Episode 603 Scott Adams: Bill Pulte on St. Louis Blight, AC Giveaway, Veteran Gift

Date: 2019-07-20 | Duration: 1:05:52

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Guest: Bill Pulte talks about helping veterans and philanthropy Reversing how we think about the blight of abandoned buildings #TwitterPhilanthropy @CodeOfVets @Pulte Demonstration: College student opinions are easily manipulated World renowned robot scientist…robots can’t understand concepts? President Trump speaks to Kanye about helping A$AP in Sweden Told PM of Sweden, he would personally vouch for his bail Bubonic plague pending in LA, huge numbers of rats and homeless Iran seizes UK oil tanker…does Iran want war? Who is responsible for the health effects of Trump Presidency? President Trump said Puerto Rico government is massively corrupt MSM and Dems mocked him…2 years later, they agree? President Trump said there’s a crisis at the border MSM and Dems mocked him…1 year later, they agree? Joe Biden needs to “find a spine” in next debate, per CNN Van Jones

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boom boom boom pop up everybody everybody come on in here because you know what time it is cypher coffee coffee coffee with scott adams i'm scott adams your host and we are preparing for something I call the simultaneous sip a big dopamine rush that gets your day going just the way you want it what do you need for the simultaneous up you probably ask do you need to be prepared do you need to have any particular items available yes you do yes you do you've gotta have a cup or a mug or a glass this time to tell us at anchor baby a thermistor a flask a canteen or a vessel of any kind you got to fill it with your favorite liquid and then you gotta lift it to your lips follow along and have the simultaneous sip with me o shudder oh good stuff well

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sip with me o shudder oh good stuff well today fairly soon we're gonna have a very special guest Susie logs on bill Polti we will be talking to him but let's talk about a few fun things while we're at it you know one of the things that one of president Trump's biggest problems is oh it looks like bill is here let's say we're gonna go to Bill Pulte he's got some exciting updates if you haven't seen him this will be fun bill I'm amazing man you've been lighting up the the internet lately you had one of the busiest days anybody's ever had it was unsane it was insane so for anybody who hasn't seen all of the the reporting coming out of yesterday start with start with your morning and then tell us about your afternoon well I reading I really

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your afternoon well I reading I really have to start with my evening because I drove and what would have been Thursday night from Chicago to Nashville and I drove a brand new Chevy mini SUV for a two-time combat veteran who had remained traumatic brain injury 100% and I couldn't even sleep at night I was so excited to give her this car this is a lady who fought for us in Iraq and she has to take she has to walk to the grocery store she has to take an uber to her doctor's appointments so I woke up and we went and gave her the car and I get goose bumps even thinking about it I mean she was just totally blown away so for anybody who hasn't seen the video of it you have to you have to watch the video just to see her reaction and the hug she gives you I didn't think she was ever gonna let you go bill I mean that that had to be like a satisfying hug I will tell you I have learned so much in

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will tell you I have learned so much in the last few weeks that I never thought I would I mean I always knew that giving was powerful but it is incredible now I mean it is such a joy to be able to give back especially to our veterans who fought so hard for us and I call my followers on Twitter at Pulte my friends and my teammates because they're helping me also raise money for amazing causes we've raised in conjunction with the whole family you know the Twitter family we've raised over $50,000 for a colonel in the military why longings were burned we've raised over $13,000 for a paraplegic Marine it is just amazing the momentum that we have now so yeah that was yesterday morning and then you know tell you about the rest of it and you're getting the country a little bit addicted to the feeling of helping other people which is an amazing service that you're doing there so anybody who's now following you you really should how many

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following you you really should how many followers are you up to we're going to be at about 80,000 a day and you should also follow at Cota vets at co de of vets they are the amazing veterans organization that I've been working with they're incredible so if you guys can support our efforts that would be amazing code of events I will follow them as soon as we're off of here and you actually drove the car yourself I did and I gotta tell you I didn't want to get out of the car I just bought a Tahoe and I said to myself why the hell did I spend all that money and I think I may be selling the Tahoe you know and getting this car this pretty good car it says Chevy Chevy Chevy Trax $20,000 car $10,000 she got in cash nice oh my god well she was obviously very thrilled you can see it on the video she was crying and hugging and it's it's great to see our veterans getting that kind of

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our veterans getting that kind of treatment that kind of respect because I think a lot of it is also just people caring I mean they had to you know on top of the money which of course was very important in the car very important but it had to have to be very meaningful to her that cares about I mean she was in the combat zone okay single mother comes back has a traumatic traumatic brain injury from being over there and you know she's left to walk to the grocery store this shouldn't happen in America this should not now and that was just your morning that was just my morning when I got in a plane flew to st. Louis go ahead yeah that's just keep going that's that's world and then all of a sudden all the sudden the Daily Mail came out with a piece which was you know started to go viral the video started to go viral you know everybody from everywhere was calling saying hey you know this is amazing how can we give back how can we donate people just want and donate people just want to help and so then we

