Episode 409 Scott Adams: The News is Becoming Friendlier to President Trump Lately

Date: 2019-02-09 | Duration: 1:01:09

Topics

Border budget negotiators report they might approve 2Billion Tell us what the EXPERTS say we need, and what it costs Is what you’re approving…what the experts say is needed? Nobody cares about “percentages of crime”, when they’re a victim I’ve been robbed but it’s okay. I’m in a low crime area Annexing Mexico into America, should we? The cartels are running the country to a large degree “Turnaround Groups” for stabilization of failing countries? UN controlled, a country applies to them for assistance A neutral organization of turnaround specialists goes in Limited time, they do a government reorganization NO outside military presence imposing new government Mike Cernovich and the New Green Deal Mike says the New Green Deal is brilliant They’re big ideas that we have no idea how to accomplish The fact that it’s impossible is what focuses energy Republicans SHOULD embrace the New Green Deal objectives Less regulations and other conservative ideals mesh nicely If we have functional fusion energy within 20 years… …will you still be concerned about climate change?
The personal relationship between Kim Jong-Un and President Trump President Trump removed the REASON for NK nukes What other American President could have credibly said… …Hey Kim, let’s be friends!

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pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom hey Nicholas hello Seabus mom if I pronounced that correctly Chris let's break open reality with the words hammer I like that good morning good morning everybody if I seem a little tired right now that would only be because I'm a little tired right now so I did my travelling yesterday I'm back on home court territory first day on periscope for somebody here welcome all right so is it my imagination or has the news coverage of President Trump suddenly gone from you know DEFCON 25 - oh I think we have a president his name is Donald Trump by the way other things are happening let me give you an example

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are happening let me give you an example of what the CNN homepage used to look like and only a few months ago it wasn't that long ago that the top of CNN would be Trump eats a baby Trump wants to raise your taxes and give it all to himself Trump is probably crazy Trump is going to start a war Trump doesn't know what he's doing Trump's white house is disorganized remember that what happened to all of that stuff did it stop becoming a problem that the President of the United States and the guy with the nuclear codes is literally insane when when did that stop being a problem maybe it was never a problem in the first place now some of what's happening is that the other news is a little more interesting I mean how can you really top Virginia

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I mean how can you really top Virginia there's there's nothing that Trump could do well I'm sure could top it if he tried but at the moment how do you top Virginia for just being the I don't even know how to talk about Virginia you know a lot of people have already talked it to death so there's not much new territory there but what are the what are the odds that you could pick a state and say let's let's talk about the chain of command let's make a chart well you got your you got your baby killer in the top job and when I say baby killer I mean baby killer racist so you got your baby killer racist in the top job but if he leaves at least you could replace them with the double rapist alleged alleged alleged double rapist and if he goes well you've got another blackface guy and things are not looking

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blackface guy and things are not looking good for Virginia and now everybody is wondering about their yearbook I I actually this is no joke I actually thought about finding my own yearbook and just you know kind of going through it just in case I don't really remember what's in there I I will say with complete confidence I've never worn blackface so hey if I run for president I got that one thing going for me I'm sure about that anyway the my major theme here is that if the president is not being excoriated is that the word on CNN there's something differents

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CNN there's something differents happening something in the air now number one the Muller investigation I think correct me if I'm wrong remember when I said hey it looks like even even CNN and MSNBC looks like they've given up on Muller there you know the conversation is going to be other investigations because Muller doesn't seem to have the goods let me ask you this if Muller had evidence that President Trump was literally a Russian agent do you think he would just go to work every day do you think Muller would just go to work every day like well we have determined that the President of the United States is a Russian agent but yeah maybe let's let's wait till we wrap up this report we want to make sure we've got all the details done you can pretty much guarantee that no matter what they did find they did not find that the

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find they did not find that the president is working with or for Russia you can say that with certainty because they wouldn't wait would they do you imagine how mad you would be and Muller if at the end of it he can't he comes out and says yes you know about a year ago we learned that the President of the United States is actually a Russian agent but we figured we want to get the paperwork done and ask a few more questions yeah we want to be comprehensive you would immediately say to yourself my god Muller is the worst the worst person in the world why would he let you know a known Russian spy stay in office just because he hadn't you know worked through all the details of the thing so you can pretty much rule out the worst case scenario for the president there's no there is no chance that the worst case scenario this could have come to pass with the Muller now it might be whatever comes out of it might be problem you know some kind of a problem

