
Well, you didn't have to say no.
And no is the default answer.
Oh, I'm getting some yeses.
All right, we're getting some yeses.
Good.
All right, I've done my job.
My job was to make sure that I got at least a few other people to vote.
I didn't have to do everything.
I don't have to be Scott Pressler.
But if everybody could get a few people to vote, we're in pretty good shape.
All right, who do I need for the laboratory scientist?
Because I totally knew that was a thing.
Oh, no, he's a retired laboratory scientist.
No, that's just what he is.
What the hell am I voting for?
The school asuela?
Why is it all in Spanish?
I have no idea what this is telling me.
Nonpartisan offices, cargos, no partidieros, school asuelo, chabot, and a bunch of colleges.
Vote for one.
The incumbent...
No idea what this is.
I have no idea what even the job is.
Something about schools?
Trustee?
Oh, college district trustee.
What the hell is that?
College district trustee.
Do you think the college district trustee was doing a good job?
Oh, interestingly, these do not show up as either Republican or Democrat.
Very interesting.
So one of them is the incumbent, and the other is a retired laboratory scientist.
Well, how am I not going to vote for the scientist?
There's no reason to think the scientist is the best one in this case.
I'm going to leave that blank.
I have nothing to add to that decision.
All right.
How about these other nonpartisan offices?
Shall Pamela Price be recalled?
Oh, we've got a Soros prosecutor recall question.
Yes.
I signed the petition.
There were tons of people collecting signatures at the grocery store.
So I've already signed the petition to get it on the ballot.
And shall she be recalled from the Office of District Attorney?
Si, senor.
Si, senor.
Now, that was the reason to vote.
You know, here I am thinking, you know, California doesn't matter to the presidency.
But I can help vote out the Soros prosecutor.
That's like a really meaningful vote.
I mean, that could be the one that keeps me out of jail.
Alright, how about this one for Mayor of Pleasanton?
Oh, okay.
The two mayors are people I do not know.
Jack Balch or Carla Brown?
Whose name sounds more like a mayor?
Do I want to say Mayor Balch or Mayor Brown?
Mayor Brown sounds more substantial, doesn't it?
Mayor Maltz?
I don't know.
I don't think that name is mayor-worthy.
Probably has many other qualities.
I don't know him whatsoever.
But council member and his CPA... Hmm.
I'm going to skip that one.
Council member.
Never heard of those two.
Oh, but I'm not going to skip this one.
Well, okay.
I'm not going to tell you why I'm making that vote.
But I feel good about it.
And bar director.
The one that's appointed or a retired laboratory scientist again.
There are two retired laboratory scientists running for different jobs on my ballot.
We have a lot of retired laboratory scientists around my area.
All right.
I think I'll go for the...
I don't know.
Skip that one.
All right.
Now we're up to the...
These must be the state measures.
So these are the various measures.
Bonds for public schools.
So here's a true story.
Years ago, when I worked at Pacific Bell, an election was coming up, and my boss at the time, who coincidentally was the one who named Dilbert.
He came up with the name Dilbert.
He'd seen it before.
And he was very Republican, and he was all getting ready to vote.
And I said, how can you possibly intelligently vote when you get all these weird...
You know, ballot measures, these basically ballot measures, they're basically laws that you get to vote on.
And I was like, how do you know which ones of these are good ideas?
And he looks at me and he says, I vote against everything that costs money.
And I thought, oh, you fool!
You fool.
What a one-dimensional, ridiculous way to run a country.
You just vote against anything that costs money.
Just anything.
Like, it could be the best thing in the world, and you're just going to vote against it because it costs money.
How do you possibly justify that, I said.
And he said, they have enough money.
And I said, are you kidding me?
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
Because sometimes you need more money.
And he said, they can take it from something else they're doing.
And I said, that's so exactly the way everybody else runs their life.
And that was the moment I realized he was the smartest person I've ever met.
