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Buddy gather around today is a big day word one of the big days yeah.
This is the beginning of my impeachment trial.
I was hoping it wouldn't come to this, but it looks like I'm getting impeached.
Now it looks like the repeating least on paper looks like they're gonna impeach Ex president tromp, but I
Thank you know what this is really about. Don't ya, we'll talk.
All about it in a minute. But after the simultaneous up the passport that a come on, can you feel the tingle the excitement? You know it's
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get in on the ground floor. Go there, you thought I was getting, but it was just as good as you thought it would be.
maybe better. I will talk about all the things. Do you remember those
few than watching me, while dear Mary,
that I was, I was just complaining
crazy over the summer and following months about the fact that the trump administration-
was not pursuing these rapid testing techniques.
and there seem to be some administrative problem or something. But if you remember my criticism, it was kind of specific and I
said the weird thing is that they don't even say why they are not doing it.
How can it be that this technique of the rapid testing, if you don't know about it, it's using
low cost really cheap tests that are as accurate, but if you do lots of them because their cheap, you get a better result than if you have just a few tests, relatively speaking, the their high quality, because you can't tests many people with a
without equality, stuff, so lower quality testing lots of people the way the math works is that you would crush the virus. If you do that now, what
would any anything gets through? Undiagnosed, yeah, yeah, that's the whole point about them,
a little bit lower quality, but
it would get all of the super spiders.
Anybody who has a lot of irish the ones you have to worry about the test would probably be sensitive enough for those
but all innocent people probably were spreading anyway because they didn't have much sharing as we understand it anyway. So I complain to us:
Not that we weren't doing at, which is a big question right like why are we doing it.
But why wouldn't they even address it? It was like it didn't exist.
were these people on social media, Michael Mina, especially who, in myself
so there were enough people talking about it
clearly it was a big topic, but it was
like you would just go into this black hole of the trumpet
and unjust hereabout. It again so
I wondered what that it was all about. Maybe we ever hint now Andres Bacchus tweeted this this morning you said
Apparently, this is a story out now.
that when the journey Kirshner and whoever else was on the task force,
was asking. I guess it was Collins Entity, the age for information about testing. You try to get better testing thing going there.
and this is almost this- all sound like a joke,
this will sound like I just made this up. Cuz, I'm the the guy who that who creates the Dilbert cartoon. So you think you're going to think. It's just sounds like a deal
To the guy, there was ahead of all the testing
and yet I age decide
and this is from himself he's actually saying this now- that he did.
I want to draw much attention, so he gave such a technical nerdy description of me of the situation that it made it impossible to deal with him.
Is it that exactly what it looked like from the outside keep in mind
I would be probably considered one of the foremost observers of bureaucracies. I've been doing the Dilber cartoon, which is about corporate bureaucracies.
For thirty years I know what a bureaucracy does. I know how they act and when
I was looking at this whole. Why are we getting any kind of a yes? No or this is what you should know about this rapid testing stuff?
I could smell something wrong there and I was out.
This months ago. I just
something wrong, and it looks like it's
probably in the guts gutter, the machine, not necessarily something that was problem with Trump,
it was like the machine wasn't working
and now we know why,
He literally the
this guy literally was stonewalling, is bosses and making
impossible to deal with them intentionally, and these tell you this right now
So this is what Andreas said about it:
said so, the? U S didn't put more money into the development of new and expanded covert testing.
Because the head of the energy age didn't wanted to catch the attention of the White House. So.
Intentionally sabotaged the communication question mark.
because that's what it looks like you said, that's exist,
what it looks like while.
So I'll say this again
that doesn't mean that the EU now then Trot gets a pass on this. It's his administration right.
But if bided fixes this and looks like you might that's pretty big deal Bernie Big Deal, I hope he does fix it.
I tweeted this. What do you mean?
the fact that binding is going to fire pretty much everybody in the all the attorneys and the OJ.
get a fire all of the attorneys they work for the d o J, except to his credit.
