Scott Adams - Covid - The Jab - An Honest Chat
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Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening. It is the first day of June. It's Sunday, June, 1 2025 the year has been flying by. I have been watching a gentleman by the name of Scott Adams for years, and his recent cancer announcement has me thinking about credibility, I mean, and how dramatically government decisions affect all of our lives. Let me be really clear up front, I do wish Scott and President Biden, who's dealing with the exact same diagnosis, all the best. And nobody deserves to suffer from cancer regardless of what they've said or done. And we're going to talk about that. Have a real, honest conversation about these two fellows. So it is what it is. Scott is an interesting discussion. I think you're going to find my twist on this to be unique. Let's get the disclaimer out of the way. We'll be right back right after this.
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We need to talk honestly about Scott Adams and his complete lack of credibility on issues that he claims to be an expert in. Now, for those of you who don't know Scott Adams, he created a cartoon character by name of Dilbert. We all loved it years ago. It's the workplace comic strip that was in over 2000 newspapers when we actually had newspapers, and that's what at his peak 2000 is pretty impressive. He parlayed that success into business writing and daily live streams called real coffee with Scott Adams. And I've watched a lot of them I've listened to more than I've watched when I'm working out and when I'm going for a walk or riding a bike or in the car. And he positioned himself as some kind of a master persuader, which was always really interesting, because my background and what I know, and you know, having classes in interviews and interrogations and my background from a long, long time ago, I found it interesting. He called himself a master persuader and a researcher, and his research, I found, was always so, so. But the guy built a brand around being analytically brilliant and seeing through things that others missed. Now here's the problem, his research has been consistently terrible. In my opinion, his timing on major issues shows he's usually way behind the curve the
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Yeah. So let's take COVID, for example, by January of 2020, there were a lot of us who were paying a lot of attention to what was going on. Now, we were following COVID very closely in August and September of 2019 and we took very seriously this threat, real seriously, because we had a real bad result as as a result of the swine flu in 2009 that hurt our family hard. We were a lot of illness net. I'm not going to go into the details, but by January of 2020, we could see all the contradictions, the fear mongering, the power grabs, all being disguised as public health. And you should know that during this time frame, my engagement with people down in Tampa, in particular in the West Shore area, because I was heavily involved back in the day down there. I lost a lot of business. I lost a lot of clients, a lot of prospective clients. But I knew I was right. I was vindicated, because I told people this is not what you think it is. We have the RNA and mRNA you have, you got to understand the differences in these, these viruses. And this is not a traditional vaccine. This is a genetic modifier. Now, we knew lockdowns were psychologically manipulative from day one, and I said this on a regular basis, you can't flatten the curve. And one of the things I did do is I studied, for example, extensively the depression and what Roosevelt did and how he did not flatten the curve when it came to the depression. Now, I'm know we're talking about economics and a virus. You might say they don't mix, but they do, and if sometimes you just gotta let things happen. In other words, you keep propping up somebody who's sick and not letting them die, nobody wins on that. So this whole thing about flat. The curve of respiratory virus through lockdowns that has never worked in history, absolutely never. Oh, but where Scott Adams comes in, he's supposed to be the master analyst, right? So he winds up getting shots in early 2021 and he predicted that vaccines would, again, the COVID vaccine, that it's not a vaccine, but it would crush the pandemic. Well, it didn't, but that wasn't until mid 2022 that he started questioning everything. So this was, like, two and a half years after we had been saying to everybody, guys, this is hogwash, and I would anyone who would listen. You know, they would some would take it, some wouldn't. And I know a lot of you listen. I got a lot of clients that got jabbed. I know they did bingo, and we've talked about it. Some of the people I know that when I say this, they get mad at me, because I think a lot of folks truly do realize they've made a mistake. They wish they could do it over again. So, you know, they kind of like, don't want to be told in their face. I get it, but here's the thing. By 2023 in January, he was finally concluding that the anti vaxxers Were the clear winners, and that the vaccinated took far too many risks with no rewards. So he was way behind us in this we're talking like three years now behind us, and he's doing his research, and he's an independent thinker. So one of the things you're going to see is people who are all pro Vax, all pro Vax, all pro government, everything else. They're going to just have a field day with him, and then others are going to do as well because of what he wound up doing with racial relations. So this is not a vaccine that we're talking about. So genetic modifier, it violated every established rule for vaccine development. Pharmaceutical companies demanded unprecedented legal immunity, and they got it normal vaccine development that takes oh, five to 15 years. These things were just rushed out in less than a year. I would still like them to find a cure to the common cold, but apparently they can't. They're using completely new technology, no long term safety data. You know, a lot of times they do these vaccines and in this research, and they go to places like Africa and they kill, you know, 1000s and hundreds of 1000s of people over there before they bring it over here. Not exactly a cool thing, right? But what these products do on long term is they eliminated their control groups by giving placebos to recipients and a real shot to