Episode 483 Scott Adams: Biden, Gen IV Nuclear, Animals, TDS

Date: 2019-04-07 | Duration: 50:36

Topics

Biden jokes about attention he’s receiving for being inappropriate “Financial Literacy” issue first raised by Hawk Newsome and BLM Why is fake news rerunning last years debunked “animals” HOAX? Preet Bharara, SDNY, fired by President, major anti-Trumper Preet acknowledges he had TDS after the election Chelsea Handler acknowledges she had TDS, got therapy Jake Tapper segment on President Trump’s border wall plaque Surprisingly balanced piece while mocking the President Van Jones is becoming a national treasure, willing to see both sides Dem Rep Richard Neal should be careful what he wishes for Wants President Trump’s tax returns to evaluate IRS audits Gen IV opinion piece in NYT, Steven Pinker says Gen IV is answer Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist, persuasion expert Working climate scientist debunks “accurate Russian model” If Mueller report has anything real bad for Trump…why no leaks? WhenHub’s crypto-currency, The When, has increased value four-fold in two weeks

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bum-bum-bum bum-bum-bum hey everybody it's good to see you it is really good to see you you know I enjoy doing these periscopes probably more than you enjoy watching them it's good to see all of you so gather round grab a seat make sure you take some seats up front grab your beverage container it might be a glass or a cup or a mug it could be a tank or just eyeing a chalice it might be a thermos but whatever it is fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the simultaneous scent room Oh
delicious I hope yours was as good as mine well we got some fun things to talk about today have you ever had one of those weeks where it feels like the entire darn planet is starting to shape up your way I'm having that kind of a

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up your way I'm having that kind of a week I'll tell you a little bit about it but first some other things in the news my favorite part of the news was Joe Biden appearing in public and trying to navigate the new attention he's getting for his eskimo kisses and head kisses and other touchy behavior so he made two awkward jokes in his recent appearance you know he joked that somebody gave him permission to hug her and then when some kids got it came up he jokes to the audience about a child he says this about a child who's standing next to him quote he gave me permission to touch him

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I'm pretty sure that my my first choice to run against President Trump would be Biden now holy on the entertainment level so so so from just an entertainment level oh my god do I want Biden to run against Trump I don't think he's gonna get there I still think that Biden didn't Sanders will not make it to the finish line nor will bait oh okay so I think it's going to be Kamala Harris but here's what to watch for early on it seemed that Kamala was the chosen one but have you noticed that she doesn't get any press anymore a little bit but she's basically disappeared have you noticed that and that all of the talk is about the three white guys how would you like to be a Democrat the party of inclusivity the party of diversity in your top three not just your top one not just your top two but your top three

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not just your top two but your top three polling candidates or white guys and two of them are ancient wouldn't you think that your entire philosophy had somehow wasn't working I'm not sure exactly what's not working but if you're the party of diversity and your top three candidates are three white guys you're not doing it right you're not doing it right so it's funny but I guess that's all I need to say about there was a story about the White House here's one of the smallest pieces of news today so small that I don't think you'll see it on any of your news sites and it goes like this but so the White House has rolled out a financial literacy program

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financial literacy so people who don't have money or people who are just getting money for the first time can learn how to manage the money how to get it and how to keep it that's very important because you could you could give money to poor people all day long they don't know how to manage it it's just gonna go away now what's interesting about this aside from the fact that it just sounds like a good idea and the president and the White House is acting on it and it's like a real policy and real things are gonna happen here's what's interesting about it the first place that I heard about the need for financial literacy was from black lives matter specifically walk walk Newsom now I don't remember how much how much publicity he got for that particular point of view but it was one that he talked with me about and so I know it to be a at least a hawk Newsom priority and it was always in his top you know top three or four things was

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you know top three or four things was financial literacy and so we're watching this president who's being the subject of a a rerun hoax you know the rerun where it was a year ago where he was accused of calling the immigrants animals and of course it was just out of context he was talking about the ms-13 people being the animals but it's a rerun so now we're watching the same little rerun like it like it never happened did last year and was never hoaxes like his fresh and new again it's just a rerun and while we're watching that as if that's news it isn't news it's just a rerun hoax meanwhile the White House has accomplished and actually put into law or at least put into program one of black lives matters biggest priorities now I should hesitate my estate I should be quick to say that one of the things that Hawk and by the

