Episode 523 Scott Adams: Social Media Bans on Conservatives, Also a Bunch of Good News

Date: 2019-05-09 | Duration: 1:02:03

Topics

Senator Cornyn & psychedelic mushrooms, “What could go wrong?” Presidential critics BACKING the President on China trade deal? Hard to negotiate with Dems perpetually pecking him Climate change articles completely ignore nuclear power options Juan Williams on The Five…cognitive blindness? Mark Schneider web page raising public awareness about Gen IV https://GenIVnuclear.com Chemical desalination of sea water…MAJOR breakthrough Life saving overdose drug, Naloxone, legalized for the public Availability result 1st Yr: 27% reduction of overdose deaths Availability result 2nd Yr: 34% reduction of overdose deaths Social Media banning popular conservatives Reddit REMOVED top pro-Trump group from searches Google simultaneously REMOVED them from searches A new level of censorship coordination
Dilbert traffic dropped 30% suddenly, recently LinkedIn stopped sending traffic to Dilbert, why? “Ginsu” missiles…scary, highly effective, safer for bystanders When the President uses hyperbole (lies, per the Dems & enemy press) His hyperbole is selling America things that are… …good for America Hyperbole to stimulate markets Hyperbole to drive negotiations Hyperbole to create optimism, positive results Democrat and enemy press hyperbole Does it hurt or benefit America and Americans? A 2nd COUP attempt? Social media bans popular Trump supporters Reddit and Google team up to disappear top Trump group Control social media and you control the message Warm relationships with people you negotiate against, HUGE benefit Allows you to negotiate HARD…without it getting personal No advantage in disrespecting other countries leaders Nobody understands that better, does it better…than President Trump

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bum-bum-bum-bum-bum everybody get in here come on come on we had a lot of stuff to talk about today some of its good some of its not as good something is great the the news is actually filled with really really good news there's some scary stuff too they're always in it
it you know you always have those stories but the news is starting to shape up if you're following all the news not just the political news there are some really good things happening in the world that don't get much attention but I'll give it a little bit of love today thanks for coming in would you like to join me from the simultaneous if I know you would grab your copy your mug your glass your tankard your Stein your chalice your service your flask fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the simultaneous it that couldn't been warmer still delicious

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couldn't been warmer still delicious well in no particular order South Korea has reported that North Korea has launched what they call an unidentified projectile into the ocean now maybe it was a missile but my guess is that the unidentified projectile that North Korea launched into the ocean was probably the guy who was their lead negotiator on that last summit because that guy didn't deliver so I've kind of feeling that the projectiles might be you know uncles and cousins were not playing well with the the Dear Leader just kidding on another story
senator Cornyn has tweeted about Denver approving legalized psychedelic mushrooms and the senator says what

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mushrooms and the senator says what could go wrong it's a fair question you did
did pretty risky if you're not if you're not deeply into the science of psychedelics and mushrooms and so I just reach retweeted that I'm guessing and this is just a guess there's something close to a hundred percent of all the people who have ever tried psychedelic mushrooms not a hundred percent but probably something really did I lose audio again I'll wait for a second oh wait wait let me know when the audio comes back on who says no a lot of people are saying no but all right so we have one young so something close to 100% of people who have tried magic mushrooms I'm guessing I don't have data

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mushrooms I'm guessing I don't have data on this but I'm guessing that a hundred percent of them or something close to it would say we should try it try legalizing not not try mushrooms but we should try and legalize it as a whole bunch of therapeutic benefits and whole life benefits which I have experienced I do not recommend them I want to make this very clear I do not recommend marijuana I do not recommend magic mushrooms because they are essentially medicinal things and if you haven't heard it from a doctor or you're not adventurous don't go near them but it is true that a number of people have had life-changing experiences and I would count myself as one of them it changes forever how you see the world in a good way even just one experience so to

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way even just one experience so to Senator John Cornyn I say if they test it in one place let's say Denver it does minimize the potential risk and that we can find out whenever you have that situation where there's an ability to test something locally and just find out what happens is it good is it bad let's find out
out I'm never opposed to it so it's safe enough and smart enough that it does make sense that somebody who's testing it in one city if it doesn't work out it won't come to a city near you I wouldn't worry about it here's a flash from the past do you remember I think it was last summer when the president tweeted jobs not mobs and he was talking about all the mobs of antiphon other protesters so we're always in the streets now is it my imagination or have the mobs largely

