Episode 636 Scott Adams: The Chosen One, The Anti-Semite Competition, Super Volcanoes

Date: 2019-08-22 | Duration: 45:33

Topics

Outrage Theatre Presents: President Trump looked to the Heavens and said WHAT? In his self-loathing heart…does David Frum understand himself? Portland Police Chief, the Babylon Bee, complete satire and reality Helicopter-waiting Q&A sessions and President Trump President Trump’s pro-quality brushback: “It’s only anti-semitic in your head” “Super-Volcano” fears…10% of humanity will die WHEN one blows Should we ONLY pour unlimited funds into climate change? What about pandemics, planet-killing asteroids and volcanos? Bill Pulte gave away a Tesla this morning Giving projects are providing a needed aid direct to the person 74% of NRA donations are from gun manufacturers? Is that correct?

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oh hey everybody come on in here yeah yeah I'm a little bit late I overslept sue I'm a little bit underprepared but you're not even gonna tell the difference because once your day starts off with the peak experience of the simultaneous sip you can barely notice that anything's wrong with the world and it doesn't take much to participate all you need to join me in the simultaneous app is a cover of migrant glasses time to tell us of Tanqueray thermistor flask a canteen a vessel of any kind of filling with your favorite liquid I like coffee please join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the simultaneous ember here it is goodness well we got a few things to talk about so first of all let's set

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to talk about so first of all let's set let's talk about all the news that the Democrat candidates for president are making and here's all the news that are making today okay that's all the news from the Democratic candidates apparently they're all boring the only news story and of what 20-some candidates the only one who produced a news story was Bill DeBlasio because he did a remote interview and the the technology didn't work and it made him sound funny that's it that's the only story that 20 Democrats could generate now let's look at the other side as president Trump done anything lately that made any news nah man does he know how to make news all right so first of all you may or may not be trying to buy Greenland where he may or may not put the space

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where he may or may not put the space force and apparently he's calling the the Democrats a bunch of anti-semites but not to be outdone the Democrats have decided that the president is an anti-semite but not to be done Breitbart recently I think it was yesterday or this morning as an article about some New York Times editor who has some tweets that are being called out as potentially anti-semitic so instead of electing a president based on let's say good policies instead of picking a president based on who you agree with philosophically instead of picking a president because you think they have the right gravitas and personality and and they make a good good representative of the country we're not doing that this time

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time this time the only thing that matters is who can slime the other side as being more anti-semitic apparently it just came down to that that's it that's all anybody cares about which side is more anti-semitic now I've said before that the president has finally found a productive let's say escape path from the accusations he's been getting from the start of your racist IRRI racist defense didn't work because when you're defending yourself against that claim you're still talking about that claim so you can't really defend yourself it's one thing you can't really defend so he want what he was doing is just sort of ignoring it and tried to do some things that would disprove it by his actions as president but of course nobody cares about what you actually do nobody really cares about what you do

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nobody really cares about what you do they care about how they can spend things etc and so what he did didn't really matter to his critics they didn't err that he was doing things that were clearly the opposite of what a racist would do the opposite of what a entice um I would do none of that mattered it just mattered if you can you know take the narrative and put it in the put in whatever is happening today so as the New York Times described in their recorded meeting they said they were going to create a framework and then slot in all the stories to make it look like it's all a big story of President Trump being a big ol racist and his supporters - of course but now the president's taken the approach of simply calling the other side racists and he has as much evidence for his claim as they have of their claim meaning that it's all bs in other words you know they're for the

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in other words you know they're for the most part that the Democrats in general are not racist for the most part Republicans in general are not racist although both both groups has bad people in them and the president of course is a slime with every accusation and none of it really rings true unless you're on the TTS side in which case everything looks true to you so the president's gone on offense and it's really just come down to who could make the other side look more anti-semitic I said we don't even care who's running on the Democrat side anymore doesn't seem relevant so Bernie's come up with some kind of a plan I should I should say that there is one Democrat that got a little attention so Bernie has a plan it's a 17 trillion dollar green new deal I think I'll look at the details of Bernie's plan now is it 17 trillion dollars and he's number two in

