Episode 627 Scott Adams: Epstein, Slow Joe, Bernie, Green Card Rules, Cuomo, memzy.com
Date: 2019-08-13 | Duration: 1:05:10
Topics
Bernie AGREES with Trump…WaPo: unfair, biased reporting Biden gaffe defense: I’m not “losing it”…I never had it How to achieve a RACIALLY BLIND immigration system A systems approach will work CNN, TDS, mental illness and Ana Navarro “Think past the sale” headlines and fake news Should Trump be allowed to say same things Dems said in past? Illegal voting… “where it counts” Small numbers in key locations CAN and WILL…alter results Options to help ensure vote integrity Andrew Yang’s campaign ending gaffe
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hey everybody come on in here it’s time for coffee with Scott Adams and as luck would have it I’m Scott Adams I get to have coffee with me every day but you you have to make sure you’re here every day or else you might miss one so I guess I’m lucky that way but grab a seat make sure you’ve got what you need you know what you need if you can enjoy the simultaneous sip you need something this is what you need yeah the cover of Margar glass this time the cellist a tankard if they’re mr. flask a canteen or a vessel of any car [Music] fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and get ready for the dopamine hit that is better than anything it’s gonna get your day you’re off to a great start join me now for the simultaneous simple aah it’s not my imagination it does get better every time every time it’s better
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better every time every time it’s better so once again I checked the news and didn’t find any do you ever have those days you look you wake up and it’s sort of a habit you check the news and some days there just isn’t any news now they still report full pages and hours of stuff but it doesn’t really reach the level of news that matters and in a large in a large way but it’s all fun stuff so the news is well some of its tragic let me let me be clear about that so some of its bad it’s all like celebrity interesting crazy people you know a little bit of violence you know the things you like let’s talk about that but before I talk about that I won’t talk about a website some of you will be interested in if you’re in the business of making PowerPoint slides it’s not my own company I don’t have a
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it’s not my own company I don’t have a financial interest in it it’s just interesting from persuasion point of view so there’s a company that is essentially packaging and monetizing persuasion so it can actually sell you a unit of persuasion that you can drop into your PowerPoint deck to make it more persuasive do you think that’s possible do you think it’s scientifically possible to buy a slide for your slide deck that’s already pre-made as you know may not have much to do with your actual content but that plopping it into your existing slide deck could make your slide deck more memorable does that even seem like a thing well it’s backed by science and the founder of the company is somebody I’ve known for a long time in fact it’s dr. Carmen Simon who wrote the book I recommend all the time on memory it was
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recommend all the time on memory it was his name all remember in a moment the name of the book so I recommend her all the time for her expertise and her writing on how to cause somebody to remember something Carmen Simon not Carly Simon dr. Carbon Simon anyway the company is called mimsy Emmie M as in memory ma m zy calm and the business model is you can buy these slides that she’s designed and tested they’re simply tweak your attention so if you’ve got let’s say 25 slides but you know that your audience might not remember 10% of what you say but you know which 10% you want them to leave with you take one of her slides you plop it in right before the part that you want them to remember and it wakes them up so these were actually slides designed to sort of in a small way shock
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designed to sort of in a small way shock to the brain and just go Boop and you wake up and then you show them the part you want them to remember and you catch them just at the right moment of attention so I mentioned this because if it’s in the persuasion theme and if any of you wanted to test it its MEMS e.com let’s talk about the viral video of Chris Cuomo being confronted by somebody who called him freedo Fredo Fredo which apparently is some kind of either Italian racial slur based on the Godfather I don’t know exactly what’s going on with the story but my my take on it is it must be some kind of a racial ethnic slur Chris Cuomo having Italian heritage and he was he was confronted probably in New
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he was he was confronted probably in New York City I think there’s a little viral video of it and Chris Cuomo went pretty hard at the accuser now to the point where he was it was literally challenging him to a physical confrontation or at least making it clear that he was willing to have won over this issue and I had kind of mixed feelings when I was what I was watching it the first feeling was well you don’t know how much is theater because there were people there to prevent a fight you know there were enough people around them that probably a fight wasn’t going to actually happen so it was a little safer to say that yeah and I think the the people are telling me in the comments show that the the reference to freedo is that it’s sort of the the weaker son or the weak brother or something like that but it also has an ethnic probably non coincidental
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ethnic probably non coincidental association that I don’t think can be ignored so it did look it did look like it was an ethnic slur to me and if he even if it wasn’t intended that way you have to be smart enough to know it should have been taken that way I mean anybody would take it that way there’s no way you’re going to say something like that to somebody with Italian heritage they’re just gonna say oh that’s funny haha walk away have you ever seen have you ever seen somebody of serious Italian heritage witnessing an Italian joke they don’t like it and nor should they but anyway the way the way Chris Cuomo responded is the way everybody I’ve ever seen responded you know in that situation so I would say his response was typical and not in a bad way typical and completely acceptable in my opinion so I I think the you know the
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opinion so I I think the you know the reason it’s a viral video or somebody said it about Eric Trump was that where it came from originally right I just think this is all nonsense and maybe maybe is mildly entertaining but we should forget about it all let’s talk about Bernie Sanders he was accusing the Washington Post of giving him bad coverage and he’s he’s alleging that because he keeps bragging on Amazon for not paying taxes or enough taxes of the type he’s speaking of that that they they might be giving him bad coverage because Amazon owns the Washington Post and if you’re a Democrat how do you respond to that suppose you’re a Democrat and the whole time you thought the Washington Post was telling honest reporting about Trump and then Bernie Sanders says they’re not giving on just
