Episode 621 Scott Adams: The Mental Illness Crisis Turning Democrats into FAKE NEWS ZOMBIES

Date: 2019-08-07 | Duration: 51:58

Topics

Democrats are implementing a trade war against America Financially penalizing Americans for their political beliefs Isn’t that a trade war…Joaquin Castro? MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace…“misspoke? ”What’s wrong with Nicolle Wallace? Reza Aslan wants someone “eradicated”? CNN FAKE NEWS Chyron: “Trump Inspired Terrorism” Immigration debate curiosity… NO Democrat has said HOW MUCH immigration is okay NO Democrat has even been ASKED the question Extra people = extra crime How much additional CRIME is acceptable to you? If you can’t put a number on it, you aren’t sincere What impact will your policy have on the country…in 10 years? Has Presidential candidate Andrew Yang told a direct lie yet? Is he the ONLY Democrat candidate who has NOT directly lied? Maybe 1/3 to 2/3 of all adult humans are capable in today’s world 1. Mental health issues 2. Addiction issues 3. Mentally incapable of functioning in modern society

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pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom hey everybody come on in here I’m broadcasting today from my undisclosed location and I think I got the time difference right this time so it should be exactly the right time for coffee with Scott Adams and that’s why you were here I know I you’re here you’re here for the simultaneous sip that dopamine pleasure that’s always the right thing to do that’s your day off just perfectly and all you need to join me for the simultaneous it this is a cup or a mug or a glass some kind of a cellist a Stein a tankard that would be fine could be a canteen may be a vessel of any kind filled with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the simultaneous end you know I have to enjoy my coffee from a tiny little glass

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enjoy my coffee from a tiny little glass or a cup it’s not like being at home where I can just have a big-ass cup all right um so you may have noticed that the mental health of the country is deteriorating deteriorating at exactly the same time as most things are going pretty well the only thing that isn’t going well is that people are becoming mentally ill at the same time things are going well otherwise now of course we expect this in the political season I just wrote a blog post I posted this morning you can see it on my Twitter feed you can see it linked in which I talked about how to figure out if you’re in the right reality and this sort out whether your reality is close to something that’s predictive and maybe real if there is such a thing and whether or not your reality is the

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whether or not your reality is the opposite some kind of hallucination that does not predict what will have but next if your reality is no good at predicting what’s gonna happen next well you got a problem so you can read the blog post for more on that but let’s talk about what’s new before I talk about all the craziness before I talk about the craziness let’s talk about guns I tweeted a thought experiment yesterday that people did not quite take in the in the manner which I expected so here was the thought experiment and the idea was imagine a world in which all of the a are they scary-looking assault looking rifles or pink what if they’re

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looking rifles or pink what if they’re all pink and I said just just think about that what what would that change now because people are not good as thought experiments at least a third of the people said and I quote da da Scott nothing will change people will just spray-paint their gun black well that’s cheating because the point of the thought experiment was not to suggest a policy or a law if I were suggesting a policy or a law then that would be a fair thing to say hey it might not work because people were just spray painted black but that wasn’t it that’s not what I was going for I wanted to you just to imagine a world and artificially imagine that nobody has spray paint they just can’t be done now that’s not the real world but that’s why it’s a thought experiment it’s a thought experiment in part because you can’t do it in the real world so imagine that nobody can spray

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world so imagine that nobody can spray paint their gun to a scary black color it’s just always pink and the question is would we have the same amount of mass shootings now if you can’t deal with this as a thought experiment and you’re sort of locked into but-but-but Scot they would just spray-paint their gun you can’t be in this conversation you’re not qualified to talk about the thought experiment if you’re locked into buh buh but they would just spray paint them just imagine they can’t I know they can but just try to imagine they can’t for a moment all right would there be as much shooting so there’s a point to all this and here’s the point not that it would ever be any practical way to reduce gun violence what I’m trying to get at with the thought experiment is to try to figure out what’s the base problem what you know

