Episode 591 Scott Adams: Antifa’s Diversity Problem, Equal pay for Soccer Players, Slaughter Meter

Date: 2019-07-08 | Duration: 1:01:24

Topics

Why “slippery slopes” don’t really exist AfroFuture Music Festival… …charged white people more than other races? Sounds like a “slippery slope”…what happened? Women are aggressively, effectively negotiating for greater pay Good persuasion technique, worthy of President Trump Antifa when the masks come off…mugshots show LACK of diversity President Trump gets MORE POPULAR every time antifa rises up Joe Biden is sucking all the energy out of the Democrat party Drone defense system, large drone swarms are coming SOON Small drones versus laser defense systems GOP gets more small dollar donations than the DNC, a key indicator 5 serious indicators that President Trump will win 2020 Slaughtermeter now at 200% favoring President Trump… …assuming nothing changes (which it always does) US high drug costs SUBSIDIZE drugs for rest of world “Most Favored Nation” clause allows others lower cost Why can’t WE be a favored nation? Yesterday’s Periscope…provocative ending sentence Understanding subjective reality is the key

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pah-pah-pah hello everybody what a wonderful day it is wonderful day it's a great country great year things are going in the right direction and ooh Lee Stranahan is doing a film road to Charlottesville well I assume that he's giving the real story there not the hoax version so that will be interesting but I got interrupted what I wanted to say is it's time for your dopamine hit the best part of your day the part that makes all the rest of your day better it starts when you grab a cup of mug or a glass they tell us a Stein a tankard maybe a thermos could be a flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee enjoy me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous oh that's great

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simultaneous oh that's great let's talk about slippery slopes I have become somewhat known for saying that slippery slopes don't exist they are imaginary and the reason I say that is that whenever you have a slippery slope and things are going in one direction you always have a counter force that pops up to respond so if it looks like it's gonna be a slippery slope forever you're always missing the most important thing that if everybody notices it's a slippery slope somebody and probably lots of people will organize to create a counter force to stop it from slipping let me give you some examples somebody called this the privacy stack and the idea is that for each of these social media platforms which you might be concerned about in terms of your privacy in terms of censorship you you

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privacy in terms of censorship you you have an alternative so instead of a YouTube you've got two bit to shoot be ITB shoot instead of Chrome you've got the brave browser instead of Google for searches you've got duck go instead of Gmail you've got protonmail instead of Twitter you've got parlor instead of Facebook I think you have mind's eye I haven't looked at minds before so mi NDS so I don't know what the deal is there now I would say that all of the competitors are just weak little slivers of the thing that they hope to compete with and I would say at this point the likely you know the likely future is that the competitors aren't gonna do that much oh yeah I should have mentioned interface by one hub my company as an alternative to

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hub my company as an alternative to patreon I don't think a patreon is social media but in this context that they've they've banned some people for their speech on the other platforms so I think that's fair now my point is that you see that the alternatives popped up and the alternatives will always pop up when the slippery slope gets sliding a little too far and it's a little too slippery at this point I would say that we're in sort of a equilibrium finding zone where we're trying to figure out if we've already gone too far and if we have you would expect that these alternative platforms would get a lot of stronger if we haven't gone too far and the slippery slope is just going to sort of Peter out on its own then you would expect that the alternative platforms would not thrive because they wouldn't be as necessary you would stick with the one that gets you the most traffic but here's another here's another example

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here's another here's another example there was a festival in Detroit called afro future it's some kind of futuristic group about African American I don't know culture or people or something but the thing that guided a lot of headlines is that they charged a different entry fee depending on your ethnicity so if you were a quote person of color you paid half as much for the festival as if you were white now some of you would say well there it is there's the slippery slope I told you this would happen you know sure it was good that we ended slavery everybody agreed with that yes it was good that we fought for some you know we the people who were alive fought for civil rights and did a great job there that's all great but what happens when things get equal maybe you will just keep sliding maybe it will slide until

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keep sliding maybe it will slide until until only black people are in charge and you know Obama's your president and white people can't get jobs that's not really likely because this this this very event tells you what happens so the Afro Future Festival attempted attempted to take the slippery slope a little too far and they actually charge a different price based on your color and they were going to charge white people more the theory being that historically there were advantages to being a white person and you could go to any city you can go to a festival but if you were poor and you were a person of color maybe you couldn't leave your cities so they had some excuse that nobody really bought so what happened the public the public rebelled at least one artist pulled out Eventbrite they handled the online