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imagination or have the mobs largely dissipated since then yeah my wrong or is it just a summer thing maybe there'll be more of them in the summer just because the weather's better but could somebody fact check on that it seems like the number of times an tyfa or any of the mobs have gone to the street it feels like a lot less but i I've not seen reporting on that I'm just it's just a feeling so somebody's saying is seasonal but I guess we'll find out so let's probably just a question mark on that have you noticed and I'm going to talk about more good news today than you're used to so this will make you feel good I hope have you noticed that the critics of the president are not pushing him hard on the China negotiations you know looking a little tentative because China sort of pulled back a little bit they're doing this little little dance have you noticed that and I didn't see it but I

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noticed that and I didn't see it but I think Chuck Schumer actually backed the President on this when was the last time you saw the Democrats pull back from criticizing the President on a primary policy thing I would like to thank the Democrats so when something good happens I like to call it out because maybe you get more of it if you although the the trade deal with China is as close as you can get to a military confrontation without the military part it's sort of a war you know it's an economic war but it does seem that the Democrats have completely abandoned attacking the president while he's negotiating do you see how important that is if the Democrats were attacking the president for trying to get this deal it would be a lot harder to get a deal and you would expect that China

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deal and you would expect that China would take advantage of that they would look at us and say hahaha we can do anything we want because we're you know we have a strong leader who can just make all the decisions but over there they were fighting about it so the president isn't going to get everything he wants it's going to be too politically difficult for him we're gonna get a good deal but have you noticed to their credit the Democrats as much as they hate this president when it comes down to you know brass tacks they got line and when I think out in line I mean you know they're they recognize they're part of the team so it's it's always good to call out that when when stuff really could you know when things really throw down when when the United States is genuinely challenged militarily economically we're all in the same team so am I wrong it has anybody noticed a big pushback by

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it has anybody noticed a big pushback by by the Democrats they're either ignoring it which is maybe as good as you can get as as presidential elections are coming close or their or their positive in terms of staying tough against China so if I'm wrong in that fact check me but it looks to me that the the Democrats are soft-pedaling whatever differences they might have with the president on that issue alone so let's talk about of other things there's an interesting thing happening with the climate change debates so apparently climate change is is trading places between number one and two on the top priority of voters between health care and climate change so those are one and two in the priorities and I think there was a recent poll that put climate change at number one so I I saw a bunch of stories about climate change recent ones so

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about climate change recent ones so stories that are just in the past week or so and they're quite a few of them and so I clicked on all those stories because the related stories came up as suggestions and they wanted to see what what they're saying about nuclear and so it was story after story which took the same you know editorial point of view which is that climate change is a big problem and if we don't do something really really seriously and really really soon it's gonna be a big problem and that I was looking through the story and they were long ones you know these are not like short blurbs lengthy stories and looking for them to mention nuclear power as the only solution it's not even mentioned they don't mention it as something that's considered they don't mention it as something that's a bad idea they don't mention it as a good idea they act as if it doesn't exist now I think was two days ago I was watching

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think was two days ago I was watching Fox News show the five best show on television in my opinion and Juan Williams plays the part among the five people as the voice of the Democrats if he will so he he's he plays that role and Juan said that climate change is a big issue I'm paraphrasing and that the current administration has no plan to combat climate change well Greg Gutfeld says nuclear you know he talks over him says nuclear generation for nuclear the administration is in favor of nuclear now what did Juan when Greg answers the question I think I think maybe Jesse Watters may have said something maybe David pre no I'm not sure who was talking but it was like a little chorus saying nuclear the

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little chorus saying nuclear the administration does have the plan there they're supporting nuclear that is the only solution now they didn't use those words as my words but what did Juan do when he said they have no plan and then immediately he was told what the plan has now I think plan is overstating it but it is true that nuclear power now people are telling me that I'm frozen but last time that didn't seem to be true so some of you might be trolls all right Azurill Azurill latest that it's back okay so it seems to be back so as I was saying that when Juan Williams mentioned the administration has no plan for climate change several others greg gutfeld notably quickly mentioned yes

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gutfeld notably quickly mentioned yes nuclear they backed nuclear what was Juan's response to being proven wrong or at least shown a counterpoint that is very important how did Juan respond to that here's the fun part he acted like it didn't happen he acted as though nobody had said words that nothing was happening he just paused a little bit and then continued talking without mentioning it now I just read a whole bunch of articles on climate change without even mentioning nuclear as an option even to eliminate it and then I watched Juan here-here nuclear and act like the words weren't happening like there was nothing happening just literally like there was nothing happening he didn't respond to it he didn't debunk it he didn't agree with it he act like there was no there was no noise in the