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what’s the base problem what you know and there are a lot of variables so it may not be one thing but there might be one lever there might be one thing that helps you fix it even if it’s not the source of the problem because sometimes the solution and the cause can be somewhat separate and and the solution can be a little bit invisible sometimes so here’s the idea if you were a potential mass shooter and you knew the only way that you can do your crime was with a large pink weapon would you be as motivated to do it now if you’re saying but you could still do it well again you’re not qualified for the thought experiments so the people who say no people can just shoot anyway it doesn’t matter if the gun is pink you’re not quite qualified to be in this conversation because what we’re talking about is how the feel of things that changes your motivation yes I know if

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changes your motivation yes I know if you’re motivated to do it you can use any colour gun I know I get that but would people be as equally motivated if the look and feel of the action was no longer cool that I told you before that anybody gets a big scary rifle is gonna go stand in front of the mirror every single I’m nobody in the history of gun buying ever bought a scary large weapon an actual rifle and failed to walk directly to a mirror and look at how they look every single person would you agree at least once people have looked at themselves in the mirror holding they’re gone or taking a picture to do the same thing there is something about the lifestyle of it there’s something about the coolness of it if I can use that you know word in in the context of horrible motives and if people if young men did

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motives and if people if young men did not feel that there’s something about the lifestyle of it the coolness of it the look and the feel of it if this were not all compatible with who they thought they were as people I believe they would be far less motivated to do it the the people say wrong people say disagree okay if you’re saying for the people who are saying I’m wrong and disagree if you’re saying but they would just spray-paint their gun you’re not qualified to be in the conversation because the thought experiment says they’re not they can’t do that just magically they’re not allowed to do that so here’s the point forget about pink guns forget about pink guns nobody’s gonna require pink guns it’s not gonna happen it was only a thought experiment let it go did you learn anything maybe

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let it go did you learn anything maybe maybe you did oh here’s somebody who’s critical but they just disappeared if what you learned is that there’s something about the lifestyle feel of it the coolness of it if I can use that that appeals to a certain demographic they tend to be white males within a certain age range what could you do to change that and if you did would they simply choose different methods to kill well some would some would absolutely some would just find different ways to kill but do you think it’s a coincidence that the Islamic terrorists seem to be limited to certain types of attacks have you ever noticed that if you’re an Islamic terrorist there there are certain types of violence that are the right kind and yet there are all these other ways that you could do terrible things at this country I’m not going to mention them you know them all there are all these other ways that jihadists could just make terrible

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that jihadists could just make terrible trouble for this country and they don’t for years years have gone by and they’re all these ways that the the Islamic terrorists could do terrible things to this country beyond the things that they had tried to do but they don’t there’s something about the lifestyle of it that appeals to certain groups and if you could change that you might change at least the motivation of people to do it somebody says I just learned this Scott doesn’t understand guns alright well we’ll delete you for stupidity because if you if you heard me say anything about guns you’re hallucinating we’re gonna it’s funny we’re getting more more trolls in here than usual let’s say do movies and video games make them cool absolutely absolutely

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them cool absolutely absolutely yeah the so it’s not just video games it’s movies it’s TV it’s it’s everything all right so that was the experiment if you asked me the real problem with these mass shootings is that they fit a lifestyle of a certain individual and if you could change the lifestyle appeal then the gun shooting would go away it might be it might be moved into some other category let’s talk about crazy people are here here’s some tells for people who have lost they’ve just lost the thread to any logic or credibility it’s the people who say Trump’s a racist and is just a fact oh do you have any evidence like what are you talking about in particular or trans racist it just is so watch for the people who who are explicitly given up on offering reasons because the reasons