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people just want to help and so then we went to a flight elimination zone which is as you know as my passion is cleaning up inner-city neighborhoods that have gotten no attention from the government and I love doing it I absolutely love doing it so we walked in the neighborhood and Twitter co-founder and square co-founder Jack Dorsey billionaire is my partner in that st. Louis blight Authority and so we were delighted to announce yesterday that we're going into st. Louis and turning around the neighborhoods in st. Louis that's that's amazing so Jack Dorsey actually flew in to be with you at that event and say Louis right he did and I have you to thank for it because in many of your listeners don't know this because many times you're behind a lot of these amazing things that nobody even knows but I think I have you to thank for you know introducing me to Jack cause you did it and everybody should know that so just everybody when you ever you ever doubt what Scott Adams is saying or how involved he is well you

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is saying or how involved he is well you really have no idea he's an incredible guy
guy Scott it wouldn't have well without you I'll tell you there's 59 family Scott in st. Louis in this area and I show you the video lady told me yesterday abandoned buildings been there for over 20 years and we knocked it down and that's thanks to you Scott so well out of my heart I appreciate that but let's keep the the credit where it belongs I mean you and you and Jack has funded this correct yes but in in in a certain way you funded it so thank you so this is Jack's hometown right this is where he grew up yeah see everybody loves you Scott you see all these comments well don't make it about me well it should be because you know people need to get recognized for doing good work in America and we no longer recognize people for doing good work in America that's what I'm trying to do on Twitter that's what you're helping me do there are people who do acts of kindness every

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are people who do acts of kindness every day and they go unrecognized and it shouldn't be something that we're shameful anymore we have to promote it the same vigorousness which we promote you know all this negativity and crap that we see on TV it's about time we get some positive news and we start as a country promoting positive things and I like I like that we're attaching or you are you're attaching emotion to giving in the sense that giving to the veterans is sort of a twofer you're helping a person but you're also helping a veteran which also helps the entire you know the way we think about our country the way the veterans are treated the I mean the UK you get a twofer for that then with st. Louis having somebody as successful as Jack Dorsey who came from there still his family there I believe and cared enough after you know making his way in the world and and doing spectacularly well came back to help the people that

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well came back to help the people that that probably has his heart is very connected to I assume yes and and so again it's a twofer because the people in the community probably feel like hey everybody everybody just moves away if they do well and and here here it's been reversed you can see that st. Louis gets the love as well as the money as well as the great treatment of knocking down these buildings that were nothing but eyesores and and crime traps in a big way I mean Scott I mean I don't think Jack had ever seen anything like it and I think he was very impressed because as many in the meteor were frankly because they've never seen so many tractors and so many haulers and so many things done in a contiguous area you know the government they go and they get rid of these abandoned buildings and they do one little home here or one little home there we went in bang bang bang and you know I was watching some of the newscasts just before I got on here in st. Louis and I'm trying to reframe the way that st. Louis is thinking about it

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way that st. Louis is thinking about it they're thinking about it as you talk about framing so it's kind of interesting for everybody but what I'm literally trying to do is get st. Louis to reverse the way that they've been thinking about Blake and as opposed to thinking oh we have all these abandoned buildings and they throw their arms up in the air and they roll their eyes and they say oh my god what am I going to do with all these buildings no I'm trying to get them to think we got 7,000 buildings in st. Louis that are demolished we can get capacity up to 2,000 homes a year and we can have this blight problem solved I said 15 years yesterday but I it can be done a lot quicker so in real time we're trying to change the psychology of people to know that it's achievable to be able to turn around the city of st. Louis yeah you know you what I call the refer to this before as the new CEO move which is when when people you know get a new CEO is this new CEO if they're smart will immediately make a big change that sort

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immediately make a big change that sort of tells you who they are so it might be that if it's a company that's bloated they might get rid of a bunch of people on day one that's the negative version or they might bring in a big deal or they might announce a kind of a change or some kind of improvement you know so that your first impression the psychology of it gets on their side right away and yeah and when you go to these blighted areas if you're looking at this terrible you know rundown blighted area and you live there you're just thinking ah that's there are a million miles between what this land looks like and what's happened to it and where you'd like it to be but instead you go in and instead of saying how do I solve the entire million miles you say well the first ten miles are going to tell you everything like that's where the psychology starts that's where momentum is that's where direction happens that's where progress happens that's how people feel good that's how people know there's energy so so you seem to understand this on all the levels you know I talked about talents tax you know putting

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about talents tax you know putting together ordinary talents until you have something so you come in this come to this with a construction development background you bring the psychology to it you understand this show you know and you understand that putting it on TV getting news coverage is is essential it's not just the extra and and you get this amazing result here your effectiveness is just astonishing and the and and the rate at which you do these things that is there some secret to how you can get politicians to do things without getting caught in the politics of it you know I don't know I mean some of this stuff just comes you know off the top of my head probably like you with your creative inspiration I just come up with this stuff but you know I just basically try to convince the people through thinking about things differently that them as politicians need to get on board or else why the why the hell aren't they looking after their citizens I mean why should this

