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surrounded by watching that, probably not seriously in the comments, are any of you watching the Olympics, and if you are, what are you doing? That would be the boy to that render Damon Registered why people watching ha ha Let me call out today sorry about that. So it is a question for you. You ve been following the big lie. The branded big lie. Now, that's what the entire trump. Anti republican folks are calling trumps claim and other people's claim that the twenty twenty election was reg. It's big lie now. Here's the thing this different about the big lie: persuasion.

Verses almost anything else we see, and the difference is that this one looks professional. I've told you that before right, but the big lie doesn't look like something that just grew or again equally enough, maybe somebody used it and other people said all of that sounds good. All use it to maybe rule it out, but. it's a will to professional. So it looks to me, like some professional, persuade her well enough power to make something. Happen said just called the big lie and that will make it go away. Kazoo. Anybody who agrees with it will will be enough. Which is beautiful, it's the same strategy is anti far anti far when they named themselves, it was perfect name because

if you say well, I'm against the people were against fascists. What does that make you a fascist about black lives matter if Europe, used to black lives matter or you're, a racist it does about a wire opposed or what you propose to could be their funding whatever, but the name itself is is a trap and the same technique is be used with this big lie. If you brand something the big lie, than anybody who buys into it there's a nazi because, as were the origin of the big lie, comes from so we ve got this big professional? They are there, and I asked a question on Twitter. It. My highly unscientific ball, which topic best fits the description of the big lie against three three options. One is trumps claims of election for

the others they find people hoax? The binding pushed to get elected And the others either that the January six riot was an insurrection which are those is the big lie. Not so clear, is it think about the damage that the fine people homestead? That's really damaging think about the fact that were currently right in the middle of a hoax in which the entire left of the country, believes of. Insurrection was attempted with no weapons, I mean no weapons. That would be useful for an insurrection. And that is actually happily were being sold. This big lie. The January

six was the insurrection. That is the big lie to me. This looks like the big lie, but you can't you can't say that very took it. They are very took their big lion, but you remember were true did, with the phrase fake news you took, the gun ever ran inflicted around anymore. fake news, the brand for the people who use it against them and work. Vagueness now only means the left that you don't even think of Fox NEWS when you think of the term, even though we can apply to and if anything, the SAD News but Trump just completely too their brand round. Could you do it with a big lie, while he can't does he shut out the social media machine? So he doesn't have the power to do that at the moment. But I would think that everywhere you saw the January sixteen being called of insurrection. If you were to start river

ring to it as hashtag the big lie, then anybody who search the hashtag would find you calling out the insurrection as well. She had maybe some reasons that you gave so I think the public could change. This big lie branding into something else. And a bench was like this: if you do it, but for sure that's a professional, I would say: there's a really, I likelihood casts a hundred percent. This is professional work now. Somebody said to me.

on Twitter that there's no amount of persuasion that could be applied to the vaccination question. There would get lots more people to give vaccinate and the idea was that is because people have already made up their minds. What do you think of that? Do you think it's true that because people have already made up their minds about vaccinations and that that parts, probably to most people, have made up their minds, but do you think that, therefore it would be immune to was a massive government brainwashing operation? Do you think that the people the individual's could can hold off a full scale? Professional persuasion.

I don't think so. I dont think you know how powerful persuasion could be when, when applied to its maximum about, because what we used to is a bad, persuade her or tried to convince one person of something and it doesnt work. So Ninety nine percent of everything you see, there's somebody trying to persuade somebody doesn't work, does not good at persuading them like inside people, make up their minds and start changing. But if a government wanted to change your mind with all the resources were government, unless they got to social media platforms on their side, could they change your mind now also with a profession? So some whoever came up with the big lie. Somebody was that kind of skill working with All the power of a government.

the power of social media, you don't think that they can make you do any damned thing that they want they could. They could make public do almost anything right there. We just have to push hard enough. So is really just a question of our they weren't Bush. And whether they are professional helping on then, if that's what you think but yeah you can move anybody to do anything. If you push hard enough, because the the social media companies and the news are essentially captured. So big, there was nothing to say your name, big bad word Floyd, but he sang the sky. Is a sheep Ella? Well, you fucking idiot. First of all,. Have a little bit of sense about what I'm actually saying. So your file. Hallucination does become your opinion, you don't