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there was no there was no noise in the room like it like a ghost said got his attention but there's nothing there I have a theory that this might be another one of those cognitive blindness situations where it doesn't matter how clearly you tell somebody something how important it is how obvious it is how big it is that they're just blind to it right so so watch for that watch for how anybody talking about climate change if you mentioned nuclear watch what kind of reactions you get now in person you might get a reaction that's more like oh I'm afraid of edit it'll melt down and stuff then you could mention that generation 3 which is the kind they have in France I guess we have a few in the United States I've never had a problem the old technologies had some notable problems you know Chernobyl fook Fukushima etc so old technology has had

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Fukushima etc so old technology has had problems generation three of which there are many many plants in production for a long time but I've never had one they've never had a major problem in generation four which is starting to come online almost can't have a problem it's designed so that if everything goes wrong it just cools down on its own so for those of you want to follow this March nighter started a webpage to educate people on the nuclear option especially for climate change for the world in general but it's obviously in the context of climate change that we we see this stuff so here's URL is gen for nuclear calm GE n and then the four is the the letters I and V so gen IV nuclear calm and he'll be keeping that updated with stories and information and blog posts about this

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information and blog posts about this topic so those of you who want to stay informed or at least have a place to send people who don't understand it can send them to that webpage so I'll mention that some more times as future goes on I saw an exciting thing from I forget which research University it was only slightly changing the topic here as somebody has figured out how to desalinate yet to take the salt out of seawater to desalinate chemically now if that does not immediately strike you as a big deal let me tell you why it's a big deal all right the only way we can Desalle abate now is by using a lot of energy so you've got to you've got to push water through a membrane which takes a lot of energy which usually makes it not economical in a lot of situations or you're heating the water to to take the steam and you keep the

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to to take the steam and you keep the steam and you leave what's left which would be the salt which also takes a great deal of energy but desalinization chemically doesn't take much more energy than pour stuff in shake it up pour stuff out right now I've just simplified a several step the several step process because there's a bunch of you know mix this with this wait a little while do this but the point is that it all could be automated fairly trivially it looks like so that we might have a world-changing breakthrough maybe you know it's always it's always too early to say that but it looks like I mean they can actually do it in lab they'll show you the video look we poured this is here we did this pour this in here and here's your clean water so they can do it at a lab fairly easily with just you know gloves and beakers and some chemicals it's actually that easy so if

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chemicals it's actually that easy so if this is true and if it can be scaled up it changes water forever you know what we'll have as much water we want anywhere we wanted forever I mean it might even have an impact on climate change because it seems though if you could get water economically anywhere near an ocean you could probably no reforest deserts you can do all kinds of stuff and and the impact of droughts will be far less so the impact of climate change that's at least in one in one way it would help now will we ever run annecy water well apparently not if climate change keeps keeps melting the the icebergs we'll have plenty of water we can we can suck as much water out of the ocean as we want and we won't run out for a while alright that's some good news here's more good news I saw a tweet that said

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more good news I saw a tweet that said some states are apparently not all have allowed pharmacists to dispense the opioid antidote called naloxone without a prescription alright now no lack zone is a drug you give to somebody who took too much fentanyl for example and it looks like they're gonna overdose if you get through them while they're still alive and you give them this naloxone drug pretty much works every time I don't know if it's everytime but it's really really effective for saving somebody's life it's so effective then the states where they made it easy to obtain without a prescription that's the only change well the only change they made is that in some states you don't need a prescription to get this antidote that change alone led to this opioid fatal opioid overdose doses felled by an average of 27 percent in the second year after that change and after passing law

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after that change and after passing law and and in subsequent years it fell more to 34 percent less they cut the number of fatal overdoses by a third with a piece of paper they cut the number of fatal overdoses from opioids by a third with a piece of paper in other words the law that says okay you don't need a prescription what are the other states doing now this is the perfect example I talk about this all the time the states are the laboratories for the country these states tried this it totally worked as far as we know if there's something I don't know we would have to add that into the into the conversation bonus but it looks like it's a home run and in honestly everybody should have a package of that your home if you have anybody in your circle who has any risk of opioid

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circle who has any risk of opioid addiction if you think that there's a you know a friend of your kid you know if you think there's a relative you think there's a family friend if you think there's anybody in your universe who might you suffer from an opioid overdose when you're in driving distance you will have some of that stuff in your car you want to keep this I mean if you get enough people who just happened to have it in their car and I don't know if it can be stored in a car but let's say I can let's imagine again maybe you have to store it in your house because of temperature differences but if you could start in your car imagine that you're anywhere and somebody has you know goes into overdose situation and there's somebody with that drug nearby you could put it on you could put it on an app so that people who have just theoretically I'll just throw around some ideas what if there are people who don't mind being tracked but they can only be tracked by an app

