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Alright, well, so there's news today that another study that says that statins might be more bad for you than good, and that cholesterol might be more good for you than bad.
Now, I'm not going to make a claim that any of these claims or counterclaims are true.
I will make a claim that I'm not so sure anything in healthcare is real.
Is anybody having the same crisis that I am?
That I'm not sure anything's real in healthcare.
And here's my problem.
Anytime that the treatment depends on somebody who did a big study, and there was a lot of data, and there was a lot of variables, and a lot of assumptions, and when they were done, they found a good solid 30% improvement if you took the drug, I'm not sure any of those are real.
But if you do the test and people who take the drug live and the other ones don't and it's a cure, I do believe cures.
Because I think it would be hard to hide a cure.
But I'm not sure we can really measure a 30% improvement in anything.
It feels like the people doing the study could always find a way to make it 30% or look like it's 30% better in some way.
So I just don't believe anything that says, well, we'll give you a...
You know, 26% improvement.
But again, I tell you, do not believe anything that cartoonists tell you about health care.
So, you know, talk to your doctor.
I don't want to talk you out of or into any kind of drug.
But I'm just telling you that as a consumer of such things, I really do not know what to believe anymore when it comes to health care.
Well, here's a story that New York Post seems to have managed to get wrong, in my opinion, but we'll see.
So there's an Emmy-winning TV reporter, Rachel Yankunas.
Now, she was abruptly fired, according to New York Post, because her bosses were shortchanging her, she claims.
That male colleagues were getting all kinds of support, and camera crews were being sent out.
So the males were getting lots of support, but she was not.
And so she's, I don't know, suing them or something.
Now here's a tiny little thing that was also in the article.
She was on a performance improvement plan.
Have you ever heard of that?
It's called a PIP in corporate America, a PIP, performance improvement plan.
Is there anybody here who has ever been a manager and put anybody on a performance improvement plan?
Do you know what that means?
It means you're one of the lowest performers in the department.
That's why you're on it.
Basically, the performance improvement plan says you're going to be fired if you continue the way you've been going.
A PIP is literally a performance improvement plan.
If you don't raise your level, it's basically a one-year...
It's like getting a one-year warning that they're going to fire you.
They're not really expecting you to improve your performance.
What they're expecting is to have covered their ass, that they gave you a nice long warning and told you exactly what the problem was, and then a year later they can say, all right, nothing changed, goodbye, and then they're covered.
So if you see a story about somebody who says she was fired or at least mistreated because of sexism, and in the very same story it says she was on a performance improvement plan, I'm not so sure the sexism is the real story here.
Can't rule it out.
I mean, I wasn't there, and it's certainly possible that you could be on a performance improvement plan and win an Emmy.
You could definitely do that, because the Emmy's, you know, BS. And you could definitely be on a performance improvement plan, and also there's real sexism.
So I'm not sure there's real sexism, but But if you don't call out the part about the performance improvement plan, I'm not sure that the reader is getting served here.
I would like to know that they're on an identifiable path to being fired.
Oh, and then there's a lot of sexism in the office that you need to sue over.
Okay.
And again, there might actually be legitimately all the sexism that is part of the complaint.
It might be.
But...
Kind of looks like a coin toss to me.
All right, here's a study, according to SciPost.
There was a study done in Scandinavia where they tried to see if women were more or less willing to engage with a man Who is stronger versus weaker based on how much darkness there was.
And what they found out is if it's in a darkened environment, women felt safer talking to men who didn't look dangerous.
And if they were in a darkened environment, they were a little reluctant to talk to anybody who was big and dangerous looking.
So they spent money doing that test to find out if you're more afraid of big people in the dark.
You know what they could have done?
I'll just suggest.
They could have saved a lot of money by just asking me, Scott, do you think women would be more afraid of a big person in the dark or more afraid of a chihuahua in the dark?
Huh.
Let's see.
More afraid of the bear or the chihuahua?
Which would it be?
All right.
Just ask me next time.
Just ask.
Well, according to Climate Change Dispatch, there's a new study poking holes in the whole CO2-induced climate change catastrophe.
I'd like to tell you the details of the study, but I don't understand any of it.
But it's yet another scientific attack against the idea that we can even know what's happening with our climate models.
So, I don't believe science, and I don't believe climate models, and I don't believe anything that is a prediction of what's going to happen in a complicated environment.