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on offering reasons because the reasons apparently aren’t good enough they’re not working and they they don’t know why their reasons aren’t working and of course it’s because their reasons are fake news for the most part you’re a tyrant so he’s calling me a tyrant that’s new so if you see that the people who who are no longer willing to debate they’re just saying it just true it’s just it is it’s just the truth it’s reality moving on those people typically are having a tough time holding on to reality so look for that so here are the things that we’ve seen in the last day or so we’ve seen a Joe Scarborough at Morning Joe and MSNBC he says that any business that donates to trump is complicit and endorses the white supremacy he espoused in charlottesville which of course didn’t happen that’s fake news but fairly Joe Joe

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that’s fake news but fairly Joe Joe doesn’t know that with his quote to send her back chants which of course also taken a little bit out of context and by laughing at shouts the Hispanic immigrants should be shot donors names are an FEC report that they are newsworthy so the idea that he and I guess who is the politician the brother of fool Ian Castro so Julio Castro’s brother also a politician is printing it is printing the names of donors companies that are donors so that people can boycott those companies now let me ask you this would you want to have a government that has lots of supporters who think that we should determine our commerce based on political affiliation it might be the

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on political affiliation it might be the worst idea anybody’s had in the realm of economics so remember every time you see a one of the anti-trump errs target any companies or people for economic destruction that’s who wants to run your economy think about what’s the if you wanted to destroy the American economy would just say one move there probably a few ways to do it but one way to do it would be to say get everybody whipped up so that they’ll only they’ll only buy things from people who agree with them politically can you think of a more effective way to destroy the country no I don’t think it’s their intention to destroy the country but Wow oh did I say Joaquin Castro okay so it was Joaquin Castro versus the brother so he’s the

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Castro versus the brother so he’s the one who’s printing the names daxing as they call it doxing people who are Trump’s forced now I don’t think we should just criticize that on the small so you know if you were just looking at one person doxxing some people it’s it’s a smallish problem but think about these this is the group of people wants to run your economy these are the people who want to put their person in charge of the economy and they’re suggesting literally the most destructive thing that could ever happen to any nation’s economy they’re there I hate to say this what I’m going to anyway Democrats have actually started a trade war within the United States the same people who think that it’s a bad idea to have a trade war with China and other countries are expressly starting a trade war in the United

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starting a trade war in the United States by daxing people by their political views saying if you if you agree with President Trump we can’t do business with you that’s sort of a trade war isn’t it so starting a trade war in your own country is literally the worst economic idea of all time of all time I don’t know has anybody ever done a dumber thing than that in terms of the economy let’s talk about some other people were going a little bit crazy if some guy at MSNBC we’re suggesting that because the president is flying the flags at half-mast until August 8th and August 8th would be would be expressed as the 8th month and the 8th day and the letter 8th is done by white supremacists as the eighth letter of the alphabet this stands for H and to letter to number 8 therefore a would be H H and

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number 8 therefore a would be H H and therefore would be Heil Hitler this pundit from Mendes MSNBC is suggesting that either the president has bad advice or he’s sending secret codes to waster premises to which I say okay but you know aid is one of the numbers within the you know the numbers under 10 well let’s say the numbers of the month there are only 31 at tops so a fear of all the numbers in a month you only have 31 to work with should we get rid of 8 18 and 28 28 sounds pretty bad right 28 is 2 times 8 that’s Heil Hitler why are we talking about 28 28 sounds like the bad one don’t you think so

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like the bad one don’t you think so that strikes me honestly that just strikes me as some form of mental illness that doesn’t strike me as news what’s interesting is that I think the election will be won by whichever side has the lowest opinion of their own voters intelligence which is it’s a heck of a situation think about it the election will probably be won but whichever side has the lowest opinion of their own voters because smart accurate opinions don’t really work in politics yeah you want to dumb things down to the the dumbest the dumbest level so the the Democrats are imagining that their people will believe absolutely anything about racism and and the president being a racist Nicole Wallace also of MSNBC

