Episode 294 Scott Adams Enemy of the People, Wildfires, Tweets, and Whitaker

Date: 2018-11-11 | Duration: 1:03:47

Topics

Bad forest management tweet Fake news industry is going full racist, based on their racist reporting CNN reporting makes Antifa comfortable terrorizing Tucker’s wife and kids Does Don Lemon feel any responsibility? Republicans are demonizing illegal immigrants Democrats are demonizing Republicans Both Democrats and Republicans are exaggerating Trump “the dictator”…congratulated Nancy Pelosi and Democrats CNN coverage is evil, do they know that? Brenda Snipes and Broward County vote counting fraud Fog of war applies, but not looking good for Brenda What happened to the Russian collusion narrative? Trump knew about the payments to women for remaining quiet A minor lie about a personal situation The biggest stories/complaints about President Trump Insulted French President…does anyone really care? Insults black women…and anyone else, if they’re hostile Mueller might get fired…not news, mind reading Protests over Sessions firing…pretty tame

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I don’t bump bump bump bump bump um Oh boom boom boom hey Joe and Jenny hey Scott welcome to coffee with Scott Adams the weekend edition hey can a Kris a Sharona and E fuzzy and Nikki good to see you all here and I know that because you’re the type of people who are responsible and prepared not to mention smarter than usual and inexplicably sexy yeah I’m talking about you talking about you I know that you have prepared for coffee with Scott Adams by preparing your favorite beverage it might be in a glass a mug a Stein a vessel of some sort I prefer a coffee you might go a different way but join me now for the simultaneous septa you’re probably

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simultaneous septa you’re probably wondering what the air quality looks like at my house in Northern California yeah oh yeah you’re looking at my window so this is my view so the trees that you can see are there’s a focus the trees you can see are literally my neighbor’s trees so those are close everything behind it is obscured from view so the the fires I think they’re over 150 miles away now imagine this this is my air quality in Pleasanton California so I’m in the Bay Area the fires I think the closest one is like 150 170 miles away something like that and this is my air quality imagine if you’re within ten miles or 50 miles so this is a this is don’t go outside air quality

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some of you saw the president’s tweet blaming California for poor forest management and people said my god you can’t say that when people are people are in the middle of the fire to which I say I think it depends if it’s true and I don’t know if it’s true to you is California bad that forest management does that have anything to do with everything I don’t know I’d like to see some fact-checking on that I’m seeing people online blame the increase in forest fires on climate change which I don’t rule out I don’t think you can rule it out but I’d like to know all the factors one of the factors might be that there are more people stomping around doing dumb things what are the factors might be forest management but I don’t know anything about that topic and I

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know anything about that topic and I don’t know how you did how you would know so people are saying yes that forest management is an issue but let’s see some more information on that from from qualified people all right so my brother whose location I won’t reveal to who is also in California but he’s already lost his internet and cable connection and he is I guess the fire is six miles away and he’s on the evacuation alert so my brother’s getting ready to abandon his own to the fire any time now I think probably there’s more there’s more chance that smoke would be an issue where he is then fire but I could be wrong because you know that fire could come right up to him and as you might imagine I know I know quite a

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you might imagine I know I know quite a few people that were in the the fire zone so I’ll be worried about them today anyway let’s talk about other things that are happening are you watching the devious and diabolical work of the enemy of the people the enemy of the people being the fake news industry whoever they might be especially if the fake news is the dangerous kind so here’s the fake news that’s being spread by CNN right now which is by their reporting the racist reporting and by the way CNN is going full racist now so that they’re not hiding it anymore they used to be a little bit I don’t maybe a little bit more clever about it minute but now cNN has just gone full racist and they’re reporting that the president is singling out black women for criticism now that’s just a lie that’s fake news because he’s

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just a lie that’s fake news because he’s criticized everybody from McCrone and France to Jim Acosta to whoever that guy was a stood next to Jim Acosta it’s hard to think of anybody who hasn’t criticized this week who at least anybody who’s on the other side so the reality is he criticizes everybody and it’s actually really good news that that there are so many african-american women in important jobs they have excellent jobs which is why they’re in the line of fire say Ms Jim Acosta why is Jim Acosta in the president’s line of fire it’s because Jim Acosta has a really good job why are the other women that Trump is is is well he did I’m not gonna say alleged but the other the other women that he insulted what do they have in common okay if you see and then what you say they have in common is that they’re

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they have in common is that they’re black women if you are not a racist you say that what they have in common is excellent jobs [Music] I apologize for the cursing sometimes it just comes out but I’m watching the enemy of the people the fake news industry report it like it’s fact that the president singles out black women for insults when right in front of our eyes we observe that not to be the case that rather he insults all of his enemies his critics and he’s nice to all of his friends it’s pretty consistent if he can’t notice that you ought not to be in the news industry so I think cNN has now just disgraced itself and going full racist with that claim because you know the the the essence of it is is that his supporters are in on his giant racist scheme but if this is the kind of

