Episode 549 Scott Adams: Bipartisanship, Charisma, Hallucinations and Brainwashing
Date: 2019-05-31 | Duration: 47:36
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[Music] buh-buh-buh-buh-buh buhbuh aren’t you happy that I’m here right on time I’m nothing if not punctual and so are you you are so faster than your fingers jumping in here as soon as I’m alive you know you came here for the dopamine that dopamine and the coffee is there a difference between dopamine and coffee yes technically in the scientific sense there is but in a practical sense no there’s not because you can enjoy the simultaneous sip with me while feeling that dopamine wash through your body it’s gonna be the start of a great day here it comes grab your coffee mug your glass get a tankard or Stein or a chalice maybe a thermos could be a flask fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that I call a simultaneous it
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alright let me start with the most inspirational story of the day I tweeted it if you want to check it out yourself I thought I wasn’t going to click this story but the news was so boring there’s just not much happening which is the best news you’ve ever had if you wake up and you look at the CNN homepage you look at the fox news page there’s not much happening that’s a good day so I clicked on a story normally I would not care about whatsoever it was about president Trump went to the graduation of the Air Force cadets and he shook a bunch of hands that was the story and I thought why am I gonna click on a YouTube clip of President Trump shaking hands with a bunch of cadets at the graduation and then I read the headline and it said a trump record 989 salutes and the end shakes and 83 minutes every cadet and I thought to myself okay well
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cadet and I thought to myself okay well it’s all in the headline you don’t you don’t need to actually watch the video because the headline tells you he shook a lot of hands it’s kind of impressive yeah I must have been pretty tired by the end of it but I thought on board I’ll click the video you got you have to click the video you just have to click the video I can’t explain why it’s so good so he says 991 so maybe I got the number wrong but you have to see the energy and the charisma that the president has and you have to watch how he’s drafting off the energy of the cadets there’s this big they create almost a creature it’s it’s inspirational the whole time you watch it you could all you could almost watch all 989 of them because the president’s energy stays the same the whole time it’s amazing he’s just feeding off the energy and you
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he’s just feeding off the energy and you can see his charisma in a way you hardly ever see it symbiosis yes symbiosis is the word I was looking for they the stage became this creature that you know was operating through symbiosis so that everybody was sort of at this high energy state obviously the cadets were excited because they were graduating but they’re also going to shake the hands of the president United States is in front of their family best energy ever president loves the military he loves these people they’re young they’ve got the energy you should see it you know on if I were to describe it it’s just somebody’s shaking hands with somebody but it’s inspirational there really is so watch them there’s the other funny story is press president Trump has announced these going to start charging tariffs on all Mexican goods until Mexico can stop sending people
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until Mexico can stop sending people across the border now instantly you know what that causes and that causes that causes two movies to form in movie one president Trump has actually figured out how to make Mexico pay for the wall now do the math for me there are somebody could help me with let’s let’s do this in real time what is the what is the dollar amount that Mexico imports are or Mexico exports to the United States specifically I think there are total exports are 400 billion and u.s. is the bigger part of that so it’s somewhere in the few hundred billion maybe a couple hundred billion a year somebody says seventy billion so fact-checking on this if we got five percent off of the seventy billion a year it starts getting to be a pretty big number but whatever that number is it’s a big number now as as people who
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it’s a big number now as as people who understand tariffs and economics we’ll explain it’s not so clean as they pay us money and we go spend that money and everything’s good because it raises prices for American goods so in a way America ends up paying for it anyway so it’s not as clean as that but in terms of how the public will perceive it it’s gonna look like the president found a way to to make Mexico pay for the wall this is just the greatest news in terms of entertainment not in terms of what it does to the world and then the second movie because President Trump can never win right so winning is not an option if you’re the anti Trump faction of the world you can’t let him win so how could you spin it my best guess is that the the way they’ll spin it is that President Trump is forcing Mexico to put kids in cages because that’s sort of what might happen in the short run
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what might happen in the short run Mexico would have to get tough on the immigrants themselves or pay the price pay the tariffs and that what does it mean to get tough on immigrants well I don’t know but you probably end up having to at least keep some of them detained for a while you know most of them maybe you can just prevent or you could just send them back right away but there might be kind of detainment so I think that the anti-trump are going to spin it is trumped forces Mexico to do terrible things to immigrants for money which might be sort of what happens if this actually happens and nobody could be happy about that but here you here you have the two movies so when this came out I said to myself well this’ll be interesting what does CNN say about the fact that President Trump has at least the way of feels not not an actual economic financial sense but in a sense that he