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one of the things that Hawk and by the way Hawk and I have had our differences which are well publicized but what he's right he's right right there are things he said promoted for that are just right and so I'm gonna agree with him what he's right and so this financial literacy thing one of the things a hawk has said I think he said it on Candice Ellen's show which was a great program by the way he said that when the country does things that help black people it helps everybody and I may be paraphrasing wrong but the idea is that anything you do to help that segment is going to help poor people of all types and this is a perfect example because the the financial literacy is not aimed at black people it's it's aimed for a an economic group of which there'll be a good number of black people in it so Hawk is right when when black people get their policy

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when when black people get their policy requirements that are specifically the ones that help the people in the in the worst situation the only way you can do it in a country like this is to help everybody so I kind of buy into that that philosophy anyway that's good news it's great news and it's not gonna get a press that the president did something that black lives matter considered a high priority you won't see that in the news but it's real other fun news is that Preet Bharara has a book coming out if you know Preet he's sort of a famous enemy of the President and he was at the Southern District of New York and he was fired by the president and he was one of the biggest anti Trump errs and what's interesting is that he's saying now that their state of mind after the election was Trump derangement syndrome now he

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was Trump derangement syndrome now he doesn't use those words but he says that as clearly as if he used the words so exactly and I gotta say my respect for him went up a level now I still don't like where he is you know I don't like where he is but my respect from him was absolutely disrespect because he was not using any form of logic or reason and he was doing things that my opinion were absolutely bad for the country so I had complete disdain for him and complete disrespect for him but his latest public statements and of course he's gonna book out so you know yeah you have to everything's a grain of salt here but the fact that he recognizes that his state of mind and other state of minds were really the problem I haven't heard anybody say that before who was who was suffering from the problem we've seen now we've seen

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problem we've seen now we've seen Chelsea Handler start to say something like that you know I talked about this yesterday where she was realizing that her reaction to the president was out of proportion and now we've had a few years of this president and we don't have to guess what does a trump administration look like wouldn't you say I mean there plenty of surprises ahead but we don't really have to guess it's its basic nature it's not Hitler it's not crazy stuff it's not out of control it's not any of those things in fact it's working on the big stuff pretty well so now people who would like to think of themselves as reasonable have to reinterpret their world from the fear that they had at Election Day 2016 to the reality that they observe right in front of them which is nothing like it it's very very different and so you see their Preet and again I'll give him

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see their Preet and again I'll give him credit has powered through it in a sense in other words his his intellect has allowed him to get outside of his bubble a little bit very very rare the reason I call it out is because you just don't see this so even though I you know dislike his views and there's a lot to dislike about how he's treated things the last couple years you have to give him credit he's he managed to escape his bubble a little bit and look at it from the outside and that's a good sign all right let's talk about
Don Lemon you know that I make fun of Don Lemon as many if you do for his anti-trump hysteria but the leaders on Don Lemon is that he just got engaged to his longtime boyfriend I guess Tim Malone and so I just wanted to add one positive thing today just one positive

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positive thing today just one positive thing which is congratulations Don Lemon where we can disagree on all the politics and stuff but we can be happy for each other on a human level and so congratulations Don I hope that works out on another topic Jake Tapper I just tweeted a Jake Tapper interview or not and if you were a segment a little clip in which he was doing a piece about apparently there's a president Trump plaque attached to part of a border wall it just got constructed now what was interesting about the story is although the story it seemed that the point of the story was to mock the president for having his little the president built this plaque on there and I guess the joke is that the border security was joking that they could use the plaque to step on him to get over the wall you know I think that was more of a joke than a reality but what was interesting

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than a reality but what was interesting about the coverage is how balanced it was so sure it made fun of the president for his little plaque but the context of the the report Jake Tapper with no prompting said that the president is is supported by the border security essentially that they are they're glad that he's trying to get more important security Jake admitted and I shouldn't use the word admit I'll say he reported because I'm adding too much bias to the statement he reported that the president got the money for the wall that's being built and even though the wall had been contemplated for a decade at least in that span that the president got it built and then he also credited the president for starting with a a vision of a solid concrete wall and then changing according to what the experts recommended - kind of a bollard situation so he actually credited the

