Episode 168 Scott Adams: The Enemy of the People, Q, and LeBron
Date: 2018-08-06 | Duration: 20:09
Topics
The truth about Q and followers evolving beliefs Melania’s “split” with her husband Facebook removed 4 pages of Infowars and Alex Jones Ben Rhodes says getting info from a foreign national is bad Candace and Charlie harassed at restaurant, calling them racists Informal Twitter poll on BLM the KKK and racism
Transcript
[0:06]
[Music] Hey Kevin. Hey Morgan. Gino, come on in. I see Gino is using the “says” structure of his name there. I’m not sure if I started that. You may have noticed that it is an extraordinarily slow news time. We need more news. We’re used to a higher threshold of the fire hose of news. But what we really need is the simultaneous sip. It’s coming at you hard, or as Chris Cuomo says, “Let’s get on it,” or “Get after it,” or something. He has a saying, but that doesn’t matter now. Now, how about the simultaneous sip?
[1:09]
That’s good stuff. So let’s talk about Q. I waded into the Q conversation, had no idea that it was going to become a thing. I thought it was just another one of my opinions, but this one seems to have taken some legs. So as a public service, I thought I would reveal the truth of Q. But it didn’t seem right to just say it. Instead, I put it in the form of a puzzle which I tweeted. You can find it in my tweet stream and you can see some people responding to it. You can see that people have penetrated the top two layers. It’s a puzzle that has three layers. Two of them have been penetrated; the third one’s the hard one.
[2:09]
You’re going to have to find out what three things have in common that is not obvious. Once you find it, you’ll know the truth. If you don’t find it, you might think, “Well, is this it or is that it?” So here’s my hint: when you figure out the solution to my puzzle, you will know the truth of Q—at least the essential truth. You’ll know you have it right. If you don’t have it right, you still might think you did, but you won’t be positive. You’ll still have some doubt. If you have some doubt, you don’t have the right answer, because when you get the right answer, you’ll know you have it. I thought it was more fun to put it in the form of a puzzle.
[3:11]
And by the way, just to make it fun, I’m never going to tell you what the answer to the puzzle is. But it is there and it is solvable. I’ll promise you it’s solvable and I’ll promise you that if you solve it, you will have the actual truth about Q. But I’m never going to tell you if you solved it correctly.
Let’s talk about how CNN is reporting about Melania. The headline is “The Contradictions in Trump’s White House” and the subheadline says, “Melania Trump’s split with her husband over LeBron James is the most glaring example of a growing trend.” But then you read the article about her split with her husband and basically she just said good things about what LeBron is doing with his school. Is that really a split with her husband, or is that just being diplomatic? Sounds a lot more like being diplomatic.
[4:17]
So that feels like a lot of nothing. Then there were the headlines of Michael Jordan taking sides with LeBron. Well, that’s true; he said he has LeBron’s back, basically. But he didn’t say anything about President Trump. Why? Because Michael Jordan’s smart. He split the difference perfectly. He supported his friend, but he did not come out against the President in any explicit way that could be quoted or taken out of context too easily. So I thought, more evidence that Michael Jordan is smart.
I saw that Facebook has removed four pages from InfoWars and Alex Jones. I don’t know what that’s all about yet, but you should be worried about that. I haven’t seen the details yet. I’m seeing a lot of people talking about the Don Jr. meeting.
[5:20]
Somebody on the internet was tweeting—was it Ben Rhodes?—tweeted that getting information from a foreign national is a bad thing. That was the essence of it. I tweeted back that Christopher Steele was a foreign national. Now, I got pushback from that, comparing Christopher Steele, who is not from this country and put together information that would affect our election, compared to this Russian lawyer who alleged to have information but didn’t have any. The distinction that I got is, “Oh wait, you can’t compare them because one is allegedly working for Putin and the other one is allegedly working for, first maybe a Republican, then the FBI, and then the campaign.”
[6:20]
So there was a little bit of, “No, those aren’t real because Christopher Steele was sort of working for us.” To which I say: how in the world does that matter? He’s still foreign. How does it matter that somebody was paying him and the person paying him was from this country? I don’t see how that matters. He’s still a foreign national providing information that affects a campaign. If we pay him to do one thing and he provides information that does whatever he wants or his country wants, I know. My take on this is they’re either both illegal or both legal. Obviously, I’m not a lawyer, so wait for Dershowitz to tell you what’s legal and what isn’t.
Want to hear a weird Dershowitz coincidence? As I’m flying to meet President Trump last week, I’m on the plane and it’s a JetBlue.
[7:23]
It’s got the TV and I’m watching the news, and Alan Dershowitz comes on with another pundit—I forget who it was—and both of them started talking about buying their suits at Men’s Wearhouse. I literally just bought my suit at Men’s Wearhouse, and I always say I’ll do whatever Alan Dershowitz does. I’m flying for my meeting with my Men’s Wearhouse suit, listening to Alan Dershowitz say he buys his suits at Men’s Wearhouse, which is the most random thing to say on television. It came from the conversation of Paul Manafort’s ostrich suit, and then the two of them said, “Yeah, we use Men’s Wearhouse.” And there I was. I don’t know if my new suit impressed anybody, but it was the only suit I had after I bought it. I didn’t own a suit, so there you go.
[8:24]
Just looking at the rest of the news, LeBron James—now we already talked about him. Did I cover everything? It’s such a slow news day. Is there anything else you guys want to hear about? I’ve been watching the Q supporters evolve in their belief. I’ll talk about Candace—good suggestion. It wasn’t long ago that people were saying Q is definitely true and you will find out. I’m seeing a lot of Q supporters today say something along these lines: that it doesn’t matter if Q is real, it helped us organize to understand what the Deep State is up to. So you may see some people changing their views of what Q is all about.