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financial sense but in a sense that he found a way to get Mexico to pay from the wall I thought to myself well that will be interesting to see how it plays on CNN’s homepage now keep in mind that this is and some people are saying the connection is lost let me let me wait a moment and see if anybody gets a gets a better connection so somebody saying can you can you hear me or even see me moving is there any audio seriously alright somebody says is fine so let’s say that was temporary I’m so I go to see it and see how they’re recovering the news that President Trump may have found a way to make Mexico pay for the wall how would they cover it here’s how here are the top stories on CNN
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here are the top stories on CNN something about the spelling bee there was a National Spelling Bee that’s the top story number two story is something else about the spelling bee but those are just the top two stories now we’ll get to the good stuff the third one is something else about the spelling bee but you know that’s just because it’s new they’re not ignoring the big news about Trump getting Mexico to pay for the wall it’s just further down so let’s go to the fifth story okay first story something about the spell be the six one is well there’s something about the spelling bee and then the seventh one well that’s something about the spelling bee that’s all of the top stories because the stopped top stories are the top left segments that’s that you have to go to the middle column or to the news and buzz which is sort of the miscellaneous it’s actually not on there I don’t really think it’s on there nope it’s not it’s not even in the news they
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it’s not it’s not even in the news they didn’t cover it but I don’t think Fox News did either so let me check I don’t remember looking specifically but let’s see if Fox News covered the fact that the president might be I don’t see it there’s some AG bar stuff William bar Oh William bar there’s a John Rich’s song that he did with the with the people on the five is is screaming up the charts so it doesn’t seem to be something that was covered by either side interestingly so let’s talk about something else there is a story in the news that probably and I say almost certainly well I’ll stick with probably as fake news and it’s the story coming from a and apparently an unreliable
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from a and apparently an unreliable source this says that Kim jong-un executed his negotiating team yeah he executed his negotiating team that failed to negotiate a deal at the last summit now on I had to check a number of news outlets to see if they were reporting it at all because when I first saw it was from some sketchy looking news site and the first thing I thought was that doesn’t sound true so I had to google it and find out if any major sources are talking about it and sure enough Bloomberg is covering and CBS News is covering it but they’re not saying it’s true they’re covering it as something that somebody is saying and that the somebody who’s saying it is known to be unreliable now if they did not tell you that had they not told you that the source was unreliable would you have known it here’s here’s what I call the the fake news filter and it goes like
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the fake news filter and it goes like this if a story is too perfect it’s almost certainly not true stories that are too perfect rarely are true I would say one time ended 20 is a story that’s just it looks like if you were writing the movie this is exactly why you write Oh get me Joe God he killed his own brother-in-law he’ll kill anybody I’ll bet he killed the entire negotiating team because they didn’t get the answer he wanted just on its surface you should say there’s a 2122 one chance it’s not true watch how often this little rule works now in the in the script writing business if you spend any time in Hollywood with creative people there’s a saying that something is too on the nerves so if you were writing this in the script and somebody said alright let’s write a script where the dictator kills all of his negotiating staff because he’s so evil somebody else in the room might say
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evil somebody else in the room might say I get what you’re going for but it’s a little too on the nose it’s just it’s too it’s too perfectly packaged it’s not messy like the real world the real world is messy this isn’t this is a little too clean of a story so that should tip you off so I will say that in the 5% chance that is true or less than 5% it would indicate good news because one of the things I’ve always suspected about kim jeong-hoon is that he’s more more or less a open-minded more flexible than his his own deep state staff it does seem to me that kim jungeun could make a deal that would be good for him and good for North Korean general but it might be very very bad for that corrupt level of of people that are basically have been lining their pockets
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basically have been lining their pockets and you know would be exposed and any kind of a deal that would change things in a big way so if you’re the thin the thin line of dip of let’s say functionaries or technocrats or generals or whatever that that are actually doing well in North Korea because you’re taking bribes you’re extorting whatever you’re doing they don’t want anything to change so could you have a situation where Kim jong-un’s says to his staff go make me a deal and they go off and they don’t make a deal because maybe just maybe the things the negotiators are doing are a little more tough than Kim jong-un himself would want them to do he might actually want a deal because that’s the way he stays alive but the people underneath them may not stay alive if a deal is made because some of them may have to go it’s that you know any change