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Eventbrite they handled the online ticketing said nope not gonna we're not going to handle you if you don't follow the basic rules of society you can't even sell tickets on our site and so they reversed they reversed now they tried to sort of get around to it by having a a white person voluntary contribution okay if it's voluntary voluntary I'm not going to worry about that but here are two good examples of where the slippery slope always leads to a response and you couldn't depend on that alright it's enough about that so women's soccer what a good world it is what a good country it is what we're talking about pay equality for women's soccer after the American women just repeated winning the World Cup I mean

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repeated winning the World Cup I mean seriously how about the fact that the most famous and celebrated member of the women's team is a lesbian you couldn't have a healthier country right literally this is the best bad story you could ever have so it's a story because there's some bad news in it right the bad news is that you know Megan Rapinoe is maybe doesn't want to visit the White House and doesn't like Trump and then their salaries for the women's players are far lower than for the men's so if that's your worst story that that a a lesbian incredible athlete just led American women's soccer to the highest level of success and that's our bad news you know I get that the other issues are

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you know I get that the other issues are fun but if that's your bad news man are we doing well of course the issue with women's soccer pay is that women would like to get as much as men get but I don't know how they're counting this stuff most of you who are economists and objective would say to yourself hey shouldn't the women only make some similar percentage of the overall money it's produced by their sport and if men are producing more money for their sport and they're getting you know the same percentage let's say if that big basket isn't it the percentage that matters you know if they both had let's say if the if the players had I don't know 20 percent of the money that was coming into their sport wouldn't that be fair and if the women get more viewers then they could ask for more money now some people would say that's fair but I

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some people would say that's fair but I don't think you should look at this as necessarily a an attempt to fairness sure there are some people who are putting it in those terms but I think you have to see this as a negotiation I think you have to see it as a negotiation meaning that women can probably get a better deal by claiming that there is some unfairness it's a real good negotiating strategy so if you if you are the women who are trying to get higher salaries you should act as though it doesn't matter how much your sport is making because that works against your argument so I'm also loving the fact that women are negotiating so effectively that's good news women are taking you know every every lever they can pull every button they can push if if women are negotiating aggressively

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if women are negotiating aggressively for greater pay and let's say they're using a little hyperbole to get there let's say they're using an approach that who am I thinking of who would be who would be a person we all know who sometimes will stretch the facts and maybe paint a picture that's a little hyperbolic and maybe maybe it's not the most logically accurate way to look at the world but it works really well for negotiating who is that reminding me of oh yeah it reminds me of the person that the women's soccer team it's the most president Trump there using a president Trump technique to negotiate for better salaries to which I say good job good job good job winning the the World Cup good job being great

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the the World Cup good job being great role models at least in terms of you know being powerful women who are doing things that change the world and in their own little corner of the world and good job negotiating when you're negotiating the last thing you want to do is be rational if I could teach you only one thing today is this if you are negotiating don't act entirely rational the most rational negotiator is the one that loses you want to be seen as somebody who can't be reasoned with because if you can't be reasoned with and you just got to get past this situation somebody's gonna cave in because hey you can't reason with them they they can't see the logic of our of our argument so the women's soccer team is doing a total Trump on their industry by acting irrational but very rationally irrational meaning it's exactly the way

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irrational meaning it's exactly the way they should be handling this if this were me if I were on the women's soccer team I would not be saying hey let's look at the percentage that men men make for soccer and if we get the same percentage of that total basket even though our basket is smaller wouldn't that be fair I might be thinking that but I'm not gonna say it out loud if I'm negotiating if I'm negotiating I'm just gonna say hey why are women getting 80 cents of the dollar what's wrong this is this is all unfair all right so congratulations to the women's soccer team I would like I would like it if they you know respected our president more and and all that but it's not important it's really not important somebody says hi you like sports now I like I like the show I think the sports in general should be rethought I think that we force a lot of people into sports at the school level who maybe that's not where they they're

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who maybe that's not where they they're they're gonna thrive so I think the whole process the sports needs to be rethought but you can't take anything away from the women's soccer team because they killed it this year they just kill it alright let's talk about empty five so you probably saw this probably one of my most viral tweets the other day was based on some mug shot photos of an tyfa let me to lower my screen here alright do you notice anything about these these folks is there anything that just jumps out what jumps out about the anti-fog people who were arrested you don't have to see the details it's just anything that just jumps right out at you there's there there are no african-american people who got arrested in an tyfa and i guess was in seattle or was it Oregon was in Portland now I