So, don't believe any financial prediction.
About a company, for example.
Don't believe a health prediction.
Don't believe a science prediction that has lots of variables into the future.
So what all of these things have in common is that somebody is making a bunch of assumptions in order to do their complicated prediction.
It's always the assumptions that determine the outcome.
Only people who have worked in the field of predicting a lot of stuff know it's always the assumptions that determine the outcome, as I did.
So that's why I know that.
Well, Elon Musk is suing OpenAI.
As you know, Elon Musk funded OpenAI's beginning Because the whole point of being open, open AI, was that it was going to be a non-profit, because Elon thought that AI was too important to have siloed in one company.
But it looks like they're trying to turn that into a for-profit situation, and so Musk is suing them, according to The Verge.
Well, not suing them.
Asking for a preliminary injunction.
Don't listen to anything I say about legal stuff, because I have no idea what I'm talking about.
But a preliminary injunction.
So that would be different than suing, right?
And they want to stop them from...
Oh, and they also accuse them of antitrust issues.
Apparently...
According to Musk's lawyers, OpenAI and Microsoft told investors not to fund the competitors to OpenAI.
That's kind of a non-competitive thing, if it's true.
So we'll see where that goes.
Meanwhile, there's something called the...
Let's call it the Trump effect, but this is really an Elon Musk effect.
That there's a former high-level United Nations guy who wants to do a doge thing with the UN, United Nations, because the United Nations wastes a bunch of money and doesn't get enough done, according to Morgan Phillips at Fox News.
And apparently they think they have a lot of meetings and they don't accomplish anything.
Well, what did you expect when you decided to create an organization with like 400 member states?
How many countries are there?
Let's see.
How many countries are there that are members of the UN? This will be a good general knowledge test.
All right.
I'm going to take my guess because I don't know the answer to this.
I'm going to tell you my guess to embarrass myself in public, but then you can do your guess in the comments.
Don't look it up.
This is a general test.
Okay.
You said 190. I was going to say 189. For some reason, 189 is in my head.
And then somebody, I saw Sean say 190. Is it really 189?
I'm seeing lots of guesses that are in the high hundreds.
All right, well, let's say it's something like that, in the high hundreds.
Okay, on paper, if you were going to design a system, In which 189 countries with completely different customs and priorities were going to get together and have meetings to decide what to do.
Were you going to assume that something efficient was going to happen about that?
I don't know.
I certainly think they could probably be more efficient, but it's kind of designed in a way that would make efficiency kind of impossible.
But I'm not sure they need it.
It's good enough, I think, that you can always talk to the other country and there's always some kind of a public process of conversation between countries.
So I think that has a little bit of value.
But imagining that you could make that efficient, Well, I hope you can.
Good luck.
I just think it's sort of naturally inefficient.
And the inefficiency, I'm not sure, makes that much difference.
Anyway, so Democrats are worried because...
Trump's surge with Latino voters is changing the congressional battleground map.
You know, I want to say this again, but as far as I know, since I make predictions, you know, on a regular basis and I do it publicly, I feel like I have to say when I get one wrong, you know, it's incumbent upon me to say, oh, I predicted that and I got it wrong.
But likewise, In order to provide value to you so you can judge whether my predictions are worth listening to, I should tell you when I get them right.
That I think is most useful is when I predict things that are just way outside of the domain of anything anybody's predicting.
For example, predicting that Trump would win in 2016 before that became popular.
But by far, one of the left field predictions that I got right is that Latinos would become Republican voters.
Now, I don't know if they are by majority, but certainly one of the biggest stories is that the Democrats didn't understand that the Latino voters are by nature, culturally, really close to Republicans.
And if you didn't live among that culture, if you weren't around it all the time, you wouldn't know it.
Because if you just read the news, you'd say, oh, a Latino voter must be Democrat.
But if you spend any time in the community, as most Californians do just naturally because we're saturated, they're just the greatest people.
It's a hell of a good culture.
You'll be very happy.
Culturally, you'll be very happy with the Latino influence.
Anyway, so I predicted that.
And I feel pretty happy about that one.
So I guess I'm just bragging.
So the big story that is the news, it's a slow news day.
So almost all of the news is about people's reaction to Kash Patel being named the head of the FBI, or nominated.
Nominated, we'll see.
So of course, Andrew McCabe had to go on CNN to say, it's the worst thing in the world.