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their citizens I mean why should this lady yesterday great lady 65 year old african-american lady a mom a mom like we all love a mom like many of us have that we love she's sitting there and I get goose bumps as I'm saying it she's sitting there and she's saying for 20 or 30 years this building has been decrepit next to her so I try to really get with the human beings these are human beings just like you and me and I am I making you go cry I don't mean to make but you know you show that human impact and I think that is probably the secret sauce to getting the politicians to do the right thing yeah plus plus you package it so that they you you reduce it to a yes now in some ways because the human mind can't deal with lots of complexity if you say well we've got a problem in here or 15 ways you could go about it nothing's gonna happen because people can't deal with that but you come in its

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can't deal with that but you come in its tell me if I'm wrong here you come in and say I'm gonna do this discrete set of things with a discrete set of money that I've already arranged or can arrange it's going to look just like the discrete thing I did in a Pontiac or someplace else yes no is that I'm oversimplifying but yeah that's a hundred percent that's a hundred percent and you know it's I think navall talks about this specialization you know and really being good at something I mean you know this is something that I know very well so when a reporter tries to play some gotcha political question I can say hey hey hey look this is you know this is really what's going on and I think I think the st. Louis media knew what was going on yesterday I've never seen I think maybe one other event in Detroit I had seen that much media I mean it was stacked I didn't even know there was that many media outlets in st. Louis be honest with you and so anyway so I think the media gets it it's gonna take it's gonna take a couple more times frankly of conditioning to get their head screwed on the right way because if we

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screwed on the right way because if we can get their head screwed on the right way and the philanthropic community this problem in st. Louis which is plagued major US city for 20 or 30 years can be removed I did it in Pontiac with the mayor right right well this is amazing and you and I just saw before I came on live here that you made an offer and I swear I was thinking about talking to you about this and then I saw you tweeted it like like well it was just one of the greatest ideas here you're doing something some kind of a giveaway with air conditioning because the the the record summer heats are literally going to be killing people tell us more about that well you know air conditioning is a blessing and it's the same thing with the abandoned homes you know having safe neighborhoods is a blessing and so many people don't have that especially the elderly and otherwise so I'm trying to find people and if you know of anybody who needs air conditioning you know please tweet at me we'll try to get to as many as we can

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we'll try to get to as many as we can you know I'm only one guy but we're figuring out how to hopefully do this at scale but please let us know we're looking for people who are really in mission-critical need who are you know getting exhausted by the heat and this is amazing so basically you're going to be looking at your Twitter feed about people requesting air conditioning people who are really in tough tough situations whether their health could be seriously at risk to the point of actually risk of death and you're gonna go in and and make sure some of those people are comfortable okay well can't give everybody but well what's fascinating is Twitter philanthropy is really taken off it's a movement and I would encourage everybody please go to my profile retweet like the stuff let's get the stuff out there it's really a wave of momentum Scott so to answer your questions specifically yes I'm helping provide many air conditioning systems but what has been even more impactful at least for me has been the number of HVAC professionals I don't know these people all across the United States and some in

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all across the United States and some in the globe who said hey we'll install the unit's for free one in LA and one in I believe in the hurricane zones and I'm currently having dialogue with them to see if they can do it that's what America should be about that's what we should be using social media Florence far as I'm concerned you know we're really the only platform right now who are connecting those immediate needs using social media and I think it's the way of the future the hashtag is a Twitter philanthropy hashtag Twitter philanthropy you got it all right well you should you should all be following the hashtag following at Pulte at PU LTE and at code of Vettes yeah go to thank you let's go that some power there amazing no the unsung heroes are these veterans I bill anything else no need to know let's just keep going let's get the momentum keep going Trump retweeted again today some of that stuff so let's just keep going great you're amazing

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just keep going great you're amazing bill and we'll talk to you again soon thanks for coming by have a great day everyone have a great weekend make it a great day do something positive for somebody else love you all all right I love that bye Dylan all right that's amazing let's talk about some other things so once again we saw another example of how people believe they are rational creatures but it can be easily shown that they are not especially in politics so you've probably seen it on the Internet there's another one of these interviews where students college students are asked to give their opinion on what they believe is a trump policy on immigration and it's a Trump it's a quote that actually came from Obama so they read an Obama quote about immigration tell the students it's from Trump or indicators from Trump and then they say what do you think about it and of course the students say well that's totally racist how racist could that be

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totally racist how racist could that be but of course it was Obama's policy now that tells you everything you need to know about the human mind you know if you believe that people are looking at the facts and they've decided well based on my analysis of the facts I've decided to be a Democrat or I've decided to be a Republican and I've chosen these policies as the ones I like nothing like that is happening now you're you might be tempted to say to yourself well these are students you know these are college students by the time they become real adults in the real world they start paying attention and then then their opinions are actually useful you know they're they're rational no no nothing like that's happening those college students are locking in opinions or have already locked in opinions there will probably never change meaning that they've they've decided that as a lifestyle as as who they are they're on

