Episode 412 Scott Adams: Border Funding, Weed, 40YearsofFailure, Apologies
Date: 2019-02-12 | Duration: 54:56
Topics
Will Congress ignore border experts and disrespect the public? Any diff between the experts and Congress without explanation… …is spitting in the face of the American public “Finish the Wall” is clever framing “USA” hats, seen at the rally last night, smart move by campaign President Trump’s new hashtag for Iran, support for Iranian people #40YearsofFailure AOC…every Dem candidate for President, backs her Green Deal AOC in effect is already running the Democrat party Virginia’s non-quitters planning to hang in there Supporters overlooking their sins cause they were so long ago The 20 year rule applies, if they’re better people today A “festival of apologies” is developing, between Dems David Duke endorses Democrat Congressperson Omar People can like something…for completely different reasons Kamala supports recreational weed…cause it brings people joy Good political answer, smart voter persuasion by Kamala Legalization is an obvious, easy path to free votes BBC reports a Trump supporter beat up one of their reporters Rule 1: First version of an emerging story is generally wrong A point / counter-point listing for climate change arguments Qualified people on both sides offer their arguments Provide links and data to support arguments / rebuttals
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bum-bum-bum bum-bum-bum pah pah pah pah hey everybody come on in yes I am back to save the universe that is exactly right that's why I do this it's definitely not for the money so just a little info when I use the option that allows me to invite a guest as I will do later today when I talked to navall a replicant so I'll do my normal normal periscope right now but I'm gonna have a very special periscope at 2:00 p.m. Eastern 11:00 a.m. on my coast and we'll be talking to invol you do not want to miss that just trust me yeah you you don't even know you don't need to know any details just trust me you don't want to miss it all right there is so much going on but not so much that we can't enjoy the
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not so much that we can't enjoy the simultaneous hip so grab your mug your cup your glass your stein your chalice your thermos if you will fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me for the simultaneous it oh that's good 7:00 so much going on that I had to make a list so I noticed that the president has changed his slogan to finish the wall I saw the science at the President's speech I didn't catch all the speech but I'm catching up on it today I like finish the wall so so build the wall was obviously a successful campaign theme in the one sense that he won the election it was unsuccessful in the sense that had polarized the topic to the point where they can't get anything done but it was successful as a campaign speech and I would say that finish the wall is really clever
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wall is really clever because it's supportable in the sense that you know something's been done I don't know how much it might be this much it might be more but they've started I think that's a supportable thing to say well I think that there have been some rehabs and some rebuilds and some some places where they've added a little bit of wall so it's fair enough now the news is that he's going to get some small amount compared to the 5.7 billion he wanted now if the rest of that money to spend on things which the experts agree on well then maybe we have a good deal right do you think that whatever's coming out of this committee is going to be compatible with what the experts recommended I don't remember seeing here's what the expert said here's what the plan is so I reject this plan without seeing the
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so I reject this plan without seeing the details because the media has not informed us that the experts bakit without that it's absolutely batshit crazy to support it and the president has every right to ignore it in my opinion on a question of national defense and certainly the border is you know part of the National Defense structure you know it's not a it's not a hot war but it's it's clearly part of the the conversation on a question like that if the Congress ignores the experts and here and here's the the key thing right in front of the public we're all watching this we're freakin watching this all right and right in front of us they disrespect the public this is massive disrespect for the public it
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massive disrespect for the public it would be one thing for them to say here's what the experts say and here are the reasons that we think we should override them and then I would say to myself are let me look at these reasons they better be pretty good reasons and maybe they're good that's possible it's possible that they have good reasons I'm not gonna rule it out because I'm not the guy who says you always need to follow the experts you kind of you kind of have to use some judgement you've got to say alright we like this part of the experts but they're not seeing the big picture maybe there's a political element you know there are other things besides just what the experts say about their expertise but if they don't explain that to the public in the clearest possible terms the experts said this we've decided this and here's why we differ with the experts of why we think it's still okay if you don't give us that explanation I just want to swear the
