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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization today?
good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization so far if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass of tanker chalice a stein a canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee
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, and it happens now. Ah, good stuff. Delicious. All right, I'd like to start out with two corrections. These would both go into the category of, man, I'm stupid.
Chapter 2: What corrections did Scott Adams make?
So yesterday I confused the two assassins because they're both white guys with rifles who didn't get it done. And I thought that the I'd forgotten for a moment that the first one was dead on the scene and it was only the second one who survived. So no, there was no way that Trump could go talk to the guy in prison because he's pretty dead. So that's the first correction.
The other one, I can't believe I just found this out today, that when I said that David Axelrod was the attorney for CNN and Jake Tapper in their lawsuit, I just assumed it was David Axelrod, the one who was on the show, and they just figured, oh, you're an attorney. I didn't know he was. Maybe he's not. But it turns out it's a whole different David Axelrod.
So David Axelrod on TV, on CNN, is a different one from David Axelrod, the lawyer, who defended them from the lawsuit. Now, that's my fault, of course. But I just have to say there are too many David Axelrods associated with CNN. They just need fewer of them. That would make everything better for us.
If you're not following Dilbert, which you can only see on subscription these days, either on X, subscribe on X under my account, or on Locals, you would know that today is the day the fire reaches his house. And Dilbert is going to stay behind and try to save his house. So I don't want to give you a spoiler. But he might die. And he might not. You never know. It's a comic.
I can kill him anytime I want. Well, you'll be amazed to learn, according to Nutrients, some publication called Nutrients, coffee intake makes males more sociable and women more attractive, according to studies of mice. How do they know that the mice... or think each other is more attractive. I don't know. But I don't care. If it says coffee is good for you, I'm all in.
Did you know, and again, this is a big surprise, according to Surrey Live and Samantha Leathers, it turns out that exercise is good for your mental health. Huh. Huh. Just like every single day, we hear another study. But here's the interesting part. It's not every kind of exercise is equally good, but rather, for men, it was better to do yoga and qigong. I'm sure I pronounced that right. Qigong.
Qigong? Qigong? You know, that's where the old people get in the park and go, qigong. like that. That was my impression of qigong. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that. That's a word I've read a million times, but I've never heard a single person say it out loud. Anyway, so it's better for men to do yoga and this qigong stuff, and for women it might be better to do strength training.
But jogging and walking are good for everybody. Did we really need to study When you can kind of just look around and the people who exercise every day are clearly happier than the people who don't. Is that not screamingly obvious in your own life? If you see somebody who's like really fit because they exercise every day, they're almost always in a reasonably good mental health.
Now, some of this is cause and effect being reversed. If you're depressed, it's pretty hard to work out. Impossible, really. If you have actual real mental depression, getting out of bed is almost impossible. So some of it is the correlation is backwards, but some of it is clearly causation. If you've been exercising since you were a kid, you're almost certainly to be better off mentally.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the TikTok ban?
How do you think the Chinese citizens are reacting to Trump's election? Well, according to CNN, and this is part of the story, it's CNN saying it. That's almost bigger than the story itself. Watch this. CNN did an extended segment in which the entire point of it was that the Chinese public really likes Trump. And he's sort of a celebrity star over there.
They're making merchandise with his face on it in China. They have merchandise. And a lot of it is pro-Trump. And so he even has positive nicknames. So over there, they have some kind of very positive nickname for him, and they're all talking about him. And President Xi is sending the highest-ranking person who's ever gone to an inauguration, his VP. And, wow.
So CNN definitely seems to be trying to adjust and find that middle ground where they're not so just always anti-Trump all the time. More to that point, Jim Acosta, the correspondent slash host, who had been Trump's biggest nemesis and one of the biggest liars on CNN, he got moved to the midnight hour. So he went from 10 a.m., where he was doing so well, he was beating some of the primetime shows.
So there was nothing wrong with his numbers relative to the other numbers. And so that seems like a pretty big Trump win. If CNN wants to move their most ridiculous guy to midnight where nobody will watch him, and nobody's going to watch him at midnight. He's done as an influence. That's a pretty big deal. But Time Magazine is handling it differently.
So Time Magazine has an article in which they're helpfully suggesting to Democrats who are going to be very sad on Inauguration Day that maybe they should cope with it by forming crying groups so they can get together and cry together.
and also Something about walking through the forest to make them I think they call the forest bathing or something Where you just hang out in the forest for a while and try to get your mental health back Anyway, I have a better suggestion for time magazine instead of recommending that the losers go and Cry or walk in the forest, you know, it would be really helpful Why doesn't time magazine debunk the fine people hoax?