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lifestyle as as who they are they're on a team and they're gonna say the things that the people on that team say they're gonna say we do not like president Trump or this they're on the other team they're gonna say we do but it's it's one of those things of course it's not a scientific test so I'm not going to suggest that every person in the country would would answer so poorly as these students did but when you see how clearly they are completely confident in their opinion and it can be shown to be ridiculous because they've all decided that Obama's a giant racist even though they they don't know that he's the one whose butt without knowing that he's the one who said the comments they think he must be a racist so that tells you that we're not reacting to the facts we're not reacting to the policies were reacting to the personalities and were taking sides on that same point there's a famous robot East roboticists is that

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a famous robot East roboticists is that a word an expert in AI and robots and he says that it's unlikely that humans are going to be it's unlikely that computers and and robots will ever reach the point of having human intelligence let me read what he says this is Kim sang Bay he's a world-renowned robot scientist and he's saying that that there's no technology that could make machines understand concepts and judge values like humans yes there are of course there are are you kidding me what kind of world-renowned robot scientist says there's no technology that could make machines understand
concepts and judge values like humans even I could program that here's how you get a robot to judge values okay what language of my program you programming

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language of my program you programming in if you see somebody say racist things using these words if that then you will react as if you were horrified I gave it a value if anybody asks you'll say you disapprove of whatever that thing was I programmed into you if I say what do you think about war and I program into it does not like war believes that human being in human life is very important click click click click like what could be easier than giving a robot values you literally just program them in there it's exactly like people do you want to make a robot that likes Modern Art click click click look like if modern art then like I don't know how it could be easier than that somebody says you're out of your depth Scott well I'm not out of my depth for

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Scott well I'm not out of my depth for you because you just got blocked I block people who say stupid things that are just personal if somebody said that's not true because of X they would not get blocked but when somebody says your other your Leagues Cup you're out of your league then they get blocked because saying somebody is out of their league it's just not helpful it's just not part of a world I want to be part of you know you can tell the the well I won't even go down that that path anyway but he also talked about understanding concepts you says a there's no technology that can make machines understand concepts really really what what concept can I not program into a machine I'm pretty sure I can get that machine to understand the concept give me an example of a concept if a human can

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example of a concept if a human can understand it it's because there are rules there's there's a structure to the way we think about it you can program that so here's what I think about the world round world renowned a robot scientist I believe he does not have a good talent stack meaning that this robot scientist might be one of the greatest people who ever lived in terms of the technology in terms of AI in terms of robots etc he could be the best at that what he doesn't seem to understand is psychology and the irrationality of humans in other words there's a whole scientific field that I'm speculating because I can't read his mind but it looks like he's not he's not aware of for example the the story I told you about these students who believe that Obama quotes were actually racist if they thought they were coming from Trump does that tell you that humans are finally operated listening

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humans are finally operated listening finally engineered rational machines no no you could easily program a robot to do what those students did and it's easy you just say which team are you on robot I will make you lemma grant if trump then orange man bad easy you know if a democrat says it probably good easy so I think this robot expert needs to know a little bit more about human psychology I've been saying this for years there's there are very few things I'm more confident in than that someday robot AI experts will say what I've been saying for 10 years which is the reason we can't make robots as smart as people is because people aren't smart it's an illusion you

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people aren't smart it's an illusion you can't make robots as smart as people because you're trying to catch an illusion we are not rational if you made a robot that was rational and was the smartest let's say clever moral consistent and ethical machine it wouldn't look like a person because people look like babbling idiots and you're not going to program your machine to look like an idiot while tracing while chasing AI because you can't be intelligent and an idiot at the same time so there's a lara there's a logical mental I'd say a blind spot in the entire industry that they think they can they can make think they can't make human intelligence when we've they've already surpassed it by far let's talk about one of the biggest problems that the president has is that you know he's he's accused of separating children and

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he's accused of separating children and apparently that really happens at the border and putting children in cages here's what I would like to see just because it's funny I would love to see a petition that is worded this way we the petitioners demand that the Trump administration stop putting children in Obama cages then so that's how it would be worded we demand that the Trump administration stop putting children in Obama cages is that wrong the cages were literally designed and built by Obama to hold children and families and people so what if you what I see online all the time is people keep saying hey don't you people on the other side understand let me give you a fact here's the fact Obama made those cages

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here's the fact Obama made those cages and therefore if Obama made the cages and they weren't racist then they can't be racist now Trump is just using the cages they were built for this purpose by Obama how persuasive is what I just said it's not literally nobody cares because they use it as a it's really a political tool that's not about the children at all it is not about the children people are gonna cry on television and we all care about the children I'm certainly not mocking anybody's empathy for the people who are suffering at the border because it looks pretty bad to me looks pretty bad I wouldn't want to be in one of those one of those facilities I really wouldn't want to be in one of those facilities like really really wouldn't want to be in one so I'm not gonna try to minimize how bad it is because it looks plenty bad Scott's a very dishonest idiot says this person before getting blocked you can tell who

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before getting blocked you can tell who the Democrats are the Democrats are the ones who come in here and just have no respect for any type of rational discourse it's just all about the personality it's just all about me well there's got to be something with the wrong with you because what you're saying makes sense but I'm pretty sure you're defective well there's something badly badly off about you so there's a few Democrats coming in and I'm not even anti a Democrat but it's just the fact that if somebody comes in and says something like that they're just always Democrats you know probably 85 percent of the time all right so that's the that's what I want to see I want to see a match poll demanding that the Trump administration stop putting children in Obama cages just for fun all right you probably saw in the news that the