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have to go it’s that you know any change is bad if you’re in a good situation so I think the news of him executing his degrading staff is almost certainly fake news but if in the unlikely event we found that it was real that would be in my mind very good news because it means he wants to make a deal and he’s willing to kill his own people until it gets done that would be cool you’ve been hearing forever that Los Angeles has a big homeless problem and you’ve been hearing that is getting worse and worse and in a variety of ways Los Angeles has a big big homeless problem but I did not feel the way I feel about it this morning until I heard some quotes from dr. drew who was on maybe Laura Grimm show I forget but I so listen to the difference here’s the difference between just sort of hearing there’s a homeless problem which is a sort of a concept and
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problem which is a sort of a concept and if you they’re looking at it it’s not bothering you so much so you can kind of ignore it because even though it sounds terrible it’s it’s a concept and you don’t see it that it’s somewhere else you don’t have to you don’t have to step over anybody cuz you live somewhere else here’s how dr. chu explained it he said that the bubonic plague pandemic that killed tens of millions of people during the 14th century is quote likely this is according to dr. Treves quote likely already present in Los Angeles Pinsky added now how do you feel about it how do you feel about it now what I said la has a homeless problem if you said to yourself yeah that sounds pretty bad bad I hope they hope they get a handle on that dr. drew tells you authoritative Lee you know with with lots of good you know reason to say it that there’s a
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know reason to say it that there’s a good chance that the bubonic plague is already there meaning it’s just wait waiting for you know three people to get it because there’s some number that makes a lot of people get it right because it’s you know a lot of people get it if the first people get it I guess cuz you got rats and insects and everything else going on there that was such a powerful way to put this in perspective because all the other things you think about so well they’re sleeping outdoors that’s terrible they don’t have enough food they don’t have good healthcare that’s terrible there’s a crime problem that’s terrible those things are all really terrible but when you throw down with bubonic plague I changed my schedule to you know to stop bubonic plague I’m actually gonna do something so good work dr. Jo for shaking the box and ends up on the homepage of Fox News yeah and he his
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homepage of Fox News yeah and he his quote was complete breakdowns this other quote is no city on earth would tolerate this that’s the contrast princess so contrast is always good persuasion imagine saying the LA is not just having a problem but it’s doing worse in the sense that no city would tolerate this then whatever’s the worst city you can think of in the whole freaking world that’s good contrast and it’s not untrue it’s that’s it’s probably pretty good description all right so good job dr. drew on shaking the shaking the public up on that and maybe causing some action speaking of action I’ve got a book tour coming up in the fall so around November early November if things went the normal way I would probably do a trip to New York City to do a bunch of media for the book but I would do one other trip to LA
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book but I would do one other trip to LA to do the LA version of media and I heard that story and I might change my mind I haven’t decided yet but you tell me that there might be a little bit of bubonic plague in LA I cancel my flight I mean this that’s action stuff I will take action to avoid bubonic plague so la might want to step it up a little bit let’s talk about Bar Attorney General Bar yeah it was asked apparently in some upcoming maybe it airs today some interview he said that he doesn’t consider whatever happened in terms of the Russia collusion hoax he does not consider the actions treason in a legal sense so it’s not treason in attorney general bars mind in a legal sense he explains it this way and he’s speculating here but he’s saying that
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speculating here but he’s saying that sometimes people’s quote convinced themselves they’re doing the right thing now I totally agree with that my my take on this from the beginning has been that they’re probably not sitting in a room saying how can we overthrow the government and and you know take control of everything it’s about power I said from the beginning it’s about to trump derangement syndrome and that power would be the outcome if you know if let’s say the Republicans were overthrown the result would be somebody else would have power and maybe the plotters person would have power but I think they’re real believers I believe that the media brainwashed the citizens of this company or this country you saw yourself the media absolutely brainwashed the citizens now they were brainwashed into two camps it depending on which form of media you’re watching there’s not one side that’s brainwashed
