Episode 611 Scott Adams: Baltimore, Joe Lockhart and Other Disasters
Date: 2019-07-28 | Duration: 32:29
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Is Joe Lockhart the worst human being in the entire world? “Baltimore is rodent infested”…Is that anti-rat or pro-rat? Host Victor Blackwell’s emotional tear-up
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shivers shivers I say well normally what I do is I make myself some notes before I do these periscopes and then I look at my notes and I say to myself hey I think I'll talk about these things on my notes today I have no notes for other cells in here but no notes that are relevant to this because it seems like there's just one topic one topic the poor Democrats having now experienced the most humiliating defeat in the history of politics not counting 2016 and here I'm talking about of course the Muller the Muller catastrophe what would be a better word for the Muller thing the Muller disappointment the greatest disappointment of all time
so how would they respond well if you are yeah an ex Clinton communication
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are yeah an ex Clinton communication person you might say something like everybody's a racist who votes for president Trump Joe Lockhart possibly not the best person in the world actually tweeted today let's make it clear I'm paraphrasing that anybody who votes for President Trump is a racist tension wear that badge proudly and I thought to myself was there some kind of competition to see who could be the worst human being in the world and is Joe competing at the highest level for this what exactly could be worse for the country than declaring that everyone who votes for a candidate is a racist everyone how could that person how could that person who said that in public ever get a job again how could you expect to go through life operating in society
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go through life operating in society having just branded I know 35% of us from whatever it is as racist for a political preference which resulted in the lowest unemployment for african-americans a raging economy no wars and pretty much everything going pretty well what exactly what do you do with that if you've just suffered the biggest humiliation in political history well you gotta come up with something it looks like poor Joe Lockhart either flipped out entirely and he's just lost his mind or he's one of the worst people in the whole world and I'm not even sure that's an exaggeration I mean normally I don't you know go after a person I'd rather go after ideas but if that person is a serial killer well then you go
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is a serial killer well then you go after the person that's okay if someone says something so destructive to the society that you live in and the people you love so destructive that half of us should be treating the other half as raging racists I don't know if that person is a good person I think that crosses the line from politics to just flat-out being a horrible human being whose value in this society is deeply in question I would say so one has to question that so of course the big conversation today is baltimore baltimore baltimore here's what I saw so the president of course is responding to the fact that he said Baltimore was a a struggling place I won't use his language yet we'll talk about that in the moment and he went after Elijah Cummings who of course is a superstar of what would he call it civil
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superstar of what would he call it civil rights so yes he's a superstar of civil rights and so when Trump went after Baltimore saying it was I guess who wrote didn't infested and that was interpreted how do you think how do you thinks he then interprets that when you say hey this city is rodent infested well see that does what it always does it says why are you calling the people an infestation what that's the opposite if you're the President of the United States and you're complaining loudly about the living conditions of a certain city you are supporting the people who live there that's what that means if you're anti rat about a city that has
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you're anti rat about a city that has both rats over unfortunately too many of them apparently and humans trying to you know make their best in in a world which has not been kind to them you're not anti people you're anti rat the rats the rats should be on the other side from all of us we should be unified against rats President Trump somehow and I wish I were making this up it's the craziest thing somehow Trump got the Democrats to side with the rats I think because his quote his tweet was anti rat I don't know how much more clearly anti-rattle be anti rat is pro people because you'd like the people to not experience all the rats that was very clearly the point the President of
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very clearly the point the President of the United States doesn't complain about a city and its rats because he's in favor of the rats what the hell is wrong with you if you think he was Pro rat no anti rap very clearly doesn't like the rats rats are here here's President trouble not liking them not liking the rats anti rat could I be any more clear about that it's rats versus people in Baltimore the president is rooting for the people okay he's in favor of the people the Democrats have actually taken sides with the rats against the people I guess because I don't know how else to interpret this so Victor Blackwell african-american which matters to the story unfortunately but what a messed up world what a messed up world that when I want to talk about Victor Blackwell you
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want to talk about Victor Blackwell you know a major major host on CNN how messed up is it that in order to tell my story I have to tell you he's African American like the fact that I even have to include that in my story is just wrong on a thousand levels like it's the thing we should be ignoring as hard as we can to have the better country and instead it's the thing we have to talk about but let's talk about it so Victor Blackwell african-american host gave a I don't know if he actually cried but he was emotional semi almost tearful defense of his beloved Baltimore and I you know I respect him for loving his hometown that's all that's all great but he presented it his argument that Trump refers to black and brown people as infestation that is exactly the opposite
