Episode 618 Scott Adams: Let’s Talk About the Very Bad Day

Date: 2019-08-04 | Duration: 45:54

Topics

Some blame President Trump…for crimes committed by media Media influence enflames people and situations for profit Did the “Fine People” HOAX or others influence shooters? Complicated things aren’t driven by a single variable Media enflaming the public with untrue reporting, for political gain Aren’t they partly responsible for actions of radicalized? Would fair and unbiased reporting… …SAVE LIVES but sacrifice media profit? Would media shareholders accept less profit to save lives?

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so everybody how about everybody come on in here and we'll talk about the very bad date now I was trying to decide whether I would even do a periscope this morning yes it's really not any kind of a morning to to have a normal day but instead I think we should lift a cup to the surviving families to the victims to the first responders just so that they know we're thinking about them we're not celebrating we're not happy about anything today we're all just thinking about the victims and the families and let us silently enjoy a sip all right so I don't even it's hard to know where to begin in the day like this the first thing I'd like to say is you'd like to think that all of the horribleness was

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think that all of the horribleness was the you know the murders themselves in the carnage and the wounding the death and those of course are the the big things in terms of changing lives but the the horror of watching the politicians respond to this is almost as bad there there's a gigantic crime that's happening if you can call it that sort of a crime above the crime and the crime above the crime is pretending that we know why this is happening and whose fault it is if you're blaming any of these shootings on any one person whether it's the President or the NRA additive everywhere else I don't think you're really on the right page I doubt that there's one simple answer to this I've predicted in fact that if you if you count what drones can do now and will do in the future plus these shootings I think the days of large public

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I think the days of large public gatherings may be coming to an end there may be a time when that just doesn't happen anymore because you don't want too many people in one place somebody will try to kill them now this latest I'm probably conflating the two shooters now I mean what are the odds we would have two of these are the same day there's something about the fact that there were two of them on the same day that's gonna make this more of them twice as bad I think you all get that right this one probably will change something I don't know what it'll probably change something I don't know if the change will be access to weapons and I don't know if change will be political but it feels like we can't just have another regular year after this I mean something has to change I'll tell you every time that something like this happens you start wondering if the

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this happens you start wondering if the Chinese model isn't better right because the Chinese don't have this problem what are the reasons is that they have no privacy whatsoever so we might see our privacy further eroded I find it difficult to believe that the shooters actions were not discoverable on social media I find it impossible to believe that our you know Google and the big tech companies couldn't identify this before it happened because you think they probably could if yeah if they were trying to do that the presumably they weren't trying so there's that so I'm not saying that yeah I think we're beyond the point where we should argue whether or not people will lose lose their privacy we're way beyond that right at this point is just what what form that will take and how quickly etc but all of our privacy is now gone I I think that with the effectiveness of

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I think that with the effectiveness of modern weapons if you count the ARS and you count the drones because you know there's gonna be a drone mass attack in this country that's less of a year away maybe at this point it was a minute but with these technologies make it really easy for anybody to kill a bunch of people if you've got 300 X million people running around the country and no services that are not enough services for treating them for mental health and other issues there's no way to stop this as long as we have easy access to you know deadly weapons and as long as we've got 300 million people at a free society and as long as many of them are crazy that literally and as many as as long as those crazy people are not treated in a way that they can be controlled there's just going to be more of this there doesn't seem to be any chance that there

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doesn't seem to be any chance that there won't be more of this and and I would expect it to there to be more of it at an increasing rates so and when you have these two super bad ones on the same day that of course tells the story of rate I told you before that people are not people are not moved by how bad things are or how good things are people are moved by the direction so things are getting better people are happy even if they're not better yet or at least they're you know they're in a much better mood than if things were moving in the other direction the having two in a row and within 24 hours is going to tell all of us irrational people that the rate of this has doubled now that's not true it's it's way up probably it's you know unacceptable it was very high but probably didn't double exactly but it's gonna feel like that mentally it's going to seem like the problem doubled because

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to seem like the problem doubled because of having to in one day just a coincidence now of course let's let's talk about the blame here's one of the things wrong with how people think we're looking at complicated situations and we think we can blame one that never makes sense in order to get what happened in that past day everything or at least all the big stuff had to be the way it was if you changed any of it you get a different result if nobody could find any guns of any type you probably would have had a different result if we had good mental health care you probably would have a good different result if our news coverage was different you'd probably get a different result if our political divide was different
you'd probably get a different result result and if the NRA didn't exist you'd probably have a different result if the Congress was unified in either direction you get a different result maybe worse maybe better but different so almost