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trillion dollars and he's number two in the polls of the time across ID so if he's got a 17 trillion dollar plan that's pretty important right I'd better read about all the details okay I'm bored I don't think I want to read any more details of it are any of you gonna read to any of the detail a Bernese 17 trillion dollar plan I think part of the problem with birdie is that I don't know if anyone thinks he's gonna get it nominated even though he's number two in the polls and the only person ahead of him probably isn't gonna make it to the finish line so what is it about Bernie that apparently nobody on either side speaks of him like he could be the nominee you know nobody had that nobody to either side think so and he's like this close to grabbing the nomination and nobody takes him seriously is it

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nobody takes him seriously is it possible that Bernie will you know sort of sneak in because we're literally ignoring him possibly do you know there's a funny story about Seinfeld a true story I believe it's true if you watch the first few episodes of Seinfeld they're pretty terrible they're terrible and the first season in fact you know you could tell there was something there you could see there was an x-factor that that could have been developed but overall the first season was pretty weak but it got reoptimize
odes and and then they got better at what they were doing and before anybody really noticed that they weren't doing well they learned how to do well really well so simply being under the radar

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well so simply being under the radar really helped Seinfeld you know find its voice and become the great show that it was Bernie might be doing something like that accidentally he might be developing a stronger campaign than we think because we're not really watching there's no heat there people are saying it's gonna be Elizabeth Warren you know that's the popular thing to say now and I get why people say it but I iq honestly I can't see any of the top three Democrats actually being the nominee in my my imagination of the future I just can't imagine it now that doesn't mean it won't happen but why is it that I can't imagine it whereas I still can't imagine I can imagine Harris making it through the pack now that doesn't mean she will but I can imagine it just can't imagine the other three what's that mean does it mean

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three what's that mean does it mean anything maybe not all right so so the biggest controversy the outrage if you will let's call it the outrage of the day and I'd like to reintroduce my new segment called outrage theater each day I will pick something that's a phony outrage and I will have Dale come in to enact the phony outrage Dale did you hear that the president of united states looked at the heavens and referred to himself as the chosen one I know I know some people say he's just joking around because that's what he does but I'm not so sure he doesn't think he's actually chosen by God what do you think hell are you outraged

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Thank You Dale it's outrageous it's outrageous and what about the president suggesting that if if you're Jewish and you don't if you're Jewish you leave out Democrat then you could be disloyal what about that Dale come here Thank You Dale why don't we treat any of this is seriously dude is that my imagination or have all these types of our ages and issues than politics it feels like there was a time when we thought they were real right wasn't there a time when you saw stories like that and you thought the person X has said something truly bad and it's revealing their inner thoughts and now that we know their inner terrible thoughts maybe we should do something maybe it's a problem they have so much power or they could have power but now now do you see it the same

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power but now now do you see it the same it doesn't really look the same anymore does it and now when you see the daily outrage my god my god can you believe how ins always had act it just looks ridiculous now doesn't it it's not just me is it it no longer looks like anybody's even trying it looks like everybody's playing it for the laugh like it's literally outraged theater the people wake it up and saying is there anything in the news today that I could get outraged at let's see there's a whole person said something a little bit inelegantly yeah I can work with that yeah okay let me give it a try oh no Bob said that the Eskimos like snow not strong enough what else we have here teacher okay somebody

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else we have here teacher okay somebody said something that if you really twist it and take it a weird definition of it and assume the worst I could yeah I could I could turn this into something I can make an outrage out of this I think I could make an outrage out of that yeah yeah that's going down well I'll try this one out today so you got that here's a here's a tweet from David from David from you know where David's from well I'm not going to tell you where David's from but his name is David from and he's from somewhere it's not good and he says this is an actual tweet somebody sent this in public and didn't think you sounded ridiculous which is the funny part imagine somebody sat down to write this quote in a tweet there's their own tweet and they thought yeah yeah this is gonna sound totally sane

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yeah this is gonna sound totally sane and yeah I think I think this will make me look good so here's my tweet so David from tweets in his self-loathing heart Trump knows Obama is bigger than he is around the world as well as in the United States that knowledge tortures Trump never allows him a minute respite yeah that's right David from who maybe has never even talked to President Trump I mean maybe not at once but doesn't know him doesn't work with him and yet and yet can read his mind now not only can David from read his mind but he can read it in a way that he knows other people can't read Trump's mind and therefore David Frum does the mind-reading for all of us and then puts in a tweet so that we too can enjoy the benefits of David from mind reading and