others. The whole thing was built on systemic lies that destroyed lives. Remember that 15 days occur to flatten the curve? Yeah, that was complete psychological manipulation, complete the mask mandates a flip flop. Oh, no, new evidence, and then arbitrary a six foot social distancing rule. And then they later said they made it up. And, oh, here's the thing, I was told that I'm an asymptomatic spreader, right? I mean, because I, I think I got COVID for maybe a day or two, because I remember feeling under the weather a little bit, and I stayed in bed and, you know, drank my chicken soup. But, you know, we were told that we were super spreaders. That's a hoax, and even the World Health Organization has admitted that's very rare for anyone who is, you know, being forced to well, they walked back within 24 hours, basically, when they were confronted on it. Then you had people like Nancy Pelosi, who was, you know, incredibly articulate during this, this whole thing, to understand
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the admit, the biological step, the spread of the virus. But
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you had two bookends. You had Pelosi and Biden boy. We could, we could have a field day with with inserts there and they told us the shots would would stop the transmission the virus stops with every vaccinated person. Remember that clinical trials were never tested. They were never tested. This was a lie. They just justified mandates. They remember the vaccine passports. This is the most authoritarian policy in modern history. People lost jobs, they were banned from society. Families were destroyed, people died. It's all based upon deliberate deception, and nobody has gone to jail, nobody. Meanwhile, they suppressed safe, effective and early treatments. We know this. Okay? We have a 65 year old medication that was suddenly declared dangerous, ivermectin, a Nobel Prize winning drug safer than Tylenol, mocked as horse dewormer. You have doctors who were threatened but losing their licenses because they wanted to self save patients. Oh, these weren't the proven protocols. This, we were killing People right and left. Oh,
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do To understand, admit the ecological step the spread of the virus.
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Oh, yeah. So hospital protocols were even worse. I mean, you remember all the damn mandates? You know, it caused kidney failures. You had people on ventilators. 80% of them were on ventilators. They died. Dn error orders were placed without consent on people. Oh, nope, he's got a DNR, do not resuscitate. They didn't sign them. Nobody's going to jail. And then the guy who's the governor in California, in California, the governor in New York, these guys killed people, and they want to be president united states. They'll get 40% of the vote. They might even win because Americans are dumb, on the average, in a home, for the most part, they're just dumb. The financial incentives were all lying to death, not healing. But this takes God Adams again. He missed all of this in real time. He got played by the very institutions he claims to see through. Now this came in, you know, with his spectacular fall from grace, it reveals another critical flaw in his analytical abilities. Now, the guy's going to die, and I feel bad about it, but in February of 2023 I have to wonder, did his COVID and cancer? Because he already had cancer, we believe, was it affecting his brain. Now, he has said that his prostate cancer has gotten to the bones and has gone into his brain. He made some really racist comments about black Americans. He said that it's a hate group. If you're black, you're part of a hate group. He said that he advised white people to get away from black people, and within 48 hours, all the remaining people who had the Dilbert comic strip, they dropped him, they cut the syndicate ties. His publisher killed his future book deal. YouTube, once again, limited his ads and content. But here's where, where the really, really the story is. It shows his poor research skills, because here's what he did, and this is something I say over and over and over, you gotta do this. Okay? He based his comments on a Rasmussen poll, and they asked people if they agreed with this phrase. Now, here's what it says, It's okay to be white. Now you agree or disagree or you don't have an opinion, it's okay to be white. That's I can go on for hours because I do a lot of polling in the work that I do as a forecaster. I'm always connecting the dots. When you are engaged in investment and wealth advice and management, you have to continually read the tea leaves out there. What he didn't examine was the sample size of methodology, the context, or the obvious problems of drawing sweeping conclusions from this data, look, a lot of these polling companies are garbage, absolute garbage. Oh, because they're opinionated like anything else. And he got completely taken by sloppy polling. Then he reacted emotionally instead of analytically. And this is the guy who calls himself a master persuader and researcher. I'm sorry, it just, I don't buy it. It's, it's just bad, okay? And he can't even properly analyze basic polling. I mean, there's a lot of really bad polling out there, and he then winds up making career ending statements. Now he's facing prostate cancer, and there's speculation that he might be connecting it to his COVID shots. That's what he's implying. And look, I don't know what causes cancer. I genuinely hope he recovers by all statements that he's made, he's not neither will Biden and given his track record for being wrong about major issues and a tendency towards conspiracy thinking when it suits his narrative, anything he says now about health is got to be taken with a lot of skepticism. The other thing is, he didn't follow normal protocol for treatment. He used different treatments. Okay? Just, he just didn't do what he should have done. So the real issue here. Isn't that Scott Adams has a personally, you know, it's how the government decisions affect businesses, education, people's lives. COVID response destroyed small businesses while enriching big corporations. We want you to remember that it is hard for a small business owner to make a go in this world when you're competing against big companies, oh, there's listen the guys that do plumbing and painting and drywall, yard mowing. I mean, you can develop a nice business and make a lot of money and be a multi millionaire many times over, but when you go against the big guys, like in our business, good luck. The COVID response literally destroyed businesses, as I said, while enriching big, giant, global and national corporations, it devastated your children's education, your grandchildren's education. It created mental health crisis, incredibly and frankly, it transferred one of the largest amounts of wealth in human history to pharmaceutical companies that made billionaires and billionaires out of people. Well, I need to get a cup of coffee. I'll be right back right after this. You