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maybe better but different so almost everything that has happened know the big stuff sort of had to happen for us to get to this exact moment yeah and I'm seeing some controversy about video games let me give you a strong opinion on that the the dumb people when they're talking about video games are all going to make the same loser think error this is actually good example with loser thing when somebody goes on television and says I think video games might be part of the problem immediately people will come on and say it's not video games it's mental health that's it's five other things it's access to guns etc
etc let me defend the idea that shooter video games are part of the problem the shooter video games are part of the reason people think of doing it in the first place the the news coverage of

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first place the the news coverage of other people doing it is equally part of the reason that people think of doing this in the first place it's not a crime you would think out if it weren't top of your mind you would have to have probably a lot of exposure to the idea before I became your idea probably it takes the news industry to talk about it too much like I am I suppose it takes video games it takes move thanks TV shows we our entire entertainment industry is built around watching people shoot mask groups of people if you think about it think about some of our biggest entertainment sources movies most popular movies are about heroes and sometimes bad guys killing large numbers of people right TV shows large number of people getting killed or short or small number but somebody's getting killed all the time so movies and television video games

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so movies and television video games largely about killing people and the news the news is largely about killing people when when you're looking at news coverage of these items and Wars and stuff like that so we are somewhat continuously bombarded with the suggestion that that's the thing it's not a suggestion that you should go do it but if it's all you're thinking about it's what you're going to do there's plenty of science that would support the notion that were more likely to do this is so obvious that even saying that science is behind it seems redundant it's totally obvious I hope to all of you that the things people choose to do come from the list of things that they can think of that's it right it's people don't say well I think I'll leave the house and do something we've never thought of before I mean sometimes they do but it's pretty rare more likely the things you usually

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rare more likely the things you usually do are the things on your list of things to do things you think of so the fact that our culture makes people think of this all the time including right now you're all thinking of it right now far more likely to happen now the news of course is saturated with these two stories and I think you know there was a point where I was in favor of maybe not covering them you know under the theory that if nobody talked about it the fewer people would be reminded of it and think of it but I think the internet would keep everything alive at this point you know the new even the news coverage wouldn't make any difference people would still still find this content they played their video games they watch their movies they hear about other ones in the past so I think there's nothing you can do and people are gonna have to deal with the fact that there's nothing you can do now I think that there needs to

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can do now I think that there needs to be a real conversation about oh god I just want to slap myself for saying that sentence let me chastise myself before I chastise other people if you see anybody say the phrase we need to have a real conversation about instead of that sentence why you should hear in your head is I'm an idiot and I have no idea what anybody should do just replace that sentence every time you get and you're gonna hear a lot we need to have a national conversation about gun safety national conversation about mental health whatever it is if you hear somebody say we have to have a national conversation and they don't have any idea just replace it in your head with I'm an idiot I don't know what to do but I need to say something and you watched me literally just do that like that sentence actually came out of my mouth because I felt like that was somehow helpful it's not helpful to say

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somehow helpful it's not helpful to say we should have a national conversation doesn't help everybody knows that just doesn't help so don't say that I'm gonna make your prediction I think automatic weapons will become illegal now probably using the wrong term let's say the the assault rifle the ars I think I think this probably is the tipping point it might not happen right away so I'm not saying you're gonna see a lot a year but I think that this will always be the day that politicians will be able to sort of leverage off of and I think that they're going to make ARS illegal now there may be some hybrid law where the ones that are already the ones that are already out there and maybe their grandfather didn't just like the fully automatic weapons maybe

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the fully automatic weapons maybe something like that but I do think the ARS will become illegal now if you're wondering is that my opinion I would say I don't have an opinion yet because I feel a little longer informed on the topic so it's a prediction it's not an opinion and I'm not saying it happens right away but from this point forward there's no longer a question about whether it will happen so that's my prediction the question of whether ARS will be banned I think just got answered now and somebody says did they use a ours I don't know doesn't matter probably not so anybody who says but what about my logic and they'll say but my logic says bad people can get guns anyway my logic says you couldn't kill more people with a handgun true my logic says you know you can do

