Episode 540 Scott Adams: Slaughtermeter Reset to Zero Due to Social Media Manipulation, Pelosi
Date: 2019-05-24 | Duration: 50:11
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Slaughtermeter downgraded from 140% to 0% Currently, no chance President Trump will win re-election Currently…social media thumb on the scale, will prevent it Zero visibility into algorithms, no explanations, no independent appeal “Doctored” videos of Pelosi slurs removed as misleading Enemy press then labels ALL Pelosi slur videos “doctored” Why not show undoctored and doctored vids for comparison? 2 topics are undiscussible…I can’t even say the words Some people undiscussible…I can’t even mention their names Doing so, risks suspension, banning, demonetizing, censorship Am I being Shadowbanned on Twitter? I can’t tell, I can’t know, there’s no way to know Social Media was caught off-guard by candidate Trump in 2016 His “Island of Misfit Toys” supporters are VERY effective Social Media will NOT be caught off-guard in 2020 4 years to prepare and hide behavior Social Media CAN determine election results if they wish to do so Brad Parscale’s new “Promises Kept” website https://www.promiseskept.com Select a topic and search for President’s accomplishments Excellent facts and data resource for political debate My viral tweet yesterday, “3 Things to Know” Professional trolls were activated, attacked me Democrats baffled President Trump doesn’t want his tax info public Will his taxes be willfully misinterpreted for political gain? Are there illegalities…that the IRS failed to notice? The public won’t know what’s BS and what’s true from the news Pundit after pundit will push a narrative on his taxes Assange story is interesting WITHOUT facts or understanding, some very strong opinions Why can’t Assange do what NYT does every single day? He released names of people may have caused their death Can that be established as a legal standard? The press publishes things that endanger people, every day AOC receiving pushback…weather is NOT climate change IF AOC and President Trump discuss climate change… Imagine what would happen They BOTH agree…pursue nuclear, ALL possible solutions Smart play even if climate change isn’t a concern Develop, test, see what works best and deploy it The “Bully Factor” and President Trump Why do some Democrats fear President Trump so much? Were they deeply impacted by bullies in their lives? Do they see him as the tormentors from their own lives? Schumer and Pelosi aren’t really bothered by President Trump They’re professional politicians just doing politics Others in Congress…show irrational emotional hatred
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pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom hey where is everybody come on in here Troy Carl grab your containers Beth Duke or Duke fight master Donna that I know you're already with your beverages be it in a glass or a cup or a mug could be a tankard or a chalice could be maybe a thermos or a flask but it doesn't matter just filling with your favorite liquid and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that I call the simultaneous mmm oh yeah good stuff all right well we got a lot to talk about today you all know that I've been talking about thee what I call the slaughter meter the slaughter meter is a measure of how the election will go and whether President Trump will win by a small slaughter or a
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Trump will win by a small slaughter or a large slaughter and I update it based on current events so it's not really a prediction it's more it's more like a moment in time in which the current conditions if they were to continue until the end would give you that result but of course things always change so it's not a prediction it's just sort of a if nothing changed this is where you'd end up I have downgraded the slaughter meter from a hundred and forty percent where I said to myself the competition for presidency is so weak that I couldn't imagine any situation other than Trump dominating the election I've reset that to zero so at my my current thinking is that the president has no chance of reelection now remember the slaughter meter is if nothing changes but of course things will change so you don't have to worry that this necessarily will be the condition on Election Day but the
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be the condition on Election Day but the current situation would give him no chance of way and here's the current situation I'll just give you some anecdotes there is a topic that I can't mention that is removed from YouTube whatever an individual is mentioned in the positive elect I can't even say the name of the person because these videos will be removed from the internet now I don't have much interest in that actual topic I don't even have an opinion on it and I'm not really informed but it is true that we now live in the world in which a major platform can completely stop a topic and it's okay it's okay there is legal apparently you can make an entire topic leave the news and it's okay now in that world can you ever expect a fair election where the social media people
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election where the social media people do not put their finger on the thought well I would say that's pretty unusual we see people like Dave Rubin being demonetized a lot of my I'd say a hundred of my videos were demonetized if you if I ask the reasons for it and I haven't I'm sure there would be some reason that didn't sound very convincing to me but the things demonetised coincidentally are the same things that would be the most damaging to the democrats might be a coincidence but I don't know now as I've said recently the fact that even with my resources all right I have lots of connections I know people who work at every platform I have I have the time I've got I've got the will I have every resource you would need to determine whether I'm shadow band or my sudden D monetization and and