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in case you didn't know it, I'm doing this live, and we've got a nice the sound board, and everything's working just fine and dandy. But let's connect the bigger question here, okay, let's really go into this. When does social media become a public utility? And it's a big question for me. I've been talking about this for more than 10 years. Well, yeah, probably 15 years. These platforms control the flow of information. They can destroy careers overnight. We saw this with Adams. YouTube was already demonetizing him and his content before COVID, his controversial topics, but then the racism controversy triggered a complete professional collapse. If these platforms function as modern public squares, shouldn't they be regulated like utilities rather than private companies? Listen, I get it. Oh, every Republican, we don't want any more regulation, but at the same time, you have to understand what a public utility is, and some of these folks have got just unlimited power to silence their voice. Okay, you know what happened to Trump? So Adams got to monetize just like Joe Rogan and others who questioned official narratives, but his racial comments were what really finished him off. The timing shows that, well, these platforms pick and choose when they want to enforce the consequences, but the bottom line is this, Scott Adams has no credibility left. He's dying, and we should feel sorry for him, but it doesn't negate the fact that his analytical skills proved inadequate. One of the biggest issues for our time, he consistently got it wrong, and, you know, he just didn't recognize the obvious problems. Now, I expect haters to hate more now that he's sick and all the weirdos are going to come out of the woodwork, and that's unfortunate, but nobody should be attacked when they're battling cancer, they should be attacked for the stupid stuff they did before, but not once they get diagnosed and they're suffering. His suffering does not restore credibility or make his previous analysis any more accurate. It just is what it is here. Now I want to do a quick sidebar here, and let me give you a couple of things that I think we should remember. Remember when they said it would take 15 days to flatten the curve in two weeks, we'll do lockdowns and we'll all be fine and dandy. That was psychological manipulation. It was designed to get compliance for unprecedented government control. You know that the same officials that were promoting lockdowns were caught violating it? Gavin Newsom, who wants to be president? Okay? That jackass went to a French Laundry, okay? Nancy Pelosi, are babbling? Brooke here, okay? To understand
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the admit, the ecological step, the spread of the virus. Yeah,
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she went to a hair salon. Boris Johnson of Downing Street. He had parties. So it's the old thing, you know, the rules are for thee, not for me. And so we went ahead. Destroyed, you know, businesses, children's education, devastated. Mental Health Crisis exploded. People with domestic violence went bonkers. And so you had all these people who were being delayed with treatments. You couldn't get into the hospitals. But COVID killed him, not the delay in treatment. So the cure was definitely, I think, many ways, way worse than the disease he had, the constant flip flopping. Remember March of 2020, when Fauci told on 60 Minutes, masks don't work for respiratory viruses. And then in. April, the same officials said, we have to have universal masking. No new evidence, but they said it. And what did Fauci do? He went right along with it. So decades of research show cloth masks are really basically ineffective against respiratory viruses. But what did we do? We had all these officials Obama's birthday party. Remember, everybody was unmasked. All these Democrat parties on planes, they had no problem. They had the Met Gala, all unmasked. I was at a thing called West Shore Alliance in West Shore Tampa, at an event they lost their minds because they came in without a mask, you have to have this on. Okay? So I put this little paper mask on. And then when we got into the ballroom and sat down at our table, where you had eight or 12 people at it, everybody took their mask off to eat. Hello. What a freaking joke. And children have been forced to wear masks for years, damaging Social Development Language skills. I mean, it's just unbelievable. The science, oh, yeah, remember the science of the six foot rule that was arbitrary? It was made up. There's no scientific evidence for that. Restaurants were limited to 25% capacity. Remember when churches got shut down? We had a sheriff in Hillsborough County. He got reelected, and he's a Republican who put a minister in jail. Oh, but big box stores like Walmart were able to stay open. Okay, no problem. Strip clubs were able to stay open. BML, Black Lives Matter. Protests were magically exempt from social distancing. Come on, what happened? Super spreader events but didn't apply to black folks. The thing that always slayed me is that, you know, they never talked about the millions and millions of people who live on the streets, right? I mean, they they should have dropped dead like crazy. They didn't. Why? Because they were outside getting vitamin D. You know, you have to sit back and go, Okay, what's going on here? It was a fear campaign. Healthy people were told by doctors that everybody's a threat. Okay? I was accused of being an asymptomatic super spreader, like I said. I got sick maybe for a day or two, but what did I do? I immediately. We washed, we cleaned, we stayed as healthy. We don't eat crap, that's the big thing. We don't eat sugar. We don't drink sugary, caffeinated Buble drinks. I don't do that. But again, the hysteria, okay, the hysteria, wiping