Episode 415 Scott Adams: Omar Versus Trump, Manafort, Spartacus
Date: 2019-02-14 | Duration: 31:41
Topics
Manafort lied, CNN headline calls that a bombshell? Amy Klobuchar calls the AOC New Green Deal “aspirational” Cory Booker beginning to understand phrase, “The Party of Women” Cory says he will “look to women first” for a VP Men need not apply unless all women are unqualified Kamala Harris tax rate statement not getting fact-checked by CNN Jake Tapper’s unfair, mean-spirited coverage of President Trump Jake and CNN believe the President is anti-Semitic… …and Israel hasn’t noticed? How can they believe that? TDS requires two pillars of belief that are obvious hoaxes 1. Charlottesville hoax 2. Russia collusion hoax (involving President Trump) Human ego maintenance requires TDS victims cling to the 2 pillars Accepting the 2 pillars as hoaxes… …would be too large of a blow to their ego The human brain protects ego at any cost to maintain self-image TDS symptoms, regardless of how obvious… …can’t be seen and understood, by the victims of TDS
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what feem administrator resigns I'm just reading the news hey everybody come on in
here well you seem to be in a good mood and why shouldn't you be well it seems that once again I have uh started this Periscope incorrectly which means we'll have a small number of people on here um there's a there's a temporary bug in the system where if I have the guest mode turned on uh it won't do a automatic notification to Twitter that is being worked on I understand so um I will not make this mistake again in the future I swear would you like to join me for the simultaneous hip I know you would let us grab our mugs our cups our ther es our Steines our chales fill them with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me for the simultaneous
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sip ah hello Amsterdam thank you for joining us we have a worldwide crowd here as usual so what's happening let's check a few things so I like to go to the CNN page first because whatever the CNN page uh homepage for news is kind of gives you an idea where the mainstream media is at where their heads at and so we start with Groundhog Day you know the movie Groundhog Day where the same day just keeps repeating over and over see if you can tell what day of the last two years this is all right did this did this headline happen today or sometime in in the last two years maniford bombshell deepens mystery in Russia
probe the manafort bombshell and I'm thinking to myself oh man this is going to be good let's read
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man this is going to be good let's read about the manifer bombshell because I haven't read that same headline 25 times all right let's see how far in we can get before we get to the bomb Shelly part and the latest debacle from man oford deepening the core Intrigue now now you have my attention it's a bombshell and it's deepening the core Intrigue this is big underlying okay it's something underlying the probe and and why have so many wait why have so many of President Trump's Associates been caught lying about contacts I thought it was a story but it turns out it's a question it's not so much a story as it is a question I'm not sure a question is a
a story all right in a significant new twist this is going to be big in the 2016 election Saga wait we're still talking about 2016 what year is this
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talking about 2016 what year is this 2019 I believe okay a judge ruled Wednesday the Trump's ex campaign chairman intentionally lied to investigators breaking a deal now I'm no news expert but it seems to me that if you had a choice between two headlines one of them is maniford lied and the other one potentially was maniford told the truth which one of those would have been news huh to me it seems like maniford lied is dog bites man that's what dogs do sometimes they bite people is it news well I understand why it's news but the funny part is maniford lied that should stop being a headline at some point should be maniford lied some more maniford continues to lie maniford always lies and just be done with it all right so then there's some blah
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it all right so then there's some blah blah blah in the article and they try to get me Whipped up into a frenzy but I got bored before I got whipped up CU I swear I just feel like I've read the exact same story 15 times now I know it's the first time this story has come out but why does it feel like the same damn story over and over and over again all right um then we've got Jeffrey tubin saying maniford is doomed that feels fair to say all right let's talk about some other
things um so I guess Amy clature has referred to the green new deal as quote aspirational who's the first person who told you that the green New Deal was aspirational this guy yeah um and so that gives them some wiggle room because many of the Democratic presidential
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many of the Democratic presidential hopefuls have have signed onto I think all of them have signed in onto the green New Deal and it made you wonder how are they going to defend that thing and then somebody called it aspirational and that gives everybody an out because you know even I like it even I like the green New Deal for being aspirational as long as you admit that we have no idea how to get to free education free health care you know universal healthcare Etc but if we could get there if we could figure it out I'd like to have all those things for the the public um we just don't know how now uh Corey Booker is finding that it's not going to be easy running for president and trying to get the nomination in the party of women as you know the uh the Democrats