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Sanders says they’re not giving on just reporting about me how do you have you processed that do you say to yourself oh wow wow the Washington Post is completely straightforward about Trump but it looks like maybe they make stuff up or they give bad reporting about Bernie Sanders is that what you think or are you a little more likely to think wait a minute if Trump and Sanders are saying this publication is biased isn’t that kind of persuasive I would think so one of these filters that I recommend for reality is if both sides agree on something that’s probably true if only one side says it happened or can see it it’s probably not but when both you know the the second-ranked Democrat in terms of the polls and the president United States on the other side says oh it’s totally true this publications is
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it’s totally true this publications is biased what do you say you know is there anybody who’s a Democrat who hears Bernie complaining about the Washington Post’s sees Trump complaining about it and says to themselves now I think it’s probably straightforward they’re just complaining sighs suppose maybe some people say that let’s talk about Epstein because there’s there are very few things less interesting than the story so the latest I’d call it a leak there’s some reporting on it but I would say you shouldn’t believe anything about the Epstein story yet here’s a list of things you should not believe are necessarily true although they have been although they have been reportedly reported so as reported that he was found with the bedsheet around his neck hanging from a bunk you should not at not assume that’s true it could be true but we’re in the fog of
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it could be true but we’re in the fog of war stage where if you had to bet for something being true or bet against it mm-hmm it’s probably sort of a toss-up at this point probably a 50/50 somebody’s asking if I saw The Godfather movies yes they’re all overrated let me be the one to say all the Godfather movies terribly overrated I don’t get them like I don’t know anybody why anybody’d watch those movies so there I said it totally overrated movies now of course our art is subjective so I I understand that people can like stuff I don’t like talk about Epstein here’s some other things you should not believe are necessary true this is a story about there were cameras in the hallway or that there was camera not working don’t believe had any of that stuff yet could be true don’t believe any of it yet reports that his roommate was reassigned and they didn’t get a new roommate
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get a new roommate probably it’s likely he didn’t have a roommate I mean that feels like we’d know that but these circumstances of why that roommate was removed and how how unusual that is I wouldn’t leave anything yet the story about him trying to kill himself the first time and then claiming it was an attack maybe it wasn’t I wouldn’t believe anything about any of that stuff I would say a hundred percent of what you’ve heard about the first alleged attempt on his life or suicide whichever was double evaluate so those are the things you shouldn’t believe which is most of the story at this point so but suppose it turns out that he was he was discovered hanging by a bedsheet how does that explain that the coroner still has some questions if you find somebody literally hanging from a bedsheet dead in a jail who was a
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a bedsheet dead in a jail who was a suicide risk why do you keep checking well seems like the obvious reason seems like the obvious reason is that you would check because you thought maybe it was staged you know maybe somebody killed him and then hung him up there so it looked like you’d been murdered maybe somebody says toxicology takes a while that’s my guess I think you have to find out if he also had any you know anything deadly in his body because if you were going to stage a hanging first you’d kill him with some nun you know non non obvious way in terms of bruises and then you would then you’d waste him up on the bed if that’s what you’re doing but it seems to me that the odds of else getting in there and and all the cameras turned off for the entire path of what it would take for somebody to get in there and get out probably more
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get in there and get out probably more than one camera I know I so the odds of somebody else getting in there seem low now what are the odds that somebody intentionally or was paid to turn to turn away or allow it to happen pretty good but we don’t have evidence of that so I would say that the incompetence hypothesis is gaining in power at least in terms of what the official the official response will be but certainly not gaining in strength in terms of the the public’s you know interest in believing the conspiracy theory that will never go away so here’s my prediction I predict there will be I predict there will be no official meeting no no justice system evidence suggesting it’s murder unless you can technically call it murder if there was a guard who intentionally left him alone
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a guard who intentionally left him alone so we might have evidence that somebody didn’t do their job or intentionally did it do the job and that would technically be murder just because they would be an accomplice to it I guess but I don’t believe there’s somebody who came in and killed him so my my prediction is that there will never be official evidence you know you’re welcome to your conspiracy theories but there will never be official evidence of somebody else directly killing him but there might be people who kind of helped him do it himself alright so only at the Biden versus Trump matchup and at the moment Biden is accusing the president of being away supremacist so the president would have to defend against that framing well the president is framing Joe Biden as losing his fastball slowing down being slow Joe
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his fastball slowing down being slow Joe which of those is easier to defend I kind of like Biden’s positioned because he’s been gaffing forever and none of them seem to hurt anything so I think people are willing to go with the gaff because even if he doesn’t do a good job of defending his gaffes people get used to it you know same as I get used to Trump so he does have a real advantage there in that matchup but have you noticed that more and more people are talking about Biden as something like the the leader in name only that I think that phrase was used today on Fox Fox and Friends do you get the sense that more and more people are thinking yeah we get that he’s got a dominant lead in the polls but do you get that he can’t win and that’s gonna count because if anybody emerges as more electable especially let’s say let’s say after Iowa for example somebody gets a boost