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problem you know some kind of a problem but it's gonna be on the on the smaller side whatever it is all right it seems to me that we have not shared the simultaneous it and it's time it's time grab your mug your cup your vessel your chalice your thermos your Stein fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee enjoy me for the cycle TV except alright somebody said are we really offended by blackface well let me give you some lessons on how to deal with a number of sensitive topics if you're giving a speech in public and you're tempted to make some comparison or analogy that involves Hitler don't do it don't do it no matter

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Hitler don't do it don't do it no matter how accurate you think your analogy is no matter how much you hate Hitler even if you hate Hitler more than the audience hates Hitler you might more you might be the Hitler hating this person who ever lived but if you're giving a speech my advice don't mention Hitler nothing good can come with that likewise if you're tempted to look at this story about the Virginia government officials who are getting in trouble for blackface and you're tempted to say you know I think there's some nuance to this story I think maybe maybe we shouldn't say they're a racist maybe we should say they were just wearing costumes don't do it don't do it you're tempted don't do it because nothing can come nothing good can come from that the the only thing you should say about that situation is that it's deeply offensive and people

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that it's deeply offensive and people are going to act offended and should they not I'm not I'm not going to be the person to say someone should not be offended because that doesn't even make sense what would it mean what would it mean to you let's say you were offended by something something else some other topic let's say you personally were deeply offended by something what it helped matters if I told you you should be offended nope it would make matters worse the only thing worse than being offended is to have some yaho Yahoo Yahoo tell you you shouldn't be offended that's the only thing you could make it worse no you shouldn't be offended don't tell other people how offended they should be they are they get that everybody has a right to be as offended as they want to be now what they do with it of course is a different issue but you can't tell people not to be offended all right most

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people not to be offended all right most of what we see as offensive is fake offensiveness have you noticed that most of the people offended by anything you know I'm not talking about blackface in particular but most of the people who are offended by anything in the news tend to be offended on behalf of other people who they can't quite name at least you know not by their real name have you noticed people get offended for other people if you ask somebody specifically are you personally offended by whatever doesn't matter whatever it is that person will say well I'm not offended but look at all these people who are clearly offended or should be and I'm offended on their behalf I will act more offended than even the people who should be offended I'm not even in the offended category and I'm offended rarely do you find somebody who will admit that they are personally offended

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admit that they are personally offended do you know why excuse me do you know why people will rarely say that they are personally offended they do say that you know and there are situations where it matters and it's appropriate but if something happens is sort of a general thing or somebody somebody misspeaks or somebody you know is blind to some offense and they caused it anyway it's really hard to find a real living human who even cares but we imagine other people are offended so a lot of it is theater where we where we imagine were more offended than the people who are offended all right um
recreationally offended that's a funny phrase let's talk about the border negotiations so the news today according to insiders I guess is

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today according to insiders I guess is that they might agree to something closer to two billion in in border funding but the Republicans are going to ask for more what's wrong with that story so the only thing we know is that of the 5.7 billion that was requested which was not just for borders the 5.7 billion was borders plus other things
what's wrong with that reporting this says they're thinking about 2 billion for the border and some people want more let me tell you what's wrong with that reporting yeah what did the experts say if you if the reporting if you see reporting this as well we wanted two billion but we got X that's not reporting that's not even close to reporting that is nothing right and

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reporting that is nothing right and honestly it angers me at this point because it's not like it's not like the news organization doesn't know that experts and engineers exist apparently they've been called in to testify they've had plans drawn up for a long time if the if the news reports to us a dollar amount personally I'm going to be way more pissed off then you've seen me get angry about other things yeah relatively speaking it's going to piss me off at about it nine out of ten right if if the government and our news organizations were largely connected if the government in our news organizations if the best they can come up with is a dollar amount of well here's the budget we gave you we gave you three billion annually but we won't totally give you

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annually but we won't totally give you two if that's all we get into this I'm just going to go crazy because that's offensive all right you want to know what offends me being treated like an idiot by my own government being treated like a fricking idiot by the press all right maybe we're not as dumb as they think well maybe we are who knows but if if this does not produce something like a picture with arrows that says we want to put a you know a hundred million year for a fence and we want to do something over here if that's not the product of all this just screw them all right it screw them all just they all deserve to be voted out of office if you know I don't even care I'm not even talking about getting a result that I think is the good result personally I'm not the expert right so whatever comes out of this I'm not