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was it Oregon was in Portland now I don't think they're all white by the way I'm just guessing you know without without knowing but I would say that a number of them have some interesting has some interesting ethnic backgrounds but none of them look at african-american and I just thought it was a little bit funny and a little bit embarrassing that when the masks came off when the masks came off I guess the masks came often thing I've been saying for a while that it's a the anti-shah was the ones who were putting on the masks and looking for trouble that it's a lifestyle choice it's not politics it's about the excitement and stop belonging it's about feeling important it's about the adrenaline it's about a lot of things and then they excuse it by saying there's some political reason for it but that's just an excuse if it were a genuine political movement I'm almost positive you'd see more diversity wouldn't you know I don't know

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diversity wouldn't you know I don't know that that's true but it is hilariously embarrassing for them now one of the things that got that tweet a lot of attention I think it's probably approaching nine thousand retweets now probably will be my biggest biggest tweet of the year but I noticed that Devon newness retweeted it with a lol to me and I have to tell you that the I've said this before but I like I like to remind you the weirdest thing in the world this to be me hmm my technology just decided to talk to me that was weird
cancel so anyway I was saying that often when I talk about the news I get drawn

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when I talk about the news I get drawn into the news so I have Google Alerts set in my phone so if anybody mentions me in a news story it pops up in my email so I can see it and every time there's a biggest story that I have commented on not every time but quite often I end up being dragged into the story so suddenly you know I'll be watching television I'll see people arguing about the fate of the United States in the world and next thing I know I'm interacting with them on Twitter and it is just a weird small world anyway here's my point on anti-fog I believe the anti-shah has jumped the shark I hate using that term but seems like in defense of this case there was a time when people didn't know what anti file was and it looked like it was just sort of an anti-trump movement and other people were anti-trump too so they said well you're anti-trump I'm anti Trump I

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well you're anti-trump I'm anti Trump I guess you're okay but I think the anti-fog because of the especially because the violent members and largely because of the masks which are pretty scary-looking I think that check me on this but it feels like this is my reading of the zeitgeist my reading of the zeitgeist is that from now until until Election Day in 2020 every time the anti-shah marches in public even if there's no violence every time they're in public with their scary outfits I think President Trump gets more popular so I think that their entire movement has now become the opposite of its intention the more you see of them the less credible they become can you think of anybody else who had that same arc you know you can imagine the early days of the the three

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imagine the early days of the the three lettered entity that also wear hoods right when the Klan was you know early on don't you think that publicity was good for them I don't know however many decades ago it was was it a hundred years ago when when the when the Klan started I don't know the exact dates but decades ago don't you think it was good for the Klan every time they got publicity they like help their cause like hey we're getting publicity more people are joining we're doing doing great but in time their reputation became so toxic that would you agree with me that every time there's some little Klan demonstration in some Park where 12 people show up it makes their whole ideology look pathetic and ridiculous so in other words every time the Klan organizes it works against the Klan when

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organizes it works against the Klan when you agree that at this point they're so completely marginalized that the more you see of them the less you like them very much like Joe Biden the more you see of Joe Biden the lower his poll number we'll go because he doesn't really match up the energy of the younger people and it's clear that he's out of it etc so the more you see an tyfa and the more you see joe biden the worst democrats will do even if joe biden is not the nominee because he's he becomes part of their brand but joe biden is probably taking the energy right out of the democrats right now i would love to be in the room or like to fly on the wall to listen to democrats who absolutely hate president Trump and are looking for him to lose the next election and they're looking at their standard-bearer being Joe Biden what do the 20-somethings say when they're alone and

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20-somethings say when they're alone and you know they're having a drink or doing a couple of bongs what do they say when they're alone you know I'm sure they dislike the president as much as ever you know few people may have moved over but mostly people stay on their teams but do they say to themselves hey hey Ashley hey hey Kevin uh I think Biden's gonna do it for us I think Joe Biden is gonna gonna take it home did they say that cuz I don't think they say that I think they say oh we are so screwed we are in so much trouble if this guy is our standard bearer we're done I think that there must be some kind of panic setting in there I think there will be a point of I'll call it acceptance around election day where I think by election day the Democrats may have given up it

