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Nov. 8, 2024 - Real Coffe - Scott Adams
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Episode 2653 CWSA 11/08/24
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You just left a good start if you're looking at the stock market.
But let's look at your comments.
Speaking of Carrie Lake.
They're trying to figure out...
So here's the interesting thing that's happening in Arizona with the Gallego-Carrie Lake situation.
The accusation from Liz Harrington is, quote, you know why it's taking so long.
They're trying to figure out how to keep Gallego below Trump, but higher than Lake.
Oh, man.
I hate how true that sounds.
But maybe we'll find out what's true and what's not.
But first, we're gonna watch this.
Oh, that's weird.
I do not see my own show today on Locals.
Come on, locals.
Well, that puts a little crimp in my game.
Because normally I look at my comments separately on here.
Huh.
I guess that's not going to happen.
All right.
All right, well, I tried.
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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Oh, so good.
All right.
I'm going to try one more time just to make sure that the locals' comments are up and running.
Why it's not showing up on my phone is weird.
I don't know how you're watching me if I'm on Locals and I can't see myself.
How's that possible?
Must be some kind of update.
Okay, seriously, this isn't possible.
My own posts, looking at the top, looking at the newest one, I'm currently live, 800 people are watching, and I'm the only person who can't see my own show.
Is this really happening to me?
Like, I want to show it to you to make sure that you can see that I'm the only person who can't see my own show.
Because there are 800 of you that are watching it on Locals right now.
I'm on Locals.
It's not there.
Or it's not where it's supposed to be.
So...
Oh my God.
How can this be?
There we go.
It's just way out of place where it should have been.
There it was.
We're all good now.
Well, if you didn't hear about this, Intel, who took away the coffee privileges for its employees because the company wasn't doing so well, so they said, no more free coffee and snacks.
But apparently that didn't go over well, so Business Insider says they're bringing back free coffee.
That's right.
Intel is bringing back free coffee to the employees.
And do you know what I say about that?
Dad joke alert.
A dad joke alert.
Will be delivered momentarily.
If you don't like dad jokes, cover your ear holes.
But for the rest of you, get ready for this.
That's right.
Coffee is good when the chips are down.
All right.
I would like to tell you a little story that makes me feel good.
So this morning, I do a pre-show before I do the show that you're watching now, just for the subscribers on the Locals platform.
And one of them told me this morning that he saved a life.
So there was a public transportation situation.
Somebody, an addict, some fentanyl addict, passed out, was on the verge of dying.
And someone who claims he learned about Narcan and what that's all about from my podcasts.
And so someone that I told about Narcan...
Was in a situation where somebody was about to die.
Called out to find if anybody had some Narcan and somebody did.
Somebody was carrying.
So it was a public situation and somebody was carrying Narcan.
And they came up with it and the individual administered it and actually felt the heart come back on.
Save the life.
So if you don't think podcasting is important, Well, there's one life saved.
So, Golden Age?
Yeah.
Daniel Penny?
Yeah.
We need some Daniel Penny.
Daniel Penny needs to be freed.
We've got to make this a clean win for the golden age.
Anyway, but before that happens, did you hear about the...
There's a small town that has some kind of a research facility that was using monkeys, and 40 of the monkeys escaped on Thursday.
So there were 40 monkeys on the loose.
38 of them allegedly voted straight Democrat ticket.
So I think they were just out for the week to do a little voting.
But no, I'm just joking.
Animals don't vote.
Ever.
All right, how many of you have seen my conversation with Naval, which was done the same way as these live streams, so it's on all the same platforms?
You can see it on X, it's pinned on my X platform, and on YouTube and Rumble and Locals as well.
Now, you have to look at, if you think you don't want to watch an hour-long conversation, it's not exactly an interview.
Because neither of us are too much into the format of an interview.
It's a conversation.
But it's a conversation with probably the most interesting person in the world.
So you should look at the comments.
And if the first three that you see don't tell you to spend an hour watching it, I'd be surprised.
It's already lighting up the internet.
It's got like half a million views since last night.
So don't miss it.
Naval Ravikant, smartest person in the world.
And he'll show you why.
Meanwhile, trust in physicians and hospitals has decreased by 31% since 2020.
Surprise!
So there's very little trust in hospitals and doctors these days.
And I've said this before, but I'll say it again.
You may find yourself in a situation where Where you need to explain to your doctor that you trust your doctor, but you don't necessarily trust the system that constrains your doctor's choices.
So your doctor is working under the umbrella of what will the insurance company back you on?
If the insurance company isn't going to back you on it, you better not do it.
And most of them have bosses.
And the bosses are big organizations that have to do what the government says or the big pharma says or what somebody says.
So I'm finding that it's useful to set down a standard That you believe that your doctor is, you know, a qualified person doing the best they can, means well, but you understand their constraints, and that you're going to have to work with that constraint, and that means that you might have to make some decisions that are outside of there.
They're a narrow range of prescriptions.
Now, I hope I'm not giving advice because some of you killed by ignoring your doctors.
Don't do that.
Don't ignore your doctor.
But I do think we're in an age where you can't just automatically assume everything they tell you is the right answer.
So maybe the best advice I can give you is that If you haven't at least gotten a second opinion from AI, you should do that.