He's not gonna, get rid of the not getting
Rather the guy's looking into the Russia collusion beginnings or the anchor Biden situation, so he is so. I would consider that an ethical and ethical
ago, so I give Biden credit for not getting rid of those two things that you probably would prefer getting rid of.
As a credit where credit is due, but here's my question a pair
Its fairly traditional together
rather the attorneys and the Department of Justice when a new administration comes in from the other party. But what
I'll tell you about the Department of Justice if
if the authorities working at the Department of Justice are not perfectly sufficient for any kind of administration that takes power.
Is it the administration telling us not to trust them? How will our canoe interpret them
Why would you trust departments?
This lawyers more than the next administration will trust them
The next administration is going to fire them every time.
Why are they going to fire them because they don't trust them? Why else
They? Don't trust them to do their building. Think about that
if our own government doesn't trust
the lawyers and our own department of justice? Why
you trust them. I mean
it's basically a.
A very clear statement that you should not trust your own government. How,
else, can you interpret that seriously? How else can you interpret that other than you can't trust your own government that they're telling us this is pretty direct.
If you can't trust the Department of Justice lawyers, you can't trust the government. We already knew about Congress in its way
that, as far as I know, I'm the only person who's ever brought them up.
Everybody else measure that, wouldn't you think
That would be the biggest story in the world that we catch.
Our own governments, we have to fire them when the new administration comes in. These are people who.
In theory, were not political. In theory, there is
just be following the law
Apparently our own leaders, don't think they do that. Otherwise they will keep up. Keep the experience. People.
so if you are looking to see who might emerge as the GEO P,
you front runner to lead the party in the future. I would say that,
Tom Garden, is continuing to.
stand out. He's called out of a few failures of the Trump administration that I will call out as well. So this is what Tom Cotton said in a tree.
He said the talking about Yemeni says the hoodies are armed and train by IRAN's overseas terror corporations. Terror corpse
the irish, easy and Hezbollah. So you talk about.
Binding decision to remove their terrorist designation is
hearing, the errors of the Obama administration,
Appeasing ran Bob up now
It s like a very reasonable to eat. Why
As if that were deciding not to call a group, this be this being
Trained and armed by IRAN's terrorist wing and were we're not gonna, call them terrorists.
Get out another details of this situation
but it seems like a binding mistake, but you're probably never hear anything about it, except feel this tweet.
And then Tom cotton on a different subjects of that
more than eighty thousand Americans have died from drug overdose as last year
the Bible administration, as part of its immigration changes,
said that it won't be deporting illegal aliens cartel members who deal fence
no and heroin, because it's not a priority anymore, so is not a priority,
George Cartel dealers offence in all and heroin, who were behind eighty thousand american drug overdose Tessier. That is a mistake.
Tom Garden called it out, I didn't see anybody else, call it out. If I, if I had to pick a leader of the Republican Party today, it would be him because he is calling out high
hi, important things that I don't see anywhere else so here's a question for you: can somebody give me effect check on us
So I've been making the claim that we have
We ve never done a full audit of our election system,
and the end where you could see
every vote and how it got to the final tally? And you could know that nothing happened with hacking and any kind of mischief.
But the counterpoint to me has been this and I would like you to effectiveness. The counterpoint is us. There have been recounts so in Georgia, for example, there there was the least one county. I guess a freak out
Another place if you were to do selected and here's the Keyword selected recounts.
In places where you thought there might be an issue or places were close if you
We did selected recounts anymore.
I urge the physical ballots do whatever the machine said in that in that precinct. I guess, and
knew that the paper ballots and the digital account were.
Play the same. Yogurt give or take two or three votes, usually.
Would you say that?
we have now done at least a represent
enough. It wouldn't be an actual random selection, but it would be better than that
because you would be targeting the ones they use suspected are highly likely to have some mischief if there's gotta be any so
if you did target them and you did match the the physical ballots with account for just that area,
Would there be enough of a representative sampling, because Europe is not really wrappers
but you know any better than representative, because they're looking for places that my apple trouble
Would that give you a full check all the way to the final vote,
incisive some knows racism yeses. Why don't we know that.