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racist scheme but if this is the kind of that they that they used to to make their case they are the enemy of the people there’s no other way to spin this anymore there’s no other way to spin it they are full racist enemy of the people at this point that being said one of their biggest complaints and I think Bernie Sanders said the same thing is that that there was a racist that the midterms were a racist campaign and that some of the races the individual race races were racist and that in particular there was a racist ad that was so bad according to CNN even Fox News wouldn’t run it was that racist here’s my take on that I saw the ad and the first thing I thought is oh crap people are going to say this is racist and then people will

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say this is racist and then people will complain and if you’re Fox News you have a obligation to your stockholders and when people complain and there’s enough of it complaints you have to act because you’re near that kind of a company so is it true what Fox News is root I’m sorry what CNN is reporting that even Fox News won’t run this ad because it’s so racist that is not true that is fake news what is true is if their Fox News is not running the ads that’s true what is not true is the reason CNN says it’s obvious that they’re not doing it because even in their minds they know it’s racist Fox News has never said that they may have said which would be completely consistent with every corporation they may have said we can’t take the heat this isn’t worth it so we

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take the heat this isn’t worth it so we don’t want the advertising money because the complaints are greater than the value of the advertising money now that would be a good reason not to run the ad because the corporation can’t handle that kind of pressure that’s very different from saying the Fox News decided the ads were racist so they wouldn’t run them so it’s just fake news now I’m not saying that they could be that I know they’re wrong all I’m saying is that if the news is based on mind-reading in other words CNN’s assumption of what Fox News people are thinking but having said if they’re judging what they’re thinking from what they’re doing I would say they’ve got one explanation which fits the data if Fox News thought it was racist that would be a perfectly good reason not to run the ad but why didn’t they think that in the first place why did they run it in the first place I’ll tell you why they ran it in the first place because when they looked at it it

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place because when they looked at it it didn’t look racist to them when the public looked at it and the half of the country that’s that’s completely hypnotized by the enemy of the people those people said my god this is clearly racist that’s just like Willie Horton situation when they said it’s just like the Willie Horton situation what kind of logic were they using was it an analogy yes it was they were making an analogy to the Willie Horton ad which i think is less it’s less ambiguous the Willie Horton ad the Willie Horton ad was pretty racist it’s hard to defend that and here’s why the Willie Horton would ad was racist because of all the criminals in the world did you have to pick the black guy now I understand that this particular criminal had a especially bad record so he was extra scary but I don’t think

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he was extra scary but I don’t think anybody’s believing that he was randomly picked and he just happened to be black I’m sure there were plenty of white criminals that they could have picked from so the Willie Horton ad certainly all of your antennas should have gone up and you should say well why’d you pick the black guy okay a little hard to defend although I’m sure they did defend it by saying he’s a real person we didn’t make it up but still doesn’t feel right now let’s compare that to the border question what type of people are coming across the border people who live below the border the people who are coming across the border whether they be awesome people which I think most of them actually are I’m actually quite Pro immigrant from an emotional you know just a human level I’m very Pro immigrant from a systems perspective you

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immigrant from a systems perspective you have to have good systems to have a good country and good outcomes it gets more complicated but is it true that with all those people coming in some of them would be criminals that feels unambiguously true did the did the add that neither Fox nor CNN would run because they because the the impression it gave did they have an option of showing people who did not live south of the border not really this is this is almost exactly the opposite of the Willie Horton situation showing the people who are essentially a hundred percent of the people coming across the border are people who live across the border those are the only people who can come in illegally from south of the border our people who live south of the border so showing somebody in particular and you know this the particular cop-killer

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you know this the particular cop-killer that they showed was a horrible person but in the context of a campaign had the whole point of a campaign ad is not to show an accurate picture of the world none of them do that they’re trying to show the worst case scary picture that’s what all political commercials do they’re all complete some are worse than others but they’re all that’s what they are so showing that there is danger coming from below the border is typical campaign stuff making you more afraid of something than you should be what do the what do the Democrats do in their campaign ads well the Democrats make you afraid of just different stuff they make you afraid of your of your citizens that are in the same country so the only difference between the Democrats and Republicans is

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between the Democrats and Republicans is that the Republican ads are demonizing people who don’t live in the country and are trying to get in illegally they’re not demonizing people who are coming in Legally no matter what they look like you have you ever seen a Republican ad campaign ad that demonized people who are legally in the country not in recent time I can’t think of one probably not since you know I can’t even think of one has that ever happened so both sides are demonizing a portion of the human population the Democrats are demonizing Republicans calling essentially painting them all as ignorant racists who are dangerous literally dangerous and the Republicans are portraying the illegal immigration being especially dangerous now both of them are exaggerating because it’s a political context so you have to put it in context that it’s you know they’re