You'd be surprised how good AI is on the medical stuff already.
I would not replace your real doctor with AI, so don't get me wrong.
It's not time to do that.
But if you wanted a second opinion, such as, let's say your doctor says, take a certain drug, and you didn't hear any side effects mentioned, You might want to take a look at the side effects.
You know, AI will help you a lot.
Speaking of AI, Jeff Bezos and others have invested in this new robot company.
It's called Physical Intelligence.
And they're teaching their robots to do physical things in the real world, such as chores and folding laundry and such.
But what makes it different is that the normal way to train your AI would be a large language model, which isn't going to help for physical tasks.
But also just to look at a million different things.
And then from those million different things, try to duplicate it, whatever you need.
But if you take something like folding laundry, it's never really exactly the same twice.
Every shirt's a little different, etc.
So you need something that's a little smarter than just copying what it's seen before.
And so they've got some kind of algorithm for physical applications.
So they think they're building a general purpose artificial intelligence for physical applications.
So instead of training your robot to do something specific, like do this exactly robot like this, somehow it can figure out physical tasks and the smarter way to do them in any given situation it's never seen before.
Now, if they can pull that off, Holy cow!
I don't know if they can, but imagine if they can pull that off, that it can understand its world the same way you do.
And it wouldn't need to be trained on anything.
It just has an algorithm that manages the real world.
So I could see why somebody rich would put some money in that.
I've seen some smart people, I think Marc Andreessen and some others, have said that now with Trump in office and his propensity to get rid of red tape and regulations, and of course Elon will be getting in and doing his thing that might reduce the government burden on business.
And, oh, I didn't mention this, but in my conversation with Naval Ravikant, he mentioned that he put out the word that he would be willing to help in the Trump administration.
And I'm not talking about taking a cabinet position.
But maybe in the way that Elon's helping.
You know, something that he would be uniquely qualified to do.
And he is uniquely qualified to do a lot of things.
So, if you ever wanted a dream team, Oh my goodness, is the dream team coming together.
So there are some predictions that our GDP could be insane compared to what it has been in the past.
You know, inflation is always a problem if that happens, but that's a problem I'll take.
Because I think we may be on the verge of an economic boom like we've never seen.
The stock market certainly thinks so.
I mean, the market's just crazy the last three days.
Well, apparently Don Jr.
has floated the idea with Alex Jones of some kind of rotating press secretary thing, where Alex Jones would be the press secretary, but just for a month, and then somebody else would come in.
Now, how do you like that idea?
I think there probably still needs to be a regular employed press secretary, but the idea of having guest Spock's It's a good idea.
There's never been an idea that's more perfectly Trumpian, is there?
You know, the greatest showman on earth.
Why would the greatest showman on earth be satisfied with these press events that are the most useless, boring things on earth?
Greatest showman on earth, most boring, stupid, useless process ever that you do anyway.
Now, in the past, I think you just skipped them, right?
Sometimes you just said, ah, it's not even worth it.
I talked to the press enough.
But it seems to me the most perfectly Trumpian thing would be to figure out how to make it interesting.
And you do a little guest appearances.
And there's no way that the news could not talk about it.
I'm seeing Roseanne's name come up a number of times.
Can you even imagine showing up for your job?
You're just a reporter and you're just going to hear this boring denial of everything.
And then all of a sudden Roseanne comes in with a binder and just the energy in the room goes crazy because they thought they were going to do something boring again.
But Roseanne walks in and you're like, I don't know what's going to happen now.
And suddenly it's going to be a headline.
One of the things that the news tries to do, or actually the politicians try to, is fill all the shelf space with stories that at least don't hurt them.
And that would make at least one story, maybe once a week or more, in which the press would just They have to write about it.
They just have to.
Now, they probably find some way to say a negative, like, oh, he's not taking the job seriously.
But I feel like they're over that.
I think they know that he wants to be president for being president reasons.
I think they finally figured he actually just wants to do the job right.
Anyway, Chief of Staff has been chosen by Trump, Susie Wiles.
I'd not heard that name before, but if you're on X and you're seeing the comments from people who have worked with her for a long time, I've never seen anything like it.
I've never seen such a complete endorsement of anybody, politically or for anything.
So whoever Susie Wiles is, is apparently very well regarded.
And I guess it's a good pick.
Everybody who knows her says it's like home run.
Now, here's what's fascinating about it.
Do you remember...
Me saying for the past at least six months that the Trump campaign, which is what she was doing, she was running his campaign, that the Trump campaign was just so obviously well-run.
Do you remember that?
And I kept commenting how, you know, sometimes if things are going well, you don't notice, because usually you notice mistakes.
But the lack of mistakes...
That Trump made.
It was indicative that there was some kind of very powerful and effective force that he was working with that was balancing him just right.
So there was something that was really, really working about the campaign.
And now I think we know what it was.
It was somebody who already had a great reputation and took that into the campaign.
I mean, look at the campaign.
It wasn't just good.
It was maybe as good as anything could be.
I mean, it would be hard to imagine doing better than he did.
So, boy, is that a...
Positive thing for your golden age.
So to get a great chief of staff that everybody respects and is a real powerhouse is amazing.