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Iowa for example somebody gets a boost maybe Cory Booker apparently has a good ground game in Iowa so I think the moment the Democrats can smell anybody else in the pack who seems electable Biden will just think like a Iraq and I think some smart people are waiting for that to happen and it would happen suddenly if it happened I guess the Trump administration is introducing some new rules and the green card situation in which you would have to demonstrate that you have the ability to essentially support yourself I don’t know the details but yet the essence of it is if you need the government to support you you’re not going to become a citizen but if you can take care of yourself maybe you’ve got a path something like that in broad strokes that of course is being will of course be painted as racist
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will of course be painted as racist because the mayor system seems that way now let me ask you this I’m going to suggest an immigration system that is guaranteed to be non-racist while also giving President Trump everything he wants from an immigration system are you ready do you think that can be done do you think we could design a system that’s guaranteed not to be racist guaranteed at the same time it gives President Trump everything he wants in the immigration do you think that’s possible here’s my system you come up with a criteria for scoring you know whether somebody comes into the country you make it objective just the way you would make a mortgage loan objective now if you’ve never been involved in getting a mortgage you know that you have to answer a billion questions some of them you don’t think are even relevant to you but it’s because whoever is looking at the loan doesn’t know you and in fact I don’t know if they do this in banks but
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don’t know if they do this in banks but they should I think they do this in college applications don’t they remove the name on college applications maybe not every college for some so that the reviewer cannot be biased by the name and gender and you know assumed ethnicity that’s the subject of the name that’s the thing right so what if you took all the people who want to come into the country as immigrants and you say hey everybody just apply you can all apply and we’ll make two kinds of decisions one will decide how many we’re letting in this year but everybody can apply you don’t have to be looking for asylum you could just all apply if you’re looking for a Salim that’s part of the check boxes you know that’ll give you a little extra if you’ve got something Salim stuff going on maybe they’ll give you a little extra in your check box but you have all the immigrants fill out their particulars what their education is you know do they
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what their education is you know do they have a job lined up whatever it is that you think is important it makes it can they speak English etc and then you you make it objective and then here’s the magic part you remove the names and ideally you remove the language identifier so that the people reviewing the applications wait for it can’t tell what country they’re from yeah about that what if the people who decide who gets in and who doesn’t get in can’t tell what country it is they can only look at the checklist and the checklist says speaks of English graduated high school has a job lined up already has some family here to you know get them goin whatever the criteria is on no expert and immigration but the people who are concerned about immigration
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who are concerned about immigration being racist how can they how can they argue with the system that would remove all reference to race and allow the the people who make the decisions just to look at the stuff we care about now there’s still be vetting right you still need vetting but let’s say the vetting is also separate let’s say the people who do the vetting do the vetting and then they’re the ones who check the box ok we’ve added these people they’re not definitely not a terrorist it’s just one of the boxes that gets checked so the people make the final decision don’t know anything they just know the box is checked they’re not a terrorist already been vetted how can you complain about a system that removes all information about your ethnicity and national origin before the decision is made you can’t complain about that there’s nothing left it is the most colorblind everything blind religion blind thing you could come up with you know even
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you could come up with you know even take take the what was called the Muslim ban the the several countries that don’t have good records and therefore we can’t tell them who’s coming in just turn that into a blind process there’s a box of the checklist is this from a country that has good records or we you don’t even have to say that you can just say are the records reliable yeah they’re the records is saying who you are from your country reliable or not reliable through whatever reason doesn’t have to be because it’s from a country that’s you know unreliable could be some other reason but somebody else would check that back somebody else in the government not the people making the decision they just see in the box all right then there’s the second part of the decision the first part of the decision is you know the individuals you know with the with the the identifiers removed you know those decisions who gets em from yourself second is part of it is
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from yourself second is part of it is how many and so you say as a as a country how many people do we want to let in per year we get our experts involved and you agree that maybe you know we want to throttle it down a little bit and then we then we re let’s say we revisit that number every six months perhaps there’s an independent panel of economist listen listen I’ll just throw out this idea let’s say every six months you reassess the total number of people are you letting in without regard to where they’re coming from just the total number and then you compare that to how many jobs are open you you can tell if you’re getting people who are filling jobs and you could tell if it’s working out but every six months you review it and let’s say it’s just a panel of economists from you know maybe different sides and that panel says you know we’re we don’t really know what the right number is but we’re gonna say