He's the only person I've ever met who had a political philosophy that was 100% tight.
They have enough money.
If they need more, take it from something else they're doing.
And I thought to myself, if you could really hold them to that, that would work.
That would work if you could force them to do it.
It's just that people don't assume that they can, so they vote for the money.
So this vote is for you, Mike.
The late Mike Goodwin.
Nope.
Constitutional right to marriage.
Why is that?
Why do we have to talk about that?
Fundamental right to marriage.
No fiscal.
Why do I care?
That's already the current situation.
I don't care.
We'll say, yes, marry anybody you want.
Doesn't cost me a penny.
Authorized bonds for safe drinking water.
Oh.
Okay, well.
I might not be able to help Mike, my old boss, on this one.
Turns out that our drinking water is in bad shape.
So we've got a bunch of forever chemicals.
I just paid $1,500 to have my own well tested because I think I'm going to have to shut it down.
I think it's poisoned.
I think my well is actually poisoned.
And the town water, 20% of the water was poisoned in the wells.
They have other sources, but the wells were poisoned.
I got a bunch of forever chemicals.
I think I've been sucking down those forever chemicals forever.
So, do we need a bond for safe drinking water and wildfire prevention and protecting communities and natural lands from climate risk?
They had to throw in the climate change, didn't they?
Nope.
Nope.
If you clowns can't keep the climate change out of your drinking water, I'll drink Pepsi.
It allows local bonds for affordable housing and public infrastructure if you have 55% voter approval.
No, we don't need that.
What are you talking about?
No, you don't get any more of my money.
Why do you need my money to build a house?
All you need to do is get rid of the regulations preventing people from doing the thing they want to do.
Don't ask me for more money.
Build a fucking house.
How about...
What?
Eliminates the law for involuntary servitude.
Basically, eliminate making prisoners work.
It removes a provision that allows prisons to impose involuntary servitude to punish people for incarceration.
Potential increase or decrease in state and local costs, depending on how things go.
Huh.
Do we want workers to be forced to work?
Picking up garbage and stuff?
How is it better to stay in your cell?
If you were in jail, wouldn't you love the day when you're walking around poking some garbage with a stick and you're in the sunshine?
Wouldn't that be like a hundred times better than being in your cell?
I'm a little confused.
How hard is the work?
They're not making them break rocks.
They're kind of just wandering around picking up, you know, wrappers and stuff.
Does it really matter?
See, this is the sort of thing people like me shouldn't be voting on at all because we don't know the details.
But I'm going to...
So since it's poorly explained, I'm not going to vote for it.
Raises minimum wage.
Oh, this is interesting.
For employees, with employers of 26 or more employees, to $17 and then quickly up to $18.
$17 to $18 minimum wage in California.
Well, raising the minimum wage, in theory, is always bad, right?
Would you agree that from a pure economics point of view, it's generally bad?
Because if there's somebody who's willing to work for that minimum wage, they should not be denied that opportunity.
And there's plenty of people who already have a roof and, you know, they just need some extra money.
I don't know.
Minimum wage.
I have mixed feelings about minimum wage.
The lefty in me, because I'm a little of both, does believe that you shouldn't be turning people into slaves because they're bad at negotiating and they didn't Maybe they don't have a talent stack that can give them a better job.
So I don't love something that's basically just a form of slavery practically.
So I do think people should have a living wage, but the minimum wage is so far from something that would allow you to live on your own or, you know, start a family or something.
I don't think it makes any difference.
It doesn't get you to the next level.
And if you're working minimum wage, the thing you should be doing is working really fast to stop doing that and to make sure that you get promoted and get a better wage.
So nobody should be spending much time at minimum wage.
This should be really just an entry level.
And entry level, there's no real argument that it needs to be enough to completely support you.
I think I won't tell you what I'm going to vote on this one.
Costs could increase or decrease.
Revenues likely would decrease.
