Episode 335 Scott Adams: Paying for the Wall, The Cohen Nothing and White Supremacists
Date: 2018-12-13 | Duration: 25:57
Topics
Russian advanced level robot with person inside President Trump’s fun tweet about Mexico paying for the wall Does his improved version of NAFTA cover the cost? Or is it “just” a much better deal for us for trade? North Korea building a railroad from north to south People are working on the reunification north/south want No threats, no building missiles or lobbing in our direction Gavin McInnes says there are very few actual white supremacists Whiteboard: Racists I Hate How many supremacists exist today, does anyone know? Is the number vanishingly small and getting even smaller? However bad we used to be, we’re making progress CNN mind-reading headline says President is “seething” over Cohen
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bum bum bum bum bum bum jo-ann always the first I'd be disappointed if you're not the first person to sign on Russell you're in here fast virus Joe JP good to see you Jesse Donna Russ come on in here I think you're in here quickly because hey Sweden hey upstate New York because I know you know it's time for a coffee with Scott Adams and the simultaneous F grab your copy or mug your vessel your Stein your glass your container fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me for the simultaneous sip and now your day can start because all the important things have been done and you did it well I must say that was some of your best sipping I've seen you sip before you've been good before but this time that was
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been good before but this time that was some simultaneous epi and nailed it nail that some of you have seen a story a hilarious story about a Russian advanced robot that was shown off at some show and this robot was so good it looked like it could only have a human being inside which it turns out and it did now there's a two parts to this story the first way you you're probably seeing it tweeted around is as if the person in the robot suit was trying to fool the audience into thinking it was a real robot but it turns out that's fake news because the the robot suit was a well known robot suit and the actor was just doing a shtick and the news reported it as if the audience couldn't tell it was a person in a robot suit now it's possible that some of them couldn't tell but the intention of it was not to
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but the intention of it was not to present a real robot the intention apparently was not to present it as a real robot it was just for fun so when and I I tweeted that before I got corrected as well so be careful of your fake news that one was that one was delicious because even when I when I first saw it I have to say that my antennae were up a little bit in the sense that it did look like it could be real but I wanted it to be real because it would be hilarious so I think I was influenced by how much I wanted it to be real but don't don't tweet that one around that's fake news all right our president has once again entertained us with the following tweet this morning and so this is President Trump I often stated quote one way or the
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I often stated quote one way or the other Mexico is going to pay for the wall this has never changed our new deal with Mexico and Canada the u.s. MCA is so much better than the old very costly and anti US aid NAFTA deal that just by the money we save Mexico is paying for the wall now if you're if you're one of the anti-trump errs who doesn't get that he does this intentionally and that this is theater this for entertainment it's it's to control the news cycle it says much for fun literally for fun as it is to make a point now it is a point that people will pick up and they'll turn it into an argument and it will confuse the arguments and everything else but if you don't appreciate how hilarious this is that he would even do this to just control the
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would even do this to just control the conversation and the funny thing about it is people know he's doing it they know he's doing it just to control the conversation but they can't not talk about it if your CNN you currently have to cover it now we'll see if they if they can resist but the beauty of this is that it's going to cause the news to to argue about whether it is fair to say that his excellent trade deal is also paying for the wall or it's just an excellent trade deal which is it did I just do a great trade deal that's better than NAFTA or did I do a great trade deal that's better than NAFTA and pay for the wall now of course nobody is going to you know I don't even think your supporters think that that qualifies as payment for the wall but it is hilarious and it's not nothing better
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is hilarious and it's not nothing better trade deal is a better trade deal alright so this is this is why the president's supporters enjoy the show so much if you didn't get that he's yanking your chain imagine how you would process this you know what would you do you'd say my god he's insane he must think his supporters are so stupid they enjoy this now he knows he knows how theater works all right have you seen the stories about North Korea apparently North Korea they're tearing down border stuff and they're literally building a they're building a railroad connection to connect North and South there are actually people whose jobs are a unification so in South Korea there's some kind of title like they you know the Minister of reunification or unification not reunification I think they call it unification how big is that
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they call it unification how big is that now I know what people are saying people are people as the anti-trump are saying oh he got duped again but they say it like this oh he got duped again because we saw that satellite photo of that one place that we don't know exactly what's going on but they moved some dirt so they must be building some missiles he's been duped and see now my point of view is it's entirely possible that Kim jong-un is building new missile facilities it's entirely possible because we're still right in the middle of negotiating what he isn't doing is testing any missiles or threatening us at the same time that he's connecting North and South Korea it seems to me that the odds of Kim jong-un wanting to lob a nuke in our direction has no now dropped to roughly zero so we went from seriously worrying that he
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went from seriously worrying that he might in new California I mean actually worrying about that and to no risk at all it's one of the biggest stories in the world but because it's all going well and it's the president just not reported and the poor people in Guam thought they were gonna get nuked at any minute so that's huge alright so let me get to the fun part of my presentation today now those of you who have been following me for a while you know I talk about the two movies on one screen and how people are irrational all the time and there's no better situation to see that than in the one I'm going to talk about there was a article in which Gavin McInnes ex leader of the proud voice made a statement the ABC News reported and people said my god how can you let him even say that and