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right number is but we’re gonna say 400,000 let’s see how it goes six months later you say how’d it go dude does it look like people can’t get jobs when they come in did it look like our unemployment rate domestically what up how’d it go and if things are going fine you say we like immigrants 400,000 worked fine bump it up to 500,000 but again just for six months and then you’re gonna look at it again now let’s say six months later the unemployment rate of the citizens turns bad you don’t kick out the people you already let in that wouldn’t be fair you say instead okay maybe maybe we pull it back down to four or 50 for a year to see what happens again six months later you look at it again or how about this why don’t we have a law that says that the number of people we let in with immigration is related to no you don’t want to tie it
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related to no you don’t want to tie it to the unemployment level specific because you want as many PhDs to come into the country as possible I’m using that just as a proxy for highly trained people you want unlimited highly trained people so maybe you have to have some two different paths possibly it could be a fast path for people above a certain level of training and there might be a more generic path for people below the minimum level of we’ll let you all in above this so there could be like a level beyond which hey if you at that level we’ll take you all we don’t care how many of there are you know you can empty India of phd’s we’ll take them all have you ever met like what like an Indian immigrant who went to like an IIT or one of the top schools or something you have any idea how smart the people coming into this country are and we’re heading for Silicon Valley we’re not talking
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Silicon Valley we’re not talking ordinary smart we’re talking crazy smart like just off the charts like you can’t even believe how smart is there a limit to how many of those you want I’ll tell you I live in the Bay Area tons of immigrants from India the ones that I tend to interact with tend to be brilliant they add a lot you want as many as you can as many as you can get so that’s so let me toss that out there so those of you who are new to my periscope let me give you some context I don’t assume any of my ideas are good I don’t assume any of my ideas are good I do assume that some of them might be unique some of them might make you think of something differently if I can get you to think in terms of systems which is what I was just talking about versus goals you’re gonna be ahead of the game if that’s the only
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be ahead of the game if that’s the only thing I do so I like to throw out an idea now and then and say what do you think now let’s just play this through in your head let’s say the president says you know hypothetically takes this idea and says you know I hear you about immigration having a a racial component even if we don’t like to no matter what you do with immigration it’s gonna look racist to somebody and I see that wouldn’t you love the president to say you know I got a I hear you everything we do with immigration is gonna feel racist to somebody so here’s what I suggest let’s take the the race out of it literally and create a blind system where we can just pick the people who do check the boxes and we won’t even know where they’re coming from the only thing we’ll decide as a country is with our you know panel of economists whether we should be ramping up the number or down
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should be ramping up the number or down the number but otherwise we’re just going to use the checklist and then we’re gonna tighten security at all of our you know and all the way is from from the green card over from the visa overstays to the border will tighten everything overtime but the goal is to have a completely colorblind system can you help me make that happen what would be the reaction would Trump supporters say no we can’t have a colorblind system would you is there anybody here on this periscope most of you probably Trump supporters how many of you would reject now remember it’s a separate question of how many right that I’m not even talking about that it’s a separate question would you object to the decision of who comes in to be completely divorced of what country they’re coming from and that the people making the decision just see the checklist would you be okay with
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see the checklist would you be okay with that somebody says what is the total criteria that’s a fair question maybe you maybe you need to see the criteria before you do it but you can imagine some of them how well do you speak the English do you have contacts art here do you have a job lined up what are your skills do you have a criminal record do you have a valid claim of asylum that sort of thing are you bringing any assets with you you know are you do you have a skill in an industry where we really want people so you could imagine that the criteria could shift over time but it would be easy to create a set of criteria that even the biggest critic in the world would say all right you wouldn’t you know that’s just objective right now those of you say no we don’t want this to be elitist because one of the arguments you would hear from Democrats from a meritocracy is hey if you let in just the highly educated I
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you let in just the highly educated I get that that’s good for the economy in in ways that educated people help economies I think even critics would get that that has a economic value but they would say and this is a good argument this is a good argument they would say a lot of our superstars you know we historically come from humble beginnings they may not have you know they might be the parents of the kid who becomes the next you know inventor the next you know startup superstar etc so why would you prevent these people who have tremendous potential but they just haven’t met the checklist if you don’t let them in you’re missing a lot of goodness they could come with them you know that we can’t predict I find that a pretty compelling argument I have to admit it’s a compelling argument and I think you could deal with it with the system which is you could say if we’re gonna let in
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is you could say if we’re gonna let in four hundred thousand a year you say we’re gonna make a hundred thousand of them just have to have this level of education period whether it’s a hundred or two hundred whatever but you say this many just have to have our minimum education but we are gonna let in 100,000 people who just might not have met the best criteria but we can afford it we’re a rich country essentially you know we have a huge debt so people will argue whether we’re actually the poorest country in the world of the richest I think you could argue it either way but we certainly have the most capability and yeah so we can argue about the percentage and that would be a fair and honest argument and one that I haven’t seen I haven’t seen anybody say well here’s the percentage I’d like 25% to have advanced education I’d like 50% to be just solid people who