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there’s not one side that’s brainwashed that I’m not saying that there are two brainwashed sides one of them is brainwashed in a more dangerous way now I would say that’s people on the the right are brainwashed just in a different way now I use brainwash because it’s more provocative word we’re all we’re all influenced were persuaded were you know we have team feelings etc you can use whatever word you want but for a short for the shorthand both sides are brainwashed to their own version of the world but the difference is that the people in the world on the right were brainwashed productively productively let me give you an example we teach children to do the Pledge of Allegiance and to you know to respect the flag and all that that’s brainwashing but it’s productive I wouldn’t change it because it really does help make the country more cohesive keeps us safer probably more productive probably probably more prosperous so that’s
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probably more prosperous so that’s productive brainwashing we don’t want to change that likewise when President Trump brainwashed his supporters to say hey the economy is going to be great that caused them to go out and invest and have high confidence and turn it into a reality here we have this great economy so there are forms of persuasion / brainwashing that are totally positive and you should do as much of it as possible there’s another form that’s nothing but bad and I think that’s what happened to the other side they were brainwashed to think that the world was becoming him was becoming some kind of you know I don’t know Hitler [Music] concentration camps end of the world crazy dictator Mad King situation now if you had been brainwashed to that movie as a patriot you would try to change it this is this is the the hard part in my
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this is this is the the hard part in my opinion people who are in the you know in the intelligence services are probably far more likely to be hardcore patriots then somebody who’s just you know working at the dry cleaner the dry cleaner person can be a patriot too but I think there’s a strong concentration of really you know hardcore Patriots in the intelligence agencies probably you know it seems it seems reasonable and I think that although some of them might be just bad apples who are helping their team babies you know maybe something like Brendan just wants to get a better job there are lots of different people with different incentives but I think for the most part people within the government were genuinely afraid of what would happen if a president Trump came into office and probably some of them generally genuinely were worried he was working for Russia as crazy as it sounds in retrospect I think they still believe that now somebody’s saying it’s still treason I think yeah I mean you’re
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treason I think yeah I mean you’re getting into definition of words and I wouldn’t say you’re wrong because that gets into what’s the specific legal definition of treason I’m no expert but consider that they might not have had bad intentions they they may have had bad programming and by that I mean they may have been at least some them not on may have been legitimately brainwashed into thinking there was something they needed to fix as Patriots there are other people such as clapper and Brendan and Comey that I would not necessarily be so generous in my assumptions I’m not gonna tell you I do know what they think but I’ll tell you that the impression is not one of doing something that’s good for the country it doesn’t it doesn’t look that way but I would I have no way of knowing what they were thinking okay I saw the weirdest thing happened on Don lemons show I saw a clip of it today
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lemons show I saw a clip of it today he was he was talking to kamau Bell if you don’t know Cobell bell he’s a he’s an african-american comedian I guess he said he’s had a show on CNN now the african-american part is important to understand what I’m going to talk about so they’re talking about a congressman named Steve I don’t use his last name because I don’t want to get demonetised I’m when this video goes to youtube later when it’s uploaded there’s some keywords that I want to avoid so let’s say there’s a Congress person named Steve and you can you can google his last name who keeps making the mistake and it’s it’s the dumbest mistake and he just keeps doing it over and over again he keeps using the word culture and saying that the US has a superior culture and in our immigration policies we should make sure we don’t bring in the wrong kinds of cultures now he also clarifies separately but you
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he also clarifies separately but you know it’s part of the same conversation he clarifies that he’s not talking about ethnicity or race that everybody’s welcome in the United States if they want to play by the same rules which is the Constitution the rule of law he’d love it if they were religious I suppose especially if they were acquitted if they’re a Christian you would like it because it means they’re buying it to a set of rules that are compatible with success in his opinion now if you said it’s the way I said it no no no we’re absolutely not talking about race the only thing we care about is people who are following the same set of rules and I think there was a good rules more of those the better but of course Don 11and kamau Bell literally laughed hahahahaha to the point where cabal was he put his head up a you know put his head down to laugh at how dumb congressman Steve is that he doesn’t know he’s being a racist and I