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but they can only be tracked by an app that tells you if they've got this this drug with them and maybe it's anonymous you don't know the name of the person who's got it let's say you can pick up your app and you can see that there are individuals and homes and cars they have the drug and you've got some of your needs it like right now hit the app there's somebody three blocks away they stop what they're doing they they leave the lunch at the restaurant they drive right over give the dragon boom stabilized so there's probably a lot that can be done with that drug if it's available widely let's talk about let's talk about Biden said that he wants free health care clinics for illegal immigrants and a lot of people are saying no can't do that because it will cause people move here to get free health care I guess to which I say I'm not sir that's so different than the current situation is it isn't

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than the current situation is it isn't the current situation that anybody goes into the emergency room you can get care doesn't matter if they're legal so I would say that this criticism of Biden it's fun political criticism but it's not real because we are a country that gives health care services to people who can't pay for it so if you have some way to do that that's a little different a distribu
let's talk about the let's talk about the ban the so-called ban on conservatives on social media David Horowitz was I think temporarily banned or temporarily not banned I guess he was what do you call it got a little timeout for something but I think he's back carpe Noctem meme maker to the president and probably one of the more famous conservatives because of his memes you

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conservatives because of his memes you got a 12-hour suspension like here's the thing my understanding is that he got suspended for something that showed violence showed the president in a in a humorous way if I can say that shooting people shooting his critics or something and I think the argument is that that looked like it was suggesting violence or supporting violence even though it was in a human context and that that would violate their Terms of Service now here's the thing can you treat all of these situations like they're the same thing because I don't know that they are right I don't think that I have a big problem with if somebody does something that suggests violence such as James Woods I think his problem might be that he didn't delete the tweets is that why James Woods is still not back on Twitter because he hasn't deleted it so I think

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because he hasn't deleted it so I think that's part of the process if you delete your post then your your suspension times out and you're good to go should we treat these minor you know 12 hour suspensions about a specific tweet that does mention violence even in a comical way if that's the rule and they're applying that to both sides I don't know if that's the biggest problem in the world so we're being sort of LED debt into this narrow ravine we're kind of led into a narrow ravine where we're being forced to treat all of these people like it's the same problem it really isn't some of them are just the Terms of Service doing what they say they will do and it if it doesn't apply to the people on the left well obviously we all have a problem but if it does apply or we can get it to apply or with a little pressure we can make sure it applies to

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pressure we can make sure it applies to both sides know is that the biggest problem in the world I don't know right now that's the good news I'm saving the bad news I just found out this morning are you aware of probably I think it's the biggest Trump supporting area on reddit and it's the the subreddit is slash are slash the under space Donald so it's there are a few fake accounts that are close to that but the the big one where most of the Trump supporters on reddit live is slash are slash the Donald with an underscore between the hawk and Donald so what happened in the last 24 hours I have on good authority and I've seen the document they were removed from search engines on reddit and Google simultaneously did you hear what I just said the biggest reddit group for supporting

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the biggest reddit group for supporting the president remember reddit is sometimes called the front door of the Internet or something I mean reddit is gigantic reddit just removed from their search results the main Donald Trump entity within Reddit is that a coincidence well it happened at the same time Google removed them from their search now what did the reddit group do well I'm sure there were individuals within any large group who were doing bad stuff no question about it but removing them from the search engines that's a new level isn't it and it suggests when you start putting all of the pieces together you suggests that just maybe there's coordination involved want to hear another one recently a few weeks ago my traffic on Dilbert calm

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weeks ago my traffic on Dilbert calm fell by about a third just suddenly all the same time boom my traffic which has been fairly consistent for decades decades at least two decades my traffic has been about similar just fell off a ledge and when we looked into it all of the change came from LinkedIn LinkedIn suddenly and we don't know why stop - sending massive amounts of traffic to Dilbert calm now LinkedIn of course is where business people tend to have their entities sort of the business social media so you can imagine that Dilbert calm would be very popular on LinkedIn and it was now I don't know why we can't you know my my partners and I in this at the at the public publishing

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in this at the at the public publishing and syndication company their web people and their people looking at the analytics we don't know why and I also don't know that there's any way to find out
out so given that Dilbert calm holds my blog and my blog post my blog post has all of the these periscopes on it and my and my my blog post would we under under the conditions that we're seeing where you're seeing people who support the president being one-by-one picked off in some of them they start with you saying to yourself well i can kind of see why this group or this person might be over the line but when you start to see how widespread it is and and and by the way let me say as clearly as possible now i'm watching to see if the people who say no audio are all the same people all