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benefits of David from mind reading and he's read the president's mind and he sees self-loathing in his heart but her self-loathing in his heart and he knows Obama is bigger than him worldwide he can't live with it and now that knowledge tortures Trump it tortures him
and he writes this to the tweet he sends it off and he thinks to himself because I can read his mind see what I'm doing here I can read David from his mind let me let me I got it I almost got it give me a moment his thoughts are coming in oh no I missed it I was reading the thoughts of the guy sitting next to from oh my the the guy sitting next to from right now on the other side of the country he does not like to a problem let me tell you that okay but I wasn't I wasn't trying to read oh the guy sitting next and from him really has some bad thoughts whoa he

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him really has some bad thoughts whoa he has her okay let's leave that now move over move my mind reading over okay locked in all right I am doing mind meld across the country with David Frum and whoa he likes vanilla ice cream oh that was an ice cream he he he I think he hates puppies oh my god he hates puppies and he is he hates the country yes yep he hates the United States you know uh yep and he purple his favorite color and oh my god my goodness he's planning a horrible crime I am sorry I had to break my mind melt it was too much for me what I saw in there the darkness now darkness it was too much for me I had to I had to break it so the Babylon be I

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I had to break it so the Babylon be I had an article recently and it said among other things the article said it was quoting the Portland police after the the big mix-up there and it said quoting the Chief of Police whose name is outlaw that's her actual name the head of police and Portland her last name is outlaw seriously she said we wish there were some kind of organized armed force that could fight back against the Anti Fog now people said after I tweeted that article people said my god it's life they're almost the onion I can't believe that Portland would say that don't they know that Portland does have an armed force to fight against antiphon it's called the police and and and and and the person who said it was the head of the police doesn't she realize does she have no self reflection doesn't she realize they is the police she is the armed force how

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is the police she is the armed force how can she be calling for an armed force to fight aunty Fah well it turns out that the babylon bee is like the onion they are a satire publication but it was enlightening to see how many people couldn't tell the difference the distance between satire and reality has shrunk so much that actual real adults who can have families and get married and have jobs and drive to work and make their make it home couldn't tell the difference you know functioning smart adults couldn't tell the difference between complete satire and reality Portland police are so ridiculous that you couldn't tell alright what else would he have going on

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alright what else would he have going on well oh I love Trump's response when he was doing his helicopter talks on his way to his helicopter he gives his little spontaneous talks with the press and holds court and by the way it's the best thing he does if you don't if you've never watched Trump give us Fonte Gnaeus press what do you call it I don't know gaggle or something when he's on the way to the helicopter it's the best it's just about the best Trump he's really really good at it and he just holds court and he controls them and he insults the press and it's always hilarious that's where he did his I'm the chosen one joke that people couldn't tell was joke but when they accused him of being an anti-semite because he said that something about Jewish voters being loyal to you know they should be loyal to themselves basically they said that

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to themselves basically they said that that was anti-semitic and the president says quote no it's only it's only anti-semitic in your head it's only a tie synthetic in your head isn't that the best now it's only anti-semitic in your head because you know I keep telling you how well the president frames things and reframes things and brands things and how it uses visual language so when he said in your head that is so much better than saying in your thoughts or in your mind cuz thoughts and mind are non-physical but your head's a physical thing it's a it seems like a small thing but it's just one of the things that Trump does consistently right in persuasion he always talks in terms of visuals so when you say no no it's only in your head that's a stronger statement than only in your mind because you imagine their head you can't imagine a mind so he basically

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you can't imagine a mind so he basically took this idea that somebody says hey is this is this thing out in the world is this something you said and now it's part of the real world and Trump looks at me Gus no no that's only happening in your head I feel like I think I can use that because I've probably said a million times that people are imagining it you know I've said that people have TDs I've said that you know I've said that you're over interpreting it I've said that people are taking things out of context now compare all the things that I said that are non-physical they're all sort of conceptual well you've got TDS it's sort of a concept let me explain it it's three words it's trumped arrangements syndrome and suggests there's a mental thing happening that doesn't make you broken it just means there's a hysteria and so I'm trying to explain this concept it's

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I'm trying to explain this concept it's tough to sell a concept concepts are not persuasive Trump says no no that's just happening in your head it's just sort of perfect everything I've ever said on the topic and I've said a lot I've said a lot three years I've been talking about the concept of people having TDs and being confused and seeing things wrong confirmation bias and all of that everything I said has made no difference whatsoever I think it seems to have convinced nobody of anything and Trump just looks at the guy and he smiles he goes no no that's just happy to you in your head and I thought well that's a keeper that's just happening in your head think he'll just just think imagine you're the reporter and you say something and it let's say the president answered some other way and the president said well you know you're looking for things that aren't there's

