Episode 300 Scott Adams: Why You Shouldn’t Piss Off The First Lady and Anti-Pelosi Democrats

Date: 2018-11-14 | Duration: 54:44

Topics

Doctor assisted suicide is here and legal, in the United States Hospice care or palliative care Hate crimes increase 17%…or maybe they decreased 17% If you’re dumb enough to piss off the first lady… …you’re too dumb for your National Security Aide job The new far-left Democrats, 4 crazy bullet points per Fox News The Dems are employing the Trump playbook The Dems are doing it effectively Their 4 objectives are a “big ask”, just like President Trump 19 Black women ran for judgeship in Texas…and won America, divided by a common language We’re arguing about the definition of words “Nationalist”, “Democratic Socialism” Winning arguments by changing the definition of words If Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, ever runs for President…he will win A complex, big, impossible seeming Middle East peace plan is possible Little deals are harder to achieve than a grand plan How is President Trump “persuasive”…if he hasn’t persuaded me? President Trump’s approval rating is only 40% Neither side is capable of persuading the other side Both sides now, only try to persuade their own side 2016 Election worries… Concentration camps, global depression, nuclear war 2018 worries… Vote counting, Healthcare, the caravan, Melania doesn’t like somebody Our current problems are small compared to 2016 worries Home-building kits for low cost housing with snap together capability

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[Music] hey Joe hey everybody come on in here I am using a different device to broadcast let's see if we can fix that problem of the orientation and I also won't turn my camera around and have you look out the window looks the same as last time hey Eric hey Sheldon hey Richard and Yvonne come on in here you know what time it is yes you do it's time for the simultaneous tip and if you've got a mug a cup of glass of vessel a Stein a container of any kind shall we call it a chalice raise your container filled with your favorite liquids I like coffee and join me for the simultaneous hip yes so we got I changed devices I'm using a different iPad we'll see if that makes a

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iPad we'll see if that makes a difference on the orientation problem now where to start somebody yesterday was pointing out that health care costs are skewed toward the end of life so you end up spending most of your healthcare money in your final year or two of life because that's when all the expensive stuff happens when they're keeping you alive and somebody said well you know what if there was some kind of some kind of legal doctor assisted suicide and then people could leave if they wanted to leave earlier now of course that's a problem because you can't have people just dying because they want to because you'd get abuses and stuff but it made me realize that in this country we already have completely legal end-of-life suicide did you know that

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end-of-life suicide did you know that did you know that it is completely legal to take your own life at the end of at the end of your life if you've got you know not much time left we just don't call it suicide we call it hospice care or palliative care so if somebody is only got let's say a week left a couple weeks left and there's just nothing you can do you have the option of drugging them until they're not conscious and not feeding them anymore so if you make somebody not conscious because they're drugged up and you don't feed them that's suicide because the person has agreed agreed to this so I think we should get out of the head set of saying you know we're not going to allow suicide at the end of life you know unless they're in super pain we're already way past there it is

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pain we're already way past there it is already universally legal and accepted that we can kill people at the end of their life with their with their agreement they have to agree to it it's just we just call it a different name and we do it the hard way we make them wait and suffer and make everybody suffer and wait and pay a lot of money but we literally have an end of life suicide program right now and I've watched a number of people go through it so I've observed this firsthand we kill people with their agreement in the last week or two of their life simply by knocking him out with drugs and now feeding them by choice they choose this it's not something they're surprised by and then they have a relatively I guess relatively painless death but it seems cruel to me so all I'm saying is if we're thinking it's not it's not right

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we're thinking it's not it's not right to allow suicide we're way past that we already do it we just don't do it well all right
somebody reported recently that there was a rise in hate crimes now of course there's always a political umbrella over any kind of conversation like that because somebody is trying to make a point and they'll say something like well the rise in hate crime must be because of President Trump for example so usually these things have a political purpose to them but once again watch for this trend here's the trend when you see a report about an increase in violence of hate crimes whether it's people on the left or people on the right look to see if this summary is supported by examples that you can see because it almost never is and maybe never is because I've never seen it I'm saying