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say no audio are all the same people all the time because i think that no audio people might be trolls we're just coming in to disrupt the periscope because i think we're entering the the work we're entering the you know the presidential election season i guess we're really in it so you can't really trust anything you see or hear on social media and you can't trust anything that happens on social media if it happens to be bad for you you can't assume that yeah so let me find the person who is complaining dududu you know get rid of that person alright alright so here's the question under the current conditions i have to wonder if linkedin made a decision because it could maybe algorithmically maybe it wasn't a human decision hard to

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maybe it wasn't a human decision hard to know but maybe it looked at the content on Dilbert calm and stop sending traffic did that happen I don't know so I've started pasting my comic on LinkedIn which I hadn't been doing to drive traffic to the website and I want to see if that even works and what I'm noticing is very few people actually see it so I have a feeling that my visibility might go down considerably in the next the next year and a half so watch for that I don't know exactly what to do about this because social media is the only mechanism we have for complaining and if social media doesn't let you complain you don't have freedom of speech now let

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you don't have freedom of speech now let me tell you who I who I'm most I have the least respect for this opinion when people say social media they're private companies they can decide what to do you know it's up to that it's private company it's not it's not freedom of speech because that's a government issue private companies can do what they want as long as it's legal now I ask myself if the founders of the Constitution already had social media if social media existed when the Constitution was being written do you think they would have written it the same I mean seriously do you think that the that the framers of the Constitution if they already had social media and they saw that it was the primary way people communicated do you think they would have left that out I think the only reason it's not in the Constitution is because they didn't have an internet well you know or let me put

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an internet well you know or let me put it in starker terms the Constitution was written for human beings the original Constitution was designed by human beings for human beings since and we have evolved into cyborgs by cyborgs I mean every one of you as a device you have a device that's your your brain your communication it's so it's the way you relate to the world we're not really humans anymore now in some day thousands of years from now historians will will make the same distinction we'll say this is this was the era in which humans and technology merged for all practical purposes in a personal way like my brain is with me all the time and and will become more with me as the technology improves if you know Madison and Jefferson and the framers the Constitution if they knew that we would become cyborgs wouldn't they have

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become cyborgs wouldn't they have included some you know provisions for that of course they would so when somebody says it's just the government I say yeah that was great what we were humans in the age of humans the Constitution was pretty perfect in the age of cyborgs I think you have to acknowledge that were cyborgs we communicate through social media that's how we do it all right there's not really a second way to do mass communications as a human being or as a a cyborg all right did you see the bomb with the United States I guess it's a bomb or a missile guess it's a missile the United States has apparently been using a new kind of missile that they're calling the flying Jin soo Beom Jin soo play on words or a reference to those Ginsu knives that are really sharp so it's a missile that they

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really sharp so it's a missile that they can target on an individual automobile and instead of blowing up which would be bad for any innocent people who happen to be nearby as the bomb as the missile comes down just before a hits it turns into a bunch of of sharp objects and just Falls like an animal through the top of the car and just slice is whatever is in the car in two fine bits with no explosion and apparently we've been using this thing and I think to myself that might be the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life explosions are scary but a flying Ginsu bomb that kills only the people in the car and doesn't hurt that literally doesn't hurt the kid who's standing next to it that's some scary stuff so we're gonna see a lot of that so I was making a temporary list here oh poor child probably at you of all the things that

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probably at you of all the things that Trump critics say when they've run an immaterial all right see if these sound familiar so this is the long list of things which Trump critics do and say when they've run out of good material because the economy is too good we're with you know things are really good so but they have to say something so these are from CNN mostly it's a dire situation it doesn't matter what the topic is it's a dire situation so you say that without details what about these trade talks with China it's dire what about North Korea it's a dire situation what about the president putting executive privilege over the Muller stuff it's a dire situation the other thing they do is they complain that he didn't say things the way they they would have sent it he didn't say it the way I would have said it and therefore he must be a Nazi or something they also do he didn't say it soon enough and he didn't say it the right

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enough and he didn't say it the right way we know what he meant we know what he was saying but he didn't say it the way I would have said it that's it that that's your best that's your best attack he didn't say something the way you would have said it how about the what eff have you seen this one people literally imagining stories in the future in which things went poorly because the president did something that he would never do so you'll see the pundits sit around saying sure there's no problems now but what if the president decides to become a dictator and kills us all and I think what if you could what if anything what that's not a complaint and so what if it's literally making up imaginary problems that are almost impossible in terms of likelihood then of course their reading is mind they'll tell you what he's thinking what he's worrying about what his priorities are none of it's an evidence just mind