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women as you know the uh the Democrats have they've sort of evolved their brand to be essentially the woman party um I think the Republicans are still the men and women party but the Democrats have really taken a stand that they're the woman party and Cory Booker running for president who has no chance no chance of getting nominated because I don't know if you've noticed but he's not a woman and um he was asked if he would nominate a woman and he gave one of the worst answers I've ever heard a politician give all right he actually said that um he he can't commit to choosing a woman as a vice president um um running mate but that he would look to women first what what's that mean what does it mean that he would look The Women to Women
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look The Women to Women First doesn't that mean that he he's making a gender preference that is independent of uh independent of qualifications and what and then he's also created a trap for himself what if he looks to women first but then he decides to pick a man would that mean that there are no women in the United States who could be a vice presidential candidate well I looked to women I I talked to 150 million of them but I couldn't find any turns out there were no women who were qualified to be Cory Booker's vice president according to a hypothetical future Corey Booker um and I thought that's that's just terrible politicking because if you're a man and you're watching that you just said to yourself uh you're not going to look at men or unless all of the women in the United States are unqualified um I don't think I like
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unqualified um I don't think I like that but and yet that that's okay somehow that's okay that is so not okay it's completely not okay there was some answer he could have give given that should have sounded something like well obviously I'm going to pick the most qualified person if I picked a woman I I think that would be great you know maybe it's you know uh that'd be a step forward but I'm going to look for the most qualified person so something like that would have been the better political answer
now we notice that uh on the Fox news news page they are factchecking Cala Harris for something she said about Trump's tax plan raising taxes on the middle class and I I guess the fact Checkers are saying that's not the case do you see Cala Harris being fact checked on the CNN homepage let me look
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checked on the CNN homepage let me look um nope
so um let me ask you this would it have been as clear to you and I'm talking about you the the regular Watchers of my periscopes would it have been as clear to you from the start that Cala Harris is essentially the one who's been pre-selected and that the media has decided she's the candidate would it have been as obvious before I told you how all this works because I started pointing this out six months ago right and now that it's pointed out of course you have to watch out for confirmation bias because once once that seed is in you had maybe you're you know you could easily see things that aren't there because you have the idea in your head but I I think I can support the idea that objectively speaking you will see her not get the same bad treatment
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see her not get the same bad treatment as the other candidates and I I think you're already seeing that uh she even lied about Tupac yeah you know um I'm not too worried about little stuff like that you know I guess Cala said was said she smoked a a joint in college and and back then she was listening to Tupac and uh who else but uh apparently they didn't even have albums out while she was in college that came later but who cares you know it might have been a fake memory she just conf ated some memories oh yeah Tupac and Snoop but who cares I don't think that's important all right now I you've been prompting me to talk about this so representative Omar who was being attacked for saying some things allegedly uh anti-semitic tropes Trope uh and the specifically her tweet
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Trope uh and the specifically her tweet I guess she said other she has a history of other comments which have been interpreted that way as well but the latest one was It's All About the Benjamins Benjamins referring to money and referring to APAC Jewish Lobby and referring to implicating uh indicating that they were influencing congress with money now I don't think anybody doubts doubts that lobbyists influence Congress um I I don't think the the general concept that there are such thing as lobbyists and they do influence things nobody's really questioning that but she was called out for that and the way CNN covered it and the way Jake Tapper covered it was just uh mindboggling because uh president Trump called her out for her anti-Semitism which caused Jake Tapper to call out the president for his past
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for his past alleged uh anti-Semitism and here are the