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how can you let him even say that and what he said was that there weren't that there were very few white supremacist that it's sort of a rare thing and that was reported as if well it was reported uncritically meaning that they his statement was allowed to stand without any fact-checking and I tweeted that I'd like some fact-checking on that too because I don't know the answer to the question how many white supremacists are there now
so whoever said Trump called Africa a hold lol would block you for being too stupid to be part of this conversation there you're gone now whenever you talk about the topic of racism what happens is the trolls the trolls come in in in large numbers and they don't really hear what you're saying because they've already decided you're either a good guy or a bad guy and if
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either a good guy or a bad guy and if they decide you're a bad guy it doesn't matter what else you say so so the last day I've been blocking people for misinterpreting what I say and then calling me a racist because of their own misinterpretation of what I said so I'm going to say as clearly as possible with the white board and the moment what my point is and then I'll have something to show people and tweet too so here's here's what I was talking about see if I can get the light off this this is a list of racists I hate I put that label up there so when people take this out of context it'll be harder for them it seems to me that there are many flavors of racists and you could probably make lots more flavors and there's gonna be a point to this so wait for it if you've already jumped ahead and said my god Scott why are you trying to you know shade who's a little bit of a
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know shade who's a little bit of a racist why are you trying to make this distinction Scott Scott wait I need this stuff why are you trying to defend white supremacists no nothing like that is going to happen here these are the racists I hate I'm not defending them I'm hating them all right so if we let's let's start with that I don't like the racists I don't defend them but I'm gonna I'm gonna make a point that I think is very optimistic if you'd like there to be less racism and the point goes like this in a general sense and you could may you can have lots of other categories here but in a general sense some racists are worse than others at the very top I would say the people who are the supremacist the white supremacist the people who say that all white people are better than all other people I would say that's the top of the worst the worst of the worst then you go down the line and there are the people who just hate
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there are the people who just hate people who are different they don't really need a reason they're just they're just haters and bigots you know I suppose these overlap a little bit these are not clean distinctions then you go down a little bit further and they're people who just prefer hanging out with people who are like them and this could be people of any color right most most groups like hanging around with people who are like them so it's sort of bigoted that you prefer your own people but it's you know it's not nearly as bad as this one but still on the list and then there's a soft bigotry there was a study recently I'm not sure if this study will hold up to replication but the study is that the study said that liberals talk down to black people meaning that they use a lower vocabulary when they talk to black people and that's you know sort of one of the things you put it in this soft bigotry you know the the bigotry of low
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you know the the bigotry of low expectations sort of thing so this would be that lowest somebody says this is stupid hey idiot you haven't heard the point yet how would you like to be the get to the point and then then you could say something like this is stupid that's so stupid all right here's my point so if you've already judged it you're a idiot okay because I just told you I haven't gotten to a point yet if I save my point and then you disagree with it please give me a reason I would like to hear it and it goes like this I have a hypothesis that when I was a kid and let's say you know all before that through slavery etc so from the time I was a child all the way back through slavery I think this was fairly common meaning that it was it was not unusual for a white racist to
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was not unusual for a white racist to think that all white people were superior to all other people there was a like an ordinary thing that people thought I asked the question in my tweet today to do a fact jack on how many of these still exist because I said that I've never met one like as an adult you know I certainly met them as a child but you know that's 50 years ago in my adult life I'm not aware of anybody who holds this view now I said I'd like to fact check to find out how many there are cuz wouldn't you like to know if the if it turns out there are lots of people who hold that view I'd like to know that right now somebody's saying it's anecdotal don't be an idiot I said two things I said one I haven't seen any that's anecdotal and then I said I would like to have some fact-checking because my anecdotal doesn't mean anything now if what you're saying is don't be able
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if what you're saying is don't be able Donal you just agreed with me so those of you who are saying anecdotal information is not useful just know that you're agreeing with what I'm saying okay so if you want to disagree disagree with something else because that's the part we agree with okay so my question is how many people think that how many people are left in the country who are racists who also believe that white people are superior to all the other races my guess is that is vanishingly small and here's the point that I'm making if this is the worst and I think you could make the argument that this is the worst of the worst yeah this is sort of you know the the maximum level of racist hatred I think that the top level is lessened and if we're moving in this direction where where we move from the ultimate level of