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you probably saw in the news that the president said that he had in a tweet yesterday he said he just spoke to Kanye West so already it's a great tweet the President of the United States starts a tweet with I just spoke to Kanye West like you don't even need to hear the rest of the tweet right you know this is gonna be good he spoke to Kanye about I guess Kanye's friend ASAP ASAP Rocky who's a rapper who was incarcerated in Sweden and the president cited his tweet oh I will be calling the very talented prime minister of Sweden I like that he calls them the very talented prime minister of Sweden in other words he's signaling to the Prime Minister very clearly hey Prime Minister you're a very talented guy wink wink you get this right that's what that sentence means when he says the very talented Prime Minister this is the president saying okay Prime Minister you get what's happening here right this

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get what's happening here right this isn't just about the legal system this isn't just about one person this is about you and I you and I got a got an opportunity here to do something that the world is gonna like a lot so the very talented prime minister of Sweden to see what we can do about helping ease up rocky so many people would like to see this quickly resolved now what do the people who have been calling this president racist for three years and especially this week what do they do when they see this what what reaction does Anderson Cooper have when he sees president Trump's tweet that he's talking to his good friend African American citizen and Patriot Kanye West about Kanye's friend Africa fricken American star ASAP rocky and that the president is personally

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that the president is personally intervening to get a man of this situation overseas there's no way you can look at that and say alright he's a terrible racist and he's he's sending all these racists whistles but this doesn't look like much of a whistle like why doesn't this make sense why does it not fit my movie whose movie does this fit yours right this fits your movie doesn't it most of you are Trump supporters if it's your movie that says he will certainly insult absolutely anybody including african-americans he will insult anybody who needs an insult for political or other reasons but when it comes down to brass tacks he's the guy who is approving pardons a lot of african-americans several I think he's the guy President Trump is who backed

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the guy President Trump is who backed prison reform he's the guy who can't stop bragging about what he's done for African American employment levels how does any of that fit Anderson Cooper's movie that this guy is a giant racist a doesn't fit but it completely fits the movie the says he says politically incorrect things and indeed when he ran for office he ran on a platform explicitly in direct language the president said he told us he was not going to respect political correctness and then once elected he did not respect political correctness at all that fits my movie he did exactly what he said he would do he said I'm not a racist I mean in lots of ways in different language he said that and and so everything he that I see fits my movie perfectly he's not

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I see fits my movie perfectly he's not politically correct but he's doing the things the country needs things that that Obama did before him in terms of immigration etc all right and then I guess he's followed up with the tweet this morning he said he talked to the prime minister but he didn't get a good result which tells me that the very talented prime minister of Sweden may not be as talented as the president wants them to be because I think the president was winking pretty hard like wink wink you're very talented you get this right wink wink wink you get this right you see you see what we can both do here right but apparently the very talented prime minister of Sweden either had some obstacles he couldn't overcome easily or maybe he didn't get the wink and he said that he would they would make sure that he saw rocky was treated fairly which is really sort of a nothing and then apparently Trump's reports that

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and then apparently Trump's reports that he he would personally vouch for ASAP Rocky's bail personally President Trump said to the prime minister of the very talented prime minister of Sweden that he would personally vouch for ASAP Rocky's bail now who knows how serious issue that really is but the fact that he said it is pretty darn good pretty darn good so the country loves the show we love that the president got involved we love that it was personal I love everything about this story I hope it works out for a SUP rocky because at the very least the entire world is paying attention you know a week ago I didn't know what a ASAP Rocky was and literally never heard of him now it's a national story and this president has put a marker down we're watching this situation you you know what we want and we'd be quite

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what we want and we'd be quite disappointed if things don't go the way we think they should let's talk about the bubonic plague in Los Angeles so
dr. drew was on my periscope yesterday he's been on Fox News and other other outlets I think talking about the amazing number of rats and the problems that are caused by all the homeless the homeless are not really people who can't find homes they're mostly people with drug problems and mental health problems and that we're reaching a point where it might go full bubonic plague and what I say might I mean probably because there's nothing that looks like it's gonna change the trend in the short term and we're right on the edge of bubonic plague apparently a certain number of rats and you're just going to be there and we're right at that point so how do we do something about it it feels like

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we do something about it it feels like the country is not concerned about something that's horrible and I think that some of this needs to be visual and we need to have something that looks like a proposed solution so if anybody can come up with such things that would be great I'd love to see a specific proposed solution something that you could say yes no to remember I was talking to Bill Polti earlier and and I was complimenting him on how he packages decisions for politicians you got to make it simple and visual that's what Bill Polti does he keeps his simple he keeps a visual and he connects emotion to it make sure that there's an emotional connection that's you know a big part of his power and this this la situation needs that it doesn't yet have sort of the personal connection I mean we care about people in a general way