Shouldn't we, as the public, know the answer to that question, because
If the answer is yes,.
that that's really all you need to know, and if it's true that those like
the problem areas were recounted and
That count all the way to the final count.
What made me feel very comfortable?
that you had wait for it and unhelpful system.
To me, that would be unacceptable because
as long as somebody could reasonably request a freak out in places that were may be problematic,
I feel like that would catch any serious mischief,
They have to be really clever, but if you don't do it
the key areas where you know the electoral college makes a big difference,
If you're not doing it in those areas is probably doesn't matter if you're doing it anyway, so.
Let me see, I so absurdities mentioning mail in ballots, but I think they would be part of a Rico the you would just recount the mail in balance with the other ballots. If its paper ballots without the Digital,
there is still a place where you entered into the digital system.
So nothing is ever non digitized end
similar, says you're, simply verifying the machines.
so
but let me be a little more clear: a recount would not catch any mischief that happened with the ballots themselves.
because if they got counted once, they would just be counted again, so wooden catch. That kind of fraud. But might my specific question is I guess I should be more clear about that
would it catch any possible hacking or software problem would be enough to catch all of that, even if it didn't catch anything that happened with physical ballots. Hypothetically. Can somebody.
Tweet me something that would answer that question because don't you think that's a really important question: how comfortable
Would you be if you thought that those few recounts
Did actually get traced all the way through the digital system, to the end, I would
a lot more comfortable, and I would thank you
hard to cheat with software? If we had done the even those limited audits? That's what I would think so somebody clearly up- and I fear that that's us, a gigantic question and I should know the answer to it, and so she do,
This week it looks like congresses even going to pretend to serve the public, and it's amazing that we let them get away with that. It's just amazing.
Does anybody really think the public will be served in any way by the,
other business of the Congress being postponed, such as the stimulus package, seems pretty important, but they're not even pretending they just now even pretending to do the people's work that this is so clearly political, meaning that they're trying to prevent Trump from being
what running again, I guess there's just laughably blatantly incompetent in terms of doing the job you were hired you were elected to do is just amazing that we let him get away with this amazing.
But I'd like to talk about the cap of arrival little bit and
I need to do a special aside for Don people.
most of you watching this have normal or above normal intelligence, but just in case
Anybody snuck in I need to do
a special service announcement from the dumb people. If there are any. I know this is a smart audience, but if you wouldn't mind
if, if you have average or above average intelligence, if you could just hold on for a minute cuz, I want to make a a message directly to the dumb people. Turn the camera little bit. This way.
Kay I so smart people just talk among yourselves. This is just for the dumb people I done. People were
Did you hear me talking about the capital riots and I talk in terms of their president, not inciting violence.
What wouldn't make sense for you to say is that there are victims. What about the people who died and say this is what the dumb people don't understand, that the people who are talking among themselves probably get.
People like me, who have normal or above normal intelligence.
Automatically think the victims of every situation matter. I know weird right. We automatically
that's important, we automatically have empathy for their families and for anybody was injured or killed every time. You probably think, and will not every time right now. Actually, surprisingly, every time you you won't, you will find that the exception every single time anybody dies. I sort of wish it had happened with maybe some exceptions of serial killers and dictators and stuff like that, but generally speaking, dump people and will go back to the smart people in a minute, but for the dumb we always consider that I now surprising I just wanna- do set you up with that, so that you don't get worked up about anything else. I say about the impeachment worthy. The capital city was good. Don people we're gonna get back. I will talk to the smart people again.
So I hope we're good on that night. I smart people back. I hope you hope you had a nice break there. I think the dumb people are on board now and now we can talk about the topic
Everybody knows that hoping that their
not many people who say that President Trump handled the capital riot assault whatever you want to call it. Well.