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true my logic says you know you can do just as much damage with other weapons true won't make any difference we're way beyond the point where your logic no matter how accurate no matter how true makes any difference I think that this event is big enough that it changes things now I don't know if the change will make any difference because remember I'm not saying your arguments are bad those of you saying if you get rid of the ARS even in the unlikely in the unlikely you know future that you could actually do that because it'd be hard to do but even if you could would it make any difference maybe not I think people might just use handguns and explosives and in drones or whatever who knows it might not make any difference and I'm not saying you would I'm just saying it will happen I'm just saying that the weapons the a are you know what whether or not they were used in both the taxes relevant I think they were used at least one people telling me that it was an

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one people telling me that it was an ak-47 what's the difference between an ak-47 and an AR you'll probably tell me before I can find it I'm not I'm not a gun guy I'm prone the Second Amendment but not a gun enthusiast all right so yeah and then people are saying what about printed guns and blah blah blah blah so I'm gonna acknowledge acknowledge the following things your logic of why a gun ban won't work or is a bad idea might be perfect all of your facts might be right they won't matter anymore this this double murder and I hate to use this phrase but it really it really does become the operative phrase right now let me see how I can put this even even 24 hours

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how I can put this even even 24 hours ago if you had said I am if you had said in public I'm pro-gun and it's because of Constitution reasons and I love my country and I'm a patriot I love the Constitution the Constitution gives me that right I'm pro-gun if you had said that a day ago you would have thought of yourself as a patriot someone who follows the rules somebody respects the past somebody who notices the value of firearms you'd have a pretty good opinion of yourself what if you sent it today what if you said exactly what you would have said 24 hours ago and you said it in public now of course you don't know wait a little bit we all know we all know that same things you know when when situations are brand-new is bad form but suppose you wait till tomorrow you come out in public and you say I'm a person who supports people having the right to own these weapons that just killed large

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own these weapons that just killed large groups of people twice in one day who are you then you the patriot because 24 hours ago you could have said those same words had those same ideas those same thoughts and you would have thought of yourself as a patriot you might even have thought of yourself as one of the people defending the freedom of the country because if things really went bad an armed citizenry might be the thing you need if your government suddenly and unexpectedly went completely in the wrong direction so 24 hours ago you could have said to yourself you know I'm a patriot that's why I support this I realized there's a big cost to it but it's such a big freedom I like it anyway I'm a patriot if you say up tomorrow would say let some of this die down a little bit but still it's still fresh ish if you said the same thing tomorrow how would you feel about yourself would you feel

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you feel about yourself would you feel the same way about yourself I don't know you know because I'm not really describing myself with those with those feelings I think you'd feel at this point that you're part of the problem I
might be wrong but that's the way it looks to me it looks to me like until today because of the the horrible coincidence of two of them that are so similar on the same day that what you could have said yesterday would have seemed fair enough you would have said I just like all the benefits I know there's a cost but I still prefer the freedoms it's in the Constitution I'm a patriot you could have said that and I would have said well you know even if I disagreed with the outset fair statements those are legitimate opinions even if I disagree today tomorrow can you say that can you say about yourself

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you say that can you say about yourself you're not part of the problem it's harder I mean of course it'll be people on both sides of this and they'll they'll they'll fight for their position now it makes you wonder if there's any kind of middle ground I haven't heard but um let's let's just speculate for a moment why if people were allowed to have a ARS and automatic weapons let's say they were allowed to buy them under the condition that all of their social media friends and family were notified let me ask you that suppose somebody proposed a rule that says the following you can buy an AR just the way you can today if it's legal in your state you can go ahead and buy it we're in a a K I don't know is that even legal I've still learned what an a K is because I'm not a gun guy but let's say there are no changes to the laws that say you can buy a weapon so the Constitution is protected but let's say

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Constitution is protected but let's say that there's an added requirement which is if you go in and buy a new weapon there's an automatic report that goes out to your social media following this says you have purchased this weapon and if anybody in their social media group or the family has a concern here's here's the email or the phone number of law enforcement and if law enforcement gets a bunch of notices maybe they go out and install a gun lock maybe if somebody's got too many complaints that that the gun is taken away until something is remediated until there's some kind of counseling something like that now I'm not trying to design a bill on the fly and I'm not even telling you that would be a good idea I'm telling you that something's gonna happen and if you don't want these weapons to

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and if you don't want these weapons to be completely illegal and confiscated you might have an interest in finding some middle ground just to keep it from going all the way to where you don't want it and the middle ground might be something that uses technology something that takes advantage of of what's changed in society social media is one of them and there may be way to do a deeper dive the risk for a new buyer you know there is right it's it's not as if we have to wonder yes that would work how many times have we seen these situations where somebody buys a gun and there's somebody in their circle family member somebody who had a feeling that no good was gonna happen there's somebody who knew that let me give you another example suppose you buy a gun and again I'm not going to suggest this as a good idea I'm just gonna throw out some ideas