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in context that it’s you know they’re both exaggerating so the enemy of the people has now created this fake narrative which causes people like Anti Fog to feel comfortable camping out on Tucker Carlson’s doorstep and terrorizing whoever was inside which happened to be his wife and I asked in a tweet I asked the following question has anybody asked Don Lemon I just picked him as one of the enemy of the people has anybody asked Don Lemon if he feels responsible beforehand Tifa and shoving up on Tucker Carlson’s doorstep because what they were complaining about Tucker their complaints were right off of CNN it’s it’s like they just took the CNN talking points put on masks and walked up to doctors door now how you feel about all of this depends on how you

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about all of this depends on how you feel about the base claim which is that the people are or are not racists because you would feel perhaps less say less empathy for somebody who was straight-up racist you know maybe you’d care less but Tucker Carlson clearly is not that I mean he couldn’t have a more public record you know if you want to check his record it’s all there he writes a lot he’s on TV a lot you can look at it yourself they need they just need to produce one clip one piece of writing any evidence of their claim and that maybe we could talk about it but I haven’t seen that of you instead we see that the enemy of the people have hypnotized half the country including an tyfa to think that there are monsters among us and that they appear on fox news yes I was a pen click you heard

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news yes I was a pen click you heard so let me say again that I think the temperature of the public probably went down a little I’m talking about the average public that isn’t even watching news necessarily just the average public I think when Democrats won the house one of the three legs of the the Trump criticisms just disappeared one of those legs was that Trump was a dictator and that he was going to run roughshod over the rest of the government well now that the house is owned by the Democrats one of the biggest three things you’re worried about just sort of went away it was never true and and they’re not really realizing that it was never true but the fact that it went away so easily meaning that the president said congratulations and I think I can work with Nancy Pelosi

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with Nancy Pelosi he didn’t say let’s overturn the result let’s ignore Congress he said let’s let’s see if we can work together that’s exactly what happened so that went away and at the same time I talked about how the president was so public during all of his rallies doing an 87 minute you know public press conference covering all kinds of topics and in none of that did he look mentally deranged that’s the wrong word and none of that did he look like he had some kind of a mental problem which was the other leg of the stool so that’s two legs that just got kicked out of the stool three if you count if you count the Russia probe you know this this stool has a you know multiple legs as as many legs as my analogy wants it to have and all that’s left is imagining what’s in the president’s head think about it

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in the president’s head think about it all of the complaints that they had about the president that were fact-based are being disproven all right so one of the fact-based predictions about this president is that he would be bad for the economy well then now the facts have clearly shown that the economy is thriving under President Trump you could still argue about who gets how much credit and and that sort of thing but you can’t argue anymore that he’s bad for the economy now some people have argued yeah but what about the deficit to which I say nobody even knows what a government deficit is it’s not like personal debt unlike you the government doesn’t actually have to pay its debt and I know somebody you just went what what do you mean the government doesn’t have to pay its debt if it doesn’t it’ll default them no no the government just has to pay the interest on the debt you can’t

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pay the interest on the debt you can’t do that eventually if you have a business or personal loan as an individual or as a company eventually you have to pay it off right after you’ve paid it down you can talk about refinancing and getting other loans but even if you have a revolving credit you can’t have to pay it down the government doesn’t need to do that the government can simply pay the inflation interest rate and wave for inflation to take what is a gigantic number down to a small number but of course it could only do that if it’s not adding to the debt more than its deflating but the point is it’s not like regular debt so people who are looking at the economy and saying this is terrible don’t really understand how national debt works the other thing people don’t understand is that I understand I my factual belief subject your fact-checking that the percentage of debt is actually

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that the percentage of debt is actually not as high as it’s been in the past so as a number it’s the biggest number it’s ever been but as a percentage of GDP I believe it’s been higher in the past so there’s that and the other thing people don’t understand is that when interest rates are low that’s a good time to borrow a bunch of money and interest rates have been low for a while so it’s actually a pretty good time to rack up some debt if your intention is to stimulate the economy and if you think in the long run you have a way to trim that debt later if you you know if it’s gonna go up forever you’ve got problems but you should be paying down the debt when the interest rate is high and I think the interest rate was higher during the Bill Clinton years wasn’t it so that would have been in time to pay down the debt as Clinton did and under Obama and under Trump even even uhnot