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explanation I just want to swear the honestly I feel disrespected do you not and am I alone in this I mean I literally feel that the Congress is just spitting in my face right now it feels like when they ignore the experts on a vital you know I would say it's vital important issue of national security and they just spit in our face you know again I want to be clear if they differ with the experts and they offer some reasons even if I don't agree with the reasons I'm gonna feel differently about it I'm gonna feel they made their case maybe I would have gone another way maybe I wouldn't but I'm not the expert you know so I think I could live with that but if they just spit in our face and say we're gonna ignore the experts like it didn't matter like it didn't matter come on and how about the media where's the media reporting what the experts said to compare it with what comes out
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said to compare it with what comes out of this do you think you're gonna see that reporting no you're not going to see that you're not going to see it on the right you're not going to see on the left you are completely unserved by the media on this question am I wrong about that am I making too big is actually making me angry because I'm being disrespected I mean I'm the voter I mean potentially in theory of a voter but I'm definitely a tax payer and these these idiots who come up with this compromise plan if it doesn't agree with the experts I'm not happy and you've wasted my money you've wasted my time and under those conditions if my commander-in-chief says well I'll take whatever money you're gonna give me but then I'm gonna spend whatever we need I'm cool with that I'm very cool with that I'm super cool
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I'm very cool with that I'm super cool with that I'm more cool with that than just about any policy that I'll ever talk about typically typically I don't know he's you know come down strongly on a on a policy question because that's not really what I talked about and and frankly I don't have the confidence that I know what the right policy is all the time so I try to avoid that but in this one special case I certainly can tell when the voters are being disrespected and we are seriously being disrespected here at least that's what it looks like I can be wrong you know if if in 24 hours we see a plan and they compare it to the experts they tell us why they're there doing something a little different I'll change my mind I'll change my mind instantly all right if they treat us with respect but right now the country is not being treated by respect by our employees we hired these idiots right we hired them we pay them and
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right we hired them we pay them and they're spitting in our face by ignoring the experts and not explaining to us why all right enough on that I noticed that the president had some people in red hats behind him they said USA instead of Magha I didn't have time this morning to quite connect the dots is is is that the new thing will the hats for 2020 etc are they gonna say USA because if that's if that's the way we're going that's really smart because it's tough to be somebody up for wearing a USA hat alright that feels different doesn't it and I think that the president did such a good job branding these red hats that it still works you know a USA had still looks like still looks like you're on that same side but it's less punchable so I
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same side but it's less punchable so I think that's a smart smart smart move that's like a plus smart that's exactly what what they should be doing it keeps if for no other reason if for no other reason than to keep the Trump voters safer does the president have an obligation to do what he can to keep his supporters physically safe he does all right and and if this is his part of his decision I imagine he approved it at some level I assume it's an official decision of the campaign or at least of the administration if it is it's the right one and it shows respect for the voters if it's true that half of the country is offended by Magga hats and I think that's sort of true right I'm not saying that's a good thing it's a terrible thing but if it's true you can't act like it's not true so what is
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can't act like it's not true so what is the most respectful thing Trump and the administration could do not just for his supporters but for the people who would be offended by them against changing all right that's how you show respect for voters that's how you show respect for the people who are paying your salary all right so that's that's what respect looks like this this border wall security community is the opposite all right I saw that the president tweeted about Iran and he came up with a new new hashtag forty years of failure and his tweet said I may have this backwards but was like forty years of corruption 40 years of blah blah blah and 40 years of terrorism and and you said that the Iranian people needed better so that the criticism was
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better so that the criticism was directed specifically at the government of Iran while saying that the people of Iran deserve better I really like that framing I like that a lot I think that's strong I don't know if it's enough to move the needle but yeah I like the framing of we like the Iranian people why because we like the Arabian people that's that's just true you know the the average or Iranian is or Iranian I probably am pronouncing it wrong there are pro-western minding their own business just one a good life and there are awesome people so certainly it makes sense to make it make a distinction between what we think of the government what we think of the people here are some more stuff so the green Neil New Deal is now supported by
