Episode 305 Scott Adams: Swalwell Derangement Syndrome, CIA Leaks, Pelosi Votes

Date: 2018-11-17 | Duration: 50:51

Topics

Alexa…Do you record everything you hear? President Trump offers to help Pelosi get votes she needs Bipartisanship for key things America needs If POTUS gets deals on his remaining objectives, he won’t run again Court rules on Jim Acosta press pass Will President Trump call on Acosta? Yes, of course he will Kellyanne Conway husband becoming very vocal anti-Trumper Khashoggi leak says Prince Salman knew Our governments options are limited by the leak Swalwell tweet about using nuclear weapons on Americans He was talking to his base, prepping to run for President It was a “big ask”, outrageous, over the top, attention move Was he serious? Of course not Like Ocasio-Cortez, he’s using persuasion effectively Projection: Imagining other people have the same faults as you have Should conservatives act like liberals, use their playbook? It feels good to attack your opponent in an unfair way… …as payback for unfair attacks against your side Julian Assange previously offered juicy info in exchange for immunity

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buh-buh-buh-buh bum bum bum bum bum hey everybody get in here it's time for Saturday morning coffee with Scott Adams who is Scott Adams Alexa who is Scott Adams commentary in business his Dilbert series came to national prominence through the downsizing period in 1990s America and was then distributed worldwide Adams worked in various roles at big businesses before he became a full-time cartoonist in 1995
Alexa devices which it's hard to talk about it without triggering it so I got several of them and put them in different rooms and I've been trying to live with them for a while to see what I

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live with them for a while to see what I see what I think of having these devices and I gotta tell you I realize everybody's reaction is going to be different you know there is no product that everybody likes but I am so hooked on this Alexa thing I use it all the time I walk from room to room talking to it asking it the weather the time I tell a tab joked make it tell me jokes I ask it questions of facts I ask it trivia now there is one problem there is one problem apparently it's recording you all the time so if I commit a crime that the police apparently can get a full record of all my conversations in the house wherever I was within talking distance of it now you might say to yourself my god how can you live with that level of giving away your personal information and

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information and here's my explanation have you noticed that there are no large crimes that go unsolved there's no such thing as privacy privacy is so gone yeah privacy is so gone huh you know imagine trying to get away with the crime they know where your phone is they know what you've looked up they they know literally everywhere you've gone with your phone they know where you've purchased things they know who you've talked to they know every comment and picture you've ever published they can get a hold of your phone and find out everything you like you have done every app every communication you've ever had there are video cameras everywhere there's an you know there's an Alexa and about probably 10% of the homes now but that will be climbing over time and I don't think my phone listens to me all the time but it can just the fact that

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the time but it can just the fact that you know if the if the deep state or whoever the CIA already wanted to turn on my phone and just listen to me I believe they have the technology to do that I could be wrong but I think they could just listen through my phone as it's sitting on my desk if they want to do so having discussions about whether we should or should not give up our privacy is so 2010 your privacy is gone you know you don't have any privacy the only privacy you have is based on being boring being boring is the only thing that keeps you private because if nobody cares nobody's gonna look and buy nobody I mean the government yeah right now we do have at least a little bit of privacy from our other citizens all right let's talk about President Trump going all bipartisan you saw the Ewan bipartisan

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bipartisan you saw the Ewan bipartisan on the the prison reform bill and that was a really good what I call the new CEO move it's the first thing you do after you take the job you saw that Trump and pence did that when wouldn't they first got elected before they were even signed in they were going to forward and carry her and trying to convince them to bring jobs back to the United States so on day one Trump and pence branded themselves as the one who were really going to fight for jobs that was good branding and now after the midterms so the midterms happen and that's sort of a new day right it's a it's a shake the box and start over again moment and the president comes right out of the box with prison reform so he sets the stage for being bipartisan and the best part is that he just promised I guess yesterday he just promised that if Pelosi needs more votes

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promised that if Pelosi needs more votes to become speaker for the Democrats that he would help her get Republican votes because he says he likes her and she's smart and she's tough and she's good at her job and it's really kind of amazing now you know it's politics and you know that people are saying things for effect but did you ever think you'd see the day now who was it who predicted to you the president Trump would become more effective with a split split to House and Senate who told you he would become more effective not less I did dana perino did it too so I'm not the only person in the world I'm sure other people have said it to but remember here's sort of a principle that you can always take to the bank the person who