the examples that Jake showed so so now so you've heard what Omar did essentially said a money related thing about Israel which is an anti-jewish Trope and so uh Jake Tapper first showed the meme that happened I guess during the campaign in which there was a shape that was a star the same shape as the Star of David and in it there was a in the background there was some money and I forget what the message was but that was less important and so that was the first example that the president tweeted around a meme that somebody else made and that there was a symbol on there that looked like the Star of David now I ask you is it likely that the president saw that Meme and said aha there's that hidden sort of hidden because it wasn't meant to be a star of David but it was the same shape when I say wasn't meant
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the same shape when I say wasn't meant I'm not reading any Minds I'm saying that the design was not supposed to be an obvious star David but it was the same shape it was a five-sided Shar now it could be and I think the story was that the original Creator may have actually intended it to be a star of David I'm not sure what the what the birth of that was but I feel like it's fairly obvious that the president didn't make that connection when tweeted it when I saw it I certainly didn't make the connection you know the first time I is it a six-sided star yeah you're right six-sided star excuse me on that so the six-sided Star of David um I don't think there's the slightest chance that the president was aware of that symbolism connection when he tweeted it and if you don't mention that that there's no evidence he he knew that that symbol was part of the meme cuz I certainly didn't I mean it's it's I
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certainly didn't I mean it's it's I would not have even thought of that I could have looked at that all day long and never made the connection so is it likely that the president made the connection and thought aha I think I will cleverly send around some kind of anti-jewish thing while he's campaigning with you know his Jewish daughter his Jewish uh you know his Jewish son-in-law and his Jewish grandkids is it likely that he did that that intentionally the odds of that being an intentional act are vanishingly small and if you don't mention that and just show it as if it's obvious he meant it that is very fake news um it's mean-spirited fake news it's it's aggressively fake news it's not even it doesn't even feel accidental so that was his first evidence that the president's bad too and you got to keep this in context the second one was that Trump made some uh jokes about
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was that Trump made some uh jokes about negotiating and about money when he gave a speech during the campaign to some Jewish organization I don't know who it was but then they shows he shows the clip and the context of the clip is that the Pres
comp that that's what he does in other words he was called what he does in other words he was calling it a positive trait he was actually in person looking them in the eye and saying you know I have this trait and then sort of with a smile on his face saying yeah you're all you're all negotiators too and they laugh they laugh all right so he's talking to a group saying this this uh yeah and it felt like he was playing with the
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felt like he was playing with the stereotype it felt like he was saying it in a in a light-hearted way yeah you're all a bunch of negotiators and that's just like me that's what I'm doing with this steal I'm going to renegotiate it that's pretty different um so some people are saying that I broke up uh the connection broke on the last point so I'll just say that the Star of David meme he sent around it's almost impossible to imagine that he understood that this was some kind of a secret anti-jewish thing and if you don't mention that we don't have any evidence that he knew that that's what the meme was about you you that's not an honest story because it's assuming he had some some thought in his head which is not in evidence in fact it's far more likely it wasn't the case and then the second thing was he gave the speech to the Jewish group in which he was comparing a trait of himself that he will negotiate a deal and he'll he'll you know try to get the
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and he'll he'll you know try to get the best deal and he was he was with a smile on his face clearly joking said the same about the people in person to their faces and they laughed because they recognized that it was sort of based on a stereotype and it was just sort of funny because he he was talking about a positive trait and said he has it he likes to renegotiate now is that using a stereotype yes was it hateful the opposite the opposite is literally the opposite of hateful he was he was saying it's an endearing quality of course he wasn't he wasn't believing every person in the room has all these traits because nobody would think that nobody would look a room full of people and say every person in this room has that specific tra nobody would believe that so it was so obviously a joke to people who got the joke and understood that it was sort of a kind-hearted
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of a kind-hearted locker room if you will kind of A J uh even jib is too strong it was just just sort of a funny comment so to put that in the context of hate is really reversing what happened it's almost the opposite of what happened right in front of our eyes we got to watch the same clip and then the third one and you know this is the reason I'm bringing it up he showed the Charlottesville hoax like it was news again the Charlottesville hoax for those of you who don't know is that when the president said there are fine people on both sides CNN continues to report it as if he meant both sides being antifa on one side and the the white supremacists were literally marching and saying anti-Semitic things in their in their chanting somebody saying it's not a hoax boy must be your first time on this Periscope
