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Chapter 1: What is the current state of America?
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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. Oh, that's good. That's some good stuff right there. Well, I didn't get you a gift for January 6th, but I feel like we can still celebrate, can't we? That's a good day. Well, I've got some science stories.
We've got some political stories. We've got some January 6th stuff and some Trump effect stuff. But here's starting with a little bit of a study. According to SciPost, written by Vladimir Henry, testosterone spikes are linked to stronger political opinions in men. That's right. When men have higher testosterone... their political opinions harden and they get more certain and more forceful.
Now, could they have saved money by doing something where they could get the same answer, but they wouldn't have to do this study? Well, they could have just asked me because That's pretty much what testosterone is. If somebody said, what's testosterone, Scott? I'd say, well, you know, it has a variety of benefits to your health.
But in terms of what it's going to do to you, it's going to make your opinions more forceful and you're going to chase them harder. I thought everybody already knew that. Did we really need to do that in the study? Well, I don't know.
I'll bet you if you measured the testosterone of the January 6th protesters during the height of the protest, I'll bet you would have found their testosterone was pretty high. I'll bet you would. And I'll bet if you measured them while they were in prison, except for today, they might be happy today, it probably would have been lower. So winning makes your testosterone higher.
48%.
Let's call it a half. Now, I suppose Democrats said the same thing about Trump after, you know, the first term, but that's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. All right. Let's talk about, uh, Let's talk about January 6th. Kyle Cheney is posting on X that the Department of Justice revealed that it declined 400 cases that the FBI recommended for protesters at January 6th, the original, to be charged.
The Department of Justice... said no to 400 extra ones that the FBI thought should be charged when their only crime was entering the restricted perimeter. Their only crime was entering the restricted perimeter when the gates were torn down. And the FBI tried to get 400 of them into the legal system through that. Well, thank goodness the Department of Justice said that's too far.
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Chapter 2: What was the significance of January 6th?
And I think the answer is, if they'd been correct, and they might have been, then it wasn't that bad. You could understand it in a completely different context. So what she's trying to get away with, Nancy Pelosi is trying to get away with making you think past the sale. that it was a perfectly good election, in which case I would say they should all go to jail.
If somehow they knew it was a good election and they did what they did anyway, well, yeah, yeah, you go to jail for that. But if they genuinely believed what at least half the country probably thought, that the entire system had been rigged and had been stolen from them and they just lost America, yeah, expect some people to act in a pretty aggressive way.
And if it happens again, I don't recommend violence, but you should expect it. You should at least expect it. You'd be creating the situation that pretty much invites it.
So if you create a situation where you have not protected our elections to the point where the public can even tell if they were fair, you've got to take that responsibility on yourself, Nancy Pelosi, and everybody else who is in office. If you can't give us an election that even looks fair,
Whether it was or not, if it doesn't look fair, you did not do your job or even close, and there's going to be reaction to that. Don't recommend it, but there's going to be reaction. Well, meanwhile, Trump is the master of the fast start strategy where you make sure that your first days in office or even before office, as he's doing now, that he comes in and makes a big splash.
This is exactly the right thing a leader should do. They should make it look like things are happening fast and everything's going right and the first week is amazing because that makes it easy to do everything else.
If the rest of the country can say, wow, your first week on the job or even the first month before you were on the job, you're already killing it, then it weakens people's resistance because they say, wow, he seems to be getting things done and people like it. I guess I'll be part of that. So the persuasive power of the fast start strategy is amazing.
It's like a first impression kind of thing that you can't shake later. So Trump is the best in the game at this specific thing, the fast start. I've never seen anybody even slightly, even slightly in the same category as him. He owns us, the fast start strategy. But what he wants to do, he says, is secure the border, renew the tax Trump cuts, the ones that were going to expire, and no tax on tips.
But it does open the question of, is he going to put that all in one big bill? where you have to vote for all of it or none of it? Because then I wonder, what happens with Thomas Massey and me, who don't like the omnibus bills? Are they going to just shove it all together? I don't know. So I guess that's an open question. Pete Hegseth apparently will have the votes. It hasn't happened yet.
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Chapter 3: How does testosterone affect political opinions?
But it's a little disingenuous to not say when you're sitting on CNN saying it, the CNN's a big part of the problem and maybe the biggest. Do you believe that progressives could have had any power if CNN had reported on them the way they're reporting on them more recently? And I'd say no.
everything that the bad guys are doing is because the other bad guys in the media said it was the best thing to do, and you should shut up, and if you complain, you'll get canceled. So, yes, the news is trying to blame the Democrats, and the Democrats would have a good point if they blamed the news instead. Lex Friedman went over and talked to Zelenskyy,
I haven't heard the whole thing, but I've seen some clips. It seems that Zelensky is very pro-Trump. So Zelensky is saying, quote, now this is translated, but he said, when I talk about something with Donald Trump, whether we meet in person or we just have a call, all the European leaders always ask, how was it? Now, apparently, that's not normal.
that I guess if he meets with Biden, nobody asks how was it. But if he meets with Trump, everybody's curious. And then he goes on to say, this shows the influence of Donald Trump, and this has never happened before with an American president. I tell you from my experience, this also gives you confidence that he can stop this war. Zelensky's all in on Trump. Is this the Trump effect? Yes, it is.
This one's unambiguous. That's the Trump effect. Trump has already got the two warring sides to say, we're just waiting for you, big guy. Right? They're just saying, we're just waiting for you because we know you're going to wrap this up. And I know that you're going to tell both of us to do things we don't want to do, but we can't just do them because then we'd be surrendering.
So we need you to lean on both of us. because that's what we both need. We need Trump to lean on us so that when we say, ah, I definitely don't want to make this concession, but mean old Trump's going to make me do it. And then everybody's happy. It's the Trump effect. He's ending wars. Incredible. And then more Trump effect.
So Bill Maher has on his Club Random show, so that's his side show, not his regular show. He had actor John Cryer. Now, John Cryer is sort of politically oriented for an actor, and he's very pro-Democrat. But the clips, which I believe are chosen by Bill Maher himself or his team,
is where Bill Maher is basically mocking John Pryor for being in a news bubble and not understanding anything that's really happening. Just imagine that. He has on a guest who's just nothing but a left-leaning super Democrat, anti-Trumper, and the tenor of the conversation is Bill Maher, famous lefty,
telling another Democrat activist that he doesn't even understand anything, otherwise he wouldn't have that opinion. Is that the Trump effect? Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Indirectly. I mean, there's lots of things going on, but that's part of it. Now, I would like to, for the record, I've met John Cryer.
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