Episode 616 Scott Adams: Racist Don Lemon, Racist Voters and Trump Derangement Syndrome

Date: 2019-08-02 | Duration: 1:11:01

Topics

Where are Biden voters going as his numbers drop? Kamala acts like she doesn’t believe she belongs in the Oval Office Her voice and mannerisms project lack of confidence Don Lemon’s interview of Pastor Bill Owens…digging HARD for dirt RDL Don Lemon stating his opinions as facts If Don Lemon BELIEVES something…does that make it a fact? “Nobody wins a trade war”…really? What’s the alternative? In the past, we INTENTIONALLY accepted unfair (to us) deals Is it time to stop propping up other countries at our expense? Inner city problems are a SYSTEMS issue Existing systems prevent money and resources from helping Bill Pulte, is effective because his SYSTEM is effective Most current problems are SYSTEMS and DESIGN problems

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don't pop guess what time it is that's right you guessed correctly it's time for Scott for coffee with Scott Adams I forgot who I was and what I was doing here for a moment not that unusual but I know why you're here you're here for the simultaneous up doesn't take much to enjoy the simultaneous sip and everybody knows it's the dopamine dia that gets you going from the rest of the day it's the best part of the day hey car P Duncan good to see you and the rest of you Jordi always good to see you Kim well you know what you need you need to cover a mug or glasses stein the chalice detector it's a flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous sip the part that makes everything else just go better now I got

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everything else just go better now I got myself a little coffee warmer now no more cold coffee for me I have upgraded so let's talk about the news okay we're done talking about the news because there's no news there's just a bunch of made-up stuff that people are selling it as news I'm almost I'm almost positive things happen somewhere in the world didn't we used to call that news what happened to all the stuff happening check cnn.com and then fox news calm and find me some actual news there's nothing happening in the world the whole world is just on summer vacation apparently now I don't think that's true they're probably just as many things happening as usual but for some reason they're not making it to being newsworthy let me tell you some of the things that are new worthy Mario Lopez said something insensitive about transgender children

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insensitive about transgender children that's like a major headline and what did what did Mario say about transgender children before I make this comment I will remind you that I'm very Pro transgender and I've been arguing that they should have more access to sports especially but I haven't really talked about transgender children and apparently Mario Lopez said this deeply offensive thing he said that if your kid has you know maybe the potential to be trapped in the wrong gender is that the appropriate way to say it I don't know all the appropriate words so if I accidentally offends anybody don't mean to so Mario Lopez was saying about children deciding what their own gender is you said that parents have to be the quote adults of the situation and wait until their child's formative years to make determinations about gender or

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make determinations about gender or transition and for that Mario Lopez might lose his job are you kidding me yeah I don't know it seems like yeah there ought to be some kind of an age limit on that now the worst-case scenario worst-case scenario he was wrong this is sort of a a parenting technique right it's not like you saying bad things about transgender but what part of this is bad in terms of you know bigotry or anything like that about transgender this is technique he's talking about technique it's either true you know right or wrong if an expert says you know Mario I see where you're coming from but the technique should be different and then makes the case then you compare the two techniques and you go back I don't know if anybody's measured this has anybody done a study

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measured this has anybody done a study for example was ready science they were back one way of parenting over the other in this specific case maybe I don't know but the worst-case scenario is that Mario had a suboptimal parenting strategy for an unusual situation which he hasn't experienced that's it that's the worst thing this could be and the news is that he might get fired over it really there's nothing in this this suggests any kind of what we call a bigotry against transgender in fact it seems very accommodating it feels like it feels like he's open to it all he just wants to have a technique that you know plays the odds the best yeah yeah I know we're talking about three-year-olds here so easy the writer is wrong but I don't

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so easy the writer is wrong but I don't think you get fired over that if you do it's a bad world I have a merit mario lopez story you want to hear my Mario Lopez story I was at an airport in LA Burbank or some place some smaller Airport in LA and went into the gift shop and you know Airport gift shops they're just a little hole in the wall fairly small space and there are only two people in the gift shop one of them is the cashier and the other is Mario Lopez so as me and Mario Lopez it was this little this little airport gift shop and here's the weird thing you probably know he's unusually you know fit he's really muscular and buffed out and he was wearing I believe he was wearing like a tank top you know t-shirt so like his entire shoulders and arms are hanging out and it was actually uncomfortable being in the same small

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uncomfortable being in the same small space with him because it he's actually so he's so good-looking in person that you feel like you're you don't want to look and you don't want to stand next to it
it it's actually it was actually uncomfortable to be in the same space with him while he was half naked looking all buffed out I'll probably get fired for that if I had a job all right um let's see what else we got going on I guess ben shapiro had said that the Connell Harris moment is over and he thinks it's now becoming a Joe Biden versus Elizabeth Warren race and it's doing so quickly he likened Harris's previous rise in the polls to Carly Fiorina having a good week and then then physically well I don't know he might be right I'm not gonna say that that's wrong I'm gonna say it's

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that's wrong I'm gonna say it's premature because here's what I think is gonna happen we don't know what happens when Biden's poll numbers decrease because I think they will where do those votes go do you think a Joe Biden vote would more likely go from the more centrist Biden supporter do you think those votes would be transferred over to one of the two most radical people running Elizabeth Warren do you go from centrist conservative type of Democrat to the most extreme when you change horses because the the biggest change will be people abandoning Biden and then choosing a second choice what will people choose will they choose Warren or would they choose Harris well I think a lot of people are going to choose Harris and then the second thing they you need to look at is what the matchups look