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whatever comes out of this I'm not really gonna know if it was the best idea you mean I might have an opinion but I'm not gonna really don't because I'm not the expert right but if they don't even go to the level of explaining why it's two billion versus five billion what did we not get what did we leave on the table what what extra level of crime does this imply what extra and I know what people are going to say there's no extra crime because every immigrant you bring in lowers lowers the rate of crime which is actually true I think if you talk about immigrants in general but as I like to say because analogies are so persuasive if most of the politicians live in low crime areas wouldn't you say would that be a fair statement a fair statement that congresspeople pretty much all live in areas that are below average in crime because they're

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below average in crime because they're nicer arias do they leave their door unlocked because if you live in a low-crime area and you get robbed in a low-crime area that's okay right wouldn't the politicians be fine with being killed robbed and killed and and assaulted as long as they're in a low-crime area they'd be okay with a little extra crime one thing that's their whole argument that is literally their argument and here's another thing that makes me angry I get angry all the wrong things though they seem right to me
me but they're they seem non-standard I am angry that the Republicans allow the Democrats to talk about percentages of crime and just just freakin get away with it you know when it first started happening and and I think we've been listening to it for three years I kept

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listening to it for three years I kept telling myself okay they're going to keep saying percentage of crime is low for hypocrites like that matters and then then some Republicans and maybe President Trump will just rip them apart for being idiots because nobody cares about the percentage of crime when they get robbed if you get if you get shot do you care do you say well I got shot but thank God I'm in a low-crime neighborhood no it's the dumbest freakin argument in the world that the percentage of crime is lower for immigrants here's what the Republicans are missing the Republicans should say it straight up yeah the if you look at immigrants in general they have lower crime just say it say the words and you're free say the words that if you can't you know I don't know what the statistics are but say the statistics don't run from the reality if you're

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don't run from the reality if you're trying to reduce crime you're talking about crime you're not talking about percentages of crime so it angers me that the Republicans let that ridiculous argument stand as if it's as if it has some weight or should have some weight it's the worst argument in the world and yet the Republicans treat the way the way the Republicans respond is like racists all right now let me since that's a provocative statement let me let me give us some context I don't believe that the vast majority of Republicans talking about immigration are doing it for racist intent or even subconsciously racist that's been my observation I've talked to you know how many Republicans have I talked to on this topic and race doesn't even come up doesn't come up in private it just

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doesn't come up in private it just doesn't come up it's as far as I can tell it's not really on anybody's mind they're actually talking about law and order and an economy etc and but the way the Republicans respond to the claim that immigrants have a low rate of crime is by saying those immigrants are causing a lot of crime even I think that sounds racist okay I don't think it is but if you're asking me what it sounds like this sounds racist as hell right I think you agree with that don't you I notice I'm saying it's not racist because the people are internally people are not thinking it that way if that's my observation not every single person right there are racist in the world so racists do exist there's some percentage of every group but in general it's just not part of the thinking of Republicans on on the border stuff it

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Republicans on on the border stuff it might in my experience you know I've talked to lots and lots of people on this but why do you have to respond to it like you are a racist not you personally but every time you talk about crime without addressing the percentage of crime from immigrants you're just letting them paint you as a racist and it makes me crazy because it's so easy to deal with that issue just make it all go away just say nobody cares about the percentage of crime when you get when you're a victim of crime tell the victims tell them tell the angel parents that they shouldn't worry about it because the the person who you know killed their kid is part of a group with low with a low rate of crime nobody cares about that take that stupid argument another out of the conversation and by the way if it's true it probably is that immigrants are lower crime let's celebrate that Republicans

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crime let's celebrate that Republicans should be celebrating that and say we should do more of this we should be bringing you know the entire I don't let me put it this way the Republican position is that they want some kind of merit-based immigration so so what are these two points together Republicans want merit based immigration merit-based immigration means that people are adding to the Academy and there are not criminals basically right you're you're good for the economy you're not causing a lot of crime that's positive so that would be what merit-based immigration is meanwhile the Democrats who are opposed to merit-based immigration are touting the low crime rate and the positive economic benefit of immigration so in other words the Democrats are arguing both sides of the