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I’d like 50% to be just solid people who have maybe a little bit of command of English to get started but we’re gonna let 25 percent in who are just in you know they’ve got some issues but at least they probably are employable I would be ok with that because you know we’re not a country we’re not a country that’s totally selfish we’re we’re a generous country who understands the concept that you have to take care of yourself or else you won’t be in any shape to take care of anybody else all right so we can we’ll get rid of the critic who doesn’t need to ever come back all right so that’s my idea let that hang out there a little bit speaking of hanging seeking speaking of epstein all right
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I saw sort article in CNN that was a sort of anti a Trump you know everybody’s a racist kind of an article and I don’t know if this has happened to you yet but I think something there’s some kind of weird crossover that just happened you know some inflection point where it used to be that if I read you an opinion piece on CNN site if it disagreed with my worldview it would bother me a little bit I think oh god I’ve got a I’ve got to say something about this I’m gonna point out the errors but now I’m starting to read their pieces like comedy has that happened to you yet so this article it’s titled this is the title of an opinion piece on CNN cnn.com says quote the title says why America still can’t face up to Trump’s racism now I tweeted it without comment while I added a comment but you know I didn’t I didn’t criticize
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but you know I didn’t I didn’t criticize its facts because I couldn’t read it as anything but funny write it it just I read it the same way I would read a comedy piece looking for the hilarious parts and of course it was full of them now it wouldn’t be hilarious people who have the same mindset but I read it as somebody who’s got a mental problem and let me say I don’t mean that as hyperbole I think they have a mental problem now when I say a mental problem I don’t mean a permanent one TDS is very you know trend transients meaning meaning that if Trump left office TDS would subside fairly immediately so there’s a something funny about watching people act irrationally if you ever lose if you watched Anna Navarro on CNN lately have you ever seen that watching
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lately have you ever seen that watching an and devar oh there’s another funny viral clip where I guess Steve Cortes was the other guests talking to Chris Cuomo and she she got triggered so I guess Steve triggered her and watching Anna Navarro go crazy I mean there’s the way I read it is it looks like mental illness and I hate to say it it’s entertaining I don’t know what that says about me but it doesn’t I don’t I no longer think about what her point of view is and compare it to my own because it’s gone so far that her point of view doesn’t seem relevant anymore you’re watching somebody have some kind of a mental situation temporary I don’t think she’s you know permanently mentally ill or anything but temporarily it’s a mental hysteria and it’s kind of entertaining so anyway I love I love the title of this because you can see where things are going and see you know it makes you
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are going and see you know it makes you think past the sale so the sale here is that trumps are racist and and instead of saying is Trump a racist or is he not which is what we used to ask even the enemies used to ask now they say why America still can’t face up to it all of trumps racism so they they act as though that’s a given and then they’re confused why America can’t see what they can see so clearly now if you’re going to write an article about a mystery and the mystery is why doesn’t everybody agree with me what would you at least not give some attention to all of the alternatives because the one alternative is that people are lying or stupid and there are 60 million of them that’s 60 million people are either lying or racists or stupid that’s sort of what the author is implying by not mentioning
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the author is implying by not mentioning any other hypotheses and yet the article itself is such a clear representation of tedious and fake news and the TDS is supported by references to the fake news in the article because he sort of casually mentions that the president’s using this you know racist provocative language he doesn’t mention it’s the same language that Democrats use it’s just they don’t get accused of this so watching an article that is nothing but tedious and fake news which is of course supporting the TDs with a headline why can’t people see it yeah how is that not funny to you now here’s a question senator Tim Scott was just on one of the TV TV news shows he’s an african-american senator or Republican he was asked if Trump is racist he says no no now let me ask you
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racist he says no no now let me ask you this have you ever had a black person who couldn’t identify a racist or wouldn’t is that even a thing think about it in the entire world of like every every black person ever born in in the United States has there ever been a case where even one you know let’s say adult African American person ever said no that’s not racist and they were when they were wrong about it because I gotta think black people are really good at recognizing racism let me ask you this do you think that Senator Tim Scott would support somebody he thought actually was a racist for political reasons because you know hey Republican I’m a Republican does that seem too sassy we’ve been a little bit credible do you know who Tim
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little bit credible do you know who Tim Scott is do you think for a second that he would go on national television and say no he’s not a racist unless he actually believed it unless he actually believed it I mean seriously I’m kind of feeling Tim Scott would be the first one saying you got to get this guy out of here I can’t be on this team so if you look into two hypotheses one is that Republicans are experiencing a hysteria that’s not unlike I’m sorry that Democrats are experiencing some kind of mass hysteria about Trump it’s not that different than what Republicans experienced about to Obama remember a lot of a lot of Republicans thought he was a you know Muslim sleeper cell and everything else so compare that hypothesis to he’s totally racist and it’s obvious and nobody can doubt it but for some reason