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to look at is what the matchups look like in the States so and the timing of that so whoever's whoever seems to be polling best in the early States as big as a big advantage so I'm gonna say I'm gonna keep my calm Lou Harris prediction it might be right it might be wrong showing my work and and here's the basic calculation I think they want to beat Trump more than they want anything else I think that if you have a woman running you've got you know you're locking in a lot of women voters if you have a person of color about running you're gonna lock in a lot of people who like that or identify with it and Harris brings both I'm reading that the biggest the biggest hit from Tulsi Gabbard was the hypocrisy hit which was you put all these marijuana violators in jail which I

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marijuana violators in jail which I don't like a bit one bit but it was the law at the same time you laughed when you were asked if you smoked marijuana now the attack here is issues they mean heartless person who just put people in jail for a crime that she herself committed well I just don't know that people care about that topic at all because I think almost everybody looks at it and says wait what was her job her job was prosecutor and what was the law this stuff was against the law what choices yet did she have a lot of choice about who she prosecuted I don't know if that's an evidence how much how much choice do you have if something's clearly against the law and you have somebody in custody who clearly broke that law does the prosecutor get to say you know I don't like that law I think all I think I just won't do that one do they have that option I don't know now of course have been quite vocal about wanting to

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been quite vocal about wanting to decriminalize or legalize marijuana so I don't like it one bit that she put people in jail over marijuana offenses but it might a better job you know if hadn't been her that and wouldn't the next person they put in that job we have to prosecute people because they broke the law I don't know what choice she had so I don't know the people's situation and they say if I were in that situation I would have played it differently because you wouldn't have you wouldn't have you would not have played that situation differently if it were your job to be a prosecutor you probably would prosecute people who broke the law even if you didn't like those laws so the people claiming that there was some kind of a tan knocking on punch I didn't see it I did see calmly Harris looking unconfident and I'm going to say again because I think this is so important she doesn't act this is Komal Harris I'm

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doesn't act this is Komal Harris I'm talking about she doesn't act like she thinks she belongs in the White House she acts like somebody who's been forced to pretend she's a candidate meaning she doesn't seem like she has conviction that she's the one who needs to be there that she's the future that she's the one and and it comes across in her reactions when other the other candidates are attacking her you can see it at her body language and her expressions and all that but because I'm wrong somebody's saying I'm wrong I almost said that because I'm wrong no because I'm older than many of you there's something I've seen that many of you haven't seen before and what I've seen is how people's confidence or at least the way they project their confidence can change on a dime I'll give you my my own example when I first submitted my sample of comic strips to syndication the

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of comic strips to syndication the companies to see if I could get a job as a cartoonist meaning I was I wanted to be published and represented by these cartoons syndication companies and they're the ones who sell it to the newspapers etc so I was trying to give my big break send some samples in and most of them rejected me but one of them it was called a United media at the time doesn't exist anymore but the editor for United media called me and said hey we want to give you a contract now I had just been rejected by another comic syndication company and they said that maybe I should find an actual artist to do the drawing for me that's actually the advice I got I try I was trying to become a cartoonists and the feedback I got from a top professional in the field and literally from the the biggest or second-biggest cartoon syndicate in the world the most important person who makes this sort of decision in the whole world said to me personally you know

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world said to me personally you know maybe you should find an actual artist to do the drawing for you ouch but so I thought I had you know done everything I was gonna do and and cartooning wasn't going to work out for me
me but there was one phone call left and it was the one that that came in later and and when she offered me a contract I said wow you know that's great but do you think I should find an actual artist maybe to work with maybe I could find a partner I'll do the writing the actual artist will do the drug for me and my editor who had just made the offer to be a syndicated cartoonist said to me no your drawing is fine she said my drawing was fine just the way it was she didn't say you're almost there she didn't say we can get you there she totally Wizard of Oz to me you know The Wizard of Oz story The Wizard just tells them they have the qualities in

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tells them they have the qualities in the Nate they suddenly have them because they've been given the confidence that they're smart or the confidence that they could be brave so my editor tells me that I am an artist she tells me that I'm not only a cartoon artist having never been paid for anything in this realm whatsoever she tells me that I'm a cartoon artist at a world-class level and she said it plainly that I was a world-class if she didn't use those words but the implication is she was hiring me for the the highest level of cartooning that you can do which is a syndicated cartoonist it's the highest paid highest prestige and she said there was nothing wrong with the way I drew here's the fun part of the story I've been drawing for all my life so I knew what I was capable of and I wasn't and I wasn't really capable of drawing well if you've seen my early comics you know I'm not exaggerated and

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comics you know I'm not exaggerated and I'm not I'm not being humble I was not good at drawing period but she told me I was within one week I was good at drawing after a lifetime of not being good at drawing one person who was the right person who was the expert who was credible said no you aren't you actually are a good artist it's fine just the way it is and within one week I was a good artist it was amazing I watched my own work and because someone told me that I could do this suddenly I could it was almost overnight and you know he kept improving and I you know I stabilized it after a while you're after a number of years you just sort of lock in a look because you don't want the look to to move too much but it is very common for people to you know take a bit of confidence and completely change their game I watched a boss of

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change their game I watched a boss of mine years ago at the first time I saw this happen i watch the boss of mine get promoted I'm sorry I watched a co-worker of mine get promoted to become a boss over the whole department and when it happened I thought to myself man that was the wrong decision because this person this co-worker didn't didn't seem to exhibit any kind of leadership leadership charisma or Talent seemed like sort of a nervous maybe more of a beta personality than an alpha and I thought to myself how is this going to work out this is a person there's a really good at their job where they are but doesn't exhibit any of the qualities you'd expect of a leader or a manager two weeks later look just like a manager look just like a manager so in two weeks this person who got the job and it was essentially told no you actually have more talent than than what it takes to

