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If the election were held today, fifty percent of likely US voters would vote for the Republican only thirty nine percent- would vote for the Democrat. Does that Tell you that the Republicans are going to win everything the cello. This kind of a survey- while I actually captures where people are thinking it doesnt, actually capture how they act. Does, however, as they say, yeah all these politicians are terrible looks at mine. Mine is good. But all those other ones in the other states that are bad so as long people vote for their own incumbents, which they typically do. I don't know that it's going to make that much difference that there's a big generic lead, because nobody boasts nobody votes.

In our candidate, so I'm going to say this is a highly encouraging for Republicans, but I don't think it's predictive and sort of a straight line. I mean you could have individual matchups that are more important than the generic. the feeling of things. If all the candidates who run are the best democratic candidate against a so interior quality, Republican. Well, apparently the? U S is getting close to announcing some kind of. IRAN deal which the experts say is worse than the last one. Do you believe it maybe. I mean it's easy to believe things got worse, just because we have such bad attitudes about our government. So that's easy to believe, but I don't think we know anything about it.

The IRAN deal is going to be another one of those big, confusing black boxes, where everybody will think they know something about it, but they don't they don't know. What's going to happen, they don't know if it'll work, they don't know what the details are, but I can see lifting their terrorist designation as long as they're still doing terrorists things, how in the world how the world can the sanctions be lifted, and how can we not call them a terrorist, or Position if they act like it or are they not acting like it? as, I think, changed in a rather whereby rounds behaviour. since a solemn any was killed. I haven't heard you, so I have and see their new stories. The says I IRAN used to do a lot of adventurous stuff and they still do.

I haven't heard that story but I also haven't heard the story that that they stop doing. Is it possible to Solomon? Andy was the the terrorist part it and maybe we just took him out. Maybe maybe the rest of the government wasn't so big on helping other people do stuff in other countries, maybe But have you seen any kind of news either way? Can't tell you in the last they bombed our embassy. Do you believe that? Do you believe that do you believe that IRAN bombed our embassy or, I don't think, there's an embassy it some court, some sort of official structure, though Do you believe that they bombed our embassy and we just kept talking to them about this deal? I don't. I don't believe that at all

I don't believe that the? U S knows they bombed our our consulate. I guess was you believe they know, IRAN bombed our consulate and we're just start still talking to them about this deal that doesn't make sense. Does it you do believe that alright, a lot of people say yes, that, even though they bombed the consulate, we're still talking to me as possible it's not impossible, but it seems to me that the first thing they would have done said that, let's, let's back off, and this isn't the right time. I think, at the very least they would have said we're going to wait a month before I get serious about this to see. If he would stop doing this sort of thing, you can ask your friend he's right there. Around said they did it.

probably there's a lot about this story. We don't understand, do you think, and in fact I don't think we know enough about the and negotiations or maybe nobody does I have a good opinion on it, because I don't know what IRAN has been doing lately. I don't believe the news just in general, do you believe the news? If the news told you that IRAN bombed the consulate, do you believe it because it was in the news might be true, but I wouldn't believe it because it's in the news, This is exactly the kind of thing. That's not true. You know if you're going to put it in the category, is it in the category of things usually pan out to be true or is it, general category of things that later you find out. Well that wasn't exactly right. There was more to it might have been a military facility there, who knows, might have been an accident. Who knows

Maybe it's true this time. Maybe this is the one. Maybe this is the first true story we got this year could be, could be So China is apparently doing this balancing act where they're trying to be friendly to Russia, but not help them to overtly. Apparently China's done some things which were not exactly good for Russia, but it looks like China's deal is going to be consistent and I have to say I respect that. I gotta say that the way China handles you know the way they talk about the relations with other countries. They do that well and they do it firstly and their message is always the same don't want war, we want to be in business, no war or trade. Am I wrong that China is very consistent about that like now,

I want to be involved in this. We just want to sell you stuff stuff, that's it So I think that they did a the usual China good. above This involves this is not our fight, but did think that China was ever going to actually directly help Russia in the war. How many of you? China was because our news told us that they were thinking about it right now. How did the news know that they were thinking about it was it Dozens of Intel sources- how we heard was Oliver aiming terrible sources. I never believed that China was thinking of directly helping militarily or even directly backstopping them to the point where it would be effectively a military.