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always take to the bank the person who has the most power is the one who can change sides that's why flake has so much power at the moment he can change sides it's one of the reasons that Rand Paul is one of the reasons that he's more effective than other senators because sometimes he'll change sides and likewise mansion and some of the others so President Trump is the ultimate deal maker meaning he will go where it makes sense to go and at the moment given the the composition of Congress it makes sense to make friends with Nancy Pelosi and find out if they can get stuff done because all of the remaining stuff is stuff he needs some Democrat votes on immigration health care etc now I have an interesting thought experiment for you what I'm going to say next is very

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you what I'm going to say next is very unlikely to happen so it's not a prediction it's just a thought experiment it kind of crystallizes some of the concepts I talked about imagine if you will this is not going to happen this will not happen but just imagine president Trump announcing that all of the remaining big things we have to solve from the budget deficit to healthcare to immigration all of the big stuff and even climate all of the big stuff that's remaining has to be bipartisan and I think most people would say okay that's true even education etc so everybody's going to agree with the statement that the only way to get this next bunch of stuff done is by bipartisanship now we didn't need bipartisanship to beat Isis you know to stop them down we didn't really need it for trade negotiations we didn't need it for a lot of things that the president has accomplished but for the rest of the

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has accomplished but for the rest of the stuff we need it imagine if he will and again this is not going to happen this is just for fun imagine if President Trump made the following offer that if by the end of his term he had deals signed meeting bipartisan deals for health care immigration and baby throws it in you know a couple more and he says if I get a bipartisan deal on these three or four big things and me the deficit has to be in there somewhere you know that he would not run for a second term think about it that if he got a bipartisan deal on all of the remaining big topics he would not run for a second term now why is that so powerful because the entire the entire sort of force organized against the right is really sort of personal it's really more about Trump that it is about

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really more about Trump that it is about anything else in the world so if you were to offer to get out of the way under the following condition that he had accomplished more in one term that any president has ever accomplished because that's within grasp am I wrong if he did get bipartisan deals in the next two years on the big the big remaining stuff could you not argue that he was the most successful president of all time I think it would be a slam dunk yeah so somebody saying judges judges judges but so he might he might get maybe one more judge so I think that would be a you know a good you know a good head start so that people maybe could live with the deal now now people saying they don't want it to resign and and I realize that so there's there's

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and I realize that so there's there's also you know you have a personal investment you like your president etc but just think about just think about it because right now what's the biggest thing that's stopping bipartisan deals from getting done and again I'm not selling you this idea I'm not telling you he should do it or it will happen I don't think any that's going to happen but it's fun to imagine it because it would remove the biggest obstacle to getting the biggest thing solved in this country which would also allow the Democrats to have you know more of a clear chance that the and say while the Republicans could still run a strong candidate maybe win again and and the president would take himself out of the picture allowing himself to enjoy his his grandfather years as the best president who ever lived that would not not be a bad deal all

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that would not not be a bad deal all right I just put that out there so watch the bipartisanship happened it's gonna be I think it's gonna be fun to watch I think it will be fun let's talk about Jim Acosta so the president humorously is talking about restoring decorum you have to have rules and so you could say that the president lost this round but Danny you know the White House was trying to stick to their guns and and have Acosta's permanent pad permanent I guess the hard pass revoked but did it really matter to the White House let me ask you yes do you think the White House is better off winning or losing that they're way better off losing the best possible outcome for the White House was to lose and I think they know it right it's one thing to fight it because it's always good to fight it because you

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always good to fight it because you don't want to be the one who rolls over so it's just always it's just permanently good to be the one who fights right just fight everything because that establishes your brand but this was a good one to lose because Acosta and Trump both understand the nature of what they're doing which is that there's a theater on top of government and that they both count because the theater does inform what you're going to be able to do as a government acosta is a big part of the theater he's you know I've referred to him as a rodeo clown but you know that the rodeo clowns the star of the rodeo you know yeah I'm not saying bad things about the clown the clown gets a lot of attention people like the road that's why you have one it's not the only reason but how much do you want to see President Trump call on Jim Acosta

