Episode 634 Scott Adams: AntiRa, Biden Family Gaffing, Polls, Google Manipulation, The Squad

Date: 2019-08-20 | Duration: 57:57

Topics

AntiRa…A group for people who are Anti-Racist If you’re anti-racist, you’re a “natural member” of AntiRa If you’re OPPOSED to AntiRa…you’re obviously a racist CNN guest Angela Rye’s reaction to the word “hijack” The growing list of common words that are now unacceptable Google’s alleged vote-shifting bias Isn’t unintentional political bias…still political bias? Culture differences between upstate NY and California Will Biden destroy Obama’s legacy if he’s the candidate? Isn’t AOC…”The Squad”, aren’t the others just coat-tailing AOC? Interesting CNN coverage of the non-AOC squad members Buttigieg has proven…America doesn’t care if our POTUS is gay “Life Strategy” college degree concept Things that work together for super-productivity How employable would you be with a fully loaded talent stack?

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hey everybody come on in here it's time for coffee with Scott Adams as luck would have it I'm Scott Adams and you've probably got a couple ugh of something we'll get into that a moment let me turn off my coffee warmer here and if you'd like to join in on the simultaneous it you don't need much all you need is a cover of Margaret glasses tying the chalice detector to thermistor flask a canteen a vessel of any kind chiller with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day a part that makes everything better the simultaneous imp go don't leave out the expression at the end if you try to have your sip and enjoy it while holding in the pleasure that you get it's like trying to stifle the sneeze have you ever done that you go hmm it just hurts

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ever done that you go hmm it just hurts sometimes when you have the simultaneous if you have to just let it out feel much better it'll feel like sneezing in the forest have you ever sneezed in the forest and you don't have to cover your hands or you don't have to cover your mouth I mean normally when you're sneezing you're like hmm you're covering it with your arm or something but you're in the forest and you're all alone and there's nobody in the forest with you and you've got like a good triple sneeze coming up and you feel it and like the sun's on you and the wind is just right and you feel the leaves rustling through the forest and you just think all this is gonna be good that's you and you just sneeze into thee into the wonder of nature and that's just the first one then you've got another one
they're less when you just let you just let it vibrate your whole body that's

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let it vibrate your whole body that's how you sneeze that's how you do it all right we got stuff to talk about um yesterday I founded a new organization that you can join it's called anti raw now anti raw obviously means anti-racist which i am i disavow all forms of racism and so I thought well why not form a group because it turns out that an tyfa is a leaderless group there's no central organization and I thought to myself what could be better than join a group with no central organization they're not going to tax me they're not going to raise my dues I'm not going to get mailers I don't have to talk to other people about the organization if I don't want to I don't have to go to meetings I don't have to you know create a folder on the computer and my my desk hold any

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on the computer and my my desk hold any materials what you need is a leaderless organization and so I founded it yesterday it's called anti rock and I would encourage all of you to join how what does it take to join you just have to say you're in it that's it you just have to want to and you just say huh I guess I'm in it now I'm anti Rob and it would be helpful if you are actually anti-racist I think that would be you know the main requirement but were a leaderless organization so we're not policing it but really that's the main thing you want to be anti-racist now the beauty of this if you haven't already figured it out is that if anybody criticizes you once you remember of anti rah what does that make them what are your critics when they're criticizing you I think you know raise us because if you're an anti-racist as I am and somebody criticizes you well what are they

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are they they must be racist it's spelled anti are
are a so first two letters of racist and anti so anti raw you might say to yourself wait a minute that's not into raw that should be anti ray right but that's not how it works because anti-fur should be anti fat it's fascist but it's not it's Anti Fog so we could be anti wrong well why not so join anti raw with me I would like you to join with me well when I say I'd like you to join with me I've lost the entire spirit of the organization there for a moment so let me correct that since we're a leaderless organization do whatever you want that's how it works you don't have to do what I ask you to do do whatever you want we're truly leaderless you just have to be against racists but I'll tell

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have to be against racists but I'll tell you what's racist I'm against so I think it was last night Chris Cuomo had a raging racist on his show and I think probably the biggest racist I've ever seen on the show somebody named Angela Wray and she said white men who she was talking to one of the other guests and she said white men who think like you are the greatest terrorists red in this country that's like the most racist thing I've ever heard of CNN have you ever heard anything that racist I mean actually literally and there's no joke here is that the most racist thing you've ever seen on CNN they've had a lot of gasps I have to think that some of them are good some of them are bad but I've never seen anybody say a direct racist statement like right right there and then not be corrected and in fact I think Chris Cuomo amplified the comment