My opinion is by you got a pretty strong opinion about my opinion, which isn't even on the right fucking planet right. So let me be a really clear: I don't care if you get a vaccination, I don't care. If you wear a mask and the reason is I don't care if you fucking die seriously, I don't care. If you die. Can I be more clear about that? I'm not trying to make you work ask not tried to beg you give accident, as I don't fucking care about you that clear you thank. You hold that your brain long enough to form a reasonable opinion. Come back to me when you not such evocative yet again and leave him leave another pity. just look at your common sense. So I suggest this, and this is a part.

Suasion lesson, but I don't expect this to happen. but knowing why I could work, you can learn something you get so years earlier. Will lessen and persuasion for today. If, if the USA, the news industry you wanted to end the government wanted you to get more vaccinated, here's how they can do it, they could just report the death rate from covered by political party. Do you see it without me explaining why that will work As the first, though, you may say yourself, snack will make any difference the republican no that are less vaccinated and they know that their less vaccinated and more of them die. Well, that was just the choices made right.

why, without change everybody's mind, just to know the death rate of the Democrats versus the Republicans, why would that be persuasive? Well, let me tell you why here there's a little trick of persuasion that really comes from the field of management. Whatever you track is what you managed to. Whatever you can track is what you were managed to. This is just one of the reasons why, following the money is such a good way to predict the future or even predict the past in the sense to find out what happened, people will will buy us their decisions toward things which can be measured if something can be measured

pay more attention to, it will work towards making their number better in whatever way, but if something is not measurable, where it or even not, measured doesn't even have to be accurately measured if nobody's measuring it. Nobody cares nobody nobody. Does anything about it. But the moment you measure of people start acting differently as its basic management concept. now, given the tribalism in politics in the United States, if you said here is heavily Democrats died as a percentage of Democrats, Here's Emily Republicans died this week from covered. As a percentage of of Republicans, you wouldn't have to say another thing about the vaccinations you wouldn't now. If it turns out was saying, Possibilities, one is that Republicans are dying much higher rate? Does less vaccinated,

with that cause. Other republicans do well, you might not care about the vaccination, but you're sure is should not one of your team to lose and would not want your team to lose meeting not have more republicans dying from preventable illnesses. you're gonna change, you be ever so would actually do things to win argument that you wouldn't do to protect your own life? Let me say that again. People will do things to win an argument to be right to be on the side. They got a good result. More importantly than they will save their own life, because we do reckless stuff all tat time like everyday people directly stuff, so that's just normal but willing and argument people don't work. Away from an argument if they think they can win well, maybe if I did get vaccinated, my team would have a better chance.

So and then also others Tuesday element this, which is, if we found out that one political side have higher death rate It would almost immediately turned into a voter suppression question. Let me ask you this Biden involved in voters. Suppression by recommending that everybody get a vaccination. Think about Biden recommends that everybody gets a vaccination. Is that voters suppression? It is. Because when a democratic says give accident makes republic and say well, maybe not am I right it's it's the the people just have a natural aversion to what the other team wants them to do so, In all likelihood binding

encouraging republicans the vaccinated like cause fewer them to get vaccinate, because it sounds like a democratic idea, Which will cause more republicans today, which would be voters, suppression,. I'm not saying that would be big enough to make a difference, but you can imagine the argument. It is a fact I listen there's another persuasion, then psychology kind of the topic. So MAX Abrams reports on Twitter, I guess it was a study that says the rate of suicide. Attempts appears to have been inversely related to school closures, and, what's the one you just imagine that the school closures would cause more suicides. guess would be depressed. They wouldn't be with her friends. Couldn't do what they want to do. Go have a social life. No more suicides right.

just as the other way around, according to one study that the people went to school, what can be more suicides than the people who were remote? Learning that make sense to you. I saw Clerval Clare Layman referred to it as non into I'm not so sure, I'm not so sure you shouldn't have expected that result. Here's why doing. Remo learning got closer to their families. When you say I mean maybe not every family. But if you stay home all day and you don't have the option to play with your friends, you end up getting a little closer to family. I would think so I would that. Would reduce suicides, you're you're. more supervised, closer your family, Also, I don't think people coy realise the toxic lethal Eleni of bullying.