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Democrats are arguing both sides of the topic they're saying you shouldn't have a merit-based immigration and isn't it great that the immigrants we bring according to them are adding to the economy and lowering the rate of crime can't have it both ways either you it matters what the crime rate is or it doesn't so if it matters the immigrants have low crime rate and if it matters that I'm average they add to the economy according to the left I know that there was those numbers are in dispute but according to the left there touting the merit of immigration of immigrants in particular the merit of immigrants while at the same time saying let's not have a system that cares about merit the arguments incoherent somebody says let's annex Mexico like Venezuela you know I've actually done a lot of thinking

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I've actually done a lot of thinking about annexing Mexico you know actually wondering about it and here's the argument I'm not gonna I'm not going to recommend it at the end of this but here's what I've been thinking yeah I'm saying hell no so don't worry I'm not going to recommend it in the end but I'm just gonna go take you through the thinking so the thinking is that Mexico is essentially a failed state it does function as country but it's failed in the sense that the cartels largely are calling the shots on a range of things that they that the cartels care about now the cartels probably don't care about picking up the garbage and some other stuff but for the stuff we care about drugs border security all those things it's sort of the cartels is in charge to a large degree it's not 100 percent but to a large degree and so normally that would be enough justification to just go in and say

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justification to just go in and say alright we're gonna we're just going to occupy this part or we're going to we're going to attack and get rid of the cartels etc but of course attacking Mexico would be you know the ultimate bad idea for a number of reasons and we wouldn't want to take on another financial burden of that size and magnitude but here's what it also makes me wonder do you remember when there was a lot of organized crime in the United States well you don't remember it personally because it was before you were born but the solution to that was the so called Untouchables the reason you couldn't get rid of organized crime is organized crime talking about the United States earlier you know in the last hundred years is because the organized criminals could threaten and bribe police and officials so pretty much they were buying everybody so as long as they were buying

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everybody so as long as they were buying enough of the police there was nothing you could do about it so they brought in the Untouchables these were people who couldn't be bribed and couldn't be threatened and and apparently that made a difference because then they finally had real real law enforcement who wasn't worried about you know wasn't worried about the bad guys and so I asked myself with all these failed states like Venezuela you know you can list the fails stage yourself why why is there no turnaround experts from other countries let's say I'm going to let's say you Switzerland why is there no Swiss nationalist group who offers these failed countries that they'll come in as a temporary government because businesses do this all the time it's fairly common for businesses who are struggling to hire a turnaround CEO and

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struggling to hire a turnaround CEO and the turnaround CEO will bring in some somebodies you know from other jobs and stuff and they'll form like Untouchables right the reason you have to bring in a turnaround expert is that the people in the company have too many friends and too many connections and stuff and they can't really fire their friends too easily so you're bringing the turnaround CEO doesn't know anybody just looks at the situation says alright to fire this vice-president get rid of this guy do you but this guy bring in my buddy clean this place up why is there no government level turnaround company so imagine a I'll just say Swiss because everybody everybody trust Switzerland so let's say there's a Swiss consulting firm who are essentially a government in a box who come into a failed state and they work with the government and they're not trying to take the resources or anything and they're very specifically there for a

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they're very specifically there for a short time they can't be bribed and I can't be threatened easily because you know there may be we don't even know what who their family is so yeah the details are the details would have to be worked out but it feels like companies would want to hire a temporary turnaround government just to get things set up create a little create some kind of credibility and some kind of stability keep their currency from falling apart that sort of thing they can still be assassinated but that would be true of every leader companies countries do a pretty good job of protecting their leaders
yeah I'm actually seeing some people say good things about this now you can imagine that it would be the the UN that

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imagine that it would be the the UN that maybe backs this group so you can imagine let's say the UN is the only one who can decide whether the whether the the government in a box the turn around government is going to be effective it was going to be allowed so it would have to be the country would have to invite them the UN would have to bless it and then let's say it's some Swiss company that just brings in some experts and stays there for a year or two who would hire them they would be hired that's a good question it could be the UN it could be the UN is paying them because remember we're only talking about a small group of people so you know let's say 30 billion dollars gets you you know a full government for a year and a half or whatever until until the regular government gets up and running we did that in Iraq somebody says we did that in Iraq I don't know enough about Iraq