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band or my sudden D monetization and and lack of exposure is some kind of just a normal you know normal cyclical seasonal thing who knows the fact that I can't determine that and there's no Mac for me to determine that means that there is no oversight on the most important lever of our democracy you think about this you know how much access I have I have a lot of access everywhere I just by virtue of visibility and the fact I know a lot of people love a certain age I have a certain amount of money I have a lot of access and have a lot of capability both personally and people like it and I could employ or ask for help and even I have a zero visibility on whether my social media experience is being biased in any way by people who have their fingers on it can't tell and if I can't
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fingers on it can't tell and if I can't tell nobody can tell all right here's another one YouTube apparently removed what they call the doctored videos of Pelosi seeming to slur her speech the argument given is that it's a doctored video just think about that what other videos are doctored to give you an impression that is not exactly what reality is I don't even have to finish the sentence right if that standard holds and it looks like it will I don't see any pushback it looks like YouTube will be able to say we think this video is wait for it misleading because of the way it's edited now of course the video there
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edited now of course the video there does there does seem to be some evidence that at least one video of Pelosi apparently slurring your speech was slowed down but here's the interesting thing the thing that started this all was probably somebody like Robbie Starbuck mentioning that the actual video then not the one who said it but the actual video the real live on edited video of Pelosi talking about Trump and the infrastructure meeting sounded like she was drunk now that's an opinion I'm not saying that it sounded like she was drunk to be you know I could easily see the she was old and tired and people slur and it doesn't mean as much as we like to think it is but it seems as CNN and other other entities are trying to conflate the videos that are doctored with the ones that are not doctored and said the same message the undoctored ones are
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same message the undoctored ones are just as compelling as the one they claim is doctored but when they claim it's doctored that they don't show the undoctored one at the same time at least on CNN's website I understand they may have shown it in on on the air at one point but if you say that this one is slowed down and you have access to the real one because you're in the news if you're the news you have access to the real video it's yours if you don't show the full speed one on the same page as the slowed down one what are we to make of that that's sort of a large oversight so consider the fact that YouTube it could remove the video because in their editorial opinion it was doctored that's pretty much every story about everything and you know what I could give you an example of something else that was
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example of something else that was doctored video on a topic that if I even mentioned the topic this video that I'm making right now will be demonetized once it's uploaded to YouTube it won't be demonetized on twitter think about that there there's two topics there are two topics just today that are topical and it involved just you know things that I would normally talk about and I can't even say the words even forget about text forget about titles I can't even say the words because if I say them I'm worried that the the speech-to-text thing will pick it up and I'll be demonetised think about that is in that world and let me let me paint the picture a little bit more completely here every day I hear
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more completely here every day I hear from people who say they had to follow me on Twitter for the fourth or fifth time because they get unfollowed automatically if any of you have ever been unfollowed automatically you have people you were if you were following me and you ever got unfollowed automatically so you had to go back and follow me again say so in the comments I want to see if there are any other people out there who got that same problem but and by the way I don't necessarily think that's real I don't have an opinion one way or the other I do think that there's some amount of confirmation bias that would be very large that would make us think we're seeing things where there there's nothing to see so clearly you yet you have to account for the fact a lot of it would be just in your imagination but I have somebody else say yes so look at
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have somebody else say yes so look at the yeses as they go by in the screen so oh my god okay I didn't expect I would see this many yeses holy cow Jackie watching this look at the yeses coming by in the in the feed the number of people who followed me and then got unfollowed which is not really something that you would forget I mean you'd remember it holy cow somebody said it happened two times somebody says four times somebody got unfollowed for me four times same with falling deer and Crenshaw somebody said alright well so you can see the problem can you not now again I want to I want to take it out of the weeds you know the weeds here are whether or not I'm being shadow banned or something so that's the weights the higher level which is the part we can focus on because we could never really
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focus on because we could never really determine if I'm being shadow banned or it just seems like in or its confirmation bias or its system error yeah we will never know my god look at all the yeses I'm a little bit frightened by this only how are the rest of you save this watch the comments I am a little bit speechless okay honestly I thought I'd get two or three people saying yes I'm seeing dozens of people who were it just happened to be on this periscope so you know it's filtered by people who happen to be on the periscope which is a very small population compared to my 350 and thousand followers whoa it has been videoed so people have videotaped them being following and then