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are none of it's an evidence just mind reading they'll talk about the constitutional crisis despite any any evidence of that there's no evidence of it we're so far from a constitutional crisis it's laughable but if you just throw it out there it's like yeah we're getting close to a you know constitutional crisis and you can actually combine these things so you can combine the mind-reading with what if with the generic generic terms that don't have any detail you'll say huh I think the president is think he wants to be a dictator what if he gets away with whatever he's trying today then you've got a constitutional crisis so you had the mind-reading to the imaginary what if to the generic bad sounding thing that doesn't have any reasons constitutional crisis I also heard that he has unsteady hands so in this these negotiations the president has unsteady hands what

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the president has unsteady hands what what's that mean doesn't mean anything he's got unsteady hands and in negotiation it it sounds like it means something but doesn't actually mean anything there's no reason there they like to say that he wasn't joking when he was joking for example it happened again last night in his speech somebody talked about somebody in the audience yelled about shooting immigrants and he just shook his head and smiled because there was a big big crowd he knew that the person saying it didn't literally mean it you know and and he made a joke about it only makes sense in the Panhandle where he was and of course his critics say Oh I think he meant that I think he was okay with shooting people because they don't have a sense of humor here's one he disdains the principles and pillars of the American government does he does he disdain the principles and pillars of

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he disdain the principles and pillars of the American government I don't think so indeed that is mind-reading and if he asked the president hey mr. president and he put that you know let's say you put a truth serum in him so he couldn't lie you say what do you think of the Constitution which of course is the principles and the pillars of the the country I think he'd be okay with the Constitution I think he'd be okay with being good to people I think the president would be okay with capitalism I think he'd be good with all of the pillars and principles of the American government but if you're talking about him personally he's gonna push he's gonna push things as much as he can he's gonna push the envelope but I'm pretty sure he doesn't disdain the principles and pillars of the American government they like to call this hyperbole like as if the lies that they tell on the Left are equivalent to the 10,000 alleged lies that the president installed 25 percent

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that the president installed 25 percent of which were probably made up when the president departs from let's say technical accuracy he does it in a sales way in other words he's trying to sell the country something that's good for the country when the president lies as they would say he and his supporters would call it hyperbole or they say is not like that some of it is actually right when he does that whatever you want to call it he's selling something that is unambiguously good for the country he's selling the economy so people trust it and they invest and he goes up he's selling our success against our enemies he's so that the enemies will feel more defeated it always has an obvious beneficial outcome for the people he's talking to so he's selling people something they want you can call it a lie but I don't think you don't want it because he's selling

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you don't want it because he's selling you things you want now when when the Democrats lie about him as they do with the fine people hoax which kumla Harris once again lied to the public and said that the president of United States called the neo-nazis fine people which is the opposite of what he said and it's well well proven well documented PolitiFact Wikipedia Wall Street Journal they've all confirmed what I just said but is that a beneficial lie because that light tears the country apart that lie puts that us at each other's necks that lie makes us less stable as a country because we're at each other instead of you know being against common enemies so I don't think you can compare the way the president uses hyperbole with how the Democrats make up lies that could destroy the whole freaking country

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could destroy the whole freaking country the Russia collusion lie could have ripped a part of the entire country and has certainly made it less easy for the president operate so you can't compare sales hyperbole of things that people want to buy with doing things that could rip apart the entire country and destroy the planet those are not similar not even close all right here's what else they say they say that Trump is on the wrong side of history or his supporters are on the wrong side of history what's that mean well it's one of those things you say when you don't have good reasons well how many reasons but I think you're on the wrong side of history because it's sort of a general bad thing they say as a refusal to comply with long traditions that's why he was elected he was elected because he has a refusal to comply with

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because he has a refusal to comply with long traditions there's nothing that people like his supporters in there's nothing they like more about this president than his failure to comply with long traditions I want more of that no less of it I heard that our forefathers are turning in their graves because of whatever are the presidents doing really are the forefathers turning in their graves what's the problem why don't you mention the problem instead of just saying they're turning in their graves about he's trying to be a dictator despite all evidence to the contrary my favorite is I think Michael Cohen really has something this time that might be my favorite of all things they say about the president I think this time Michael Cohen has some good stuff this time of course we talked about the differences in words was there spying where was it just investigating

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spying where was it just investigating where is he exonerated or is there just insufficient evidence for a crime and then they also that American democracy is on the brink is it is American democracy on the brink it is but it's not because of this conversation American democracy it looks like the second coup is underway now I'm not going to say for sure yet but when you look at the evidence about what happened to Reddit you look at the the bands you look at what happened to my traffic which may or may not be related to political reasons I don't know yeah it could be just something innocent but if you look at the totality of things that are starting to shape up it looks like social media working with the Democrats have decided to win the election through social media by controlling the message I don't think