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more talent than than what it takes to do your current job your talent is up here you should be a pretty important leader and within two weeks I watched people become the person that they had been told they were it's it's a very basic element of the human condition that you will become the person that you're you're told let me give you another example I got invited to visit the set of a sci-fi called Babylon five years ago because they were I'd made some mention about it being my favorite TV show and I think I'd said it in Reader's Digest in an article or something and so they invited me is just a thank you they invited me to have a small part on the sci-fi series called Babylon 5 and during one of the staff get-togethers and breaks the staff gathered around to sort of thanked me and just sort of kept me

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thanked me and just sort of kept me commemorate the fact that I was visiting because I was I was a bigger I was a bigger celebrity back then for for Dilbert and the showrunner who was the writer and the I guess executive producer what was his name somebody will remind me of his name in the comments here but he gave a little speech to the group just you know thanking me for coming by etc and yet he had this quote that came from somebody else but I don't know what it was and it was referring to the fact that I had called Straczynski thank you his last name is Rosinski J michael Straczynski and I had said prior to going to visit I had said in the interview I think that it was the most well-written show of that genre so I really liked the writing on Babylon 5 and I'd said that and the the writer who was this hugely successful had his own series he was the boss etc he said that in mental Latium that I

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in mental Latium that I I complimented his writing and he said this he said quoting somebody else I can't remember he said you're not a writer until another writer says you are and I've never forgotten that yeah of course he's a good writer so he's a great writer so that's why he says things you remember for the rest of your life because he's a great writer so and I thought about that and I thought that I thought I was just a fan you know now just saying what I liked about the show but I could tell that it was transformative to him in a small way it didn't make him go from you know bad to good but I could tell it wasn't a regular compliment I thought it was when I when I gave him the compliment I thought it was just ordinary fan gets a compliment but when I realized that the importance of it was that I was a famous writer at the time I had best-selling books and the Dilbert comic was doing great so being complimented by a writer is something that isn't like being complimented by a

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that isn't like being complimented by a fan there's there's no comparison they they turn you into a different person so that's what he meant it turned him into a writer by being complimented by a writer now he was already a highly successful writer but the point is that other people's opinion of you can shape you fairly quickly all right this is all getting back to Camilla Harris I took a and I'll get get to her in a moment I took a Dale Carnegie course years ago I talked about this all the time so I'll just give you the quick version it was a whole bunch of people who were bad at public speaking very nervous and had no self confidence who went there to learn to give a public presentation without looking like a basket case now I wasn't as bad as they were coming into it I had a little natural ham and miso it wasn't I didn't have as much trouble in front of people but I also didn't have the full technique but I watched an entire class of people go from sweaty messes to confident

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from sweaty messes to confident presenters in a few weeks simply because and this is the the entire technique is that we only had one rule the class compliments only that was the only rule you couldn't criticize anybody's speaking job in front of you is yall's we spoke in front of each other and that and the instructor would never say anything negative that was the only rule and that alone just that one rule turned an entire room full of sweaty shaking unconfident people into some of the best public speakers you'll ever see and it's a lifelong skill never goes away what was the difference how much technique did we learn in the class a little but none of it was important it was all the stuff you've heard before or you could read the book so the technique we learned was trivial what we learned was an experience we experienced talking

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was an experience we experienced talking in front of the crowd and then people saying good things about us we experienced that every time we talked in front of a crowd no matter how poorly it went the instructor would tell us what we did right so we learned like dogs that if we spoke in front of a crowd we'd get a reward until that's who you are you become wired that way now when if you tell me if you said Scott there's gonna be this thing we'd like you to come and speak in front of a thousand people on whatever whatever the topic is that doesn't matter to the point when I hear that my first impression is well that would be fun I actually think about standing in front of a thousand people on stage and thinking I think I'd enjoy that now you know that the average person if they are presented with it the possibility of standing in front of a thousand people and presenting would be the most frightening thing they'd ever done in their life that would have been true for

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their life that would have been true for the entire class of Dale Carnegie people but I'll betcha almost everyone in that class could easily stand in front of a thousand people and enjoy it enjoy it not just do well enjoy it while they're on the stage and look forward to it so those are the types of incredible transformations that happen almost instantly but there's situational you have to have the situation right so that there's a credible compliment given to the subject you're talking about somebody somebody can go from not believing that they're qualified to suddenly saying I am qualified and the moment that happens the moment your confidence goes from I don't know how I look I'm worried about how I'm being received the moment that changes - I'm good at this you can see it if that happens with Kamala Harris you're gonna see it and it's gonna be

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you're gonna see it and it's gonna be glorious it might not happen I'm predicting it's gonna happen if if she's as solidly in the top three and maybe she moves into the top two or so if there's ever a poll that says she she's in the top one give him temporarily I think she's gonna be a good frontrunner because the moment she thinks she belongs in the Oval Office you're gonna see it we don't see it right now she looks like somebody who's running for president she doesn't look like somebody who thinks she belongs there and now I'm not reading her mind I'm just saying that the way she presents is that somebody who's not not quite sure she belongs there somebody said her voice is horrible and you're right her voice needs work you know what you know what's one of the problems with her voice it projects a lack of confidence do you know how that do you know how you fix that voice you get confident it's