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infestation that is exactly the opposite of what happens both in this case and in the other cases were the Trump Trump has used the word infestation in public when he uses it he's talking about the crime and the disease because he's in favor of the people he doesn't he doesn't talk about the crime and the disease because he's in favor of the crime and the disease and the rats he's against those things da can everybody give me a dog we're gonna do a simultaneous duh this calls for people all over the country listening to this this periscope at the count of three I want you to give give your best duck so that you can express your amazement that the Democrats are taking sides with the rats let's let's let them know that we understand that when we talk about infestation of the cities we're against the rats the rats
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cities we're against the rats the rats are the bad people in the story the people are the good people in the story wouldn't you love to help Baltimore yes yes indeed no joke I have been in deep conversations in the past two years about how I personally and some other people who lead a Republican can help Baltimore I've actually been in those conversations with people who were talking about large amounts of money and how it could be helpful to Baltimore though no those conversations didn't go when to where in part because we didn't know if we could work with Baltimore alright so I don't need to say more about that but reality is quite different quite different from whatever they're doing alright get ready for your best stuff at the count of three one two three da da yes when the president talks about infestation it's an anti rat pro-people pro-people
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an anti rat pro-people pro-people how do we know this while the president clarified and he said the facts speak louder than words this is in his tweet the Democrats always played the race card yes they do da da when in fact they have done so little for our nation's great african-american people what's the best compliment they're our nation's great african-american people well you probably say great because he's calling them great people so that would be a compliment by anybody any measure but you know what's the bigger compliment our nation's our nation's our nation's great african-american people if you're a nationalist what is your best compliment to a person you're a part of our nation it's the greatest endearment in the political sense you know in the political sense our nation's great
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political sense our nation's great african-american people is probably the ultimate sign of endearment our nation's and he says now now lowest unemployment in the US history you know only getting better Elijah Cummings has failed badly what is the best thing that president Trump could do for Baltimore go after his leaders you want to help the people in Baltimore go after his leaders do you think the people in Baltimore can help themselves well some of them can certainly but they're in a deep deep hole and the biggest lever the best way to help Baltimore is to go after their leaders with no mercy no mercy president Trump is finally going after their leaders with no mercy finally who's trying to stop him from
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finally who's trying to stop him from doing this the Democrats Nancy Pelosi well he's a racist Joe Lockhart oh he's a lot he is a racist don't make him go after the leaders who have just dug this gigantic hole and through their population into it don't go after them huh
huh now anyway so CNN of course because they only have one business model which is hey have you ever seen the I wonder what it's like at a you know an executive producer level as CNN I'm a feeling it goes like this okay so what are we gonna do from story has anybody got any ideas for how to turn ordinary words into obvious signs of racism how about we use the word infestation perfect perfect we've already used all the other words and called them racist now make America
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called them racist now make America great is racist and if we're talking about rodents infestation is racist now okay let's just make all words racist and see so CNN has become a ridiculous joke of itself okay maybe that happened earlier this Baltimore thing is why the Democrats should not be allowed to have power and I hate saying that because I'm not really the team player guy I don't really care if Republicans or Democrats have power I really don't I'm not registered to anything I've told you I'm left to Bernie in terms of I would like have you no health care and be able to have a good life I don't know how to get there neither does Bernie but I certainly don't have some natural automatic preference for party if the Democrats
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preference for party if the Democrats were killing it I'd say yay Democrats I wouldn't care but oh my god the Democrats have gone from ruining cities to try to take their game to the national level and try to ruin the whole country and I've got a feeling that they have lit the wrong match here because what's going to have tell me what has happened for the last two days so for the last two days what have we talked about Trump is a Trump is a racist and everybody supports him as a racist because we're opposed to rats that's the story on CNN Republicans are anti rat and Pro this nation's great african-american people very clear distinction one great the other rats Republicans are very clear about what
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Republicans are very clear about what team they're on Team America not team rat Democrats I just realized that you can't spell Democrat without rat in it Democrat yeah if you combine democracy with rats what do you get demo rats I guess I'm not the first person to come up with that too pun but I don't think it's a coincidence but what has happened is I'm seeing stories about Baltimore and what a terrible place it is you're seeing some really you're gonna see stories about San Francisco streets and about Baltimore streets and babies Chicago streets and murder rates and infestation I think you're gonna see nothing but you're gonna see nothing but that stuff and I don't think this is good for Democrats let me put it this way thanks