the bullying happens when you go to school and there's bullying online, but I have to think that the in person stuff is the bad stuff and ass the boy, because we people to kill people kill each other If, if you take a louder- and you say you loner, how do you feel they may say everybody else's happy, but I'm a loner. So you know I need endings, But what is the lawyer knows: everybody's a alone? Suddenly everybody's loner you're on the same boat, all those popular people, all the popular people, their loners during independence,. So I think that that would also make you feel more, like everybody else same boat. So I can think of a number of mechanisms that would work on us to make the remote learning safer, at least in terms of taking your life. Now surprised at all Here's another surprise so by

got this proposed three point: five a trillion dollar infrastructure package? What do you think the economist say about that? Pretty easy question, We ve already got some now. Some we ve got a lotta that pressure. We ve got inflation pressure from all the money they float in for the pandemic stuff. So do you think that economists could at least get this question right? Does the three point: five trillion dollar infrastructure package, increase inflation or decrease it very basic, You know if you went to school for years to become an economist. I don't think there could be more basic question of us and, of course, economist disagree. What years everything will you need to know about economists,

was fucking question than the world. Their disagreement. Do you not is the simplest question in the world? Will adding three points? five trillion dollars to the economy in spending increase inflation, Now. When I say it's a simple question, I don't mean that I know the answer. I've got a degree of economics. I've got an mba from atop school. I don't know does everything you need to know about economics, simple s, question and nobody knows the answer with a lot of people, think they know the answer. But here some of the argument now the argument where that would include increased inflation is Yes, because you add a bunch of money into the economy and there's more money chasing the same amount of goods and services, so those people just increase their prices because they can get it. There's all this money here I'll raise my play.

Somebody about so there is an obvious reason why the inflation might go up But what is the argument that am I mad I wouldn't world? Can you make an argument that a wall inflate well turns out? There is an urgent And the one part of the organisers there are tons, people were unemployed, so they can just go back to work, so the employees will not necessarily put a put pressure on on employers to razor. Prices, the razor pay, because if you have plenty of employees who could just go back to work any time they made themselves available then in the long run it should not put pressure on wages and leisure to keep inflation under control, so it makes sense.

And another part of the reason- and this part is just bullshit politics raisins, but I'll put it out there anyway. Part of what Biden's package wants to do is to create low cost housing that doesn't exist and so part of the argument. It says: hey all these people, who then pay for a more expensive housing will now low cost housing, but there's no way the task of haven't fast and there's no way. The task will be enough of a desperate needs to be seen in the economy. as a whole. So I would say: that's bullshit reason. It's true, low cost. Housing means your house, it cost less. I guess right all other things being equal browsing, there's big enough to make a difference. So what do you do when you are? Experts disagree and the facts? not in dispute, because this is one of those rare questions where you have all the facts.

The other you don't have as well as in the future. You know how much money you'd put in. You know how much is there. Are you know what the inflation is? You know what the GDP is. You know what the The radio's? You, though, all the facts, so its experts looking at the same time, facts and coming up with opposite conclusions. Go to your experts, no good at all. Apparently- and My my well trained instinct is that it has to increase inflation but at the same time,. If you know anything about economics, you know that common sense about what's gonna happen. Next doesn't be much so. Common sense, as, of course, ass, good ass, the inflation of their nobby, but I could be wrong very easily variously. Here's appears, while these stories that is just

sort of mine blowing reminder about the world works And I don't know if this is mine blowing just because the story involves me, so maybe you can judge whether it looks my blowing from the outside, But you the story about the so called Pegasus software that. Some intelligence agencies, lots of different countries. Actually, are using to penetrate people's phones and spy on their phones, and one or two on the list was Ex President Mexico Felipe called the room and by coincidence Philip called around follows beyond twitter. So I followed him on twitter when I notice it some time ago, and so I thought myself, I wonder I wonder if this individual, who is named in the story, I wonder if it's true

sometimes you know, it could be sad news, so I thought all just send a dm drag message. Till the Ex president, Mexico and I'll just Ask myself: did you have the spyware on your phone just think about this? I'm just sit here and my little office, California,. I see this major internet. Story with the Ex President, Mexico, I think to myself. I think I'll, ask him Bob says error message I said: do you think the Pegasus software gotta your phone I just saw the Washington Post Report- are, you are on the list after leaving office and A few days later, I get a private message back from the present ex president. Mexico confirms that Yes, he said yes, I do happened up.