I so all those people who are going to cry don't have to. Wouldn't it be better to remove the reason for the crying? Because the reason for the crying is the fake news. If the news had ever been honest about the fine people hoax or any of the other hoaxes, people wouldn't be crying. Nobody would be crying over the reality. They're only crying over this weird
media created Trump monster thing that not everybody has heard was fake. So Mark Benioff, who's the founder of Salesforce, I believe owns Time Magazine now. So I tagged him in my little comment on this saying that maybe they should just debunk the fine people hoax because you may have heard that yesterday the fine people hoax got another one.
So billionaire, tech billionaire Mark Pincus, I think he still lives in the Bay Area, and he's been a lifelong Democrat and was all in on the Democrats, but he was talking to Chamath on the all-in pod, and he said he basically changed his mind on Trump. And Chamath stopped him and said, what was the moment Like, what was the thing that made you change your mind after?
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Chapter 4: How is China reacting to Trump's election?
And he's the perfect crossover person because when you see him do anything, you say, well, is that something that only Snoop could do? Because he lives in this weird world where respectable people like him. I do. If you ask me why I like Snoop so much, I don't know. I don't know. It would be hard to come up with a reason. Maybe it's because he's unapologetic and he doesn't apologize for anything.
That's pretty popular. Maybe it's because he's just his own person, and he's unforgiving in his effort to just be who he wants to be. We kind of like that. I don't know. There's something about it that just reaches people. But also, Carrie Underwood, that's a brave move. I will always respect that. And I think people like winners, and they like strength, and there was a manliness...
kind of a male energy that had been missing from the country. And I think we could feel it. I think both men and women, Republicans and Democrats, could feel the just extraordinary lack of male energy. But it's back. It's back. The male energy, as I imagine, couldn't be stopped. It would be like putting the toothpaste back in the tube. It could be somewhere. Well, that's a bad analogy.
Forget that analogy. But anyway, the New York Times shows in polling that Americans now overwhelmingly support GOP positions on numerous trans issues. So Daily Wire is reporting this. Amanda Prestigiacomo. Wow, what a nice name. Amanda Prestigiacomo. That's just a great name. I can't pronounce it, but I feel like if I could, it would sound extraordinary. Anyway.
She's writing that, according to a New York Times Ipsos survey, 79% of Americans... I looked at myself in a recording and I realized that I looked down too much. You're just looking at the top of my head. So I'm going to lift up my notes so it's not as egregious. 79% of Americans believe males should not be able to participate in female sports, even if the athlete identifies as transgender. 79%.
79% are on the same page. Now, obviously, it's weighted toward conservatives, but even the Democrats by majority. So, yeah, even 54% of Democrats were against medication for minors. So converting minors wasn't popular with the majority of Democrats or Republicans. And look how far it got. I mean, everything was broken. Everything was just broken.
21%.
A little bit more and it'd be one quarter. Couldn't even get up to 25%. I joke, if you're new to me, I always joke that 25% will get every poll question wrong. No matter how easy the question is, The poll question is, is it better for the economy to be strong or for the economy to be weak? 25% weak. What? No, this isn't really a question. Strong is the only right answer. Weak, 25%.
It's just so consistent. Couldn't even get 25% to say that we hadn't gone too far. Mike Johnson talks about Biden not even recalling that he had paused some LNG shipments. And so first of all, I'm a little angry at Mike Johnson for not telling us this until it didn't matter. It wasn't that long ago, so maybe it never mattered because Trump had already been elected.
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Chapter 5: What are the latest developments regarding CNN?
If it didn't really make any difference, because the election was over, and it would just make it hard for Johnson to work on the transition... I probably wouldn't have said anything until I was sure the transition was working okay. Because it would have been creating a problem with Biden that didn't need to be created because there was no benefit from it. It was good that we found out eventually.
That part's good. I'm going to say Mike Johnson probably played it correctly because getting the transition right was, at the moment, more important than just one more piece of evidence that Biden's brain was shot. We already knew that. But it was funny seeing a video from the time of this in which Corinne Jean-Pierre, the spokesperson, was asked, you know, why does Biden even care about this?
Like, what's behind this? And she tried to explain it without knowing anything about the topic. It was like, well, it's because the importance of it to the public and to the to the way we, the public, and also the very, he cares about it, he cares about it, and it's because the importance, it's very important.