Assistance and apparently they're not lay the indications. Are that they're not going to do anything too special for Russia now. This might explain why. Even though Russia and China do a lot of business total amount of business there China does with Russia is about two percent of China's business. Two percent of China's trade is with Russia a lot of as with America and the European Union. So what. Good for China is to stay friends with whoever is buying most of their stuff. and to maybe be a little ambiguous with somebody who's, only a two percent impact, so If you ever thought that China would bet it's entire economy to Hell, Russia, beat Ukraine which is not even worth doing, at least from China's point of view, has nope no benefit.

Why would why would China risk it's own economy, because they know that the sanctions would start to your move into Anti China stuff? If they do that? Why would they do that? To help Russia conquer Ukraine of all things they couldn't? They couldn't have less interest in that So I think that was always fake news and I'm going to say that the. the Intel, if you can call it that the said that China was gonna help Russia probably was just fake fake info again when he does, it is enough. So near times is confirmed, the hunters laptop is real. I was a little Surprised that that's still a story. I thought everybody knew it was real, but I guess not

Is it really a story that the New York Times says Israel, because I aware? I mean obviously you Jen Saki and by everybody said it was russian disinformation information, but we know we know, Democrats lie and we know politicians lie but didn't the public already know. This was real. I haven't see the pole, but was there anybody in the public who saw it wasn't real? I thought they all do Israel by maybe I'm Maybe the mainstream news was so strong with their brainwashing that they actually convince the public. It wasn't real that happened.

Yeah they're there is, there is a phenomenon which is that the news doesn't become real until the New York Times says Israel, that's a thing by the way, if you don't know that other media landscape works, that that the paper of record as like, call? It is New York Times. So when the paper of record says is true, then everybody else can comfortably say it's true. Well, the paper of record says it's true. So that's basically like our factual, so so now ve said is true.

Yeah the story was blocked by Facebook, Twitter and Google. Everything about this story is everything that's wrong with the world or the country, maybe maybe, let's just say the country, and let let me deal with the that there's a good comment there. I want us to deal with about remind me after remind me: Talk well bred does own after I talk about hunters leaped up now, of course, as we look back on how this was presented to the public, we were too. the dozens of former Intel officials. I think fifty of them signed a document saying that it was russian disinformation and rather obviously so rather obviously, according to these fifty people, who didn't look at it And now Richard Grenell tweeted, this

Republican Senate must, in all caps a good use of all caps, in this case, a republican Senate. must hold hearings with all fifty of the people who signed that letter three weeks before the twenty twenty campaign, because the timing, they all said Hunter Biden's laptop was russian disinformation and they didn't have a signal piece of intelligence suggested. That is correct. I do believe that the Republican Senate should talk to every one of those Call people and say why did you say this with no information was this purely to influence the election cuz it looks like it was purely to influence election, which would mean that the twenty twenty or or the, which would mean the twenty twenty campaign was rigged by our own? Until is that too, is that is rigged? The wrong word.

Because it's corruption I mean, based on what we can tell me. We, If they testify they've got some story. That is not obvious to Any of us that I suggest that maybe they were legitimately fooled legitimately fooled. Do you think they could make that case? I what? What is the definition of rig? Let me look it up right now: rigged. Rigged, because I'm not sure if a misinformation gets into that, I we're both okay to rig as in crime, okay, to manage or conduct something. Fraudulent way so as to produce a result or situation is advantageous to a particular person.

Did somebody manager conduct something fraudulently? Yes, the news. Yes, the news was managed fraudulently right in front of us to create a situation favorable, two hundred and forty one candidates an advantage in an election which have great consequences so yeah. Actually, according to the New York Times, the twenty twenty election was rigged. That's kind of big Trump was right now he wasn't talking about. Only this me had other allegations which we all have to wait on. Some of those or maybe we'll never know, but. If fifty until people lied.

to change the result of a an election, or at least that would be the presumed intention of that. I, the twenty twenty election, was rigged and the paper of record just confirmed it. What do you think of that, but the way I just said it will not be the way you know the public hears it right. They're, never going to hear that they're just going to hear your throne team all the time, but yeah wow, the New York Times confirms that the two thousand and twenty election was rigged by the until the entails amazing, but we're so numb to bad behavior. At this point it won't make any difference. Do you remember the speaking of russian disinformation or the United States creating disinformation about russian disinformation?