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Periscope obviously and I think any any reasonable person would know that when he said there were fine people on both sides he was talking about of the statue issue because that's what the protests were about it was a group of people who came to protest and counter-protest about the existence of Confederate statute so to say that there are fine people on both sides is a simple statement that there are fine people who like statues those Confederate statues and people who don't and they're fine people they just disagree on this issue now of course CNN turned that into the president of the United States intentionally went on live television and through his through his love to White supremacists who are Marching against his daughter against his own um son-in-law that he obviously has a close relationship Jared and against his own grandchildren and against Israel who and here's the fun
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against Israel who and here's the fun part somehow Israel hasn't noticed his his alleged anti-Semitism that the CNN seems to think is obvious Israel didn't notice so none of it makes sense the way CNN has reported it and they continue to report it as if that's a fact as if it doesn't need any it doesn't need to be explained as in some people took it this way wouldn't that be the honest way to um to report it because the honest way to report it is some people thought when he said this he was talking about the white supremacist other people think that that's a ridiculous thought this would be the honest way to say it a lot of people a lot of people thought that he was talking about the white supremacist and that's the way it's been reported but a lot of other reasonable people said obviously it's not the white supremacist he's just saying two sides of the statue issue because the other interpretation is just bad crazy
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interpretation is just bad crazy and to and to continue to lie about that and I think it is a lie at this point I don't know how to I don't really it's well let me let me modify that a little you can't know what people are thinking so maybe people think that that's really happened but but they have been informed let me say this with some Authority they have heard the alternative um Theory the alternative theory is that he was talking about both sides of the statute issue that would be a completely normal thing to say for a president the other one would be ridiculous like it would be insane to even imagine that he went on TV and threw in his lot with the white supremacist as a president of the United States and thought that will go okay all right so the way CNN reports it is so absurd I don't it's hard to come up with
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absurd I don't it's hard to come up with a theory of how they could do this repeatedly once they've been informed that they interpreted it wrong how do how do you keep doing it either you're Liars or you really really believe it's true despite I would say fairly obvious to the you know evidence to the
contrary um Scott you shared this with Chris Hayes and he still reports it is real yeah I don't think anything can shake them out of it and and here's why I think there are two pillars of the Trump hatred that if the folks with TDS lose them they they lose too much of their world viw the two pillars are that the Charlottesville hoax was real and that the Russia collusion was real th those are pretty much you know a lot of the hate a lot of the hate of this President are concentrated on those two um two pillars and both of them are
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two um two pillars and both of them are hoaxes and I would say fairly obvious hoaxes wouldn't you say now there were a whole bunch of other things that people said about him but those are sort of melted away you know he he's not acting like a dictator he's he's not not crazy he's not getting bad results on the economy he's not he's not you know Finding uh that other countries won't work with us none of that's happening so there's just all these other things that were said about this President which are very clearly not the case now if you look at what what people worried about right if you go back to 2016 and say what are the what are the people who were experiencing the hysteria what were they worrying about well now you don't have to worry about if those things will happen because you've got two years to look at and you go okay nothing crazy happened you know at least crazy in the way that matters to anybody uh other countries still work with us the economy is screaming we're
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with us the economy is screaming we're probably safer than we've ever been if you consider North Korea you know uh being nice Etc so all you have left the only thing you have left to maintain your ego and that's what it is at this point for the anti-trumpers they've they've bet their entire ego on Trump being bad in whatever ways bad means to them and if they lose the Charlottesville hoax the whole racism thing is going to start to fall apart because if you look at what he's done from you know releasing Alice Johnson is that her name to uh working working to improve things with uh prison reform to having the best economy ever for the middle class and the lower lower middle class these are all things that are just directly beneficial to the community that people said he was going to discriminate against and even if you look at the