So the importance to the public and the importance of it is what, and it was just hilarious. She didn't even know what the issue was. So who the hell was in charge? Anyway. And so you put it all together and you can see that there's a complete collapse of the Democrat Party. And I have a theory about what causes the acceleration of the crash.
If you divide voters into two types, there's the people who follow politics, and maybe that's 5%, and they would be influenced by seeing both sides of an issue. So Mark Pincus probably followed politics enough that he would read an article about the fine people hoax and change his opinion based on new data.
That seems to be true for some of the tech leaders who are leaning Trump, that they did follow politics, as they should, as part of their job. And so they saw earlier that factually they could make a change because the facts were now different than what they once understood. But most people are not in that category. So my hypothesis is that for the vast number of people who vote,
but really couldn't answer any question about politics. If you went to the average person and asked any question, just any question about anything in politics, and look what comes out of their mouth, it doesn't matter who it is. You just look what comes out of their mouth and you go, do you follow the news at all? That's what it feels like.
I think that that group, the people with weak preferences or don't follow the news that much, that for them, their choice of candidate and choice of party is closer to a fashion accessory. It's a way to support their brand.
So if you thought one side was the evil side and one side was the good and open-minded side and you thought you were good and open-minded, you would back the good and open-minded side as you had been taught to. But I think at this point, Biden and Harris have so destroyed the brand I mean, just absolutely destroyed it. And there's nobody on deck.
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Chapter 6: How did the fine people hoax influence perceptions?
So now you're hearing good things from everybody, from Bill Gates to Bezos to Elon kicking it off, the all-in-pod guys. I hate lumping them all together, but it's faster to say it that way. So now, if you wanted to be associated with something where the most awesome people in the country are associated... To me, the most awesome people are the ones who are making the biggest difference, positive.
And they seem to be almost universally moving toward Trump. Everybody from Jamie Dimon saying, hey, hey, those tariffs are actually a good idea for negotiating. It's really everything. So everybody who's smart and capable and especially manly, because that matters, you know, no matter what you think of manliness, it matters to politics. So it has to be mentioned. Trump has it all. China loves him.
The public loves him. You can wear a red hat now. And I think that means that what it looks like is a complete collapse on the Democrat side. But I think you're also going to see it in polls. You're going to see that they're just not going to vote for the ridiculousness anymore. Or at least enough of them won't. And here's just such a good example of the total collapse of the Democrat Party.
So I always talk about two movies on one screen, how you can watch the same thing and come up with two different views. As Owen Gregorian was saying on X yesterday, it seems this 28th Amendment story has formed into two movies against all odds because it's a pure factual statement that is super easy to check. does the 28th Amendment exist or does it not exist in a confirmed, proved way?
And the answer is it's not. It's not confirmed, and therefore it doesn't exist. But because both Biden and Harris posted on excellent and social media that it was real and that they're responsible for making it real, Democrats think it's real. Republicans know it's not. So of all things, it's literally the easiest thing you could check. Is this part of the Constitution or not?
One Google search would be the same answer every time. It's not even being covered up by part of the news. So it's not like MSNBC is saying it's real. Even they're not saying it's real. I need a fact check on that, but they're not saying that's real, right? And still it creates two movies. Half the country probably thinks it's real.
Anyway, Democrat strategists are whining about the future of the party, and one of my favorite was Jamal Simmons, one of the Democrats' strategists. And he said that their vibe is off. Our vibe is off. Got to burn down our image. See how he talked about image? He didn't say we have to improve our policies. He didn't say our policies need to match the American public.
He's completely aware that their policies don't match the majority of the public. So instead of saying we need better policies, he says we have to work on our image. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying that they treat it like it's an image problem, and it worked. Under Clinton, it worked. But you're going to need a real candidate.
If you don't have a candidate, image is not going to get you anywhere because your policies are dead on arrival. So the fact that they haven't figured that out yet is amazing. But when you poll Democrats about who they'd like to see run next time, and you include, let's see, Newsom and
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of conservative culture rising?
I mean, it might be something that just didn't even affect them. So I think this is just a desperate attempt to not lose the black vote. Oh, I guess Nelly is also. So Snoop Dogg and Nelly are both performing. Okay. Okay. All right. That's all I got for now. So I'm going to talk to the locals people for a few minutes privately. And then we'll see you all tomorrow. Same time, same place.
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