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Obama and under Trump even even uhnot Bhama and Trump yeah the interest rates were low so it’s probably a good time to run up some debt and use other people’s money anyway the point is nobody really knows how much debt is too much but we all feel like we’re economists when we talk about this thing somebody says this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard you left out your reasons hey it was probably an oversight did your criticism accidentally leave out the reason or is it just dumb because it’s not what you think because if you and I are talking to each other and you think I’m an idiot and I think you’re an idiot we can’t tell what’s we can’t tell which what is right so I can’t rule it out I can’t rule out that everything I say on these periscopes or even just that one thing is completely stupid can’t rule it out but if you’ve ruled it down on your end

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but if you’ve ruled it down on your end we’ve already identified who’s the dumb one here all right so my point being that the factual stuff about the president is being disproven at a fairly regular clip he hasn’t he hasn’t blown up the world he has not acted crazy he has not gotten richer as far as we could tell he’s probably gotten poorer so you have to if all the facts are not lightening up you have to you have to back up to mind-reading so CNN the enemy of the people and by the way you know the president has been saying that fake news is the enemy of the people well I don’t think there’s a distinction anymore it feels to me that CNN has just gone over to the dark side and they’re not they’re not they’re no longer even trying to present the news because most of the reporting is about the president

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of the reporting is about the president and the way they present the president is so obviously opinion dressed up as news that I don’t know if you can make that distinction any more about the fake news versus CNN it feels like they’ve they’ve completely gone over to the the darkest of the dark side I mean this is literally evil this is actual literal evil but I almost wonder if they even know it like if you were to talk to somebody from CNN privately you know and any of the on-air talent if you could get them in the room privately and talk to them would they know what they’re doing because I don’t actually don’t know the answer that and I try to be consistent about not reading minds of other people and and just observing what’s happening you can observe that what they’re that what they’re promoting as news is clearly not true and clearly slanted for

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clearly not true and clearly slanted for for a narrative I mean that part is obvious it’s it’s obvious on both sides right nobody’s doubting that anymore but we don’t know exactly what they’re thinking and I’m actually I’m actually genuinely curious there are some people and I would say at a Navaro somebody mentioned her name probably are in the category of you know if you’re just gonna bet without actually knowing because again we can’t read their minds I would bet that there’s a mixture of people who really believe what they’re saying and some of them who don’t but are sort of going along with it you know I would love to know what that breakdown is I feel like I can tell by looking at their demeanor but I think that’s probably my imagination anyway so the enemy that people is working hard this week look for the number of stories where

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for the number of stories where mind-reading is the primary thing they have to buy into to buy the rest of the story all right will I go on Bill Maher again I don’t see the slightest chance that Bill Maher would invite me on his show again to you do you think there’s even the smallest chance that I could ever be on Bill Maher show again now keep in mind that my appearance there probably got pretty good ratings because I said something that was provocative that Trump would get a get elected I gave my reasons and I didn’t hear anybody push back so that that alone should have been remarkable in the context of that show and then once I was proven right about all of the big stuff you would think I would be the ideal person have back but I would break their their world so badly if I came back now

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their world so badly if I came back now I don’t know what can I just don’t know if it could be done I don’t know if they could ever invite me back yeah they could they can certainly have people on the show who are conservatives you know I’m not doubting that they can do that but having me personally on there with a long spring of being write about things and in public and on that show in particular would break the narrative a little bit they can always say you know Steve Bannon he’s the devil he was the devil before he’s still the devil so having Steve Bannon on the show it doesn’t doesn’t challenge their worldview having me on the show would definitely challenge the world and so but I don’t think it’s gonna happen and I mean that literally I’m not I’m not just saying that for a fact I don’t think that that can happen likewise I I don’t see any scenario in

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likewise I I don’t see any scenario in which I would be invited on CNN because I’ve been too critical of them all right let’s talk about election fraud we are watching Marco Rubio fighting valiantly for some kind of transparency in the vote in Broward County and I’ve said this before but Marco Rubio’s is kind of a kind of a good dude yeah I kind of like at least since the presidential election is over you know what when when Rubio is in his presidential mode I’m sorry when he’s in his senator mode and he’s just doing his job as a senator I really like the stuff that comes out of him seems pretty reasonable he never seems crazy and he does seem to pick topics and put a good you know good of you a good view point a good view point on them you know whether

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good view point on them you know whether you agree or not he’s he’s a he’s a credible player who by all appearances seems to be you know trying to get good results for the state in the country but here’s the thing to watch out for the the Broward vote counting situation is a fog of war situation almost everything that we hear coming out of there for the next few days you should assume is not credible it would not be credible coming from the other side it would not be credible coming from your own side because right now there’s a whole bunch of speculation and a lot of mind-reading there’s a lot of mind-reading you know some of it won’t be wrong in other words some of the things that people are suspecting about the other side will probably be right but we can’t really know because we can’t read more now part of what makes us interesting is