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looking for things that aren't there's confirmation bias you know of course I didn't say that you know you're the anti-semite suppose you'd says something like that what would the reporters say the reporter would say ah I've got great stuff to take out of context I'm gonna be taking this out of context you know I got some material here but now imagine you're the reporter and you say president Trump you said Beauvoir isn't that as a Semitic and the Trump says no no let's just say it's a somatic in your head how do you feel just put yourself as but and the president I says looks at your says no no that's just happening inside your head it's really powerful it's so simple and it's so perfect no no it's only happening in your head it just completely treats it like it's not a thing I've never seen a brushback pitch that effective I mean imagine you're the President of the United States you're on camera the entire world

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States you're on camera the entire world is watching and a reporter from a major publication calls you an anti-semite because of something you recently said that was ambiguous how many people could have brushed that back so jauntily he just looks at him because no no that's just happening in your head oh all right it's so how does how does CNN Headline it so they had they put headline on this story that says Trump ads Jews to his hip parade of hatred his hip parade of hatred so now we have this absurd situation where every day the the president is accusing the Democrats of being anti-semitic and the Democrats are accusing the president of being anti-semitic it's a little bit ridiculous if you can take any of this seriously you're missing the show it's no longer about what anybody's saying

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no longer about what anybody's saying it's just not about that anymore it's not really about policies it's not about that anymore it's about the show and the show is really good here's something interesting and scary apparently there are things called super volcanoes have you ever heard of that a super volcano because when you say volcano it's already plenty scary but apparently there are half a dozen or so so-called super volcanoes potentially under the earth they're distributed around the earth and various volcano places and apparently if any one of these volcanoes does their thing it's going to be a serious problem for the earth as in 10 percent of us died right 10 percent of the earth will die and the rest of us aren't going to be too happy about it at all and apparently these super volcanoes are not just possibly

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super volcanoes are not just possibly going to erupt they're guaranteed so we have under our under the earth half a dozen different volcanoes that are pretty much guaranteed eventually to erupt now it could be a hundred thousand years from now I mean because we're talking about big timelines what is good erupt and whatever it does maybe a billion people will die that's a big deal and yeah they talk about being overdue I don't know exactly if they can tell that but here's here's my thing apparently there are things we could do to reduce the risk I don't know what that is maybe it may be a drill a hole and let some of it out or something I don't know what the details are but a lot of the people who say we should put 17 trillion dollars into a green new deal for example people were saying we could we

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example people were saying we could we should immediately reorient our entire economy for a climate change always treat it as though is the problem it's the one thing we know about that could you know devastate or a little literally decimate hey I've never used that word correctly I would like to take a moment to Pat myself on the back for using the word decimate accurately decimate for those of you or nerds means that you you lose 10% of your army basically so deaths as in DC as in ten people use it use decimate to mean completely destroyed but it means 10% so that volcano could take 10% of the population of the earth so it could decimate there I've never used that word correctly first time and so I say when people are looking at climate change they say let's put all of our resources there because this thing could could be the end of

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this thing could could be the end of humanity but I say when we don't have one risk that could take out humanity we probably have half a dozen if we really thought about it you've got your meteors your asteroids that might be heading toward the earth we could put trillions of dollars into detectors and even maybe nuclear rockets that could fly out there and catch them early enough then a small change could knock them off course something like that we got the super volcanoes we have the risk of pandemics we have the risk of I don't know clear war seems like we've got a lot of risks out there so we should figure out how to distribute our or our resources across these major ist's that could kill us all kill us all all right it looks to me like there's not much else going on is there anything else you want to talk about I'm gonna initiate the secondary

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about I'm gonna initiate the secondary simultaneous sip if you are prepared you will have the pleasure of - yeah - simultaneous sips and the same day are you kidding me how great is this get ready go how many of you saw bill Polti giving away a Tesla today did you see that you did it I believe it was live before I came on on periscope so make sure that you're checking out what bill Polti is doing his Twitter's at Polti pul te and he has really turned a philanthropy into a whole new thing I mean not only is he pioneering this using social media in the way that he's doing it for for good but there's something there's something really