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green Neil New Deal is now supported by I believe every Democrat presidential person who's announced everybody who's announced they're running for president all of them now do you remember a year ago when there were a few people and frankly I think maybe two people who were prominent in saying this I was one of them Mike sort of which was the other that I know of there may have been other people saying the same but I'm less aware that saying that AOC was going to be a big deal and almost everybody disagreed with us I mean people just went crazy saying you can't say good things about Democrats and you're so wrong and she's so dumb and she's just a kid and she's just the bartender and Edie answered of
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just the bartender and Edie answered of it and I consistently have been telling you oh god no God God God God no there's something coming it's it's a Trump sized surprise and we can see it as clearly as a truck you know it was like I felt like sort of each and I were standing on a highway with all of the rest of you we're all on the highway and he and I understand their look saying look there's a truck coming get off the road get off the road there's a truck and everybody else is saying truck what truck I don't see it she's just a 29 year old bartender why are you worried about her stop talking about her nobody's gonna care about socialism and then today we take stock every Democrat candidate for president backs basically her plan the green New Deal the only
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her plan the green New Deal the only thing interesting happening on the Democrat side I think that's true right there's literally nothing else interesting happening it's all her now she has advisors and there are other people who are in on this green New Deal stuff but it's guide to her she is already running the entire Democrat Party the only reason she's not your next president is she's too young that's it but the one after that I'd be worried about if I were you now you say to yourself but wait this green New Deal is so impractical how could you get everybody to agree with it well the impractical part as sort of itch and I have been telling you now for a year the Impractical part is why it works that's not the flaw that's the feature she went so far or the green new deal goes so far into what seems impossible
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goes so far into what seems impossible then you can't look away and suddenly it's all anybody's talking about it's got all kinds of support and and I have to admit I have to admit directionally I don't like it I know you don't like to hear that but let me be as clear about that as possible I don't know any practical way to get to the things in the green new deal and I don't know that anybody else has any practical way to get there but in terms of let's say you know a place you'd like to get to if you could ever figure out how I like it I like it directionally alright I like that people would have Affordable Health Care I like that you know we would have more green energy I don't see any practical way you get rid of fossil fuels and I don't see any way you get to some of the things in the plan or any of them really but I like it as a political political
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but I like it as a political political statement of you know where we'd like to be so you people are even going crazy on me now did you hear me say if you look in the comments that this will tell you a lot about human nature I just agreed with all of the people who are disagreeing with me but they can't hear it
it some of you can but a lot of you can't hear it because you're so tribal that if I say there is zero away I can see that we could ever get to these things you're still worried that I like it as a sort of directional thing why if we both agree it's impossible are you disagreeing that it would be great to have affordable green room energy that would be great we just don't know how to get there and so we won't until somebody figures it out all right so don't worry about that too much anyway my point is that the Democrats
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anyway my point is that the Democrats are largely controlled by a 29 year old rookie because she had the skill she brought the game all right let's talk about so CNN is still trying to make news about Trump's taxes and investigations and stuff you know what's going to happen when when the 2020 election continues to heat up I mean it's already it's already started and it's heating but the 2020 election is going to be so much more fun than talking about lawyers and who said what to what committee and details of who talked to who and you know some some financial stuff you have questions about but you don't know really the facts it's all going to be this boring stuff now the news is forced to use their limited shelf space they have a lot of shelf
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shelf space they have a lot of shelf space but it's still limited to do the most interesting stories in the next two years what will be the most interesting stories well it's not going to be more lawyers did this lawyers to that taxes Russia those stories already feel stale don't think to think about it how do you just feel about these stories it's another CNN story about taxes and and you know Adam Schiff it's just it's like it's like three day old bread that you didn't you didn't put the wrapper on right it just feels stale now somebody's announcing for presidency somebody has a green new deal somebody's you know the this is interesting fun like you can't get enough of it kind of stuff so the politics of the world are
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stuff so the politics of the world are going to start dominating the shelf space of the news and that means that all of the attacks against Trump will have less and less shelf space so today for example let's look at the CNN homepage to give you an example of that