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now part of what makes us interesting is that the the woman in charge Brenda Snipes is here’s the best I mean everything about the simulation and the script that we’re watching here is so interesting in some times all the wrong ways so while the enemy of the people has been calling Trump a racist for criticizing black women by coincidence there’s another powerful successful black woman and again how could we gloss over the fact that there are so many highly successful black women in the news like it’s it’s literally like the best news you’ve ever heard in your life that there are that many successful black women working at the highest levels that that they can come under fire from the President of the United States it’s kind of it’s kind of good news you know but because the enemy the

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news you know but because the enemy the people has set it up so that they’re they’re saying the president keeps keeps going after black women they’re kind of tying his hands very cleverly by the way I’m not saying it’s they don’t lack they don’t lack skill so the skill level is pretty high but they’ve done a good job of inoculating this Brenda Snipes because they’re they’re they’re telling the story that the president goes after black women so she’s already got a little protective shield around her thanks to the enemy and the people and but look let me let me jump in and say this calling seeing in the enemy of the people I want to be really clear nobody should act on that in any physical violent way I don’t think anybody should be accosting them

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anybody should be accosting them no pun intended nobody should be accosting them in public nobody should be showing up at their doorstep nobody should be doing anything physical or threatening to anybody who works as CNN or anybody or anybody just anybody but it still can be true that there could be organized forces within the country that are working against the best interest of the country that can still be true but we still live in the Republic and there are ways to there are ways to fix things that don’t require showing up at somebody’s house so don’t do that let me be clear about that so anyway that my overall comment about the Broward County stuff is I see what you see which is a lot of irregularities but so far the irregularities have not risen to the level of I don’t know is smoking gun the right word here they have not risen to

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right word here they have not risen to the level of my god they all have to go to jail but it could you can’t rule it out out no the I see somebody saying come on come on Scott please two of you said that come on come on it’s obvious right Scott it’s obvious it’s obvious something’s going on I’ll get let me give you my opinion it looks to me exactly the way it looks to you on my irrational part of my brain that makes most of my decisions just like you everything I’m saying looks like voter flog fraud so trust me I see the same thing you do it all looks like voter fraud to me it looks blatant it looks obvious but it’s also the fog of war so the things that are being reported initially just take it with a grain of salt if I had to if I had to place money on it I don’t know if you can bet on this could you bet on this if I could bet on this on predicted I would

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I could bet on this on predicted I would place a very large bet that there’s substantial fraud going on and Broward County this week so if you’re going to ask me to bet on it that’s easy I would definitely bet that’s happening I don’t know how big it is you know I don’t know if it’s could it really be tens of thousands of votes I’m not going to rule that out I would say the odds of substantial fraud are close to a hundred percent would you mostly agree with that the chance that there’s something that you would call substantial and intentional fraud in Broward County I think the odds of some of it being true aren’t close to a hundred percent the odds of it being so big that they’re blatantly trying to steal an election is less than a hundred percent maybe 80 percent maybe 75 maybe

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percent maybe 80 percent maybe 75 maybe 95 percent but it’s less than 100 so let’s wait and see you know it if it turns out that there is provable massive intentional voter fraud in the tens of thousands of votes and they were literally trying to change the outcome of an election you can’t say I was wrong because I’m putting very high odds on that being the case I’m just saying don’t jump to a hundred percent yet just just maintain a little bit of healthy skepticism and then you know if you put a if you put a 90 percent or 99 percent on it at least you’re part of the rational conversation yeah if it turns out that it’s eighty-five thousand extra votes and it changes the election then people got to go to jail people have to go to jail here’s my idea for checking the voter results you’re ready for this

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the voter results you’re ready for this it goes like this you have an app just an app that anybody can download or if somebody gets a link by an email they can click the link and it takes them to the app so they could download it and the apps only purpose was to ask you who you voted for and then have some way to to to compare that to how your vote was counted I’m not sure if they could do that but after you vote you can you tell who it was or was the voter here’s a dumb question can the people counting the votes associate the vote with an actual specific individual did the voting does the voting process do that or does it remove the identity and just make it a voting thing can somebody answer that question for me there’s a little delay here so so let me just

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little delay here so so let me just finish the point the point was that randomly people would get a notification on the app they wouldn’t be able to do it on their own but randomly they would get a notification and the notification would say they are secret so people are saying it’s a secret ballot so how about we change that there’s probably a way to associate the person and the vote in a way that still keeps it yeah I’ll bet there’s a way to randomize things or to hide identities so that you can figure out if the person who has the app says yes I voted this way that you can you can match it to the actual vote so I think that would be a way to use an app with some changes to the voting system so you could guarantee that you’ve checked enough places to find any problems so if you find several people in one city they say I voted this way but you can check and the vote went the other way there you go