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a racist Nicole Wallace also of MSNBC she apologized because she and here’s her apology on Twitter so Nicole Wallace of MSNBC says I misspoke about Trump calling for an extermination of Latinos what what what what what let me go on what did this actually happen I swear this happened she’s apologizing and saying she misspoke about Trump calling for the extermination of Latinos what and then she goes on and she says my mistake was unintentional and I’m sorry Trump’s constant assault on people of color and his use of the word invasion

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color and his use of the word invasion to describe the flow of immigrants is intentional and constant so she says she is sorry but not sorry I guess so I tweeted back and I said apology accepted likewise I said in my tweet I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to anyone I have accidentally accused in public of ethnic genocide so if I’ve ever been spoken and seemed to be in favor of ethnic genocide I probably didn’t mean it just like Nicole Wallace now what’s wrong with Nicole Wallace that she could hear the president’s language and even get anywhere close to extermination of Latinos like is that even in the same universe with whatever the president saying that they don’t like

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saying that they don’t like think how crazy that is does that sound like just politics it doesn’t really does it doesn’t sound like politics does it sound like an intentional lie not really because it would be such a bad intention to lie that you wouldn’t expect a professional news person to think that that would turn out well my best assumption is that she actually believed it when she sent it i yeah i’m not reading her mind but how else can we interpret that kind of a mistake in her mind she actually was thinking the president was in was in favor of extermination of Latinos and worse where do we use the term extermination well with vermin and insects so Nicole

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with vermin and insects so Nicole Wallace has a second apology to make because she paired Latinos with the word extermination which was only her own word it wasn’t a quote of anybody else’s word nobody nobody suggested or used those words together at all the president didn’t nobody did only one more only one person that I’ve ever I think ever probably in my life only one person I’ve were known to put it in one sentence extermination of Latinos and it was Nicole Wallace I think she has some explaining to do that’s the worst combination of words you could ever say and she’s not the only crazy one out there the whole world is going crazy now it’s a weird world because the mainstream media has this power that normally is reserved for dictators one of the things that dictator can do is commit a crime and

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dictator can do is commit a crime and then blame somebody else for it and then punish them it was part of the great thing about being a dictator right I mean it’s great for the dictator it’s not good for any of the people living under the dictator but a dictator can actually do a crime and then when the crime is discovered the dictator can say oh that was Bob Bob is quite the criminal I think I’ll execute Bob and though you know all taken care of I’m gonna get executed Bob the media is doing that so the media is creating the crime by framing everything the president does is clearly and obviously not see Hillier racism and then after they’ve committed the crime of tearing the country apart racially which we observe right in front of us after they commit the crime what’s step to frame the president they’re actually framing the president for the

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actually framing the president for the crime they’re committing right in front of us every day they are using this crime every day and oh yeah and then Reza Reza Aslan good suggestion he said in a tweet he wants to eradicate Trump supporters eradicate how do you interpret that well when Trump talks about infestations he’s specifically talking about the actual you know rats and bugs it’s very clear language it’s obvious what he means when Reza one says we must eradicate Trump supporters what’s that mean he’s not talking about insects and and mice I don’t think so all right let’s see what else we got going on here yeah on MSNBC

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else we got going on here yeah on MSNBC they had the the chyron it’s called the chyron it’s a little let the little label at the bottom of the screen and and they just had these three words Trump inspired terrorism Trump inspired terrorism I think that’s of evidence that’s sort of opinion II wouldn’t you say because I don’t know that anybody has done a terrorist act because of the president there are people who do bad things and they look for excuses for it and stuff you know a few a few crazy people it’s not a slam how do you pronounce it if it’s not a sling all right yeah so Reza said that mega hat is is basically a KKK hat and the where