Now, what did I not mention?
What's the dog not barking?
The thing I didn't mention about that story at all.
First female chief of staff.
Do you know why I didn't mention it?
Because I'm going to call it.
I'm just going to call it.
We're done saying that.
All right?
How about we're all adults, and we know that a woman can do a job?
How about we stop saying the first black this or that?
Because, again, this may come as a shock to some of you.
Black people have jobs.
Right?
Gay people have jobs.
It doesn't have to be the first gay one.
It doesn't have to be the first woman one.
So at the same time that Trump is being accused by the crazy left that maybe sexism is the reason that Kamala Harris didn't become president because she was discriminated against.
All right.
Keep that in your mind.
And then look at the comments about Susie Wiles from the people who know her.
And you ask me, you tell me if any Republicans are showing some kind of sexism.
Nope.
Capability, capability, capability.
That's all they're talking about.
Just totally capable.
And the whole woman, you know, first woman thing, I was waiting to see if somebody would do it.
Because I thought in my mind, I'm no historian, but I thought, I can't remember a woman being in that job.
I wonder if that's the first.
And I was happy to see that it wasn't the lead headline on every single comment, but somebody brought it up and I thought that was worth noting.
So I'm going to note it as putting a period in it.
How about we just say, everybody who's capable and good and smart can have any kind of job that a capable, good, smart person can have.
And every time we say, but she's also a woman, is not helping women.
It's really not.
So stop doing it.
And the way the Trump campaign handled that, as well as the way it handled the campaign, was by staying away from all that identity stuff.
And what happened?
By staying away from the identity stuff, Trump won a surprising number of people who were non-white men, just by not being one of those people who had to talk about identity all day long.
So he's definitely found the right, let's say, the feel of the room.
He got the, yeah, Zuby is saying that identity politics is dead.
I don't know if it's dead-dead, but it's never going to work again.
Maybe that's the same thing.
Anyway, I saw Jason from the All In Pod.
I never know how to pronounce his name, so Jason, if you're watching, I apologize.
Calacanus or Calacanus?
He's famous enough that people use his first name, you know, Jason from the All In Pod.
So he's got that Madonna thing going on.
Calacanus or Calacanus?
I can never remember.
Anyway, it's one of those.
But he was on the Trigonometry podcast, and he said, somewhat cheekily, I would say with a twinkle in his eye, that Trump won because he's incredible at manipulating weak, dumb people.
Now, you could tell by the look on his face when he said it that he was being intentionally provocative.
But here's the thing.
He's not wrong.
He's not wrong.
The public is not filled with geniuses, and they're not filled with, you know, atlas strong people.
The public needs leaders.
It needs people who are stronger than they are, and in the opinion of the people being led, somebody who's got a better idea.
So, yes, I mean, those are the insulting words to use for it, that he's good at manipulating weak, dumb people.
But let me give another word for it.
Leadership.
Leadership.
Do you know who doesn't need leadership?
Brilliant, strong people.
There aren't that many brilliant, strong people.
We notice them whenever we see them.
So no, that's leadership.
You could call it manipulating the dumb and weak people, or you could say he's showing people who are not as plugged in as he is and not as strong where they should go, and they seem to enjoy that situation enough to vote for him for a second time.
So there's a fine line between Manipulating and leadership.
And I would say that the single defining point, the most important point, is why are you doing it?
It's leadership if you're doing it for everybody's benefit, or the greater good, let's say.
And it's manipulating if you're just doing it for your own benefit.
But the president is the one job I think we should all agree on, is so transparent that there is no way To do a bad job as president and then be happy about it when you're done.
That's not a thing.
Joe Biden's entire term is now a disgrace, basically, because he couldn't keep it together long enough to get a second term and prevented Kamala Harris from having the best chance she could of winning or anybody else from the best chance they have of winning.
So Biden, by failing at that critical decision point, knows that his legacy is now half of what it could have been.
Do you think Trump wants a bad legacy?
Do you think he wants the Trump name to be dragged through the toilet of history?
Or does he want to do the best job he could right in front of you as transparently as possible so that he doesn't have to convince you it was a good job you saw yourself?
To me, it seems obvious that he's deeply, deeply motivated to do a great job.
And anything short of that would be disappointing to Trump, I would imagine.
Certainly disappointing to his supporters and his family.
We expect great things.
Well, Putin, according to Just the News, uh, Vladimir Putin described Trump as a, quote, courageous man who was, quote, hounded from all sides during the presidential campaign.
And he congratulated Trump on his victory.
And Putin said, quote, he behaved, in my opinion, in a very correct way, courageously, like a real man.
Putin said, I take this opportunity to congratulate him on his election.
He said he is ready to speak to Trump about the war in Ukraine.
What was said about the desire to restore relations with Russia to bring about the end of the Ukrainian crisis, in my opinion, this deserves attention, at least, said Putin.
Now, you know how this is going to be framed by the good guys and the bad guys.
The bad guys...
Well, let me not call them bad guys.
Let's just say in the spirit of unity, I'll say the Democrats for now.
You know the Democrats are going to say, oh, you're Putin's puppet.
Oh, Trump, why are you so nice to dictators?