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videotaped them being following and then having it unfollowed Wow holy cow all right hey I'm sorry I was a little speechless there for a moment I think I may remain but let me finish my point because this is all very relevant to it so if you go back to pre 2016 the social media companies didn't see what was happening in other words they may have been trying to you know put their finger on the on the scale a little bit but the thing that these social media companies didn't see coming is what I call the island of misfit toys Trump supporters all over were this weird collection of I've just weirdos yeah and oddballs and I would put myself squarely in the center of that population because nobody really saw me coming right no nobody really saw that cartoonist
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no nobody really saw that cartoonist would start spending all this time talking about Trump's persuasion abilities which would probably change thousands of votes basically I've actually act asked people online on a survey how many people change their vote from following me and it was I think 1,500 people said yes and that's just how many people you know assume that not many people saw the tweet and not many people answered the tweet and 5200 people said yes I voted for Trump because of following you you said he was persuasive and I like that I like that framing now now multiplied me by all of the other misfits and I say this was love because I'm putting putting myself in this category there was this weird
spontaneous outgrowth of misfits who were unusually effective the thing about all the misfits and and again I'm including myself in this group is that
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including myself in this group is that many of the misfits were super influential I'll I can't even I was just gonna say a name of somebody who would get me demonetized you probably know who it is but there are several names of people whose names I won't even mention because I'll get demonetized who were very very influential in the outcome and I think it caught everybody by surprise everybody thought Hillary would you know just waltz into the into the office but that surprise factor doesn't exist for this next election consider if you will the Silicon Valley is they're all about a/b testing and releasing the new version and continuous improvement do you think that they're gonna get caught off guard again there isn't any way this that the platform owners will be caught off guard again they won't be
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caught off guard again they won't be caught off guard again this time they're going to be prepared and they've had a lot of time to prepare four years of the smartest people in the world trying to figure out how to had a hide behavior then nobody can find you keep in mind it's not too hard to hide because there's no access even I with tremendous amount of pull and resources I have no visibility on whether my social media traffic is real or manipulated not can tell and if I can't tell you certainly can't tell alright so here's the bottom line I've moved the slogan reader to zero because the current situation is that the social media platforms do absolutely have enough influence to change an election is there anybody who doesn't think that's true is there anybody who doesn't think social media can determine the election if if they
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can determine the election if if they were determined to do so I don't think anybody believes that right it's clear what they want to happen which is Trump losing it's clear they've had four years to fix their systems so that there are less less obvious more subtle more effective four years of technical development the smartest people in the world do you think they're gonna lose this time maybe I mean anything's possible well I don't think so I don't think so I think you give the smartest people in the world who are super motivated how motivated are the social media platforms not a little bit motivated super super motivated smartest people in the world know exactly the problem they know exactly the levers to move four years to figure it out you think you're gonna
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figure it out you think you're gonna beat that you're not so the current situation is the social media has the levers we can't see them they can push them it's clear which way they're going to pull the lever no chance of the president winning this election under the current conditions so a lot of things would have to change for him to have be really any shot because the whole democratic process is broken down I loved that the White House created that website where you can report what you believe is social media manipulation trouble is so many people are going through report and social media manipulation what can you do about it
it mmm some of them will be true some not true it's just going to be this mess of data that may be kind of hard to be to be useful but maybe it'll get something out of it who knows it's a very least they'll get a they'll get a mailing list
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they'll get a they'll get a mailing list out of it
speaking of the White House Brad parse Cal launched the promises kept website if you haven't seen it it's really well done so my comment is not just political in this in the sense but the the user interface and just the design of the website and really the idea of it it's really really good so for example you there's just a search box where you can search to find out all the things the president has done on any topic so I went there and said healthcare boom has showed I don't know 20 different initiatives in summary form that you could find out more about that the administration is done for healthcare things you wouldn't have known about so it's an amazing resource if you're arguing on social media and somebody says he hasn't done anything on this topic can you say blah blah blah blah here's here's here's what he's done
