And now the hbo original series real time with bill maher the clock how are you doing? there robert baer. Hi everybody. How are you doing thank you very much. I know thank you very much. Hey wow. I appreciate it oh stop! okay. Wow. I know why you're excited today because trump's in l. A. Today. That's. Yeah. Can you feel it? doing some fundraising. Also, he's going to meet with the studios. He's got a great idea for a remake of the truth about cats. And dogs oh oh, man did you. Did you see the debate tuesday night? wow. Now i'm just going by what cnn had 25 independents who didn't hadn't made their mind before the debate she won 23 to 2. So that's pretty. I haven't seen a woman beat an opponent that bad since that olympic boxer with the suspicious high levels of testosterone uh wow it was pretty bad for him but halfway through it, he had a look on his face like, boy, where's a sniper when you need one? oh, we kid oh yeah. I mean, nobody thought he did good. His teenage son, barron was watching with some of the kids in his dorm. And at one time, at one point, he jumped up and screamed, that's not my dad! that's not my dad i thought i mean, she made trump look so much like a bitch that a haitian migrant tried to eat him. That well that's this is this is what he's basing his campaign on now that in springfield, illinois springfield is the name of the town where the invasions come. Whether it's the body snatcher now, it's haitian migrants. He says are eating eating the dogs. And that's when the korean migrants went i was close with him. Enough no, but today couldn't make this shit up today. I can't. How could. How can you top this today? trump is walking it back. He said, no, i'm sorry. It's not not the not the not the cats and the dogs at the reading. It's the it's the ducks and the geese. They're going to the ponds i'm ponds and they're taking the geese to eat them. And this is what trump supporters are doing now trying to prove that this facebook meme, this insanity that he's basing the campaign on, is true. They're literally on a wild goose chase. It's so interesting i animals it keeps growing and growing like noah's ark. If noah was a fat asshole and the crazy to me, i got to say the most ridiculous part of this whole thing is trump defending dogs. Trump. Trump hates dogs. He's the one guy in the world who hates dogs. The only president who didn't have a dog everything bad. He's like a dog. Like a dogs dog, like a dog. The dogs, they're rapists and they bring drugs. And some i assume, are good boys getting this from? well, he's got a new bullshit whisperer named laura loomer. Of course. That's her name laura loomer. There she is. He's with her everywhere now for maga people. It's she's like for people who find marjorie taylor greene too intellectual you name the crazy shit she believes in it birtherism. She's a nine over 11 truther crisis actor. Pizzagate rigged elections you've heard of florida, man? she's florida woman and she did you see this? she she ate dog food. Am i making that up? do you saw that? right? like a haitian no. I'm kidding this. Now there's a bitch fight within the republican party. I love this because yes, marjorie taylor greene, the voice of sanity has come out against laura loomer says she's too far right. She says she's a racist. Now, loomer has accused marjorie taylor greene. She says marjorie taylor greene is an antisemite, and she cheats on her husband. And she said, i can't believe i have to report this she said her lady parts resemble an arby's sandwich, which is arby's but and then lindsey graham housewives cast member got involved, and he's attacking laura loomer says she's toxic, and she posted back we know you're gay, lindsey let's see david muir fact check that. All right. We've got a great show. 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These know who you are. That's not an insult. They should. And we're going to fix that tonight. But say you're on a plane. You probably own your own plane because you're a rich guy. But say you're on a plane today and hey, where are you going? and you say, i'm going to do the bill maher show. And they go, i love that joke because that's mostly what would happen and they say to you does bill maher want to have you on the show? what would you say? i'm a funny guy i don't know. That's not a good supply of material. No. Well, the palantir was first of all, that's your company. Yeah. My company, i cofounded it. There's a cultural element. We were the first antiwoke, proamerican prodefense successful. We went public companies. So there's a cultural element. We defined silicon valley's reversal from. I sell you something that makes you dumber, slower stupider. And i tell you some platitude you don't believe. But, you know, i don't believe it. But you still somehow you get to be rich. So we got rid of that yes that's great. Yeah. That's right i've been so there's also a cultural element. I've been the most vocal about the pagan religion that's infected our colleges. I've been most vocal about getting rid of the carcinogen tiktok. So there's a lot of cultural stuff, but then from a technical perspective we were the first people to. We had the biggest impact on antiterror of any company in the world. Europe, if you were european, the only reason you're not stepping in your streets is because we stopped the terror attacks. That would have led to a change in government to the far right. Okay so all right. But if you one more thing. Yeah if you if you are, if you are in favor of america defending its allies, whether they be israel, ukraine, ukraine and others those allies are being defended by our product on the battlefield. If you want to find a bad person, use our product to do it. Okay, i think i asked the right first question. So that all out. And by the way i'm going to agree with you on all of it. That's why i wanted to have you on, because i think people should know this. And i'm all with you on all this but what do you actually do alex? i mean, i understand i understand a little bit, but i want you to explain it because palantir technologies i've heard