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fix that voice you get confident it's not the tone of her voice you think it is and the tone does matter I'll give you that but it's not exactly the tonal quality of the voice it's the confidence that she projects and even the the nasally thing if she took she probably would take need to take one day of voice coaching - to learn that away I'm gonna give you a whole I wasn't planning this but I'm gonna give you a class on proper speaking technique I had to learn all this when I lost my voice for a few years what I was trying to get my voice back i learned proper speaking technique which as it turned out didn't helping he'd get my voice back because it was a an organic problem but i learned these techniques and now they're they're helpful here's how you improve your voice and you can all do this at home I want you to hum happy birthday the tune to happy birthday Bahamut in a way that you can

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birthday Bahamut in a way that you can feel the vibration in this part of your face it's referred to as the mask of your face sort of the you know the front mask area so go like this and feel it filled up here when you do that yet somewhat by coincidence it activates the perfect parts of your throat and vocal area and then you take that into speaking so you do the humming and then you say a sentence and that sentence that you speak will be as close as you can get to your perfect speaking voice by the way this is that this is a common well-known technique so watch me do it for you
and now when I speak my voice is automatically better because I'm matching the tone that I hummed into my mask if you do this at home you'll notice that you sound more confident

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notice that you sound more confident more more energetic and you notice that all of my speaking my speaking equipment is now loosened up mm-hmm it's more resonant it's more deeper it's more it's more impressive and if I wanted to I could reproduce the sound all the time if I wanted to talk to you like I was a a news producer mMmmm I would do that right before I spoke and look how good my voice is it seems like there's an entirely big difference and all I did was
was mm-hmm-hmm and move my vocal production up to the top of Y atop of my equipment the problem is when you speak down here you speak down in your lower throat this is when you get a little you get a little bit of constriction yeah if you're a little bit not if you're a little bit nervous we're a little bit nervous these these little muscles down here they're they're very sensitive so a little bit nervous and it's gonna be really come a chrome

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and it's gonna be really come a chrome crossing my voice I'm trying really hard to speak but because I'm using the wrong part of my equipment it's too sensitive to nervousness now and the victory pose to open yourself up take a deep breath mm-hmm and now when I talk you could really tell the difference look at that you can feel the energy it's filling the room my god there's nothing that could happen now that would make me sound like anything like a leader I'm a king I run the world yay for me now I could have just as much nervousness in my head the second way I talked but I was using proper technique and it completely obliterates any chance for that little bit of nervousness to creep into my equipment the equipment is unaffected and you can see me sinking back to the other way I was talking like you could feel it going right down my throat so

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feel it going right down my throat so right now it's it's back down there now because of the way I do these periscopes I like to keep them personal so it's a it's a decision it's a decision not to talk like this I could easily talk like this every single day and boy would you say my voice is great some of you might say Scott you have a voice for radio why don't you do more radio Scott perhaps you could be working in voiceovers now I can do that voice but it wouldn't sound personal so I prefer just because it's just more fun you can connect with me better I'd rather talk to you like a human being like you were just sitting across the table from me so now having heard this the two things one your your confidence can change on a dime if you have the right inputs and if Carla Harris gets the right confidence maybe it's maybe

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the right confidence maybe it's maybe Obama visitor imagine this I'm not saying this will happen but just imagine this to make the point imagine Carmel Harris gets a phone call from Barack Obama and remember barack obama has not endorsed anybody so and this is hypothetical i'm not i'm not suggesting slap so imagine couple harris gets a phone call and she picks it up as literally Barack Obama and Obama says I've been watching I've been watching you you totally have this I want to meet with you tomorrow this should be like seriously Barack Obama just called me on the phone I mean she probably knows him but he called me on the phone he wants to talk to me Torah so Barack Obama shows up at her wherever she is and says he okay I talk to you personally and he takes her in the back and he says you know I've been watching politicians for years and you've got this you're definitely the person who belongs in the White House calmly Harris I'm gonna endorse you

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calmly Harris I'm gonna endorse you tomorrow don't embarrass me I know you have this you have all the tools own it what would Kamala Harris sound like the day after that she sound like a president I'll bet you in 24 hours she would sound like a president whereas right now she's struggling to do that that's the sort of thing I didn't again I'm not suggesting that Obama will do that I'm just saying that there can be an event that completely changes how you see yourself and that will be projected and we can all hear that and then on top of that if she gets a little voice coaching you saw how easily I coached you into a better voice it took what two minutes two minutes and suddenly you can all reproduce it at home you probably all tried it at home and at work so that's how close yes so when you're looking at you know that she's third or fourth in the polls and you're looking at Biden and I guess his lead went up

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at Biden and I guess his lead went up again but it only has to have one bad day and he's gonna look too old just one bad day and if he goes away will his votes go to Warren will they go to Bernie probably not so much the top person who is closest to the center is Kamal Ayers and I think she has more uh probably more flexibility and flip-flopping even closer to the senator as time goes on so look for her now so let me make my prediction as clear as possible I had been picking picking Kamala to get the nomination but losing the general for over a year the the important part is that that should get her confidence if that doesn't happen well then she'll just sort of fade away if something happens to give her confidence I think she goes all the way

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confidence I think she goes all the way to the nomination and then loses in the general let's talk about did you see racist Don lemons video interview with Reverend Bill Owens this is one of the best things ever I tweeted this so you can see it in my my tweet storm so Reverend Bill Owens was part of I guess a group of african-american pastors were invited to the White House recently and racist Don Lemon or RDL had him on and asked him basically was trying to drive a wedge between this black pastor and President Trump who apparently they've been working together and the pastor refused to say that he thinks the president is racist he just said he wouldn't do it and that he wants to work toward making the world a better place etc and here's my best the best part of this so you see Don Lemon trying to make it look like this Reverend was pulled into the White House as sort of a a