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idea I'm just gonna throw out some ideas let them let them percolate maybe they'll remind you of something that is a good idea so he says please stop I will block you suppose you had a law and it could be just the state it wouldn't have to be federal they said if you buy a new gun that has a high killing power so let's let's say we make some distinction between let's say a shotgun and something that has potential to fire a lot of rounds in a short-term short period let's say that if you buy one of the effective killing machines that you give up your privacy on all social media platforms and your phone that let's say that your phone is opened to a third party let's say scrutiny should you buy a met a major killing thing now it

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a met a major killing thing now it doesn't mean that necessarily that your local police force could see it you could anonymize it you could for example say all right if you're gonna buy one of these one of these weapons for 12 months afterwards might be 2 years or whatever but let's say 12 months your social media all of your email everything about your phone will be transmitted to a third party who will keep it private so long as there are no problems so in other words it'll only be reviewed by people who don't know who you are you know strangers in another country for example we're just looking at the data with the name and if they see something then they say oh wow this this person just bought a gun and they just visited some websites that look a little sketchy I'm gonna report that but if they don't see anything all they see is somebody bought a gun they've they've looked at some websites on hunting they've talked about you know going to the shooting range well maybe you let that go so I'll just

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well maybe you let that go so I'll just put that out there it's just you there's probably something in between having all guns for crazy people which is our current situation and having no guns for sane people who might actually have a legitimate use for them so if we're only talking about those two extremes we're not being useful because those two extremes are the least likely place we're going to end up somebody says no thanks Scott that's like China well remember we're not talking about choosing between the good option and the bad option and that's the part people typically get wrong people who are bad at making decisions will look at any idea and they'll say that idea has some downside so I won't consider it anymore but what if all the ideas have downsides what if the current situation has downside what if there's no situation that doesn't have an enormous downside

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that doesn't have an enormous downside well that's where we are we're in a situation where every option has an enormous downside enormous I mean if we keep it the way it is you're going to see more and more of this it's obvious it's obvious at this point that you're gonna see more of this if you get rid of guns you people are gonna say uh we lost a basic fundamental because constitutional right the government can now dominate us because we don't have any weapons etc and by the way I like to throw this in every conversation of guns the dumb people and and I think you have to distinguish in the argument about guns there are some things that are philosophical differences there are priority differences and there are there are differences on maybe how much knowledge people have about different things but there's also a part of the conversation that's just dumb you know they're they're just some dumb things and I

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they're just some dumb things and I think those the dumb parts have to be called out as well and I was going to make a point but I just forgot what it was
was I'll get back to it yeah yeah now the other thing people are going to note is that there's a similarity to these shooters they seem to be young white guys they may be racists they may they may have been radicalized they may they may have something wrong with them but in all cases they're kind of lost there is a generation of young males who are what's the best way to say it
worthless worthless and I don't think that's true about most people you know most people have a value you know you could go to work you can have a family you could you know join the military you

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you could you know join the military you could you know help people most people you can have a baby you know the most most people have a purpose and a use in life but there there is a a growing number of people who probably won't be able to have any kind of a useful job may have trouble finding anybody to marry them to have a child don't have interest in the military don't have any use there there's a whole generation of people who are kind of worthless in the modern society now I'm not that's not a value judgment that's more of an economic statement so if you could take the think the opinion out of it and just just look at it as an economic thing most people have an economic value to society and that gives them meaning it gives them purpose it makes them connect makes them belong they know where they fit into everything yeah so I'm saying an

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into everything yeah so I'm saying an economic value to take some of the you know the personal stuff out of it but there's a whole bunch of young men who will never have the the talent or the tools to be valuable they will not be inventing anything they will not be saving any lives they will not they can't have babies they may not even be able to marry somebody you can have the baby because they're not popular and they can't nail down somebody that they want to be married to so they're sort of like societal zombies who have access to weapons of mass destruction so what happens when you make a whole class of people feel completely worthless and then give them access to unlimited killing power well you're gonna get this so I do think that the thing that will get the least attention is that there's a segment of