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situation so he actually credited the president for getting the money he credited him for doing what the border security people would like him to do and he credited the president for following the recommendation of the experts to get the better technological solution and I thought to myself doesn't that feel different doesn't that reporting feel a little bit different oh he did he did throw in a little dig about you know Mexico won't pay for the wall but but look at it look in total at just Jake Tapper's report on the negative side he said you know they could use the plaque to get over the wall which was just a joke it was a little bit mocking the president for having a plaque on his wall when not much has gotten done but that's a small you know kind of a small story and and there was a mention of Mexico now paying for it but frankly I'm not sure how many of us ever expected that that would happen anyway but on the positive side he got the funding he's building the

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he got the funding he's building the wall he listened to the experts and the border security is on his side that's a pretty good report right I mean that's throwing every negative thing that you can into the mix and they don't add up to anything there's a sort of interesting flavor on the news but the real news is all positive I don't think you can say enough for the fact somebody saying Van Jones made a powerful bipartisan statement at the end of his show no surprise because as I often say Van Jones is the he's he's quickly becoming a national treasure I don't think I'm overstating about I laughed when I said it you know because he sounded funny coming into my own my own mouth but Van Jones is sort of becoming a national treasure simply because he's willing to objectively look at the two sides and try to figure out what's real

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try to figure out what's real instead of what spend and it looks like he's willing to do that on both sides so it's uh I'm seeing the insults for Van Jones streaming by in the comments I know you you may have your problems I know you have your problems with them but there are so few people who were even willing to attempt to work with both sides understand both sides and really really try to make something work he's kind of unique you got to give him that all right I listen to is it Senator Kennedy senator right senator Kennedy talking about the request from Ways and Means chairman Richard Neal an apparently Richard Neal in asking for president Trump's tax returns and they're using a law that very clearly says I guess Congress can ask for anybody's tax returns if they have a

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anybody's tax returns if they have a reason here so here's the reason and you've seen the reporting but every time you hear this it makes you shake your head that the chair of the Ways and Means is actually trying to sell the American public on this story that the reason they need the president's tax returns is to quote determine how well the IRS is auditing is there anybody who believes that is there anybody in the world who believes that's the reason and it's it's an interesting legal question because apparently Congress has the total power very clearly to ask for any tax returns they walked they just need a reason so he offered a reason it's a completely BS reason and it's transparent BS and there's not anybody on either side who would see it as anything but BS but it still might be legal now my take on this is that there

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legal now my take on this is that there isn't the slightest chance not the slightest chance that the president's lawyers will let him give up the tax rate I just don't see it happening and I might go to the Supreme Court or whatever but I don't see any chance that you got you're ever going to see the president's tax returns and by the way if you do if you do see the president's tax returns then no matter what happens to the president I think I would dedicate the rest of my days to making sure that Ways and Means chairman Richard Neal loses his job because the the blowback for that would have to be career-ending right the this is a case where the the Democrats need to be careful what they wish for because if they if they ever succeeded in getting the president's tax returns I don't care what's in them good or bad I don't care what's in them whoever was behind asking for them has to be targeted for political destruction

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to be targeted for political destruction political destruction you know they they just have to lose their jobs so all the money in the world needs to flow into whatever the opposite candidate is for their party's because those people just need to not be in government anybody who could do that kind of thing right in front of the American people essentially not essentially but anybody who could disrespect the voters to that degree that he would try to sell us this BS story right in front of us that's just disrespectful all right and that would have to have a penalty you the public would have to act on that all right let's talk about an update on climate science well actually let me give you an update on generation for nuclear so here's a big big story that doesn't look like a big story it's a big big big story the New York Times just read a very long opinion piece by

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just read a very long opinion piece by three authors and one of which is Steven Pinker and it was an article saying that among other things it said that we should use the nuclear option meaning generation four nuclear to solve climate change and that it works you know can work in cetera yeah what's interesting about that what is interesting about the fact that Steven Pinker was one of the three people who is persuading and this is powerful persuasion business in the New York Times but is persuading toward nuclear what's important about that the fact that it's Steven Pinker is that that he is it as Harvard connection I mean that counts but now I want to see if I want to see if it's obvious to you is it because he was suffering from TDS no it's because he's a cognitive