Opponents The opponents are the Chamber of Commerce, California Restaurant Association, and California Groceries Association.
Well, yeah.
Gotta say no.
Gotta say no.
See, the trouble is that there are entire industries that are set up for a non-high minimum wage situation, and they're pretty critical in California.
Rent control?
Nope.
That's easy.
No rent control.
You're not going to have any housing if you have rent control.
How's everybody else doing?
Are you almost done with yours?
All right.
Thank you.
I think we're doing some good work here.
We got lots of people watching.
So if you haven't voted yet and you've got your mail-in vote, all we're doing is voting together so that we don't forget and we feel like we did it at the same time.
All right, good job.
Good job.
We got to vote.
I don't think any of it...
None of you saved your voting just for this, right?
I mean, you didn't need to do that, but...
You read the guide ahead of time?
You high achiever.
Restrict spending on prescription drugs and certain health care providers.
Why am I restricting the free market?
Because I'm in a federal discount on direct patient care.
Oh, okay.
Yes.
That seems like that's sensible.
It wasn't what I thought it was.
How about it provides permanent funding for Medi-Cal Healthcare Services?
Well, what else are we going to do?
If we have Medi-Cal, how are you going to...
Of course, this is the mic test again.
Do I give them more money or do I say, take it from something else?
Short-term state costs between $1 billion and $2 billion.
So I'd be voting to increase...
I'm going to say no.
I don't know what the fuck you're doing that it's going to increase my cost by $2 billion, but you're going to have to do better than that.
Felony charges and increased sentences for certain drug and theft crimes.
Yes, thank you very much.
Trying to recriminalize crime in California.
I'm in.
And then finally, essential services protection measure to minimize cuts in police and fire.
A half a cent sales tax, providing 10 million annually for 10 years.
Yes.
Hmm.
Hmm.
I do want my local police and fire departments to be well-funded, but I also think they have enough of my money.
I don't know.
I haven't noticed the shortage of police.
Because they come whenever my neighborhood needs them.
I haven't noticed a shortage of fire departments unless they're talking about the...
in the forests where we need them.
Do I want another half a cent sales tax?
Well...
There we go.
Alright, now, I've got to read the careful instructions about how to put it in an envelope.
Every one is separate and folded in half, and you separately put them in the envelope.
So, separate.
Did I really not have to sign anything?
Did I really not have to sign anything?
Or prove who I am?
Is this real?
Am I doing something wrong?
There's really no part where I sign it?
That can't be true.
Is that true?
Is it true that there's no place to sign it?
You sign the envelope.
Oh, on the envelope.
Why the hell am I going to put my signature on the outside of an envelope?
Can't everybody just copy my signature?
What?
I am unable to return my ballot to hereby authorize.
Oh, you can have somebody else do it.
Yes.
Signature of voter or the power of attorney.
Okay.
Well, I will put in my envelopes.
Do they have to go in upside down?
Is there any special way they go in?
Looks like they go in, fold on the top.
Alright, so...
They'll digitize it.
Alright, should I use my regular signature or make it look like somebody else?
Today is the residence address as registered in Alameda County.
Okay, my address which is Okay.
They don't have enough room for my address.
What do you do?
What do you do if there's not enough room for it?
Of course, I'm writing it right next to my address.
Thank you.
So you can't see it.
But on the envelope, there's a place where I write my address, and it's right next to the box with my address that's printed there.
Shouldn't I just be able to check the box that says that's my address?
Do I really have to write my address next to my address?
That's something I'm really doing.
I'm writing my address next to my address.
That's a real thing that just happened.
All right, now I have to lick this thing.
How do they notice my own handwriting?
Okay, I need RFK Jr.
RFK Jr., is it okay if I lick this thing?
What kind of forever chemicals are on the envelope?
RFK Jr., I need you.
Ah.
Just kidding. - Alright, ladies and gentlemen, I got myself a ballot.
That means I get to wear this.
Unlike all you losers who didn't vote, I'm a patriot.