down the mail. Who we did that for a while. We did but it's just, it's cleaning theater. We spent billions of dollars on these machines, and oh, it it just didn't make sense. We spent so many billions of dollars on useless sanitation protocols now that maybe some of that is working out. By the way, if you want to keep from getting sick, brush your teeth at least four or five times a day. I know that in Shan's hospital, they want everybody who is an overnight patient there to brush your teeth, I think four or seven times a day. So this is where Scott Adams vindication becomes powerful. He said he saw through the biggest lie. No, he didn't. He was late on the thing. Pharmaceutical companies, they demanded immunity from lawsuits. They got it. I know it's just we could go on and on and on. The rush job to get everything through. We were lied to. We were lied to, and some people who claim to be oh so knowledgeable, they just weren't. Data was manipulated. These boosters forever. I went into Walgreens to get something. One day, I was standing at the counter, and these two folks were old. They might have been my age, but they looked old, the skinny, oh, they look like mom Paul kettle on a bad, really bad, bad day, and they were very upset that they couldn't get another COVID shot. I'm not making this up. The lady behind the counter was very professional, and she did everything told me. She said, You have gotten every shot. There is they wanted another one. And I heard her say, you have already had 11 COVID shots. I don't think you need another one. And they were upset. They weren't screaming, they weren't hollering. But boy, were they upset about it, folks, what in the same hell do you think people are doing? They were not cognitively competent, just like maybe Scott Adams wasn't cognitively competent when he said what he said, Because if he had prostate cancer, then has been in his bones and already get into his head, I don't know. I don't care what he said was outrageous, but studies are showing that, again, a lot of people have been getting what we'd call lethal doses, and they've been falling down. Look at the number of athletes that died, myocarditis, heart issues. Look at the number of people on television just passed out. Oh, like, that's really common. Then you had the mock. Mockery. He had a mockery of of a horse dewormer, right? Remember that, even though it's safer than Tylenol, yeah, suppression of doctors who truly wanted to treat people the death toll is is got to be huge. I don't know that we'll ever find out really what happened. I don't I don't trust the current administration. Don't trust the past administrations, because that should have all been released by now. All of it, I think if the American public really knew what went on, they'd lose their cookies, just like if we really knew what went on with Epstein and we knew what went on with Kennedy, oh my goodness, it. People would lose their manner. They would just lose it. So you had Fauci, we could talk about him forever. We had basically death sentences that hospitals became really killing fields for many people, not here in Florida, but a lot of other places. So this early incubation, intubation and standard ventilators killed about 80% of the people they had them on. I don't know if you knew that. I know a police officer I used to work with, and he died in town here, it just is what it is. The big thing is, you had DNR orders that were placed on people. They did never, they never signed them. So the censorship, you know, you've got so many sensors out there. You've had it just nonstop the media. The media is just a complete joke, no if ands or buts about it. So I guess you know, I really want to bring this up again, because you need to think this stuff through really hardcore. Okay, you got to think it through really hardcore. Because the reality in life is, is that when you hear something like the news, right? Oh, we we have to believe the news.
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No, you don't. These people are horrible. Now, I'll be real blunt with you. I expect haters to hate more than than ever. But the lesson here is you have to be independent in your thinking, you have to have the courage to see through institutional lies. And it really does matter. Some of us were way ahead of the curve on this stuff. I have some folks, great clients of mine, and they said no to it. I have other clients that were fantastic. Got jabbed, got jabbed again, and now they wish they hadn't. I've got a gentleman who has got massive brain injury, Sal rock solid two days after, boom, he's done. I could go on for hours from the things that we've dealt with, but again, you can't trust the institutions like you used to, and that's sad, because we need to. When the government says, you know, we've got to go to war, which eventually we will, we'll be at war with China. It's just a matter of time. You know, people are gonna say, I don't know about this, they've proven themselves untrustworthy. So you got Adams. You know, he trusted the same institutions until it was far too late. Then he tried to position himself as being vindicated when he was actually just catching up on what others had figured out years earlier. And when it comes to government, yeah, decisions are made that have massive consequences for all of us. We need people who can analyze and decisions need to be made in real time. So damage is the damage with that typical New Tyler two I'm out here later. Bye. This
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Rough Outline
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Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening. It is the first day of June. It's Sunday, June, 1 2025 the year has been flying by. I have been watching a gentleman by the name of Scott Adams for years, and his recent cancer announcement has me thinking about credibility, I mean, and how dramatically government decisions affect all of our lives. Let me be really clear up front, I do wish Scott and President Biden, who's dealing with the exact same diagnosis, all the best. And nobody deserves to suffer from cancer regardless of what they've said or done. And we're going to talk about that. Have a real, honest conversation about these two fellows. So it is what it is. Scott is an interesting discussion. I think you're going to find my twist on this to be unique. Let's get the disclaimer out of the way. We'll be right back right after this.