it's been called the a. I. Arms dealer of the 21st century. That sounds evil but you're using you're selling to you're using your power for good and not evil, right? if you are prowest proamerica, you think that ukraine and israel should defend themselves, you love us if. And the reason you love us is because the way in which you find the adversary on the battlefield. So if the adversary is in the desert or in ukraine, whether it's a general or a terrorist, and the way you do it ethically before you take them out is you use our platform to use huge huge, huge sets of data to drill down on the one person who's hidden and take them out, and you also use it. So this is very important, and it's were you that that sounds like bin laden. Were you involved in getting bin laden? we are not allowed obviously. Can't discuss specifics. Oh come on. Well in any case, you're on television. We're on television. Come on but palantir is central to every conflict. Now, where america is involved in finding adversaries, organizing our troops, bringing our troops home safely. And it's faster, cheaper and better. And i'll tell you something else. The central advantage the u. S. Has over china, russia iran is our ability to produce weapons grade software and use it on the battlefield. Okay so actual business weapons grade software and then because it's weapon grade, a lot of commercial people buy it. So like we have i mean we have massive growth in us commercial. So people use it to drill oil. People use it to organize their, their fleets. People use it for manufacturing. You can use our various products in the civil civilian i know you're involved with the defense department, the intel agencies ice, border patrol the fda, the irs. What do you do? what are they? what are these people buying from you? so, for example operation warp speed, which arguably saved 3. 5 million, the vaccine, the vaccine. So how do you so that the civilian use cases are like how do you distribute a vaccine to the whole country? how do you distribute masks when you don't have enough? how do you do that overnight? the military use cases are where do you place your troops? how do you find somebody and the civilian use cases is or how do you make your business more efficient how do you do it in a way that's cheaper? how do you get the car to the right place? the doctor to the right place at the right time when you have huge regulatory oversight um could you do something here in the state of california? because we could we could really use some of that. And i know you help to get it. I mean, you left california like i left california like another guy who's involved in some of this kind of stuff, which is elon musk. Yeah. We are the two biggest companies to leave california early, and the two biggest that are involved in the defense of our country. I mean, starlink is very important. Well, i feel like look i owe california a great debt of debt of gratitude. I went to school here. I built a company here obviously, california has gone in the past way too far on this kind of hyper woke. We can get nothing done, but we it doesn't have to work because we pretend it works because we're good. People think and um, and you know, uh, yes and and i think and there are real consequences. So something like 87% of, of of the most important tech companies in the world are american. And if you look at what should have happened, germany and other places should have a tech scene. But you have to have rigorous thought. Meritocracy truth to build these companies and that's what you have to. We are we've been fighting to preserve because if you want to have palantir or spacex or whatever, you're going to build, you need to have a system where people can build things. It's rigorous. They keep the value of what they build and they share it with society okay certainly with you on the over woke stuff but if it is that constraining, how come? what did you say? 86% of the american 87%. Okay, then how come we have been so successful if we're so seattle, we have the best immigrants we organize people the best way we we have a sense of fairness togetherness. We bring the most creative people here and that's why the companies develop here. But you say we could be even better. We could be even better right? and what i also love about your philosophy is that you're not afraid to say america is still the good guys, even though we've done horrible things. Everybody has. We're human but have a little perspective. I feel like that is what is so lacking today. Well look, of course, america like every great nation, has done some really fucked up things, right? right. So that's obvious, right? but but look. But we know they're messed up because we hold ourselves to a high standard. And if you're going to compare us, which at the end of the day, morality has to be slightly compared, you're going to compare us to china or russia or iran, who else even aspires to these standards? and by the way, look at how our lives have changed. We're roughly the same age. When i was born half, you know, people had gays blacks, hispanics, people didn't have the rights you have now. Look at the progress we've made. It's like in one lifetime, it's like magic. That's amazing yeah it's literally it's literally like magic mean like, i spent half my life in germany. It's a very interesting, very developed society you do not have the integration. You do not have the innovation. You do not have the fairness. You don't have meritocracy. Most of the companies in germany that are big are owned by families that own them. 50 or 100 years earlier this is one country that produces this part of the problem, and part of the reason why people don't stand up for america is they don't understand how magical it is to get these things to work. And no other place does it at our scale with our diversity and different kinds of people and different kinds of thought. And in my case, i like you know, i was viewed as the frankenstein monster. I don't come from wealth and i get the opportunity to prove myself. No one in this country cares how crazy you are. If you de