so so most of it's about Trump but I'm looking for anything about legal problems all right so I'm looking at the front page of I'll just go through the list all right so so here's the top left of CNN the top left is where they put the important stuff so that's the stuff they're focusing on right it's about the BBC cameraman something about Trump isn't ready to break it to his base Trump will use executive action Trump voter or he doesn't know what he's talking about and Hannity questions the garbage compromise on the border stuff late-night comics tackle battle of Trump's wall top demin ago she ater say
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Trump's wall top demin ago she ater say no one got everything they wanted do you know what's missing so that's one two three four or five six seven so that's the top seven CNN news items do you notice there's no Russia stuff there there's no Muller there's no Russia there's no taxes right so they've got this much shelf space and for the next two years it's going to get filled with other stuff and Muller and that's just going to fade away so the larger point I was getting to is that Trump is going to have maybe the best 18 months of his whole life coming up right here's a prediction there could always be surprises right I mean you could always have some weird bad news coming up in all likelihood Trump will have the best 18 months of his entire life
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18 months of his entire life here's why as long as the the Democrats are essentially fighting with each other because they're trying to you know win a primary Trump is going to be standing outside and there's gonna be this whole barrel of fish and he's gonna be there with his Twitter rifle and he's literally now now literally figuratively he's gonna be shooting fish in a barrel for 18 months it won't be until they pick a leader who goes after him and then it's you know what on one the things things will get interesting but for about 18 months or whatever it takes between now and the the Democratic primary Trump just says free shots it's like Elizabeth Warren Klobuchar you know Biden and and oh my god it's gonna be fun he's just gonna be picking them off one
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he's just gonna be picking them off one at a time with really no fire coming back because so far it seems to me that the Dems are not really going after the president that hard or in any interesting or new way they do go after him but it's all just - same old boring stuff so we don't hear about it much so I think you're gonna hear about every time the president goes after one of the candidates it's gonna be top page news but every time a candidate is on the trail saying something bad about the president yeah it's probably not interesting it's probably not going to be news so he's gonna have this amazing media advantage it's gonna last about 18 months and he's the funniest most interesting most talented public figure all right nobody knows theater like Trump nobody knows how to put on the show like Trump
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knows how to put on the show like Trump nobody knows had a tweet or brand or persuade light drop he's in a class by himself and he's going to have this 18 months of a target-rich that's just gonna be so much fun that it's gonna be like that the second act of a movie you know movies movie has three scenes typically and the first act something changes which you know causes the the situation to unfold so for act 1 is about some big change act 2 is called the fun games where whether you're you know if depending on the type of movie somebody is just going through one fun thing after another until there's a big problem in the third act and I think Trump is entering the second act where he's going to be getting stuff done getting good news for his performance probably in our variety of areas from North Korea maybe the Middle East maybe maybe the Middle East maybe Iran you know he might have a lot
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maybe Iran you know he might have a lot of a lot of good news coming yeah but he'll be shooting fish in a barrel for 18 months all right let's talk about it oh and the other thing that makes all of the the news about the lawyers and the taxes and everything everything that makes that boring is that there are too many people involved every time we tell a story about the FBI doing something there are about 15 names in the story and I don't think people can handle a story with more than three names of it that's a little rule I have so here's a rule of communication now I used to be in a relationship with somebody several relationships ago who told stories they had too many names in a book so I have to institute the three name rule because her stories would feel like this yeah so I was talking to Betty and then you know
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I was talking to Betty and then you know she was saying that her sister Jane who was married to your cousin Bob well Bob's got this school teacher and the school teacher who is of course you know her son is is Andy and then Andy went to the store but there he runs into Marlene and Marlene is you know she's she's arguing with Andy when when Harold comes up and Harold of course is the son of your your basketball coach was the cousin of the the guy who plays the flute and I'd be like please stop this story please there are two buddy names in this story and you know so I instituted the three name rule when she got to the third name I could stop listening or she had to continue her story but only maxima three names because that's you know that's all I could hold in my mind if there are people I don't know you know if it's people you know you can handle you can handle all the names but if it's people you've never heard of you can't handle more than three that's it so that makes all of the anti-trump news