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we care about people in a general way but doesn't have a personal angle it needs a visual and it needs to be packaged in a way that there's something specific that people want you know what is it the public is demanding we don't know you know in general we want fewer rats we'd like to people to have some kind of care but that's too general what exactly do we want do we want to are appointed we want FEMA to come in do we want to approve ten million dollars from the government just for rat eradication I just realized that a ratification has rat right in it so that's where we need to get to and maybe we can get there soon and make a difference let's talk about Iran Iran seized a British oil tanker they say there was some kind of accident / mechanical problem some something they need to figure out so they didn't really they didn't really just grabbed it they had some perfectly

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just grabbed it they had some perfectly good reason now of course we in the United States do not believe their reason we believe it is a you know our ally and that they're just holding the tanker for leverage or to cause trouble prior to that Gibraltar and I guess with the UK's help grabbed a Iranian tanker so it seems like a tit for tat you've got our tanker we got your tanker blah-de-blah now some people have said my god things are escalating this president has has ruined everything he's just making things worse now Iran is escalating and we're escalating and pretty soon it's gonna be a war that's not what I see I see the opposite and I know that at least one smart person I just saw an article agrees with me I don't know how many other smart people agree with me but I'd like to think there more than one here's how I see it if you're preparing for a negotiation it

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if you're preparing for a negotiation it helps to create chips that did not exist before in other words in a negotiation you know I'm putting some of my chips on the table you're putting some of your chips on the table wouldn't it be nice if he had more chips before you start this is one of those situations where they can create trouble it won't go too far because they can control it you know they can release the they could release the tanker if they have to so they have flow control the situation it is an escalation but it's also something in terms of the general trouble making in the the Gulf or the straights the the general troublemaking is something we would like less of so now Iran has created a chip the chip is obviously we can create trouble in the shipping lanes wouldn't you like to see less of that so that's a chip that they can give up in negotiating so what I see is not an escalation toward war because that would

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escalation toward war because that would look very different poker ships pretty good I was calling them poker chips but they're actually using ships as poker chips or their poker chips very good whoever came up with that in the comments nerdy but excellent I like my nerdy humor so I would say that what we're seeing is the signal that they're preparing they're setting the table for conversation I believe Iran has been signaling very strongly that they really do not want war as in really really no joke don't want war as in we're not kidding we really really don't want a war so that I think Iran's position of we don't want a war is very very clear because it would just wouldn't turn out there's no way which are now well for them now the United States especially with President

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United States especially with President Trump really really doesn't want a war and I mean really really doesn't want a war but unlike Iran if we were to start a war it wouldn't be the end of the United States we just wouldn't like it but it would be the worst problem in the world for the Iranian population and we don't want that for them either and the president is on is unpredictable so Iran can't be sure we won't at least try a decapitation strike which i think would be the the obvious play so we have this situation where I've said this before and I'll keep reminding you we have never been close to something really good happening in the Middle East all of the leaders except for one the Ayatollah he's the last person who is not

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he's the last person who is not explicitly said let's just okay let's just live with Israel you know we can be okay with this we don't have to be at war so Saudi Arabia is on our side Israel's playing nice with its neighbors who are important to it Saudi Arabia has even offered a great help to the people of Iran if they can get past their political difficulties you know Israel is explicitly offered to help them with water purification and who knows what else the United States has specifically said we'd like to be part of you know watching Iran becoming a great economy more than it is so everything has been set up somebody saying Abbas and the Palestinians the Palestinians are not how do I say this without being insulting if they lost everybody's support including Iran's support they would they would have to accommodate the situation they would sort of have to

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situation they would sort of have to over time just give up on their ambitions and try to work something out so I would say that we may be closer than we've ever been to some kind of a good arrangement over there and we're just one person away which is the Ayatollah and he looks like he's getting ready to negotiate so we'll see there's a tweet that I tweeted today somebody else did a post and summarized my post from a few years ago called the day you became a better writer now what's powerful about it is that it summarizes and in a very short to form the most important techniques for moving from a bad writer to a good writer and they're pretty easy you just see the tips and you say hell that's pretty easy make shorter sentences got write direct sentences got it so I would

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write direct sentences got it so I would recommend that go to my Twitter feed you know where it is and somewhere in the last day I think yesterday I tweeted it look for the day I became a better writer you probably probably you could consume the entire lesson if you will in five minutes so in five minutes almost everybody who's done this by the way would agree so I would say a near universal agreement that five minutes reading this little post on how to be a better writer will actually make you a better writer Jordy here is is agree yeah that that quick because none of the techniques require practice to understand they require practice to get great at it but to understand it and put it immediately into practice into use it's easy so I would say if you're if you're trying to develop a talent stack just being better or pretty good at a variety of skills that fit together

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variety of skills that fit together really well writing is one of those things that fits together with everything every job you can think of yeah most of them there there's something at which writing would be an advantage even if you don't do writing in your current job if you want to someday be in management for the people who do your job well you should learn to write well and this will this will do it for you in literally five minutes five minutes and you will be a substantially better writer I guarantee it
it it's it's that easy so do that there was an interesting article about the there's research on the health effects on the physical and mental symptoms linked to the the trump presidency so in other words are a number of studies showing that people are having stress and mental and physical problems because of the stress of the Trump administration what

