Episode 471b Scott Adams: Continuation of Episode 471a

Date: 2019-03-27 | Duration: 31:16

Topics

Betsy DeVos cut Special Olympics from the education budget Is there better use of limited funds for special needs kids? Monroe doctrine, stay out of our hemisphere, Russia? Russia’s obvious counterpoint…get out of their hemisphere Cell phone experiment: turn off notifications and ringers What you miss live, will it make any difference to you? WhenHub’s Approach app allows you to see and track meeting arrivals Who is the real problem, the media or President Trump? The media, because of the way they cover the President? If climate change is real and doom is imminent, who’s to blame? Now the media “experts” want us to believe climate change? The media “experts” have been completely wrong for 2 years Joe Biden’s creepy behavior video clips People who will vote for him will NEVER see those clips Adam Schiff isn’t fooled by Mueller clearing President Trump

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all right let's see if we have audio so whoever comes on here first could you tell me if you can hear me can you hear me Nicholas anybody oh we have sound again okay so it looks like uh rebooting worked Hey Thomas first day on Periscope all right success I'll wait for some of the rest of you to pile back in here before I continue should be a moment so not sure how much you heard of my last point but I was saying that the administration should focus or even create a fund of just the technology startups who are or even larger companies who are working on specifically reducing the cost of healthcare one of the companies that could be involved in that would be my own so uh I'm far from uninterested in this and if you don't know the interface by whenhub app that my startup makes let me change the lighting on this so you

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me change the lighting on this so you can see it allows you to be an expert or call an expert for an immediate online or scheduled uh video call and that could include healthc Care Professionals so we're we're adding doctors to it Etc so one of the things that the administration could do is to say that we're going to experiment with so let say a lowcost insurance plan that includes maybe some catastrophic insurance for the big stuff and then maybe direct payment for doctors or use of apps uh or you know some other uh newer Innovative processes for the low end so we could experiment with that all right the other news I'm seeing is that uh the uh bie DeVos is has cut the funding for Special Olympics from the education budget now that's not a good look if you're president Trump it's not

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look if you're president Trump it's not a good look at all um but here's the first thing that I said when I saw that I saw that the Special Olympics was taken out of the education budget what was your first thought about that my first thought about that was why are the Special Olympics in in the education budget and why is the federal government paying for Special Olympics I'm not against Special Olympics but why is the government paying for it I mean I don't I don't really I get that people like it I get that it has benefits I'm not saying I'm not saying it's a waste of money I'm just saying why is the government paying for it and why would it be in the education budget so when you think of it that way uh they teach us compassion again I'm not saying there are no benefits the government could fund all kinds of different things that would also have B

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different things that would also have B benefits but it wouldn't be the mission of the federal government so you I guess there's Federal funding as well so I got to say I've never quite understood Special Olympics [Music] um well I don't want to go any further because I'll get painted with some bad brush I just don't know that that's where the money should be going let let me let me give you let me be more specific if you had a special needs child and the government said to you hey we want to help you with your special needs child and we have X dollar to do it would you want the government to put that limited money into the Special Olympics or would you prefer that the government gave you um let's say a tax break so that you could get maybe some profession help um that you wouldn't otherwise have for your special needs kid which would

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for your special needs kid which would you prefer I mean Special Olympics makes people happy and I'm not doubting the benefits but if you have limited money which is the real world is is the Special Olympics where the parent of a special needs child would want that money to go compared to the Alternatives just a question um let's talk about Venezuela apparently Russia is moving in assets and uh military assets to Venezuela which uh should be worrisome and my first thought about that when I saw that the Russian military was sending heavy military equipment to Venezuela I thought what would be the blowback if we just bomb bomb the out of it now I'm not suggesting we do that I'm just asking the question if if we just said we're not going to

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said we're not going to tolerate Uh Russian military assets and advisors or even troops apparently there are
are troops in in this continent the South American North American continent if we just said hey here's the deal Russia we'll give you a week to get rid of your you got a week to get rid of it in a week it's going to be gone either way so you can either put it on a boat and take it home or you can watch it you know go up in a fireball and I'm wondering what exactly would be the blowback yeah Monroe Doctrine somebody saying exactly um wouldn't we be able to get away with that clean and wouldn't it wouldn't it be
be a you know a fairly unambiguous message it says stay out of our hemisphere you know stay out stay out this part of the world I'm not sure there would be any somebody says there's a nuclear risk

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any somebody says there's a nuclear risk I think that's zero because how much does Russia really care about Venezuela apparently they care about their Investments so it's a it's a financial decision for Russia but the other fun part about it is it's kind of smart for Russia to create a bargaining chip because if we start telling Russia that they need to get out of Venezuela because that's our part of the world what does Russia say if we say to Russia you have to get down of Venezuela because this is our part of the world or any version of that Russia's going to say get out my part of the world so it's kind of a clever play but I I heard Philip Philip mud on CNN who's I haven't heard what Philip mud says yet about the Russia collusion hoax but he was talking about Russian assets moving into Venezuela and on this topic I will take his expert advice and one of the things he says is