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so that makes all of the anti-trump news too boring for the news because there's too many names in it all right let's talk about the Virginia non quitters so it's starting to look like Northlands going to hang in there I wouldn't be surprised if the lieutenant governor who was accused of at least two counts of sexual abuse I wouldn't be surprised if he stays in there too and the and the AG who said he wore black face he seems like the third worst person in Virginia politics so if the number one and the number two keep their jobs I think the third person keeps his jobs and he has the advantage that he confessed now what's interesting about North Room is that even his biggest critics will add this caveat and it goes like this Oh Northam did a terrible thing it's a terrible thing I don't know how he could go on with his black face thing it was a
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go on with his black face thing it was a horrible horrible mistake and then they say but if you look at the way he's voted he's voted very progressively he is you know as a as a politician he's done all the things you would want him to do to be you know to be progressive and open to all people I don't know what his record is but people are saying that on the news and and I think we have we have here the most perfect example of someone who did things when young that he wouldn't do today and yeah no one this asked them about that nickname but as I've said it's far more likely that was a name assigned to him as opposed to something he chose so say more about progresses then says okay I was just reading your comment there so
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was just reading your comment there so here's what's interesting if things go the way it looks like they're going and he keeps his job because what he's done you know in his political life what he's done in the last twenty or thirty years all looks good and he made a mistake he apologized for it he's he said exactly why he thought it was bad and he's been you know vocal and I don't think he held back in terms of apologizing for it so I think he gave a good enough apology and then he became according to everybody a better person now the the issue about the abortion third the third trimester abortion I've said it's largely fake news because he just spoke poorly and I don't think he was in favor of killing a baby after it was born I know some of you do but aside from that in terms of what the Democrats want from their
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what the Democrats want from their politicians he's been a good person in a in a Democrat you know frame of what a good person looks like so I'm I'm kind of rooting for him to keep his job and and I was sort of silently rooting for it under the theory that people should have a chance to become better people you know do you want to live in a world where apologies are not accepted do you want to live in a world where someone who used to be bad but becomes good can be punished because of some old photo or some old video or something they did when before they were good it's just not a world you want to live in and so if he's the first one who digs in and makes the case I used to be that person and even if that picture isn't me I he confess they wore blackface so he's he is taking responsibility in a court
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he is taking responsibility in a court of awkward way but he's taking responsibility then I would say that's a positive thing you know now you could have a different opinion about the the later of abortion stuff and that's the standard politics in a sense but in terms of the blackface situation I feel like the country is more mature if we let him improve and we say yeah we don't have to approve with what you did but we like who you've become if that's the case now I am of course only saying this publicly this these were my private thoughts that it might be good to have a country that can accept an apology and can accept that somebody approved by the poll I don't know if it's accurate but let's say it is the poll that said that black voters in Virginia were more forgiving of
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in Virginia were more forgiving of Northam than white voters and you've seen some pundits trying to guess what it what the hell does that mean why like why is that why is it that the people who are supposed to be the most offended are substantially less offended than the white voters and I'm not sure we can read minds we can't read minds but I'll give you some hypotheses about that number one and again I'm not going to put any odds of which one of these is more likely but I'll just put them out there I would imagine that if you're black hearing that somebody wore a costume that was you know you know in the form of a black character that as far as we know was not intended to be an insult it was its offensive whether you know no matter what you were thinking internally its offensive we all agree on that but but I think if you're black you just
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but but I think if you're black you just say I got much bigger problems than somebody did something that was unintentionally offensive in the 1980s that's like that's pretty low on my list of problems and if I had a preference I'd rather keep the politician who's on my side has voted in the way that I would want him to vote and I don't have to love what he did but honestly it's pretty low in my priorities so one and I'm not gonna put an odds of this you know how many people are thinking that but I've got a feeling that there's there's just some level of practicality about the the black experience that says you can't be equally mad at everything you know yeah you got to prioritize what you're getting mad about and I think there's also a hidden tremendous positive in that maybe the best news I've heard in a long time is that the black voters were