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nobody can doubt it but for some reason there are a lot of black people who still say it’s not happening what are the odds of that hey if you’re a Democrat who has that view that the racism is obvious and clear and we’re not questioning whether it exists anymore and yet there are prominent black leaders who go on TV as they are and that’s not there I don’t see it how do you explain it because it perfectly explains the hypothesis that they’re having some some you know some of its political but some of it is a hysteria that explains a hundred percent of everything you see am I wrong does it not explain a hundred percent of your observation it does but the he’s really a racist and it’s obvious doesn’t explain why Israel hasn’t noticed doesn’t explain how Tim Scott is willing to go on TV put his own reputation completely on the line skin in the game
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completely on the line skin in the game right talk about skin in the game imagine your Tim Scott are you gonna put that much risk into it I mean at the if you believed it was true or even a little bit true is it isn’t it far more likely he would say something like yeah I can see what they’re saying because the way he talks but we hope he doesn’t think that in his heart and you know if he does anything that’s a policy all of course jump all over it wouldn’t he be talking like that don’t you think I think so but he’s not he’s saying unambiguously now this is not racism right I saw a list with CNN that I printed out these are this is a long list of what CNN reports as Trump uh promoted conspiracy theories now I started laughing when it’s reading list I’m gonna read the list to you then
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list I’m gonna read the list to you then we will talk about a few so these are the things that they say Trump believes that they call a conspiracy theory number one senator Ted Cruz is dead involved in the JFK assassination all right well I have to talk about it as I say him because it would be too funny obviously Trump doesn’t believe that that was just sort of a throwaway line they got everybody chattering so I couldn’t take that seriously I just Justice Scalia may have been killed oh maybe I mean a lot of reasonable people say mm hmm it would be one thing to say he was killed but I’ll think it’s a conspiracy theory to say he might have it isn’t that just true whether you think it happened or it didn’t might have been so I’m not sure that’s believing in the conspiracy there Joe Scarborough involved in his interns death okay you know Trump doesn’t necessarily believe that’s true it’s just something you say
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that’s true it’s just something you say about your critic because it’s out there and it makes him defend it right Clinton aides death wasn’t suicide I don’t know what that which aide they’re talking about there so I don’t have an opinion on that President Obama not a US citizen I don’t quite believe that the president ever said that did he I don’t think he said that directly I could be wrong but I don’t think he ever said that he just raised the question about the birth certificate how about this one I’d never heard before Senator Marco Rubio not eligible to be President well because his parents were born somewhere else or something okay that was just silly there’s no chance that the President believes that Marco Rubio is not eligible to be President senator Ted Cruz not eligible to be President because he’s Canadian again not a chance the president Trump
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again not a chance the president Trump actually believes that picture Vince Foster was the I don’t know about that story but to me that just sounds like something you toss out there to make the to make the other side have to explain it away then they have Obama wiretap to Trump Tower and they’re calling that a conspiracy theory well it might not be exactly technically accurate that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower but given everything we’ve learned about the you know the Comey investigation and all that it’s not too far from the truth is it I mean you have to you have to make some you know assumptions and you know pound it into the truth a little bit but it’s not that far far it is truly his campaign you know was being was under surveillance and let that part’s true all right the claim
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that part’s true all right the claim that Muslim Americans celebrated on 9/11 they said that’s a conspiracy theory because there’s not a single bit of videotape to suggest that’s true but how do you prove a negative if I kill somebody and there’s no videotape can I say I didn’t kill him seems like a lack of videotape is not proof something didn’t happen because you got to think that there was some maybe some people celebrated endorsed all right how about and and let me clarify there are people of all kinds in every group it seems to me then that every tragedy probably gets some idiot in some group to celebrate they’re probably people who celebrate natural disasters there are probably
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natural disasters there are probably regular Americans who celebrate an earthquake in California because they say screw California you vote for the wrong president anyway no you think there’s somebody it’s a big country there’s somebody who celebrates too every freaking disaster there’s somebody who celebrates mass shootings you know that you know that’s true right you don’t see them because they don’t do it so much on video so when the president said that some you didn’t say how many Muslim Americans celebrated on 9/11 if Muslim Americans are like every other American and there are enough of them probably somebody did something you don’t like but I would I would reject the idea that it was some kind of you know general Muslim reaction but any large group has some bad actors some global warming is then the claim that millions of people have voted illegally
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millions of people have voted illegally I don’t know the answer to that I I have my doubts that millions of people voted illegally just because I don’t know that people are that incentivize the vote I mean it’s hard enough to get legal people to vote I don’t know how you get millions of people who would fear being detected voting I know if I were illegal unless last damn thing I’d ever do is vote would you would you vote if you were if you were not a legal resident it feels like you would just be asking for attention now if somebody says I love your naivete well you must be new here because when people say I’m naive and don’t give an answer what do I do block so you got blocked happy to hear your answers if you have objections saying I say happy to hear them but you’re naive is insta block now I’m not saying that I