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no it's because he's a cognitive scientist he's a cognitive scientist do you know what cognitive scientists or experts that well they're experts that you know a fairly large range of things in that field but he's an expert at persuasion he knows how the brain works so the New York Times is running an article by an expert I wouldn't I don't think he would call himself this but in order to understand he you know cognitive stuff the way he does clearly he would also know how to influence it would be it would be part of his skill set I think that's a safe assumption and so now you're seeing what feels like a turn in the public consciousness so you see people like me I'm just a persuader and I'm persuading that people at least understand the generation for option steven pinker

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steven pinker now in the New York Times a great persuader is persuading the same way now the you know you've you've probably wondered why it is that all the people who seem to be associated with the political right seem to know about nuclear and know that it's a good option and and are more likely to know about generation four but the people on the left for whatever reason seem to be just they haven't gotten the memo it's like that knowledge hasn't penetrated the silo but the New York Times penetrates the silo now I don't know to what extent the New York Times is still the news maker this is a term that we people in the media have used for years and it means that if something is in the New York Times then all the other news outlets see it and they say oh if the New York Times says this is worth talking about and we should talk

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worth talking about and we should talk about it too so things don't become news until at least one big news entity says it's news and then the others can just piggyback off of that but going first is the hard part and the New York Times apparently has done that now wasn't in the news section it was in the opinion section but it was very large and you know I've got a lot of real estate it was a pretty large article so I should have a similar effect not as much as news but it should have a similar effect of penetrating the bubble on the left and what is the biggest issue that people talk about with nuclear in generation four I've not heard anybody complain about generation for nuclear once they learned what it was if you if usually they say well what about the nuclear fallout if there's a meltdown and you explained that the generation four is built so that they can't meltdown even if everything goes wrong

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meltdown even if everything goes wrong it's not even the possibility given the design and then they say well what about what about the nuclear waste you say actually generation four will eat the nuclear waste from the old plants it actually reduces nuclear waste and then people say oh all right all right well all right if if it's not really a significant you know risk of radiation and it's not creating nuclear waste well here's my last complaint we don't know how to make them you know the technology isn't ready to which I say you need to explain that through the Department of defense and to Canada and to China because Canada just put out a bid for a generation for nuclear designs an actual bit as in you give us the best bid and you're gonna start building Department of Defense just the same thing for small small designs that can fit on the truck and if the Department of Defense is

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and if the Department of Defense is putting on a bid and I think China is already building a Gen 4 and I think there's other work in other places so the technologies here basically so the technology is here and here's and then the last the last complaint I hear is okay well maybe nuclear could work but you know wouldn't solar be faster better we could get there quicker we could ramp up the answer is I don't know nor does anybody else there is no way to know if 40 years from now solar you know had some breakthroughs and became far more cheaper and became nothing and we developed battery storage so that we didn't worry about the the non sunny times maybe 40 years ago anything could happen but the same with generation for nuclear 40 years I don't know what are you gonna

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40 years I don't know what are you gonna do in nuclear in 40 years a lot right so nobody knows which of those two is the one if you had to bet on one you just wouldn't know nobody is smart enough to know which of those to bet off so that on both it would not make sense to bet on one unless you had limited money now the world has limited money and the United States has limited money but the money that's going into these two fields seems to be mostly private money people who want to see if they can make money and there doesn't seem to be a funding problem in either area and if there were a funding problem it's not a big enough problem that it couldn't be you know it couldn't be satisfied so if you have any business sense and you're looking at this problem you're saying to yourself well the scientists say climate change is a problem skeptics say it isn't let's say I don't know I'm

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say it isn't let's say I don't know I'm worried because somebody scientists say it's a problem but I don't know what do you do if you can't be sure well as luck would have it you have two options and both of them you would do whether you're sure or not there's still the right thing to do so you would still do solar as hard as you could just to get it to the best possible state you would still do generation for nuclear as fast and as hard as you could and you would do both of them whether or not climate change was a problem wait until the United States citizens understand that wait until the citizens of the United States the voters understand that you don't need to know if climate change is a problem you can just say either way our solution is the same because it also sells pollution there solves the cost of fuel it solves the you know where are we gonna get all this energy for the growing world it solves all the problems