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long time is that the black voters were more forgiving of North Rim for his blackface stuff than were given the the the white voters and yet here's what the good news is that's sort of embedded in that it looks like the white voters are policing themselves meaning white candidates harder than other people and that's generally a good thing it's generally positive when you're policing your own team if you will so I think maybe white voters are a limit let me put it in this context if you are an adult white male as I am an adult white male and you see somebody just totally screw your brand as north rim did you're not really happy with that ass all right because I'm saying to myself I'm just you know I'm waking up trying to be a good person you know trying to get through my day and some stranger the governor of North Virginia makes a adult
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governor of North Virginia makes a adult white males look terrible and then the AG does the same thing and I'm thinking what the hell it doesn't matter what I do like I can't win because these strangers are ruining my brand adult white male right they're just making it look bad so if you asked me what do I think about noir theorems acts and what do I think about the AG I'm gonna be harsh on them because they've directly hurt me they hurt my brand Steven the Steve Kings got the same problem although there's some misinterpretation in his case that has to be taken into account so I think it makes sense that white people said she is northren you just screwed us and you did it today even though the act was in the eighties the the offense not the offense will say the damage to the brand happened today if you're black you're probably saying
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if you're black you're probably saying well it just makes white people look bad right I mean you're probably less bothered by it because it makes white people look bad and then you see that the and then you see the pole let's say you're you're a black you your black voter or black adult in Virginia and you see the pole that white people are more concerned about this than black people what does that tell you if you're a black voter it's good news it's kind of good news and and it shows I think it shows a maturing I hate to be too positive about it but it feels like a mature situation when the black voters are less concerned about it then the white voters are for their own brand that feels feels like progress in some some way that's hard to Express alright here's some oh and then we're
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alright here's some oh and then we're also watching an amusement as the Democrats are cannibalizing themselves with demands for apologies so now representative Omar has unequivocally apologized to Israel for her alleged anti-semitic views and now we've seen you know in Virginia we've seen in some apologies and I think you're just going to see a festival of apologies somebody says I don't forgive her so we're gonna see a festival of apologies here and I think the Democrats are just going to be cannibalizing each other for apologies and we might we might have reached peak apology peak apology is where people are just sick of it and we just don't need them anymore and it could be that this Virginia situation is is the thing that in our
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situation is is the thing that in our minds you know convince us we've we've reached whatever our limit is is forcing other people to apologize now in the case of Omar she was apologizing for a recent behavior and you know I think she needed to she needed to apologize for that and she did you know I've told you that we should be a country that accepts apologies but we should we should accept apologies but I'm not the one who needs to accept this apology so she didn't you know personally offend me so the Apollo the acceptance of any apologies would have to come from people who were offended same with the blackface you know I'm not going to accept an apology from the governor for offending somebody else you know that's it's not for me to accept or we're not accept
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accept somebody said and I need a fact check on this somebody said that David Duke agreed with representative Omar and that he did it didn't he tweet or something I'm good at I gotta see if I can find that maybe somebody can confirm that that happened because that would be one of the funniest things I've ever seen all right let's see if David Duke is on okay looks like if you spell it correctly David Duke let's see if he comes up first now it turns out there's a lot of people with that name I can't even find him on and on Twitter so people people are confirming it here so David Duke is on her side that what what was these one of the most potent attacks against President Trump for the last
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against President Trump for the last three years for the last three years people have been saying hey can you explain why the racists seem to support president Trump doesn't that mean that he must be a racist and now you see David Duke supporting a Democrat and it's just it's just delicious because now every time that somebody says so why does every time they say so is it a coincidence that the racists support President Trump and you can use this example that the racists support at least one Democrat now here's the here's the better explanation when somebody says hey why seem to coincidentally like president Trump here's the best answer