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day the Democrats may have given up it depends how close the polls are if the polls are closed we'll have a lot of turnout but there might be some capitulation coming we'll say it depends where the polls are on the final day but I would say at this point I want to anti fraud to be unmasked and I would like you know the police to unmask at least a few of them every time it did help that the ones who got arrested got unmasked I mean I think that probably put a dent in their movement to see all of their the faces the people they got unmasked and see that floating around social media very popular on social media I might add so I think that probably took a dent out of it but I am now in favor of Anti Fog demonstrations under the following conditions those of you who oppose an tyfa should leave immediately or make sure you're in the city that has

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or make sure you're in the city that has a police department that can handle this sort of thing now as I said before the DC Police Department apparently and you know you can't tell unless you're there but based on news reports based on clips I've seen it looks like the actual police you know the people on the streets did great it looks like they did great in keeping the violence to a minimum but they obviously were handicapped by their management who I I think it's obvious and this is not confirmed but I think it's obvious that that management told the police on the street to not unmask people even though the law allows them to do that there must have been a decision about that but still they did the best job they could under the rules that they were operating on there was very funny tweet from Michael malice who often has funny tweets you should follow him if you're

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tweets you should follow him if you're not following Michael malice you're missing some great acerbic wit so if you like if you like your tweets edgy you know if you like a little if you like a little spice on your tweets follow Michael malice but we did yesterday I think a picture of do you remember EG and carroll who was accusing the president and you remember how long ago that was two weeks as Michael MELAS pointed out in his tweet it was only two weeks ago we were talking about eg and Carol do you know why we're not talking about her anymore it didn't work it didn't hurt the president so it's not news anymore because it doesn't hurt the president she was so non-credible in her let's say the way the story evolved I'm not saying anything about her personally or her thoughts or what happened because those are things I can't know but the way the

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are things I can't know but the way the the public the way the public received her was not in a way that's bad for the president somebody's asking me if I can talk about Epstein well there's a lot of unknowns on Epstein and so I generally try to avoid talking about stories the way they do on the news where they'll say well we don't know what's gonna happen but if this happens and if that happens those are the least interesting stories I think Epstein is a wait-and-see because there's just way too much we don't know somebody saying that Dershowitz has done I would bet against that if I had to bet one thing I would bet that Alan Dershowitz will command this find for a variety of reasons but you know I suppose we live in a world where any surprise as possible but I don't think that's going to surprise you meaning that I think Dershowitz will be

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meaning that I think Dershowitz will be fine and all this stuff but there does if it's true that Bill Clinton was on Epstein's jet 26 times or whatever I don't know how you explain that do you all right we're just leaving all those people who complain about the sound you know so one down all right I saw a story that the Navy is outfitting the destroyers that the Navy is putting lasers on
Lazer's now apparently the big problem with a laser on the ship is having enough power source on the ship to power the laser and you know maybe even nuclear isn't enough because you have to it's not it's not enough that you produce a lot of energy you have to store it so that it can be released in in its most concentrated form so they

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in its most concentrated form so they have some technical things that are tough but apparently they're on the way to solving them and will actually have lasers that can take out drones so imagine this you're probably going to see this in the future imagine a fleet of hundreds of enemy drones they could be small or they could be big but let's say there are hundreds of them is just blackening the sky and it's coming toward your your carrier group it and imagine that the destroyer fires up its laser and of course a laser can the advantage of a laser I think is that it's the speed of light right if you fire a bullet or a missile you have to time it so that the flight of the bullet or missile matches a flying object which is hard but if you're aiming a laser the laser essentially arrives at the same time is fired speed of light I mean there's a little delay

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of light I mean there's a little delay but the object will not have moved much so I think you can simply light up your screen with all your targets and I think the laser maybe not version one but I think the laser can just go up up up up up and take out 300 drones in five seconds I guess it depends how long the pulse lasts but the other thing you could do is sort of like Babylon 5 the shadows where you saw that the laser would just be continuous so instead of firing bursts it would be like a sword in the air and it would just be a sword that calls you and just paints all that the drones out of the sky so I only point that out to say we're definitely gonna have lasers in the military like that's I would say at this point you don't have to wonder if that's gonna happen that's happening we got lasers and the

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that's happening we got lasers and the next war is going to be small drones versus lasers because I think lasers are gonna be the only defense against swarms of small things would you agree I don't know that there's another defense unless it's electronic maybe jamming I suppose but certainly war is taking an interesting direction not a good way I saw a story that said that the RNC the Republican National Committee attracted quote a larger share of donations under $200 than the Democrat Democratic National Committee this is according to the New York Times so in other words if you take $200 as your threshold and I suppose it would be different depending on which threshold you picked but if you say anything under $200 is a quote small donation the Republicans got more small donations