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growing world it solves all the problems whether or not climate change is real and we have enough money we have the technology of course you do both so here's the best news you've ever heard climate change we have a known solution maybe two you know it could be solar as a solution but at the very least generation for nuclear is definitely a solution so do both maybe you're wrong about nuclear maybe wind takes over in 40 years who knows but we do have a solution to it I would say that's a that is a safe fact now on the question of whether climate change is the real risk that decide to say as most of you know I've been doing a deep dive on this over months trying to figure out how a non scientists such as myself and I'm kind of your proxy doing this I'm digging into us and you don't have to I'm trying to see what an odd scientists could conclude about how much

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scientists could conclude about how much risk there is from climate change and I got down to two challenge questions which were the two best skeptical points and I wanted the scientists to see if they had an answer the current update is yes the scientists do have an answer for mine for what I thought were my two most powerful skeptical claims one of them was that we've had this rate of increase in the past and it was before we had co2 were a lot of co2 and turns out that's true we have had this increase of the past but the scientists say we know why in the past there were volcanoes in the past there was some more industrial pollution they say in that part I don't find convincing I can't believe there was actually more industrial pollution in the past it seems like if you add China into the mix there seems like there's more industrial pollution today in the whole world

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in the whole world maybe there's lessen Los Angeles but I can't believe there's less anyway and then the other thing was some other other greenhouse gases were in higher amount I think ozone or whatever whatever it was there was some of the greenhouse gas so my challenge was is there any scientific answer not that it's the right answer but do they have an answer have they have they judged this question of why there was a similar rate of increase in the past and have they explained it well I would say their explanation I can't judge so I'm not a scientist and so I don't know if their explanation is good enough scientifically valid to explain the other high-rise earlier in you know in the last hundred years but they do have one they do have one there are papers about it it's something they've worked a lot and they're happy that they have explained it so I'm going to say that that skeptical claim is no longer strong

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that skeptical claim is no longer strong because there is an answer and it's a robust answer even if it turns out so I can't judge the truth of it I can only I can only say is there a credible response to it and the answer is yes then the last remaining one was the claim that the Russian climate model is the only one that's different from the other 30 or so and that the Russian model is the only one that's been accurate and it doesn't show warming to be a problem you've probably heard this argument right and today I got an answer on that it's just not true it's just not true that there's such a thing as a Russian model that has a different result than the other models and it's the only one that's accurate and it shows there's no problem simply never happened it's just not true and that was the answer I was looking for and by the way I got that from a a working climate scientist who showed me all the models and it was a terrible graph and he did a bad job of explaining

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graph and he did a bad job of explaining it but all I wanted to do was hear the other side I wanted to hear them say no there's no such thing as a Russian model that's accurate that's just not a thing now I looked into a little more and I'm not sure I know the answer but I believe the answer is this that if you if you use one data set that I think is the satellite measurements of the upper or lower troposphere lower troposphere one of those traps fears that if you if in that one data set the Russian model seems to be an outlier but all the other data sets the Russian model behaves like the other ones and so the fact that the Russian model was an outlier on one dataset only doesn't seem to be meaningful alright so I would say that that argument which sounded very strong had it been completely true and

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had it been completely true and completely true meaning every data set that you would get the same answer the Russian models the only one that's accurate turns out that's just nothing like that is true so rather than ever conclude that climate science is completely true and a big problem or to conclude the opposite there's all a bunch of BS I'm not sure I can ever do that cuz I'm not a scientist but I will tell you in the course of my research into it who's ahead at the moment and this is just today literally just today the climate scientists are ahead meaning that the the night the so-called 97% of scientists which is a label BS number but the majority of climate scientists have answered every question that I could find that looked like a good a good skeptical argument they do have an answer for every one that I have personally been able to identify so that

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personally been able to identify so that puts them that puts them in the lead tomorrow somebody might say well Scott you forgot about XYZ why don't you factor that in I could change it tomorrow so I'm not gonna settle on a final answer and they do this I would say that the strongest argument against climate science risk is that humans are really good at fixing stuff in the long run you know the the ozone hole didn't kill us we didn't run out of oil y2k didn't kill us we didn't run in a food and starve to death we're really good at fixing stuff in the long run and when you look at what I was talking about with Jen for nuclear you look at the solar possibilities it looks like we're gonna have a good handle on this and that the long-range predictions probably will will not kill us all that's my feeling all right and I think I I think I covered at all you did not