Do you remember, when rush has spent almost nothing to make a bunch of memes for Facebook that if you saw the memes- and I have you- know two things number one- you don't know anybody who saw them, they weren't me and she's ever seen, number two. They look like were developed by a high school project, meaning that there was nothing about the memes. This suggested any kind of persuasion, skill whatsoever, trust me on that this sort of my domain there was no persuasion, quality to them was over and they spend one hundred thousand dollars with which does nothing. So the whole story about russian election interference was technically true, but the part they leave out Is this a little bit like pissing in the ocean? Did? Did Russia piss in the ocean? True did the did the

The disorder lion show any difference now so much now, not so much to do yeah yeah the sea level rise when Russia pissed, then the ocean. Technically. Technically, yes, not enough that you can measure. So that's sort of what the russian Election interference was that how do we know there was so much russian interference then? Well, I believe we heard there from plenty of current and former Intel officials am my right current and current until and Intel officials so pretty much everything we've heard about Russia is disinformation from our own side, often disinformation about their disinformation just to complete the picture so spot. The pattern is pretty clear that the United States is now completely controlled by it's.

Wait until agencies. I just said that, like, as a matter of fact, did you like how he does that I just said the most provocative thing. That's ever been said in the United States, but sounded like a matter of fact, and you just said yeah, that's true that the United States government. is captured by or until now I have a theory that all governments eventually recaptured by their own intelligence agencies, because it has to happen, am I wrong, or am I wrong that if you just take any situation where there is a strong, allegiance entity that, if you wait long enough that intelligence entity will control the government that hired it. right. I can't really go any other way. I there's a reason that Putin in charge of Russia Right

going from the Intel agency to running the country is a pretty direct path in a dictatorship for sure yeah yeah. it at this point. It does look like the the US government is essentially an intelligence agency cut out or just a puppet. This is what it looks like now. I probably get kicked off a social media if I say, I have proof, that's what it is. I'm just saying that, based on everything we've seen just in the public domain, that will be the reasonable interpretation. Am I wrong? Who who disagrees with me is a reasonable interpretation. based on public information. No special research needed that our intel agencies are running the government effectively on anything, Certainly, on anything that involves foreign countries made may be far less for domestic stuff. Yell at me modify them

I doubt our intel agencies are having much impact any on any domestic policy, because they don't care but I think they have a lot of impact db is the only impact on foreign relations. So that's my take alright. So Trump is right again, starting to become my best prediction. That Trump would look better every day he was out of office. Do you all believe it yet? How many believed me what I said it do you remember what I said in the beginning. They said he would look better every day, he's out of office,

I'll bet, you didn't believe alright. Alright, let me talk about the Preds zone. Do as a my service tweet today. That said, among other things, that Putin has a worldview. So if you're, just looking at him as a crazy person, you may have been hypnotized or brainwashed by the media, I'm adding that last part, but the the the point being that listening to to Putin, you don't get the sense that he's insane necessarily use, obviously stressed, but he has a worldview that holds together. We, even if you disagree with it and therefore he's not operating from insanity, he's operating from a different set of priorities, or you sense of what's important.

Now, when my service said in that tweet, he said that if you're thinking the predator zone is the explanation, then you're not a serious person, and I've said that he looks like somebody who could be on some kind of drug and their predators zone would be a good guess, because bread is one. My experience with it is because I took too much of it and twenty whatever nineteen and It did just change my personality, I mean I could feel it in real time. Those of you who are watching me on live stream. Can you confirm, I think you can? Can you can? that when you knew I was unprejudiced out, because I told you publicly that I was more aggressive. Can you confirm that, based on just observation, I mean you, don't What I'm thinking, but I want to you know. I know a number of you could say yes, but I want those of you who didn't witness it to hear from the ones who did

You saw me every day you saw me on unprejudiced and you saw me off and I don't think you could miss the difference. Am I right the difference wasn't small. The difference was strike. And I can feel it in myself, so I'll call you or while you were observing, I was different. I can feel it too. I felt it maybe even more strongly that you can observe it. I felt fundamentally like a different person. Another words. then you're. If I always had that personality that they had under prejudice- and I would think I was a different person but of course the prednisone goes away, and I go back to my normal, my normal situation, so I'm going to agree with sort of, but I this. If You think the entire story is bread you're wrong. So I agree with him on that: it's not the entire story.