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think Chris Cuomo amplified the comment and I'm thinking well okay it's a good thing I joined the anti-racist organization so I can criticize this properly now the other thing that Angela Wright tried to pull on the the other guest who was on the panel at the same time the the other guests said that the the squad you know the squad is or at least a few members of the squad - lame I think in particular and Omar that they were quote hijacking some process so the racist that they added the show Angela Rai she she said whoa whoa hijack you wouldn't use the word hijack unless you were talking about these people right so you must be using a loaded racist term hijack and I thought to myself damn it you know my notebook add another entry

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you know my notebook add another entry to the common words that can't be used see can't use articulate can't use any reference to primates that are not human hijack can I use that common word so the list of common words that you can't use is growing according to this racist Angela Rai anyway so racist Chris Cuomo and racist and I had this conversation with this poor guy who was the recipient of all their hate that's just my opinion I'm anti racist and so I disavowed them all see it it also has an article you remember the research there's this researcher named Epstein who concluded that Google's bias could have moved

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that Google's bias could have moved anything from a few million votes to ten million something votes and there was an upper level that maybe this next time it could be up to 15 million votes and the president tweeted something along those lines so is he then debunked it so they wrote an article debunking Epstein's claim that Google had intentionally biased or at least the president's claim that seemed to suggest that Google had intentionally biased and that it would move a lot of oats now here are the things that I think CNN got right as far as I can tell one is simply clarifying what Epstein said versus what people are interpreting he sets that's fair just a clarification so one of the clarifications is that Epstein did not study the United States to get those numbers specifically he studied what happened in some other countries in other situations and then said okay if

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other situations and then said okay if that was true in other countries given this situation in the United States it would probably be true if we were similar to those other countries in this in the important ways that we would get this kind of an impact from the Google bias so other critics said yeah I see what you did but you can't really know that that works you can know what he did and he you know shows his work he's not hiding anything but you can't really know that that's a cause in the fact he can't really know that if something happened in another country you've got the same variables lining up here that's fair the other thing was that Epstein does not claim because he doesn't have evidence to this that wasn't what he was looking for he doesn't have any evidence nor does he make a claim that that Google is intentionally biasing his claim is that the that it is biased compared to Bing and Yahoo I think two other search engines so what he did was he tested searches using different

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he tested searches using different search engines and found that Google was consistently biased in effect not necessarily by intention meaning that he didn't even look for intention that wasn't what he was looking for he just was looking for the effect so I think those are fair there seemed like fair criticisms meaning that is not demonstrated a causal effect and he has not demonstrated that there's intention but now that he has demonstrated that there is bias which is the part they didn't question so the part I didn't see any criticism is on is on the effect of that there is in fact bias now did Google look at this result and say oh wow we didn't know we had that bias we certainly weren't doing that intentionally let us go correct that nope now I don't know that they didn't correct it and I don't know what they

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correct it and I don't know what they said behind closed doors but what I do know is they did not say publicly oh yeah that's a good point let's see that study maybe we should maybe we should fix things to get rid of this accidental bias I didn't see him do that which seems like exactly what you would do if somebody who was a famous researcher talked to Congress which he did the researcher and told Congress that your search engines are biased and then showed his work if you were Google and he wanted to get rid of that bias which you claim is not intentional and nobody has shown evidence at least Epstein has not shown any evidence he's not making the claim that it's intentional but once he showed that once he's shown that according to his study it exists at the very least you would want to try to reproduce the study right at the very least because the claim is so big the claim is that it could move the election

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claim is that it could move the election even if you don't believe that's true even if you don't think search results of move elections and by the way that was another another criticism is that search engines are a very small part of how anybody learns about who to vote for so even if the search engines were biased other researchers say what if it is biased everything you're looking at is biased all the new sources are biased everything's biased could you really say how much extra influence you know just searches hat compared to the news and social media and every other kind of biases out there no really probably it's hard to tease that out so those are all good comments anyway the point is I don't think there's any any doubt that there's something going on that is creating at least an unconscious bias or