Now, I haven't mailed it, but I promise I will mail it.
I might bring it to the I might deliver it myself.
I did get directions to the deliver it myself place.
Actually, I might do that just for the fun of it.
take it to a Dropbox.
You're mailing it in after your rant about the USPS?
Yes.
See, here's the thing.
By the way, did you see the latest Kraken claim?
So, remember how Sidney Powell, her life got turned upside down because she said the voting machines had some crazy Venezuelan connection?
Well, that rumor is back on steroids.
With lots of details.
Now, I have no idea if any of it's true.
Really, I have no idea.
It's like I'm just looking at it and I go, I don't know.
I can't tell.
There's tons of detail.
And, you know, an alleged whistleblower.
But you never know.
And the allegations are that there's some, apparently there's, so this is just the allegations.
I don't, you know, I have no evidence that this is real.
But the allocation is that the biggest cartel in the world is one you didn't know existed.
And that it's a Venezuelan gang.
And that they've stolen like a trillion dollars.
They're far bigger than any other cartel.
And that allegedly, and here's the part where I'm not convinced, Allegedly, they do in fact privately own all of the voting companies, the voting software and hardware, and that the elections haven't been real for a while.
Remember how I kept asking, can anybody give us any reason whatsoever that machines exist for voting?
And literally nobody has even one hypothesis.
It's like, they're faster?
No.
No.
Cheaper?
No.
More reliable?
No.
Harder to hack?
No.
So what is it?
If it's more expensive and yet worse in every way, why do they do it?
Well, I can only think of one reason and that rumor which I don't have any validity in.
You know, I wouldn't have any reason to believe it's true or false.
No way to know one way or the other.
But it exists as a rumor.
And that's not nothing.
The ballot in Cook County was 21 pages long.
That's why it's digital.
Well, digital might make sense.
But that doesn't mean that the vote has to be.
There's all sales tax.
I don't know.
All right, there you go.
My podcast looks like a Nazi rally.
How much do you love that Kamala Harris is doing so poorly that they brought out James Carville to say that a Madison Square Garden rally is intentionally designed to evoke Nazi symbolism?
Do you remember when I felt like I had to defend the hoaxes because people would believe the hoaxes?
But I'm pretty sure that when people here at Carville say that using Madison Square Garden for an event, which is what it's for, it's for events, is not really evidence of any kind that you're a Nazi.
It's more like evidence that you booked it for an event like everybody else books it for an event.
But it's funny to watch them try to sell that.
Actually, just Carville.
Carville couldn't even get a Democrat to bite on that one.
He's been trying that for like two weeks and can't get anybody else to say that out loud because it's so dumb.
So dumb.
Alright.
Female you can track online.
Interesting.
He's just bullshitting.
I think he is.
Yeah, the Atlantic has a new Trump hoax.
That one seems funny too.
So something about he wanted generals like Hitler or something.
And it's just so obviously not true.
It's like laughably obviously not true.
And it's by the same hoaxer who's famously hoaxed a bunch of times, that Jeffrey Goldberg guy.
I think we have to start or stop calling some of these publications any kind of publication.
They are pure propaganda.
Once something gets to the level of pure propaganda, You shouldn't act like it's a news source or something.
It's not an opinion.
They're not even opinions.
They're just propaganda.
Now, I wouldn't put CNN in that category because they do in fact show both sides.
Not always.
But lately, they've done a great job of it.
Daniel Dale did a fact check on Wall saying that Trump lost the most manufacturing jobs of any president.
Turns out that's not even close to true.
And so Daniel Dale just slapped him down.
Now, that's pretty good.
Even Fox News doesn't do that.
Fox News doesn't do fact checking on Republicans.
So I would call...
You know, some of the news are just biased, but if their bias is obvious and they're not hiding it, I'm not too bad with that.
But to call MSNBC news, I'm sorry, that's not news.
That is just pure propaganda.