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We need to talk honestly about Scott Adams and his complete lack of credibility on issues that he claims to be an expert in. Now, for those of you who don't know Scott Adams, he created a cartoon character by name of Dilbert. We all loved it years ago. It's the workplace comic strip that was in over 2000 newspapers when we actually had newspapers, and that's what at his peak 2000 is pretty impressive. He parlayed that success into business writing and daily live streams called real coffee with Scott Adams. And I've watched a lot of them I've listened to more than I've watched when I'm working out and when I'm going for a walk or riding a bike or in the car. And he positioned himself as some kind of a master persuader, which was always really interesting, because my background and what I know, and you know, having classes in interviews and interrogations and my background from a long, long time ago, I found it interesting. He called himself a master persuader and a researcher, and his research, I found, was always so, so. But the guy built a brand around being analytically brilliant and seeing through things that others missed. Now here's the problem, his research has been consistently terrible. In my opinion, his timing on major issues shows he's usually way behind the curve the
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Yeah. So let's take COVID, for example, by January of 2020, there were a lot of us who were paying a lot of attention to what was going on. Now, we were following COVID very closely in August and September of 2019 and we took very seriously this threat, real seriously, because we had a real bad result as as a result of the swine flu in 2009 that hurt our family hard. We were a lot of illness net. I'm not going to go into the details, but by January of 2020, we could see all the contradictions, the fear mongering, the power grabs, all being disguised as public health. And you should know that during this time frame, my engagement with people down in Tampa, in particular in the West Shore area, because I was heavily involved back in the day down there. I lost a lot of business. I lost a lot of clients, a lot of prospective clients. But I knew I was right. I was vindicated, because I told people this is not what you think it is. We have the RNA and mRNA you have, you got to understand the differences in these, these viruses. And this is not a traditional vaccine. This is a genetic modifier. Now, we knew lockdowns were psychologically manipulative from day one, and I said this on a regular basis, you can't flatten the curve. And one of the things I did do is I studied, for example, extensively the depression and what Roosevelt did and how he did not flatten the curve when it came to the depression. Now, I'm know we're talking about economics and a virus. You might say they don't mix, but they do, and if sometimes you just gotta let things happen. In other words, you keep propping up somebody who's sick and not letting them die, nobody wins on that. So this whole thing about flat. The curve of respiratory virus through lockdowns that has never worked in history, absolutely never. Oh, but where Scott Adams comes in, he's supposed to be the master analyst, right? So he winds up getting shots in early 2021 and he predicted that vaccines would, again, the COVID vaccine, that it's not a vaccine, but it would crush the pandemic. Well, it didn't, but that wasn't until mid 2022 that he started questioning everything. So this was, like, two and a half years after we had been saying to everybody, guys, this is hogwash, and I would anyone who would listen. You know, they would some would take it, some wouldn't. And I know a lot of you listen. I got a lot of clients that got jabbed. I know they did bingo, and we've talked about it. Some of the people I know that when I say this, they get mad at me, because I think a lot of folks truly do realize they've made a mistake. They wish they could do it over again. So, you know, they kind of like, don't want to be told in their face. I get it, but here's the thing. By 2023 in January, he was finally concluding that the anti vaxxers Were the clear winners, and that the vaccinated took far too many risks with no rewards. So he was way behind us in this we're talking like three years now behind us, and he's doing his research, and he's an independent thinker. So one of the things you're going to see is people who are all pro Vax, all pro Vax, all pro government, everything else. They're going to just have a field day with him, and then others are going to do as well because of what he wound up doing with racial relations. So this is not a vaccine that we're talking about. So genetic modifier, it violated every established rule for vaccine development. Pharmaceutical companies demanded unprecedented legal immunity, and they got it normal vaccine development that takes oh, five to 15 years. These things were just rushed out in less than a year. I would still like them to find a cure to the common cold, but apparently they can't. They're using completely new technology, no long term safety data. You know, a lot of times they do these vaccines and in this research, and they go to places like Africa and they kill, you know, 1000s and hundreds of 1000s of people over there before they bring it over here. Not exactly a cool thing, right? But what these products do on long term is they eliminated their control groups by giving placebos to recipients and a real shot to others. The whole thing was built on systemic lies that destroyed lives. Remember that 15 days occur to flatten the curve? Yeah, that was complete psychological manipulation, complete the mask mandates a flip flop. Oh, no, new evidence, and then arbitrary a six foot social distancing rule. And then they later said they made it up. And, oh, here's the thing, I was told that I'm an asymptomatic spreader, right? I mean, because I, I think I got COVID for maybe a day or two, because I remember feeling under the weather a little bit, and I stayed in bed and, you know, drank my chicken soup. But, you know, we were told that we were super spreaders. That's a hoax, and even the World Health Organization has admitted that's very rare for anyone who is, you know, being forced to well, they walked back within 24 hours, basically, when they were confronted on it. Then you had people like Nancy Pelosi, who was, you know, incredibly articulate during this, this whole thing, to understand