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is basically a KKK hat and the where whoever wears it should be eradicated and he’s still on Twitter apparently that’s okay it’s it’s okay this is just eradicating what is it 47% of the country at this point you support the president now here here’s my first question everything that you see on the news and all the emotions and stuff as high as they are now they’re going to get higher because the elections coming somebody says Trump calls Mexicans rapists yeah that’s a hallucination too so let me speak to you I’ve got a blog post on that if you’d like to see why you’re hallucinating in particular go to my Twitter feed and and read it now so let’s just talk about that somebody in the comments says Trump says Mexicans are rapists now when he says that do you believe that he means

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says that do you believe that he means that they’re genetically rapists as in the women and the children are just they’re just born rapists do you think that’s what he means or do you think a more reasonable interpretation would be that the people coming across the border include racists I’m not that racist rapists and that we have solid evidence that they’re raping the the immigrants themselves and that there’s a whole lot of rape going on now if you’re concerned about the president saying that there are criminals and rapists among the immigrants I would like I would like to hear the counterpoint which tells me what level of rape and crime is acceptable to you because if you can say that then I’d say okay you’re part of the adult conversation if what you’re

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the adult conversation if what you’re saying is we should I’ll just pick an example let’s say you say we should let in a million immigrants a year whatever the number is that you support if we let in a million we could probably calculate how much crime comes with an average of a million people we could probably calculate how much extra rape that means how much actual extra child trafficking how many how many extra murders now some of those categories might be lower than average for example the immigrants coming across the border might commit fewer crimes than the people who live here on average in part because they have more to lose because they also could get deported that’s we might find that the number is less than we have here but the question that then would have to be asked is what level is acceptable where if a million people brings with it 20,000 rapes

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just tell us your opinion if your opinion is I want to allow a million people in knowing full well that that will cause the rape of 20,000 extra people but people are kind of bad people and people are people so we should not we should not discriminate against one class of people because every class of people has some criminals in it therefore the people who would want to let a million people in at the price of 20,000 extra rapes just say your opinion if you can’t state your opinion are you part of the adult conversation if you can’t say here’s the benefit and here also the cost but I still prefer this package you’re not part of the adult conversation so whoever it is who said Trump called Mexican rapists if you’re an adult you understand he means that there’s too much crime coming across the border if you’re a child you think that he means that even the women the

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he means that even the women the children and every single Mexican is a rapist by nature do you really believe he’s thought that do you believe he wanted us to believe that do you believe anybody thinks that is there anybody in the country have you ever met even one person in your entire life who holds that opinion nobody so let’s let’s see your counter view how many people do you think should be let in a year and then how many rapes and murders do you find acceptable for the benefits of immigration and by the way on pro immigration I think most people are the vast majority people are Pro immigration now if you said to me Scott you’re Pro immigration oh are you so answer your own question how many rapes and murders are you willing to put up with to have immigration and I would say I don’t know what’s what’s the normal amount that a million people caused today let’s say if

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million people caused today let’s say if you could normalize it by socio-economic group or whatever so you’re not talking about ethnicity you’re just talking about you economic group for every million people how many crimes did they commit if it’s similar or less I’d say okay it’s 20,000 but that’s the same number that a million American citizens would cause if they were in low socio-economic group I’d say people are people that’s nobody wants extra crime but if you want extra people they come with crime so so yes I’m an adult I like immigration and I know it comes with these costs and I’ve looked at the costs they look acceptable all things being considered nobody likes crime but a million people are gonna bring some crime so you got it you got to take the good with the bad now I can say that if you’re opposed to

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now I can say that if you’re opposed to that opinion I don’t know what the reasonable opposition to that would be now one of the questions that I saw there used to be asked that I don’t see enough of is I’d like to see the Democrats give us a number especially the candidates for president and I don’t know if Trump has given a number but he’s I think he’s somewhere in the neighborhood of keeping immigration sort of similar to what it’s been in the past but not getting worse I don’t know what the numbers the president suggests but there are people who are saying is wrong so if you’re saying that the number of immigrants today is wrong meaning that you believe there should be more of them what’s the number what would be too much the I I have seen some Democrats I don’t know if any of the candidates have said this but to say there’s no upward limit it’s like whatever many as you want and