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into the White House as sort of a a stunt just to put a black face on the camera that was sort of where our TL was going and and then the the pastor Reverend Bill Owens he says this line well I think I'll be laughing for a month he says to RDL he goes bennett that he's been to the white house four times in five months which we didn't even know about right you didn't know that so this black pastor who RDL is trying to make look like he's just a stunt casting you know where you bring in a celebrity just to say just to make people interested so he's trying to act like that Trump just brought him in to you know pretend he was being open-minded and then the guy drops yeah I've been to the White House four times in the last five months [Laughter] nobody heard about that so that that just made me laugh so as you know Don Lemon has said a couple times now in the

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Lemon has said a couple times now in the in hosting or monitor moderating the debates he stated as a fact the President Trump is racist now most of you would say well I would think that would be more of an opinion and half the country thinks yes and I don't 30% of the country thinks no and the rest don't mr. questions and so is that a fact like is it news or is it just an opinion and I guess Don lemons opinion is that if he's convinced by what he's seen that that's the same as the fact but that's as good as you know a true fact now if that's how it works I'm willing to embrace that standard and so I've embraced that standard by reading renaming him rtl or for racist Don Lemon because it seems to me he wouldn't be complaining so much if he weren't a racist now I'm

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so much if he weren't a racist now I'm not a mind-reader mind reader so I can't I guess he is in her thoughts but Don Lemon standard is if you see people acting a certain way and your interpretation of that is that the racist that that's not an opinion if you've looked at evidence and and you're a reasonable person and looking at the evidence tells you that that person is a racist then they're a racist I think that's the standard he's supporting so let's go with that all right here's the thing that bothers me more than anything in the news how many times have you heard smart people say how many times have smart people said nobody wins a trade war all the time right have you even heard anybody say the opposite you know other people there's nobody who says trade wars are good in general yeah we're not talking about China in particular but the general statement

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particular but the general statement have you seen even one expert ever a historian and an economist a politician has any even one expert ever said trade worse sometimes they're good no not one person and so with this trade war with China people are saying well trade wars are bad therefore the president's messing up cuz you started to train to work trade wars are bad - everybody loses all right isn't there a question missing yeah there's a question missing here's the question that's missing what's the alternative what are you suggesting because one way to avoid a trade war is to do anything the other party wants so let's say that the other party decided to trade to charge us a hundred percent tariffs and we charge them no tariffs what how should we respond to that well trade wars don't work so you should just start shoveling money in their direction

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start shoveling money in their direction right I don't even know what to say when people suggest the trade wars don't work because what's the alternative the only alternative is to give the other side literally everything they asked for and they're not going to ask for something that's right down the middle a this sounds fair what do you think buddy you think this is fair not even close that's how we're in this situation we let China take advantage of US trade wise because originally my understanding is by the way somebody has to fact-check me on the history of this but my understanding is that many of our historical trade arrangements were intentionally one-sided for the other countries and the reason was our economy was so strong and they were so weak that we wanted some one-sided agreements so those other countries could become stronger and then they would become better trading partners it's good for

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better trading partners it's good for the world the more money there is in the world everybody wins and so it was actually a conscious decision to give them an uneven deal but time goes by China did pretty well South Korea doing pretty well Canada looks like it's okay I don't know if Canada might not be an example of this but now the president say hey okay that would those agreements made sense back then he doesn't say that but in essence but at the moment they don't because China is doing so well what are you supposed to do what do you what do you suggest we do simply take whatever China hands us China is killing tens of thousands of Americans a year with fentanyl that they promised to criminalize and make it a capital offense and then just didn't just didn't China promised that they would sign a trade deal and then just didn't they

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trade deal and then just didn't they didn't just decided not to China said they would buy a whole bunch more of our agricultural products and then they didn't they just didn't what do you do with that somebody tell me what's the alternative to a trade war so what I've suggested is that we don't we don't have any trade agreement at all we just tariff the living crap out of them and if they want to change that situation we entertain an offer but we shouldn't deal with somebody who's not negotiating well why would you negotiate with somebody who's not negotiating they're not negotiating they are not negotiating so we don't have a trade war because even the trade war would look like a little bit of negotiating but I haven't seen anything that looks like it it looks like just stalling they are literally running out the clock hoping that Trump doesn't get elected now if he does I think they'll just stall four more years wouldn't you

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stall four more years wouldn't you because remember China has a you know a thousand year plan they don't have a four year plan I think China's just looking to run out the clock
so somebody please in the media please just ask one of these experts who say trade wars never work what is the alternative and if that person says well I know what they're going to say do you know what they're gonna say let me let me give you Dale Dale could you come over here I'm gonna bring you in Dale to explain what the experts will say after that if they're questioned on it so Dale trade wars never worked nobody wins it's just the tax on people trade wars never worked okay I hear you but what's the alternative to a trade war do we just

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alternative to a trade war do we just take whatever the other side offers no matter how one-sided it is no you negotiate with them well that's exactly what we're doing we're negotiating with them so you're saying you we should do exactly what President Trump is doing no no you you negotiate successfully he's not being successful
he's trying oh pretty sure he's trying to be successful so how do we know when he's done it looks like maybe China is a problem here
worth never worked seen so so that's that so it looks like the Democrats have decided as their 2020 primary line of