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in Iraq I don't know enough about Iraq the that situation but probably not exactly the way I'm talking about no to UN the UN is utterly corrupt well even if the UN has its problems and let's let's say it does why would the UN say no the UN does bless things with a little bit of credibility and a little bit of transparency so I think you'd want some kind of transparency on this group and you wouldn't want the turnaround group to be their own power right you you would want somebody who is a higher power or let's say a Board of Directors oh here's a way to think of it I imagine instead of the UN approving of this group let's say they act like the Board of Directors so the turnaround group goes in to the country that's failing does their work but they have to do it transparently

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do it transparently and they have to report to the board and the board is just the the UN and the board doesn't get involved unless the NGO the turn around government ends up being corrupt or something they have to remove them we tried to do that in Afghanistan too I don't I don't know if we did it the way I'm describing it Blackwater could do it well Blackwater doesn't exist anymore they're a they're a different company now let me ask you something how many of you this is only slightly religious up to the topic how many of you believe that the climate change issue is because of a globalist plan to replace capitalism with socialism how many of

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capitalism with socialism how many of you believe that's true how many of you believe there's a globalist conspiracy to make climate change you know which if you believe the conspiracy is all fake but it's all designed to get rid of capitalism how many of you think that's true because on Twitter people are saying that all the time it makes my head spin to think anybody believes that it's the most ridiculous thing we did it in Japan yeah in a sense we did it in Japan but all of the examples I think are not as clean as the one I'm saying which is you have an organization that has nothing to do with the country that just comes in to fix things and then leaves the as soon as you say Switzerland it feels different you know it's one thing for the United States to come in with a government but if the if the military power that comes into a country is imposing the new government

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country is imposing the new government it's just not going to have credit so that seems like the worst all right I'm looking at your comments coming through and I'm seeing that there are a few people who believe it all right so those of you who believe that there's a global globalist conspiracy to use climate change which is fake under this conspiracy theory it would be fake to change the economy of the world that's crazy all right there's not much you can say about it it's just crazy and I hope you're seeing the other comments from the people who who are largely on your team politically saying it's crazy you can see it in the comments you should trust them all right
well let's talk about the green New Deal and in order to talk about the Green

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and in order to talk about the Green Deal I'm gonna talk about Mike savage and as soon as I say that name I know I've just triggered about a quarter of you to say Mike sort of itch I used to like him but then he went off the deep end or he jumped the shark or you know he's turned the other side is has bought him off I'm hearing all kinds of things about them let me tell you why Mike sort of itch triggers so many of you number one he knows how to do it all right so he's good at it that's one of the reasons and he does it intentionally in some in some cases so there's the good at it and doesn't intentionally part but the other thing that triggers you about Mike zernich is that when he agreed with you you know let's say during the the campaign 2016 and he was you know pro Trump and let's say you were approached humph and you said well this guy's this guy's brilliant because he agrees with

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guy's brilliant because he agrees with me he's saying the things that I'm thinking but he says more interesting things than I'm thinking about them so you're thinking I love this Mike sooner which guy he agrees and then time goes by and then there's some things he says that you don't agree with didn't you say to yourself he's a trainer he used to be a good guy but now he's a bad guy what happened nothing happened he was always his own opinion he was always into independent thinker and as soon as other topics were introduced and you could see the the the scope of his independence no matter how much you hated it and I'll say you know I would agree with all of his opinions nobody would expect that but the the things that people think are he's changed I don't think they've changed at all I think that he was always a provocative independent thinker still is sometimes you agree with him sometimes

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sometimes you agree with him sometimes you don't all right so one of the things he said about the green New Deal I agree with entirely yeah so somebody's saying that sort of itch has jumped the shark so if you think he's jumped the shark that's almost certainly an illusion because you used to agree with the things he talked about and now he's talking about other things and you just don't agree with those but he hasn't changed he's always been an independent thinker looking for the greater good so that's that's I would say that he's been consistent consistent in terms of independent thought from the beginning so he has said and I agree with him a hundred percent on this that the green New Deal is brilliant I'll just let that hang there because I know how much he hate it the green New Deal is brilliant I know you don't want

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Deal is brilliant I know you don't want to hear that you hate that right so let me give you a little little bit of a reason most people's objections to it are that it's impractical
is it yeah I don't think you should ask yourself if it's practical or impractical because if you do that's a trap it's a trap because it's not really designed as a roadmap it's designed as a set of end States goals if you will it's it's a number of let's say visions of where we would like to be now in order to get to those end States we have no idea we really have no idea how to get from where we are to let's say no air travel and we've got you know fast trains that are doing everything greener