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other way there you go now one way you could adjust this is that there there must be plenty of people who would not care if their voting record was public so maybe some people could say and go into the voting booth and say hey I’m one of those people I’m willing to be public and if anybody wants to be private they can still be private but you know I’m willing to be public and then maybe only those people use the app because those are the ones who are have given away their identity and then you can you can check I think that might work and and here’s another question that I asked I’ll probably ask this often but if our if our voting system was so good why do why do read why do recounts even exist the whole the

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why do recounts even exist the whole the fact that every state has a recount system and that we do it often is it only in case of mistakes really is that the only reason we have recounts because we might have made a mistake to me it seems that the fact that recounts are universally you know accepted probably suggest that the system is at least susceptible to corruption have you heard anything about Russia interfering with the midterms did I just realize that the biggest story in the world is the one that’s not being told here’s the dog that isn’t barking wouldn’t we know by now if Russia tried to influence the midterms shouldn’t that be the top lion story on every news site it should be the top line story whether they did or they did not write because it’s still the biggest story as long as Muller is

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the biggest story as long as Muller is still doing his thing it should be still the biggest story Russia did or did not or we don’t know influence the election where’s that where’s that story there should be massive stories about how we cannot detect Russia doing anything with our election how does that fit with Trump can’t manage Russia how does any of that fit with the story that Trump is a Russian puppet how do we explain that apparently Putin allowed Democrats to win the house and didn’t seem to do anything to stop it does that seem like Putin and Trump are working together there’s a big problem in the narrative that Trump and Putin are working together and there’s a big problem in the narrative that Trump is not doing enough to prevent Russia from messing with our elections because it

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messing with our elections because it looks to me like Russia got out of Dodge or they’re so clever that they got away with it this time but I thought I feel like we we’d at least have some rumors that they were doing something we don’t even have rumors about Russia interfering with the midterms do we it might be because Democrats won do you think if Republicans had prevailed in the house that we would have no stories about rip about Russians influencing the election there’s no way to know but you have to ask that question don’t you you have to ask that question I was speaking of asking the question so when I tweeted that that somebody should ask Don Lemon whether his actions were influencing an Tifa his answer should be the same as Trump’s which is from a legal legal

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Trump’s which is from a legal legal perspective you don’t blame people who are talking for people who are acting so from a legal perspective of course Don Lemon has no responsibility for an T file but also of course president Trump has no legal responsibility for any of these mass shooters but are both of them involved in raising the temperature by departing from let’s say a strict factual description of reality and the answer is yes Sproat so from a scientific perspective there’s still a thing called cause and effect and it certainly seems reasonable to assume that anybody who’s raising the temper is responsible for things that happen when you raise the temperature and it’s quite clear that both the president and CNN do that they get people pretty worked up no stories of voter

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worked up no stories of voter suppression I guess that’s true there were lots of stories where people were attempting there were stories that people were going to attempt a voter suppression but I haven’t seen a story about actual voter suppression that’s a good point I’m not saying there isn’t any I just haven’t seen these stories somebody loved my broadcast from last night that’s interesting so heated rhetoric and never hurt anybody that’s not true heated rhetoric has her lots of people in what world has heated rhetoric never hurt anybody he did rhetoric probably hurts more people than anything else because it always escalates not always but it can escalate Bernie and Michael

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but it can escalate Bernie and Michael Moore are claiming suppression so I may not maybe I’ve just now seen those stories they’re not on the front page of CNN where all of the protests on Thursday peaceful is it my imagination or were the protests against Jeff Sessions firing were those protests the lowest-energy protests you’ve ever heard of it barely made the news there were a few pictures of it and then it was like a because Trump Trump messes with the minds of his critics so thoroughly that he had them protesting to keep somebody they didn’t want and they desperately didn’t it was the strangest thing you’ve ever seen PayPal has shut down Tony Robinson’s againt

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againt that can’t be true or you mean Tommy Robinson yeah it was a very low-energy protest and so I’ll reiterate my prediction because it it’s so so my prediction is so counter to what you’re observing that you should yeah okay Todd Tommy Robinson my prediction is so counter to what you think you’re watching that it should shock you and you should think I’m wrong but remember how many times I predict the things that you thought were wrong quite a few times right so here’s another one I think that the temperature with the regular voting public the people who don’t really follow the politics is probably down because they’re observing the country is running okay economy is okay you know

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running okay economy is okay you know wages are going up the International stuff it seems to be totally under control you don’t even hear about Isis anymore they’re not even a story Isis is not even in this story anymore that’s a that’s about as successful as you can get militarily North Korea you know it’s a little bit of a you know up and down there but clearly moving in the right direction so I think the public is ignoring the news for the most part and that their temperature actually is down because reality is violating what they imagined was going to happen under a trump administration people are not being rounded up the economy is fine no nuclear wars in fact all the offices opposite of what they predicted but the television news media their business model requires them to you know crank things up to DEFCON 20 so that you’re