Yeah yeah, I'm not saying that he doesn't have or that Russia doesn't have some historical claim. You know what claim or interest to your grades, Well, they do and I'm not going to say that they don't have any military or defense incentive, because they do I mean you could. If you were to write on paper, you write an essay tried to read it from Putin's point of view. Does he have good reasons or just reasons to do what he's doing? I think you could make a case for it. You can make a non crazy case for what is It's not working out, so you can say that he's failing, that's a separate question, but he had a reason. Here's the question. If you have a reason to punch somebody, do you always do it.

If you ever reason to punch somebody, do you always do it? This was now now I put you on present his own. I give you too much. Now you still have the same reason to punch somebody there's no, no change, yeah, the same reason to punch somebody now. Do you take the punch? Maybe maybe you do so? absolutely I agree with the sort of issue that you can't say this. As a predator zone, only already drug you can say is a drug. Only a situation is not, of course, Its is, Russia is a good point. You create as a good point. That's why there's a war if they did they didn't both have a good point. Wouldn't look like this right now, I'm not saying I agree with rush's point or agree with Ukrainians. I'm saying that from their points of view they can make an argument that holds together on paper, not every,

I can do that. I'm just saying that if you add predator zone to any situation that is already tense, it's going to get tenser, it's not going to get more relaxed, so it is possible, but there is no no direct evidence that I would that I've seen is possible. Prednisone is a very I would go as high as twenty percent possibility. That see their present his or some medication is changing Putin's personality judgment. I give it a twenty some chance, but I'll tell you. He looks like he's the guy who's different.

Yeah he he looks like a guy who's changed now when when I say that I'm not saying that well, let me be as careful as I can, with my words, I'm not intentionally tell you something that I don't believe to be true. In other words, I could be wrong that Putin is on some kind of drug. I could easily be wrong, but I honestly think he is, and I have a strong feeling about it. I have a strong feeling that he's on drugs of some kind, this

It can be able, and then I can identify a just by his mannerisms in his look now. You know there's a lot of science. The says that people can identify. People were sick. Just by looking at her face. Did you know that that's an actual thinks it can be tested? Now people don't get right every time, but if you showed two faces- and one was second one wasn't you the humans can pick it up like that because were were designed to identify?

other humans were good for reproduction and you are going to be less likely to want to reproduce with somebody that looks sick than someone who looks healthy. So we could pick out healthy. Just like that, we're really good at and I look at. I look at Putin and I say I don't see elf, I see bad health doesn't mean I'm right, but humans are good at this. That's the only case I'll make is that we are good at it and he does look sick or something's going on. Why did our intel know that Putin would invade long before we long before he had a hundred and fifty thousand people surrounding the country? At that point, it is a little more obvious. But how did our Intel get that one so right when they go?

So many other things wrong. When you think that is now you're going to say, it wasn't hard because Russia had said enough things to indicate. Then they started massing troops. So really they were just looking at what was happening. So it wasn't that much of a protection I want to give you at least one other possibility without evidence, so that there's not any evidence to what I'm going to say it's just in the possibility set, because we don't know It's going one of the possibilities. it's the reason our Intel people knew that Russia was going to invade is that they caused it. Do you know it's a lot easier to predict things that you cause on your own? You ever seen me do that. I use interesting

especially for those of you have been watching me for a long time. Have you ever seen me predict something, and then after it came true, you said yourself wait a minute: did he predict that? Or did he cause that to happen, and he knew he was going to cause it to happen, so he just acted like he was predicting. Have you ever seen me do that. I saved some yeses you, you can't be sure right, because you'd have to trust me, and you know you shouldn't trust anybody really As a general rule, I just don't trust anybody, okay, so during the twenty sixteen election cycle There were things that I did attempted to directly change, and I know things went my way, but it's hard to know how much effect you true or false russia.

