Episode 639 Scott Adams: China, Kanye, Outrage Theatre, Zombies, Goofy Warren, Google vs PragerU

Date: 2019-08-24 | Duration: 1:01:53

Topics

ALL Americans have a COMMON ENEMY…Fentanyl China Is our Commander in Chief…able to “order” US out of China? Economically, China IS a “villain”…AND pushing Fentanyl on us PragerU goes to Ninth Circuit Court fighting YouTube’s suppression Will the discovery process make their algorithm available? Elizabeth Warren’s dancing and fitness levels are age-impressive Do WOMEN think she dances “goofy” like men do? Kamala Harris game hasn’t improved over time Elizabeth Warren in contrast…has learned and improved Drug problem + Mental Health Problem = Homeless Zombies The “zombie class” is growing fast Kanye’s TEST dome-shelters, California says tear them down Kanye TRIED, he’s working a good systems approach Build some TEST domes…see how they work out If they work, build more…if not, modify and try again RBG successfully treated for cancer Should lifetime appointments have an upper limit for age? Dilbert Future’s evolution prediction caused years of mob attacks Math genius says evolution math…does NOT work Hybrid-theory challenges theory of evolution Hybrid theory says hybrids SOMETIMES CAN reproduce Hybrid theory works mathematically, unlike evolution theory

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[Music] hey everybody come on in is for coffee with Scott Adams the best part of the day it's the part that makes all the rest of your day great doesn't take much to participate I know many of you are ready you've developed a habit that is so sublime so wonderful it's it's one of those times you can connect with 2,000 people at the same time and all you need is a cup or a mug or glasses time the chalice is tankard a thermos of Alaska Canty the vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid not like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the simultaneous sip watch your dopamine spike go well so let's start with the funniest tweet of yesterday I think this

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funniest tweet of yesterday I think this is President Trump now this is after the stock market had plunged presumably on news of the Chinese situation and President trumpet tweets the Dow is down 573 points perhaps on the news that representative Seth Moulton whoever that may be yes let me let me see if I can read the whole thing without laughing it's funny because he said it it's not just funny because it's a funny tweet it's funny than if he said it at all like that just the fact that he said it is what makes it funny alright let me try it again this is from Trump his tweet the Dow is down 573 points perhaps on the news that
representative Seth Moulton whoever that may be has dropped out of the 2020 Russian presidential race I didn't even

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Russian presidential race I didn't even know there was somebody named South Molton in the presidential race did you yeah this is the funny thing is the whole world is is melting down over this China stuff you know you've heard that you've heard the saying there's nothing to fear but fear itself well with who said that was that who said there's nothing to fear but fear itself for well first of all it's not true it's a ridiculous thing because there are things to fear but but when it comes to the economy the economy is entirely a at least at this point in history the the economy is a psychology engine we're now disconnected the economy is disconnected from assets now what I mean is we don't have a shortage of anything really I

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have a shortage of anything really I mean we have things have to be moved around things that cost more than they should etc but we don't really have a shortage of anything speaking in the big picture so our economy depends entirely upon people expecting things to happen hoping things will happen optimism trust it's entirely a psychological you know engine which requires us but the asset part is taken care of so if we didn't have assets that would be the biggest problem hey we have a shortage of something but once you have all your stuff it's entirely a psychological engine and the president understands that in a way that you know most people either forget or they they lose sight of but he has this laser focus on what an economy is which by far is one of his strongest qualities and it's also it's also an invisible quality because if you don't study economics if

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because if you don't study economics if you're not kind of keyed into what an economy actually is meaning a psychology machine the you would see the things that he did he does a scan productive you'd say uh doesn't make sense seems counterproductive but but look what he did he took this big scary thing the the Dow dropping five hundred seventy three points and of course most of us know that it's on China here's you know the the dust-up with China but he just totally makes a joke out of it and he's the President of the United States so what does that do to you psychologically well psychologically what it does to you is it says you started out saying oh I think it's the end of the world this China thing will lead to nuclear war and depressions and all that and then the then the president Falls what follows it up with a joke and you say oh well if he's not taking it that seriously maybe I shouldn't now he's obviously

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maybe I shouldn't now he's obviously taking seriously the pressure he's putting on China that's completely serious but in terms of how that might affect the overall economy he's joking about it and so if he's joking about it you say to yourself okay maybe I'm you know overthinking this maybe the China thing is something we're all going to work out which we will so here's the most interesting thing there are two really big stories about the 2020 election that I don't know will be covered by the the rest of the news industry as important but I think they're the two most important things now of course the things are changing all the time so something that's not important could be important tomorrow but at the moment most important things are and I'll bet nobody I'll bet you haven't heard anybody say this president Trump just created a common enemy what

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Trump just created a common enemy what does the United States the citizens what do the citizens of this country I guess every country but one of the citizens of the United States like better than just about anything in the world when I say like I'm meaning that in you know sort of a non-literal sense we are drawn to we find ourselves irresistible compelled by we are organized by we are led by we are motivated by our enemies our problems our problems are our motivating factor and because we did not have a common problem we had a divided country so the natural result of solving all of your big problems in a country and that's very close to what the President did now you could argue that you know climate change is a big problem but in terms of

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change is a big problem but in terms of today you know what's happening today 2019 2020 most of our big problems kind of were under control nothing was hurtling out of control and so the United States had this weird situation in which things were going so well externally for the United States that we started tearing ourselves up internally why because there's nothing we like more than an enemy and so when we didn't have a big external enemy and let's face it a Russian never rose to the level of feeling like an enemy you know we had lots of complaints with Putin and the election and Ukraine and stuff like that but did China ever feel like I don't know a big old enemy you know I get all the things I did I'm not minimizing it but if you put it all together I just don't know how big of a deal it was at