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because I've never seen it I'm saying almost just because maybe somebody did it once but even if you looked at the examples you wouldn't know if it's the same way they measured it before are people more likely to more likely to report it in the report that somebody was passing around it said he cried was up 17% and then buried way down in the article and you have to actually follow it lengthy and get there but buried way down in the article is that they added a whole bunch of reporting entities now maybe they didn't add enough entities to make up for the 17% but they never did any kind of a calculation to let us know if that was the case so indeed the report that said hate crime was up 17% did not demonstrate that the owner did the article itself did not demonstrate that fact it demonstrate that it could have been up and it could have been down either one of those was possible based on what they presented in terms of

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on what they presented in terms of evidence so beware of additional fake news reports yeah look out for the fake news reports to say hate crimes are up because it's probably the way they're measuring it and it's probably at a context and as probably not supported by any kind of summary so just be careful those now we have a story about Melania our first lady who is apparently instrumental in getting some kind of national security aid some high-level aide fired somebody named Mira Ricardo now of course because she's the first lady and not an elected official it makes a great headline story because people get in jabarut it and say blah blah blah first lady this gossip gossip gossip what is she doing making national national security decisions

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national national security decisions about personnel etc here's my take on the Melania controversy if it's even that I don't know it is let me say this without cursing if you're dumb enough to cross the first lady if you're dumb enough to get out in the first lady's bad side you're too stupid for the job it doesn't matter what else you can do it doesn't matter what else you're doing right if you're dumb enough to piss off the first lady you got to go you got to go you piss off the first lady you're just not smart enough for the job
secondly if anybody had a free punch its Melania as our first lady put up with more then well Michelle Obama put

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more then well Michelle Obama put up with a lot of - so first ladies do put up with a lot of that's that's a fact but Melania has put up with a lot of I mean she's put up with from her own team from the other team I mean Melania has put up with a lot were there a lot of complaining right if anybody had a free punch it's her all right can you imagine her going to her husband and saying I'm only asking you for one thing she's probably asking for more than one thing but my feeling is that if she went to the President and said I don't ask for a lot I'm not asking for a lot but I want this one thing that's the end of the story all right and should be I'm perfectly happy with that situation now I saw on a tweet this is it looks like it's a

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tweet this is it looks like it's a screen grab from Fox News and it showed the radical new democratic ideas and it shows these new faces in the house with Octavio Cortes being the one we know the best but these are other freshmen far-left apparently Democrats and the radical new Democratic ideas now this is the fox news summary but I think is accurate so they're saying four bullet points that these are radical new Democrats want free college for all free healthcare for all abolish ice and some kind of a new deal for the environment I guess a green new deal now your first impression of all these things is that's all crazy every bit of this it's crazy right it doesn't it doesn't conform to anything you know is possible or practical or realistic right so therefore you could

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realistic right so therefore you could just dismiss them because their points are so so aggressively impractical so you could just dismiss them right what are we doing right now we're talking about them who are we not talking about everybody who has boring ideas the people were not talking about are the people who were wait for it the Democrats were not talking about are all the Democrats who were not smart enough to do this they're shocking us who does this remind you of who does it remind you of when you see such a a big ask this is a gigantic ask free college for all oh my God how much would that cost free health care for everybody 32 trillion dollars abolish ice that's crazy green new deal I don't even know what it is but it's probably bad for the economy

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if you're saying to yourself this is all impractical bad ideas you are being manipulated they're taking the Trump playbook moving the technique from the right to the left and employing it with chilling efficiency so remember I always make a big deal when I'm talking about President Trump of separating the technique from the practicality from the fact-checking from the morality you know it's helpful to look at the technique separate from all those other things so you can see if the technique is good or bad the technique is freakin good it's good that's good technique because we're talking about her how many times have I talked about Octavia Cortes whose name I still can't remember a lot now let me