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attention is that there's a segment of society that is finding their experience of just being alive in this world to be so unpleasant that shooting people and dying looks like a good alternative there that you have to be in a bad shape for you to wake up and think you know I think I'll go randomly kill people yet some of those got to be terribly wrong this is what men going their own way talk about a lot the in cells etc I saw it I stat about I'm making up these stats but it's sort of directionally true that on tinder something like 2% of the managers are getting all of the women and of course that makes sense right because if you're one of the really let's say good-looking guys or valuable guys on tinder you're not there to find somebody to settle down with so on Tuesday you

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to settle down with so on Tuesday you with one on Wednesday you with one and you have all of them so you have your pick of all the women so I think the number of women who end up hooking up with a guy is close to you know the majority of them but the number of men who ever ever connect on tinder is like 2% because why would a woman you know swipe a guy that was unattractive it's always the same guys so because technology has essentially taken um let's put it this way in the old days before technology people fell in love and hooked up with whoever was nearby because he had to so you know you'd look around thing I'll give you an example my in heist my dear in school there was a prom this was before the Internet and I had a small class there were sort of 20 girls 20 boys and in the entire class and so there were 20 girls there were my age

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there were 20 girls there were my age there were in the pool of potential people you could ask to the prom well half of them had boyfriends by then so really there were 10 girls that you could ask to the problem I said and my whole universe where I grew up there were just 10 girls left who didn't already have a boyfriend that you could ask and I'm not really good at getting around to stuff so I think 9 of them had been asked before I got serious about it and what do you think was left what wasn't the pick of the pick of the litter if you know what I mean so I looked at my choices and I said I think I just won't go to the prom now what's interesting about that is I was I was in was like last vice-president or something like that and I was actually in charge of the prom I I was actually one of the people who put it on so I was one of the organizers and put it all together but I I couldn't even get a date because there was no internet and I

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date because there was no internet and I was a little you know socially awkward and slow and there was no option I didn't have an option to have a date except some options that I wasn't too enthusiastic about so if you took the if you took the end of that away from me you know I don't go to the problem so but things are different now and I imagine that we still have the same situation where if you're in the lower end of the socio
that you just don't have a chance of getting of doing the things you want in this world and then you add on top of that that we can directly observe all the people who are doing so well the the
there's a contrast problem because not only do you know that you're not killing

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only do you know that you're not killing it but you look at Facebook or whatever and you can see that other people are telling you they're killing it and then you say wow the difference between me and people were succeeding is gigantic I might as well just go in myself so I really think we have to deal with the fact that there's an enormous segment of people who are economically worthless they're not worthless as people so I'm not I'm not insulting them as human beings everybody has the same value as a human being we all agree to that I think but economically there are people just will never fit in and if we don't fix that they're gonna do stuff like this just to go out in the blaze of glory so the worst thing you're gonna see today is people blaming Trump for the rhetoric now if they were blaming Trump for the laws about guns I would say fair fair

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laws about guns I would say fair fair criticism even if you disagree with it it would be a fair criticism to look at your leaders and say all right leaders your your laws about guns or suboptimal it might be contributing to some of this that could either be true or false but whether but whether it's a good idea or about it that criticism it's reasonable it's certainly reasonable to question all of our assumptions about gun laws when something like this happens but if you take it to the next level here's almost one of the worst things you'll ever see in your life it's so bad if you take it to the next level you will allow the illegitimate fake news media to frame your president for their own crime right and you see it happening already the the so-called the fine people hoax has come back today in force so you're going to see whoever was who

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so you're going to see whoever was who have mentioned that already so it's already been mentioned and when I if you're new to this define people hoaxes the hopes that says that President Trump called the neo-nazis and charlottesville fine people when in fact if you look at the transcript his actual words were I'm not talking about the white nationalist and neo-nazis they should be condemned totally so people see the false edit where he was talking about good people on both sides and before he clarifies that he's not talking about any of those people as being good people they cut it they they edit it so it looks like he's he's praising neo-nazis if you fell for that whose fault was that if you fell for the fine people hoax whose fault is that we'll say one of the let's say one of the shooters was influenced by the fine people honks see where I'm gone if that shooter believes that the president

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shooter believes that the president called neo-nazis and white nationalists of fine people if the shooter believe that whose fault was that not the president because he very clearly very clearly said the opposite it's on video it's on it's in the transcript it's in major news story and stories it's been written about extensively that it simply didn't happen but if that is the sort of thing that people hear in a radical whose fault is that is that the fault of the person who didn't say it or is the fault of the people who said he did say it when he didn't whose fault is that let's take the comment if President Trump had called African nations were some other nations I guess he was there's a little more broadly than Africa but he called some countries s whole countries suppose since that was