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controlling the message I don't think that's an overstatement it looks like that's how it's shaping up that the social media platforms I'm now saying all of them but it looks like at least some of them are shaping up to control the
the election now I think the thing that the Democrats did not count on last time is what I call Moneyball well I didn't make up that turn so Michael Lewis's book Moneyball talked about Billy Beane the coach of the A's way back when he would use statistics and data to get the most out of players that other teams had overlooked so there were players who were not flashy big number of players but if you look closely at their stats they seem to be consistently good at winning baseball games so bill so Billy Beane found a way to take all these misfit players that were not stars they you know but their statistics were really good and then he could win that way at a low cost Trump used a similar

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way at a low cost Trump used a similar strategy which I don't know how intentional it was or it just evolved that way in which a lot of the Trump supporters are what I would call the the island of misfit toys if you take me for example what category do I fit into none right I mean I'm literally left to Bernie but I'm supporter of the president in terms of his effectiveness and now that he's been president he's unambiguously the best president we've ever had in my opinion it's unambiguous you know if he left office tomorrow it would still be the best presidency of all time so where I'm going with this is that social media allowed people like me people like Mike certain people like Infowars and the three of us don't have that much in common you know we're all we're all very different people have

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all we're all very different people have different missions different philosophies different everything but the only thing we have in common is we're pretty pretty good on social media we're pretty pretty pretty good on social media world we're all we're all misfits crazy we've got our flaw you know you you you wouldn't necessarily want to hang around with all of us you know it's a it's a strange group of people who had this one common element that were unusually good on social media just carpe Duncan perfect example who was he you know he's a guy in the Midwest in his pajamas making memes but he is really really good at it you know he's not the guy you're gonna see as the pundit on fox or CNN but when you put it in front of a computer he is really really good at it so I haven't I

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really really good at it so I haven't I don't see the same thing on the left maybe I'm not looking in the right places yeah I'm channeling Larry David intention he Larry David says he's really really he's got a saying this sounds like that so this advantage that the president either evolved to or knew about in which he could weaponize all kinds of misfits and I say this would love right because I'm calling myself a misfit the deplorable if you will he could weaponize all these people who if he looked at us quickly you would assume that we were completely inert you know if he looked at any one of the people who became major forces in the election on social media it didn't look like that a year before the election you know or maybe two years this is kind of surprised people so it seems to me that the Democrats have determined that they need to control social media and control

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need to control social media and control the message that's that's the that's a little bit of signals that we're starting to see and I would expect if this is true and again I'm gonna stop I'm going to stop short of saying it's true it could be nothing but the social media companies playing with their algorithms and it's catching more people on the right from the left at the moment maybe it just gets adjusted you know so you could you could tell a story in which there's nothing nefarious going on here you could imagine a story where you say ok but you know James would did say something that people could have construed as violent and carpe dunked him did do something that if you didn't know it was a joke you can imagine some people would construe it as violence if that's all that's going on there's no problem but it doesn't look like it however I will give you this caution confirmation bias and reality are indistinguishable the best way you can

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indistinguishable the best way you can tell the difference between confirmation bias and reality is to see if your theory of the world is predictive if you see me get completely shut down on social media it's very predictive right shutting me down should be somewhere and their top hundred things that they would want to do is they want to win the white house now so I would look over the next next year my prediction is that if this is nothing but confirmation bias that I that my social media presence will be completely unmolested because it's very unlikely that I'm going to say something violent it's very unlikely I would even make a joke about violence because I don't like those jokes and I actually think that they do present a worsening of the conversation so my preference is I would never across the Terms of

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I would never across the Terms of Service for any of these platforms because I don't want to there's nothing on the other side of the Terms of Service that is appealing to me there's no you know I'm not going to do it for fun I'm not going to do it for kicks I'm not even going to do it for effect somebody's saying Chinese fentanyl executions yeah if you're asking for executions of terrorists I think you're still safe on social media so if somebody said hey we should go drop some bombs on the Taliban just wipe down a platoon of Marines or something I think you're still safe you know you're talking about national security about people who are literally military enemies in a in an armed conflict you're pretty safe with that likewise the fentanyl dealers in China they are terrorists and you know you you can't treat them the same as saying you know suggesting that you should shoot

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know suggesting that you should shoot immigrants or something with that that that would be clearly a different standard calling the white men terrorists is still fair game where you say well I I disavowed that conversation
Trump lied and said chairman Kim knew nothing about auto well I don't know where that comes from but let me put that in context for you when President Trump says that he believes Putin or that he believes Kim jong-un or that he believes President Xi that's not to be taken literally if you're taking it literally I don't know how to help you it's obvious to me that the president's strategy and it seems very clear he said he said it in in pretty clear language