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it’s like whatever many as you want and maybe that’s the right number but I’d like that I’d like people to say that so you should be able to say about thirty million is thirty million too many will say thirty million over five years is that too many I’d like to hear a Democrat answer that question directly can you imagine the Democrats lined up on stage and the host saying I’m going to ask each of you to say whether you’d be okay with this amount of immigration per year you guys the first one you say are you okay with a million a year they probably say yes five million my say yes ten million maybe they start hedging 30 million are you okay with 30 million a year if you’re a Democrat what do you say do you say yes I’m okay with 30 million a year because that gets kind of pricey for the people who are already here

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people who are already here so if you can’t put a number on it you’re not part of the adult conversation so I would welcome all of the Democrat candidates to join the adults tell us what they want to get out of immigration but also talk honestly about the costs that they’re willing to accept to get those benefits the dumbest way that we could argue this stuff is all of the Republicans talking about the crime and the expense the costs never talking about the benefits and all of the Democrats only talking about the benefits and just pretending as though the costs and the the crime at cetera just don’t exist so both sides are taking the child’s view on this from the most part not every person there are individuals were we’re talking about it right all right how could they say any number is too high that’s right they can’t say any number is too high but the

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can’t say any number is too high but the public needs to know that I feel like all the the Democrats are getting off easy and maybe the Republicans in many cases as well because you can’t predict forward what’s going to happen so I’d like to hear for example somebody say Democrat a running for president you’re in favor of something like open borders you don’t have to use the word open borders but you’re you’re you’re okay with large of immigrants tell us what that looks like in ten years what’s the country look like in your world how many people come because the Democrat might say look I’m in favor of as many want to come as possible I just think that given that you know the difficulty of getting here it’s probably never gonna be more than three million a year and although that’s a stretch I’d be okay with that if a Democrat said that I’d say I could agree with that or I could disagree with that but okay you

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I could disagree with that but okay you gave me your you gave me your pluses you gave me your minuses and then you told me your priorities I respect that tell me your number here’s a question for you know by the way did did yang make the second next set of debates I saw a headline that said that we know who’s in the the next group I don’t know if he hang made it but if he did uh let me let me put out a thought to you has yang told a lie yet because I can’t think of one can you I said things that I didn’t like he suggested policies I didn’t fully understand etc but can you think of an example among all of the candidates somebody somebody said that they read he did I’d like to see an

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they read he did I’d like to see an example of that now there may be there may be situations in which he had a fact wrong but can you think where that case were yang said a direct lie I’m not sure we have if somebody says yes the Russia hoax I don’t know about that I I don’t remember any yang comments about the Russia hoax that would be outside of just what we’re observing on the news you know in other words sort of describing it and worrying about things and it’s okay to worry about Russian interference and if you hang thought that there was too much in the last election that would be sort of mainstream thinking but has he lied now here’s why this is interesting I don’t think it’s in him to lie because we

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think it’s in him to lie because we would have seen it by now right you would have seen them just lying like crazy by now because all the rest of them are doing it you know what was the well you know all the all the other politicians are bending the truth but I just haven’t seen him do it now that doesn’t mean I support him for president here’s where I’m going to this wouldn’t you’d like to see yang ask those questions how many immigrants is the right number how much crime per year you know in terms of rapes and murders and whatever how much is acceptable to get X number of immigrants which we agree are useful sort of in general good for the economy good people good for everybody so yeah Buddha judge here’s another one he’s sort of a rational intellectual person I asked him the direct question what would you like it to look like how many per year alright um Bernie Sanders