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I I think I covered at all you did not say anything I did not say anything I don't know what that comments about but if you could clarify that comment there may be something you need me to clarify and I'll be happy to do that oh why is the week going your way the week is going my way because it's obvious now that the world is waking up to the fact that generation four nuclear is is an obvious way to go the New York Times article etc and that's something I've been persuading toward for several weeks along with Mark Snyder who spent in my opinion the most influential person in the conversation because he's the one who actually understands the area he's helped explain it to me and explain it to other people who can take the message forward so mark has weaponized me and I have weaponized a number of people to know how to talk about generation four so at least people know about it right that's that's all we

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know about it right that's that's all we can do the scientists still have to do with the scientists do but at least we could know about it we also see that the I don't want to say this is going my way because this is a is it's a bad news story but the crisis on the border has completely rendered the strongest argument against President Trump absolutely falsified you know the the the Trump approach to border is if you don't create good disincentives if you don't have disincentives you're gonna get so many people that even if it's not a problem now it's gonna be a problem and sure enough we did not create the incentives in fact we agree we created incentives to come instead of incentives to not come and sure enough it's a crisis it's a great so so the president's approach to the border has

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president's approach to the border has been in my opinion completely validated but nobody wanted this crisis and it is a real human crisis and I don't want to make you know political I don't want to be celebrate the political part of it on the backs of people who are suffering because there seems to be quite a gigantic problem for the people who are trying to make here so I don't want to do a victory dance tragedy but the fact is that the way I expected the world to go is starting to go that way right and you know pretty much everything else is looking good -
yeah and the it looks like the wouldn't it be funny if the molar report comes out and there isn't anything new there's just nothing in there what do you think of the odds that the the full details of

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of the odds that the the full details of the molar report will be d3 I'm gonna call this d3 disappointment 3d one was the election itself disappointment one where everybody went into ttsi and then when the Muller report was summarized by bar that was d2 disappointment - ah
isn't that likely that would we see the details of the report there will be stuff to talk about but then it's gonna be a big letdown I think it's D 3 D 3 coming up and let me put it this way if there were surprises in the molar report to come what are the odds that we wouldn't know about those things already there could be surprises in the in the other direction and wouldn't it be funny if

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direction and wouldn't it be funny if they did get a hold of his tax returns and there was just nothing nothing interesting there what what if they got a hold of his tax returns and the worst thing on them is that let's say this net worth was as much as he claimed what if that was the worst thing that would be reason enough for him to want to prevent them but if that was the worst thing it would just correspond to what people were expecting you know people would say oh well we figured he'd probably exaggerated that a little bit what if they dig in and they find that the Trump exaggerated the value of his properties when he tried to get loans but that he minimized the value of his property when he was trying to pay his property taxes what if we found out that he did that well that we found out that he has good he good has good tax accountants he a good tax accountant

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accountants he a good tax accountant will entirely legally minimized the value for property tax purposes while telling the bank that hey we'd better throw in this goodwill and all these other intangibles and that you know get a bigger value I think I think you would just find out he was operating his business like every other business so it's possible that there are no surprises there but who knows now if you want to know how well the world is working or the country is working look at what let's look at CNN top left right so this will tell you if the world is falling apart or if the world is going well here are the top stories on CNN's website in the top left those are the things they consider the most important stories top left Lori Lightfoot become

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stories top left Lori Lightfoot become the city's first gay leader thanks to black voters have you ever seen a better story than that I mean talk about a healthy story for the country what could be healthier then I'd be just listen to this again I mean just just absorb the enormity of this little statement the biggest news in CNN Lori Lightfoot became the city's first gay leader thanks to black voters well the second part is badness says whose churches tend to treat women and LGBTQ members as second-class citizens but the point of it still is that where we expected a lot of description this is CNN save us this is CNN's article saying they expected discrimination from black voters against LGBTQ and against women and it didn't happen it didn't happen

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happen it didn't happen they expected black people to vote in a bigoted way this is CNN CNN article says there that there was an expectation that black people would vote in a bigoted way against women and against LGBTQ and it didn't happen can you get better news than that like what literally if you were to sit down and say to yourself alright let's say I want to make up a story it's got to be like really good news for the country it would look exactly like that there's something here saygus it's not news I don't know yeah it's not really news news but it's kind of news and Morris says more on this top left it says black women govern only 4% of the biggest US cities but their numbers are growing so the numbers are growing part is the positive part of the story so black women are doing great I said that before and and that's it here's some