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still can't remember a lot now let me take you back to the time that candidate Trump said he wanted to deport 14 million people what is that possible no it was not is it more crazy to say you're going to deport 14 million people or is it more crazy to say you'll get free college which is more crazy yeah they're both crazy but they're directionally pleasing they're directionally pleasing and it matches a lot of their brace it gets energy it gets all of your attention and why is it that we're focusing on the this group the reason we're talking about them is because they're proposed those are impractical that's the magic if they made practical suggestions it would look like this you know I'd like to see more people in college than most we could do is maybe crank that up 2% a year but you know over 20 years they'd be 40 percent that would sound like something practical but do you get any

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something practical but do you get any attention if you talk in practical terms you do not so somebody's saying so stop talking about them that's the point we can't if I could stop talking about them I would also have to say they don't have a good technique because look how easily I stopped talking about them I can't their technique makes me talk about them because it made everybody else talk about them and I'm the one who talks about what everybody's talking about all right the reason Trump's technique works with the media is because when he says something this crazy sounding they have to talk about it and if everybody's talking about it what am I gonna do I'm gonna talk about it so don't be surprised when that group makes more headway than you thought there was a great story end of the hill about a Texas County I saw this who had nineteen

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Texas County I saw this who had nineteen there were nineteen african-american women who ran to be judges in this one County nineteen african-american women ran to be judges and out of nineteen all nineteen got elected all nineteen so remember I was saying how CNN keeps saying that the president oh it's coincidence that the president keeps criticizing female black people and I guess there were three of them that they've mentioned oh why is it that the president keeps criticizing or black women and I made the comment it's it's more good news than you think because the president doesn't criticize you until you a certain level of success all right the president isn't calling people out to her just voters and say I'll see that voter over there that voter voted for Clinton I hate that voter he doesn't do that you have to be a successful

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that you have to be a successful politician a business person who's made a billion dollars you have to be a senator you've got to be a judge you've got to be you've got to be pretty you know or a reporter for seeing that in a very successful career if you can get there so I'm just gonna emphasize that point we it's so easy to miss the positive news if the President of the United States is criticizing a lot of black women lately it's because black women are killing it they're doing great 19 black women and of 19 got elected to judge jobs these are good jobs anyway uh-huh I thought that was something worthy of pointing out when we were you know we get all caught up calling each other racists and you know you lose sight of the fact that you know below the level of the political discourse things are pretty much improving

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things are pretty much improving everywhere all the time as a general rule just about everything is improving but slowly it's it's only moments like this where you get something that's just quite obviously you know a big step forward now I tweeted yesterday and it got a lot of retweets so it must have been clever and well here's what I said if you've never heard the quote that this comes from don't give me full credit for it because I'm I'm borrowing somebody else's famous quote that's a little different but I don't remember whatever it was and I'm applying it to our current situation and I said this America is one country divided by a common language one half thinks nationalist means patriot and the other thinks it means racist word thinking now my point of that was that even though we

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my point of that was that even though we speak the same language we found a way to tend to disagree on on the same language like even what a word means so half of the discussion in the country right now is whether the word nationalist means a patriotic person who prefers their country over others or a damn white nationalist those are not very close those two things are not very similar in meaning and when I put that out there the response I got from from people who you know we're feeling the same thing the most frequent response I got was well our definition is the one that's right our definition is the one in the dictionary therefore we're right if you're thinking anything like that if you're thinking my definition of the word is right you are not even in the right game that's totally the wrong question the question of who's right is

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question the question of who's right is completely irrelevant you can't be right when people are making up their own meaning for words if if I've decided that I'm going to call the President of the United States a camel and I say I know I know the definition in the dictionary is a camel is this you know animal with a hump and usually in the desert but I choose to use the word to mean the President of the United States I'm just gonna call him camel now you can't tell me I'm wrong because if you look in the dictionary the camel was an animal it's not the president of United States because I just told you I'm adding my own definition to the word it doesn't add anything there's no logic here I haven't made a point I should not be winning any arguments by simply putting a new meaning to a word now it gets more devious when you assign a new meaning to a word somebody's already using so that's what the Democrats have done and weirdly it's somewhat