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Republicans got more small donations than the Democratic National Committee now
now could there be a better indicator of president Trump's re-election chances that's really really good indicator because I believe President Trump not only got more donations from big donors but also more donations from small donors I think he got more donations from everybody now you add that so apparently the president will have just a tremendous amount of money for re-election that he did not have for election so 0.1 the president won with very little money against what some people thought was the strongest candidate the Democrats have ever had and then of course it as an in in hindsight Hilary Clinton look like the worst candidate but at the time we thought she was super strong and the president Peter

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was super strong and the president Peter anyway but now he's the incumbent incumbents don't often lose and if an incumbent has a strong economy they really don't lose and if the incumbent has all the charisma versus the Challenger then they really really don't lose and if the accumbens has way more money than the Challenger then they really really don't lose and if there are no wars that are a problem for the voters well then the incumbent doesn't lose so you have about five serious indicators to say the Trump is gonna win re-election and that's before you even talk about how bad the competition is who exactly is gonna run against him you know I'm guessing caramel heiress will eventually be the nominee and I think she's got some game but she doesn't have anything like the charisma of the president and she's gonna have a lot to

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president and she's gonna have a lot to explain by the time she gets the nomination if she does so I would say the slaughter meter is at 200% meaning the odds of President Trump getting re-elected in a landslide is so high now that if you if you were to bet the other way it would seem irrational now of course it's still a long way off and of course you know anything could happen you know nothing is certain but if nothing big changes I suppose it's almost a certainty that something big will change but if nothing big did change its it's a lock for the president to get reelected I think a couple more stories I saw but I haven't seen much follow up in the press and I think there's a reason for that yeah I believe the administration is looking to

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looking to require pharmaceutical companies the drug manufacturers who sell stuff in this country to give us the same price as the best price that they sell it anywhere else in the world now here's the catch the United States has been subsidizing healthcare in the rest of the world the fact that we we pay too much for our drugs allows the pharmaceuticals to cover their fixed costs etc and then since poor countries wouldn't be able to afford to pay a lot they can charge them less and then there was poor countries get better health care because they're paying less for the the drugs but it's being subsidized by the United States now apparently the Trump administration is going to require and who knows if this will pass Supreme Court who knows if there's a problem here who knows who could suit so this is by far not a done deal but the Trump administration is saying to

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administration is saying to pharmaceuticals you have to offer in this country a price that's no worse than the lowest price in another country any most favored nations clause in the contract now you know what's amazing about this story what's the most amazing thing about this story well I want to see if it's obvious to you what's the amazing thing the amazing thing about the story is that this is the first time anybody thought of that are you kidding me I used to negotiate contracts for a living so my job for several years in my corporate life was to deal with the vendors and negotiate contracts with mostly technology vendors the most favored nations clause that says you're not going to charge us more than you charge other people is pretty basic contract discussion in other words if

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contract discussion in other words if you're a professional negotiator of contracts and you have not thought to ask for that that nobody else gets a lower price now you can't always get that you might not have enough power to get that into your contract but if you're the United States and you're the biggest customer for these pharmaceutical companies and you're the government so you can just change the law you absolutely can get that it was laying there like free money on a table I said that exactly the same time somebody put in the comments free money on the table I actually said it as the phrase was appearing in the comments so yeah you got ahead of me this president better than anybody ever has done it is the only person who will pick up free money this laying on a table and it's mind-boggling this this you know I don't know what it's gonna be an executive order or some kind of a rule change

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order or some kind of a rule change other than what it is but if this administration gets away with it meaning if they can cause the pharmaceuticals to raise their prices in other countries if that's necessary I don't even know if that's necessary or to at least give us those same prices it will be an enormous change in the cost of your health care it will come at the expense of the pharmaceutical companies which are you know in many cases also part of our economy but I'll bet there are a lot of them that are not there must be a lot of foreign pharmaceutical companies that are overcharging in the United States are you okay with that so that they can subsidize other countries now the cruel part of this is that it absolutely will I would assume have an impact on other countries being able to afford their health care but isn't that true for everything we do a hundred percent of the money that we spend in the United States it could have been spent in another country where they needed it