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advice and one of the things he says is something that we forget that Russia is a very weak country that they they barely have a you know their their economy is not strong their military is kind of small we kind of Imagine them still being like the Soviet Union you know more of a more of a serious problem um and that one of the things we could do with Venezuela is just ignore it because it just doesn't matter and we could just ignore it so one thing is just a question could we just bomb their assets and make a point about don't put them here again because if you try it again we'll just bomb him again but we could also just sort of ignore it because Venezuela will do whatever Venezuela does it's not like we're going to send in the military so their weapons shouldn't make any difference anyway as long as we're not you know we have no serious reason to think we're going to move the military against Venezuela it doesn't matter it's just

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Venezuela it doesn't matter it's just Russia wasting some more money all right in the news apparently Greenland is uh the Glaciers are increasing not decreasing which would be the opposite of what you would expect um it's the opposite of what you would expect with climate change you would expect their glaciers to be shrinking um now I tweeted that around because it was funny it was just funny that that news came out the same time Trump was having his best week ever but don't make too much of it it doesn't actually yeah it doesn't mean anything that there's one area of the world that's getting either warmer or colder there's nobody on the climate science um side of things who makes any claim that there's any one place on the earth that's telling you much so it is within the theory that it could get warmer in places while it's getting

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warmer in places while it's getting colder in other places because the whole weather patterns are changing because of the disruption so uh don't celebrate anything about the Greenland glaciers it is not it neither confirms nor debunks climate change it's just a data point it doesn't mean too much all right I got a question for you as you know I think half or more of all your phone calls lately are scam phone calls for me it's closer to 95% I would say 95% of all my phone calls are you know just Spam and scams now you probably have the same situation do you leave your ringer on because I turned my notifications and my ringer off and I just leave it off all the time and it's it's sort of an experiment because I have to actually pick up my phone and consciously look to

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pick up my phone and consciously look to see if I have a message and sometimes it might be an hour or two and I haven't checked any messages and here's the thing if you leave your notifications on during the day then you're being managed by other people other people are deciding what you think about and what you do and what you care about so checking your email on a regular basis or even keeping your notifications on turns you into a slave that turns you into a slave the so um what I've been experimenting with is H how many problems are caused by not checking my phone and I'll give you an example so and definitely there are problems so yesterday I was on my way to um an interview uh and I was for Greg gel's uh podcast and um I got there like sort of

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podcast and um I got there like sort of right on time or maybe two minutes after the the early time I was supposed to be there so I I was way on time very much on
on time but I hadn't hadn't checked in getting close to the time I was supposed to be there which was way way ahead of the time I needed to be there and so the producer producer had been texting me because she was worried and it makes a really big deal right if you're the producer and you don't know if if your talent is heading to the location you're pretty worried and you don't know if you need a backup plan or what you're going to do but it didn't affect me so here's the selfish part of it it didn't affect me I just went to the interview did the interview drove home had no effect but it definitely affected someone else so how much of not doing what other people want are you willing to accept in your life in order to have the Peace of not being interrupted by your phone and I've decided that I will

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your phone and I've decided that I will be inconvenient to other people for my own benefit and I wonder if how many of you are making a similar decision which is yeah it would be great for other people if I had my notifications on and got back to them right away that would be excellent for other people it would be just bad terrible like really bad for me now let me offer a suggestion if you are a producer or any kind of an organizer and you depend on people to show up at an event whether you're a TV producer or you're a wedding planner a wedding planner really needs to know when people are showing up right I mean that's pretty important or you're an event person and you're waiting for your speaker to show up Etc may I suggest a an app which my startup made it's called approach and it would allow you to send down a text and then you could track on a map just for a short time it times out that's key so you're not tracking people

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that's key so you're not tracking people all the time um it allows you to track multiple people coming to a destination so if you were let's say a wedding planner and you need to know if the flower and the music and the the bride and everybody are going to show up on time you could just send them all one text through the app you could send it out by email or text or social media and then anybody who accepted would show up on your map just like an Uber app you could see where they're going you could see how far they are away so uh this is one substitute for having your notifications on you don't have to wait for people to call you because you can just see they're on the way and that's all you need to know all right that's one of my company's apps the other is interface by whenhub and I hope you check that one out all right now um have you ever heard this saying and I think I'm paraphrasing it is something like this the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the