I have voted as an adult.
It was more embarrassing when I voted.
It was more embarrassing because the first time I voted, it might have been 22 or 21 or something, and I voted for Jimmy Carter.
That was my first vote.
And after I saw how that turned out, I realized, wow, I'm as dumb as the person who made that comment just now.
I shouldn't vote at all, and neither should you.
I'm only talking to the person who made the dumb comment.
You know, the one where you hallucinate something and then get really mad at it.
So somebody hallucinated that I've never voted as an adult, and then they had something to say about the thing that they hallucinated.
Oh, here's an update.
You know that Cenk Uygur was looking for somebody to debate on the question of Trump.
And I did not reply to an email fast enough because I'm bad on email.
So I didn't have the flexibility to schedule the debate he was looking for.
But he quite generously offered to have me on the show.
So I will be on Jenk's show essentially debating him, but it'll be in addition to whatever debate he does on the night that he said he was going to do the debate.
So on Thursday he's going to do something.
I think there might be multiple people involved, but I'm not one of them.
And then on Monday I'll just Have my own time to talk to the Young Turks or just Cenk, I'm not sure.
By the way, you know, I have to say, if I could pay him a compliment, that while there are plenty of things that I don't agree with, with Cenk, I love his mental flexibility.
Like, he is absolutely willing to crap on either side, including his own, when it looks like he needs it.
Now, I don't have to agree with him to appreciate that, that he's not a captive.
So he's definitely not a captive of anybody's brainwashing, and that's unusual.
So talking to somebody who's not a captive but also doesn't agree with me on everything, to me that's kind of exciting because it's a pretty rare situation.
Usually you're just talking to an NPC, you know, somebody who's just down for their team and wants you to lose.
I think Cenk is in a small...
Very narrow subset of people who would rather have the right answer than to win.
Like you'd rather get the right answer.
And you have to respect that.
I think he's actually curious.
You know, I think that even though it's sort of a, you know, a challenge and an event and it's sort of a, you know, it's a podcasting thing.
It's a very podcasty thing to do, to challenge somebody to a debate on politics.
But I think he actually wants to figure out if he's missing something and that maybe, maybe, you know, the news silos are denying him a better argument than he's seen.
So we'll see.
We'll see.
All right.
I would talk about the machine that colluded to cancel me.
Well, you know, I never know.
I'll never know who colluded.
I'll just know that it's very unlikely that I would have been canceled if I'd been someone else.
So think about this.
Barack Obama...
He told black men that black men are sexists and wouldn't support, you know, too many of them wouldn't support a female president.
What does that sound like?
Does that sound like outright prejudiced against a certain group of people?
And shouldn't he be canceled for that?
I hear people get canceled when they make broad statements about entire groups of people.
No?
Okay, I guess it doesn't work that way.
Here's a David Pakman.
Well, we'll find out.
David Pakman is a He's one of the talkovers, meaning that he does the thing that the least credible Democrats do, which is every statement you make, they ask for a source, as if that's going to be possible during a conversation, and then they talk over you if you make a good point.
And, but, I've watched Cenk in other conversations, and he's not a talkover.
He doesn't talkover.
He actually waits as long as it takes.
Now, that's, you know, that's a luxury of doing a podcast instead of a, you know, broadcast TV. You have more time.
But that's hard to do.
In fact, I watched, I specifically watched him in a split-screen conversation with...
Maybe it was Murray.
And I think Murray just insulted him for like 10 minutes straight.
Douglas Murray.
I think he insulted him for like 10 minutes straight.
And Cenk sat there just listening.
And I thought, oh my god.
That was some super constraint there.
Now, I assume that Douglas Murray returned the favor.
I didn't see that part.
But when Cenk talked, he probably let him talk.
So I'm sure it was reciprocal.
But it's fascinating.
Oh, I've got a recommendation for you.
I don't have a link for it, but you should be able to easily find it.