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something there's something really important about what he's doing that I think is way bigger than the fact he's giving money to people who need it have you ever looked for meaning in your life and couldn't find it it's probably applied to many of you do you ever wake up and think oh man well like what's the point and why why am I here and what's my meaning what am i adding to the world and all that stuff part of it is because we don't live in these small tribes where everybody's helping each other because helping people that are part of your tribe people you know people who are close to you people who you can see the reaction once you help them is really good for people it's it's part of what we need we're biologically and Lucia narrowly designed to help out and when do we help other people we get a feeling a meeting but our current world everything all responsibilities are sort of distributed out and we let the

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of distributed out and we let the government and take care of people who need it and then we don't get any of those tribal feelings do you get any kind of a good feeling when you pay your taxes because I pay my taxes and it goes into the government and most of it gets wasted and some of it ends up helping people but I don't see their faces it just goes into this big concept called the government and then I hope something good comes out of it but what bill Polti is doing is he's showing you the faces and the stories of the people and allowing you to connect directly to them be part of giving them something that completely solves completely solves at least one problem they have you know one person gets a new set of teeth somebody gets a way to get to work that sort of thing and then you get to see the reaction which is the important part that's the thing he's he's adding to this process that gives you meaning so if you've given to one of bills

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if you've given to one of bills fundraisers you know various GoFundMe for different people in need you get to see that person receiving the gift and learning about it for the first time and then you feel hey I was part of that I gave you know five dollars or whatever it was and now whoa look at this person finding out that their biggest problem just got solved it's an amazing feeling and so what bills doing that's special is he's found a way to take this big cold impersonal world where we have the right instincts but we don't have the right systems to connect our instincts to help people with the people and he's created this on a highly visible way so you can tap into it and you can be part of it at a completely reasonable cost because each person is giving a little bit but there are a lot of us and so it's it's directed at people in a very effective way
way all right just thought I'd tell you that

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all right just thought I'd tell you that I think I might do a separate periscope a little later today or tomorrow I'm not sure to give you some updates on one hub some very interesting things actually I'll tell you now well I'll tell you in a special periscope I won't put that in here that's all that's going on today we are in August and so the news is necessarily slow how comes for the system somebody's asking me why isn't supporting the NRA and then having the NRA influences government why is that not a system that is a system it's a bad one so it's not just a case of systems or better than goals some systems are better than other systems so now if the only thing you want is to get a result and you don't care what the outcome of

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and you don't care what the outcome of it is then paying the NRA to go fight for you and get the stuff you want might get you what you want so in terms of it working in might what's the downside the downside is that it's not a credible result because all the people who didn't get what they want they look at it and they say wait a minute it wasn't even a vote of my fellow citizens if my I always think that's a sexist term my fellow citizens about my my teammates my my country people I don't know I don't know how to desex is in that statement but if you if you looked at any law and you say I don't like that law but at least it was a democratic process my elected representatives who have to you know stand for re-election made the decision in Congress those are credible but if you look at a system which that's the way it's supposed to work and instead somebody

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supposed to work and instead somebody found a workaround somebody found the the cheat code then you can get the result you want but it will never be credible because everybody who's looking at it says yeah you use the system your system totally worked for you so that you know if all you care about is you get to keep your guns but it doesn't create a stable credible situation that works for everybody well that system will get you that but if you want a better result that's the way to go you want you want the voters to be the ones so what I want is not a different result so I'm not when I what I'm complaining about the NRA I'm not saying that you should take the NRA out of the system because I want a different outcome that's not what I'm saying I'm saying you should take the NRA out of the system because they broke the system that works best which is the people no I I do appreciate that they

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people no I I do appreciate that they educate people they probably keep people a lot safer the gun owners learn how to you know take care of their guns somebody wants I think this is true no no member of the NRA has been a mass shooter that all great I think the NRA has a lot to be proud of and I would compliment them for tremendously important good work but I didn't vote for him so I want my government and the people to make those decisions all right what solution works for everyone that's not relevant to what I just said we're not trying to find a solution that works for everyone we're trying to find a system that produces an outcome where some people are happy and necessarily some people are not but even the people were not happy saying okay I trust the system I don't like the outcome but it was a democratic system or Republic did what it was designed to

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or Republic did what it was designed to do all right
yes what percentage of the NRA's budget do you think comes from gun manufacturers well let me ask that without looking it up don't google it tell me in the comments what percentage of the NRA is funding do you think comes from gun manufacturers versus the people because people are donating as well what percent let's see it in the comments most of you are pro-gun if you're watching this I want to see if you know without being told what percentage it takes a while for the comments to catch up so I'll be watching them while they happen I think maybe people don't want to take a guess because you don't know somebody says zero none zero ninety-nine percent zero under 10 percent probably 20 percent 30 percent 7