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the devil ever played was convincing the world he doesn't exist have you ever heard that I don't know who said it first but I'm seeing something like that with the media because the the anti-trump media has actually gotten away with creating this image of trump that scares people to death like he's like he's he's all the problem like the problem is what Trump does it's not a problem of the way they report it and they've actually convinced most of the most of the country that the problem is Trump and not the way they report it for example with this Special Olympics thing I hear that people are already sending around um the the video of trump when he allegedly he didn't actually do this but allegedly mocked uh Serge whatever his name is the reporter who had a a bad arm bad arm meaning some genetic condition

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bad arm meaning some genetic condition where his arm was not fully functional now you've all seen the the video and I'm not going to do an impression of it but let's say that um Trump used to hand motions that people said look like he was mocking a guy with a bad arm now if you
you are consuming only the media on the left that's all you saw you saw Trump apparently mocking a guy with a bad arm and that's and if that's all you saw you believed it so Trump is a bad person that's that's the um conclusion but if you consume the media on the right or the social media on the right you've probably seen many times videos of trump talking about completely other people with identical hand motions and the funniest part is that one of them was Ted Cruz so I have a a clip that I'll probably release if this if this becomes another story you know if it if it rises

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another story you know if it if it rises to the national attention again I'll start tweeting around the clip of Ted Cruz of President Trump mocking Ted Cruz with identical or close enough to identical hand motions and I believe there's even a compilation clip of him using the same motions in a number of different speeches referring to a different people every time so take that example what what is one of the the most problematic things that anti-trumpers believe they believe that Trump mocked a disabled guy in
in public but that never happened it literally didn't happen and it's easy to prove you just look at the video of him doing the same thing with other people and you go okay that's that's what he does so uh so who's the devil is it the devil the person who made this false story or the person they're talking about so with this Russia collusion stuff you know the

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this Russia collusion stuff you know the story is now at least people are waking up to they're waking up to the story that it's the way that media treats it it's not really the subject of the story that's the one who's doing the bad stuff at least in every case all right here's an interesting question let's say this is a thought experiment so you don't need to disagree with it so this is if if climate change is a dire catastrophic problem as the Green New Deal suggests and as climate scientists by a majority suggest and the climate models suggest if that's all true and we're heading toward Doom with climate change who would you blame well at this point I would blame whoever was behind at least partly not totally but I would put some of that blame if we were to progress toward Doom

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blame if we were to progress toward Doom with the client I would put some of that blame on the media because the media just served up one of the biggest hoaxes of all time and got caught the the Russia conspiracy hoax and if you if you put one um you know pants on fire hair on Fire 2 hoax on television and you run it for two years and then you say whoops I guess all of that was wrong literally everything the experts told you was wrong keyword expert because there were experts in let's say John Brenan who is a bigger expert on you know this intelligence stuff than John Brennan he was the head of the CIA totally wrong who are the experts reporting things well there were reporters who are experts at reporting things totally wrong and now let's say

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things totally wrong and now let's say that story you know goes away and then you start a new story which is that climate change is going to kill us all and it's probably Trump's fault if you just went through two and a half years of uh Trump Russia collusion and it's all Trump's fault and then none of it was true and then the very next thing you hear is climate change is a giant problem and it's all Trump's fault for not acting on it are you going to believe it it gets harder to believe now here's the thing what if they're right right what what if climate change is a problem and what if we don't at least address it within 12 years aggressively what if we we don't address it because people didn't believe it why is it they wouldn't believe it well it's not because they're anti-science that part is ridiculous there's nobody who's anti-science by the way the the the idea that there anybody is

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that there anybody is anti-science is ridiculous have you ever met anybody who's anti-science that's not a thing so I think the the Russia hoaxers have to take some responsibility as well as the media that was behind it for anything in the future that the public doesn't believe right they got to take a little credit for that because Public's been duped all right uh so I'm watching people prepare changing the topic prep prepare attacks on Joe Biden and one of the attacks that you will see a million times if if he gets close to the nomination or gets the nomination is the compilation CP clip of him doing things that look creepy with young girls it's usually in the context of some uh public photo opportunity and there are a bunch of people and he's getting hands on and kissing the girl

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getting hands on and kissing the girl and she doesn't like it and I didn't realize how many there are but apparently there there you know there may be like 10 something like 10 video clips of him touching little girls in ways that make you feel really uncomfortable now I'm not going to make any claim that there's any more to it than exactly what we see on on the video so I I don't make any claim beyond that just that what we see makes us feel uncomfortable but when you watch it you say to yourself okay here's someone who could never get elected I mean these this compilation clip should completely take him off the page but here's why it won't the people on the left are never going to see it the people who might vote for him will never see it you're going to see it the people watching this I'll bet you'll see
see it maybe I don't know a hundred times you know assuming he got the nomination