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is insta block now I’m not saying that I have an opinion on whether or not lots lots of people I don’t know whether millions or not I don’t have an opinion on how many people if anyone voted illegally do you feel you have good information that would tell you whether that’s true or not I don’t does anybody really know I mean if I had to put money on it I’d say probably not millions but let’s put it this way if somebody said to me alright you got to make a bet you don’t have a choice you have to make a bet you either get a bet that millions of people voted illegally or millions did not but Millions is the key word has to be more than 2 million to be millions would I bet with my own money if I had to bet then Millions with an ass of illegal votes forecast I’d say no I can’t rule it out but I’d bet against it now let’s change
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but I’d bet against it now let’s change the question what I vote against tens of thousands of illegal votes in the places where it mattered because that’s the only place you have to do the illegal voting right you don’t need it illegal votes where you know you’re gonna lose it or you know you’re gonna win it doesn’t make any difference you’d only have to put the illegal boats in the places where a few most matter would I vote that there were not tens of thousands of illegal votes and having many many millions that were cast would I put my money on that nope I would not again I don’t know the answer because I don’t think we’ll ever have any credible information at least not that I would believe I mean because you just can’t trust how the data was gathered you you know if they can’t detect illegal voters does that mean they didn’t exist doesn’t mean that it just means they didn’t detect them so we’ll never really know but I would bet tens of thousands I would bet against
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tens of thousands I would bet against millions but in the context of president Trump’s statements doesn’t he doesn’t he always exaggerate everything so you know put that in in the mix you know tell you something I was wondering the other day why do we still have voter fraud in what will be 2020 are you telling me that we don’t have technology and systems that could drive a voter fraud to nothing seriously let me let me just throw out you know one possibility you put an inexpensive camera at the voting booth and you take everybody’s picture how about that you just take their picture before they vote maybe that’s already done I didn’t know if that’s done I recently came through customs back into the United States and this is the first time I’ve seen this I don’t know if it’s new but if you’re coming through customs and you
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if you’re coming through customs and you know you’re you’re up to the gate and you’re the one dealing with the customs person he says take off your glasses and look in the camera so part of the process even as an American of coming into the country is that they take a picture of your face now given that we have facial recognition and we can match a face to the real person we’ve got the person’s name because they’re voting now we’ve got their picture how in the world do we not know if they’re the real person because we’ve got the picture and we’ve got the name and I did they give this social security number when they vote I don’t know how that works it’s been a while since I voted how in the world can we not make every polling place completely secure from illegal voting simply by having a little camera that takes your picture and says what’s your name and then we check it against social social media now why can’t we do that can you tell me that that’s not
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that can you tell me that that’s not something you could implement or I don’t know a thousand dollars per polling place you know the federal government could just pay for that I don’t know what how expensive that would be anyway they here’s some more conspiracy theories that windmills cause cancer so I don’t remember exactly what the president said about that but is there even the see is there in existence any kind of conspiracy theory this as windmills cause cancer has anybody except the president’s suggested something like that now I don’t even know what that’s all about I can’t even comment on that one but what I don’t believe here’s what I don’t believe the president ronpa think swindles cause cancer well I’ll think he thinks that I don’t know what he said well I think he thinks that apparently
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well I think he thinks that apparently hurricane this is the other Trump promoted conspiracy theory according to CNN that Hurricane Maria death toll was not accurate well what’s that mean not accurate of course it wasn’t accurate do you think there’s ever been an accurate death toll from a situation like that because how would you count people how do you know who was gonna die anyway I mean you could you could have a completely useful estimate that seems fair but how could it be accurate like I don’t I don’t think you can get an accurate number so is that really conspiracy theory I I’d have to know more about that one and then they act number 15 and it’s funny it’s the last one in the list when you get tired of reading so after they’ve warned you down from reading the other fourteen things the last thing on the list is Russia didn’t interfere in election that’s just fake news the president fully
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fake news the president fully acknowledges that the troll the troll stuff existed right he fully fully acknowledges that and fully acknowledges I mean his justice system just went after them so isn’t that just fake news so there you have it I think I’ve spent everything I want to say for now yes and the the corruption in the Puerto Rican government seemed to be highlighted by you know how how poorly they managed the recovery on their end so I think the president was at least partially redeemed on that he had never acknowledged the Helsinki presser which meant absolutely nothing yeah that the Helsinki press thing to expect that the president was going to say in front of Putin Wahpeton is
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say in front of Putin Wahpeton is sitting there and they had a good meeting and you know to expect that he was gonna throw him under the bus that doesn’t seem realistic Oh have I commented on scare lucci I haven’t allowed me to so scare Moochie and the president have had a falling out I guess Karen Lucci is not anti-trump he is simply no longer a supporter and partly because of watches recent rhetoric or something I would say that I don’t know why any of us care too much about that I mean they’re both interesting characters it didn’t work out I don’t know it’s a fun story because it’s August so watching them tweeted each other is entertaining it’s not going to change the the rate of unemployment or the economy Oh Yang’s comments on a trumpet