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s whole countries suppose since that was that happened in a smallish meeting in a room suppose nobody had ever used that illegitimately as a political weapon suppose they had just sat in the room and said you wish he'd used a different word for that suppose the professionals had been professionals and not people trying to score a knockout against the president suppose they hadn't talked about it would you have ever known no would the with the shooters if they were influenced by let's say the president's opinion would they ever have heard the report that was a legitimate it didn't really happen where they have watched where they have watched that report and said to themselves oh I guess the president is giving us permission to be bad to a certain segment of people no because the shooter would never would have heard that story the guilty party is whoever leaked that quote and I've

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is whoever leaked that quote and I've said this before and it's gonna take a while to catch on but I'm gonna keep saying it till it does here's my rule if you take something from one context where a message is contained let's say one person talking to one person or one person talking to a small room if you are the one who takes what happened in that private or smallish conversation and make it a public statement you are the one responsible for the message not not whoever said it first the person who changes the context is responsible for how it is received if we don't have that rule you get more this stuff here's why the people who are illegitimately reporting that the president called neo-nazis fine people literally the opposite of what happened who's to blame clearly the people who are saying it not not the original person who said the correct thing if

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person who said the correct thing if people are upset and racially divided because the president said s whole country's in a smallish meeting of professionals why is the country upset about that is it because the president said it in a small setting in which it's pretty clear he didn't mean it racially or is that the fault of the person who took it out of that meeting leaked it and then the people who were repeating it out of context which completely changes the meaning it's definitely the people who took it in the context they are absolutely de brilliant to blame but the way the way we currently think of the world we automatically blame the person who said it even though the context in which they said it and the intention with which they said it were completely different than how it looked when it was taken to a new context
likewise the comments about you know President president's comments about all

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President president's comments about all not all that's what the critics say the president's comments that the Mexicans included rapists and criminals now most people should have heard that and said to themselves oh what he means is that there are too many criminals coming across the border certainly it didn't mean there are all criminals and rapists certainly the President did not intend to mean that the women and children coming across the borders are Ramos any reasonable reading of what he said the way human beings talk in the normal world should have told you clearly and unambiguously that he's saying too much crime is coming in not that they're all criminals because they're all criminals is so stupid on its surface that nobody would say it ever nobody ever said that the children coming across the border the Mexican

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coming across the border the Mexican border are rapists and criminals but they're part of the people coming across so nobody should have ever interpreted that to mean that they're all they're all criminals or even that there are more criminals in the Mexican I don't Janek pool than there are somewhere else nothing like that was sent but he did use some unclear hyperbole that allowed people to imagine that's what he said true political game now whose fault is that would you blame President Trump for having a bit of hyperbole that definitely could have been said more elegantly and maybe more kindly to the group that he was talking about yes you could say that the president should have worded that better there definitely was a better way to approach that but the guilty people are the people who turned that into I think the president is a racist and half the country are also

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racist and half the country are also racist because they voted for him whoever created that second message is causing mass shootings is causing racial division is causing the problem and I can go right down the line and you can see you can see the similarity there's the thing that happened that probably is no big deal somebody said something in a meeting it wasn't really meant the way it was taken when it was taken out of the meeting and then it's turned into a big deal by the people whose business model requires them to turn things that are not a big deal into a big deal it's the business model they have to do that to make money and of course the political party on the other side has to you know stretch it and and exaggerate it and reframe it until it's the worst thing in the world so if you're blaming and I'm going to say this it doesn't matter what party we're talking about it we see more of that with President Trump his words being taken out of context

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his words being taken out of context because naturally use the president but it wouldn't matter who it was if the same thing we're happening and I pretty sure I supported people on the left a number of times when their words were taken out of context and I say the same thing it doesn't matter who it is if you take somebody else's words out of context and you present the man of context you're responsible for that message not not the person who said it in a different context the person who said it in a different context is responsible for that context because because you can't separate a message from the situation in which it was said and yet we do if you were to blame people for deepening racial feelings who would be your biggest the biggest violator shall we say who would be most responsible for the racial division is it the person who says things that could have been said better or the people who

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have been said better or the people who pretend it was much different than what was said it's definitely the liars who take it to somewhere else they're clearly the ones who are most responsible all right but we will of course not do any rational things today because that's not who we are we will we will posture and try to gain an advantage and be our usual horrible selves for another day hoping tomorrow will be different by the way tomorrow I may be traveling so I don't know if I'll do a periscope tomorrow but I'll talk to you soon in any case