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many per year alright um Bernie Sanders interviewed on Joe Rogan I don’t know what that’s all about he called Trump a racist that’s an opinion so I’m not saying yang doesn’t have opinion as you disagree with I just don’t know that he’s told to direct ly it which would be unique so that’s why he’s interesting because perhaps you could ask him a direct question and have some anticipation of getting an actual coherent direct answer and I’d like to hear it he might actually have a pretty good view on this I I worry that he hasn’t thought through all of the issues he sort of you know he’s focusing on his you bi thing to good effect I I think yang has taken that thousand dollars a month ubi idea and he’s taking it from that’s crazy too let’s listen to this a little bit more what the one of the most consistent opinions I hear his people say when I

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opinions I hear his people say when I first heard about this that wasn’t ubi a thousand dollars a month it was crazy and then I heard yang explained it sort of a little bit flexible about it it’s not crazy it’s not it’s simply not crazy you could disagree with it and it might not work might be a bad idea but it’s not crazy it’s well within the rational realm and that makes it actually unusual in politics somebody says ubi it could be a stimulus yeah um I do agree that we’re gonna have a mass group of citizens who just are not capable of surviving in the world as it’s organized I’m going to say this again because probably it’s the most important thing in the future if I had to pick one most important thing now here I’m assuming that we’ve got war

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here I’m assuming that we’ve got war under control we know how to manage the economy there’ll be some ups and downs I think we’ll get a handle on the environment etc so I’m sort of discounting those not because they are huge but because we seem to have a pretty good hand alone here’s something we have no handle on it’s growing like crazy and no idea what to do about it mental health addiction and one that’s sort of tied to those two so there’s mental health and addiction but there’s a third category there are people who were sort of normal-ish but they are incapable of functioning in modern society because they don’t have the mental or emotional capability it’s just too complicated and too stressful and they just can’t handle it there are more and more people in that category every you saw the story of the there’s a woman who had a half a million dollars in

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who had a half a million dollars in college debt for some college made major that didn’t have much of a financial future now if somebody is operating in the modern world and runs up a half a million dollars of personal debt to get a degree that doesn’t have financial potential much anyway that person is by my description incapable of functioning in modern society she’s probably not crazy she’s probably not addicted to any kind of drug that’s you know causing her to make bad decisions I mean possibly but I don’t think so I think that the the normal complexity of the world has increased and increased but our intelligence and our ability to cope has not changed we haven’t evolved as quickly as as complexity is increasing so I think that we’re approaching a point where something like 1/3 to 2/3 of

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point where something like 1/3 to 2/3 of all citizens are unqualified to operate in the modern world probably something like 1/3 of adult humans have the basic mental physical and emotional capability to succeed if you went back 200 years almost everybody could succeed you know you could be that you could have an IQ of 80 and you could have an addictive personality but there was nothing to get addicted to I mean you’re lucky if you get some moonshine and you always had a job because it was manual labor and somebody would say well you’ve got an EQ IQ of 80 but your job is to pick this up and put it over here and the person with an IQ of 80 says that’s it just pick this stuff up and put it on the truck yeah that’s it all right I can do that I’ll do that all day and I get paid but we’re we’ve left that world so what do

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we’re we’ve left that world so what do you do in a world where two-thirds of the public is not qualified to live in this world yeah you have to reorganize society to account for that or I mean what the other the other options are you let them all star of the country falls apart you know we’ve become cannibals I mean there’s no real alternative except to reconfigure society so that people with low capability or lower than the top third can still have a quality life so I think the ubi thing gets directly at that in a very simple way there’s there’s a complicated way to describe it but I I appreciate and value Andrew Yang’s approach to simplify it all in two thousand dollars a month because that at least introduces you to a pretty complicated topic and it introduces you in a an easy-to-understand way and then once you get immersed in it you can kind of see