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creating at least an unconscious bias or what would you call it what would you call it if your algorithm had a unintentional bias toward Clinton let's say or toward whoever runs against Trump next time what would you do if you knew you had an in an unintentional bias would you fix it well maybe you'd say we didn't do that intentionally it's the same algorithm we use for everything else we took the same algorithm we'd use for searching for the best toothpaste we applied it to politics and yeah maybe maybe the outcome looks biased if you were to compare it to other things but there's no intention we're using the same algorithm for toothpaste as we're using for Joe Biden it's not our fault that you know you get more of one kind of thing we're just treating everything the same maybe maybe that's exactly what's going on but would they have a responsibility to say toothpaste in

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responsibility to say toothpaste in politics are not the same and that if there's a bias in the political in the way that the algorithm handles politics do they have a responsibility to fix it if it's just the same an algorithm that works on every other research I don't know I actually don't know that I'm not sure I have an opinion on that if it really is the same algorithm and there's no difference maybe that's just how things shake out I don't know if that's something you should fix but if they know there's a an imbalance and they know it could change the whole future of civilization well maybe they've you know won't look into that a little bit all right so I was I was leaving here I would say the Epstein's study raises questions which should be further researched meaning that apparently he's a he's a respected researcher so even the people who were criticizing him say okay we usually agree with this guy so

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okay we usually agree with this guy so nobody is saying he's a nut that's important because when you see a claim this is this big don't you wonder if you know if he's a nut but apparently not so it's worthy of research but I think it is short of being proven all the way from there is bias all the way to it changed votes that chain of cause and effect I would say is not fully demonstrated what we should be worried it's certainly enough to worry now I would be equally worried or more worried about let's say Google YouTube results how what kind of you know and what kind of photos come up when you do an image search you know what happens when you do an image search for me don't you let me find out I'm gonna do an image search of me and you know you know what I'm looking for and you and you don't need to
to please don't search this because you

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please don't search this because you know what'll happen if you do so this is image search of me on Google see what comes up image because if some of you know that I've had a little issue with this alright see how far down I have to go before I see something really bad about me it looks like looks like it might be adjusted now alright so I'm going down quite a few pages and I've seen nothing but lovely pictures of me and here's one of me with the president here's my book here's pictures of me doing interviews Dilbert Dilbert looks good now but you do know that there was a there was an extended period where searching for me brought a very bad picture up very bad a photoshopped picture that seems to be

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photoshopped picture that seems to be fixed so those types of things that seem were problematic you know the fact that my and by the way let me say completely that YouTube is completely taking the taking the legs out of my youtube channel so my thought was that coming into the 20-20-20 election i was going to use more youtube bigger audience you know I could reach more people I thought oh YouTube would be a good way to expand my influence so to speak and YouTube has just decided that my channel won't won't be seen so they did monetize it and they take it off of these suggested videos most of the time sometimes there's a little bit of action from suggested videos but it's unusual so use Fox channel well Fox channel one's got a paywall so that's got a different there's something else going on there so what do you make of the fact that well let me put it this way I

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that well let me put it this way I estimate that I moved a hundred thousand votes in 2016 now I can't prove that I base that on the following thing I did a a Twitter poll and of course Twitter polls have no scientific or statistical significance but I asked this question did I change your vote in 2016 did I cause you to vote for Trump by explaining his his talent stack essentially and I think 1,500 people said yes now that was just on a Twitter poll how many people answer polls in general not many not many people answer polls so having 1,500 people immediately mean meaning over 24 hours I think City yes you changed my vote suggest that there's a multiplier there of people who also had their vote changed but they didn't see the poll probably somewhere in the

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see the poll probably somewhere in the hundred thousand range I would think because remember I my effect was twofold the there there are the people who watch me directly but then they're the other pundits in the world who took my framing and then extended and the framing was that Trump was a salesperson and an influencer and that he was persuasive and that he was using hyperbole and that the the fact-checking stuff was not so important as long as he was sort of directionally correct I could get rid of that quick now so I got rid of somebody who was questioning my ego for this conversation if you can't hang with a conversation that is factual because you're worried about how it makes me look you're not really qualified to watch this periscope

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really qualified to watch this periscope because on this periscope I'm gonna make myself look like a douche bag a jerk I'm gonna look look allocate egomaniac a narcissist I'm gonna run the whole range because I don't care what you think but I don't have to see your comments all right part of my value is that I will embarrass myself in front of you and I will be flawed and full of errors right in front of you if something I say is useful to be said but in so saying it looks like I'm patting myself on the back I'm going to Pat myself on the back right in front of you all right I'm not gonna be ashamed of that if I do something well I'm gonna tell you I do it well if I do something poorly I'm gonna tell you I do it poorly if that's too much for you you should bail out this isn't your periscope all right so sorry that triggered me a