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trains that are doing everything greener well if you told me that we could jump instantly from where we are to a far less air traffic and far more bullet trains I'd be kind of happy about that I would like that option for a lot of different reasons but I don't know how to get there if you told me that we can you know do you have all green energy I would say I like that but I don't know how to get there and likewise for you know a number of things one of the other things that this has as as a bunch of n states that if you could get there would be awesome but nobody knows how to get there right I don't hate that on two levels number one from the persuasion level it's all brilliant it's and the way Mike sort of edge put it was the best way to look at this which is a bad plan is better than

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this which is a bad plan is better than no plan in other words the Democrats have this impractical set of ideas but they are ideas and they're big ideas and they're bigger than we know how to accomplish as an American just tell me if this resonates with you as an American and this may be true for other country but I can't speak for them so I'm just gonna speak for sort of an American cultural perspective if you tell an American I need to get to this place but I don't know how what's what's your first instinct your first instinct is oh yeah I'm gonna get there anyway yeah the the American impulse that sort of designed into us from the time we're born is that here's an impossible goal okay let's get started there's no way we don't know how to do this okay let's get going it's the most basic American

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going it's the most basic American cultural belief that the fact that something seems impossible doesn't stop us from trying and indeed we end up doing a whole bunch of stuff that if you had tried to predict is it possible you probably would have said it wasn't right going to the moon to see the obvious example the Manhattan Project you know winning World War two you know you could you know having four percent GDP yeah you could you could come up with lots of examples where Americans are really attracted to impossible to obtain goals we love it this one a persuasion level it takes all our energy towards this green new deal it makes us think about it and argue about it and talk about how it's impossible and in the process of talking about how impossible it is we figure it out now I don't believe that we could figure things out as quickly as the

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figure things out as quickly as the green New Deal suggests but keep in mind that it's not legislation right it's not a set of rules it's a it's more an idealistic place we want to get to but we don't know how and that is very compatible with the American psyche and I've been watching the comments as I've been making this point because I wanted to see if you agreed with that that's that's a the key point and everything I'm saying is that as American impossible goals are attractive yes or no our impossible goals attractive to Americans I say yes so it's brilliant on that level it's brilliant on getting all the attention it's brilliant on looking like a big vision it's brilliant in being impossible do you know it would be worse the green new deal would be poorly constructed if we

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deal would be poorly constructed if we thought it was all kind of doable it just wouldn't be as good it needs to be not doable to really hold our attention it's the fact that it's impossible that creates its energy if you don't get that you're missing the biggest maybe the biggest energy and the idea that that it's impossibility is its feature it's not its defect it's the feature if you understand how people work right so fairly consistently it AAA OC who I I have my problems with but her team or whatever she does consistently has this quality that she's talking about things that are impossible and that's why we care it's that's the energy it's the impossible part now you've heard me say quite a few times that I don't think

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quite a few times that I don't think that America can be I don't think you could call America great in this day and age unless everybody's got access to health care at a you know at an affordable cost so I am closer to the Democrats in terms of their ambition but again I don't know how to get there I don't think you can tax your way to universal health care the insurance etc but I like the fact that we're talking about because we should have a long-term goal in fact the Republicans should have done this the Republicans should have said you know we want to get to this good health care end state we don't know how to get there but we think that capitalism and reducing very reducing friction in the market is is the system so the system to get there is will make capitalism do its thing and will goose capitalism and will really

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will goose capitalism and will really help capitalism will grease it and what we want to get to is full health care for everybody that's affordable so the Republicans completely missed the message on health care and what's worse is that they're actually doing those things Health and Human Services has a fairly long list of concrete things that Republicans have done or trying to do in terms of reducing regulations and making the market efficient and they haven't marketed that as the as the Republican plan I think that's a complete mistake messaging wise um so so when when a oversee is talking about or the Green Deal and talking about replacing airplanes with fast trains I kinda like that thinking because we should spend a lot more time thinking about how to make some of that work if it doesn't work we

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some of that work if it doesn't work we don't do it but I like the fact that that the greatest minds in the world are becoming concentrated you know Peter they're focusing on these issues that are in that Green Deal now as some clever people have said if President Trump wanted to take a big bite out of the green new deal in a Republican way he could push for more nuclear power as the only way to get there in other words let me put it this way I'm not saying that President Trump will do this because I'm not sure this this fits quite with his brand it might he could make it fit but I'm not going to predict it
it if it were me if I were president and our Republican and I saw this green New Deal forming I said to myself oh people like all this stuff they like climb to change stuff they like they like all the parts of the