Wall Street Journal is reporting. Is Russia, or at least Ukraine? Is it becoming a graveyard for russian tanks, Do you believe the report that four hundred russian tanks have been stopped or destroyed by the Ukrainians now for hundreds, a lot of tanks to destroy We are told that the russian military advance has stopped in the last day or so two days. I think now again, I'm not even sure if that's true, they could be just regrouping and babies and not bogged down at all. I think, but so as a general rule, I don't don't believe any of the reports coming out. There You could believe is that Ukraine is still fighting there. There are very basic things you can believe as still fighting fighting. We know that I would say at this point that Ukraine is poised to win the war and I'll go,

back to my original production. Remember my worst prediction is and I kept the projection long after it was obviously obvious. It wasn't going to come true cuz I just want to be. but I predicted that Russia would not invade, because it would be the worst decision who never made, and it was obviously about this in now. I believed it because I thought that russian tags couldn't survive. American technology being the shoulder mounted stuff and the windows and whatever else we have that you've. Never even heard of so. I believe that you created would have enough of the good technology that the russian tanks would be stopped cold and that Russia really can't hold the country without Tags. So here are my assumptions.

Ukraine will have enough modern technology. So having enough of that counts, peers, that's gonna, be the case. I I said that their technology to deceive the tank will be better than the Tec technology.

That appears to be the case, and I'm going to add to that. I dunno, if I said this originally but I'll add to it. I don't think you can conquer a country without Tags, so they need tags and they're not going to have them. That tells me that the Ukrainians will eventually stall their tanks and start picking them off until the russian Army has to dissolve or you disappear. So I think that the the ukrainian strategy of going for supply routes and tanks- and nothing else I mean basically, you could just go for those that would be enough to win the war, so they have the they have the morale they have. The strategy. They've got the communication. They've got the coordination. They've got the satellite view, so they can find stuff. They've got the modern equipment, that's better than the tanks. In other words, it can destroy the tanks. What whatever style.

then from losing I'm in Russia for losing how in the world, as I'm saying Richard, I call him dick asking if I went to West point- and I would like to defend my military opinions, this way rocked always beats scissors. You don't have to be a military expert I know the rock beat scissors right. If one side had nuclear weapons and the other had sticks and stones, would you have to be a military expert to predict? Who would win? If, let's say they all used? All of their weapons- probably no- you don't have to be a military expert to know that there is someone some number of hand held Anti tank weapons. That is enough to defeat defeat. A given quantity of tanks when you agree

at the given a a certain number of tanks, it's Alia is only a question of how many people with handheld shoulder mounts. There are that's the only question: if there are enough of them, then the thanks I'll go away. Now. I've heard much said about the Russians lack of coordination of forces. So if you've got a tank formation, you need to sported with with the. What do you call infantry you need to sport? It with cover and apparently they're, not doing a good job of supporting it. I don't know that that's going to help them. How much would air support help to stop to Ukrainians with a shoulder mounted rocket? Do you stop that with their support? I can't imagine that would be a thing. Can you find two people in the forest with air support.

I mean you can hear the jack coming, so you just stand next to a tree when it goes over right eye. It just seems to me that there some things that are so plainly obvious? You don't need to be a military expert experts I said to you, the United States is going to enter the war. Would you wonder If our work harder could take out the russian columns of now. You wouldn't wonder that that's just rock being scissors right, one weapon is better than the other weapon. This old is so I don't think you have to be much of a military genius. Another rock beats scissors every time and I think that's where we have. They need tanks. they're not going to have a I'm all right. Let's take it down to that level and see if I'm wrong, they can't conquer. You know the the cities and hold them with one tanks and they won't have them. I think that's it

into the war you you know. As long as the Ukrainians have food and it looks like that's happening, I think they just keep fighting. I think Russia's got to figure out how to get out of there. Alright, there was a deep, fake Putin, I'm wondering whether they more of those, apparently the deep, fake Putin was saying that Russia surrenders or something so we're not quite at the point where the deep fake isn't a little bit obvious. When you look at it, but it's really close, and I would guess that if our government tried to make a deepfake, it would look just like the real thing where, as some some person with a computer tries to make, while it's still pretty good but doesn't It's not like a counterfeit bill know the United States can make a twenty dollar bill. That's got all the technology in it and it's hard to counterfeit a person.

usually do that. So what happens when governments get involved, making deep fakes? Secondly, Bin Laden Times: when I thought we had enough technology to do it, I thought we should be doing that cause. Nobody knows where Bin Laden is, everybody seems to be taking directions from him. We should create a deep fake, and so nobody knows if they're getting the real Bin Laden or the deep fake. In fact, we should make more deep fakes than real ones. So, everytime you got some Bin laden information. You'd, be like I dunno. Maybe can't tell. That's what I wanted them, but maybe the technology wasn't her while they hack a group anonymous is renewed there. call for all hackers to attack Russia, Are there any you mean or on Ukraine? Are you wondering why the lights are still love and give em.