Why are you being so good to dictators?
And then all the people who have any experience in business or any experience in politics and have ever negotiated anything, I'm going to say, are you all weak and dumb, like Jason says?
Because let me explain how negotiating works.
First, you listen to your person you're negotiating with, and you try to agree with as much as possible so that you're both shaking your heads yes before you get to the hard stuff.
Now, what would be the best way to bond, to find something in common between Putin and Trump, which would make both of them better at negotiating with each other, which is your ideal situation?
You don't want one of the people to think they went away, oh, I got bullied into something.
You want both of them to think, this is a good negotiation.
I'm going in this strong.
I'm going in and against somebody strong.
We respect each other.
We can be honest.
You're bad here.
You're good here.
We like the good.
Stop doing the bad.
It's kind of a perfect situation.
So I'm pretty sure that 100% of all the people have had experience negotiating.
That used to be one of my corporate jobs was negotiating with vendors over prices and stuff.
And yeah, this is negotiating 101.
Trump should be saying That Putin's a strong leader.
That Putin has been maybe good for Russia.
That might be a little too far, but you can say good things about him.
There's some talk about Trump maybe pardoning Hunter Biden because that would be a good way to, you know, get some unity back in things.
I don't think Hunter should be pardoned at the same time there are still legal risks, lawfare, let's call it, against Trump.
Now, there is optimism that all of Trump's legal problems will be swept away.
And that might happen.
But it hasn't happened yet.
So I think it's certainly premature to be talking about any pardons.
But as Mike Benz weighs in on this, he said, talking about the Hunter Biden pardon, he said, I'm actually okay with this.
On the condition that Hunter becomes a federal informant for six months and tells the Trump DOG every federal crime committed by the CIA, State Department, and some other groups.
And gives the comms.
Now, I don't think there's any chance in the world that Hunter Biden could roll over on the CIA and the Atlantic Council and anybody else, because I think literally he would be killed.
You know, if there's anything there that really needs to be hid, I think he would actually be killed.
Like literally, no joke, no hyperbole, I think you would be killed.
So I don't think there's really a chance of that.
So it's too bad.
There's definitely a strong part of me that would like the Hunter Biden thing to be wrapped up.
And maybe it's a gift of the country to say, can we get past this and just, you know, take care of business?
This is the past.
He was a drug addict.
Maybe he did some illegal money laundering Ukraine things, but we don't have to worry about it now.
We're past it.
So, I mean, you don't need to give somebody a pardon unless they actually did something that is jailable, and it looks like maybe there's some jailable things in there if you look hard enough.
I don't know.
So I guess I'm on the fence on this one.
But definitely no, as long as Trump is still in lawfare territory.
So, as a Fisher King points out to an X, that winning the popular vote was a pretty big deal.
And we have the blue states to thank for that, because it means that a lot of people like me got people to vote in California, and I voted for the first time in memory, because we knew that winning the popular vote changed everything.
I did not want to be in a situation where Trump won the electoral vote, but not the popular vote.
That was not where I wanted to be at all.
And I think that some of the reason that Democrats are quiet is because there is no strategy that cleanly gets you past the fact that a majority of Americans who voted We're on the other side and think you did a bad job and your package of policies wasn't good enough.
Now, if it were not the majority at the same time that the major media is in favor of Democrats, I mean, that's a hell of a message.
Just think of waking up.
Imagine this.
Imagine you went to sleep.
And when you went to sleep, you were the moral authority of the country.
You were the good guys.
Not only were you the good moral ethical authority of the country, because you're a good Democrat, unlike those terrible, terrible MAGA people, but you were also in the majority.
So you were the good people, and you were in the majority.
And then you wake up, and you find out you're not in the majority, and there was a good reason for it.
You weren't the good people after all.
Because you were the ones pushing the wokeness and the lies.
And then you watched your leaders, the same leaders who told you that if Trump became elected, he would be Hitler.
Like, actually, literally, like Hitler.
He would round up people in camps and all this.
And then, one minute after the polls call the winner, those same Democrats...
Who told you with serious faces, you're all going to be rounded up.
They all said, well, peaceful transfer of power.
I guess the system worked.
Better luck next time.
And then tens of millions of Democrats said, wait a minute.
How do you square that?
How does peaceful transfer of power ever hook up with we're electing Hitler?
That's the wrong answer.
If he's really Hitler, you should not be bragging about a peaceful transfer of power.
You should be talking about your underground resistance, which will try to kill them as soon as they can.
Now, of course, I'm against that.
No violence, please.
But the point is, at least that would be consistent.
If the things you told your own people were anywhere near true, you should not be rolling over and accepting this new dictator for a day, So I think that the spell maybe got broken.
And I saw some more talk today about the fine people hoax changing somebody's mind and how much it broke their brain.
I forget who it was.
I'll get to it.
But think about how important winning the actual total vote was, not just the electoral vote.
Being the majority by like a solid five million or whatever it is now, changes everything.
You can no longer see yourself as the safe, reasonable people who are trying to protect the world from these, you know, these weirdos who have weird opinions.
It turns out that the weirdos were the majority.
Literally the weirdos.
Remember when Walz and Kamala had this brilliant idea that they'll call the Trump supporters weirdos?