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another country where they needed it more people were more poor more desperate have worse health care that's true of everything every dollar we spend on ourselves could have been spent for somebody else so he'll so the pharmaceutical stuff seems like it's just more of that and so you've got President Trump saying hey looks like there's some money on that table why don't we just pick it up now if he gets this done there's a very good chance given other free market changes that the administration is making for health care you know other things about organizing across state lines etc if this stuff gets done and guess works into the system by Election Day the president might be able to claim just think about this the president might be able to claim that he stopped the increase of health care expenses now that's not as good as universal health care insurance to people who have no insurance they still would prefer that

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insurance they still would prefer that but that's a really strong story if you're running for re-election and you're the first president who made health care costs stop in their tracks maybe even go down maybe I don't know I don't know how he doesn't get reelected if somebody said is viagra cheap yet I believe it is it's a it's a generic why do we have to pay more because other countries have mismanaged their money somebody says well that's the whole point is that we can we can do what's good for the United States because that's how countries are organized they're organized to take care of themselves and the idea is that if everybody did that the world's a better place then do University tuition alright I'm just looking at your comments here

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generic drug companies caught conspiring to fix prices is that true alright people are prompting me about a tweet in I tweeted a story in which Bill Gates had referred to himself as a minor wizard and referred to the late Steve Jobs as a as a major wizard who had a reality distortion field and he could make a company work even if the product was bad which he did with next computer he made a huge profit on something where nobody even wanted the problem and Bill Gates noted that Steve Jobs you know magic reality distortion field didn't work on jobs I'm sorry didn't work on gates because Gates felt he had a little immunity to it because he was a small-time wizard himself now there's not much to say about that except that when Gates talks about jobs and his power of persuasion you're hearing it from a credible and interesting source and somebody was

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interesting source and somebody was close to the source somebody who knew him well enough to have an informed opinion so and even though Jobs was considered an a-hole and I think I think Gates actually said that in the interview nobody could argue the fact that he could make people work harder and do things and buy things that other people couldn't make happen so he did seem to have the magic all right any other questions that's all I got today it's another wonderful day because again if you look at the news hey nimble navigate oh yeah Joe Biden is apologizing so joe biden said he waited to apologize about this busing thing do you all understand the busing issue I don't apparently apparently the issue is Democrats think other Democrats are

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is Democrats think other Democrats are racist because they agree with each other on busing I think that's it right did I get that wrong tell me if I got any of the facts wrong they're Democrats especially , Lares and Joe Biden they are mad at each other because they agree completely on the issue of busing that's a 20 year old issue isn't it something like that so it's sort of a non-issue that highlights how well things are going if you if the Democrats are debating a topic from 20 years ago you're in good shape think about it you're in really good shape if that's what you're doing oh yeah so there's a story about Kelly O'Hara picking up the flag when the other player drops it on the ground but I watched the video and it's obvious that the there were three of the play

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that the there were three of the play the women's soccer team players who were going to do sort of a dance coordinated thing you know as a celebration and one of them had to flag in her hand and she put it down for a minute to do the coordinated saying I don't think she was thinking about it as being disrespectful I think it was just I just think she wasn't thinking I doubt she put the American flag on the ground to make a statement it was just a really thoughtless thing to do in public but yeah she's young you know people do thought listens so at the end of my periscope from yesterday in which I did I pinned yesterday's periscope to my top of my Twitter page I'm predicting it will be the most watched video that I I've made so far so far maybe seventy thousand or a hundred thousand people

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thousand or a hundred thousand people have looked at it if you count all the platforms together if you count YouTube Plus periscope plus shoot and so be probably around 100 thousand people who have seen it by today I'm thinking it might be the first video that I made that reaches a million viewers and at the end of the video I said something provocative the the nature of the video is well you can just see yourself but at the end of it I I said something that got a lot of reaction so a lot of people are quoting me and reacting to it and what I said was this sentence and listen to it carefully because you have to listen to it carefully to get what's happening it's just one sentence and I said
God is what's left over after you take everything away God is what's left over after you take everything away now

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after you take everything away now here's what's interesting about this and here's why I said it every one of you heard that you had a different opinion of what it meant you probably registered it as profound without knowing what it meant all right I'm gonna read it again and see if your brain recognizes it as profound at the same time you're not sure what it means okay God is what's left after you take everything away it sounds profound right you register it that way but you're not sure exactly what it means and what people demonstrated in the comments is what I what I thought would happen is that everybody had a different interpretation of what it meant you can interpret this as a statement that God exists outside of the normal rules of physics and matter you could interpret