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you know assuming he got the nomination you would probably see that clip a 100 times on social media and people who would vote for him will see it zero times because we're so we're so siloed at this point so I'm not sure it makes any difference if the only people are going to see it wouldn't have voted for him
anyway I'm going to get rid of all caps shouting person who who's yelling at me all right um and then the other thing that Joe Biden if you said to yourself uh what is Joe Biden most known for because people are simple and they don't look at somebody's you know vast 30 plus years of public service and picking on all the good stuff they tend to remember a few key things now what are a few key things you remember about Biden's history well you remember an need a hill right so if you if you just go to your top of mind for Joe Biden and you been

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top of mind for Joe Biden and you been around a while this would be older older voters only they remember uh him pushing what many people thought was too hard and I think he even admits was too hard against Anita Hill who Not only was a woman she was African-American and she was credibly accusing uh Judge Thomas of sexual harassment and I don't know that that reputation can fly anymore now what will protect Brien is that anybody under a certain age didn't live through it and they're not going to pay attention to it because they don't pay attention to negative stuff about their own candidate so that too might make no difference at all it just might make no difference that he has that because people just won't pay attention all right um I think I talked about

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I talked about my topics oh I I tweeted that uh Adam Schiff who says that he uh he still believes there's plenty of collusion Adam Schiff he is not being fooled by being this Muller completely clearing the president he still believes there's plenty of collusion there and every time I see it now it looks different it looks like the story of the the Japanese World War II solders who hid in a cave for 28 years in Guam and when they found him he didn't know that the war had ended 28 years ago he was just hiding out until it was over and I'm just REM reminded of that he just seems like that he should be in a cave in
Guam um people are asking me to comment on Mike Lee's funny sented speech I turned on the clip and I watched for roughly a

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for roughly a minute and I got bored and turned it off so I don't know if you have a lot of time maybe you want to watch it but it just bored me so I don't think it I just didn't know where it was going so I got bored and turned it
off all right um swell believes the the dossier is true does he you know I don't think you can um assume that anybody talking about this topic believes what they say you there was a point where where you could have believed that there was a point before the Muller report summary came out that you could have said well I I think they actually believe this or maybe it's wishful thinking but they're they think something's coming but now now when you hear them talk you can't make that you can't give them the benefit of a doubt anymore now now it's just lying

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oh yeah I saw the story that Barbara Bush blames Trump for her heart issues because she got too much angst about how he treated Jeb and I think oh what a cheap what a cheap story that is such a cheap story um yes I see your clever puns about sww Well's name
de deasio is doing the fine people hoax all right so here's a little update on the fine people hoax you so you've seen how much um how much energy and uh I guess attention I got for the fine people hoax and debunking it and it it seems that instead of just saying oh we were really wrong about that people have changed their defense of the fine people quote and now it's changed to well if you were in the same

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changed to well if you were in the same zip code as the neo-nazis even if you were there for different purposes such as supporting Free Speech which is very different from being a Nazi supporting Free Speech being a Neo-Nazi different right um and so the idea is that there is no way you could be in that same general area unless you were supporting the neo-nazis and you were in fact a bad person and I think to myself that's just messed up the the most common thing in the world is that people are in the same geography for different reasons the most common thing in the world and to imagine that this is the one time where people had to be on the same side in order to stand in the same zip code is completely nonsense and there's a little bit of a desperation to turn well okay he wasn't talking about the Nazis being fine people but what about the people who

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people but what about the people who were in the same general area you can't you can't free them from any blame blame because if you were in and and I'm not going to tell you who said this but there a a prominent person yesterday asked me privately how how could I explain you know the people who were there who claimed not to be the neo-nazis but were anti- statue you know how how can you how can you explain specifically that when they showed up and they saw that you know there was this giant Neo-Nazi March why didn't they immediately leave and it was presented to me that the person said that they would immediately leave and I thought to myself if I showed up at an event that I didn't know it was going to be a Neo-Nazi event and suddenly I see all the Nazis marching and I see antifa with their hoods and clubs and stuff I'm not leaving

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leaving seriously I'm not going to leave that are you kidding me if there's anything I'm going to stay and watch it's that there's no freaking way I'm going to leave that situation and it's not that I'm proud of it and I'm not taking sides I'm saying if there's an event of that magnitude yeah I'd be filming it or or at the very least I'm going to hang around to see if anybody needs any medical care like wouldn't you at least hang around to see if you could be useful should things go wrong so to imagine that if you showed up for a different reason and you saw the the neo-nazis that the the only explanation is that you're with them or you would have left is ridiculous I don't know any one of you who would have left you would have stayed a little while sure maybe you don't stay till midnight but you would have stayed a little while just to find out what's going on if I if I see

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find out what's going on if I if I see any kind of a you know I don't know anything of that magnitude it doesn't matter what it is I'm going to stop and watch it all right doesn't mean I approve of it I'm going to watch it so it's just ridiculous to say that those people must be Neo-Nazi supporters because they didn't turn around and leave nobody would have left literally nobody would have left that situation unless they felt in danger if they felt personally danger and dangered they would of course all right that's all I got for now I'm going to talk to you later