So on YouTube, at the event that was recently hosted by the All In Pod, maybe a few weeks ago, they had a conversation between John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs.
Now, both of them are really smart about geopolitical things and, you know, what's happening with Russia, China, and Israel, and Hezbollah, and Iran.
They don't completely agree, but wow, it was the two smartest persons you're ever going to see talk about something that important.
I so recommend it.
It was one of those very rare times when even though the topic is something you think you've heard everything about, you'll be actually just drilled onto the screen.
You'll be like, really?
So both of them are just so well-informed but also good at communicating that it comes off as way more entertaining than I thought it would be.
I watched every minute of it and I never did that.
You're having trouble concentrating on my third eye?
Well, I'm just showing off.
I voted.
I haven't mailed it, so that doesn't count yet.
All right.
How we doing?
I think I'll stay on until the top of the hour just to make everybody feel bad if they come in and they see that I'm wearing my vote on my head.
And you too.
Could have an annoying sticker on your forehead.
You could be a douchebag too.
It doesn't have to be just me.
It could be you too.
I put my sticker on the back of my phone case.
Well, look at you.
Oh yeah, Trump's going on Joe Rogan on Friday.
Well...
Look at the difference.
Trump going on Joe Rogan to have no questions in advance for three hours.
Compare that to Kamala Harris takes the day off to prepare for NBC, the friendliest of friendlies, who probably will give her the questions in advance.
And probably other people will write her answers to just remember.
These two are not the similar...
I don't know how anybody could watch this unfolding and think that their capabilities are similar.
I also wonder about the people who think they live through a modern hell in Trump's first term.
What exactly did they experience in his first term that wasn't just Democrats acting out?
I mean, if you say the worst things that happened were, you know, riots and Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots, but that wasn't Trump.
That was people who didn't like Trump.
I don't remember anything that Trump did that caused trouble, do you?
What did Trump do that caused any trouble?
Name anything.
No, I guess, well, I guess rule versus Wade.
You could argue that that was either the court or that was Trump.
I guess you could say that's Trump.
But that's not a, but it's not a point of him like being a bad character.
It's about him giving Republicans what they've wanted for 50 years or whatever.
Yeah, the Kraken.
The Kraken is what Sidney Powell promised she would tell us, meaning some big monster called the Kraken, that there would be some kind of major reveal about election fraud, but she did not come through with it.
Now, remember the mystery about Sidney Powell?
Do you remember I kept saying, why doesn't she just tell us who told her the wrong information?
Isn't that the most obvious thing that you wonder?
Well, if Sidney Powell was wrong, and that the election machines were fine, why was she so confident?
Who would have told her they were not fine?
But then lied to her, apparently.
And here's what I think.
Here's my updated opinion.
Now, this is a big if.
If it's true that the biggest cartel is involved in all of this, then that's all you need to know.
Because the cartel would have said, we're going to kill everybody in your family if you peep up again.
And then suddenly she couldn't tell you where her sources were.
Does that sound like the real world?
In the real world, if any of this gang relationship is true, and I don't know that it is, I personally have no information that would verify it.
If it's true, then you completely understand why Sidney Powell went from I have all the goods to, yeah, maybe I just made it up.
Yeah, let's go with I don't have any evidence.
It's the only thing that makes sense.
She probably...
Either found out that the source was bad and it was just, you know, a setup or somebody threatened to kill her or somebody that she cared about.
So I think that maybe there was a death threat involved.
You know, I don't have any evidence of that.
But if it's true that the stakes are this high, anything's on the table.
Anything at all.
But I also heard that Dominion was owned by the head of the Carlyle Group.
And if that's true, then it can't be true that it's also owned by a Venezuelan gang.
So I think I'm going to go with the Venezuelan gang stuff is not true.
I think that'll be my holding pattern.
My holding pattern will be not believing it.
But I'm open to hearing more information about it.
If there's any other way to validate it, I'll take a look.