How mind glory? Is it that third, YO seven plus whatever a billion people in the world, I'm just sitting here in California, I see a world a world headline, and I can just pick up this. the vice my hand. I can type a few things. I'm talking to the one person out of seven billion to ask me a question that I wanted to ask the answers. There was a present of the Mexico. Am I right? This is mine board

now I can't tell you how many times simply like this has happened due to a topic on the here and now check mediums somebody who would be quite famous is weighing on something, but I tell you did it just makes me feel like the world is just not whatever it is. That looks like because you know that experiment in physics in which you separate a particle of new changes. wherever you are and the other half changes at the same time or some version of that? It feels like that. It feels like I'm connected to every story in the world, and that I can. I can touch it if I want.

I can't tell you how, where that is here, and there were two other themes that are haunting me right now preserves scuttle things happening in my personal life and so there's one company. They just keeps coming up everywhere and there's one car model that I always keep parking next to it. Just the weirdest think, as both of them have some relevance in my life right now, so it feels like I'm unlike booty. the simulation myself. The biggest faint news story and the country is about critical race theory, and the faint news part is that the people on the political right say: hey stop that credit, grace theory teaching, because it's it's racist itself.

And then the people on the left, what do they say? Did they say? Oh, I will stop there right now. They just act like it isn't happening. They act like critical race theory is the same as teaching history is not now. It's not escalate to those with gas And every time I see the story, I think it was a Yossi was doing this trick where somebody says we teach critical race theory and then they say well, of course you have to teach The real history of the United States to the children who exactly. Fighting against lad. So the the response to the the claims have nothing to do with claims they just they answer all different question. and somehow they get away with it.

The news allows them to do that, because the deuce does not publish useful facts seems there's a space available in the news galaxy. Don't you think there needs to be at least one news entity that, gives you context so that every time you waiting into a story- and you said yourself- hey these people are saying critical race theory is being taught is other people are I guess not, as usually other news teaches and though you don't know well, I just see two competing clay. But where is a new site just gives you the? Whatever statistics are says he has being talk here or not. Nobody would watch nobody would watch if it were a news channel as right Adam, but if it were a written web website with resources.

Everybody who argued on social media would have to link to it so It would be basically a linked farm, basically actually that many called that all the length of farm where, take the best arguments for every side you just organizing here the arguments for why masks work here are the best. That's why they don't she suddenly saying TIM cast? Does he have that their I've never heard of anybody do them, but I think, in order to do it, you will have to show the best

On both both sides, if you only showed the links that you think are the answer to the question, then you just become a partisan. You have to show them the best from both sides. I think otherwise, so waste the governments are. You to somebody said dealing with people like. That is why prussian bayonets were invented. Ok, I would like to now give you some television viewing recommendations. If you like me, you ve the television is terrible and I don't know if it got worse or if it's just a pain, diabetic or my attention span or what I'm going to give you the only things that are worth watching on television. As far as I can tell number one Rick and Morty.

You gotta try several episodes before you can get into feel, but the fourth The fourth season is just beyond brilliant, Watched a few of the early ones and I have to admit one of the characters was sort of gross like I find it hard to watch but one once you see that the whole arc of where they ve taken the same by the fourth year, its extraordinary is visually better than anything I've ever seen from animated Joe and its smarter than anything. I've seen an animated show by far So I believe it's Hulu has it at the moment. I dont know what other platforms is on now and the Disney streaming network. Here's another recommendation- and I was totally surprised that this was good. ok. Ok, I so Loki gotta, MR from a Marvel universe.