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blah here's here's here's what he's done all right let's talk about I I made a tweet yesterday that might end up to be my most viral tweet and I know it was effective because it activated the professional trolls if you don't know how to recognize the professional trolls you just have to watch my account whenever I have a tweet that is insightful in the political sense and hits a nerve when that happens there apparently there's some kind of central central source where all the trolls go in the morning to find out who to bother it's fairly obvious that they come in in waves and they only come in when I say certain effective things if I'm just joking and I say something funny that gets a lot of retweets nobody comes in but if I say something that actually looks like it could move the needle reframe something makes you think of something a different way then the then
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something a different way then the then the trolls come in they tend to have cartoon profiles and or you know or animals so it's either a comic or an animal they always say the same thing they they mocked me for being a cartoonist without talking about whatever the point is they say I'm stupid without saying why it's very it's all the same they've got you know fewer than 300 followers and it's just obvious that they're they're not real people or their people pretending to be real people so again I don't have any control over these trolls and they are they probably think they're effective but I don't know so let's talk about some other things that so the slaughter meter is a zero because social media has their fingers on the scales and there's no way that for years didn't make them
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that for years didn't make them effective enough to have any election that they want or any election how come I keep saying on social media Democrats pretending they don't understand why Trump won't show his tax returns
and I don't know what to make you that because I can't understand if they're actually that stupid or if they're new sources have failed them that badly because they act as though hey if Trump won't show his tax returns there's only one explanation only one he must have illegal activities to which I say to myself seriously that's the only explanation you could think of because you don't have any news sources you haven't lived in the rural world you haven't paid attention to anything that's ever happened in any news about politics ever since the history of time that's the one reason you can think of
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that's the one reason you can think of that's it no other possibilities nothing comes to your mind as some other reason why you might not want to release your tax returns because I can think of a few and they're pretty darn good would you if you were if you were Trump would you release your tax returns knowing that they will be willfully misinterpreted and that people the public won't know the difference and they will believe whatever the heck people tell them or in those returns they're gonna say stuff like well he lost money on this project no it was probably a positive cash flow will the public know the difference between a real estate deal that looks like it lost money on paper versus a real estate deal that's really really good because it's producing cash at the same time it looks like a loss on paper can the public tell the difference no they can't can the public tell that anything on a tax return is normal
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anything on a tax return is normal versus abnormal no they can't showing his taxes would be the dumbest thing he ever did no matter what's in those taxes all you have to know is that they're complicated once you know they're complicated you know that critics can turn them into anything they want and nobody will be able to check because we're not smart enough sure sure sure are the other networks that they don't watch people will say oh they're business these I'm an accountant and the way they say that what what they say about these is not true the public isn't going to see that they're not watching those new sources they're watching their own silo and in those silo it will be one punch after another who doesn't understand how taxes work describing you all the crimes that they can see in these taxes that aren't actually crimes and by the way the IRS never never noticed so I say this obviously I can't tell if the
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this obviously I can't tell if the Democrats who come after coming after me on social media about this I actually can't tell if they're stupid or they're pretending to be stupid like they can't see that possibility as being gigantically important to the country like to the fate of the country the other thing they like to say is that the president is not respecting the the power of the of Congress for oversight so they're acting like don't you know there must be oversight to which I say what is the president doing this against the law I'm pretty sure the administration is following the law meaning that they're resisting they're saying why they're resisting they know that this will go to the courts it will go to the courts just the way the system is supposed to work and then the course
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is supposed to work and then the course will make a decision and that almost certainly everybody will obey the Supreme Court I assume so at what point is anybody not following the system as written it's okay for them to disagree that's exactly what the system is supposed to do it's we don't have a system where Congress gets everything they want we don't live in that system that was never designed that way you wouldn't want to live in it we have a system in which the executive and the legislative branch are in conflict sometimes this is one of those times is built that way everything's working just the way the Constitution wrote it up if the Supreme Court said you have to do X and the administration decided not to do it well somebody probably has to get arrested okay but we're not there so talking about the about Trump ignoring