Why do you call people weirdos?
It's only because you think they're the minority.
Turns out there were more weirdos than there were anti-weirdos.
I love my weirdos, by the way.
More weirdos, please.
The more the better.
Oh, you got a winner in Pennsylvania?
Senate winner?
Good.
Anyway, let's see what else has happened here.
So this is what, so Colin Rugg did a good job of summarizing on X. The things that Trump said, he had 10 things he wants to do to effectively get rid of the deep state.
So I think it's worth reading all 10 of them to you.
So I won't go into detail, but just get a sense of what Trump said.
Now, here's the thing I love about Trump, and one of the things he got right the first time, the first time he ran.
As soon as he was elected, he started doing presidential stuff.
Like, he didn't wait until he was sworn in.
Like, anything he could do legally that was presidential.
Like, he visited the Ford and some other plant and tried to keep American jobs here.
And it was just sort of brilliant because it gave you a first look at what a Trump presidency would look like.
And you're like, oh, wow, he's already on the job.
He's definitely putting in the work for me.
I like that.
So here he is again, telling you what he has in store, and he's very specific.
It's ten things.
Here they are.
Immediately reissue.
His 2020 executive order restoring the president's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats.
I didn't know he couldn't do that, but apparently there must have been some employee protection or something.
But he can remove rogue bureaucrats.
He wants to clean out all the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.
I don't know how you do that exactly, but I agree it has to be done.
He wants to totally reform the FISA courts, which are so corrupt, he says, that the judges seemingly do not care when they're lied to in warrant applications.
I mean, I think they do care, but they act like they don't care because they grant pretty much anything.
Here's number four.
Listen to this one.
You ready for this?
This is number four on his list.
Expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart.
There it is.
There it is.
Yeah.
How about exposing the hoaxes?
I remind you that the AmericanDebunk.com page Is a really well-done professional page of Trump hoaxes being debunked.
So there is already a mechanism for that.
He just needs to send enough eyeballs to it.
And I love the fact that it's an enumerated top ten thing.
Because if you don't take out the hoaxes and the abuses of power, the hoaxes are the part that I care about the most.
If you don't take care of the hoaxes, then the Democrats can build back their hoaxocracy, which has temporarily collapsed.
So at the moment, there are a whole bunch of Democrats saying to themselves and each other, did we get everything wrong?
Charlemagne the God, for example, is saying that Democrats read the room wrong.
There must be a lot of voters who are saying the same things.
Like, did we read everything in the country wrong?
And the answer is yes.
Yes.
If they thought they were the majority and they were on the side of the angels, yes, they read the room wrong.
Very wrong.
All right, number five.
Launch a major crackdown on government leakers.
I like that, because that's, again, going after the hoaxes.
That seems like a pretty smart structural change.
Seven, ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they're not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people or that they are not spying on someone's campaign like they spied on my campaign.
I like that he likes to work that in there.
He likes to work in the SHIV in his list of top tens.
I think that's worth trying, but isn't the whole point of a spy agency that you can lie even to people in your own country?
I mean, is the CIA supposed to tell people the exact truth all the time?
I don't know how that works.
Because I would think if you create an organization whose job is to lie for the benefit of the country, then they could lie any time they had an argument.
Maybe it's for the benefit of the country.
So I don't know how that works.
So maybe there's a way to audit them.
It's worth a try.
Number eight, continue the effort launched by the Trump admin to move parts of the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside of the Washington swamp.
That feels like a solution that people who are smarter and more well-informed than I am would say that's a good idea.
I guess if you just move them physically, there's less swampy connections.
And I could see how that would be true.
But I'd have to see it work to know that it's a solution.
Because I feel like the swamp can follow you.
We have phones and Zoom and stuff.
So I don't know.
Maybe if you can't have lunch with the rest of the swamp, it doesn't get to you, but it's worth a try.
It's worth a try.
How about number nine?
Work to ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and that they regulate.
You know, that's a tough one.
I think everybody thinks that that makes the country at risk when the people who are doing the regulating are too cozy with the industry that they're regulating.
On the other hand, You want people who are so well connected that the pharma industry would want to hire them as soon as they could.
So there's part of me that wishes there was some way to solve this without reducing the rights of people to work where they want to work.
You know how non-compete agreements are usually...
I think this is true.
I think they're usually thrown out by courts.
Your employer can't tell you not to work for the competition, I think.
It might depend on certain situations or states or something.
But I don't love anything that limits where I can go to work.
But on the other hand...
If the regulators are too cozy with the regulated, then the whole thing falls apart.
So I guess tentatively this would be one thing that I would also be in favor of.
But I would say that for having 10 things on his list, and I'll get to the last one, push a constitutional amendment to oppose, not to oppose, to put term limits on Congress.
I don't think there's any chance of term limits.
But these are 10 things which...
Most of them look good at the first look, and several of them look like something that's worth trying.
And then if it doesn't work, adjust.
That's how the whole country should work.
Try something that looks like a good idea, it looks like it solves the problem.
If it doesn't work, pull it back, do it again.
America is really good at, you know, shit canning the stuff that didn't work.
It's sort of a superpower we have.
So yeah, let's try some stuff.