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get immersed in it you can kind of see that it’s it’s a pretty it’s a deep topic it goes to everything from you know addiction and IQ to robots to capitalism to income inequality it’s like all in there it’s a real complicated topic so here’s my take I believe that we will fail if we say there are people of all types and they’re going to live in the same place because the people who can’t make it are going to make it impossible for the people who can to even live there that they will create a city for example that’s Baltimore so everything becomes Baltimore in the future because the number of people who aren’t trained or equipped or maybe they have addiction or whatever mental health who knows they’ll just be too many people who can’t handle the complexity of modern society and then even if there are people who can they’re surrounded by too many who can’t and the whole thing falls apart I think

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and the whole thing falls apart I think we’re gonna have to have entire new communities just for people who can’t handle the complicated ones I don’t see an alternative I don’t see us curing addiction while keeping the people with a dick personalities in the same place as all the people who don’t have addictions because the people who don’t have addictions they’re going to be recreationally drinking and doing drugs and everything and it’s it’s going to be impossible for an addict to really stay straight in that environment they have to go somewhere where they just can’t get any they have to go somewhere where there are jobs that are lifting things and putting them on trucks because they can’t do anything else they don’t have much more capability so unless we build entirely separate places for people of all races ages genders and everything but the only thing they have in common is that they’re not capable of functioning in the modern society for

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functioning in the modern society for whatever reason addiction mental health you name it they need to be somewhere else where that that somewhere else can be optimized for the people who are there and it doesn’t drag down everything it will be pleasant uns and Baltimore’s well in theory so here’s here’s the part which I’m assuming but since I don’t say it sounds wrong I’ve been saying for years and I’m a hundred percent convinced of this that if you used design instead of just cash but you you well designed a small community you would have a perfect situation I’m going to show you a picture I don’t know if you’ll be able to see it on my phone well of exactly what I’m talking about let’s see bear with me I’ve got a good picture come up I swear to God I do all right well you might be able to see in a

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well you might be able to see in a little bit can you see that at all so these are these are units that are like little squares they have big glass walls so that this is actually a hotel but the the nature of the hotel is exactly how I imagined future cities should look so it’s a you know smallish living space with a bathroom and sort of all it is now imagine that you had some storage so people can keep their stuff but basically what you need is a little living space in the bathroom and the entire wall on one side is a sliding glass opening thing now as long as you have something to look at out your big glass wall you don’t feel like you’re you know a that you’re in a small too small of the place you feel like you’re part of the outdoors because your whole wall opens up to the outdoors I like here so if you were to design small

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like here so if you were to design small living spaces you probably could get the cost of one person to live in one place down to $50,000 and it would be kind of Awesome and and if you didn’t put a kitchen in it because there’s a common you know cafeteria for example you didn’t need a garage because there’s mass transportation you can walk or bike everywhere so if you designed a new city so the you so that everybody could live there inexpensively and it wasn’t just that the second choice it would actually be better than the other city you know where the rich people live is going to be complicated and messy and it’s just always a big problem the best lifestyle I ever experienced was College yes somebody’s saying dorms so it’s basically taking the college dorm concept but instead of you know these dinky little concrete rooms so you don’t want to be in with a roommate you have at least your own space a giant glass

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at least your own space a giant glass wall to the outdoors so your small space seems large and you can interact with people outdoors and and you’d have a good space now you would also want to be able to move from your smaller space to better spaces so you’d want some kind of a path to get to a bigger better space or whatever somebody says Scott Adams and that’s the studio apartment no no that’s not what happened what happened was I just said that existing studio apartments are poorly designed there’s they’re not really places that you want to spend too much time I’m saying that for the same space and the same cost better design gets you to a place where I’m literally on vacation in something that’s the size of let me look around this entire living space I’m right I’m in right now is roughly the size of my bathroom at home true story so my entire

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bathroom at home true story so my entire living space where I am on vacation where I paid a lot I paid a lot to come here and I’m in a space that’s about the size of my bathroom at home completely happy because they’ve designed it right all right anyway that’s enough on that and I will talk to you all tomorrow read my blog post it’s you can see the link in my Twitter feed bye for now