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percent probably 20 percent 30 percent 7 percent 50 percent 10 percent somebody guessed 70 percent less than 50 so most almost all of you are way way less than 50 we've got two guesses three guesses that are over 50 percent most of the guesses are down into the ten percent range but it's all over the map so I'm saying 8090 and seven all right so I looked it up yesterday so I looked it up I saw an answer I think it was on quartz or something so he left a fact check me on this but according to the one source I looked at and again it could be wrong but the one source I I saw I said that the NRA is funding is 74 percent from gun manufacturers 74 percent so when you say to yourself hey the NRA is funded by the members to give the members what they want nothing like

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the members what they want nothing like that's happening did you think that the NRA was funded by its members to represent his members did you think that well fact-checked me first because I could be wrong about this but it may have changed that ratio may have changed since I read it but if it's true the 74% of the anti-racist budget comes from the gun makers does the NRA race represent gun owners or does it represent gun makers which would you say would be the truer statement how many of you who were supportive of the NRA because you believe the NRA is doing what you the members want them to do how many how many of you thought that's what was going on there are a lot of people saying WOW in these comments right but I

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saying WOW in these comments right but I need you to fact-check me so honestly you need to fact-check this and I'm hoping somebody can do it in the comments before we sign off again I'm pro-gun pro-second amendment Pro and all right I think the NRA is a does a tremendous service in the whole variety of ways education safety etc but if you thought that they represented the members I'd say you should do a little research and find out if that's true so don't take my number it's just again I saw it on one source on the Internet I can't I'm not going to swear to it I wouldn't die that that's even in the right neighborhood go check it out if it turns out that the NRA raise money comes mostly from donations from its members I think it would be fair to say it's an organization that's designed and and and it's a system before supporting the consumers and if most of their funding

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consumers and if most of their funding comes from gun makers what do you think their priorities are I mean we live in the real world right if it's true and again you got to check this don't don't take my word for it if it's true that they get most of their money from gun makers then that's who they work for that's how the world works the person who gives you most of your money is your boss effectively if you want to keep doing what you're doing
yeah so I'm saying it was one source and it's not credible so far I don't see anybody by now some of you of Google that while you're on this periscope and I don't see anybody debunking it yet and it might not be true so yeah I think I blew some Minds here I hope I hope this statistic is correct because if I said something this shocking and my basic assumption was wrong

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assumption was wrong I guess I'm apologizing to do tomorrow because you don't want to piss off the biggest gun owning gun owning group in the world or somebody saying that 80% of the contributions might come from individuals but because they give less than companies do it could look like most of the country most of them yeah you could say 80% of them there is some way that you can imagine that there's a large number of people involved all right I don't see anybody debunking that yet but I don't see anybody confirm him somebody says who pays the gun makers
well I'm not sure that's the best question because once that money is in the hands of the gun makers they're not going to spend it for your benefit you know once people have money it

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you know once people have money it doesn't matter where it came from the people who spend it for their own benefit somebody says they'll send a link it doesn't look true I feel like we need to find out before I end this periscope because if I got that wrong that would be terrible funding let's say so I'm going to the money powering the NRA I'll just look at the first link
buh-buh-buh-buh so they've got 350 million dollars in 2013 are you kidding me in 2013 the NRA had 350 million dollars donated what I had no idea was that much uh wow it's a lot of money I'm just looking now if I'm I'm not looking at the screen right now so if somebody's already solved this let me know and right would Wikipedia have the

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know and right would Wikipedia have the answer about funding funding funding funding funding sorry I know this is boring but I shouldn't have brought up that topic without knowing more about it all right it's too hard to find two are defined it looks like some of you are getting IRS as 47% membership dues 24% individual contributions all right yeah is it Quora so Acorah I think is the the one that I saw they had the 74% so let's say let's put a let's stick a pin in that as they say in boring business meetings let's stick a pin in it and we'll research that for next time okay so here's the basic thing which ever way funding goes whoever is giving the most money is probably who's

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giving the most money is probably who's influencing the organization but let's let's see if we can determine that it may be something we can't determine and I'll talk to you tomorrow when we have the answer bye for now