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stress of the Trump administration what is wrong with this story so Trump is being blamed for people's bad health yeah and apparently you can measure these effects of you can measure the the impact of trauma and civilization on birth rates and how quickly people give birth and stuff so yes somebody got it right Susan you are all over it there's nothing that Trump is done that would worry people if the news reported it objectively nothing you think about what is the worst thing that Trump's accused of just think of all of the worst things and then imagine if they'd been reported just objectively you know nobody had a dog in the race they're just just tell you what happened take Charlottesville it was reported that the president called neo-nazis of fine people that literally never

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fine people that literally never happened he said exactly the opposite of that he condemned them absolutely the same time but the the edit of the condemning was taken out and it leaves a misleading idea that that he said they were fine people imagine if the news had simply reported what happened instead of making up news what was it about that story that made people nervous was it what Trump said no because what he said is what everybody wanted to hear I condemn the neo-nazis totally that's exactly what everybody wanted to hear it's exactly what he said in those exact words The News reported it that he he called them fine people I mean seriously whose fault is that it's not his fault I mean I get that people say he could have you know said it more elegantly or better or clearer he might have made more put more attention on maybe that's true but none of that matters if they

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true but none of that matters if they had simply reported it accurately in the first place let's take this latest scandal where the president said that some members of the squad maybe they should go back home and figure out had to fix everything there before they come back here and show us how it's done imagine how that could have been reported compared to how it was reported here's how you could have reported it he said that they should have gone back home but only one of them actually was born in any other country so there was a you probably got a fact wrong which was probably very similar to what most of the country was thinking if you said a couple weeks ago if you said to most of the country at least the people paying attention to politics not the people who wouldn't even know who was on the squad if he went through them said Rasheeda Talib what country was she born in if you're following politics what would you

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you're following politics what would you have said average citizen I can only speak for myself I would have said that I believed she was born in another country I did I didn't you know I thought she was born somewhere in the Palestinian areas somewhere only because of the way she speaks of it now I was not judging her for that I was now saying and therefore you know I like you less or anything nothing like that in fact I had often thought well it's good that we have that voice because that that one was sort of missing you know even if you disagree with it it's good to have that voice I just thought maybe she's a good mix you know a good a good addition to the conversation maybe she's a good addition to the mix even if you disagree with everything she says she does represent you know a line of thinking that's somewhat popular or at least or a number of people but so worst case scenario the

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of people but so worst case scenario the president thought what a lot of us thought that at least two of them were born in other places now I don't believe the president was talking about all four of them I don't believe he was talking about Presley I don't think he thought that she was born somewhere else but like most of us thought at least a couple of them the ones that are the loudest I don't believe that the president thought AOC was born in another country do you I don't think he thought that so I don't think he was talking about press and I don't think he was talking about AOC I think he was talking about two of the people and he got a fact wrong about one of them that most of us would have gotten wrong two were a lot of us would not most I would have and suppose I had just been reported he said that go back and come back and suppose the news had not told you that you're supposed to think it's racist what would you thought of it if they just reported the facts oh he got a fact wrong he thought they came from other countries and he trash-talk them on

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countries and he trash-talk them on twitter by saying hey you should go back and then you know fix that and then come back here if the news had reported it just the way I described it would we be coming apart no no not at all so the news is creating a problem and then pegging it on the president and actually saying it's killing people well it's making them less healthy we don't know if it's killing anybody but what kind of world is it where the news can create the problem and and then report on like it's somebody else's problem by the way I predicted this exact situation in my book at the Dilber future back in the late 90s I predicted that the news business would evolve to killing famous people for news they might not do it directly as in murdering them but they

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directly as in murdering them but they would create situations in which people would die so they had something to report and here we see that their news coverage is literally causing major health problems the news is literally killing people to have something to report on yeah anti files another example they are very supportive of an tyfa the mainstream media's and an anti is clearly at least on the border of killing people they're hitting people on the head with blunt objects on a regular basis it's not going to be that long before somebody dies and clearly the news business is sort of pro anti-fog in terms of giving them attention giving them oxygen not condemning them there I guess Ted Cruz and somebody else have some kind of a resolution being considered too - what is it categorise I guess you call it - anti

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categorise I guess you call it - anti far as domestic terrorists now just the fact that that's even being seriously considered should tell you that there's something different about the news coverage then there is about at least how the politicians are seeing an T file do you think that the mainstream media is doing a lot of reporting let's say CNN do you think CNN is doing wall-to-wall reporting on the fact that serious senators Ted Cruz it's pretty serious senator right I mean even if you don't agree with Ted Cruz he's a very talented qualified serious player you know could have been president maybe will be someday and he's he's he's pushing ahead to call anti-fog domestic terrorists and that's not a story have you seen that on CNN as CNN covered that is a story have they looked into why they're being considered domestic terrorists I haven't seen it maybe maybe