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decided as their 2020 primary line of attack it looked like in 2016 they were saying that President Trump was a racist they have now clearly changed that message to voters for Trump are racists have you seen the change so the change seems to be instead of saying hey the guy you're voting for is a racist they're saying no you're a racist you're racist if you vote for him that's probably a stronger persuasion and it's not bad and it kind of makes you wonder if there needs to be some kind of linguistic response because once you've called somebody a racist they sort of have the advantage right because you're a racist is always going to be ten times stronger then no I'm not if you're arguing that you're not a racist you're not winning you're not winning in that situation so I think that will be the attack coming from coming from the left

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attack coming from coming from the left now somebody says who cares if they call you a racist well many people won't care but you only have to move 1% of the public who thinks that they don't want their personal brand to be impacted by this
Thanks one to know one yeah well I think everybody's everybody's a bigot at this point so I'll have to work on that what what is the what is the solution to that let me I want to try another topic here I have a let's say a theory hypothesis perhaps it's better word that most of the big problems in life have been solved we just have design problems now design problems here's what I mean I believe that just with the current amount of money and inventions and people and

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money and inventions and people and stuff we have all the stuff we need to solve a lot of problems but they're not organized right and so that's a design problem take for example the inner-city blight situations your problem with the inner cities is a system problem which is if the government says hey here's a bunch of money inner city go spend this and fix your problem the problem is there's likely to be some corruption and the money doesn't get spent at any good way so you don't have a problem of no money and you don't have a problem of not knowing how to spend it productively you have all the stuff you need but you have a design in your system that can't work there's there's just a you know there's a a built-in obstacle which is it's too tempting to just steal the money and put it you know give the bids to your contractor friends and that sort of thing so you might not have the right people involved maybe the local cities are just not qualified but it's not like

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are just not qualified but it's not like we don't have qualified people in the world it's not like we don't have money you know enough it's not we have all the things we need but it's not organized right that's why somebody like Bill Polti is especially effective because why he does is he brings a system to the problem so he brings a known functional designed already you know the tires have been kicked he knows how to coordinate it so that you can do it in the right way in a system that's reproducible and it works so you see why he gets so much attention is that he's not he's not just adding money that didn't exist before although a lot of his own money is going into the stuff but he's designing it better it's a design solution likewise I was realizing that I can redesign my kitchen so if I were to build a home tomorrow and I wanted to make it the least expensive home I could

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make it the least expensive home I could possibly build just the home part one way I could do it is I would make this my kitchen my phone this is already my kitchen two or three days a week what do I mean by that I mean that I use a food delivery service something like door - or one of the others and I go to my phone and I say what food do I want to eat and I go up up up up up up and that food shows up on my doorstep in an hour and then I eat it and then I'm happy now unfortunately ordering food this way is expensive because it's being prepared in a restaurant is put in these you know containers and then somebody has to be paid to pick it up and take it to your house so it's expensive but imagine if you designed a low-cost housing area around a central cafeteria where you

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around a central cafeteria where you could always just walk across the street to the cafeteria or you could pick up your phone and have somebody you know just walk it across to you to your house and knock on the door you would never need a kitchen if it was a 24 hour you know kind of cafeteria situation now somebody says that's too expensive it's not too expensive if you build it around that concept in other words if you design it right you have one place that's this creating food and then you've got a lot of housing around it that's that's having that food delivered or they go pick it up now it's exactly like a college dorm right so people are saying in the comments it's exactly like a college cafeteria now I went to Hartwick College in upstate New York and one of the amazing things about that little college is that it was used as the the demonstration kitchen for the food services company that operated the cafeteria so there's usually one big food services you know management

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food services you know management company that runs a cafeteria for for the college because the college is doesn't know about food services they just contracted them and we happen to be at the one that they used as the their sales tool so they would bring other colleges there and say hey look how good we do here at this college you should hire us for your college so we got all the best stuff everything was well designed and clean and our choices were good and I have to tell you I ate like a king the the food that I ate in college was completely acceptable and it was lots of variety it was reasonably healthy it could have been even more healthy etc and it probably is the least expensive way it could have been provided and I think you could take that to a whole other level of less expensive if you tried so if you started from the ground up and said you know I'm not trying to just fix the way how is this look today I'm just gonna start over and I'm gonna say how do we design a way to

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I'm gonna say how do we design a way to live that's that we can afford on let's say something you could afford on Andrew Yang's thousand dollars a month the minimum that you need for a home is a bedroom some storage you know closet plus some storage and your own bathroom that's a whole house if you had a really good view let's say an open glass you know a total view but the whole wall is just glass and you're looking at something interesting and you you know you can close the curtain if you want but that's your view and that's your bedroom and then it's attached to a really solid good bathroom with a shower and everything and then you've got your own little storage and then you've got your phone to get your food or walk across the street and pick it up and take it with you you'd have a house what would it cost for that little house if you put it with other little houses and surrounded it with services and let's say you provided Wi-Fi for everybody transportation is easy because you're

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transportation is easy because you're right next to mass transportation if you were just to design a place like that from the ground up what would it cost to live there to have a pretty good lifestyle that's like way better than a college student but the same level of cost probably you can really make a difference now if you could lower people's cost that much well suddenly it's easier to pay for everything else because the cost of a good life is going down so much that people have money left over so if you have to spend a little extra for your healthcare you have to spend a little extra for other stuff you have it so here's my point everything from urban blight to the cost of housing clearly our entire healthcare system you can see that the government's trying to make more free-market stuff happening there they're changing the design of healthcare by trying to get drugs in from Canada so that we get them at lower cost that's a design change