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done and weirdly it's somewhat successful persuasion perspective it has been I think somewhat successful to just arbitrarily say when you say nationalists do you really mean racist I wonder if there's any word well I guess I guess the I guess the Republicans do the same thing so when Democrats say they'd like democratic socialism they're talking about the kind of democratic socialism you see in Europe in countries that if you ask them if they're happy they would say yes so so really that's what the Democrats are asking about but then the Republicans do the same trick on them and say oh you mean communism or you mean socialism like the real socialism that's totally socialism with no capitalism that's not what they mean they mean a capitalist democratic slightly more socialist in a couple of

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slightly more socialist in a couple of areas like health care and in education you could argue about whether that's a good or bad thing to have oh yeah Venezuela right so actually thank you that's a perfect example so when the Democrats say we'd like free health care you know and some little democratic socialism we can see that that seems to work in Europe so it's a functioning system in Europe but then as well I had a whole different situation at a dictator so what the Republicans will do is say oh you mean like Venezuela so the Republicans turn Democratic Socialist which we can see works because it's working in Europe they turn it into Venezuela which is a completely different situation so the Democrats are just giving it back with this nationalist thing

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right so here's my recommendation don't get into arguments with people who are defining words differently I call that word thinking if somebody is trying to win an argument by changing the definition of a word they're not involved in facts they're not involved in reason they're not they're not involved in any kind of the rational part of the world now if you want to talk to somebody who's not involved in any rational discussion well just no way you're getting into you're not getting into a conversation where one of you is going to win because the other person is not even on the same playing field they're not attempting to do anything with logic or reason or anything they're just trying to use a word you maybe if I change the definition of the word I'll get in the back door and maybe I'll convince people by changing what words mean there's no point in engaging anybody on that level Benioff compared using facebook to a deadly cigarette addiction interesting now I haven't seen

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addiction interesting now I haven't seen that quote but if I take your word for it anonymous commenter that Marc Benioff CEO and founder of Salesforce has compared Facebook addiction and I would imagine that would be true of social media addiction just in general to a cigarette addiction I would say add that to the reasons I like Marc Benioff that guy is the real deal he could be the president someday by the way if Marc Benioff runs for president as a Democrat he's going to be the president I've never heard him say he had any interest in it so I don't know if he does or not but I want you to hear it here first if Marc Benioff CEO of Salesforce ever decides to run for president he'll be the president you could take that to the bank but I've never heard him say he's interested somebody said why

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interested somebody said why well I've I spent a little bit of time talking with him personally so I get a sense of the person and I've also been watching watching him for a long time his his capability his ability to show empathy his intelligence his success his consistency I'm not aware of any scandals I'm sure if he ran for president somebody would find one or manufacture one you know his work is charitable he's turned a major corporation into a giving machine with his 1% 1% 1% thing so sales force is already sort of a hybrid company because it's a capitalist country but it's based on a very strong principle of giving away some percentage of that to the people who need it and he's an empathetic character meaning you can

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empathetic character meaning you can tell he cares really remember bending off is a guy who I forget if he initiated it I think he initiated it a check within his company to make sure that women were not underpaid and he found out that to his horror in his own company there were actually a number of examples in which he was convinced that women were underpaid and he just in one in one swoop he adjusted all of it and he didn't adjust the men down he adjusted the women up now that had to be really expensive and I don't know if the way you measure these things is really fair all right because there's always the how much experience did he have and and all that but he didn't care he just adjusted it anyway that's a guy who can win I that dude can't win when Democrats are expecting a women he's he has been so Pro women that he's actually got

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so Pro women that he's actually got better track record with women than most women do and and he also has more persuasive capabilities than just about anybody else so he's he's a trump-like character in terms of persuasion and business acumen but without without their provocative parts if you took if you took President Trump and removed the provocative parts you know the I guess the the risky stuff if you took that out it can to get Benioff and Betty off is probably one of the smarter people you'll ever meet so iqy sees he's also pins a needle you know it's funny I've been saying that the Democrats would never run an adult white male but I also was not considering somebody like Benioff he