Are you wondering why the Russian so called the there are greater cyber capabilities? Have made no difference at all? Is it my imagination or did the cyber abilities of Russia turn out to be completely irrelevant? I dunno. I just think we have a big question mark about all those cyber capabilities that seemed to disappear. Alright, I believe, That is all the Fun NEWS, and did I miss anything? You know the the I looked at CNN as soon as I saw on Twitter all the noise about the laptop being confirmed. I immediately went to see an end to see.

They covered the fact that their news had been wrong for years on a really important story. I don't think they mentioned it. Can you confirm that? There's anybody have another page open, go, look and see, and then I don't believe that they're even mentioning that the New York Times confirmed as real there's a Putin rally. What do I think will happen with the hunter situation? I think the hunter situation will be investigated until Joe Biden's out of office, so I think the Biden administration as it stands will never have to answer for it and then, after he's out of office,

still have a lot of connections. They'll be some kind of a just small, it's kind of a situation where, where maybe justice acts, but what is done hunters ten days in jail and suspended sentence or something I feel like something will happen, that's nothing because they can't do nothing nothing. They have to do something. but they can't do something that matters so they have to do is something that's nothing like with Jesse, where you're going to jail well, not really going to jail, and by going to jail, I mean you're not going to jail. Thus, orphan. now one of the things that Hunter apparently did is he paid? in dollars of taxes. After after it was due

you don't really go to jail too often, even for not paying taxes, if you voluntarily pay them before you got to court, so apparently juries and judges. they look more leniently on somebody who has paid their bills. If you haven't paid your bills, then maybe you go to jail, but if you have paid your bills, you just didn't. Do it on time. That's not too different than a lot of America. Right So if, if it turned out his only problem was taxes, he doesn't have a problem, it's the other stuff. That might be the problem, and I don't know if there's going to be a smoking or would do you say, there's already a smoking gun. I know it's like a pre smoking gun It's like, I can see how it might be. A smoking gun was not quite a smoking gun. If you know what I mean, because the stuff that I've seen from Hunter

is definitely eyebrows in a go all the way up to your forehead, like was ten percent for the I mean the sounds like the worst possible thing, but we'll find out or we won't, maybe whoop we will never find out, but I certainly like to get to the bottom of it now Watching how the news handles the fake news is probably the most frustrating thing I do. because if they wait long enough, they can just correct their story, but the story no longer is salient. People just moved on with what they're interested in. So they can just keep the fake news going for years. Reverse reverse it. Whenever nobody's much much attention perfect, get away with it completely accused.

Money laundering well, we'll see if they can prove that you remember for all. We want to criticize Hunter, for he was a what Well, it was a Yale trained lawyer. Do I have the right Yale and now he might he might have gotten in because his father was Joe Biden or something, but I suspect the one hundred Biden is legitimately quite smart. Do you think? That's not true. I mean he's got his issues no question, but in terms of you, if you gave him an I q test, I think you'd do really well. I think you don't go to Yale and get a degree without being a little bit smart and and he's an artist of sorts.

Anyway. Keep an eye on that keep an eye on that are used by restoring the day or an old. Do you see those Schwarzenegger's video in which he tried to talk directly to the russian people. And I gave it a one hundred percent rating for persuasion. I'll tell you. I've always liked Arnold and Arnold is one of the best communicators, which is ironic, because I always got the accent, but Arnold has been one of the best communicators in political or any life is just the best. I mean really he's better than Trump that Trump's more provocative, so maybe he can get more attention, but in terms of actual persuasion, skill yeah he's better than Trump,

I don't say that lightly. That's that's like a big deal, here's what he did right. first of all, let me ignored. I saw some pushed back on it when I said it was good the number of people. Said I turned it off when he said that the January six thing was actually an attempt to overthrow the government. Now I dont believe January six was an attempt to overthrow the government. To me, this obvious fact news, but Arnold wasn't talking to you, you didn't make the video, for you are all made a video in which he wanted to demonstrate his credibility before he told the russian people, something that was hard to understand, and here some the propaganda they've gotten so far. So what Arnold did was perfect technique. He he showed how much he loves the russian people and is connected to them with a personal anecdote of a russian weightlifter who changed his life and he still drinks out of the same cup of coffee. That is