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before and and that's it here's some other stories these are the top stories Obama jokes about Michelle leaving him that's a headline a headline about a joke literally a joke and here's your shift shift says I don't regret calling out this president what that that's let's look the least important thing I've ever heard in my life an ex football coach will run for Senate Tapper on Trump's plaque that was a story I talked about that's it that's it let's go to Fox News find out what the bad news is on Fox News it's something about Trump's tax returns we'll never see them something about a crime but that's you know crime and annex Democratic staffer admits dachshund five GOP senators small story basically there's no bad news in the

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basically there's no bad news in the news think about this remember you notice the dog that didn't bark think about this just just absorb for a fact that I just checked two competing news sites there's not any bad news there's not any bad news our wars are all wrapping up the economy is screaming it looks like the China trade deal is is getting closer to an agreement China's agreed to you know make fentanyl derivatives the death sentence which the president asked for the president is so right on the border that now it looks like we'll probably get enough resources to do something he was so right on that and the biggest news lately is that car pay don't got a lot of attention oh by the way the New York Times wrote a big

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the way the New York Times wrote a big piece about the president's favorite meme maker which was carpe Duncan so congratulations car pay for your new high visibility very very well deserved I don't know if I could leave this point right away but but do you get the enormity that there's no bad news it's it's the most amazing thing you've ever seen in your life and you probably didn't notice the most amazing day of your life you probably didn't notice that most of our major problems are solved are being solved and I think health care is still a problem so but it's also not a headline nobody's talking about it today
yeah and the Julian Assange stuff is the fog of war I don't know what's happening

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fog of war I don't know what's happening with you leave massage somebody's asked in the comments but it's hard to comment on that because I don't just don't think we know what's happening the wars haven't stopped no I know the words haven't stopped but they're winding down there they're having in the good direction not the bad direction now Venezuela my understanding is that the there are only a hundred probably Special Forces troops from Russia in Venezuela and the smart people are saying yeah just ignore it it'll take care of itself just just ignore the Russians and Venezuela they have to be there to try to protect their investments but in the long run with all the leaders of other countries being against Maduro this is the matter of time all right for those of you who bought when tokens the crypto tokens that my my startup created as part of the interface by when hub product you may know that the last I

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hub product you may know that the last I checked they were up to four cents on the hot bit exchange when I started talking about them they were at one sec which is not unusual for a new crypto offering so it has increased the value 400% in two weeks or one week now you should not hear that and say my god I've got to go buy these things because that means they will keep going up forever I'm not saying that they are not investments as investments ago and I don't recommend any investment this or any other I'm simply stating facts that my startup went up as a product called interface by what hub associated with that are crypto tokens you can pay cash to use the product to call an expert or you could use these cryptic tokens and it is true that we are listed on a

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it is true that we are listed on a second exchange now la token was first hotbed does the second we've got some others lined up so you'll see some others coming online and when you have all of these variables in place which is you've you know your lawyers have said your token is good meaning that it didn't violate any laws you've got you've got you've got exchanges signing up you've got to increase in the value of of the token and it's associated with a real product that's already built which is rare it's rare in the crypto world for these new crypto currencies that are associated with startups it's rare that the product is built and actually working so when you have all of those characteristics in play those are the things which typically would cause a a cryptocurrency to go up in value but there are no guarantees I should say as clearly as possible the long-term value

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clearly as possible the long-term value of any crypto except for maybe Bitcoin and ether and a couple others but for all the other rest of the universe the long-term value is usually probably zero for all crypto is in general this particular one I feel good about in all of the requirements that support the value of them are coming into place but no guarantees all right have you invested in your tokens yeah I have I have a ton of tokens that are created at the time you create the tokens and I have purchased a bunch more on the open market and yeah I'll probably and I'll be taking calls on the on the app as well so you can buy them at Wayne hub calm just with the credit card or you can buy you can buy them on those two exchanges I mentioned LA token and hot bit all right that's enough for now and

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bit all right that's enough for now and I will talk to you later