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physics and matter you could interpret it as saying that there's no God because you took everything away and there wouldn't be anything left you could interpret it as the simulation you could interpret it any way you want but that's the point so what's profound about it is that the statement is exactly like all of your different views of the world it is a statement that was subjective reality the statement is that you can all look at exactly the same stuff you can look at the same picture you can look at the same words you can think of the same idea but the way you process that will be an entirely different world and this sentence is one of those little little ways where you can see that clearly so I'll say it again God is what's left after you take everything away so God is what

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what left over after you take everything away as you watch people completely reinterpret that as opposites meaning that means God doesn't exist or that means that God does exist and he's beyond time and space and matter you can see the entire world everything about your reality is in this sentence once you understand that people are looking at the reality and interpreting it as their own movie and there's nothing you can do about that and nor should you I mean there's there's no reason to do anything about it we're living our own subjective reality and once you get that you become free once you if you understand reality to be objective then what it feels like is that you're a victim of reality reality is here and it's it's imposing its will on you and you're doing the best you can but

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you're doing the best you can but reality is gonna win it subjective and it's controlling you it controlled your DNA controls your choices it controls what your options are it's reality is objective and it's your it's its victim but once you realize that we're all living subjective realities and that those subjective realities pretty much all work some better than others but they all work meaning that I you can live your life thinking that you reincarnated from a cow and I can live my life believing in a Christian world you can somebody else can live their life believing in an Islamic interpretation of the world and we can all eat breathe procreate it works fine these are completely different worldviews once you understand that

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worldviews once you understand that reality is subjective here's the cool part you can control it I just let that there for a moment once you realize that reality is subjective you can control it that's how you escape the matrix is understanding that it's under your control and that's the first probably the first and most important mental shift you have to make is to understand that you control your reality and that your reality is complete you can actually make things happen by focusing by just putting your energy your attention reinterpreting things reading things you need to do doing what you need to do having systems that get you

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need to do having systems that get you where you want there are things that you can move and control that will change your reality you're you're watching me right now having a fairly substantial impact on the country now do you think that I believe I live in an objective world where the only things I can do are the things that reality has allowed for me it's like you only have this path it's the only path you can get on can't get on that path I don't live in that world I live in a subjective reality and because I understand it to be subjective I don't see limitations the way I used to I would have imagined okay I don't have this set of skills so I can't do that I don't have this training so I can't do that I don't have enough time I don't have enough money somebody's going to dislike me I'm going to embarrass

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to dislike me I'm going to embarrass myself it might not work out what if what if it goes wrong that's objective reality and it's a prison once you realize that there are fairly ordinary mechanisms that you can control meaning your mind the systems you used to live your life the things you focus the things you care about the things you dream of that these actually produce different realities not you can't you know make a car disappear you can't make an elephant appear you can't make a bag of money appear doesn't work like that but you can absolutely steer you know your reality is there's still gonna be stuff out there that's exterior to you but you can you can steer your way to the movie you want have you watched me do this by the way somebody's saying that the proof is my girlfriend Christina that's pretty good proof so

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Christina that's pretty good proof so somebody says is this in loser think the ideas that you're hearing now are sort of spread across my existing books had a failed almost everything and still win big also in my book win big Leigh about persuasion in general and if you really want a total mind effing you should read my book gods debris gods debris is fiction but it's designed to it's designed for you to feel for the first time in many cases it would be the first time that people felt it to feel that reality could be reinterpreted in a completely different way and still work so that's what gods debris is about it's fiction but as you read it it's designed because I used hypnosis techniques as well as writing techniques it's designed to make most readers not everyone of you because everybody's different but it's designed to make most readers have the sensation that they could understand reality through a different filter for

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reality through a different filter for the first time and that that filter works as well as the filter they came to it with once you realize that you can see the world through two different filters in other words two movies two different realities and they both work that's the key they both work if you don't get that part you've missed the secret I hate to say the secret because that's the name of the book but if you believe that you just went from one filter on reality and then you've got another one you said oh this new one is so I'll get rid of the old one you haven't learned the lesson the lesson is they both work that's the lesson so that's what God's debris tries to teach you indirectly and they in a fictional sense loser think is more about mental traps than we get into and how to get out of them and so I'll talk a lot more about that in the coming months it's due out in November what about chronic health problems well