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president Trump here's the best answer to that you ready the most normal thing in the world is for people to like the same thing for different reasons you might like a meal because it's healthy I might like it because it tastes good you might like a certain automobile because it's the mileage is good I like it primarily because of its looks or because of the safety features this the most one of the most universally common things in the world is for people to like the same thing but for completely different reasons you like the movie because the star that sits in it I like the movie because I like scary movies it the fact that multiple people like this president for different reasons is the most normal situation in the world the racists like it because they think they're going to get less immigration and less whatever they don't like other people like it because they think he's good for the economy and they like border security so
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economy and they like border security so to ask haha how do you explain this weird coincidence is it a coincidence that the racists seem to like President Trump no it's not a coincidence it's the most common situation in the world that people can like the same thing or the same person for completely different reasons so why would this be any different why would this be the one case where people only can like something for one reason it would be the only it would be the only time all right [Music]
just okay we've got a couple other items Kamal Harris gave an interview on radio station maybe yesterday in which he was asked about weed and she said I'm going to paraphrase it but something like that she supported recreational use of marijuana because she understands it
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marijuana because she understands it brings people joy and there's not enough joy in the world it brings people joy and there's not enough joy in the world and then she laughed and then and she admitted that she had smoked in college we assume she's done more than that but that's yeah that's a good political answer now yeah her laugh is a little bit annoying but maybe only annoying to men I don't know if women are annoyed by that laughs however so here's the thing one of the reasons that you watch my periscopes is because I'm not always going to take the obvious side of things on the issue of marijuana her view is closer in my view than the president's I will also say and people are always saying to me Scott you know why are you only saying good things about President Trump in his persuasion on you why don't you ever criticize and of course that's
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you ever criticize and of course that's just not true I've criticized among statues I've criticized him on health care you know there have been a number of things I've criticized and I'm gonna do it again on the issue of weed the President had a layup he had a lamp all he had to do is get the government the federal government and of the marijuana business I know he knows that there's support for it and here's the important part nobody's gonna vote against you for that but I'll bet some people would vote for you for that so it's one of those weird issues where we're taking the side of letting the states do it probably would have cost the president zero votes I have to make I have to be careful about how I make that symbol probably wouldn't have cost them anything but probably would have helped him maybe secure some votes that he
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him maybe secure some votes that he wouldn't have gotten otherwise so it was a layup it was a free pass Kamala saw this free pass and she took it was that smart hell yes so on this one topic Kamala Harris beat the president all right persuasion wise politically strategy wise now I don't know if the president has some other considerations that maybe you're not obvious to me maybe there are some key people he needs to keep happy and that matters in some way so he may have reasons for doing what he's doing but based on what we can see this was this was just this low-hanging fruit this this simple simple play it was obvious it's been there for years years this has just been laying out there waiting for him to say oh here's some free votes let me take those free votes two years later of these free votes just hanging her
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of these free votes just hanging her waiting he doesn't take them come all Harris walks over and she goes hey look a free vote she wins she wins this round unequivocally unequivocably she wins on that topic and you can't call that anything but a mistake on Trump's part unless there's something we don't know about his deliberations but we probably wouldn't know it by now all right there's big story on at least on CNN probably on an MSNBC that the oh and by the way the the president could still even up the playing field by you know reaching that position before the election the BBC is reporting that some amped up Trump supporter attacked there there's somebody in there crew because he was being anti-media now what is the what is rule