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all right so sorry that triggered me a little bit here's the thing I think why it bothers me is not it's not even about me and it's not even just about distracting from this it's such a loser way to think you know my book loser think is coming out in November 5th and so this is very much on my mind there are certain types of thinking that are so unproductive they just flip me out when I hear them because I know it's somebody who's going through life unproductively and probably making other people less productive because if you're telling people to stop saying good things about themselves you're not a good path you should always pat yourself on the back for things you do well and if you're just talking and just talking to and to make your point requires you to say that you're good at something you should say it you should not go all californian I think I've said this story

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californian I think I've said this story before about I'll digress for a moment when I came to California from upstate New York where I grew up but I moved as a you know an adult right after college I noticed that the culture was totally different in upstate New York if you were good at something you could say so you could say I'm good at baseball I'm terrible at basketball but I'm very good at baseball you could say that and your friends would go oh okay well you know I'm good at swimming and you not so good at riding bikes and you could have an honest conversation about what you were good at and what you were about at and then I moved to California and you can't do that in California here's how you say you're good at something well Scott you you seem pretty good at playing soccer not here's how you answer in California no no I'm terrible at soccer right you know I'm trying I'm trying I'm a beginner that's how you have to say

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beginner that's how you have to say you're good at soccer in California you have to say you're bad at it because if you don't somebody like the guy I blocked is going to say oh you've got such an ego I can't hang around with you with your big ego who thinks he's so good at playing soccer if you're good at something you can tell me if there's nobody else in the world that you can tell you're good at something you can tell me I love to hear it I love it when people say they're good at something they may because they believe it if it's real in fact why don't you do that right now
now why don't you tell me one skill you're good at in the comments right now brag you have you have complete permission because of the setup right nobody's gonna call you an egomaniac put in the comments something you know you're good at somebody says I'm a great writer I read someone somebody says I'm good at

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read someone somebody says I'm good at watching this periscope somebody says he's a fat guy but it doesn't sweat much okay somebody's good as straighttalk honest communications somebody super good at the drums damn you Geordi I wish I were good at the drums somebody's good at writing good at Excel somebody's a good sleeper a good singer won't read that one somebody's a good software engineer good at rolling good at logic somebody's good at reading people somebody's good at puns computers line-dancing auto mechanics sarcasm leadership music somebody smart somebody's analytical somebody's great at parallel parking good for you that's a good skill somebody's a great listener a good a nurse good at dancing bs a baking we've got a blacksmith well I don't know about that one somebody is great at COBOL carpentry visual artist somebody here can roll a perfect joint you have my respect Microsoft Excel reading inner thoughts well I don't know

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reading inner thoughts well I don't know another great writer great at making money fing you think the exam boating racing making money procrastinate see doesn't that feel good doesn't this little bit of honesty feel good how many places can he go in just brag right right name weather what are the place you can go where you can just unashamedly brag and everybody's like hey that's great that's probably it all right you can keep complimenting yourself for the benefit of other people reading it but I'm going to move on to another topic did you see the quote from Joe Biden's spouse dr. Jill dr. Jill Biden who's an interesting personality so I like her she's pretty likable but it's clear that maybe her comments were not offended by the campaign so here's what she actually said when

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here's what she actually said when talking about who you should vote for so so Joe Biden's wife says quote your candidate might your candidate meaning somebody other than Joe Biden your candidate might be better on I don't know health care than Joe is well you've got the look at who's going to win this election she said and maybe you have to swallow a bit and say okay I personally like so-and-so better but your bottom line has to be that we have to beat Trump now if she were a paid consultant she'd be very fired right now because here's something you don't want to say about the candidate you're supporting well you know you might your other they might be better on health care health care like the most important literally the most important issue for the Democrats you know you might want to you might prefer somebody who's actually better at the thing you care about the most but don't you want to win instead

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most but don't you want to win instead seriously don't you want to win instead of getting somebody who is good at the most important priority and that Sue's out there selling you Wow and maybe you have to swallow a little bit she says so this is what you call reverse persuasion yeah I've taught you that if you're going to persuade somebody positively towards something you want to persuade them to it's good to make it visual because the visual sense is important but if you can make it tactile and and even throw in a smell or a sound if you can guess somebody's let's say five senses memory activated then you can attach your thought to that the physical memory stuff and make it more powerful that's why I speaking about something in a visual way even if you don't have a picture just speaking of it in the visual way activates the part of people's mind that is likely