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they like they like all the parts of the green New Deal here's what I would say I would say I like every part of that but I don't know how to get there the way I'm gonna move toward it is through market systems and reducing regulations and here's all the things I'm doing one of those things might be nuclear power you know getting rid of regulations to more more efficiently get things approved and built so the best thing that the president could do is embrace it and say I would love I would love to get to that point not the exact end points but I would like to get the point where everybody has the health care we're not worried about the the environment where we're using green resources we don't have to fly if we don't want to those are all great things but we can't get there with their plan we can get there with my system which is keep capitalism humming

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system which is keep capitalism humming that would be the better argument I thought a or C was our POS yeah that wasn't catching on but I still think she is racist and I don't think that can be ignored although she hasn't said anything blatantly racist in the you know 24 hours so we'll see if see if her tone changes
Scott why force everyone to pay for fast trains and health care did I say that was there anything that I said this sounded like forcing people to pay for anything no I did not what I said is I don't know how to get there so if you're saying why have you chosen this specific way to get there you're not listening I don't think you can force other people to pay for those things

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what a scam yeah everything's a scam everything's a scam Fusion might be they might be a ways off but I like I like the odds of fusion let me ask you this if in 20 years we had fusion how worried would you be about climate change if we had functional fusion energy in 20 years I don't know what are the odds of that but if we did I'm not sure climate change would be the big problem that we think it is because here's the first thing you would do you may know that there are these we already have a number of technologies for taking co2 out of the air what is the cost what is the biggest cost involved in removing co2 from the air if you said energy you would be right so the problem is even though we know how

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the problem is even though we know how to take co2 out of the air even that large-scale it would be way expensive you know so expensive and be hard in order to make it work but if we had fusion energy suddenly energy costs start to approach zero and at that point you can just suck the co2 out of the air and it's just the cost of the equipment not the cost of the energy and the energy I think is the bigger cost I'm not positive about that but almost positive that the energy cost is where all the expenses Oh
North Korea let's talk about that did you see the president's tweet where he said he was saying good things about North Korea and he talked about his personal relationship with Kim jong-un I would say that the most underrated success of this president was understanding that North Korea was a personal problem it's one of the

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personal problem it's one of the greatest insights that any politician any leader has ever had in is completely ignored is it one of the greatest accomplishments of any president any time was president Trump's understanding that meeting with Kim jong-un and having a personal relationship was going to be the key to unlocking the Korean Peninsula now some people who say but wait Kim jong-un is not getting rid of his nuclear weapons what President Trump did is took away the reason for nuclear weapons it was always it was the most if it works out the way I think it will and I'm I'm pretty positive on North Korea I and by the way the North Korean situation I think you have to measure that measure that in decades you know if you look at what what happened this year and do they still have their nukes of

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and do they still have their nukes of this year etc I think that's sort of missing the bigger story the bigger story is that this is a multi-decade reunification process and as long as it's moving in the right direction nobody's going to get nuked you know if every day you wake up and North and South Korea are getting you know closer together your odds of getting nuked and going down pretty fast so Scott just loved it louder the scream deal and says climate change is no big deal in 20 years no that's an idiots summation of what I said that's inaccurate have I ever told you before that 90% of all the people who believe they're disagreeing with me are actually disagreeing with some bad loose nation of something I said rarely does anybody actually disagree with what I say almost almost all the time at least 90% people are disagreeing

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time at least 90% people are disagreeing with some weird misinterpretation of what they thought I said I don't know if that's just me or if that's a universal
co2 tree ratio solution you're suggesting planting more trees well I don't know about the math of that but trees are good Kim needs a man-to-man relationship well I don't think you can underestimate how isolated Kim has been if you think about it you know you think well he's a leader of a whole country that's that's a cool deal but he also didn't really have any other leaders he could talk to so Trump may be might be Kim's only friend you know like

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might be Kim's only friend you know like at the leader level I'm not sure if she is a friend I think she is just working with him but it feels to be like Trump is the only person in the world who could have credibly said to Kim jung-un hey let's be friends think about it can you think of any other past President of the United States who could have credibly said to Kim jong-un hey why don't we just be friends and actually have that believable it's the believability part that that works and a lot of it has to do with you know Trump's brand you know his brand is I can talk to anybody you know I can I can work with anybody I you know it doesn't matter Putin Putin Kim anybody I will talk to anybody it's very powerful and and I saw that as powerful from the start so so yesterday last night I'm on