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at lower cost that's a design change those drugs were already just sitting there and they were available at a lower price apparently I'm not sure exactly how that works why that's a lower price but it is so you see the government fixing the design of how we get our health care and that's the fix we didn't have to print more money we didn't have to invent more stuff we just had to design it better and I would say that almost everything that's a problem right now is designed let's take even international relations let's take North Korea's nuclear program and let's take our relationship with China and Russia and all that it seems to me that we have a design problem because we don't have a physical problem we've got all the countries that I mentioned don't want to be at war with each other we have a common interest we all don't want to be at war there may be some small little you know things we

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some small little you know things we disagree about Taiwan etc but mostly we're on the same page about most stuff and somebody's telling me to wear a blue shirt I just realized that I'm matching my background good point it's laundry day I'll have a blue shirt next time it literally is laundry day that's why I'm wearing the shirt yeah so anyway that's my that's my point we could design all these things take take Venezuela Venezuela is system problem it's a design problem it fell apart now we've got a dictator in place how come we don't hear much from Venezuela what happened there I just realized that all the news stopped did the protesters just stop protesting what happened down there are we just waiting for the economy to continue crashing is there some kind of negotiation going on behind the scenes I don't know but my point being that there may be a design

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point being that there may be a design issue with Venezuela there might be something we could do that would fix that situation and it wouldn't require inventing something we just have to arrange assets better I'm not sure exactly how to do it but it's the general point that we're in the golden age where we don't have to invent stuff that doesn't exist we just have to rearrange it it's a design problem all right that's probably all I needed to talk about is there anybody who wants to argue with me about whether the president is a racist or whether you have TDS I'm going to put on my headphones and take some questions hold on
I apologize for that audio disruption alright I'm gonna take some questions if you see a little icon on the bottom of your screen it only works on a motorized so this won't work on your laptop but if you have an iPad or a phone there's two

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you have an iPad or a phone there's two little happy faces at the bottom of your screen if you click that it puts you in line to speak live with me on this periscope so I'm gonna looks like three people have already jumped in I'm gonna take em er Omer come at me Omar can you hear me Omar can you hear me Hey are you here to make your case that either President Trump is a racist or you have TDS oh okay I will take your general question now that you here okay great so it actually goes towards your the nuclear generation for topic okay okay so a few months ago you had an expert on I forgot his name but he was talking about mainly generation 3 and you guys kind of had a little bit of a disagreement where he was skeptical

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disagreement where he was skeptical about generation 4 because he thought there's already been so much investment into generation 3 and why pursue something else when their infrastructure is already there well I I would modify that by saying that he's saying that generation 3 is ready to go today but he's not anti generation 4 he just knows that that takes a there's a little more testing that we need there right but ultimately it would delay if you followed his strategy would delay generation fours entering the market if you will put more rope probably not because generation 3 is something that we can already do and at the same time separately there are different companies who are only working on generation 4 so both of those things seem to be funded and going forward I don't think one detracts from the other at all it seems like a path from three to four that we just have to get the steps right

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that we just have to get the steps right okay what was the question so ultimately the question was do you think that generation for the pursuit of generation four might limit the research into fusion technologies and that maybe it's worth just skippering the R&D in to generation four and just put all our resources into developing fusion as fast as possible well so yeah does fusion does generation four detract resources that could have gone into fusion but my you know if you were to speak in a purely theoretical sense maybe because there are only so many people in the world and if you could get all the best of them and they were all working on fusion maybe something would happen faster but the but it's pretty different technology and pretty different processes and my guess is that we have enough people to do all of that so what I'm not hearing is that nuclear projects can't give funding now maybe that's true but I keep hearing of nuclear projects

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but I keep hearing of nuclear projects that are getting funded and I've got a feeling that the try everything approach might be statistically the best way to go so and keep in mind the generation four is a an umbrella category for just a a safer technology that doesn't have the same risks of of meltdown doesn't have the problems with the waste now there are a whole bunch of ways to do that and we don't have a decided one way to do that but it's sort of the family of better nuclear reactors we don't have one best way yet so I think we have to just push on everything if if I were if I were the king I would say we probably have enough resources to push on all of these at the same time and and we'll be glad we did but you know your your question is theoretically appropriate because we'll never know if the other if fusion got slowed down because the you

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fusion got slowed down because the you know the handful of people who could have made that happen we're all busy doing something else maybe I but my instinct and experience as probably you want to push on all of them because we have enough resources to do that but thank you for the question they thought all right let's see if I can get somebody on here to argue just looking at your names I'm I'm gonna try to find somebody who looks like they're lively all right we're gonna have this guest and is it James James can you hear me I'm good how are you here to argue with you about trumped arrangements and I'm unfortunately I will take your question then all right so a couple weeks ago you're talking about incentives and it kind of got me thinking about how maybe you could incentivize illegal immigrants

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you could incentivize illegal immigrants to turn themselves in and if maybe there's some kind of deal that to deport these people who voluntarily go to like a preferential City maybe a tourist City or a city that has jobs waiting for them and then give them a kind of accelerated track back into the United States the right way of doing it legally you you know that's similar to an idea that I floated not too long ago to have an app for illegal immigrants and let's say for example that if you agree to use the app and you can find a job through the app because it would be people were looking for this exact type of work force you know mostly farms etc so as long as you could make a connection and the app showed that you had made an employment connection and that your we know where