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against and even if you look at the immigration question what before we became educated about border security people just you know were were tribal and they just were on each other's sides but we've all been educated and that sort of changes how you see the Border question you know I think there's been enough education about a real need for border security to the point that even the even the Democrats have voted for it in the past they apparently they're supporting it at the moment so even right now we're watching the Democrats agree with the president right now they're disagreeing on dollar amount but they now agree on principle am I wrong about that the objection to the Border fence or wall or whatever you want to call it the objection was always un principle the objection was not really ever about money you fact checked me on that right but it wasn't really a budget problem because it was small compared to the whole budget so the moment that the
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the whole budget so the moment that the Democrats climb down from it's a moral objection and they climb down to well suppose the budget is smaller they've given away their entire principle they have completely abandoned their own argument that they have been hammering the president for 3 years for years they've been hammering this guy only to climb down in the face of actual negotiations and um and you know light being shined on by the public because there's a real problem there's a real problem um so I think the Charlottesville hoax and I think the Russia collusion are going to be so important for the mental health of the anti-trumpers because if they lose those two things they have to admit that they've been wrong about the most important thing in their lives I'm talk about the people who are in the political domain and Reporting on it that they would be wrong about the most
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that they would be wrong about the most important thing that they've believed since n since uh 2016 people can't really do that the the average normal mind cannot make that much of a transition and and survive right somebody said they'll still bring up David Duke so David Duke has now uh didn't he support Omar uh I believe David Duke has supported Keith Ellison and I think Omar so you even have you even have David Duke supporting Democrats which just totally ruins everything because one of the biggest complaints about Trump was uh hey oh can you explain why the the racists seem to like Trump is that just a coincidence is it a coincidence all the racists seem to support the same person huh and that that was one of the biggest arguments
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that was one of the biggest arguments against Trump and then we watch and it turns out turns out those racists they like some Democrats they like themselves some Democrats that kind of ruins that whole thing now of course if we were smart we would have realized that the most common situation in the world is that people will like the same thing for different reasons let me give you an example I have one in my hand have you ever seen one of these this is the the uh Apple uh airpods the little uh earpieces that are Wireless for the Apple oops d D it did I lose you um I hope I didn't lose you there because I accidentally activated my uh my iPad with these but here's my point if you asked five people what they like about these you would get different answers
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these you would get different answers some people would say I like how they feel in my ears because I don't like the overear kind some people would say oh I hated the cables some people will say I like how convenient they are so if you just ask somebody just a simple question they say hey hey Bob why do you why do you like this product and by the way I'm going to tell you this is freaking great this is a great product um just that's just in theide i i i resisted getting these for a while and I have to tell this if if you watch my uh conversation with nval uh and if you haven't you really need to see it it's it's pinned to my uh my Twitter feed it's at the top but if you watch that uh and you'll see how smart nval is and it it'll just blow you away smartest I I've called them the smartest person I've ever met and I'm sticking with that uh but I I don't know when it
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with that uh but I I don't know when it was but it was a while ago I was at his house and or at his place and he he recommended that everybody should have these and I remember thinking well nval is actually the smartest person I know and if he says I should have these maybe I should but then I I didn't really feel the need and long time went by and then I got them you know I finally had a reason to get some and and I tried him and it took me about 10 seconds to say damn it he's right again he's right again uh smartest person I know anyway you should you should get these These are are amazing but you'll you'll lose them you you'll spend you have to you have to uh uh if you get that product you have to calculate 15 minutes a day for looking for them because you'll misplace them