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start so so yesterday last night I'm on the plane coming home and I I decide I want to I want to get away from all this Trump politic stuff and I just want to do what I rarely do normally if I'm just my day-to-day entertainment is always political in this news like I use the news as entertainment so I'm always immersed in all this Trump Trump Trump stuff and so I thought to myself wow I'm on a plane for a few hours I'm just gonna watch a harmless romantic comedy and I'm going to forget about all this politics and I turn on this old movie that that the plane offered I forget the name of the movie somebody will remind me but it was a romantic comedy with two people whose names I can't remember right now but here's the point of the story one of the one of the people in this story was a New York City

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people in this story was a New York City developer a real estate developer in New York City and as the as the plot unfolds he talks about competing with Donald Trump and I think this movie was probably had him 15 to 20 years old and and I turned it on and like oh god it's talking about Trump of all things and then and then there's a scene in it and where he actually talks to the real Donald Trump Donald Trump plays himself in this movie and I'm thinking he's just everywhere I even I even put on a movie to forget about Donald Trump and he's a star of the movie like he's just everywhere it's amazing I can't remember the name of the movie all right Trump is anything but credible somebody says well there's a good job missing the missing the point so that there's a perfect job so I said that President Trump is the only person

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that President Trump is the only person who could credibly say that you know hey Kim jong-un let's be friends all right that's what I said that one contacts he's the only one who could credibly say I'll be your friend and it sounds believable and somebody said hahaha Trump credible you can call Trump credible no I didn't say he's credible on all things I said in that one example that his history with was it yes two weeks notice then the name of the movie was two weeks notice with Sandra Bullock and who is the British male co-star who got caught with the the hooker his name is but you know he is your

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choice to watch a romantic movie yes have you noticed that there are fewer romantic comedies that genre it feels like it disappeared didn't or actually there are fewer comedies let me ask you this how many how many comedies do you see in the movies these days it's far fewer isn't it do you know why there are so many there so much why there are what's the way to say it why there are fewer comedies here's why there are fewer comedies try watching a comedy from even ten years ago try watching try turning on the TV show The Family Guy and watching one of the episodes from ten years ago do you know what you will find you will find an episode that you could not make today if yeah Hugh Grant is the the actor who was in two weeks notice if you watch any older comedy and

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notice if you watch any older comedy and older being let's say ten years plus the the the movie will be full or TV show will be full of stuff that you just couldn't put on the air today because it will all seem stereotyped it will be sexist it'll be you know you if you look at an old family guy you'll see a bunch of gay jokes and ten years ago that was just you know I wanna say it was normal but let's say it was oh yeah even here's a perfect example in in the movie weeks notice I was just talking about this is like I don't know 15 years old something like that there there is a joke in it where Hugh Grant playing his character makes a joke about being attracted to a bunch of women but also attracted to you know some of the better-looking men and then everybody in the audience because he was giving a

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the audience because he was giving a speech laughs because he joked about being gay and I'm thinking myself in 2019 if you had a movie where somebody made a joke about a man being attracted to another man would that be a punchline think about it 15 years ago it was a punchline that a heterosexual man would be attracted to other attractive men and and people laughed today that that wouldn't look the same would it it wouldn't feel the same because you say to yourself well why is that funny are you making fun and gay people like Wyatt why are gay people a punchline right it wouldn't even sound right like you're you know your point of view on what is acceptable and what isn't it has changed so much that I think the genre of the comedy may be gone right yeah the comedy as an art form might be gone

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comedy as an art form might be gone because there are just so many ways that you can't do humor in the way you used to I think the the opportunity for humor is shrunk to the point where it's it's neutered now I can only speak for myself but the kind of comedy that's that has appealed to me most is the stuff that's the most inappropriate so the things that make me laugh or somebody doing something that they really should not have done somebody's saying something far worse than you should say somebody doing something that you would never do in real life you know just something that goes too far so it's the too far that makes it funny but today you can't go too far because people will be and people will be offended yeah people are you're listening other movies that couldn't be made today yeah I think the comedy is largely dead in terms of TV

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comedy is largely dead in terms of TV and and movies all right that's all I got for now I'll talk to you later bye for now