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the admit, the biological step, the spread of the virus. But
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you had two bookends. You had Pelosi and Biden boy. We could, we could have a field day with with inserts there and they told us the shots would would stop the transmission the virus stops with every vaccinated person. Remember that clinical trials were never tested. They were never tested. This was a lie. They just justified mandates. They remember the vaccine passports. This is the most authoritarian policy in modern history. People lost jobs, they were banned from society. Families were destroyed, people died. It's all based upon deliberate deception, and nobody has gone to jail, nobody. Meanwhile, they suppressed safe, effective and early treatments. We know this. Okay? We have a 65 year old medication that was suddenly declared dangerous, ivermectin, a Nobel Prize winning drug safer than Tylenol, mocked as horse dewormer. You have doctors who were threatened but losing their licenses because they wanted to self save patients. Oh, these weren't the proven protocols. This, we were killing People right and left. Oh,
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do To understand, admit the ecological step the spread of the virus.
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Oh, yeah. So hospital protocols were even worse. I mean, you remember all the damn mandates? You know, it caused kidney failures. You had people on ventilators. 80% of them were on ventilators. They died. Dn error orders were placed without consent on people. Oh, nope, he's got a DNR, do not resuscitate. They didn't sign them. Nobody's going to jail. And then the guy who's the governor in California, in California, the governor in New York, these guys killed people, and they want to be president united states. They'll get 40% of the vote. They might even win because Americans are dumb, on the average, in a home, for the most part, they're just dumb. The financial incentives were all lying to death, not healing. But this takes God Adams again. He missed all of this in real time. He got played by the very institutions he claims to see through. Now this came in, you know, with his spectacular fall from grace, it reveals another critical flaw in his analytical abilities. Now, the guy's going to die, and I feel bad about it, but in February of 2023 I have to wonder, did his COVID and cancer? Because he already had cancer, we believe, was it affecting his brain. Now, he has said that his prostate cancer has gotten to the bones and has gone into his brain. He made some really racist comments about black Americans. He said that it's a hate group. If you're black, you're part of a hate group. He said that he advised white people to get away from black people, and within 48 hours, all the remaining people who had the Dilbert comic strip, they dropped him, they cut the syndicate ties. His publisher killed his future book deal. YouTube, once again, limited his ads and content. But here's where, where the really, really the story is. It shows his poor research skills, because here's what he did, and this is something I say over and over and over, you gotta do this. Okay? He based his comments on a Rasmussen poll, and they asked people if they agreed with this phrase. Now, here's what it says, It's okay to be white. Now you agree or disagree or you don't have an opinion, it's okay to be white. That's I can go on for hours because I do a lot of polling in the work that I do as a forecaster. I'm always connecting the dots. When you are engaged in investment and wealth advice and management, you have to continually read the tea leaves out there. What he didn't examine was the sample size of methodology, the context, or the obvious problems of drawing sweeping conclusions from this data, look, a lot of these polling companies are garbage, absolute garbage. Oh, because they're opinionated like anything else. And he got completely taken by sloppy polling. Then he reacted emotionally instead of analytically. And this is the guy who calls himself a master persuader and researcher. I'm sorry, it just, I don't buy it. It's, it's just bad, okay? And he can't even properly analyze basic polling. I mean, there's a lot of really bad polling out there, and he then winds up making career ending statements. Now he's facing prostate cancer, and there's speculation that he might be connecting it to his COVID shots. That's what he's implying. And look, I don't know what causes cancer. I genuinely hope he recovers by all statements that he's made, he's not neither will Biden and given his track record for being wrong about major issues and a tendency towards conspiracy thinking when it suits his narrative, anything he says now about health is got to be taken with a lot of skepticism. The other thing is, he didn't follow normal protocol for treatment. He used different treatments. Okay? Just, he just didn't do what he should have done. So the real issue here. Isn't that Scott Adams has a personally, you know, it's how the government decisions affect businesses, education, people's lives. COVID response destroyed small businesses while enriching big corporations. We want you to remember that it is hard for a small business owner to make a go in this world when you're competing against big companies, oh, there's listen the guys that do plumbing and painting and drywall, yard mowing. I mean, you can develop a nice business and make a lot of money and be a multi millionaire many times over, but when you go against the big guys, like in our business, good luck. The COVID response literally destroyed businesses, as I said, while enriching big, giant, global and national corporations, it devastated your children's education, your grandchildren's education. It created mental health crisis, incredibly and frankly, it transferred one of the largest amounts of wealth in human history to pharmaceutical companies that made billionaires and billionaires out of people. Well, I need to get a cup of coffee. I'll be right back right after this. You