It's a terrible development for the men and women of the FBI. And also for the nation that depends on a high-functioning professional independent FBI. I can't take McCabe seriously or CNN about this.
You knew that the news was going to be, what do you think?
I hate it.
What do you think?
I love it.
But what do you think?
I hate it.
But how about you?
I love it.
And then that would be all the news.
So it would be a good day to have a day off from doing the news.
But there are some interesting things coming out of the Kash Patel thing.
He's got a great breadth of experience that seems relevant, but not specific to the FBI. So that gives the critics enough to say he has not been in the FBI for a long time like people should be.
I'm not sure that matters.
But he is definitely loyal to Trump.
He is definitely the right kind of brain.
He's very smart.
Every time I hear him talk, I get a good vibe from him.
And he said he wants to release, he's been saying this, wants to release the Diddy tapes and the Epstein tapes.
And let us speculate.
All right.
So, I think most of you who are watching this live stream would agree with the statement that you trust Kash Patel.
Is that fair?
Not for the country as a whole, but just people watching this live stream.
Most of you think that's a good, like a very good, I would say, A-plus kind of an appointment.
That's what it feels like.
It feels like an A-plus.
Like, for everything I want...
It's all there.
Everything I want for that job, it's all there.
So he's got the loyalty, he's got the brains, he's got the incentive, he's got the experience, he's seen what works, what doesn't.
I like everything about it.
So we'll see.
But here's what I don't think is going to happen.
I don't think he's going to release those things he says he's going to release.
I don't think he's going to let the Diddy tapes out.
I don't think he's going to let the Epstein tapes out if he has them.
I don't think that any of those secrets are coming out.
Now, I do believe that he's being honest when he says he wants to release them.
So I don't think there's any lying going on whatsoever.
What I believe is that this is another case of those getting the talk.
When he calls his staff in and says, all right, let's get those ditty tapes to me.
And they go, there's something you need to know.
What?
You don't know what's on those ditty tapes, do you?
No, but we should release them to the world.
You're really going to need to know what's on those before you make that decision.
And then he's going to hear what's really on them.
And then he's going to say, oh, damn it.
And then he's going to find a reason not to release them, or they're going to be magically corrupted files, or they can't find them, or there's a lawsuit, or somebody's preventing it, or somebody's slow walking it.
That's the Destiny tape.
All right.
It's such a slow news day.
There's a story about the influencer Destiny allegedly having some.
Trist that's on the sex tape.
I'm not even going to say who is allegedly the other person on the sex tape because there's no confirmation of that.
So, I don't think any of us care about his sex life, do we?
It was hard enough to care about destiny, who he is.
It was harder to care about his opinion about politics.
And it's just impossible for me to care about what he does with his body in his spare time.
I don't think I could be less interested in that.
Anyway.
So...
Cash will not expect that there will be no news from CNN or MSNBC about the historic appointment of a non-white man to lead the FBI. Now, I'm going to hope that the Republicans do what I like it when they do, which is simply nominate the person who looked like the best choice.
When you see Kash Patel nominated for this job, I'll bet you there's not a single one of you who said it was a DEI hire.
Right?
I'll bet not one of you.
Now, how good is that as a brand statement about Republicans?
Consider that.
Consider that not one of you spent one second thinking, hey, it's just because he's brown.
He's getting this job.
They have to have more brown people.
I'll bet not one of you thought that.
And do you know why none of you thought that?
Because it's not what's happening.
He's very obviously a lot of people's top choice for the job, and that's the end of the story.
So, Republicans, you are definitely...
It would be so easy...
It would be so easy for the Republicans to try to get credit for this, wouldn't it?
Like, oh, we got, you know, look what we did.
We nominated somebody who's not a white man for this job.
It's historic.
I just hope they don't ever bring it up.
Like, it's okay for me to bring it up, right?
Because we're talking about just stuff, having fun.
But it would be great if the Republican just never mentioned it.
We picked the best person, and we're done.
So yesterday when I was posting on X, my happiness that DEI was being thwarted after 30 years of bothering me, I've got 2.6 million views on that so far in one day.
2.6 million views.
Now, by contrast, a good post of mine would get 20,000.
So this got 2.6 million.
So far, it's climbing while I'm watching it.
So there are a lot of people who have the same opinion about being under the yoke of massive racial discrimination, which we may be free from soon.