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doesn’t know he’s being a racist and I think that’s fair to say that he doesn’t know anything you say is racist which is separate from whether it is racist or not which I’ll get to but clearly he doesn’t know it he doesn’t know it’s being perceived that way because he would you would stop saying it he would say it better if he if he had a better idea that it was being received wrong but here’s the mind-blowing part kamau Bell explained to me something about racism that I’d never heard before I’m gonna ask you if you’ve ever heard this uh and I think this is one of those situations where it’s so productive to make sure you’re getting you know the opinions of other people Kamel bed Bell said you don’t get to decide if you were a racist so you personally don’t get to decide if you’re a racist so your opinion of whether you care whether you’re caring about race your opinion of what you think about you know the races is not
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think about you know the races is not relevant to whether or not you’re racist do you get guess who gets to decide according to kamau Bell and he said this explicitly and clearly I’m not not over interpreting he said that the people who decide if you’re a racist are the ones who are offended the people whose whose toes you stepped on think about that you’re a racist if somebody is offended and says you’re a racist that’s what makes you a racist and because Don Lemon and kamau Bell had decided that in their opinion Congressman Steve sounded like a racist that therefore by definition he’s a racist because they’re african-american they’re they feel that their toes have been stepped on and that the things he was saying were racist and offensive and that’s the definition if they feel it he is it if they feel he’s a racist he is a racist and they said that as clearly as
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racist and they said that as clearly as I just said it to which I said to myself I’ve never seen two people confessed that they were racist on television before have you maybe one person but I’ve never seen two people go on television and admit that they’re racist oh did I miss a point because it sounded racist to me Don Lemon and kamau Bell and I’m not making this up I mean I think probably you feel the same when they explained that that they interpreted congressman Steve as being a racist because he uses the word culture and he defends it and he defines it clearly as not being about race that he’s a racist the only way I can interpret that is that they’re saying it because he’s a white guy I can’t imagine that if congressman Steve had been african-american they would say that what he’s doing is racist can you if
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what he’s doing is racist can you if pick any any prominent black politician if a prominent black politician had said we want to bring in people who are compatible with our culture because that’s a good system that’s that’s good would Don Lemon say oh look at this black politician he wants to bring in people who respect the Constitution and have maybe a religious background that fits pretty well with our background and ideally speak speak English if a black politician said that what Don Lemon say oh how can he tell he’s not being racist of course not Don Lemon and kamau Bell presumably and again this is just an opinion and it doesn’t matter if I’m right or wrong which is the funny part it only matters if I’m offended and honestly and I’m not this is not an exaggeration for effect I’m not going to say this you know just to make a clever point it was offensive
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to make a clever point it was offensive to me kamau Bell and Don Lemon felt to me like racists so by their definition that does make them racist right I don’t know how that doesn’t work anyway let’s talk about something else because I’ll get demonetised for that speaking of demonetised I want to share you a little bit about what I’m doing over on YouTube so I’m doing the doing these periscopes live and then in an hour or so they’ll be uploaded in and YouTube so people can play it back you can also play it back down periscope but I wanted to show you the graph see if you can see it so here’s on this side this is where I’ve started and this is a graph of my traffic you see the traffic was sort of you know trailing off for a long time and then this was a travel day so I was traveling here that’s the only reason the depth you see it was going
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reason the depth you see it was going down down down down that now then I with my assistant we started using the tools of the YouTube and experts say will help you with your traffic so it’s you know using the right keywords putting in the right yeah basically just doing all the things that one does to become more visible and you can see when it started so so add somewhere around here we started getting serious about doing just doing the things one does you have retweeted and you know normal stuff and you see that’s a traffic sure enough group now I don’t know if you see it but it shows my total earnings you you won’t be able to see it on the screen but the total earnings for I don’t know two weeks or something like that is eight hundred dollars so my total earnings for the monetization on YouTube for about 10 days is eight hundred dollars now which roughly is roughly enough to pay my
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roughly is roughly enough to pay my assistant who does the production on this so it pays myself and that was the intention now should that level go up and I’m having I’m having fun using all the tools within YouTube to you know optimize things and make it more discoverable and everything should it go up I will use that money to continue to improve the quality of what I’m doing here the the ultimate would be to get to the point where I could hire an engineer and build the studio and do something like Joe Rogan something at that level but that’s pretty expensive and I wouldn’t do that unless unless the revenue called for it all right something else let’s talk about Ted Cruz at AOC have found a topic which they agree on apparently IOC not apparently but AOC tweeted I think it was yesterday that politicians who retire should not