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see President Trump call on Jim Acosta well some of you are going to say never never call it and again show him to which I say I don't think that's gonna happen can you imagine this president not calling on Jim Acosta knowing knowing what what it will mean in terms of the show I think you always go with the show you got to go with the show and the show is calling on him and seeing what happens now if he does call on Acosta will it cause to be perfectly well behaved and maybe then drift in the future you know get a little get a little more dangerous over time or will Jim Acosta come right out of the chute as aggressive as before like nothing had happened tell me you don't want to watch that show I would I can't imagine what I wouldn't put down if I heard that was on TV like if if I check my Twitter and it

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TV like if if I check my Twitter and it said you know hurry get to the TV a cust is gonna ask the president a question I would walk out of a meeting I would pull my car over there's nothing that would stop me from watching that all right that's not a bad thing I think people have observed them I've observed that citizens are more engaged in the whole theater and and even the the the education about how government works than ever before we're loving this stuff now because we have people on both in CNN you know Fox News 2 and you know all the big news media MSNBC and the president all simultaneously understand the importance of the show it's a show and they they all do a good job at it so people are criticizing the president

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so people are criticizing the president for being so hypocritical how could you be so hypocritical to be to be the person who never recognizes decorum and then to insist on decorum well there's a big difference between what the president does and what what a Costner was doing the president is you know provocative etc nobody is complaining about Jim Acosta being provocative nobody is complaining about Jim Acosta saying stuff that you don't like well we complain about that but that's a separate a separate category people are complaining about him taking up time and violating the unspoken rules within the setting of the White House the decorum is the people's decorum it's not really about the two people it's not about the you know it's not about Trump versus Acosta they're in the people's house they're in the white house in the white

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they're in the white house in the white house this the the voters the citizens of this country have an expectation that things can be done somewhat coherent ly and in an organized fashion so you need a little decorum it doesn't really have anything to do with Trump it doesn't have anything to do with Acosta it has to do with the business of the country so if you're saying that Trump is being hypocritical because he says provocative things and he's complaining about somebody else acting provocatively that's not really what's going on yeah in the context of a press conference you have to have some rules that's completely different from saying things that make people unhappy they're not even slightly related let's talk about mr. Kellyanne Conway are you watching this drama where top adviser to the president Kellyanne Conway's her husband is becoming one of the most vocal anti

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is becoming one of the most vocal anti jumpers now I don't know if he would have been this high-profile had he not been married kelly-ann so some of it is the fun of the fact that yeah there are a couple and it reminds me of was that the the two people whose names I can't think of it reminds me of them I guess I'm not very reminded Carver no Mary Mary and I'll come on black in names you know and talk about Carvel yes James Carvel and his wife were opposite of the political spectrum and that worked but they were also just for the most part pundits right now that's not true Carville was actually working for the campaign so it's pretty pretty similar I I can't decide if any of it matters yeah I think the story is interesting but it does make you curious about how they deal

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make you curious about how they deal with each other at home how does Kellyanne Conway go home to her husband and then they just you know kick back and have dinner and talk about the day that feels awkward to me so next topic CNN reports that there's somebody in the CIA and I guess I would call this a leak they didn't call it a leak but the reporting from a confidential source that the CIA has determined that Prince Salman was behind the ordering of the murder of Joe shogi at the Turkish embassy now you say to yourself oh that's normal business we already expected that that was true and the CIA looked into it and the CIA found out it's true it's no big deal right no big deal we're just finding out what we thought was true that is not the case

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thought was true that is not the case whoever whoever leaked that I know I don't know if there's a legal basis for this but just in terms of you know it there should be a law against it if there isn't whoever leaked that it should be executed as for treason whoever leaked that should be executed for treason because this isn't a normal link this isn't like regular leaks regular leaks are just embarrassing or you know they they make some news people have to scramble a little bit you know maybe somebody's career it gets hurt that's a normal leak in this case here's what happened because of this leak until this leak the government meaning the President had the option of pretending like we didn't know who did it if we could pretend like we didn't know who was behind it we had we had the ability