There's stories that I don't believe really anything about him, but there are reports that George Clooney might be mad at Obama for allegedly talking him into replacing Biden, and maybe that makes it George Clooney's fault that Harris lost, and therefore it's George Clooney's fault that Trump is president.
It's not George Clooney's fault.
Can I back George Clooney for a minute?
Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure that the main problem isn't George Clooney.
But the poor bastard gets pulled into it.
But I was trying to write down all the different things I heard just today of what the Democrats did wrong.
All right.
So this is based on just a glance across today's news.
So these are various different posts on X and stories in the news and stuff.
Just this morning.
So just this morning, this is how many reasons that I've read that people have speculated as to why the Democrats lost.
They didn't have a good podcaster influence network.
They insulted men.
They were too smug and insulting to men.
The Latino community drifted right.
Did they drift?
Did they drift?
Or were they always there?
The smug superiority.
I think that was...
Yeah, smug superiority.
They blew it on immigration.
That's what Democrats are saying about themselves.
They just blew it on immigration.
Anybody could have seen it coming.
They treated abortion like it was going to be a bigger button than immigration, and they guessed wrong.
It turns out immigration was a much bigger button than abortion, and they had that backwards.
2.7 million already.
Wow.
I'm on my post.
Let's see.
Other reasons they got it wrong.
They had no message for the working class voters.
They had a bad candidate, they had terrible advisors, and they wasted all their campaign funds.
There's so many reasons that the Democrats failed.
They didn't do a single thing right.
Nothing.
The most remarkable thing is that the election was as close as it was.
If you made a checklist of all the things you should do right in a campaign, every one of those would be Trump, check, check, check, yeah, yeah, check, good, yeah, good communication, yep, very clear policies, yep, they love them.
Did you campaign in all the right places?
Yes, yes, yes.
And you would go right down the line, and it would be a solid black block of...
And I'm going to say it again.
I think this recent campaign by Trump will be seen as the best campaign in history.
I think.
I think it would be the best campaign in history.
But if you do everything right, and then you only barely beat the person who did literally everything wrong, that does tell you that the system maybe needs a little work.
I can't remember if I gave you my hypothesis.
It might be something I only said in the man cave that I'd do separately.
Did I give you my hypothesis?
Of why the Democrats are so crazy right now.
I mean, after the election.
I'll say it again fast in case I may have already done this.
But in a normal election, you've got two liars competing against each other.
And everybody knows it's two liars.
They know their own candidate is exaggerating, but they don't mind because they like where it's heading.
But the other one's lying and vice versa.
So then when somebody wins...
Everybody says, well, okay, it wasn't what I wanted.
It wasn't what I wanted, but, you know, at least the process was transparent, etc.
But I don't think that's what happened this time.
I think Trump was doing his usual salesman-like hyperbole, and he was directionally correct on everything.
But, you know, he plays fast and loose with some of the details and the statistics, like every politician does.
But what the Democrats were doing was they built an entire reality that didn't have any basis and any common sense whatsoever.
It was just batshit crazy stuff, and it just kept solidifying into a harder structure when it didn't have a basis.
There was no foundation to it.
It just didn't make any sense.
So the next thing you know, it was just one crazy thing after another, and Trump is Hiller, and suddenly the Democrats are pro-war, and nothing made sense.
And then Trump's over there just sort of saying common sense things like, well, you know, you're not really a country if your border isn't protected.
And people are like, hmm, well, that does make a little bit of sense.
So what we're seeing right now, this is my interpretation, is the Democrats are not coming off just the loss of That would be bad enough.
And they're not just mad because Trump is in charge, which again, would be bad enough.
They're coming off a gaslighting.
If you've never experienced being gaslit, then you have no idea what they're going through.
Their entire reality has to be restructured in their head.
Literally, the brain has to rewire itself to understand what's happening.
It appears to be that some substantial number of Democrats realized that they were in a gas-lit, matrix-like, weird environment, and perhaps the Republicans were not.
That has everything to do with the fact that Trump got more votes in total, not just in the Electoral College.
That was the big deal.
When he got more votes, and also the Republicans generally won, I think that made the Democrats say, how in the world could anything we've been told be true?
And that's how they got out.
Once they realized that more than half of the voters that voted We're on the other side, and they were looking at the same news.
They had to figure out why.
And their confusion, and there's some stories, the Gateway Punda had stories about women who were getting sterilized because they don't want to lose the right to do it later.