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talking about the about Trump ignoring the powers of the of the legislative branch is not what's happening they're supposed to have conflict he is expressing that conflict the court might have to resolve it business as usual there's nothing unusual here if you think that's the sign of a dictator you're not paying attention all right let's talk about Assange the Assange story probably is going to go like every other complicated story from the Muller report to climb a science to everything else that's complicated which is that people who have strong opinions without knowing the facts and I put myself squarely in that camp I don't know if I'll ever have all the facts visage so I try to hold back a little bit from trying to figure out you know what my opinion this is because I feel like there's stuff I don't know still
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like there's stuff I don't know still learning it but the essential question is is can Assange be guilty of a crime that is something that our regular press does all the time which is publishing things that other people stole that were secret maybe but can you imagine being on that trial can you meet imagine being in the jury do you think you can find 12 jurors jurors do you think you can find 12 who would did not unanimously say that Assange has to go to jail for doing something the New York Times does every day and nobody has a problem with it I don't think so I I think you know the argument might be he's not a real journalist or whatever but it's pretty clear that you're not gonna get 12 people to say he's not a journalist or not at least within that umbrella of
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not at least within that umbrella of activity so I don't really understand that now you have to also put on top of that that he was asked not to as I understand it subject to fact-checking here as I understand that Assange was asked by the intelligence community not to publish the names of sources he did anyway which caused people possibly to be killed now nobody could be a favor of that I'm certainly not in favor of anybody getting killed because somebody published something it's the worst thing in the world so certainly no forgiving of that but can we ever make that a standard can society operate if the standard is that the press is not able to publish things that might harm people because I'm sure that the press is publishing things that could harm people every frickin day now
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could harm people every frickin day now there are no two situations exactly like so outing the names of Intel intelligence people just sounds like the worst possible thing and you'll get no argument for me that does sound like the worst possible thing but the regular press writes stories every day which could get keep people killed ended and they do and it's stories in which you would know that you're exposing people in other words if you do a story about somebody who did something terrible the odds that that person will be abused by the public are very very high did we have a right to know that story well sure did the press have a right to report it yeah they did was any crime committed nope not really but did that story have the legitimate risk that you could clearly see it in advance could cause somebody some physical harm yeah
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cause somebody some physical harm yeah that's normal let's sort of how the news works it changes how people feel the changes how people act and sometimes it gets people killed so I don't know that we can ever have that standard and so this is all leading me to the following conspiracy theory thoughts do you ready for it before I say this let me let me say in the clearest possible language I'm not saying this is what's happening I'm saying you can't rule it out based on the evidence here's the here's what you can't rule out it almost looks like the government might have an intention of laundering Assange through the legal system so they goes through the legal system and comes out the other side not guilty why would they want to do that well think about it the best possible
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well think about it the best possible play is that you find out what Assange is willing to tell you but you don't give him a deal you can't give him a deal because the the public cares too much he got people killed allegedly I don't know if that's true but allegedly he got people killed that we did not want get killed he got Patriots killed he doesn't he's not an American citizen he did something that got American patriots killed allegedly I don't know how directly or how true that is so you can't really just offer him a deal and say oh we'll let you go free just give us an information that just doesn't work politically but what you could do is you could say here's the deal Assange we're going to push you through the legal system and we're going to charge you with things that no way in hell you're ever going to get
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hell you're ever going to get because there's no way in hell anybody's gonna say the New York Times can do this but you can't some people may say it but you'll never get a jury of 12 people to say it likewise the fact that somebody got killed because of it probably never could be a standard because again New York Times and other other news people have probably done the same thing probably will do the same thing and we recognize that it's not not a violation so it makes me at least wonder if the big play here is to make a deal with him in which he does go through the legal system with risk it's not risk-free but the risk is low enough that it might be his best option you might say push me through the legal system make sure that the charges of the kind no jury will ever will ever find unanimity on and in
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ever will ever find unanimity on and in return I'll tell you some stuff maybe I'm not saying that's for sure what's happening but I would say it would be compatible with the facts as we've seen them that's all I can say for sure all right I had a tweet I was very proud of yesterday I said I don't know if Pelosi is crazy as Trump suggests that's his new nickname nickname for her I guess crazy I don't know if Pelosi is crazy as Trump suggests but she did just start a public insult war with the best public insult er in the solar system so that's kind of crazy now Trump of course was behind the tweeting of the compilation a video where Pelosi looked like she was drunk but that was the video the YouTube is claiming and experts are claiming was slowed down by 75% let me ask you this