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he said it in in pretty clear language his strategy is to treat the leaders with respect so that when he negotiates with him he could go as hard as as hard as we need to and it doesn't become personal the president has depersonalized our negotiations which is probably the most important thing he's ever done in the world so that thing that you're criticizing him for might be and I think historians will look at it this way one of the greatest innovations in diplomacy probably the most effective thing that's ever been done diplomatically absolutely essential you know it goes so far as to say that if a future leader doesn't do what he's doing which is give their leader the benefit of a doubt because that gives their leader flexibility if you insult the leader he's got to act on the insult they don't have an option if you're a dictator and the President of the United States treats you

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of the United States treats you disrespectfully you can't go make a deal with them it's not an option if we want to deal with these people and that's what we hired the President to do we want him to lay in a little BS whenever it's going to be useful for the United States yes if President Trump standing with Putin and say things that every person in the audience believed was not true if that got him a little bit of you know respect mutually with Putin is calling that a mistake when we're negotiating hard we're sanctioning you know Russia at the same time you wouldn't it's like you don't understand anything about human nature if you think those are mistakes so if he had done it with one leader once you could say my god I can't tell if that's a mistake or a strategy you wouldn't really know but you've seen it now with XI you've seen it with you've seen it with all the leaders he has treated all of the

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leaders he has treated all of the leaders with a respect that is contrary to the the facts that we think we know it's intentional it's effective you wouldn't want him to go the other way because that would be the minute the president insulted any of those leaders Putin Cheney or Kim now of course he started out that way with Kim but that was sort of pacing in locker room banter that actually got us to a better place if you saw him disrespecting those leaders even if they deserve it that would be a serious serious risk and not one that this president is dumb enough to make he's smart enough to play it right and he's the smartest person in this realm that we've ever seen be president by far there's nobody who comes close to him for this stuff you can criticize him for other stuff but when it comes to dealing with the leaders of our let's say our adversarial

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leaders of our let's say our adversarial countries on campus he's the best nobody's ever been this good as he s as dealing with those personalities all right to to to just looking at your comments here he only disrespects his own countrymen I don't know what reality you're looking at but I'm looking at a president who won't criticize Americans unless he's kind of really really good reason he's he's not that willing to criticize people or lessen his critics and then of course he goes out mark your plan to combat big tech big tech meaning the social media platforms at the moment it's sort of a wait-and-see to see if the prediction that the the shadow

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the prediction that the the shadow banding and the search engine changes and everything on conservatives is real or imagined and I think we're still in the this is really suspicious let's let's monitor this so I'm gonna be cautious on this because you don't want to get this wrong but I would at least suggest to you and I just want to put this out there that that if the platform's have this plan to hurt the the people on the right by carving off the people who are the most provocative depending where they stop the pruning they could end up hurting themselves do you see that is it obvious to you that the social media companies if they look at all the people that they say are on the right and they picked the worst five or I don't know let's say worse five percent and they ban them from all the social platforms will that be good for the Democrats or bad think about it

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the Democrats or bad think about it what's the biggest problem Trump has vocal supporters who are too radical and then the Democrats say hey look this guy's supporting the president he's terrible if he supports the president and president doesn't disavow him president must be terrible - you have to at least be open to the possibility that if the neo-nazis for example get kicked off of social media people suggesting violence people who are just making up stupid rumors that that even the people on the right don't believe if those are the only people who get kicked off of social media your brand the people on the right who are not kicked off it will improve your brand improves every time some of you really needs to get kicked off gets kicked off now your brand doesn't improve when carpi Duncan gets you know gets a temporary suspension but it also doesn't change the world in any

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it also doesn't change the world in any real way it gets him some attention we get to talk about him he'll probably pick up you pick up users when he comes back no real effect and yet and David Horowitz I would say is in the category of that would be too far of a reach Laura Loomer is a special case there's nobody quite like her I wouldn't I don't want to compare her to anybody else so that's a different situation all right
nobody should ever be censored well I disagree I disagree I think that in the on if you're if you have a commercial product it would be completely ruined by Nazis if you let it if you like Twitter if you like Facebook if you like Instagram those would all be just ruined by bad people

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by bad people if those platforms didn't put some control on it so so I would say that there has to be some control but if they go too far I don't know exactly what you could do because you can't really quit the platforms that doesn't hurt anybody except you so I don't know anyway that's all I got for today I will talk to you later