I gave him years ago and they actually shows you the cup of coffee, the actual cup says I've been drinking at this for years, because is given to me by my good friend. They chose the pictures of the weightlifter. Have I told you, the visual persuasion is the good stuff. Oh my god, Arnold, took the visual persuasion from actually showing the the bodybuilder? Then he talked about the the fight he had with his dad, who didn't like Russians cause he'd been in the war two and his dad wanted him to take the Russian off the wall when he was when Arnold was good and and Arnold refused or no one was going to support the russian guy. Now you've got the visual of him meeting the the we build or any shows the picture. You ve got the visual in your mind, of a young Arnold with their posts from the wall and then ends it with a visual of actually holding the coffee cup that that guy gave him.

I say above visual persuasion is the best I mean fear is the strongest. If you've got fear persuasion, you can't beat that, but without that the best one is visual and man did he nail the visual he nailed it. Here's the other thing. I teach you, you have to pace people before you can lead them. You have to agree with them before you can change their mind. He did it masterfully, including, and I know you don't like this sorry. The January six part. If you don't think that was good persuasion, because it's untrue you're on the wrong conversation, I'm not saying he was right. I'm sorry

that way? If you talking to a russian public- and he says, look you can trust me I'll, be even throwing my own party under the bus, the Republican Arnold's, Arnold Republican, whose throwing other Republicans under the boss, you say: look, I'm throwing Republicans under the bus. You can see me do it, Well now that makes him wrong about January six in my opinion, but it does make him a really good persuader, because he's trying to establish his credibility, and let me ask you another thing: is Arnold Schwarzenegger Famous for telling a straight, or is he famous for lying? What is it just? Your own opinion is Arnold famous for lying or famous for being pretty much a straight shooter.

I think, he's famous for being a straight shooter. I mean I maybe sub story I don't know about, but I don't think he's ever been accused of not giving. Who is honest opinion even if he didn't like it. So even the January six stuff I kind of hate, but I do love his transparency. I love the fact that his opinion is very clear and any said it and it was against the grain, okay. I don't agree with it, but I respect that completely now. I think that, is a bigger deal than maybe you think, because pragmatism but I'll bet. Arnold is really popular in the in the russian public. Am I right you're above a certain age, and that's probably what he's targeting? I would guess, because he's made movies with russian elements in it. I think he's and he's an action figure.

There's always play bigger overseas. So I would guess that Arnold is maybe just about the exact perfect person, because he's not just the star is also a legitimate political figure in America. then, when he talked to the russian people, did a really good job of establishing his non bias and his credibility. Good job sums that it lasted two long, but he very interesting the whole time. I'm not sure if it lasted too long if it's interesting the whole time and he made it interesting because he's a performer right- it was a performance, it wasn't a speech, it was a performance and was a good one by the way anything you ever thought about Arnold's acting ability. Well, then of it, went up, because this was an act I mean overtly, he was he was putting on a show for purpose to persuade, I think, other nailed. It

I mean I think is not only. Is it persuasion perfect, even though you don't like parts of it, the persuasion parts perfect and these the right person at the right time. I think he could actually move the dial now the problem is, will any Russians actually see it and by the way there was a translation that came with it, which is good, the technic and we don't care. If he's a rhino. That's not the question today I mean you could care about a separately, but it doesn't matter to today's topic. Yeah, it doesn't matter what he did in his personal life right. Okay, well from the russian perspective, as long as they think he's a republican enough, that's good persuasion! That's the only point you used to

marine. But now you don't, do you think he actually wrote it? That's a good question, it's so good that I suspect him So if you didn't write it, he was obviously deeply involved in editing it MIKE. Says he probably had a little help, but that there is no word in there that dozen one he wants in there. My guess is that Arnold isn't going take somebody else's thing and just read it is that your take I mean Arnold's kind of hands on right. He's is not. It's not going to say. Oh just go on camera and read this thing and make a convincing. That's not gonna happen. It looks. He wrote it, I mean he's the only one who knew about the you know his connection to the russian weightlifter and what happened when he was a kid and stuff, so it just seems to be that seeing Hunter Biden memes go by