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was behind it we had we had the ability to we had the ability to work with Prince salmon and say look we're gonna pretend we don't know who did this but you're gonna have to step up for some other stuff we need to get done maybe we need to you to make a deal in Yemen maybe we need to you know get some help with the larger Middle East peace so whoever leaked this took away from the President of the United States the option of having leverage productive leverage not in a bad way but a productive working relationship with Saudi Arabia there's somebody in our government who took that decision that option away from the president and may have may have removed the best chance we ever had for some kind of a comprehensive Middle East peace

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comprehensive Middle East peace including maybe nuclear weapons get created in in Iran somehow although I think that's unlikely at this point but at least is more of an option now I'm not sure that you could criticize the news organizations because they they do sort of have a you know a special role that if it's news and they hear they report it so I'm not sure that I would come down hard on CNN and this or whoever else reported it but whoever leaked that and took that option away from the government when when it was so I like literally it could have been the difference between Middle East peace and not now I know you're gonna say what are the odds of Middle East peace but we've never been closer and one of the biggest keys to make that possible was being able to say okay we don't really know what happened in Saudi Arabia but let's see if we can get some stuff done and

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see if we can get some stuff done and now that options been taken away whoever leaked that probably not legally should be executed but in terms of how badly it damaged the country and how dangerous it was and how completely inappropriate was that's the sort of thing you have the death penalty for you there's a reason that treason is a death penalty because if you're destroying the entire you know putting the whole country at risk you need to pay for that so that's one of the worst things I don't know one of the worst things I've ever seen
would you say now it could be that whoever said it just figured well it's going to be obvious anyway but he did take the option away from the government for treating it like it was no big deal even though it was a big deal all right some of you many of you saw a tweet by

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some of you many of you saw a tweet by one of my California political representatives Eric SWA well you're all familiar with Eric's wawel you've seen him on TV a lot full disclosure I've met him a few times locally he's friends of friends and he tweeted so apparently he's got a plan for taking away people's ar-15s or assault rifles so-called assault rifles and somebody tweeted at him that they would never they would never give up give up their guns you know without a fight and then swallow well tweeted back that the government has nuclear weapons so it would be a short war because you know fighting the government and their nuclear weapons would be a short war now a lot of people said my god my god

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a lot of people said my god my god a congressman just threatened to nuke citizens that's not what happened and I felt so bad having to explain it to people have we not just watched President Trump use this exact same place excessively it's the same play that aoc Alexandria gave you cortez is using it's the same technique the swallow was using it's this gigantic first ask in the context of getting ready to run for president if you're getting ready to run for president you say stuff like let's build a wall let's deport 14 million people you say stuff like that when you're running for president because who's he talking to he's talking to his base when you talk to your base the only way you can get through the primary cut through the noise you've got lots of people running is you say something that's so

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is you say something that's so outrageous that you can't look away you suck all the energy out that's what's wawel did he said something that's so outrageous that he sucked all the energy away and people are arguing about whether he really meant to nuke American citizens let me tell you something with complete certainty he did not mean nuking citizens now I know what you're saying now I'm Hadiya you're saying oh okay I knew he didn't literally mean nuking nobody thought that well according to Twitter a lot of people thought he was serious a lot of people thought he was serious about nuking US citizens I am so sad that anybody thought that was serious but most of you did not most of you said okay that's that's just sort of a colorful way of saying that the government would use force in whatever form military and/or

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force in whatever form military and/or doesn't have to be military but law enforcement to to take away your guns now here's the thing our laws if the if not enforceable the whole point of having laws is that if you don't go along willingly the government will send people with with guns to make you comply with the law that's what the law is the law is something that the government will enforce at the end of a gun all the laws you know all the all the important ones not the jaywalking laws but all of the laws that are important are enforced by guns so if if the country passed some kind of a ban on ar-15s and if it passed some kind of constitutional supreme court test and if they were enforcing it it would be a force like every other law at the end of a gun it wouldn't be