Trump also vowed separately on the first day to end gender-affirming care.
Now, the Democrats call it gender-affirming care.
Republicans call it mutilating young people.
We don't need to get into that debate except to say that it was a very popular Common opinion that children should be exempt from the transitioning.
I think that what is the national approval for blocking children from transitioning?
Like 70 or 80 percent?
90 percent?
It was way up there.
It's like crazy popular.
So yeah, do that right away.
So again, this was something that Trump could do on day one, literally, that would look like he's really getting stuff done and the golden age is coming and things are working.
Mike Benz, again, he had an A really interesting idea, because as you know, he's described over the past few years, the censorship network, the web of censorship, non-government organizations.
So there are all these entities that are not part of the government.
But in many cases, our government, as well as others, other entities, fund them.
So some of the things we fund are these disinformation censorship people that really are more like censorship.
And so he's...
You couldn't totally dismantle that system, but you could give it something like an almost lethal blow with one executive order that would prohibit funding by any government agency to any outside group involved in regulating, flagging, or downracking so-called disinformation.
Because you know that turns into censorship.
Now, how good an idea is that?
Like, really good.
Now, let me teach you something about the Trump administration.
I'm going to say this with confidence without knowing yet if I'm right.
Remember I always tell you that the person with the best idea is in charge?
It's just always true.
If you're the junior person at the meeting, but when your turn comes to talk, you have the best idea, well, if people recognize it as the best idea...
I guess you were in charge, even though you're the junior person.
And this is one of those clean examples, I think.
And what makes it a clean example is that when you read it, you say to yourself, well, yeah, of course.
Of course.
Yeah.
Take the funding away from people who are trying to censor Americans.
We have free speech.
So this is just a plain good idea with a very specific mechanism, which doesn't cost much of anything in executive order, and it would be just a huge blow to a big part of the disinformation fabric.
Now, here's my prediction.
My prediction is, because I've been saying this a lot, that the Trump administration is better than probably any administration ever.
At reading the room and also accepting suggestions that come from good sources.
So when Elon Musk says, you know what?
If you let me, I can take a bunch of money out of the government.
What does Trump say?
Does Trump say, oh no, that will be taking the limelight away from me I can't have you getting in there.
No.
He says, really?
Elon Musk, the guy who took 80% of the employees out of Twitter and increased the number of features?
He's willing to work for free.
He has all the credibility of, you know, the public.
And he can do this thing which desperately needs to be done?
Yes.
You know, the Democrats are talking to Beyonce.
They can't even get Beyonce to sing.
And Trump's got people like Naval and Elon Musk and a whole bunch of others just volunteering to do the most important work that needs to be done.
RFK Jr., he just comes and says, you know, the food supply is poison.
Our big pharma is all messed up.
If you let me, I can fix all that.
What does Trump say?
Oh, no.
I could never work with a Democrat.
No.
Nope.
Oh no, there was that one time you said that thing that I disagreed with.
No.
You just said, wait, what is it you want to do?
You want to fix our food supply and fix how the pharma gets decided so that science is more prominent than that?
That's a good idea.
Go do that.
So I'm going to predict that this will make its way to the Trump administration, that they will be looking for good ideas to do right away, And that I would be surprised if this doesn't happen.
So I want you to watch for it.
Because I want you to see your government at work.
So Mike Benz has a very good reputation, you know, among at least the right, as being a really solid, smart source.
You know, so if he says this is a good idea...
I feel like I'm pretty certain it is.
And I think that the Trump administration would have the same impression.
It's like, oh, wow, really?
We could get all that done with the one executive order?
Let's run that up the flagpole and see if it works.
So watch this one.
Just watch if this good idea gets translated into policy.
Well, as you might imagine, and Wired is reporting that the left is complaining that maybe the election was rigged because how in the world could all those votes be missing?
You know, they're looking for their own missing votes because Kamala didn't get so far.
They haven't finished counting the votes.
But if in the uncounted, semi-counted votes is lower.
Now, here's the funny part.
My understanding is that there is a Russian-inspired hoax that says there are 20 million or maybe 14 or 15 million votes that are sort of missing, meaning that there are people that allegedly voted in 2020 for Biden that didn't show up for Harris.
Where would they be?
It would be very uncommon to go down 15 million votes from the election before, especially if it's the vice president from the same administration.
It should have been pretty close.
Now, the reason that's a hoax, and this is my understanding, is that when all the votes are counted, it's going to be about what it was the last time.
Now, why that seems so off is that some of the blue states where the outcome of the lease of the presidential election is obvious.
Like, you don't have to finish counting in California to call the state for Harris, right?
You don't have to finish counting in New York.
And since there's such big populations...
You know, if you're only 75% done counting, you've got several million sitting there that are just waiting to be counted, but there's no problem with it.
They're just waiting to be counted.
Now, if they were the states that were close, that would be a whole different suspicion.
But if it's the states that you already know where they're going and nobody's questioning, it's a blue state and it's gone blue and they haven't finished counting, Yeah, we might end up with the same number.
But what's fun about this is that apparently it's the first hoax that worked on both sides.
Because the Republicans, and even in the comments, people are putting it in the comments because they think it's real.