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considering somebody like Benioff he would be the exception he would be like the the Trump like exception where you know before if you said could somebody run for president who had never held a government job if you had asked me that question just in general I would say no I don't think so I think you have to have a little bit of government experience before you can be the president but then the exception to the rule was President Trump so there's something about his personality that makes the rules not count likewise I've said that the Democrats are never going to be happy with a adult white male candidate because of the nature of the the mixture of their coalition but Benioff would be the exception he does have the capability that he could break through that like it wasn't even there

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how would he handle identity politics better than anybody else has handled it probably all right we don't need to get into too many details in that because I suspect he is not planning to run so we don't need to we don't need to make a big deal about that talk about rom you mean Emmanuel III met Rahm Emmanuel you wouldn't remember it because it was just a random meeting but I shook his hand once yeah I don't have much to say about Rob I don't know enough about North Korea we've talked about that everything's going fine in North Korea the news is reporting it like maybe it isn't but it's exactly where we should expect to be at this stage let's talk about the Middle East I did an afternoon I did an afternoon periscope on the

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I did an afternoon periscope on the Middle East I don't know how many of you've seen it but I had suggested that the that the elements are lining up for something maybe to happen in the Middle East that would be good and I guess the Defense Minister has resigned over the fact that then and Yahoo and Hamas are talking about a ceasefire and the defense minister I think wanted to be more hardcore and and go after the the fighters and remember I was telling you yesterday that Hamas needs in order for a mosque to change its current mode which just seems important for anything else to happen they need to have something they could identify as a win and the reason the defense minister is quitting is because he says it looks like we're letting Hamas win and ammas is celebrating because they think that the Defense Minister quitting

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think that the Defense Minister quitting is an indication that they're winning now you don't want to get ahead of yourself at any of this middle-east stuff because the odds of peace in the Middle East are probably small no matter what but I've made the argument that we're closer to being able to get peace then maybe has ever been the case because of the unique characters that are involved right now the leaders that are involved how they would work with each other the incentives the fact that Iran is losing money and looks like it will just get worse forever Israel is getting stronger forever there's no way anything's gonna go well you might as well just make a deal now you've got the right characters you've got Saudi Arabia's probably flexible at the moment so there might be a way to make a grand deal and here's a here's another persuasion tip this will be one of the most valuable persuasion tips you'll ever see and that fits in with the Octavia Cortes persuasion points I

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the Octavia Cortes persuasion points I was making if you had a choice of making either a deal for Israel and Hamas to have some kind of a you know non military situation you know some kind of a ceasefire some kind of a peace if your choice was to see if he could get that just that just Israel and Hamas you know not fighting should you go for it well if that's the only thing it's the only chance you have maybe you should but compare that to trying to make a grand plan where everybody's getting something and giving something from Yemen to Saudi Arabia to Iran to the nuclear deal to Syria to Russia to look how complicated this is how many countries if you could make a deal for all of those things for a grand plan which would be more likely to happen which is more likely the little one just a mas in Israel or this big Middle East complicated messy you

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big Middle East complicated messy you can't imagine how all these elements could ever be negotiated and fixed which one's more likely if you said the simple one is the more likely you don't understand persuasion the big one is more likely the big impossible one is more likely why because some things that are big and impossible take all of our attention we we think that things are going to happen if you're talking big when you take something that could be small and you make it gigantic then you have everybody's attention and you have everybody trying to figure out how to make it work and everybody's working toward a common thing if you keep it small people can ignore it they can wait for it to go away etc so the big win in the Middle East might be and I'm not predicting this I'm just saying we're closer than we've ever been to something like like a good situation in the Middle East it could be