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what about chronic health problems well some of you may know that I had a problem with my voice I lost my ability to speak for three and a half years and it was an incurable problem so I lived in this for a while I lived in this objective reality where some people get this condition called spasmodic dysphonia which is what I had which makes your vocal cords scrunched together when you're trying to talk and so you can't produce intelligible noise when I learned that it was incurable there was no cure I would never be able to speak again did I say to myself oh no I am a victim of a reality that is objective and now I know the rules and the rules say that this is incurable I guess that's the rest of my life imagine going the rest of your life not being able to speak 40 50 years of life not being able to speak just imagine it okay that's the reality that I was handed a

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that's the reality that I was handed a chose to violate that reality I chose to violate it from the first day that I found out it was incurable I told myself that someday I would be doing this I would be talking to a large number of people with a perfect voice now voice isn't perfect but if you heard my voice before I had the voice problem it's the best it's ever been in other words my current speaking voice the one you hear right now is substantially better than the best voice I ever had before I had a voice problem I said I'm not gonna settle for getting my voice back I said that every single day everytime I got my car I repeated to myself mentally i scott adams will have

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myself mentally i scott adams will have a perfect voice every day for three and a half years I hunted down the one doctor in the world was experimentally doing some surgeries on people's nerves in their neck and he had some successes in curing this problem I hunted him down I went to his office I got the surgery after a lot of research and it doesn't work for everybody not every person who has the research who has the surgery gets the good result most get an improvement but they don't all get a full improvement it took working on my voice every day four years after the surgery it's been a number of years every single day my voice improved because I worked at it I worked on my breathing I worked on my tone I took everything that I learned before the surgery about how to produce good vocal quality and you see me doing

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good vocal quality and you see me doing right now I'm speaking in what's called the mask of my face so I said to reality reality I reject you I reject you I'm not going to have an incurable voice problem I'm gonna be the first person who cures it and then I did now I wasn't the first person that turns out there were some people I didn't know about but most of the most of the world who has this problem still has it I would say 95% of all the people who have the same voice problem I had still have it they still have it they have insulting it so no I can tell you more stories that are similar to that somebody said did prayer play a part it did not no I'm not a believer I'm very Pro religion but I'm not a believer personally I think religion is a great filter on the world for a lot of people

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filter on the world for a lot of people and objectively speaking it's just obvious somebody says so far I've lost 89 pounds I think you're referring to using a system for weight loss that I talked about in had a failed almost everything and still win big and I a lot of people have been writing to me and telling me that they had lost massive amounts of weight they got promotions they doubled their pay and all of it is the same phenomenon it's people who have decided people who have decided that the reality that they were handed they reject they just rejected it they said no I'm not going to take the reality I'm handed I'm gonna make my own and there's another 140 pounds down just look at the comments somebody lost 89 pounds and somebody who lost 40 pounds just following a simple system the name of the book is how to fail in almost everything and still win big if you just

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everything and still win big if you just google my name on Amazon all the books will pop up 50 pounds 30 pounds oh my god look at all the people in the comments who have lost some of the some of the gained weight Saudi lost 20 23 pounds in 30 days holy cow another 40-pounder 42 pounds 10 pounds oh my god abs at 33 somebody somebody got their abs going somebody quit smoking lost 25 pounds somebody lost 80 pounds John do you really John you lost 80 pounds it's amazing 50 pounds look at the comments somebody game 50 I don't think those people were using the system somebody lost 40 pounds are keeping it off years later the keeping it office is the best pens 12 pounds closer to having abs and for age

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pounds closer to having abs and for age 48 up my pay by $50,000 these are in the comments if you're watching this later on YouTube you won't see the comments somebody says there tried to lose 150 pounds parenthetically my girlfriend somebody does 300 push-ups during my periscope everyday that's the system that is a heck of a good system so my compliments so somebody hears that they exercise during my periscopes that's a great system because it reminds you to do it it's like brushing your teeth at the same time every day before you you've got a good a bad if you can key your your workout to an external event it really makes it easier I do the same thing I actually keep my workouts depending on the time of the day if I if it's later in the day I'll always listen to the five so I've learned that listening to the TV show of the five on fox news is just really absorbing and you know I love the show it's my

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you know I love the show it's my favorite show and so I matched that to my exercise time and it makes me want to exercise it's a great system alright somebody else walks during my periscope yeah have I heard of David Goggins I have not all right just looking at your comments and thanks so much and I'm going to talk to all of you later bye for now