So the Republicans are saying, aha!
We have now proven that 2020 must have been fake because all those votes are missing.
They're not missing.
Okay?
So just to be clear, there aren't any votes missing that we know of.
They just haven't all been counted.
But at the same time, according to Wired, the people on the left are saying, this election must be rigged because there are 15 million votes missing.
So somehow, if Russia really did this, and again, I don't believe any of the Russian stories.
Some of them are going to be true.
But just automatically, I don't believe anything about Russia.
Oh, Russia did it.
Russia did it.
Russia did it.
All right, all right, all right.
But this would be one of the best pranks anybody did, if you could get both sides to think that it means the election was rigged for the other.
Pretty clever, Putin, if you're behind that.
Well, as others have mentioned, when Joe Biden addressed the nation after Trump's win, we've never seen Joe Biden look happier.
You know, I saw the comments about it before I saw him, and I thought, oh, you're just being political, so you're sort of having fun with it, and you're just pretending like he's happy.
But when I look at him, he will not be any more or less happy than he ever is.
He'll be spewing the fine people hoax, etc.
And then I watched it.
He is happier than I've ever seen him.
He couldn't even freaking hide it.
He couldn't even hide how happy he is.
And that, to me, that's hilarious.
Hilarious.
But here's the thing that's deprogramming aside, as I mentioned earlier.
Imagine you're a Democrat and you supported Biden.
And you especially supported him because he ran on the fine people story, which was a hoax.
But if you didn't know it, you thought, my God, I can't have Trump in charge.
He called neo-Nazis fine people.
Now, Biden said it, said that Trump said it, but of course it never happened.
He said the opposite.
He disavowed them.
And so Biden runs for office because he's running against Hitler.
And then the moment Hitler gets elected, here's Biden.
Ah, it's a good day.
Ah, you know, peaceful transfer of power.
How you doing?
Hey, you in the front.
Is that the way you act when Hitler comes to power?
It is so obvious, and it has to be obvious to the Democrats themselves, that their leadership was not just lying.
But it was the big lie.
Yeah, the very thing that they were accusing Trump of.
The big lie was that, you know, Trump's Hitler.
And they backed off of the lie the very minute they had to become consistent with their idea of a peaceful transfer of power.
You know, they realized they were in a trap.
They had to act like that was something.
Unbelievable.
Anyway, there are two real-world...
Maybe three.
Three real-world things that you need to know.
Number one, all data is fake.
All data is fake.
That matters.
If it doesn't matter, or if it's just some engineering calculation, that might be real.
But in the political realm, it's all fake.
So, to those of you who keep sending me the graph of all those alleged missing votes, and by the way, there might be some missing votes.
I'm not saying there isn't.
What I'm saying is that if you believed data in the middle of the fog of the election war, that was a mistake.
And again, I have to be careful.
It could be that the information you have is correct, that there are missing votes.
But if you believed it because you saw a graph or you saw a social media post about it in the middle of the fog of the election, then you made a mistake.
You made a mistake.
It was too soon to be confident about that.
Now, that doesn't mean it's not true.
It doesn't mean that we'll never find any problems with this election.
That part I don't know.
I'm saying that if you have confidence that you're sure those 20 million now, it's like everything else is fake.
All data is fake.
This is probably more of it.
We'll find out.
Here's another real-world update.
I said this before, but it fits in my list well.
When Elon Musk or RFK Jr.
talk about getting rid of parts of the government that you think are protecting you, like FDA or CDC or anything else, they don't necessarily mean that the government doesn't do that work.
It may be that you've got two departments and it makes more sense that it all happens in one.
So then you're getting rid of a department, but you're not getting rid of the thing.
So if you do what Elon Musk would do, because of his engineering mind, or what somebody like Naval would do, they wouldn't say, how do we tweak this thing the way it is?
They'd say, if we were building it from scratch, what would it look like?
And if the way it is now is not the way it would look like if you were to build it ideally from scratch, well, then maybe you make some big changes.
The other thing is that the deportation question, I keep watching Republican after Republican falling off a cliff because the Democrat media is saying this.
So, How in the world can Trump deport 20 million people?
It would be chaos.
You know, the families would be broken up and all these things.
Let me describe the real world.
The real world is where you scare people about what you're going to do so you can get done what you need to do.
So Trump saying he's going to deport 20 million people is exactly like what he said the first time.
And the first time he ran, I told you all, don't worry about that.
He's not going to deport 20 million people.
He's going to get rid of the criminals if he can.
He's going to seal up the border as well as he can.
And if you just get the flow down to some reasonable level, we'll be fine.
Then it goes from a big problem to a small problem.
It doesn't really need to be 100% solved.
It just needs to go from a big problem to a small one.
So sure enough, Trump gets in, he does a good job of, you know, closing the, at least the flow, and rounded up a bunch of criminals.
And by the end of his term, how many of you were saying, damn it, if only he'd sent back 10 million more people?
Not me.
I didn't miss the deportations.
And so I assume in the real world, because this is the way the real world always works, that Trump will focus like a laser on the criminals.
He will put all the resources on the Venezuelan gangs, and it will take four years to get rid of them.