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people's mind that is likely to attach to the idea and make it more sticky so dr. Jill Biden uses this technique but uses it in opposite way that you would want to she says about about Joe voting for Joe Biden she says maybe you have to swallow a little bit and say okay I personally like somebody else better but blahblah swallow as soon as you read that sentence didn't you almost have to swallow didn't you go you could almost hear it and feel it mmm Oprah I'm gonna vote for Joe Biden
so because she said it in such a powerful persuasive way by adding the swallow which makes you feel it and remember it and think it even attach it to the thought it's very persuasive to not vote for Joe Biden because you don't want to vote for somebody that requires

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want to vote for somebody that requires you to go when you push the lever that's exactly what you don't want if there's one thing you don't want when you vote for somebody is to have reservations nobody wants that so this was a a thorough failure to support the candidate now does it matter now doesn't matter at all won't have any effect on the election whatsoever because you know statements by candidate spouses are interesting news but they don't they don't move the needle too much all right here's another interesting thing so we've been watching that the Democrats have been giving a lot of attention and let's say the left-leaning press has been giving a lot of attention to the squad now you know who's in the squad I don't have to name him except for who's the fourth member of the squad that we always forget

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of the squad that we always forget Presley so the squad is for people but really there are three of them that we remember Omar Talib and AOC there's the fourth one that sorted they they throw in there just to make it a fantastic for kind of situation but she doesn't seem to get many headlines unless she's witty on the three so sort of the squad is really three people but it's a squad really three people whereas a squad really just AOC and people who were smart enough to associate with her because it seems to me that as soon as a or C is taken out of the story the others are treated differently by the press so a or C is not really part of the story about Omar and Thule wanting to visit Israel the story is really focused on Omar it's late so how does the press that is friendly to the Democrats how did they how do they handle the squad when it's just the two

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handle the squad when it's just the two of them too late and Omar who are the part of the story here's how they're here's their headline lawmakers slammed Trump and Netanyahu at emotional news conference following scrapped Israel trip does that seem like a change in tone because the headlines are I think the headlines are more often written by an editor than by the writer themselves at least that's my experience when I what I submit articles do major publications that you know I usually have a title but commonly the editor tweaks the title so it's really the editors title for your article that's probably what's happening here too so the writer wrote an article but the the title is probably the editorial decision so see you then probably don't know this for sure eighty percent problem and let me read it again so this is bad Omar and Tulane lawmakers slammed Trump and Netanyahu an emotional news conference following scrapped Israel trip lawmakers they don't even

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Israel trip lawmakers they don't even say their names now if that were a OC don't you think a OC would be in the title so it seems to me that there's sort of a maybe you know I'm reading too many tea leaves here so I'm in speculative terror but speculatively it seems that CNN is underplaying these two members of the squad and I don't think that they would be under playing if it were AFC so I predicted before the AFC is going to have to make a break with the rest of the squad for her own political purposes because AOC can cross and the other two can't if you're AOC you do have a chance to broaden your support if you're a or say I you know you don't want to hear this you could probably pick up a Republican or two the other two can't the other two are not going to get any Republicans ever there's nothing they

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Republicans ever there's nothing they can do that will ever change that
but AOC you could imagine her becoming moving to the center and actually making an impact maybe not right away but you can see you're doing it over time so I think a or C strategically is gonna need to make put some distance between herself and the squad because they bring her some attention of the kind that's hard to get away from or that it's hard to deal with the whole anti-semitism and pay some might attack on Omar until Abe AOC has an option to put some distance even if she thinks it's an unfair attack she doesn't want to be part of it nobody would want to be part of it all right so I would look for this look for CNN and other pressed as friendly to the Democrats to sort of under play too late and Omar compared to what you think the attention should be but if they ever see

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attention should be but if they ever see was there it would be a lot more that's what I think I love the the there's a reporting that Obama said to bite and you don't have to run which of course everybody is interpreting and over interpreting and who knows if he actually said that who knows what the actual context of the comment was but the way it sounds out of context it's very Adam context but the way it sounds is Obama wasn't too crazy about Biden running and then on top of that he is not endorsed Abidin which could be explained two ways one it means he's not so not so sold on Biden that's possible but the other is just as possible which is he's an ex-president he wants his party to win there are 20 some people running and he would like to be able to completely and cleanly endorse whoever comes out of the process now both of those explanations are a hundred percent