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slowed down by 75% let me ask you this if something was slowed down by 75% wouldn't it be obvious maybe not I'm no expert on slowing down audio but if that uc-berkeley expert was accurate and that video was slowed down 75% I feel like I would have noticed that don't you Phil Phil they said 75% slower now he might have said they meant he may have meant as 75 percent speed which I would believe no III could easily believe I wouldn't notice 25% I don't believe wouldn't notice 75% somebody in the comments is prompting me to remind you that the slowdown videos the ones who were allegedly slowed down are actually different times in place then the the original videos that are the recent ones which she was talking about the infrastructure and even that it's normal speed she sounds a little
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it's normal speed she sounds a little drunk so so the news is trying to conflate them like it's all one thing which it is all right let's talk about
so Trump has issued a memo saying that the attorney bar can release any documents relating to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016 that's good politics but there isn't much else to say about it we have to see what we're going to see all right let's talk about a or C and the president both a or C and the president like to say that the weather it tells you something about climate change and of course the weather doesn't tell you that a or C just got some pushback as she was talking about the tornado warnings and she said she blamed it on climate change and of course climate experts said no that's not necessarily climate change that's more like the weather President Trump
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more like the weather President Trump does the same thing and it made me think it made me think you could probably solve a lot of problems by putting Trump and a or C in the same room think about it if you put Trump and they have C in the same room and said all right let's talk about climate change they would probably both say you know I think nuclear has to be part of this because ABC actually said that and you know the president has no problem with nuclear that we know of the administration seems to be pro nuclear so we've got this gigantic problem where if you just took a OC and president Truong put him in the same room and said can you figure out this whole climate change thing they would end up with the same solution and it would be kind of fun from from a simulation perspective and from the fact that the the considering that the government is now sort of a reality show they could
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sort of a reality show they could actually solve climate change in probably twenty minutes they just have to meet the two of them get all the get everybody on the side of the room and say look you two what would you do about this the president says I'm not so sure I'm not so sure climate change is a real problem IOC says it's a big problem and then they realize that the thing you would do whether it's not a problem or it's the biggest problem in the world it's exactly the same it's exactly the same you would push every energy source that you could push as quickly as you could push it within the bounds of you know what's practical and affordable and everything else and you would do that whether climate change is a problem so those two in the same room could solve solve that in twenty minutes it'll never happen but it's possible alright I've got it I've got a theory I want to run past you I'll save this for the end
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past you I'll save this for the end because around the the people were just tourists here I've already billed them I have a theory about why some people feel so strongly about this president why some people seem to hate him with a level of hatred that can't be explained by just the facts yeah it's typical that there's always two sides in politics there's Democrats and Republicans but the level of emotional hatred is off the chart right and I have a theory I think as I've been watching the people who have the most complaints with him and I'm going to make a distinction here when I see dancey Pelosi or Chuck Schumer talking about the president do you get the sense that they are personally and emotionally bothered by him because I don't I don't
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bothered by him because I don't I don't get that at all when I see Pelosi you know experienced professional or Schumer an experienced professional talking about the president it's just politics I don't see I don't see any personal anything in there it just looks like they're doing business but when you see some other members of Congress talking you know talking heads on TV they don't seem like that they do not seem like I'm just being a politician I'm saying things because this is what I do they seem like they've got real emotional hatred that seems out of and a whack with with the situation somebody mentioned Bill Maher I'll throw him in here too Bill Maher has a very strong opinion which i think is you know affected by the the news etc but I don't
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affected by the the news etc but I don't feel that he has an irrational opinion meaning that he doesn't look like he's he's so emotionally invested other than the fact I think he said he's had personal problems with Trump he just feels like professionally mad and maybe something personal because he and Trump has some some issues Sam Harris does not seem crazy Sam Harris is a perfect example of somebody seems like a rational person well it doesn't seem like a rational person Sam Harris is a rational person who seems to be may be influenced by the fake news - you have you know maybe some let's say perceptual bias but here's the point that I've been taking too long to get to there is a group of Americans and a group of politicians who seemed to have like a real emotional visceral hatred that can't be explained by the facts of