And if he seals the border at the same time and ends all these amnesty things, and maybe, maybe he says something like, if he came in illegally during this time, you can't vote or you'll never be able to vote or something.
You're going to say, oh, well, but we still have 20 million people living on the streets who are migrants.
And by the end of four years, Trump will say, no, we don't, because they all got absorbed.
It turns out that they wanted to be here, and there were employers who wanted them to work.
And so that problem, which is gigantic at the moment, and an existential threat to the country at the moment, would almost instantly become a medium-sized problem The moment you shut the border and you focus on getting rid of the criminals.
When you get rid of the criminals, and if you've successfully kept the border nice and tight for four years, do you think the country is going to say, you failed because there's still 20 million people who are working for companies and paying taxes that you should have sent back?
Probably not.
I don't know anybody who would really care.
So I think that the Democrats are playing this game where they know full well that if you talk tough, the people who are thinking of coming in during the Trump administration will stay home.
Don't you think he's already caused people to stay home?
Of course he has.
He's probably on the verge of ending three or four wars just on the threat of him coming into office, and he's almost certainly going to reduce the number of people.
There might be a surge of people trying to get in before he takes office, but there should be a sort of automatic decrease in people willing to come in after some initial surge.
So those are your real-world updates.
In the real world, you can re-engineer.
You don't have to just get rid of stuff.
And in the real world, you don't have to deport 20 million people.
And you can make everybody happy.
That's the weird part.
You can make me completely happy.
But at the moment, I'm thinking, you got 20 million too many people.
You need to do something about those 20 million people.
But I'll be happy if they're working and you get rid of the criminals and close up the border.
I can live with that.
There's a question about whether the Federal Reserve should report to the President and whether the President should be able to fire that person.
There's been a long history of independence.
And I'm in favor of independence.
Because, you know, there should be maybe some process for removing a Federal Reserve head.
Maybe there is, like an impeachment or something.
But I think it should only be in an emergency.
I don't think that the politician's opinion of what the interest rate should be should be somehow a higher priority than the Fed's.
Because the Fed has that one job, but the politician is also trying to get re-elected.
So...
You don't want the person who wants to get re-elected to say, hey, lower those interest rates, when really we'd be better off with holding them higher for a little bit longer.
So I don't think I want Trump to have control over the Fed.
I think there's going to be some disagreement on that, but I feel like that would be a better safeguard, just a little distance there, even if they're not doing exactly what you want.
Well, congratulations again to America First Legal.
You know, that's the Trump-friendly legal group that's pressing every legal challenge that they can all over the country.
And they just won their lawsuit with Ken Paxton, so together with him.
So there were a correlation, a coalition of 14 states, and they officially stopped the Biden-Harris administration's illegal attempt, they say, to grant mass amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.
Good.
Yeah.
Now, here's why I agree with this.
It has nothing to do with amnesty.
It has everything to do with, I don't really like the administration doing some big last-minute thing that could affect me this way.
If it turned out that the Trump administration looked at it and they said, you know what, after we've looked at all the ins and outs of this, maybe we can grant some amnesty to some of these people.
I'd be okay with that.
But I feel like it needs to be a A Trump decision, not the last-minute nonsense done by the administration that's leaving.
So I would prefer it be decided differently.
Have you heard about the 4B movement?
Apparently it started in South Korea.
And it's a movement telling women to boycott men.
So in South Korea, it's because they, I guess, have got a patriarchy that's a little too rapey and a little too anti-woman, according to some women.
And so they started in South Korea this thing, you know, don't have sex with men.
And apparently this has spread to TikTok, and it has to do with the election results not being the way they wanted it.
And so some women on TikTok are saying they should be like 4B. And not mate or date or marry or sleep with any men and certainly don't have children with them.
It's called the 4B. Now, Would you like another dad joke?
We can totally bookend this.
One more dad joke coming in hard.
So the 4B movement would decrease the number of children that people have.
I would say that the 4B is a case of 2B or not 2B. No?
Okay, that was weak.
That wasn't the strongest ending.
I will give you that.
But you see, the children would either be or they would not be.
Okay.
If you have to explain it, it's no good at all.
All right, well, ladies and gentlemen, that is what I have for you.
Again, I will point to, if you just joined, my conversation with Naval Ravikant is getting gigantic numbers of views.
It's pinned on my X profile, but you can find it on YouTube and Rumble.
And if you're on Locals, you can see it.
And if you didn't know, the Dilber calendar, which I'm going to be talking about a lot because it's November.
And so I just got an update.
They're doing the printing for the ones that have already been purchased.
If you've asked that question and didn't get an answer, this is your answer.
They're printing them now.
So a week or two, the first batches will come out.
We're trying to get everything out before Christmas, obviously, but I wouldn't wait too close to Christmas to get yours.
The only place you can get the Dilbert calendar is at the link at Dilbert.com.
So it's right at the top.
It's the only place.
You can't get it on Amazon, can't get it in your bookstore.
To make it in America, we had to do it a different way.
I'll give you some more updates on that.
But that's all I've got for now.
Locals, I'm going to come talk to you privately.
Everybody else, thanks for joining.
I will see you tomorrow morning, same time, same place.
So have a good day, all you YouTube and Rumble and ex-people.
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