But I would say at this point, the odds of this new Kraken being Kraken 2 are pretty high.
Pretty high.
Because almost everything that's come out lately has been a hoax.
It would be weird if in the middle of the most hoaxes you've ever seen in your life, that the exact hoax you're waiting for comes down exactly the way your imagination had it.
That's a little too on the nose.
So I'm going to say this Venezuelan kraken thing that just came out.
Not true.
I'm going to go with not true.
That's my take.
But who knows?
Tentatively, not true.
Carville is looking more like a turtle every year.
Good to know.
They're going to deepfake Trump saying something.
You know, that would be really deadly if they deepfake Trump saying something like on the day before the election.
Because there's no way there would be time to tell everybody it was a fake.
You know, half of the country would still think it was real a day later.
So that would be dangerous.
Quite, quite dangerous.
Because he's not pro-life.
okay uh absolutely confirmed the venezuelan gang took over apartment buildings in aurora Oh, my.
Oh, interesting.
Now sporting defund the police on the percent.
Oh.
Okay.
Back in 20, he wanted to defund the police, and now he wants to...
He's confirmed that the...
Well, like I said, he's flexible.
Yeah.
If you're going to show me that he changed his mind because the facts were not with him, that's what I like about him.
That's not a flaw.
Oh, well, we'll see.
We'll see.
That's the beauty of it.
of it, we'll find out.
All right.
You just dropped off your ballot.
Watch for the deepfakes.
So did you see the latest hoax about Biden?
So there's a Biden Rupar hoax.
All right, so the Biden hoax, I'm calling it a hoax because the story is that Biden said that we should I'm calling it a hoax because the story is that Biden said Now, he did say that, but they cut out the context.
The context...
Was somebody in the audience saying something like, lock somebody up, and then Biden sort of quipped, we should lock Trump up.
But as soon as he quipped it, he corrected it and said, in a political sense, So he immediately made sure you knew he didn't mean in a jail cell sentence, but in a political sense.
Now, if you didn't hear the second part, and that got cut off, that he immediately said that he only means it in the political sense, then it looks like he meant it in the physical sense.
Just a root bar.
He's about to get Charlotte build.
you might what's that?
Thank you.
Thank you.
104.
Cuomo talked about Trump's persuasion today.
Hey, how about that?
Well, you know, the one thing that everybody agrees on is that Trump's persuasive, even if they don't like it.
So Iraq is what turned him from a Republican to a Democrat.
That's fair.
If Cenk used to be a Republican, but he switched because of the Iraq invasion, that's a good enough reason for me.
I would call that very credible.
Yeah, no problem with that.
That certainly would be a fair assessment.
What's that?
You realize that they're feeding off your ideas.
Who is?
Who's feeding off my ideas?
Hmm.
Hmm.
feeding off my ideas.
Yeah, the LA Times decided they would not back Kamala Harris.
They're not going to back anybody.
But I think that's probably remarkable that they're not backing her.
Ben's got it wrong.
Carlisle Group doesn't own it.
Only two members of the...
Carlisle Group own it.
Okay.
Interesting.
Maybe I should just not...
I feel like I shouldn't repost anything for two weeks.
Will the planes dealer endorse...
Ah, who cares.
It makes sense you think this because I think you're one of the least intelligent people in the country, so you're telling me something simple in mind is the most basic concepts.
Every time I see your comments, I laugh at how intelligent you are.
And Cenk thinks I'm dumb.
Oh, well, good luck with that, guys.
You may have noticed that my persuasion works in the long run.
Thank you.
It doesn't work as much in the short run.
So anyway...
Alright, I think I've done what I need to do to now.
We're going to go back to sleep, everybody.
I will see you in the morning on the regular show.
Thanks for voting with me.
I think we changed the world with our votes.
It's going to make the difference.
Alright, thanks everybody for stopping by.
I'm going to make sure that you say goodbye.
There you go.
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