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situation in the Middle East it could be that by making it gigantic like a grand deal instead of a little deal that's just that Israel and Hamas or a little deal that's just a Yemen will stop funding the sides in Yemen or a little deal that's just Iran once you stay out of north was a Syria or a little deal like well what's what's Russia gonna keep on doing with Syria or a little deal see there it's a whole bunch of little deals little deals are kind of hard because you have the option of just adds a little deal I'll think about something else but if you make it a grand plan to solve all of that stuff at once just just everybody put it on the table what are the things you have to have what are the things you'd give up what are the things you'd give see if you can make a grand deal

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what gigantic thing would bring the us together war let me and I'm not obviously I don't hope that happens but let me tell you something that that is confusing a lot of people people keep asking me how can the president be persuasive if his if his well the way people say at the critics usually as they say how could trumpet be persuasive if he hasn't persuaded me and he hasn't persuaded hasn't persuaded fifty to sixty percent of the public how can you be persuasive if your approval is only forty two percent the majority of people are not persuaded Scott how could you call that persuasive here's how we no longer live in the world in which you can persuade the other team we don't live in that world anymore and there's a reason it's because once technology allowed us to measure how the effects of

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allowed us to measure how the effects of headlines and the news were affecting clicks and those clicks affect profits once the news became sort of a team sport where they would never literally never try to understand the other side you lost the ability probably forever we lost the ability for anybody to persuade the other team it is no longer a thing to persuade the other team it'll never happen again maybe the only thing you can persuade the only thing that's in play is your own side so if you could get to ninety percent approval within your own team you should be considered the most persuasive person in the world if anybody could do that on the other team going forward in the past you know in the past

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the past both teams had popular people right but if the if the Democrats can get any candidate in 2020 to get to a 90% approval within their own party I'm gonna say that person is really persuasive Bernie only got half of his own side
Clinton got most of her side and she got you know more votes even than Trump but there were a whole lot of people on her side who really still wanted Bernie so you know that was a special case where she had the money and the name and everything but if you take that stuff out I don't think it's gonna be common for anybody to even persuade 90% of their own side anymore that's sort of the standard I got in the back and forth on Twitter about my predictive abilities and one of the predictions is that my

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and one of the predictions is that my critic called out is that you said I'll have to paraphrase this because they don't have it but you said that I had claimed that when the election happened that the temperature would go down and that the hysteria would go down and my critic said haha that's clearly not the case the hysteria has not gotten less and therefore your prediction that once the election happened the hysteria would subside you are off there's more hysteria than ever so I guess you're wrong to which I responded during the election people thought that there were going to be and I'm not making this up you remember it right people thought they were going to be concentration camps for gays when President Trump got elected that that was an actual belief clearly that's not going to happen there were people who thought the the entire economy would crash and they were entering a depression I don't see

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entering a depression I don't see anybody worried about that anymore people thought that the president would start a nuclear war it looks like the opposite is happening he might be the safest president we've ever had look at North Korea for example people thought that it would be crazy if he went into these trade wars because then it would be in some terrible trade to war a problem not true doesn't seem to be a problem at all people thought that Roe vs. Wade would be overturned well I can't say that it it will never be impacted but I think people realize now that even if it did it would just get kicked back to the States and that the Conservatives on the court really really really liked precedent so the odds of it changing are actually kind of low it might and you know the people in the left have a perfectly reasonable reason to be worried if that's their priority but the

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worried if that's their priority but the odds of it are kind of low right it looks like lower now than it really was although I think some people would disagree about that so if you look at today what are the things that people are worked up about today compared to during the election this was one of the best predictions I've ever made we're not worrying about concentration camps we're not worried about depressions we're not worried about nuclear war worried I don't even know how worried we are about climate change it's probably the same but it's not really so much because Trump did or did not do anything it's just that there's nothing you can do so I would argue that that the things we will work up oh and then what about Russian collusion remember Russian collusion was there was some certainty that the president was actually more aligned with Russia than with the United States that was a real belief I don't think that's a belief anymore do you do you think that even the president's critics still believe that he's working