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those explanations are a hundred percent you know explain the situation one he doesn't like Joe so he's holding off too it wouldn't matter who was running he would hold off until there's a nominee which would be the smart wise prudent Obama like thing to do so I don't think you could necessarily jump to he doesn't want Biden there but there are now questions about whether Obama thinks that Biden will destroy whatever's left of Obama's legacy and I was kind of thinking of it in those terms it's like Biden is the mop up crew it seems that Trump has essentially dismantled you know much of Obama's legacy but there's still some cleanup and so I have this mental image of a Trump taking sort of a big broomstick and you know shoving it up Biden's backside and then using Biden is sort of a mop to sort of sort of mop up whatever

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a mop to sort of sort of mop up whatever debris is left from Obama's legacy because there's not much left right it just seems like Biden is the is the mop and Trump is going to use them to take care of whatever's left that's that's just sort of the image that jumped in my mind I was looking at the new polling I forget which polling entity did this but as a reporter and CNN so here the here's the standing of the frontrunner and the Democrats Biden solid at twenty nine presents so Biden's lead is holding twenty nine percent Sanders of 15 and apparently Sanders has been right at that 1415 and he's not going up and he's not going down but probably that tells you there's a cap on Bernie's support I believe if if Elizabeth Warren's support could go to Bernie maybe it already would have I've got a feeling that anybody who's going

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got a feeling that anybody who's going for Warren instead of Bernie is because I think he's too old that's my guess so I'll say that again people who prefer Warren over Bernie given that they both have you know super progressive similar views probably because they think Bernie's too old now there's also the the woman vote and I guess Warren gets a lot of the women vote college-educated women so there's that too but then you've got Warren almost tied with Sanders in second place she's got 14 so statistically basically she's tied for second and then Harris took a big plunge Harris Harris just didn't perform and fell off the map now I will remind you of my hits and my misses now I'd predicted over a year ago that that Carla Harris would be the most dangerous opponent but it appears that Democrats

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opponent but it appears that Democrats do not love her and they have other choices so because there are so many choices it sort of spreads people's preferences around I think if Harris were running head-to-head against any one of these people she'd look pretty strong but she's you know her impact is sort of distributed because part of the power of Harris is that she's a woman and she's a person of color but she's in a pack of people who have a very strong woman at the top warren other strong women in the group whose names I can't remember right now tulsi gabbard and Columba sure am I missing any did I miss but anyway so she's running in a group that dilutes her power so she's got you know cory booker since she's got a person the color there she's got another women so being a woman and a person of color should be a double a double

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color should be a double a double benefit but because she's running in a large group that all gets distributed you know some of that love gets distributed to other people and then you've got buddha judge who's tied with harris now at five percent buddha jej also picks up our children to also buddha judge picks up the let's say the what do you call it there maybe i'd have to invent a name for this but the people who are super progressive and some of them would just like to see a gay president i would also love to see a gay president you know dad doesn't mean I'm supporting Buddha judge in particular but in general you know the same when when Obama was running for the first the first time I and many other people said you know all things being equal I think this country would really do well to have a black president you know assuming that he's qualified and you know he's got all the right requirements and everything but all things being equal

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everything but all things being equal it's time you know it's like a healing thing it's an important thing and I have no no regrets for having those thoughts because I think I think we do come out ahead and I think that the national wound from everything from slavery is affected by stuff like that now for the same reason I think it would be great to have a woman president eventually you know we don't have to rush and I thought Hillary got more votes than the person she ran against more popular votes so that certainly you know I've said that broke the glass ceiling even though she didn't win it showed that a woman could be can get enough votes to be president so the president is the the country has has gone beyond the question of Ken and woman win and have you noticed that's not even part of the conversation then nobody says that oh we better not nominate a woman because a woman can't get elected nobody says that so Hillary Clinton

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nobody says that so Hillary Clinton broke the glass ceiling and it remains broken because we don't even have that conversation if we talk about running a woman for president it's only talked about in the positive right there's nobody on either side who says that's a negative but both sides would say yeah that could get you some votes it's only talked about in the positive but we don't have at least we're not aware of any game presents my guess is we've had gay presidents but you know might have been Lincoln for example there's some indication he might have been gay but but we need one who's you know a public gay figure eventually and again I wouldn't put somebody in because they're gay like it's not a it's not some kind of an asset but for the benefit of the country just to get past it just once yeah you don't need to there's no there's no quota but would it