The Israeli, but it may be that case, because a Democrats will argue with me
somehow on defending the way he handled it, I'm not defending the way handled it. I think he should be criticised for the way handled it now, whether you impeach him or not, is whether you want to be silly and do something absurd and useless and on product
For the country has a different question, but daily handle a right now. I think that I think that he could have done
more as it was unfolding equally, could have just probably ended it with a tweet, and I think you should have done that. But this business,
the question of whether using the words fight for whatever.
Burn election or calling for a peaceful protest, whether that is inciting violence among the people who have Viking heads and plastic ties. That's kind of a stretch.
That's kind of a stretch, but we're we're going to endure this anyway, and it appears now the
You can be punished in this country with the United States. Probably in other countries too, you can be punished.
For other people's absurd interpretations of your opinions, so,
used to be that you would get punished for things that you did.
Things you said. Maybe your actual opinion
We're not in those days anymore now you
we'll be punished in a variety of ways for other people's absurd interpretation of what you meant.
And you can be punished by social media, ban cancellation and policemen boycott and Lawson job for other people's misinterpretation of what you say.
Now I've I was asked by some people. If I could do a micro lesson, I'm doing little micro lessons in the locals platform locals darker subscriptions.
nervous. So I've got a whole bunch of lessons and little to Madrid videos of things to make it more effective and people ask me Scott. How do we identify
I conspiracy theory or fake news?
Identify you know: what's facon, what's real and
let me give you a little many less than that now here.
settle? What is fake in what is real.
If somebody tells you that the President of the United States went on tv and praised in direct language NEO Nazis as fine people,
How do you know that didn't happen, or do you think it did happen.
Here's how you know it did not happen that didn't fuck. It happened.
You don't really have to over think that how do you know that
the President of the United States any president, including tromp. How do you know that
go on tv and praise
NEO nazis, indirect language and call them fine people. How do you know that didn't happen.
nothing like that. Whatever fucking happen.
No, no universe without ever fucking happen. Let's do another.
Cnn has set a number of times that present Trump suggested drinking bleach as a possible solution, for
gratifiers? Now, how do you know and another and other reporting says in jacking disinfectants, which lay interpreted to mean household cleaners?
How do you know the presence of the United States didn't go on live tv and suggest drinking bleach or injecting household cleaners into your body to fight a virus? How do you know that didn't happen, or do you think a dead letter,
Tell you how to know it didn't happen that didn't falcon happen. That's up! Don't over think it that didn't fuck. It happen
because in no universe would that ever happened
It's a flying, unicorn it sir.
It's a black hole opened up on tv, it's it's magic. You
don't have to know a lot about the details or look behind it or get under the hood or really investigated.
you just look at it and say to yourself. Leaden far can happen
that's all technique if you
You do that,
you're not really understanding much of the news.
Let me give you another one:
the President of the United States in ten
finally incite violence at the capital.
violent overthrow or insurrection of the United States, do you think he did that there's an impeachment trial about that? Do you think that actually happened.
Let me tell you why you know it didn't happen, here's why that didn't fuck it happen.
oh because it didn't happen
in every universe,
the entire simulation. Is there
if there are infinite universes as some people theorize,
it didn't happen in any other universes because it couldn't happen.
Its absurd is ridiculous on its surface,
thus, if you ve learned anything, will give you a test, I'm gonna give you,
two statements, and you have to figure out which one of these didn't happen.
and you have to use the same standard. You just
the look out and say that didn't fuck happen. That's it. That's! That's all technic here two examples. Yesterday I walked my dog stable number one and you you get to decide. Is that potentially true
You don't know if it's true, but is it potentially true? Or would you say if that that in fact going to happen in the comments? True
people say now happens. It was true. It was true
at the very least it was may be true when you agree. Maybe I didn't work the dog
but it was in the category of things that could be may be true. Maybe it was true. I use my second statement. I went out in the backyard and I fly,
My arms so hard, therefore,
two minutes, or so I was able.
to hover over the ground, like a birds, are like a hobby,
now? The trick of it is that you have to
Lap really hard, if you didn't flapper
enough, while you're not going to get any height at all, but I wouldn't
back yard. I flew up my hands really hard and I mean
to hover above the ground for two minutes now, here's your test,
apply. These standard of,
that really happen. Go I'm looking at your comments summer. Somebody says I believe you is to stop lying
here's how you should have solved that puzzle.