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Democrats let me put it this way thanks to them Nancy Pelosi in the Democrats were in CNN what will most of the conversation be for this week well there will be two versions of it one version will be look at that big ol racist Donald Trump and that will give you more evidence that makes you shake your head and say I don't see that in other words they'll say he's anti rat and therefore he's a racist and people all over America will say okay are other people seeing this cuz I'm not sure I'm seeing it and that conversation is going to make you focus on the problems in the cities just because that's where the conversation went it's gonna make you think about those rats and it's going to remind you that every one of the cities that we're talking about have Democrats as leadership that is the matchup that
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as leadership that is the matchup that Trump wants talk about walking into a trap you know I've often said that one of trumps of superpowers is that since he can take the heat he can do what nobody else can do he can say what people you know other people just can't say he can raise topics that other people would be afraid of so just think about the fact that he just went directly and hard and Elijah Cummings one of the most famous leaders of the African American community a hero to civil rights but that hero to civil lights or civil rights was standing between progress and doing something for Baltimore he's the problem not him specifically but anybody who's in charge of that area you know the mayors and etc they've got some explaining to do and instead of going
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explaining to do and instead of going soft on because he doesn't want to be called a racist this president says no I'm gonna go hard at it I'm gonna go as hard as you can go at something and I'm gonna put all the energy there now when it's done they will not have called me a racist more than they already were in other words it won't make any difference because they've already you know exhausted that that play so badly that there's just they're running on fumes they're there's no you know Joe Lockhart tried to figure out a way to make this a bigger claim you know it was big enough they said your president is racist and now he said okay that didn't work what if I say everyone who votes for them for suppose for him is a racist let's try that now that we've exhausted the races claim about the candidate let's see if we can extend it to a third of the country Oh Joe Lockhart no wonder you can't get a job with politics anyway that's the worst idea anybody ever had not only
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worst idea anybody ever had not only will it not work but man that's gonna get people out to the polls actually that should turn out the vote for Trump so so trouble goes of this situation where things can't get any worse for him meaning the heat can't go any hotter he's already operating at maximum heat there's nothing left they don't have anything that's worse than racist and it didn't work it's completely bankrupt and it's just ridiculous he's jumped the shark by so many jumps there's you can't even see the shark anyone worst analogy ever but he's putting super heat on Baltimore he's putting the super heat on their leaders and he's calling him out for failing the quote nation's great african-american people to quote the president who else could have done that think about it think about say you're a
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think about it think about say you're a citizen of Baltimore let's say you're an African American citizen to Baltimore you know that your mayor as failed you you know that right because you just look around and you know you know that there's some leadership failure during our president United States on your behalf just took them on directly at great risk to himself it looks like a risk from the outside obviously you can take the heat so it doesn't feel like a risk internally evidently and so somebody is fighting for them against the wrath and the ineffective leadership of their city and he's taking incredible fire to do it in order for the president to do that he of course needs his supporters to take the fire with it I am NOT a Republican
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the fire with it I am NOT a Republican as you know I don't vote as most of you now partly to keep myself independent in thought and largely that's actually and I would say at this point if I'm forced to take sides I would take sides with the productive side the productive side is whoever is telling the black people in Baltimore your leaders are failing you that's productive because that seems objectively true it seems productive to take sides with the people and take sides against the rats the actual rats the president has done that he has caused the Democrats to literally have to defend the rats and to defend their running of the situation if you don't appreciate this I don't think you're seeing it clearly you should really
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seeing it clearly you should really appreciate this honestly this is the reason that people voted for him I don't think there's a better there's a better example of why people voted for Trump you know I don't think people were thinking in terms of this issue people were now thinking if Trump is elected he'll go after Baltimore's leadership they were thinking that not specifically that but here's what I thought he would bring to the country I thought Trump would approach problems the way nobody else ever approached them and that that alone would be healthy because if he approaches the problem in a different way and it's just not a way that can work well you know the system will adjust the system will correct he'll try something else he does a lot of a B testing right he tosses things out to see what the reaction is before he knows what the next step is which is