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at the end of a gun it wouldn't be different it would be just the law so so saying that sois well how can you say that you would use you know the the weaponry of the United States government against the citizens he's just my interpretation is that's how every law works why is this the special one why would this be the only law that you didn't enforce that doesn't make sense the argument here is not about using nukes because that was just silly talk it's not about using force against the citizens to to enforce the law because that's how all laws are enforced they're all at gunpoint that's the point the real question is whether or not you know that law should exist you're already talking passed the sale if you're talking about what to do about it after the law has passed you've already sort of uncritically accepted that maybe this happens and now I'm only

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that maybe this happens and now I'm only dealing with the aftermath are they gonna nuke me what happens when they come to my door will I bury it in the backyard have you ever seen this play before yes it's what the president used to become president it's exactly the same play that AOC is using bye-bye big asks with health care and with education she's asking for way more than she knows is practical do you think that Alexandria Octavia Cortes someday I'll learn to say this cleverly do you think that she really doesn't know that we don't know how to afford that stuff of course she knows should she not say it because she knows we can't afford it nope not if she's smart if she's smart she will make sure that we can't look away and do and the way to make sure that you can't look away is by saying stuff

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can't look away is by saying stuff that's just a little wrong and you know it's just a little wrong we'll figure out a way to pay for it how hard could it be other countries do it and your head spins and your hair goes on fire ah she's crazy she's a socialist she's saying things that can't possibly happen she can't do bath she can do persuasion yeah maybe she's not good at math but she's real good at persuasion so if you don't see this coming if you don't see how strong the technique is from from all of the players that I just mentioned soir well asking way too much confiscate the ar-15s it's not even a serious there isn't the slightest chance that could happen do you think there is do you think there's a slightest chance the ar-15s could be confiscated I don't likewise when print when candidate Trump

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likewise when print when candidate Trump said he was going to deport 14 million people forcibly I said don't worry about it that's not practical and he doesn't mean it anyway and sure enough when he got elected he said you know that that looks pretty why don't we deal with our other problems instead all right it's the same play you have to recognize it as the same play you can hate what he's trying to do and that's fair completely fair you can you can hate the ideas but please recognize the technique if you're already saying that they're crazy if you're already saying they don't understand how things work if you're saying they can't do math you're completely missing what's happening they can do math they are rational they're using persuasion really well and how can I tell they're doing it really well because of your reaction because I'm

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because of your reaction because I'm talking about it because you care about it because this week you thought about sois well and you thought about aoc and you didn't think much about anybody else that is a good technique so if you want them not to get their way the very first thing you need to do is understand what is technique and what is real things that might happen there because they're very different you're projecting oh let's talk about projecting so often on Twitter arguments and in politics and social media you hear people say so-and-so is projecting now the idea here is that people are using their own thought process and imagining that other people share it so there so in other words if if you happen to be a huge liar

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words if if you happen to be a huge liar then you accuse other people of lying if you know if you've if you have some bad character flaw or opinion you imagine that other people have it because that's why you would have done in that situation I guess here's my take on projection in the rare case that you're a trained psychologist and you've worked with somebody and you've you know you really know about them and they're your patient there could be a good chance maybe 40% that you would accurately diagnose that a patient had some problem with projection if you are just a person on the internet it is far more likely that you just don't understand why people are saying what they're saying so the fact that you are accusing somebody of projection is a completely irrational thing to say because you don't know you can't read minds and you would not be able to tell the difference between somebody who just had an opinion and something that you

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had an opinion and something that you think is projecting you can't do that it's not a thing you can't read people's mind now it is a thing according to psychologists this something called projection exists and that makes sense to me because if you if your view of the world is that you're a liar and everybody in that is a liar then it wouldn't matter who you're talking to you would kind of assume well that person's probably lying too so that's a real thing because your worldview is determined by your own internal thoughts but to imagine that that's the likely reason for why somebody has an opinion on politics is completely irrational because people have reasons for their opinions lots of them why do they need to project yeah there may be projecting but you can't identify it all right not in the wild anyway and then when I

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in the wild anyway and then when I pointed out that schwa well was not being literal talking about nukes and he really wasn't saying anything except that if it were a law it would be enforced like every other law that's that's basically saying nothing and to that nothing and when I said don't get worked up about this it's just hyperbole people said to me on Twitter and a lot of people said this they said we must hold these liberals to the same standard that they hold us to because when President Trump uses hyperbole they all flip out and act like he's crazy race or whatever so people are saying why can't we treat them the same way yeah yeah yeah we know he's just using hyperbole but we have an opening here like he left himself uh turrible so why can't we attack this hard as well and here's why if somebody if you see somebody acting like a frickin do you say to yourself hey if that person