He has now his own spin off a series now I kind of like the Loki Character and Marvel, but I didn't really think he could. Hold his own show cuz. I thought well, I was just don't know, there's enough to this particular character to make a show, but here's what I didn't count on the the actor who plays that part is really good. He's like a way better actor than I think comes out in the other marvel movies, so when they focus on him and he gets to hold to see them and really be a complete character. Oh my God is so good so is worth watching and Owen Wilson plays sort of the bad guy in that and watching own Wilson play the bad guy is really really has really get so the writing is spectacular and the dialogue and stuff,

I don't really like watching the superhero films for the action. Does the action is just a blur of boring stuff. You ve seen before. But the dialogue is always funny and Loki is very dialogue, heavy and in a very good way. yeah. I think early six episodes but their terrific. Now here's a anti recommendations, scholar Johnson's film of the black widow, is out. I try to watch that. Oh, my god, terrible and I try to watch your black beard the other day. Oh my god, it's terrible! It's terrible! What I mean by that is is slow because our attention span of all changed and it is way too slow to watch like a movie, but both the black widow and then the the black it's weird they're, both black something, but

like nearer, they both started out by trying to make the viewer feel terrible. Now I guess The point of it was if they could make the viewer fuel terrible, maybe they can make you feel good is the end. Neo feel the difference. Maybe that'll make you happy or something, but I'm not down for any tv show or movie that makes me feel terrible in the first part of the movie. So then a better feeling later. If you think that's a good idea, I'd like to talk you out of it now. Here's why I love STAR Trek in STAR wars and those kinds of films, does they don't do that? Those films will have a problem that happens in the beginning. The movie is all movies, neither a problem to solve.

but you don't really feel it in your bones. Yeah. You see, you know you're watching a movie like oh yeah, some bad happen. Things happen to people in the movie didn't affect me, but but anyway, STAR Trek just feels good from beginning to end, even when the characters were trouble, they're cracking jokes and it doesn't seem that bad. So please give me more entertainment. That does not require me to feel bad, a right. That is your recommendation, or today I see people saying that the last kingdom is good. That's about the Vikings! I try that

I felt I could get through a year on the comments here that the safe I show called the expanse is even better than STAR Trek. I would say there both great the expenses grape and the thing I like about decipher stuff is debris winter, the world, so you feel yourself brought in the recommendation for TED Lasso, which one a bunch of awards that I understand and I'm definitely going to try that, but I have not tried it yet so I'll, let you know Norm Macdonald clips on Youtube is better than all of that. I never get bored of that. I don't. I can't tell you how many Norm Macdonald clips I've watched on Youtube, you just set him off and it'll recommend new ones. I can watch that all day. Alright, that's all I got for now

and I'm going to do a separately to do a video a little bit later. That will be available for everybody the topic is: is China safe for business? Is China safe for business. And let me tell you what I'm gonna do persuasion wise just so you can follow in my unique role as the Dilber guy. I have a weird credibility, Business people, so if I tell businesspeople, there's a business process that is bullshit people find that credible, because for thirty years I've been accurately calling business bullshit, and so, if I said we will say, ok, that's pretty really you call out bullshit.

And was things one of the things that I can do, because that weird role is. I can talk to people about the risk of doing business in China until its unsafe to make a decision to do business and Jane, and so my credibility can be Part of that message in your way that the random person could not do is effectively. So I'm going to give you a little White board to talk on why it's unsafe to do business in China and we'll see if we can move the needle on that and see if I'm still alive for the week.

I should probably say this out loud: I'm not planning to kill myself. Okay, did you all hear that there may be some bad things happening in my life from time to time as as comes in any life, but nothing like that. So, if that, if China tries to knock me off, please complete the work for me. but all I get a dollar and the funny thing about having simply kill yourself, some, which is what China did by sending sends an altar Mexico, which I believe got into my steps on and kill them the thing about that experiences. If China killed me over this, somehow they found a way to get two billion. Just took me out totally worth it like. I would

Care about that, because that alone would be a story. So it's me against them and you dont want in the battle with somebody who doesn't mind die. That's what China has right now. You ve got a battle with me, in the battle of self preservation, and I'm not I'm in a battle to take them down. That's all I care about, and if I, if I go at the same time, so it goes so I would hate to be them right now. They don't know what's coming for him, but you'll find out later. When I give you my whiteboard talked opiate hope you join me and I'll talk to you