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that politicians who retire should not be able to become lobbyists because it’s it biases the system too much Ted Cruz so that tweet and weight him yes he’s been trying to get that done would she be willing to work on it it was he tweeted back if you’re serious yes to which I said why did that take so long what was this always was this always a topic that everybody agreed on you know is this the first time that the people in the left and the people on the right realized that they have the same opinion on this I don’t think so why did this never happen before so it was it was one of those Summer of Love precursors we may be entering a like a really interesting summer I said that last year and I get disappointed mostly because of one event you ruined the summer but the summer looks a lot better we might have a really good summer and
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we might have a really good summer and Ted Cruz working with AOC in an honest attempt to make something better in a way that the public could look at and say yeah if you do that that is unambiguously better before the country so keep in mind I’ve been saying for a long time that if you if you underrate AO seize power you’re gonna be surprised now when I say her power I don’t mean all of our policies are good I don’t mean that we should elect her president tomorrow I’m not saying that you should change your opinion to her opinion I’m saying that she has real power because she has the goods she has the skill to make stuff like this happen and if AMC ends up being the one who can cross the aisle now remember how only Nixon can go to China only aoc can go to Ted Cruz am I
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China only aoc can go to Ted Cruz am I wrong IOC has such good credentials for being you know super left left your left my left this she could make a deal with AOC and still maintain her brand so she’s carved out that space for herself where she can get attention and she can get attention at the highest levels and she can cause their work to be more credible somebody says you are so wrong about her how am I wrong that she and Ted Cruz are looking to do something that would be good and by the way for those of you don’t know AOC and I only learned this recently she was actually selected in a Talent Competition essentially so there was a Democrat organization that was literally trying to find young people that they could groom to be good candidates for offices that they thought they could they could win with a little bit of
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they could win with a little bit of background and she was the best of the people who came in and said I you know I could be a politician it’s not an accident that she has a super charisma and persuasive skills she was selected by smart people because of that from a large group of other smart people so if you think it’s not Talent you’re really going to be disappointed all right there’s a story on Fox News that youth sports participation is declining sharply far fewer kids are playing at the same time and part of the reason given for that and this is more of an opinion is that maybe the reason for that is there are too many parents who are bullies you know they’re they’re sort of ruining kids sports because the parents were watching and and guiding their children are too much of a bully they care too much it takes on too much meaning etc to which I say good my
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meaning etc to which I say good my opinion is that youth the sports are horrible except for a few people there are some people who have a much better life have a much better experience are benefited in practically every way you can think of by Youth Sports unambiguously there’s a group of people who are way way better off because they you played youth sports I will not you know I’m not going to say that’s not true that’s just obviously true but they’re the winners they’re the people who didn’t get a head injury playing football some did but some didn’t so definitely there’s some people who become the captains of the team they become the stars they get good they get a history of succeeding they get you know they date better people they have a better social life you know youth sports are great for some people for other people and I don’t know if it’s a larger
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people and I don’t know if it’s a larger group but I think it is sports are just a horror and for the parents sports can ruin the family now I have some experience with this being you know I was a parent of a kid in youth sports and while we kept it on a fairly you know a balanced level so it didn’t tear apart you know my family it actually was a plus so I would say that because my stepdaughter was on a team and she got to play in the first string and she was you know a good athlete the she was playing volleyball it was fun to watch she was not the kind of personality that would you know be ruined by sports I think it gave her some discipline and they gave her some friends it was good so for my own stepkid that particular sporting experience I’d say probably close to a hundred percent positive but every day that I went to one of those volleyball games I watched
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one of those volleyball games I watched as more people sat on the bench than played in the game and the people who sat in the bench put in all the work and Tim Kennedy the benefits well I got some of them but they didn’t get the same kind of benefits they learned that they weren’t very good at volleyball because they sat on the bench the whole time so and then there were all the people who couldn’t make the team in the first place the people was you know who and by the way volleyball is the cruelest sport have you seen the the the uniforms that high school girl volleyball players playing they are disturbingly sexual disturbingly like to the point where if you’re an adult man and you’re in your the girls that the teenage volleyball girls tournament where I found myself you actually just have to stare at the floor the whole frickin time because they’re walking around like Victoria’s Secret’s you know the the sporting