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things up to DEFCON 20 so that you’re you’re in a continuous fighter flight odhh so the people who watch the television the most the people who follow the news the most are probably at their highest rate of insanity but I don’t think that describes the general population who is clearly by now noticing that their life is going pretty well and they have they have more things to worry about them the news so that’s my my my prediction is that the press will get increasingly crazy at the same time that the general public will get more and more calm because they’re they’re learning to tune out the crazy press one way that you could measure that is in six months check with the popularity of President Trump if his popularity continues to inch up even just a little bit 1% 2% if the president

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just a little bit 1% 2% if the president is 2 percent more popular six months from now what are you going to conclude I think you’d have to conclude that the temperature came down even as the press is painting a picture of the temperature going up they need the temperature to go up for for their business model to make money Florida has 5 minutes to give the count to the courts what do you think is going to happen do you think Brenda Snipes will be taken out in handcuffs is that possible because I I feel like it’s heading in that direction I feel like like Brenda Snipes will actually be removed in handcuffs yeah I’m not I’m not going to make that a prediction but isn’t it sort of having in that direction it feels like it is now that would be problematic in terms of the way it looks so the look of it

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of the way it looks so the look of it would be terrible well maybe that’s a good reason to do it I’m not entirely sure who the whose side the sheriff is on somebody saying the sheriff the sheriff is on her side well if that’s the case then is that the local authorities it’s the state it’s only the state who has authority right is it possible that the FBI and the feds could get involved in in the county’s election results under the theory that the impact crosses state boundaries is there any theory that makes it a federal offense it feels like they could make it federal well that’s pretty radical for you radical what to remove somebody who’s a criminal if if it’s shown if it’s shown that she’s defying the court and it’s actually holding up the country I it does feel like she should be removed in handcuffs doesn’t that feel like the

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handcuffs doesn’t that feel like the appropriate response to something that if it’s shown and you know I’m still on the side of we’re in fog of war let her hat let her let her be innocent until proven guilty all right so my my view on Brenda Snipes is innocent until proven guilty I know you hate that but let’s let’s keep a standard here all right no matter who it is innocent till proven guilty I see the same stuff you see so I think that the odds of her being guilty are very high but let’s keep her innocent until proven guilty all right it was a federal election but I don’t know how the laws work in terms of authority over the voting machines and the voting count that might be separate from the fact that it was a federal election voting is a civil rights issue

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is that good enough that might be good enough I don’t know oh yeah the big story in The Wall Street Journal about Trump’s payoffs to women I talked about this last night well just reiterate so it’s being it’s being called news that Trump knew about the payments to the way to keep them quiet is there anybody in the entire world who thought he didn’t know about it it’s not really news if a hundred percent of the world knew it before it was in the news that would be the that would be an example of not news in fact if I were to define what not news means it would be something that everybody knew for a year that’s like the very definition of non news so it’s not really news if the reporting that the president knew about it and if the issue is hey he lied about something in

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issue is hey he lied about something in his personal life I say if he can’t lie about that what the hell can you lie about lying just to make this problem go away is exactly what I would want him to do for the benefit of the country I would want the president to totally lie about irrelevant to the country irrelevant to the country if he if he needs to lie about that just to make it go away so he can get on with the business of work I’m all in I’m a hundred percent supportive of lying about stuff that doesn’t matter in your personal life completely on board with that now somebody’s gonna say hey does the do the ends justify the means to which I say yeah a lot because the ends were a minor lie about a personal personal situation totally trivial to the country but he’s

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totally trivial to the country but he’s the you know the head of the country and so we want him to be effective in his job so which one is more important being an effective leader of the United States or telling the truth about something in your personal life that doesn’t matter to one freakin person on the whole planet do the ends justify the means yes unless you’re an idiot unless your absolute the costs and the benefits can compared the cost is he lied about something trivial that we don’t care about that we wish he had gotten away with the lie because we don’t want to talk about it because we don’t care what happened to his personal life we didn’t hire him for that we did not hire him to be our role model right compared to possibly destroying the United States in the entire world because his you know because he’s become less you know let’s say less effective because he has to deal with this issue

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because he has to deal with this issue these are not even close to being as important so I support the lie assuming it was a lie about his personal life and if he does it again I support that too in fact I support every lie the president tells and every other politician by the way I just just so you know I’m being consistent because be the this is the point where people jump in and say oh you apologist you will say anything to back the president in my defense the same argument I said about Bill Clinton when Bill Clinton was being taken down for this Monica Lewinsky stuff I said loudly and often we I didn’t have as much of a platform then but to anyone who would listen I said it’s none of our business let him get away with a lie Len just get back to his personal life it’s not our problem