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there's no there's no quota but would it be nice that I'm a gay president and I like the fact that Buddha judge is Buddha judge is doing in a smaller way what Hilary did even in losing which is like I said Hillary broke the glass ceiling because you stopped the conversation about whether a woman can become get enough votes to be president of course Buddha judge is doing the same thing he's not proving he can get enough votes to be President but how many people said he can't be President because he's gay have you heard anybody say that no it's not even nobody cares I haven't heard one person say that that would be a factor in any way now privately of course there are people were you know have their own feelings about everything so privately people are going to have their concerns but publicly think about the fact that on social media where people will say anything on social media social media is

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anything on social media social media is completely unfiltered in terms of this kind of awfulness if there were anybody out there let's say on the conservative side who wanted to say bad stuff about Buddha jej because he's gay I've seen none of it I haven't even seen I don't believe I've seen one even one negative thing about it have you now I've seen you know people make jokes but the jokes don't seem mean-spirited even the jokes don't see mean so it feels like the country is getting over you know whatever whatever history there is there and Buddha jej I give him a lot of credit because in losing he still is sort of I don't know if he's gonna break the glass ceiling to have a gay president but I think he's taking it off the table in terms of a conversation do you think let's say let's say the next cycle there's

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let's say the next cycle there's somebody who's a stronger candidate everything's the same he said he's a gay guy running for president but he's just a stronger candidate could he win I think so I think so and I think Buddha jej sort of you know he loosened the seal he didn't break the glass ceiling but you know when you tried to open a jar like you know he's the one who bagged it on the counter until till was loosened so I gave him a lot of credit for that all right see what else we gonna go in here would you like me to solve solve the education problem in the student debt problem I would like to solve that for you now would you like the solution here comes here's a Republican solution for college debt now this won't help you immediately with existing debt so existing debt maybe that's a bigger problem

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that's a bigger problem but in terms of future debt future students who have to take out big loans etc I'm going to tell you how to fix that now there are two kinds of college education roughly speaking one kind is the immediately employable kind of things let's say you're trying to be a doctor or some kind of technology worker let's say a stem stem type person engineer etc those kind of jobs well you can kind of pay for your loan because those are such good jobs that you can take in a little bit of a depth you probably get a good job you can handle it but what about all the people who are taking on gigantic debt for generic degrees now generic meaning let's say you got a BA in English history or something like that it's not directly applicable to a high paying job it just makes you generally better qualified for lots of different

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better qualified for lots of different things you don't know exactly where your careers gonna cover that's a lot of people here's what we need we need one college course that I'll call a I'm gonna give it a name just for conversation let's call it a a life strategy degree just that's a working title not a good title in life at a strategy degree and let's say that the government the federal government blesses it as being in an an accredited college degree and then the components of this are just all of the things that would be useful for a really powerful talent stack so a talent stack is when you intelligently layer useful talents together so you have a powerful person let me give you some examples so the degree course would not look like anything you see now normally when you have a major you've got some generic classes you need to take and then there

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classes you need to take and then there are specific things like how to be an economist or history so so it's not like that instead it's everything that works together to make you powerful and effective as an adult working person and even as a as a parent and everything else so for example you would have as a requirement how to learn how to speak how to be a public speaker because it's applicable to just about all kinds of stuff you would learn how to write in a businessperson writes not the way you write a novel if you want to learn to write a novel this is not the degree you need but to learn how to write short clear crisp sentences very powerful so you had that to ability to speak if you just had those two classes you'd be ahead of most people by the time you were done and then you could imagine the things that you would add to that for example I would have a class on persuasion and that would cover everything from

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that would cover everything from marketing to sales to one-on-one conversations so persuasion because it fits with every job you might have classes on literally the social interactions how to meet somebody had a network how to be a friend how to how to be a friend we should have a class on that because these are learned skills you could learn how to make friends how to keep friends you can learn how to be a better parent you could learn Fitness you could learn you know the basics of staying healthy and eating right because all of those things make you a better employee they make you more employable you should the I would I would include financial literacy thank you somebody is suggesting that was on my list so financial literacy basic economics plus the basics of having it a mortgage how to balance your checkbook how to make sure you budgeted correctly etc on top