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he knows what the next step is which is smart smartest thing you've ever seen from any politician and and he's clearly approaching this Baltimore thing differently now I don't know if his intention was to help Baltimore or he was doing it as a political attack which was expedient but here we are and I think it probably if I had to guess we'll probably bring the tension to Baltimore and if it does bring attention to Baltimore maybe some kind of relief or help maybe it gets some better leadership maybe it does something good but it's certainly different and it's something that only he could do because who else would go after Elijah Cummings who else would do it Elijah Cummings for all of the good which he has done and my understanding is it's a great deal so you know I have full respect full respect for his you know his history of accomplishment but at the moment there's
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accomplishment but at the moment there's no question that Baltimore is a mess and there's no question that he's a leader in that area those are just facts does Cummings get a pass because of his admittedly gray work in the you know on social rights well I think we can respect that and still say this other part is I think we can be adults I think we can be adults and say aye we can handle more than one variable why can't Elijah Cummings be a superstar in one field civil rights why can't he be a superstar at that but not so good about helping the you know crime situation or the employment situation in Baltimore why can't that was both to be true there's no conflict there so the president does what nobody else would have done goes after Elijah Cummings that to me that's why you elected him
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that to me that's why you elected him you those of you who voted for him that's why you wanted you wanted the person who would look at that situation say huh it looks like if I enter this situation maybe I can you know shake the box get something going here but of course you know I'll have a hundred arrows in my back let's give it a try so he walks in shakes the box all the arrows hit him in the back that's the sound of the arrows hitting him in the back it's pretty good sound effects don't you think and then he says huh looks like I got a lot of arrows in my back and they just pulls it now goes on to the next topic tweets about something else hair sets on fire all right I don't think anything else happened in the last 24 hours did it I don't think anything else happened somebody says stick with
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else happened somebody says stick with cartoons yeah my sound effects aren't that good come on they're great
Baltimore's only number two on the murder list you know I never talked more about Baltimore than this week I was suddenly saying that tulsi gabbard sued Google yeah we don't know too much about that or I don't know too much about it I'm sure Tulsi knows all about that
here's what I'm gonna do I think I mentioned this before I'm planning to do an interview series that's on top of these periscope so in other words in addition to these parent scopes I would do a slightly higher quality recorded interviews with some special people and I would love to do some presidential candidates now here's my pitch roughly a hundred thousand people will see any of my periscopes or YouTube's and if I had
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my periscopes or YouTube's and if I had a you know big-name guests it would be at least a hundred thousand if you can get a hundred thousand Americans to look at you talking in a forum that there would be a friendly forum because I'm not I'm not the one who's gonna try to embarrass somebody on an interview but I would ask interesting questions I guarantee that you would see some questions you hadn't seen before some ways of thinking some some casualness to it that was unusual and I think you'd enjoy it give you a real sense of the candidate but I'm looking for someone to go first I did hear I had heard a positive response from Andrew yang but that communication sort of dropped so I haven't heard from his team but if there's anybody else whether it's Tulsi Gabbard or anybody else you could just contact me on Twitter or there's lots of ways to contact me if you if you get on LinkedIn and send me a message I read
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LinkedIn and send me a message I read all of those so you could guarantee that I would see your message within a day if you've got a LinkedIn I don't respond to all the messages I get on all the platforms but because here's a little secret a little secret for you my smallest social media platform is LinkedIn like six thousand people or something and I don't get that many messages so if it's a business type of thing like it's something who wants to begin in an interview or something that's the way to contact me I always see those alright but I see most of what's on Twitter - I just can't guarantee I'll see all of it because I've got over 300,000 followers here get more messages or at least try for Donald Trump jr. I don't know do you think I would be more suited for talking to someone who's closer to my philosophies or more distant from them I think God I think it
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distant from them I think God I think it could be more interesting talking to somebody who's got some space and I would love to talk to Don jr. but I don't know that I don't know that we could produce any news from that all right Tim Poole Tim Poole would be great but I'm thinking of some politicians I'd love to see Tulsi or one of the one of the people who is a little bit down in the pack would be great least one of the ones whose names you know once you get past the bottom six or so of Democrats you start getting into the names that even I don't know you know they the one who was the governor and the one who was in Congress and I don't know he can loop her and whatever I I don't think there'd be too much interested in those guys but the top six I'd love to talk to him all right that's all I got I don't have anything else there's just one story in the world that's the Democrats have sided with the rats and nothing else
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sided with the rats and nothing else talk about I will talk to you later