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Secret’s you know the the sporting edition of Victoria’s Secrets and and the only the only kids who even go out for that team are the ones who know they’re going to look ok in those uniforms think about it think about your a teenage girl you’re a good athlete but you’ve got a few extra pounds no way in hell you’re gonna go play volleyball unless you’ve got a really good self-image which is hard to come by as a teenager it’s the cruelest thing I’ve ever seen no like I said it was all good for my stepdaughter because you know she’s she was fit she you know she was good at the sport it was just all good for but the cruelty of the whole system it’s hard to ignore now if if you ask me there is a reason why youth sports is being diminished it went way too far it got way too serious it was too much expense too much burden on the family the families would have to travel at it and a town every every weekend for tournaments just it’s
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every weekend for tournaments just it’s really a bad system conversely if that’s the right word my stepdaughter also played in before she was playing on the school team she played in the recreational leagues soccer now she was also good at soccer and so it was fun to watch the games great fun but the recreational leagues didn’t travel they didn’t have the pressure it was just fun the recreational leagues you should do way more to that and wait less of the competitive stuff all right while I was watching a CNN clip where they’re trying to deal with the fact that all of their reporting about the Russia which hoax witch hunt turned out to be a hoax so if you CNN how do you deal with the aftermath of being so wrong about the biggest story for so long so wrong for so long and I was watching and it looks like what they’re trying to do is confuse the the audience into thinking
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confuse the the audience into thinking that the real issue of the mauler investigation was to find out what Russia was up to in the in the election and that they did find out there Russia was up to bad stuff and they tried some legal remedies which won’t make any difference but that the Moller report was a big old success because they showed that Russia totally was trying hard to influence the election now when they make that claim they talk about the indictments of the Russians etc what they don’t talk about is what I talked about yesterday can you give us some examples of how the Russians exactly influenced our election and the reason that they don’t talk about that is that it’s not persuasive as I said yesterday I’ll just summarize it if you look at the troll accounts they spent forty six thousand dollars or something trivial and the ads themselves are just so amateurish they couldn’t possibly have made a difference and they weren’t even
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made a difference and they weren’t even all-pro chump some of them were Pro Hillary so it’s not even clear what the Russians had in mind with the ads and then the other part was the the hacking of the DNC and it turns out as I talked about that yesterday even the molar report doesn’t say they did it it says it appears ain’t it that’s not the kind of evidence I need to start a nuclear war with another country I kind of need a little more than that now even if they said you know trust us or our Intel people know we can’t tell you how I’d be a little more convinced but I don’t think that the group that told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction can be the same group that tells us oh yeah Russia hacked these servers it’s too easy to hide who’s hacking a server I can’t convince myself that they really know I don’t rule it
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that they really know I don’t rule it out by the way I would certainly not be surprised in fact probably more likely than not that Russia did hack that the NSA and gives the stuff to WikiLeaks but you as a citizen do not have evidence of that you only have a source that you know to be unreliable let me put it this way when I told you that the story about North Korea Kim jong-un executing the negotiators who failed at the last summit I said there’s there’s probably a one in 20 chance that that happened because it’s a little bit too perfect a little bit too on the nose I think those odds might apply to Russia hacking the server and giving it to WikiLeaks it’s a little too neat it’s a little too on the nose now it’s not as on the nose as the Kim jong-un thing which I think you could you know that’s a 22 want against that being true but the Russia hacking
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that being true but the Russia hacking of the DNC if I were to put odds in that without you know knowing much about it 50/50 and I go to 50/50 whenever you just can’t tell I don’t but if you told me that we have high confidence it was the Russians I don’t believe it I would say I mean it could be true but I don’t believe it because it’s not coming from credible sources all right I think I hit everything I wanted to say I think you did so if you’d like to catch up on these periscopes you can do it over at YouTube you would just search for the phrase real coffee with Scott Adams and they’ll pop right up and I would appreciate it if you do by the way you could also monetize by giving super-super hearts here on periscope there’s a little icon down at the bottom of the screen for people who like that alright could be a
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people who like that alright could be a false flag bye yeah you anything could be a false flag so I’m not going to talk about that alright I will talk to you tomorrow