You know, it's just a handful of crazies.
But you do expect massive mental...
Problems, the therapy, the screaming.
And I think the first election, people genuinely thought that they still knew what they were doing, but they lost.
And so the famous woman screaming with the beanie hat on, kind of captured how people feel.
This time it's different.
This time I think they're coming out of a genuine psychological bubble, a gaslight structure, and that the way it disorients you can last.
It could last months.
Because their brains actually literally physically have to be rewritten, right?
Like your brain changes physically when it changes at all.
It has to change physically or it's not changing.
So their brains are actually having to rewrite themselves, to write themselves back into a reality that makes sense with what they're observing and experiencing.
And that's really hard.
So good luck with that.
Meanwhile, Governor Hochul of New York says she's gonna help Trump deport the illegals with criminal backgrounds.
So she's talking tough as best you can as a Democrat with immigration.
Someone breaks the law, I'll be the first one to call a bite, she says.
Get them out of here.
I don't want them here.
I don't want anybody terrorizing my citizens.
Now, that is the correct take.
So yes, thank you, Governor Hochul.
But it's definitely trying to act tougher on immigration.
And I think that's the Trump effect.
I think people realize that if they're not talking commonsensically about immigration, then they just look crazy.
Yeah.
Anyway, according to Washington Times, Mexican authorities broke up two migrant caravans who were heading this way, which would suggest that That when Trump threatened to give them that 25% tariff, that might have been effective.
Now, maybe they would have done it anyway, but it came after the threat, so...
Yeah.
So, we'll see.
So, that's happening.
So, the Trump effect seems to be closing up the Mexican border.
The Trump effect seems to be getting New York State Governor Hochul on board, at least with getting rid of the criminals, and I think probably...
That's all that's going to happen, honestly.
But incoming border czar Tom Homan, according to the Gateway Pundit, he said he's got a detailed and aggressive plan to restore order in the border and after four years of disastrous open border policies, he says.
But he's also going to go after foreign governments and NGOs, And even elements of the United Nations for their role in fueling the migrant surge.
Now, how in the world does Tom Homan, from his job, go after foreign governments, NGOs, and elements of the United Nations?
I guess that would be a whole of government approach, so it would have to be the administration itself going after that, I guess.
But that's what has to happen.
America has to get its independence back.
We sort of sold our independence to a network of non-government organizations that the left was funding that would then manage the United States.
So we basically gave away our sovereignty to some paid entities that were going to say what Democrats wanted them to say.
Oh, this is fake news or that sort of thing.
So yes, we actually have to get our independence back from these foreign and non-government entities.
So I don't know if that's just Tom Homan's job or if that's a whole government thing.
So Joe Biden was shown yesterday, photographed just going from one place to another, holding a book.
That is called The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.
And people say it's a book that suggests that Israel should not exist.
And the president is just sort of casually walking with that book in his hand, like that's the book he's currently reading.
Now, here's my first question.
What was the last time you saw a president...
Carrying merchandise from one place to another.
Like anything.
When do you see a president, like a sitting president, with anything in their hands?
Even on vacation.
They don't carry anything.
They don't carry their bath towel if they go to the beach.
Presidents don't carry stuff.
So why would the one thing that he knows he's going to be photographed carrying be a book that's According to other people, anti-Israel.
Some people are saying that he's sending some kind of a message.
But now I'm wondering if it's not AI. I wonder if I look back in 10 minutes, it's going to have a community note on it and say, that's not the real book he had in his hands.
It's AI. Is it possible AI? I guess I just question everything now.
But I don't see any use to it.
I mean, he's such a lame duck and nobody cares.
I mean, even Elon Musk said that Trump is the de facto president.
He said that on X. So why would he do this if he knows it's provocative but it can't possibly do anything useful?
It feels a little hoaxy.
Yeah, it feels like it might have been a hoax.
We'll find out.
All right.
So there's a former NATO chief, former NATO chief, who thinks that the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire is because of Trump.
It's another Trump effect.
So the Trump effect is definitely making a difference, at least according to this former NATO guy.
Did you see the threat that Trump gave to the nations that are trying to create their own BRICS currency?
So Trump puts out a statement that threatens them that if they try to create their own currency to get away from the dollar as the sort of international trade currency, that if they try to do it, he's going to just tariff the heck out of them?
Give them a 100% tariff, and they should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. economy.