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where we move from the ultimate level of racism in my lifetime to one level down you still have all this defects and nobody you know I'm not I'm not saying this is okay remember these are racists I hate I'm saying that these are not in the same category Isis and that that would that would indicate that would indicate progress so the point of this is to say that however bad we used to be we're almost certainly not that bad anymore meaning that racism has probably declined steadily every year that I've been alive it may be every year since since you know roughly slavery yes racism is a continuum and my point is that the worst the worst category probably has already reduced to trivial now the dumb people who are hearing this
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now the dumb people who are hearing this are saying something like scoff are you saying that racism doesn't exist no opposite stop are you saying there's no such thing as a white supremacist because you personally never met one no I'm not saying that I'm saying I like a fact check on it I would love to know how many there are because if there are way too many we need to work on that if they're already gone let's celebrate that small victory there work on the stuff that needs to be fixed all right so the the larger point of all this is
that when the you know the anti Republicans etc cry white supremacy they probably should be saying racism is what they're complaining about because I just think the supremacy thing is such
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think the supremacy thing is such probably and again I'm open to the fact check so I'm not using my anecdote to draw a conclusion asking the question and it's a fair question I think we don't like to know how many other David Duke etc are dinosaurs Oh near racism Scott so so because I say I hate racists and I actively work against them on a regular basis somebody says my god if you don't think that there are lots of white supremacists you must be a racist
I'll just look at your comments where does Hawk Newsom fall on the list well I would have to be a mind reader to know
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would have to be a mind reader to know that yeah well you're you're much kinder to me on here than on Twitter I never tell on Twitter whether the actual professional trolls are coming after me or whether it's just a coincidence but sometimes the come I can't delete these guys I'm just looking at your comments here wouldn't we have to read minds to know whether somebody was Beauvoir well we can ask him i my my general preference is that we don't assume we know other people's thoughts and that the only way you can tell somebody's feelings is to ask them really or to
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feelings is to ask them really or to look at their actions sometimes the actions can have the effect of being racist but you kind of have to ask was America founded in white supremacy you'd have to ask you a historian that
probably probably in a sense yes but not maybe not intentionally but in effect
now Oh God I'm too slow getting rid of that the now III have to wonder what is what is in the head of the people who are coming after me for talking against racism and then calling me a racist I actually don't know what kind of squirrels are running around in their head and I'm curious about it whether they're just
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curious about it whether they're just trolls or did they really think that they're saying something I actually don't understand
historian says no we were not founded on white supremacy principles I think it was just sort of there
all right well do i watch blackish somebody asked me that's actually a great show if you haven't if you haven't watched that it's a ABC sitcom called blackish there's a really good writing some of the best writing you'll see at a comedy
there's only one all right I don't have much else to say today the oh it's going
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much else to say today the oh it's going to talk about Cohen right so I saw a headline in on CNN that the president is quote seething about the Cohen situation he's seething how does anybody know how seething he is it's a pure mind reading i I saw also on CNN this morning an article and opinion article in which somebody who smart said the worst thing about this Cohen situation and and the key word is yeah the key words are the worst things this is the worst things about it so this is an anti-trump ur who has looked at all the Cohen situation and he says this is the worst thing about it that the president hired Cohen who did all these bad things and I thought to myself okay if that's the worst thing there's no real there's no
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worst thing there's no real there's no real risk here i I've heard a number of other people I think Mike sort of which was saying recently that something to the effect that it's obvious that Trump is in a lot of trouble and I know it feels that way it feels like Trump's in a lot of trouble because there are so many legal things floating around well I've got a feeling he has enough lawyers and there's so far none of them have turned into anything it feels like just the you know the fabric of being the president is that they're gonna be lots of investigations and lots of lawyers and lots of accusations and stuff like that Geraldo also thinks there's a high degree of jeopardy well a high degree of jeopardy is not the same as saying there's a high chance that something bad will happen there's there's a high
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will happen there's there's a high amount of danger but I think there's a low a low risk that it will take him down there's a high risk that it will be problematic and annoying and causing trouble but I don't think it's going to take him down
somebody says dude flip your screen it's sideways no yours is my screen is correct orientation if it's looking wrong on your device it is your device yeah the Southern District of calve New York and I guess they've got a new Attorney General in New York who was promising to investigate all things Trump clean your room equals fix your rotation lock yeah kind of you would
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rotation lock yeah kind of you would like to ask me a question go ahead somebody says Oh California wants to tax text messages you know I have mixed feelings about that yeah maybe if California it starts taxing text messages then people will send fewer of them but I think what will happen is people will just move to what's happened other apps so see it seems like a bad idea on the surface but I don't know too much about it most of my favorite episode of The Twilight Zone the one where burgess Meredith loses his glasses
solar panel regulation I don't know about that there's some kind of California solar panel regulation thing going on all right I don't think I have much else to say I'm going to do some
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much else to say I'm going to do some work new fentanyl article I'll look for that all right not a lot of big issues today so I'm going to end here and I'll talk to you tomorrow