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in case you didn't know it, I'm doing this live, and we've got a nice the sound board, and everything's working just fine and dandy. But let's connect the bigger question here, okay, let's really go into this. When does social media become a public utility? And it's a big question for me. I've been talking about this for more than 10 years. Well, yeah, probably 15 years. These platforms control the flow of information. They can destroy careers overnight. We saw this with Adams. YouTube was already demonetizing him and his content before COVID, his controversial topics, but then the racism controversy triggered a complete professional collapse. If these platforms function as modern public squares, shouldn't they be regulated like utilities rather than private companies? Listen, I get it. Oh, every Republican, we don't want any more regulation, but at the same time, you have to understand what a public utility is, and some of these folks have got just unlimited power to silence their voice. Okay, you know what happened to Trump? So Adams got to monetize just like Joe Rogan and others who questioned official narratives, but his racial comments were what really finished him off. The timing shows that, well, these platforms pick and choose when they want to enforce the consequences, but the bottom line is this, Scott Adams has no credibility left. He's dying, and we should feel sorry for him, but it doesn't negate the fact that his analytical skills proved inadequate. One of the biggest issues for our time, he consistently got it wrong, and, you know, he just didn't recognize the obvious problems. Now, I expect haters to hate more now that he's sick and all the weirdos are going to come out of the woodwork, and that's unfortunate, but nobody should be attacked when they're battling cancer, they should be attacked for the stupid stuff they did before, but not once they get diagnosed and they're suffering. His suffering does not restore credibility or make his previous analysis any more accurate. It just is what it is here. Now I want to do a quick sidebar here, and let me give you a couple of things that I think we should remember. Remember when they said it would take 15 days to flatten the curve in two weeks, we'll do lockdowns and we'll all be fine and dandy. That was psychological manipulation. It was designed to get compliance for unprecedented government control. You know that the same officials that were promoting lockdowns were caught violating it? Gavin Newsom, who wants to be president? Okay? That jackass went to a French Laundry, okay? Nancy Pelosi, are babbling? Brooke here, okay? To understand
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the admit, the ecological step, the spread of the virus. Yeah,
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she went to a hair salon. Boris Johnson of Downing Street. He had parties. So it's the old thing, you know, the rules are for thee, not for me. And so we went ahead. Destroyed, you know, businesses, children's education, devastated. Mental Health Crisis exploded. People with domestic violence went bonkers. And so you had all these people who were being delayed with treatments. You couldn't get into the hospitals. But COVID killed him, not the delay in treatment. So the cure was definitely, I think, many ways, way worse than the disease he had, the constant flip flopping. Remember March of 2020, when Fauci told on 60 Minutes, masks don't work for respiratory viruses. And then in. April, the same officials said, we have to have universal masking. No new evidence, but they said it. And what did Fauci do? He went right along with it. So decades of research show cloth masks are really basically ineffective against respiratory viruses. But what did we do? We had all these officials Obama's birthday party. Remember, everybody was unmasked. All these Democrat parties on planes, they had no problem. They had the Met Gala, all unmasked. I was at a thing called West Shore Alliance in West Shore Tampa, at an event they lost their minds because they came in without a mask, you have to have this on. Okay? So I put this little paper mask on. And then when we got into the ballroom and sat down at our table, where you had eight or 12 people at it, everybody took their mask off to eat. Hello. What a freaking joke. And children have been forced to wear masks for years, damaging Social Development Language skills. I mean, it's just unbelievable. The science, oh, yeah, remember the science of the six foot rule that was arbitrary? It was made up. There's no scientific evidence for that. Restaurants were limited to 25% capacity. Remember when churches got shut down? We had a sheriff in Hillsborough County. He got reelected, and he's a Republican who put a minister in jail. Oh, but big box stores like Walmart were able to stay open. Okay, no problem. Strip clubs were able to stay open. BML, Black Lives Matter. Protests were magically exempt from social distancing. Come on, what happened? Super spreader events but didn't apply to black folks. The thing that always slayed me is that, you know, they never talked about the millions and millions of people who live on the streets, right? I mean, they they should have dropped dead like crazy. They didn't. Why? Because they were outside getting vitamin D. You know, you have to sit back and go, Okay, what's going