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connection and that your we know where you are because you always have your phone with you there might be some way to have like some kind of middle ground area where the illegals are essentially licensed approved guest workers the moment that the app tells them that they've got a job lined up so you can walk across the border with the app and somebody says hey you stay there but you show them the app and say look I got the job lined up plus you can track me on on the phone because it's a special phone or app or whatever and you'll you'll know where I am at all times and then they'll say well that's not the kind of people we want to keep out because we've got American companies that want to hire you apparently they can't find Americans do different jobs so I like I like the general point of what you're saying which is if you create attractive options you might you might be able to get people to the right place and everybody wins so I like that idea I just don't let it get there so thanks

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I just don't let it get there so thanks thanks a question Oh have a lovely day all right you too let's take one more if I can get it's funny how I can't get anybody to argue with me on on these guest calls hello guest can you hear me good morning what's your name Joe do you have a question the end or do you want to argue with me about the president unfortunately I'd like to hear an argument but it's not gonna be from a question about TDs okay so you talked about President Trump ripping a hole in the fabric of reality yes so as it relates to TDS how much of TDS or how much will TDS be responsible for that rip of the fabric it'll couch that by adding the reason I bring this up is I do not have TDS but so many of my friends do and these are

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so many of my friends do and these are people that I have somewhat alienated from and I know that's kind of a trope but I don't think about it too much but you know when you ask whenever anybody brings up TDS I'm reminded of oh there's these people that have TDs and they're not my life so much anymore so maybe I ripped the fabric of my reality but I wonder how much it would rip the fabric of you know the nation and reality in itself well here's the thing if you if you rip a hole in reality and you know you've created a little hole in reality and some people can look through some people are gonna look through and they're gonna be ready and they're gonna say whoa I didn't expect this and that this changes how I see the world but I was ready for it other people are gonna find it threatening and scary and it's going to threaten their sense of who they were how smart they were before or what they understood about the world and they're going to reject it violently you know violently not necessarily physically violently but mentally violently and so I think that's

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mentally violently and so I think that's what you're saying I think you're seeing half of the world moving to a higher level of awareness about the importance of fact-checking apparently it didn't matter at all and the the power of persuasion and people are saying whoa and and other people are also seeing that the tds is a manufactured feeling i've often thought here's a good thought experiment I've said this before I think I'm considering writing an article on this topic but imagine if the news for the past three years about President Trump had been presented as just facts the stuff we knew to be true instead of opinion so I suppose no opinion and everybody had it on top of it by the media which is very persuasive it's for the biggest things yeah I don't know that people would have looked at the raw facts and had any kind of bad feeling about the president you know that they probably you know if they said let me give you an example you know when he said s whole

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example you know when he said s whole countries in that meeting if they had been reported factually they would have said the president used the swear word in a meeting and he was talking about some competing countries being behind you know economically and educationally and wondered about you know what would be the impact of bringing in more people from the the countries with low economy and low educational standards well that would have been pretty close to just saying the facts right but then people say well he wouldn't use that word unless he's a racist and that becomes and we're fooled into thinking that's the news that's not the news that's someone s opinion and here's yeah if I guess a follow-up them because I've been listening for two years so I've heard you know what I mean this is a daily list or two years I get it right so take me ten years down the line how does this all pan out because TDS is serious Scott and I'm just wondering if you have a prediction of this you know I mean I don't know what's gonna happen

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mean I don't know what's gonna happen from here because the just it's getting kind of more and more pronounced in terms of the manufactured TDs in the news over two years years it hasn't gotten any better it's gotten worse and people or people aren't coming to a realization you know any at all right on the TDS side or at least not in any type of wave yet does that happen does the TDS PDS crowd that you know was you know had their you know reality torn apart kind of come over slowly or do we bifurcate right I don't know right I've got a feeling this is gonna be you know situation where time in history can correct I think when historians are looking at the Trump administration from let's say 20 years from now you know they'll have some negatives but they're gonna say wow she got a lot done you know in probably things that other presidents couldn't have gotten done so I think at some point it'll just fade but I would think the most likely thing to happen is that after Trump a Democrat would get elected and so for the people

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would get elected and so for the people who were suffering from TDs they would say thank God we've gotten through this and and now everything is wonderful and we'll live and happiness it's too bad about the economy but in that war we're having but I think we get through it just by changing president someday I don't think it's going to happen in 2020 so you're you're right we likely have four more years of this now it's also possible that it will decrease just at the point where they know that they're there horror will time out save themselves all right it's only four years three years only two years and it should decrease on its own just because it's one of those problems in their mind that time solves if you just wait a little bit too won't be president anymore now of course they'll they'll start the the whole crazy stuff about he's never gonna leave office but I remind you that I won a

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office but I remind you that I won a $500 bet with a Republican who said that Obama would never leave office and they he's really just a dictator and and that was crazy when I heard it I won $500 on it if anybody can get a Democrat to bet with them actual money the president Trump won't leave office after whenever his term ends if you can get somebody to make that bet with you take it nobody took you up yet I think that out there that you're waiting for it ya know nobody's taking me up on that yet oh you know it would be interesting I haven't seen that question on predicted so it's not I haven't seen it as a an actual question and I would think that would be the the most interesting question you could put out there is you know will he leave office after the end of his term the loser think man thank you yes I think that's gonna that's gonna leave a mark so that's our November 5th and I'll be promoting that into the

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and I'll be promoting that into the coming months so thank you Joe thanks guys take care buddy all right and that's all for today I'm gonna go do something else and I'll talk to you tomorrow