When I told you, I flapped my arms until they hovered across the ground, this should have been
the entire mental process- that, in fact, going to happen.
that's it. So you have to learn that.
Believe it or not? You have to learn that because,
a lot of love of the world was swallowing the queue stuff and and every every year that Russia collusion.
And did you out? You know issues at all of the queue stuff. That's no fuckin! True said you, don't me!
some kind of an insight to know that these things are not true. It doesn't take.
every inside it all to know? These are not true
Ellen Dershowitz, has some smart thoughts about the impeachment trial. So he's
three constitutional reasons that its bogus.
No, I don't think anybody who cares about the constitutionality of this did it. Do you think that the Senate cares one bit about whether its constitutional? No do you think the Democrats care if they're following constitutional?
worms? No, no. Do you think that whether or not it was constitutional, the Republicans are going to vote a different way than the already know. They're gonna vote now, o O.
Oh really doesn't matter if its constitutional or not. It really doesn't because it's a political process, they can
just pretend it is if they had enough people to pretend it is, then then you there's a conviction. I guess, if that's what you call it
So it's irrelevant
The arguments are interesting. Number one Dershowitz says,
the Senate has no jurisdiction over an ex president, so they can do
anything they want, but there are many jurisdiction obese or like the the
We Scouts of America or the Scouts and America, whatever their golden, trying to
put you in jail. The scouts
Are not a legal process, they can't put you in jail, so even if it's the
India has a trial and finds you guilty doesn't really matter because a pity,
It does not really authority over you so that support.
A good argument: the Senate has no jurisdiction.
The others are free speeches protected. So whatever the president said, even if the outcome of that was some violence is still free speech, so that
the end of the story and then the third was little more technical, there's a guest part. The constitution says
Congress she'll make no law, and that includes any action, as Dershowitz explained.
A bridging. The freedom of speech so have come
Where's punishes Trump for his speech. His freedom of speech.
There would be doing exactly what the constitution specifically says. They can do so
you wouldn't even have to interpret the constitution. It says it directly says,
hunger shall make no law, and then I guess you would have to interpret the part about or other actions, because it's it's unclear on that.
Bridging the freedom of speech is spreading.
Arguments, but their irrelevant to impeachment. I think.
If you wanted this, here's a little tip for you, if you are,
democratic, and you want to disguise the fact that
Brainwashed fake news, believing revenge puppet
And that what you really want is to punish Trump supporters, that's what you really want.
But you want to hide that and look like you're, a serious citizen who cares about the well being of the republic? So if you like to disguise at the best,
to do it is to go and social media and declare that trumps public call for a peaceful protests.
For better election transparency.
is really inciting violence. Coup involving a Viking, hat and plastic ties so
If you can sell to people the idea that asking for a peace
will protest for better election transparency.
is inciting a coup and attack. Who was a plan to hold the government of the United States,
using nothing but a Viking hat and some plastic ties.
Are you an empty room that was there
plan to overthrow the greatest military in the world and and hold the government. So let me ask,
this I tol you now how do identify bullshit from actual news? Let me
Let me give you another example and we'll tested again. I remember
Always thinking you have to do is lead in fact happen or the opposite, which is might have happened. You dont know if that happened to usually, but it might have
Were there are people who were quite serious,
overthrowing the actual legal government and ignoring the constitution, and they thought that
could take over and hold the government or change
change, who is in charge via the price
us of entering
building that was otherwise empty with nothing, but some, I guess- and clubs, some umbrellas, a Viking hat and some plastic ties
Was it there plan now that I'm sure that there were people who had concealed carry as well, but wasn't there plan to actually hold the government like an actual coup and kitchen
All it with their Viking. Had their plastic ties a few guys
who had concealed carry probably but did not brandish them.