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you say to yourself hey if that person could act like a frickin why can't I that would be a good idea right because I'm seeing somebody act stupid and ineffective so we should act stupid and ineffective what kind of argument is that you're watching people attacking the president with with completely and effectively he became president all of their attacks did nothing but make him stronger why would you do what doesn't work you know it doesn't work you know it doesn't work so the reason that you don't do what they're doing is because you know it doesn't work that's why that's the best reason all right you will be treated as he treats other an eye-for-an-eye I don't have any reasons you know I don't have any

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reasons you know I don't have any reasons why he should be treated the same it doesn't help me doesn't help the country doesn't LPM it doesn't help my dog there's no benefit of it whatsoever it only makes the world a worse place but I'm gonna do it anyway because they did it they did it so I'll do it now people are saying you're doing it because it feels good the most honest people in this conversation and a number of people said this said okay we know it's not rational we you know we know it doesn't change anything but it feels good to attack them in the same way that you know your guy has been attacked it does feel good I would consider that actually the most honest and practical thing anybody saying is that we're doing it for fun because what that does is it recognizes that we're in a reality TV show if you think you're in a reality TV show then yeah absolutely he said something about nukes it's an opening your side can get him a few digs

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opening your side can get him a few digs ahead we're winning because we got in a few digs in the reality TV show well that's fine if you're doing it for fun I I support that as long as you know where you're doing if you're just doing it for fun
fun his team sport go ahead but just be aware it doesn't help anything doesn't help your side it doesn't change anything all right
did I hear right that there's there are some celebrities who were organizing a an abortion celebration party to celebrate their abortions I thought I saw that and I thought I don't even know how to I don't even know how to form an

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how to I don't even know how to form an opinion on that because you know my my take on abortion is left of Bernie and when I say left of Bernie what I mean is people on the right would like to limit abortions normal liberals like Bernie would want to allow abortion under certain set of conditions and I'm left that which is women need to work it out meaning that the most credible laws are ones that women as a majority support and as soon as you throw in opinions like mine you know I don't have responsibility for having babies it's not going to affect me the way it's going to affect women so I recuse myself I don't ask you to recuse yourself by the way if you're male and you're listening to this you can do it anything you want no you know it's a free country we have a constitution you can have opinion and sudden anything you want I'm telling you my own opinion my opinion on abortion whether it should be legal or

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abortion whether it should be legal or not doesn't add anything to the process but it might subtract something it could subtract from the process but it certainly couldn't add because I I have a as a standard of civilization I think the people who I think the people who have the most responsibility for something should have the greater say you know in terms of the Constitution every vote is equal but in a real real sense if people have more responsibility for something they should have a little more say let me give you example if I'm looking at let's say a police decision let's say there's a law whether the police should do or not do something I'm going to look at the police opinion and take that as more important than my they have responsibility for this area policing and I would like to give them a little more a little more say than my ignorant opinion having enough no

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ignorant opinion having enough no knowledge about the police so I just take the same logic to the area of abortion and you're perfectly willing to have your own opinion and I'm not going to talk you out of it that's the whole point the whole point is that I'm not going to add any opinion to something because it doesn't help women women got this and that would be the best somebody says cowardly yeah have you been watching me for three years do you think that cowardly would describe my personality if anything it goes the other direction if I needed to change in some way it would be to be more cowardly because I get more trouble by not being afraid of stuff than I get in trouble for being afraid of stuff I should be I should be more cowardly not less if I had any sense of self-preservation do you get death threats of course yeah all

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you get death threats of course yeah all all all people in my position get death threats now usually they're usually they're not direct sometimes you know I I do get some that are direct but usually they're like better watch out when you go outside Goebbels that sort of threat
have I tried cocaine yes I tried cocaine in college maybe three or four times and each time I had the same reaction which was I don't think there was anything in that cocaine I didn't have I don't know why I I don't know if there was a yeah I did it wrong or I actually don't know the answer to the mystery but it didn't have any effect on me that I could determine and therefore yeah I didn't I didn't have any physical or mental manifestations no I don't know why