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sure you budgeted correctly etc on top of that maybe a little bit about how to start a business now you don't need a four-year degree on how to start a business I can probably take you through the basics in one semester and if after one semester you would see at least all the parts and then you could look into the measure needed so for example if I were teaching you how to start a business and I said the first thing you need to do is get a lawyer and lawyer will help you decide if you're an LLC or S corporation or a corporation or there is Schedule C type of business now you say to yourself I don't know what any of that means but you know what to do go get a lawyer and the lawyer tells you which of those you me so you don't need to tell people the details have had to start a business you tell them where to start get a lawyer asking which one of these entities you want to be and then the lawyer sets it up for you or you could say you know how do you find employees so you teach them

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do you find employees so you teach them how to find employees or you know how do you how do you estimate whether you were business will be good so you teach them the basics they can work out the rest I would teach them at least one language but it would have to be a useful language a useful language how many people do you know who are taking something like Russian or German but don't have any intention of being international translators okay those are useless languages now I'm exaggerating some people do need to learn those languages because they might be dealing with markets they are etc but for most people if you're in the United States learn Spanish I'm gonna say I'm gonna say something that you're gonna hate if you've got a kid in the United States who's taking a language in school and they and they didn't take Spanish they took another language they took French

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took another language they took French you have failed your child if you let your kid take a French class when they could be taking Spanish in the United States you failed as a parent you have wasted their time and you've you've taken the time that they can learn something that would be a valuable life skill completely affect your employability your social structure everything yeah and then learning Latin might be the least useful of all so you can imagine now that this this class of life strategy I'm describing would have some design elements you'd learn how to make a PowerPoint to how to design something for for marketing purposes when you're done with this life strategy course how employable would you be because if you want to hire somebody and if you told me that somebody had completed that the course with the classes that I'm describing if you told

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classes that I'm describing if you told me that I could hire somebody with that bag of skills unless I needed somebody who had something very specific such as a specific technical skill I would love to hire that employee because that's somebody who has a talent stack that's the best stack of skills anybody's ever seen and it would allow them to go in different ways now how does this solve student debt because once the government has said this bag of classes constitutes a degree and we the federal government will validate that that's a powerful and useful degree you can put that all online because once you've you've limited the number of classes that matter to let's say maybe there are thirty thirty classes that are really the powerful ones to have a successful life if you get down to about thirty then you can also start making them online now they already exist online but the online learning world is sort of

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the online learning world is sort of fragmented etc but if the government said here's the deal these thirty topics are these are that these are the 30 topics everybody needs to have then suddenly there would be all kinds of people entering those fields to create great topics now somebody starts to pay for it but if it's online content what does it cost to go to college when you're only taking it online well you can reach lots of people and so maybe you can take an entire class for ten dollars an entire semester of let's say how to be whatever writing or whatever ten dollars maybe so that's how you get to free college you could make people who are far more capable humans and far more complete and far more capable with most powerful power stacks you've ever seen in your life for way less cost and if the government says this is valuable

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if the government says this is valuable then employers will - so that's the way I'd go that would be a Republican response to say look we didn't ask you to take out a loan last time now let's let's tie this back to student debt in the past suppose of course you let's say that mark your aid is $10 for a class I don't know what it really would people but it's gonna be low and say it's $10 let's say that the government says on top of the $10 which covers all the profit for everybody involved on top of that we're gonna add another $10 so it's gonna be $20 per class still so affordable that everybody can do it it's just $20 a semester for a class the extra ten could go to paying down student debt that is gone before so you might actually create a new system that's so cheap you could double the cost and use the extra profit to pay down past the student debts in some way

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down past the student debts in some way that seems equitable for everybody I don't know what that would look like anyway that's a capitalist conservative low-cost path toward free college that would make more sense and the the best thing that this does is it cuts through the total BS which is the college experience today the current college experience is about networking it's about putting a certification on you that oh well you got into this college you must be at least as smart and and then a lot of classes that don't have much use in your life so if you have an actual college course there was only useful stuff all the time I think eventually the market would recognize that as something better than some generic degree at some private college now could you network as well I think you could because if enough people were

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you could because if enough people were taking this life strategy college there would be some of them would be local and if you lived in a city probably a lot of them would be local and a lot of them would be taking the same classes at the same time as you so you can't get together so there might be as part of the process networking and socializing online and then in person if you want with other people on the same same path and I think that would give you everything you want that's all I have to do today that's all I got to say and I will talk to you all later