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critics still believe that he's working with Putin I don't think so because the evidence says failed to materialize so it might be true that people are still emotionally worked up but look at the things they're worried about check the headlines here's the headlines compare these headlines to concentration camps depressions and nuclear war there was the things we worried about before now here are the headlines new White House fury comes from the first lady the top story the top story on CNN is that the first lady didn't like somebody who worked at the way house right am I wrong about that that's the top story now yeah somebody mentioned the wildfires and the wildfires are gigantic problem it's not really a president Trump problem right he didn't he didn't really cause that let's look at some of the the other big stories Don Lemon says there's chaos in

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stories Don Lemon says there's chaos in the White House because of Melania I guess that's the story there see top stories think about that these are your top worries in the country is that Melania was being to somebody in the White House on there are some other top stories the the singer named pink Pink's husband has a warning for wildfire looters that's a top story there's a husband of a singing rock star who's warning people not to loot that's it there are some other top stories there's a lot of vote counting in Florida and all the right people who want a good result certainly look at even the Florida story what's what's the biggest like problem you know with the the election is that Florida looks sketchy and what is but what's happening all right it's easy to look at just the negative but what's happening in Florida

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negative but what's happening in Florida Florida is causing us to all scream at the top of our lungs that we want the same thing how weird is that in Florida you have two sides that are violently agreeing that every legal vote has to be counted if your biggest problem is two people yelling at each other the same thing hey I like the color green Oh yeah well I like the color green too that's our biggest problem right now people are violently yelling at each other that all the legal vote should be included if that's your problem you're in a pretty good place let's look at some other top stories
[Music] nothing yeah I mean basically nothing the others are crime stories local crime now give me give me a fact check have I

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now give me give me a fact check have I made my case that the things people were afraid of during the election did not materialize and the things were complaining about and yet our emotions are still at a 10 oh I will agree with that emotionally we're still at 10 and a 10 but the problems were worried about are absolute they're complete problems what about the caravan right the caravan no matter which way it went was probably somewhat unimportant right we don't need we don't need more crime than we have to have and we have to have rules and and all of all of the discussion about it is important but it's not important like nuclear war it's not important important like a depression because no matter what was going to happen with this Caravan it probably would have led to some tightening and improvement in the border

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tightening and improvement in the border probably just didn't make that much difference those are our biggest problems and they're not much of a problem do you know I well do you know why health care is the top concern health care is the top concern because most of the other big problems got solved or on their way to being solved we're not talking about Isis so we can talk about health care we're not talking about the economy not talking about jobs we're not talking there's a lot of things we're not talking about it anymore simply because they're being handled quite well all right
by the way am I wrong about this am I wrong that the problems that we were worried about mostly the other side we're worried about during the election were gigantic world-ending problems and though the stuff we're talking about now is Melania didn't like somebody in the White House I mean these are

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White House I mean these are fundamentally different levels of problems now that the fentanyl problem is still huge and there are there is some government action that looks productive in that way but we weren't talking about those things during the election and that's not really a political problem to begin with look at other things we're talking about we're talking about prison reform yeah these are just all positive things nineteen african-american women ran for judge jobs in one County and 19 and of 19 black women won their elections in Texas I don't know if I could say that enough times you know I'm gonna say it's three times 19 and 19 black women ran for judge jobs in Texas and all 19 won I could just say that all day long like I just love the sound of it you know if that's not a positive sign sign for the country what the hell is you know if

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country what the hell is you know if anything we're going to be talking about how other people can compete with that kind of success you got to give it to black women they're killing it they're killing it so how about some props for for that group all right uh some of there's a polar bear story
prison reform is not happening they get trained to work but nobody hires them well it's a I think prison reform is one of the toughest things you could ever tackle which is also it's a good sign that we're tackling it it means that other problems have reached a level where there you can put resources into this really intractable tough problem and I think it's like everything else you try some stuff you you just push forward see what works what doesn't yes if any of it works you keep pushing