They could go find another sucker, he says.
There's no chance that BRICS will replace the U.S. dollar.
Now, here's what I wonder.
So we're watching the Trump effect work, and I think everybody would agree at this point that there really is a Trump effect, that you really are seeing a Ukraine and Russia say, you know, maybe Trump can wind this down.
So people are kind of waiting for him because they expect he's the common sense big dog getting off the porch and that as soon as he does, there's no point in doing anything until he gets there because everything's going to change.
Do you think that this is an overreach?
Because the BRICS countries seem pretty intent on doing their BRICS thing.
And I think they think it's probably important for their long-term survival.
It is a confusing topic I'm seeing in the comments.
BRICS is not a threat to the U.S. dollar.
I don't have enough grasp of that situation to say yes or no to that comment, but I just wonder if the Trump effect is strong enough that he can make the BRICS effort go away with just a threat.
Now, they're going to say this threat is empty because everything we buy from other countries, we sort of have to.
It's because nobody else makes it or they don't make it affordably.
It's not like we buy from other countries because we just like it.
So I'm not sure how much boycotting we could do if we tried.
But it'll be a good test to see if Trump has that power.
Representative, this is a Democrat representative, Jasmine Crockett.
Now, she's pretty outspoken.
You've seen her in some videos where she's saying some crazy Democrat stuff.
But she's saying, I don't expect mass deportations.
I just really don't see it happening.
And she says she's talked to countless farmers, and they're going to say that they need their workers.
So she thinks basically that it'll be limited to the illegals.
Now, you know what's interesting about that?
Did you connect the dots yet?
So it's a Democrat who you might think would be the most anti-Trump Democrat, like really, really anti-Trump Democrat.
Jeremy Jackson.
How drunk are you, Jeremy?
Jeremy, one of my trolls is yelling in all caps that I believe something I don't believe, and therefore I'm wrong.
Could you at least...
Make up something that I do believe and then criticize that.
But screaming the opposite of what I believe really loudly and drunkenly in the morning is not getting you whatever you wanted.
I'm not sure what you wanted from that.
But being wrong about my opinion and really being mad about it, that's not getting you much.
So up your game a little bit.
Anyway, Jasmine Crockett, the Democrat, you'd expect to be very anti-Trump, and she's trying to be, but she's helping him accidentally.
Here's how she's helping him accidentally.
The biggest thing that people are complaining about with the incoming Trump is he might be too aggressive in deporting people.
And here's a Democrat saying, don't worry, He won't be that aggressive in deporting people.
He'll only deport the people that even you and I would want deported, the criminals.
Now, is she the worst enemy you've ever seen?
I want her to be against me because she really helped him there.
If the person you would think would be the most anti-Trump just took his scariest policy and said, you know, it's going to be no big deal, And probably the things he does are the things you want him to do.
Get rid of the criminals.
Does she realize how dumb she was?
She's supposed to say none of this is working and the world will fall apart and we'll lose all our workers and all that.
And instead she just said, that'll all work out.
He'll just get rid of the people you want him to get rid of.
I think she had no idea that that was the most...
Embracing thing you could have ever said about him.
Now, of course, Trump and Holman would say, that's not true.
We're going to get rid of, you know, anybody who's here illegally.
But she just told the Democrats they don't have to worry about it.
What?
This is a weird Trump effect.
Then New York Times, there's a New York Times article, opinion piece, Saying that the Republicans built an ecosystem of influencers and some Democrats want one too.
And I saw it getting mocked because people said, correctly, Republicans didn't build shit.
No, no, the Republicans did not say, you know what we need?
It would be a network of loyal podcasters.
No, a network of podcasters emerged organically and Because Republicans weren't getting the job done.
Republicans didn't do anything.
The podcasters were self-organized around common sense.
What do Joe Rogan and me have in common?
That's a good question.
What do Joe Rogan and me, besides both having a podcast of sorts, what do we have in common?
Common sense.
We have all kinds of different preferences of lifestyle, you know, very different lives and stuff and backgrounds.
But we're bald.
Yeah, bald.
Don't have hair.
But we're both very organized around what is just common sense.
So I don't even see things as political.
I know, hard to believe.
But I genuinely don't see things as political.
I see them as, would that work?
If it would work, I'm in favor of it.
If it wouldn't work, I'm not in favor of it.
I think that's exactly where Joe Rogan is.