[9:27]
I just saw a video just before I got on of Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens, who apparently were just trying to eat at a restaurant, and some group of Antifa protester types—I don’t know if they’re Antifa, but they’re protester types—are following them around with a bullhorn and bells. They’re making noise and calling them racists. Now, a bunch of white people calling Candace Owens a racist is probably the funniest thing you’ll ever see. It’s hard to imagine that that’s a good thing. People say Q is a good thing, not a bad thing, because I see your comments—because it is educating you on all the things that may or may not be true.
Let me refer to my polls.
[10:29]
I did a Twitter poll yesterday and, as you know, Twitter polls are not scientific. The following is not presented as any kind of scientific poll, but I did an informal little Twitter poll on the question of what did people think of Black Lives Matter and the KKK. I said: “Do you think KKK is racist only but Black Lives Matter is not? Do you think Black Lives Matter is racist but KKK is not?” I didn’t expect anybody to say yes to that. “Do you think they’re both racist? Do you think neither of them are racist?” The last I checked, I think it was 90% of respondents said both Black Lives Matter and KKK are racist organizations, which is different from saying that all the members are racists. I don’t believe anybody thinks that’s the case. The KKK are, of course, already racists because that’s the point of their organization.
[11:30]
But I don’t believe anybody thinks all of Black Lives Matter are racist. The question was about the organization. Again, this is not a scientific proof, it’s not my opinion; I just wanted to see what the poll would come up with. I was not surprised to see that it was a “both sides” poll. I was not surprised to see that Republicans and Trump supporters primarily think that both sides are racist.
Now, you know what that means? What is the biggest complaint about Republicans? The biggest complaint about Republicans is that they are racists. Now, Black Lives Matter are against one racist group, the KKK—here I’m simplifying, of course; they’re against all racists—whereas the Republicans, according to my poll, are against two racist groups in their view.
[12:30]
Both the KKK and Black Lives Matter. If you don’t understand—and this is an important point—I think conservatives and Republicans understand themselves for the most part. I don’t think that any side understands the other side just as a general rule. But if you’re on the left and you don’t understand the Republicans are—wait for it—twice as much against racism as the left, if you don’t understand that, you don’t understand anything about the right. You shouldn’t even be in a political conversation if you don’t understand that basic thing. The left are looking at a small universe: the KKK, which I believe I saw somebody said is 3,000 people in the whole country. Black Lives Matter and the people who support it is probably a bigger number.
[13:32]
It seems to me that the people on the right disavow the racism from all of the KKK, they disavow all of the KKK supporters, and they go further: they disavow Black Lives Matter members who they would consider racist and they disavow the group for being a racist group. Again, I’m just reporting; I’m not giving you my opinion on this topic.
You’ve seen me have some conversations with Hawk Newsome, and you can see where the disconnect is, where there’s an enormous difference of opinion. The Trump supporters are against all of the racism. KKK is just a small part of it, but certainly they’re 100% against that as a group. And they’re also 90%, it looks like, against any other racist group, whether it’s Black Lives Matter in their opinion or anybody else.
[14:32]
Now I’ve only got a few more minutes. “He doesn’t accept Charlottesville”—I don’t know who you’re talking about. “Sick of the racist rhetoric”—I hear what you’re saying; I’m tired of it. I’m already seeing—oh, I’m glad I saw that—making notes of all bad arguments because I’m writing a book that needs those. One of the bad arguments is, “You’re making a moral equivalence.” Somebody is objecting that I would make a moral equivalence between KKK and Black Lives Matter, but I’m not. That’s just dumb thinking. I’m not making any kind of moral equivalence. I’m just saying that both are organized around a racist ideology according to the people who answered the poll.
[15:33]
So I think it’s important to know that the people on the right are against every form of racism, whether it’s a KKK brand, which is totally different from the Black Lives Matter kind. Nobody’s saying it’s the same thing. Nobody is going to suggest that. You could find a million ways they’re different. I’m just saying that people dislike both of them for a similar reason, which is racism is bad, but certainly completely different forms alleged in these.
Somebody’s thanking me for clarifying. You’re welcome. Yeah, I heard—what was the murder rate in Chicago? 40—listen to this. In Chicago, this is a headline: 44 people were shot in 14 hours in Chicago. I hear a question about Bill P, and the answer is you’re going to hear some real interesting stuff coming up. Not today, very soon.
[17:36]
If anybody manages to solve my Q puzzle—I’ll be looking at it. Not a quiz, a puzzle. It seemed only appropriate to put it in the form of a puzzle because the people who follow Q are very smart. Let me say this as a general statement that I think is true: the people following Q are probably unusually smart IQ-wise. I’ve told you many times that IQ doesn’t protect you in any way from the illusions of life. Being smart doesn’t help you from cognitive dissonance. Having a high IQ doesn’t help you with confirmation bias. So the followers of Q can be very smart IQ-wise, and I think that’s probably true. I would guess if you actually measured, IQs are probably above normal.
[18:38]
But that is completely irrelevant to whether they have the right impression of what’s going on. IQ doesn’t help you in cases like this. So some of you may think that you have solved my puzzle, but I haven’t seen a solution yet. I’ve seen people penetrate the top two layers. The second layer, if you want to know what the second layer is: count the number of letters in my tweets. But there’s another layer, and it’s the hard part. The hard part is trying to figure out what the pattern is in terms of what the people mentioned in the first part of the tweet have in common that ordinary people do not have in common.
If you’re thinking, “Oh, they’re all people,” or “They’re all smart,” or “They’re all male,” it’s nothing like that. There’s something unusual about the three entities, and if you figure out what the unusual thing is that would be unusual for any normal citizen, but they all three have in common, you will solve the puzzle. That’s all for now and I will talk to you all later.