on here? It was a fear campaign. Healthy people were told by doctors that everybody's a threat. Okay? I was accused of being an asymptomatic super spreader, like I said. I got sick maybe for a day or two, but what did I do? I immediately. We washed, we cleaned, we stayed as healthy. We don't eat crap, that's the big thing. We don't eat sugar. We don't drink sugary, caffeinated Buble drinks. I don't do that. But again, the hysteria, okay, the hysteria, wiping down the mail. Who we did that for a while. We did but it's just, it's cleaning theater. We spent billions of dollars on these machines, and oh, it it just didn't make sense. We spent so many billions of dollars on useless sanitation protocols now that maybe some of that is working out. By the way, if you want to keep from getting sick, brush your teeth at least four or five times a day. I know that in Shan's hospital, they want everybody who is an overnight patient there to brush your teeth, I think four or seven times a day. So this is where Scott Adams vindication becomes powerful. He said he saw through the biggest lie. No, he didn't. He was late on the thing. Pharmaceutical companies, they demanded immunity from lawsuits. They got it. I know it's just we could go on and on and on. The rush job to get everything through. We were lied to. We were lied to, and some people who claim to be oh so knowledgeable, they just weren't. Data was manipulated. These boosters forever. I went into Walgreens to get something. One day, I was standing at the counter, and these two folks were old. They might have been my age, but they looked old, the skinny, oh, they look like mom Paul kettle on a bad, really bad, bad day, and they were very upset that they couldn't get another COVID shot. I'm not making this up. The lady behind the counter was very professional, and she did everything told me. She said, You have gotten every shot. There is they wanted another one. And I heard her say, you have already had 11 COVID shots. I don't think you need another one. And they were upset. They weren't screaming, they weren't hollering. But boy, were they upset about it, folks, what in the same hell do you think people are doing? They were not cognitively competent, just like maybe Scott Adams wasn't cognitively competent when he said what he said, Because if he had prostate cancer, then has been in his bones and already get into his head, I don't know. I don't care what he said was outrageous, but studies are showing that, again, a lot of people have been getting what we'd call lethal doses, and they've been falling down. Look at the number of athletes that died, myocarditis, heart issues. Look at the number of people on television just passed out. Oh, like, that's really common. Then you had the mock. Mockery. He had a mockery of of a horse dewormer, right? Remember that, even though it's safer than Tylenol, yeah, suppression of doctors who truly wanted to treat people the death toll is is got to be huge. I don't know that we'll ever find out really what happened. I don't I don't trust the current administration. Don't trust the past administrations, because that should have all been released by now. All of it, I think if the American public really knew what went on, they'd lose their cookies, just like if we really knew what went on with Epstein and we knew what went on with Kennedy, oh my goodness, it. People would lose their manner. They would just lose it. So you had Fauci, we could talk about him forever. We had basically death sentences that hospitals became really killing fields for many people, not here in Florida, but a lot of other places. So this early incubation, intubation and standard ventilators killed about 80% of the people they had them on. I don't know if you knew that. I know a police officer I used to work with, and he died in town here, it just is what it is. The big thing is, you had DNR orders that were placed on people. They did never, they never signed them. So the censorship, you know, you've got so many sensors out there. You've had it just nonstop the media. The media is just a complete joke, no if ands or buts about it. So I guess you know, I really want to bring this up again, because you need to think this stuff through really hardcore. Okay, you got to think it through really hardcore. Because the reality in life is, is that when you hear something like the news, right? Oh, we we have to believe the news.
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No, you don't. These people are horrible. Now, I'll be real blunt with you. I expect haters to hate more than than ever. But the lesson here is you have to be independent in your thinking, you have to have the courage to see through institutional lies. And it really does matter. Some of us were way ahead of the curve on this stuff. I have some folks, great clients of mine, and they said no to it. I have other clients that were fantastic. Got jabbed, got jabbed again, and now they wish they hadn't. I've got a gentleman who has got massive brain injury, Sal rock solid two days after, boom, he's done. I could go on for hours from the things that we've dealt with, but again, you can't trust the institutions like you used to, and that's sad, because we need to. When the government says, you know, we've got to go to war, which eventually we will, we'll be at war with China. It's just a matter of time. You know, people are gonna say, I don't know about this, they've proven themselves untrustworthy. So you got Adams. You know, he trusted the same institutions until it was far too late. Then he tried to position himself as being vindicated when he was actually just catching up on what others had figured out years earlier. And when it comes to government, yeah, decisions are made that have massive consequences for all of us. We need people who can analyze and decisions need to be made in real time. So damage is the damage with that typical New Tyler two I'm out here later. Bye. This
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