Now, I can't read his mind, right?
You can't get in other people's minds, so that's always unfair.
But if you watch him long enough, it looks like he wants the country to do well, and he's in favor of things that are kind of obviously good ideas and against things that are obviously batshit crazy.
That's me.
We have that in common, right?
What does Jordan Peterson want?
Same stuff.
He wants the country to do well.
Well, the world.
Canada, too.
So here's the problem.
So let me restate it, and then you'll see the problem.
The Republican, what they call the Republican network of podcasters, it...
It grew up because there were a bunch of adults.
I used to say dads, but I'll desexify it and call it adults.
Megyn Kelly's just killing it, for example, in the podcasting space.
Well, let me do it for Megyn Kelly and for Roseanne and for the many women who are doing a great job in the podcasting space.
So I'll modify from internet dads to internet parents.
And I think that all of them grew into that space and became what they were and are because there was a need.
There was a gigantic hole that just wasn't being filled by Republicans saying what they thought needed to be said.
And so they filled the hole.
But they filled it with common sense.
If you turn on Megyn Kelly, is it going to be batshit crazy stuff?
No.
It's all going to be, this is the law, this makes sense, right?
And you could go right down the line.
The conservative right-leaning podcasters, some of them are Democrats.
They just like common sense, so they look like Republicans.
Now, here's the fun part.
The part where it says Democrats want to replicate that situation?
Okay.
How would that work?
So, the right-leaning podcasters are organized around common sense.
Would you agree with that statement, first of all?
That that's the organizing principle is, hey, the country's in trouble.
We're not following common sense.
Let's go back to what we know works.
Democrats can't do that.
The Democrats were literally the batshit crazy stuff.
They were the opposite of common sense on every topic.
On every topic, they were the opposite of common sense.
So, what do you do?
If they were to put together a podcasting network, and there are plenty of left-leaning podcasts, but if they were to make them even more prominent somehow, they would be prominently batshit crazy.
So what kind of an organizing principle is that?
Yeah, let's get all the batshit crazy ideas and we'll put them all together and we'll have this strong podcasting structure.
No, it worked on the right because Americans said, well, that makes sense.
Oh, it doesn't look like Joe Rogan wants to lie to me.
You know what?
I just had this idea that It could be that the main thing that podcasters do differently from politicians is they have less incentive to lie to you.
I saw somebody in the comments recently say that, using me as an example, that I don't have any reason to lie to anybody.
That's true.
Even if you suspected I was wrong about something, because everybody's wrong about the stuff, right?
Being wrong is no big deal.
But when you see me being wrong, you probably don't think I'm lying.
You probably just think, oh, he needs to read up on this topic or something.
But when you see a politician saying something you know isn't true, you usually think they're lying.
So one of the things the podcasters did was to give you a place you could see views that at least people held the actual view.
If you see...
I hate to use every example being Joe Rogan.
So let's use the all-in pod, for example.
Now, they're not all right-leaning, of course, because Jason represents a lefter version.
But they're just chasing what makes sense.
And they're doing it in front of you and telling you how to think.
And that's what I try to do.
So I don't think...
I don't think the Democrat set of policies is based on common sense, and therefore they have no unifying, you know, Trump is bad, orange man bad.
It's not really unifying.
So, good luck with that, Democrats.
Well, like I said, it's a weird day with no real news.
I was trying to vamp a little bit, stretch it out, make it last a little bit longer, but there's not much happening.
All the big news will drop tomorrow, although I guess the holidays will get a little slow.
But I'll say again, it's kind of amazing that Trump, this is how you know common sense has reappeared.
The fact that Trump can be the de facto president, And even the Democrats are not bitching about it.
I have to give them credit.
And it's more evidence that the whole gaslighting structure fell apart.
Because it would be so easy for Democrats to say, Oh, Trump is not the elected president yet.
He's not sworn in.
Well, he's elected, but he's not sworn in.
So he can't be negotiating with all these world leaders and having dinner with Trudeau.
But...
Nobody's saying that.
Isn't it like deafening the silence?
It's the most obvious thing because it's true.
He's clearly doing a president's job before he's president.
But common sense tells us that's our very best situation because common sense tells us that Biden is checked out and that we need to show a better face to the leaders of the other countries.
And if we can show them somebody who's capable and strong and has very specific ideas that the country just backed by a major election, yeah, get to work right away.