God is working to get into a different set of clubs. You know everybody who's, who goes tribal on here and and your comment is what club I'm trying to join or or if I'm trying to make some Democrats happy or sometimes you say, I think. Sleep with Elsie all those covers the lowest level of analysis. Really, I mean you're welcome to participate. Of course you are welcome. but just now when you say that that other people reason they like it is, if you're only taken this is tribal about how Republican is, is Arnold that, like that's the thing, the batter too,

and it is Scott always on the side of the same side. Sometimes does he agree with the other? If any that matters to you, your operating at the lowest level of analysis, and I am not saying that the tribal affiliations don't matter they do. but if that's what you're? Obsessed with you, don't have any value you have come. You have no value, because everybody knows that things are tribal like you're, not adding anything. The russian captions made me think it was produced by a propaganda outfit. Well, here is my question: do you think the government asked or not to do it or do you think Arnold just came up with the idea on his own.

The existence of the high quality russian translation that accompanied that suggests he had some help. I mean, I don't think he put the russian translation on their itself, so I would that that I guess there's somebody in the administration may have reached him or an intelligence, because it looks like a combination of government level and Arnold Loan. It looks like a com My perception is, Scott has been got to over Ukraine. Persuasion is there anybody who thinks that the Ukrainians have persuaded me and that I've unbelieving their propaganda? Who thinks

so he says yes clearly all right. Well, let me let me say as clearly as possible. You shouldn't believe anything that Ukraine says. Is that clear enough, if you believe even one fucking word, that the Ukrainians are saying during a war of survival. Why, and why would you think I would believe Ukraine, Ukraine is the most corrupt lie in one of the most corrupt governments involved in a war. You can't believe anything they say so he says them as Lenski apologist. I told you apologist is sign for you having cognate This is right, so why do you think that I'm a pro ukrainian when I or unbelieving their propaganda? What I tell you, I don't believe any of it like zero of it. None of it and- and I and I strongly recommend that

you don't believe any of it. The other things you can believe that things are sort of obvious there is a war, is in Ukraine, just basic stuff. That's all you know And otherwise we're all just sort of guessing does the news is fake. And everybody's lying so Don't start from the premise that the all the news is fake and everybody's lying then everything's confusing to you. So, When you say that I have been co opted by propaganda. How exactly do you get co opted by propaganda? That you are absolutely sure is false. I mean, I suppose I could, but If I talk about Ukraine winning the war, it's not because I even I'm not even sure of that and invested honestly, I dunno if I'm that invested, because I I dunno Ukrainians had some issues, I'm not sure that it matters to the United.

It's woman's Ukraine. I just don't know that it matters to us, so I I don't think have that the personal interest in it. I do have an interest that dictators can conquer countries like have an interest in that cause that in some ways you could look at the Ukraine fishing as being entirely about China of ever thought of that. Have you ever thought that the situation in Ukraine is not even about Russia? about China because whatever happens here is going to tell China what they can get away with. So if Ukraine doesn't go well for Russia, Taiwan is safer.

I remember- I told you that if you were to arm the Taiwan population with the same weapons and China had to get there by sea for the most part, I dunno, I'm not even sure China could conquer Taiwan without destroying it totally and I'm not sure that they could do that. so I do think that Ukraine might be entirely about China. Oh Akira, the Don has started up his livestreams again a year, so check out a cure of the down was a corrupted Scott going to do. I tried to get both

Crave, yeah, you know China might get Ukraine. I heard somebody say that there's no way that Russia is going to starve their army because it's the green basket of the world So they're not going to run out of bread because it's the breadbasket of the world. to which I say: have you ever tried to eat wheat? What what you do just grab a handful in the field? How much weed is growing in the winter where's it stored? Do you think is just stored where they can go, get it mixed I don't think it's that easy to turn the wheat in the field of the food

you're in a country where anything, that's a factory is gonna get destroyed. How do you turn it into food? You can't be that easy. Yes, we do need fertilizer fertilizers, good question, you gotta millet, that's right! You got it

The thirteen dad on a ukrainian island was Leah most most of what we've heard is lie or out of context or something so anyway, I say Arnold's good Russia, bad, and that is your chauffeur today, possibly the best thing you've ever seen. If you were a subscriber to locals, you would have seen my micro lesson on how to control all the things you can control and you can get a countertop and milling machine. Well, I agree that you can mail the weed, but I don't know if you can build it fast enough and efficiently enough to feed an army. And if your army is eating only bread and melted snow, I dunno doesn't seem like a good situation. That's all for now I'll talk to you tomorrow.