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well let's get rid of the racist all right yeah you know I'm looking at your comments and I heard some celebrity homes burned down in California yeah that's the sort of it's it's bothersome to me and probably to most of you that we talk about celebrity homes being burned down in California and I get you know there's an obvious reason why that's the story and you can't stop it but you know there are tens of thousands of people who can't afford they can't afford to rebuild and it's a major setback in their life and they're not celebrities so for the dozen or so celebrities we've heard of who lose their homes those are all the ones who can afford to rebuild they'll just build nicer places in different different places Oh blight Authority for California yeah you know I've been working with Bill Polti

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know I've been working with Bill Polti and you'll see some more of that and if in a few weeks you're gonna see some more coming from us on what to do with the the blighted and cleared land and in urban areas but it seems to me that the question of how do you build economically so that people can have a high-quality life at a low cost how do you how do you make a good building that you can live in for a low low price it feels like that's important everywhere now because look you've got all these natural disasters where after it's done you need to rebuild and a lot of the people who were rebuilding are not the rich people so wouldn't it be great if we had a technology for rebuilding that was very super efficient and low cost if you look at the people who are coming across the border what would what would the immigration look like if the people south the border had ways to build really cool efficient low-cost homes that makes the cost of living much less

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that makes the cost of living much less I don't know would they be more inclined to stay where they are because they could build their own home with NFL you know and they kit for example so it seems to me that this big question of how do you how do you design a low-cost life so that people who never will have high incomes can still have a great life like the middle-class used to you know when I grew up we didn't have much income but we still had compared to what you could have today pretty good life right it didn't take that much money to have a reasonable job my father worked in the post office as a just a clerk who stands at the post office window and with odd jobs and you know he worked some painting and night and weekends and stuff he worked pretty hard and my mother worked a little bit but with that low low level of income we had her own house you know we had you know cars that worked most of the time and that world

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worked most of the time and that world has gone away yeah maybe it's tiny homes with solar panels on the roof but I don't even know that they need to be tiny so I think the tiny part is somewhat irrelevant ooh I think we could build homes that are a little Kitt's and that it's like Legos and you could snap it together and that one person in theory you could create a home that one person can build with with their own two hands and just snap it together and you'd make it so the directions are clear and things can only go together one way let me give you one example of how much improvement improvement you could make with home building the materials for building homes always come in standard sizes you know like a floor panel might be one foot by one foot you know lumber is exactly the same length all the time if you were to if you were to build a home in which your

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you were to build a home in which your design required you not to cut anything you just buy everything off the shelf and your lumber is this long so that the size of your rooms are either this or twice this you could probably snap it together pretty quickly now the current materials maybe that's not the best idea but if you designed materials that by their design were meant to snap together I've got a feeling you could make a snap together home and it would be inexpensive and maybe better than other homes it doesn't have to be worse because it costs less it could be better they already have manufactured homes but if you've watched the process it requires heavy equipment you need a crane you've got to transport this house and and then the house that's built in the factory is built by probably a union type labor and lots of overhead and expense what if you got rid of all that you could get rid of the factory you can

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you could get rid of the factory you can get rid of all the labor you could have this the parts made in the factories and sent directly to the site and then the people just assemble it
there was a Sears home that was like this forty years ago yeah so imagine how much better we can do if we use that process today with modern you know everything we know about modern construction and materials and 3d printers you know I I've imagined for example that you've got a you just imagine this model you've got a home that you've designed the community so that you have all the things that community needs so you've got your people the same age you've designed it so it has good security you've got you know people basically all your social needs are met so you want to design the community first not just the house but then imagine that the house all of the building blocks stuff is a kit you can pick it up snap together and then all

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pick it up snap together and then all the little stuff like the knobs and the faucets and the doorknobs is all 3d printed on-site so that all the all the little metal stuff and plastic stuff and the parts and the connectors and stuff you just print it on-site so the only thing that gets shipped to the site is the stuff that comes in standard kit sized forms you snap together when you're ready to put it on the doorknobs the 3d printer makes you some doorknobs you snap them on all right more on that later and I'll talk to you all another time see you later