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personal life it’s not our problem so I think the standard that I applied to Bill Clinton which is his personal life is not my problem and not my concern and if he wants to lie about it just to make it go away I’m all-in I was all-in when Bill Clinton did it I’m all-in when President Trump did it assuming that’s what happened so that story if those are the stories in the news things are going really well to think about the biggest complaints about the president just just put these in context here the biggest complaints about the president he said something that in the insulted the president of France does anybody care and they still had a good meeting with him and McCrone is you know friendly enough with the president that it’s not really a problem so so that’s sort of a no big deal France you know nothing’s really happening there that matters

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happening there that matters secondly the news that he insults black women well that’s just fake news because he insults everybody and the good news is it turns out that there are a lot of black women who have excellent jobs at high levels and so they’re you know they’re on the radar now that’s all good news then let’s see what else is in the news the other news that he got rid of Jeff Sessions which nobody on the right wanted wanted Jeff Sessions to remain and nobody on the left one of Jeff Sessions to remain that’s the worst criticism about the President as he fired somebody that nobody wanted that’s it he fired somebody that everybody wanted gone now of course the concern about Jeff Sessions from the anti choppers is that the next thing he’ll do is fire Muller but here’s the thing he hasn’t fired

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but here’s the thing he hasn’t fired Muller it’s not really news that somebody might do something you don’t like because people might do lots of things you don’t like that’s not news that’s mind reading right now if you were to do this well then it becomes news but at the moment it’s not news it’s nothing but imaginary news it’s imagining that something will happen now let’s say he uses Whitaker or whoever he uses to replace Whitaker and by the way the president has signaled very clearly that Whitaker is not going to stay around I don’t know if you saw that but the president’s acting like he’s never met him and doesn’t know him that well he’s just a temporary fill-in and the fact that rod Rosenstein actually praised Whittaker also makes it feel like maybe he sees it as a short-term thing and

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he sees it as a short-term thing and he’s just strive to get past it so I don’t think we have to worry about Whittaker keeping the job it’s it’s feeling like that’s not likely but suppose somebody like Whittaker starts putting a little pressure on Muller just to wrap things up at the same time that Muller has signaled that he wants to wrap things up so what if Muller is wrapping things up and Muller thinks it’ll take three months to do it but he’s in the wrap-up phase and let’s say somebody pushes him to get it done in a month and a half that’s the problem what does it manager do with every project no matter what company you’re in no matter what industry you’re in there’s a project going on and you’re the boss what does every boss do with every project they say what do you mean it’ll take three months I need that done in a month and a half wrap it up alright so managing

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wrap it up alright so managing somebody’s budget and their their timelines is really just business as usual so given that Muller is almost done and I think everybody assumes that he’s almost done now if it were the beginning of the process that would be a big problem but at this point is there anybody left to talk to probably not just the president and they’re not going to talk to him so there’s not much left to say so think about it those are the biggest stories the biggest stories and oh and then there was the protest so the protest is because people think that that Moeller has the goods on Trump in other words the protests were over Russia collusion which as far as we can tell if we’re just looking at facts doesn’t exist so the worst complaints about the president now are the the made-up complaints about targeting black women for a criticism

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targeting black women for a criticism which we could observe it doesn’t require any research you could just turn on the news and see him insulting everybody so that’s easily disproven there’s the the Russia stuff which is literally imaginary now I’m not saying that Muller has found nothing because we need to wait and see but at the moment nothing is leaked nothing is even slightly telling us nothing’s even leaning in that direction at all so it’s sort of an imaginary mind-reading problem so if your problems have been reduced from think about the problems when Trump took over the economy wasn’t going well that’s a big problem jobs aren’t good enough that’s the big problem things were going well but they weren’t good enough these are these are big things Isis is still a big problem North Korea is still a big problem trade deals still a big problem how many of those things are still big problems not a lot right

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are still big problems not a lot right so all all CNN has left are things which are imaginary literally imaginary like they’re imagining that he’s making fun of people you know he’s targeting people but clearly that’s not the case you know that the facts demonstrate that as clearly as anything could be demonstrated and so you’ve got you’ve got imaginary racism in terms of targeting black women you’ve got imaginary Russia collusion and you’ve got imaginary he’s going to fire Muller which he might but at this moment we’re just imagining it so if all of your problems are imaginary a sort of as good as you can get all right I think I’ve beaten that point into the ground and I’m gonna hang up now and hope everybody does well in this California fire I’ve got some people I

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California fire I’ve got some people I need to check on and I will talk to you later