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manifestations no I don't know why because it was different times with different people different batches it just didn't have any effect on me there's somebody somebody's calling me a liar I think I would say that too because I don't understand how that's even possible because it went into my body it just didn't have any identifiable effect none I don't know why do you do - yeah I don't want to talk about cocaine anymore I don't recommend it by the way I'm I'm Pro weed if you're using it medicinally and you might be surprised to hear that I don't recommend marijuana for anybody outside of medicinal use it's a terrible party drug if you're using marijuana to party you that's a bad choice LSD I have

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party you that's a bad choice LSD I have not tried LSD I've only did the only hallucinogen I've ever done it was mushrooms and I only did that once best day of my life now I've never done any meth no yeah I've never done math but I have done in college some I guess in feta means would be the the word for it I don't recommend them either there are a lot of things that people do in college that they shouldn't do or they shouldn't continue
you left out the reason for which one do you have a fire evacuation plan I do I do have a fire evacuation plan it's called my ATM card because for the most part I wouldn't have a problem in terms of escape routes because where I live there just plenty of exits and town but

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there just plenty of exits and town but if you can afford to live that's sort of your escape route let me show you the outdoors how many days in a row have I showed you this view I will remind you that everything beyond the trees would be a hundred percent visible and there would be a ridge that's maybe five miles away so you would see a valley Ridge and you would see them even on foggy days you'd have to be have a really serious fog not to be able to see that far so right now you can't go outside in California where I live schools are closed people are walking around with masks you can drive places in your car and sort of go from you know car to building and close the door as soon as you can but you can't breathe outside now and not in a healthy sense you can't breathe outside and I guess seventy-one

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seventy-one hmm yes 71 people have been lost so far 600 people were missing although I don't think most of them are injured yeah you see people driving with masks right how often does it rain where I live rain is unusual from from around May through November it's actually unusual to have rain but we're expecting rain for Thanksgiving so maybe that'll make the difference doesn't the smoke get drawn in through the AC it does there there are filters in the house which are probably completely clogged by now I don't I don't sense much in the way of smoke in the house but I'm also yeah Malibu is pretty messed up do you believe in directed energy weapons I

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believe in directed energy weapons I don't know what you mean by do believe and the opinion on the Julian Assange story yes I do have an opinion on the Julian Assange story I have a feeling that where the Julian Assange story is going looks like this you will remember that Assange offered that in return for what's the right word a sudden not asylum but what's the word when you don't get charged for something immunity so Assange had said that in exchange for immunity he would give the government information I'm I'm not sure what but apparently he has some good information so I have a feeling that if Assange actually got picked up by the United States and you know put into our legal system that the that the net effect might be that he would either have a

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might be that he would either have a very small sentence you know almost trivial or he would get completely out based on the information yes so I'm not entirely sure that Assange doesn't want to get arrested because in the United States Assange might be setting up a situation where getting picked up by the United States is the best thing that could happen to him but he'd probably have to pre negotiate you know what that looks like so that don't assume do not assume that if Assange gets picked up he'll just be tried in order to go to jail for X number of years that's possible and obviously he would have to worry about that but I think it's more likely that the things he knows have value

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he's a publisher and not a hacker yeah we don't really know any opinion you have on Assange is going to be based on lack of information so it's hard to have an opinion on whether in my own in my personal take on Assange is I have not personally seen something that was suggesting should go to jail but I'm not saying it's not there I'm just saying I'm not aware of it by the way what what exactly Joe Rogan got schooled by wine's Weinstein I'll watch that somebody else told me to watch that so that must be good when does Muller end I don't have any special insight into Muller except that you know everybody who's watching seems to think that things are winding down I think that's probably true so D equals Assange we don't know well I wouldn't

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Assange we don't know well I wouldn't bet on that secret text say Julian ask people to gather Docs well that's what that's what they do that's just what WikiLeaks does seems like espionage I know so that so that the question is is Assange a publisher because if he is he's protected like everybody else all right that's all I got I will talk to you later