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terrorists I haven't seen it maybe maybe they covered it once maybe they mentioned it am I wrong that is just being ignored how big of a story is that are there other organizations that are in the news every day that the Senate is considering labeling a domestic terrorist organization is there any other group who is in the news all the time that's under that situation that's a pretty remarkable situation even even if ultimately they're not labeled that way it's news but it's not being reported all right you know everywhere every now and then there'll be just something that happens on its own that changes how you see things and one of the things that's happening his own is that puerto rico's local government appears to be very corrupt remember how much heat President Trump got for what his critics said was not

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got for what his critics said was not doing enough for Puerto Rico what was president Trump's at least partial explanation of why things weren't going well with Puerto Rican recovery and assistance well his president Trump's report is that the locals were not capable he basically blamed it on the local government now when President Trump blamed the local politicians for the aide not being as effective as it could what did people say they said well there's that crazy orange man again blaming people he must be a racist because Puerto Rico right that's sort of the way it was reported is that oh my god he's just being a racist again he is making Puerto Ricans look like they're all incompetent or something and then time goes by time goes by and through no actions on the president's part it turns out there's a massive corruption scandal

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out there's a massive corruption scandal in the Puerto Rican government that you know I don't think we'll be surprised to find out most of it's true so the news sort of caught up to where the president was that there's a local talent problem there to say to say the very least you want to hear a bad sign for Joe Biden so there's another set of debates coming up and the funniest thing about the debates that are coming up is that by complete chance all of the white people well one one of the two groups of Democrats that'll be on different nights just by chance one of them was all white and yet and all of the diversity was in the other group now CNN did the picking and I'm sure it was actually random I don't think they planned it that way but could that be a funnier it just sort of makes the whole race

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it just sort of makes the whole race issue just looks ridiculous like if even CNN can't get it right let me put it this way a lot of racism allegations against anybody are basically the fact that there was some outcome something happened in which there was a racial imbalance and the assumption is well if there's a racial imbalance somebody probably caused that to happen somebody either didn't fix it maybe they should have tried harder to get a little more diversity just the mere existence of a lack of racial diversity makes people say well there's some racism going on here now CNN through a completely public and random process chooses one side with all white people on it in another side with all the diversity on it and they can't really reverse it because they showed their process and it was actually just random chance well how lucky is the president that

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well how lucky is the president that this particular outcome happened because what it shows you is they even CNN who one would imagine would bend over backwards and then bend over backwards again and then keep bending over backwards to get something like more of a more of a diverse situation both nights and even CNN because of just the oddities of how they chose things couldn't get it right what's that tell you about all the allegations that you see about every of everyone else well it might make you a little more circumspect about how much is people being racists and how much is sometimes stuff happens imagine if you will that Fox News had done exactly what's the intended which is hold a random drawing in public while you're watching and they pick people who are gonna be in the debates for each night if Fox News had done that and one group turned out to be all white do you

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group turned out to be all white do you think CNN would ever stop talking about it now it would've media be labeled racist and suspicious and even if they said okay we watched the process we do believe that it was accidental do you think CNN would have said let's just go with it anyway no CNN would have said once you pick these people Fox News why didn't you notice there was a diversity problem and mix it up a little bit it's not the law that says you have to go with these these selections that you did on TV that's just something you did for entertainment you can change the rules anytime you want you made the rules you can change them so hey Fox News why don't you put a few you know switch a few people until it looks a little more balanced you know that would be the attack but even see you then can't can't reach you know a an ideal racial diversity level without without a hiccup now and then so here's a bad sign

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hiccup now and then so here's a bad sign for Joe Biden first of all Joe Biden is in the all-white group which is I know maybe it'll work in his favor but it doesn't go if you're Joe Biden the last thing you want to do when you've been accused of let's say being racially not insensitive but let's say racially I don't even know how to describe it because Joe Biden is certainly not a racist I mean not even close not even a little bit you know I don't you know I'd love to tell you if you were but I don't see any but he's gonna be sort of harmed by putting in the output in the all-white group it's just gonna look like it's just bad look but here's the bad part for him Van Jones was on CNN and he said that in this next debate

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and he said that in this next debate Biden is going to have to show some spine ouch if your team meaningless a Democrats and Democrats supporters and CNN if your team says that you need to show spine and you're running for the presidency of the United States and the spine you didn't show was in the most tame situation of a public debate if you can't show spine in a you know harmless little debate that's not a good look for the leader of the United States so I think the fact that anybody would even raise that question or or put that phrase on it somebody says hashtag white spine that's pretty funny anyway that's a bad sign for Biden alright what else we got going

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for Biden alright what else we got going on here I believe that's about all we have going on here so I'm gonna take my leave somebody said somebody's asking in the comments who cares what van jou and says better anything I do I care a lot about what Van Jones and says here's why Van Jones is in a very very very small group of people who seems legitimate Van Jones seems to be willing to agree with a Republican if they have an idea that makes sense you worked with Republicans on prison reform for example he's in a very small group of people who do seem to be free from team sports he has a preference that's okay we all have a preference but I'm pretty sure if Van Jones saw his team do something egregious he would call it out because I believe that's that's who he is so you

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believe that's that's who he is so you should pay attention to Van Jones he's he's the real deal and I will talk to you tomorrow