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economy Oh Yang’s comments on a trumpet being a fat slob okay yes I remember that comment so I heard the video I believe the context was at the Iowa Events the yang was asked if there’s anything that Trump could do better than the yang that must have been the question I heard the answer not the question but from context I think that’s what it was and yang said that what the only thing you could think of I’m paraphrasing that Trump would be better at is if the task was trying to prevent a helium balloon from getting off the ground Trump would be better at it because he’s fat I gotta say I gotta say the Yang’s Yang’s reputation with me went up a level because you know if he had said it about it buddy else I would have said hey that’s
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buddy else I would have said hey that’s not fair you’re you know you’re punching down or you’re picking on people for their looks or whatever but because he because he went after Trump and Trump goes after everybody and including physical attributes if it felt like a safe safe insult right here’s what yang got wrong oh my god did he did he blow this if you ever heard the the phrase screwing the pooch I was like the the worst thing you could do here’s what Andrew yang totally missed do you know where I’m going right what was so completely self-immolating about that comment how did yang guarantee he can never be president by that comment and I mean that yang guaranteed he can never be president fat-shaming
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never be president fat-shaming right he fat shamed in public while running for president what percentage of the total voting public is concerned about their own weight you that’s right he took himself out of the race I mean that literally he took himself out of the race being having that video of him fat shaming anybody it doesn’t matter if it’s Trump the fact that all the people who were overweight know what he thinks about fat people that’s it now how do I know what a big mistake this is well I learned the hard way in the very earliest days of Dilbert I would sometimes make fun of one of the characters the boss or even Dilbert for being overweight now I thought hahahaha I’ll make fun of these characters I’m not making fun of you I’m making fun of these characters for being overweight oh
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these characters for being overweight oh man was that stupid let me put let me not henge whatsoever it was stupid you probably watch me defend myself in a thousand different ways for things you think I shouldn’t defend myself you know that if I think there’s even a sliver of a good argument for why I’ve done something not being criticized for I’m gonna I’m gonna exploit that sliver if I can find anything smart or useful or positive about something I did that people are criticizing before I’m gonna fight like a a wounded weasel for that point of view but when you’re doing a national cartoon strip and even if you’re talking about the characters you’re not talking about the public and you say something that can be considered a joke I mean that’s the context of a comic and it has anything to do with people’s weight you’re just stupid
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people’s weight you’re just stupid you’re stupid that doesn’t mean you’re stupid about everything but in this particular case there was just something wrong with your brain I’m talking about myself here so I got a lot of email from people who said Scott do you understand what percentage of your loyal followers are overweight and I didn’t I really never thought about it I was completely oblivious to being an well even let me let me ramp it up for a minute I called myself stupid for making such a that type of insensitive comment in public it wasn’t just stupid it was being an all right I’m gonna own that I also completely changed that you know once those comments came in I read them and honestly I was ashamed I was ashamed of myself for for being an and for being stupid all right
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and for being stupid all right there’s just no there’s just no way you can can decode any of this yang just made my mistake so I have to admit that you know I bonded with him a little bit over the mistake so my opinion if young actually sort of went up a little bit because I watched him fail in public exactly the way I did and I watched him say something funny and it was an insult against Trump I did laughs so you know I liked some stuff about it but the fact is he was stupid and he was an just like I was exactly like I was no difference was I embarrassed yes now I don’t feel shame like normal people but you know in sort of a intellectual way I was embarrassed I guess I’d say that whatever it is that I feel this embarrassment which is some tiny thing compared to what other people feel is embarrassment I did feel yes but
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feel is embarrassment I did feel yes but it was you know a modest feeling mostly I just acknowledged a facts of fact on this topic I was stupid and I was an period and you know I apologize for that and I move on so anyway a yang doesn’t really have any chance of being elected after that comment that’s that’s a complete game ender I just think he doesn’t know it yet not that he necessarily was going to make it into the top three but he can’t go all the way now now it’s possible if he if he’d if he were to do something closer to what I just did say oh I was an idiot yeah I apologize for that totally insensitive won’t do it again I think he’d be alright so I think he could actually recover from it in terms of Republicans but there’s just so many people are gonna hear that and say oh you’re off my list period buddy you’re just off the list nobody is overweight because they want to let me
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overweight because they want to let me say that again nobody is overweight because they want to be overweight oh okay it’s a big country somebody probably is there’s probably some people who enjoy it for whatever reason nobody wants to be overweight right it’s not a it’s not a choice the way we normally think of choice people who are overweight like food better have differ situations etc it’s a real challenge for some people I don’t believe in free will and I’ve said this I’ve said this before but if you see the reaction the people who have extra pounds to food and you see skinny people’s reaction to food let’s say you’re at a party the food comes out people don’t react to food the same way some people react to food like it’s heroin other people react to it’s like it’s like I gotta brush my teeth gonna take a shower got a food you know I’m a little closer to that camp but for
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I’m a little closer to that camp but for the people who just get high from food I don’t know I’ve got a lot of empathy for how hard that would be to to get down to a weight that even you want it to be all right that’s all for now I’ll talk to you all later bye for now