Was that actually really happening?
well. I would apply the standard that didn't fuck it happen. Then fucking happened, there was no attempted.
If it had been an attempted coup
There would have looked a lot different because nobody, nobody is so dumb that they think that they
could have taken over the government of the United States by
taking over an empty room in the capital with their plastic ties and their viking horns and taking selfies.
That's not even close to a coup. That's
in the zip code of a two. That's not only solar system.
Coup, that's not in the milky way of a coup.
So if you will do that in trying to say, is this real apply, this standard that didn't fuck em happen is big foot rummaging through your refrigerator downstairs. Right now is E. That's not fuck anatomy see this
ended, works wherever them or clear up quite a bit. I think for you right. Those are my comments.
Remember that periscope will be going away. So one of these days soon,
I will only be on Youtube, so you might want to make the transition quickly because it's the same content. You still have commenting, and it's just that-
Youtube, so you Paris covers probably might want to get used to you too bright away. Cause it'll be the
We gave a down pretty soon, although the locals platform will have streaming sometime in the coming weeks. We hope at least in beta, why not known Haps, ok,
to hear that the clubhouse app where I guess it's audio only and people can talk, got banned in China. China isn't even pretending anymore. I reacted somebody else.
Well, I've Rebecca appears to be one of these things that people on social media talk about as working, but the medical community as a whole is not imbracing and who knows, why is happier thing h, H, p, p s
Rumble, oh yeah,
rumble has life? Does rubble have live stream? They didn't have live streaming a while ago. Just look at your comments for a moment.
Start your own platform. Well, I wonder if Trump will start a platform or if you'll do a roll up, you know here's. What trump should do so you ve got
got euro rumbles in your gaps in here
parlors near few other things? Maybe he should just roll up two or three of them under one brand and make it some other kind of social.
Let media the problem is: if Trump starts a social media platform, it's going to attract pretty much exclusively. You know that the same crowd that was supported in
so you do, nothing is going to be as good as say a twitter would be for showing both sides. You know it. If you took all of the all of the trolls and critics and Democrats,
from twitter. I don't know if I would even be there, because if he gets here, both sides was the point really.
So that's the problem with the
New, the rogue social media sites is that they're not gonna, attract both sides and if they can't do that, they don't really have a product. In my opinion,.
That will be a problem or somebody
Twitter Clapton Periscopes function, so you can still broadcast on Twitter. I dont know the details of that. I think that you are roughly correct. The twitter will have some built in process that may be a partial or full substitute for periscope. If that's the case, I may use it, but will say.
But I have to wait and see what that's all about. First. Alright, that's all for now I'll talk to you later. Alright youtuber is you're here for another minute. Gilbert's new company needs to develop the new platform. Hey, that's a good idea, someone hack to water plants in
less dangerous? Did I see doctors, Simone Goals, conference on the dangers the doctors Simone Gold is.
Once you become these sceptic, I dont believe anything. You say anymore, so that the medical sceptics who are sceptical about one thing and then they move to a new
things to be skeptical about? I immediately just say: oh, I get it they're they're trying to be the skeptical person and they lose all credibility. Frankly by the time they go to the second skeptical. Even if the right, when I talk about credibility, I mean how how real does it look, not how real,
Have you heard the name of the DC cop who shot Ashley about it? I haven't, and I think the point you're trying to make is that if it had been a white cop who shot a black citizen, that we would know the name of the cop, but if it was a white cop who shot this trump supporter that we don't give the name of the cop, but we do know that the cop is not going to be charged because it was judge that it was a good
Getting good meaning you good in quotes, obviously there's nothing good about it, but I would agree that the officer should not be charged based on what I saw. One video. What I saw the video did, look like he had to do what he had to do right, that the trumpet
Yeah, that's off now I'll talk to you later.
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