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anti-media now what is the what is rule number one for a new story like this rule number one rule number one probably the story that you're hearing is not true all right now I'm not gonna say in what specific way it's not true I'm making a general statement that the first version of this story probably and I'm gonna say 75% chance at least probably is not what it was reported so when when the details emerge you could find out God knows a lot you can find out that it was a plant you could find out that he was mentally ill you could find out that the the cameraman started it you could find out that it wasn't you know that there was a misunderstanding you know maybe somebody bumped somebody and it turned into something but it wasn't really an attack per se so you need to wait 48 hours on this one because probably you're gonna find out
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because probably you're gonna find out it's just BS not an attack and he was supposedly drunk yeah drunk doesn't ask excuse you of course but yeah there's and the video I saw it he couldn't really tell what was going on he was mad that the press had better seats maybe alright let's see I think we've oh I want to talk about I'm going to make one little climate comment here at the end in order to do that I'm going to look at a link a damn it there's a link I keep trying to save and then how in the world do I keep saving that one link and then losing it well there was something very interesting I was going to tell you but I'll have to save because I keep losing
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I'll have to save because I keep losing that link I will give you my preliminary opinion on climate change and then we're going to get into it a little more let me just tell you what's happening there so I asked Tony Heller let me back up a little so I've been doing this deep dive on climate change to try to see if a non-scientist someone who's just concerned sis and can get to the bottom of it and try to figure out what's what my current opinion is absolutely uncertain meaning that I do not have a decision on where we're going on climate but I'll tell you the process the system I'm using right so the system as I'm trying to identify the strongest critics the the one or two who are the most powerful have the best argument and seem to have data on their side so far it looks like Tony Heller and I think is it
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looks like Tony Heller and I think is it Richard linson seem to be the two that have the most at least on the surface powerful persuasive arguments and so I've asked Tony Heller to put together his top five there might be more of them but let's say top five yeah Judith curry is sort of a special case because her her criticisms are not like anybody else's there they're a different form so I should I should pay a little more attention to her but it's slightly different and I've asked them to give me his top five arguments for why the climate alarmists are wrong so I want to take those top five put them in bullet form point form with supporting links and then I want to put that out there and say okay climate scientists tell me what he got wrong on these top five things and then put it back to Tony and
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things and then put it back to Tony and say okay climate science disagrees with you on these three things and then see what Tony says and then maybe one more round where the alarmist can come back in and say why they think his correction to the correction to the correction was wrong so I want to take just five claims and go down maybe you know three levels of point Kevin or point and see if it tells us anything all right now if the top five points can be debunked well that would tell you a lot wouldn't it but if the top five points can't be debunked or let's say four out of five can't be debunked that will tell you something too so let's see where this process gets us somebody says you're too smart Scott and it's not helping you in this case well I suppose I could try being less smart but it doesn't feel like a good strategy so somebody says
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like a good strategy so somebody says Tony Oller is not the best choice for this plan well I'm open to other arguments and we don't have to stop with one critic so I could do you know I could do what I could do more now the link I was going to show you was a link of I forget which which climate scientists Pro climate change person was but he had a list of all the of all the complaints you know the critics and then and then his response but here's the problem so this was the pro scientist climate scientist side of things I couldn't understand many of them so I said to myself well I'll just pick out the one point that I could understand as a non scientist and the one point I could understand was obviously false like sort of obviously you don't even have to be an expert
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have to be an expert you just look at and go oh that's obviously false I'll tell you what it is tomorrow but that makes all the rest of it look false as well so here here's my preliminary conclusion both sides are lying or incorrect you know I want I won't put I won't put intention into there so take the intention out of that both sides are promoting things which are obviously untrue it's different things but both the critics and the scientists are doing things that could not be more obviously untrue and I'll give you some examples from both sides tomorrow but and I don't know if anybody in the world has that opinion but me have you heard anybody say one side is right but both sides are promoting it with with BS or there's a lot of BS on both sides because it's obvious there's
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both sides because it's obvious there's a lot of BS on both sides and I'll give you examples tomorrow all right that's enough for now join me at 2:00 p.m. eastern time 11:00 a.m. on the west coast for my conversation with navall rava Contin you do not want to miss that bye for now