Watching Trump simply, I don't want to say bully, but step into the breach.
Watching him just step into the need, in the same way that the conservative podcasters, I believe, stepped into the empty hole of what needed to be filled, I think Trump just says, there's no president, you better start talking to me right away.
And he'll be polite and make sure that he gets sworn in before the serious stuff happens.
But it certainly makes sense that he's getting really serious and doing real work right now.
And I can't tell you how much I love that.
Like when I see somebody doing more work than we hired them for, that affects me like...
Like that has one of the biggest effects.
So even though Trump is, you know, he's a showman and he's a special kind of person, you know, not like anybody else, the fact that in both his elections...
He hit the ground running and he was presidenting like crazy before the swear-in.
I have so much respect for that.
I just love that.
So, I would like to also give you the following mental model and see if you agree with it.
It's one thing to have an opinion.
Republicans had a lot of opinions, and it differed from a lot of Democrats.
But I think you saw Republicans do something that I'm not sure I've seen Democrats do.
You remember when Roseanne took a bullet, so to speak?
But then she came back.
Now she has one of the bigger, more important podcasts.
You know when the left went after Joe Rogan?
And they went after him hard.
And it turned him into the number one podcaster in the world.
And you've seen person after person who got canceled.
Bannon.
Bannon took a prison sentence.
He didn't go down.
They took their best shot.
Didn't go down.
I got cancelled.
Didn't apologize.
Didn't go down.
And by the time Trump took a bullet and didn't go down, that's when he knew it was for real.
Because we needed that many people on the same side to take a bullet and not go down.
And some of the people that I'm talking about took a cannonball through the chest and didn't go down.
And I think that makes it a lot safer for the people who have more to lose.
I mean, not everybody has the option of being as brave as you'd like to be.
You may have kids, you may have a family, bills to pay.
We have our responsibilities.
But I think that the right-leaning side of the country bought their success by not going down.
Jay Bhattacharya.
The people who didn't go down during the pandemic, they said, I'm not going to get the vaccination, for example.
They didn't go down.
They stood for it, and they said, you can do whatever you have to do, but we're not going down.
The January Sixers went to jail for years, but they didn't back down.
They didn't apologize.
They didn't say, I'm sorry.
And when they're released, and I believe they will be fairly soon, they yet again will be more people on the right who took a cannonball through the chest, never backed down.
So that kind of Peter Navarro went to jail, didn't back down.
Even Melania.
You'd expect Melania to say, can we have a conversation, Donald?
Whatever you do, do not run for president for a third time.
Wouldn't it be easy for Melania to back down and try to talk about it?
No, we don't know what private conversations they had, but to me it looks like she's all in.
Looks like she didn't back down.
Her husband took a bullet.
She still didn't back down.
So when you see the Bill Ackmans pouring in and a lot of the tech leaders, when you see Elon Musk risked his entire fortune, you know he risked everything, right?
He risked everything.
Didn't back down.
Did not back down.
I think that maybe that's a power that the Democrats can't understand, can't see directly, and maybe will never fully appreciate.
That if you have an adversary that you can put cannonballs to their chest and they just blink and don't go down, you might as well give up.
Because we're not giving up.
We're not fucking giving up.
As I said in my post on X that got, I guess, 2.7 million views so far, I waited 30 years for this.
I had to shut my mouth for 20 of those years.
But I didn't back down.
I just waited.
I waited until I had the tools to do what I needed to do, and I did what I needed to do.
I'm very happy about it, by the way.
Does anybody ever wonder if I regret getting canceled?
There hasn't been a single second of my life that I regretted it.
Not one time did I think, you know, Maybe if I said it differently.
Not once.
Nope.
Said what I wanted to say.
Took a bullet through the chest.
Didn't apologize.
Didn't go down.
And now we get our President Trump.
And that's the reward.
The golden age is here.
The golden age is here.
Well, it was rather disruptive.
I may have concealed from you the degree of effort that is required to recover from being fully cancelled worldwide.
It requires a little bit of work.
A little bit of work.
Joshua Lysak, very, very important to that.
So thank you, Joshua.
I also had a really good year.
Just in general.
It was kind of a good year.
All right.
I'm going to talk to the locals people privately because it's a Sunday and we don't have much to say.
But everything's different now.
You can feel it.
It's all coming together.
I don't know who's authoring this simulation, but...