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that can't be explained by the facts of evidence that doesn't seem to affect people like Sam Harris Bill Maher Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer they all seem to just have opinions which is fair there are a lot of people and here's my controversial point I believe a lot of people have experienced being bullied in their lives people who have maybe a certain appearance that is non-standard I'm going to try to say this in the most objective ways without getting personal to anything if you see people on TV who hate the president and you look at them and you say okay I don't mean to be unkind but that's probably a person who got bullied a lot the people who have been bullied seem to have the bully reaction to him meaning that they feel bullied they are reminded of being bullied and is triggering something really deep inside them and so my
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really deep inside them and so my hypothesis is this that although there there can be reasonable people on both sides of liking and disliking the president just like reasonable people are on both sides of every other president plenty of reasonable people but there is that there's a level of people who seem to be in the I have been bullied category because a personal appearance could be anything and I'm not talking about being bullied by the president I'm talking about in their life it could be the restlessly their gender could be sexual preference it could be anything but it does feel as though the people who have been most bullied in their life are are reading all of that experience into the president because he does present himself as a big insulting bully now there are people like me who are largely immune to that personality type meaning that my daily
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personality type meaning that my daily experience is people bullying me all day long on social media I was talking about that earlier right today alone I guess a dozen people have come in to simply insult me personally they you know they they call me old and ugly and stupid and down men irrelevant and has-been and you know just a cartoonist and 500 other things so I get bullied all day long but I also am a professional and none of it means too much to me so because bullying in my real life doesn't really ever get to the core of me
me just sort of washes off and and I haven't had substantial you know I don't have any let's say I have no scars from my past from being bullied I had bullies but they met violent ends when I grew I've said this before but when I grew up it was accepted behavior to use violence
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it was accepted behavior to use violence against the bully and so in the few occasions that I had a bully I employed violence and just like people said it worked I don't recommend violence to anybody anybody's listening it I'm just saying it was a time in place in the world in which you could be expected to use violence against a bully and everybody would be fine with that you wouldn't even get in trouble honestly you would not even get in trouble for using violence against a bully where I grew up so I did and it worked so I don't have any scars about bullies and it's probably why I can accept the president's personality as humorous when I completely understand if somebody had a lifetime of getting bullied imagine this you know it was it you know if you take yourself out of the the political model for a while just for a moment take yourself and them up and put yourself in the head of somebody who had been bullied by
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of somebody who had been bullied by people like Trump you know what when it really mattered when it really crushed them could they feel okay about somebody who reminds them of it and indeed is bullying people every day I don't know it's a lot to ask it's a lot to ask and I do recognize that people are being damaged by the experience I can tell you that my own impression of what the the president would bring to the job is that the bullying is sort of part of the package I wanted because it seemed to me that this president brought a set of skills not unlike what are those movies taken you know the movies with what's his name I can't remember but the movies taken where there's the guy who has a certain skill set of killing people this president offered a certain set of skills that included bullying people
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skills that included bullying people that included pushing wherever he could push that included using strength the a Liam Neeson included using strength against weakness and it seemed to me that we're in a point in the world in which that personality was exactly the right personality to solve a number of hard to solve problems now he might not be the right personality for you know after those problems are under control you might need a certain personality to solve the hardest problems because somebody just has to be a bastard sometimes somebody just has to be the bastard and I said well there's somebody who can be a bastard in fact he's offering that he's saying it in direct language I I will he didn't say this direct language but effectively Trump was offering to be the country's bully he was offering to bully China he was offering to bully Mexico he was offering to bully the Democrats and a lot of
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to bully the Democrats and a lot of people said you know we could try that like it might might be just what we need and I was in that camp sorry I snorted
but I do have great empathy for people who are experiencing this which I imagine is quite traumatic so I'm sorry my cats trying to ruin my whole program here that's boo so this cat tail is definitely getting in the way all right that's all I got for now I remind you that if you've not tried the interface by wind hub app that my company makes you should take a look at it we if you go to when hub comm and you've already signed up for the mobile app interface by window that's free you can grab that code on one hub comm search for your name find the code that's that refers to you stick it in to
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