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don't know how big of a deal it was at least to our psychology you felt more like an internal political football than it did some external threat but now President Trump has I think honestly like I don't think this is I don't think he's changing reality in order to do what he's doing and say what he's saying it does seem that China is an external threat at least economically and the president is now organizing our thoughts around this external threat now this is probably one of the most productive external threats you can ever have because it's unlikely to become military because neither China nor the USA under any condition would ever want to fire at each other I feel confident saying there's almost nothing you could imagine they would make China pull the trigger or the even it States to pull the trigger it just

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it States to pull the trigger it just it's so unlikely because because we we don't want it in a way that nobody's ever not wanted anything before it's like the most not wanted thing of all time is war with China and I'm sure they would say the same but economically the president's doing a pretty good job of painting them as a villain and one that way and if that villain starts depressing our economy as you're seeing little ripples in the stock market they don't mean too much actually he may actually be able to consolidate support around an external threat and people might start seeing the internal threat you know the other heyyou Democrat a Republican let's let's get together and fight it out with our proxies so you might see you might see some some psychological effect of the

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some some psychological effect of the president consolidating support around reorienting our economy because that's what it will take it would be a pretty big reorientation of the US economy to divest ourselves even slowly from China now I've suggested that stuff should come to this hemisphere whether it's in the United States or helping us indirectly by being in Central America but that is a good national challenge to be free of China's influence it's pretty good so yesterday I haven't checked this morning yesterday the stock market was down less than 3% let's see what it looks like this morning it looks like Apple's taken another oh I'm sorry it didn't change it's Saturday so we're down to three percent for most companies for the week and now we've got a few days to think about it so we don't know what it's going to open at now one of the questions now of course you all

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of the questions now of course you all caught the news that that Trump came out strongly against China he's ordered ordered as the key word here US industries to come back home to move their production here now order is a sort of ambiguous word in this context Brit Hume asked on Twitter what authority would the president have to order such a thing can the president order companies to close up shop in China in move enter there so it's a good question my answer to it I gave what I call the practical answer not the lawyer question lawyer answer my answer is yes because of fentanyl fentanyl is an attack on the homeland and China is doing it apparently intentionally because they have the ability to stop it they've had a year to do it they've done

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they've had a year to do it they've done nothing so as commander-in-chief can president Trump make a unilateral decision and just say as commander-in-chief China is something fentanyl in we're going to stop their packages and we're going to move our companies out of there because that country is essentially attacking us militarily in the WMD way because the fentanyl is killing tens of thousands people here president said a hundred thousand it's a big number whatever it is so I say that whether or not the president technically in a lawyer way has the power to order when he did in terms of countries leaving China are companies leaving China I'm not sure I care because here's the thing when it comes to the job of commander-in-chief the Constitution was written in and all of

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Constitution was written in and all of history supports that the reason that the commander-in-chief is given some unusual powers is because you don't want to mess around when it comes to war when it comes to war you don't want to run a war by committee you need to put somebody in place and you trust to take care of business you trust them to tell you what they're doing to give you plenty of warning lots of transparency which the president is providing he's given China plenty of time to respond in a more civilized way just hasn't happened and now he's taking action now what if the president is overreaching well I suppose Congress and the Supreme Court and the country could get together and say hey mr. president whoever the president is in any case you've gone too far
far pull it back a little bit because remember there are no there are no bombs being dropped everything that's happening can be pulled back without too much problem should the country should the Congress should the Supreme Court or

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the Congress should the Supreme Court or some combination of them decide that the president must pull back but when it comes to the initial decision it's a military decision in my opinion so this is just Scott giving you his opinion that as a citizen of this country I want my commander-in-chief to have wide immediate single power when it comes to war and defense of the country in general whether that whether it's a declared war or an undeclared war or a terrorist act now for me that would be enough because the fentanyl situation makes this a military situation meaning a defense situation president has broad powers I don't really care if he has exactly the authority to order an American company to leave China I don't really care if that's quite exactly legal I'm okay with having the president have that kind of power in this kind of

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that kind of power in this kind of situation as long as we're all watching right there's there's nothing hidden we see it we have institutions that can step in if we think it's going in the wrong direction I'm okay with that now in addition to that apparently there's something called the emergency economic Powers Act of 1977 and the president tweeted for all the fake news reporters that don't have a clue as to what the law is relative to presidential powers China etc try looking at the emergency economic powers of 1977 case closed says the president in de suite now I'm no lawyer so I have no idea and I'm sure if I looked at it I would still have no idea because you know you have to be a lawyer to really understand the whole context of these things but apparently there's a claim that we have some act in place that would allow the President to do this so that would be a little extra argument but again don't care you know

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argument but again don't care you know whether or not this economic Powers Act of 1977 exactly covers this situation I would say I don't care and I would say a lot of citizens don't care and if they do maybe they should rethink it because you do want your commander-in-chief to have wide powers as long as he shows you his work and as long as you still have power to implement the rest of the government to pull it back if there's a you know public agreement that we should in this case I say the president should act and if we don't like it well we can wrestle with it but I'm okay with the act the president acting first and see what that gets us I'm looking I'm trying to figure out what the president's critics will say when even even Bernie Sanders agrees that China is you know needs a lot of pushback so president Trump is not that far away from Bernie

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Trump is not that far away from Bernie Sanders on so what do you do if you're a Democrat you have to you have to criticize the president it is probably the biggest thing in the world that's happening right now China in the United States economic let's say war using that word loosely and here's a criticism I saw on Twitter of President Trump in a situation where the United States normally would all pull together for this external enemy they're criticizing him for where Trump neckties were manufactured which was China that's it the president's the worst criticism I'm seeing is that Trump neckties were I don't know if they still are manufactured in China that's it that's all you've got is the necktie thing this is the biggest issue in the world and you're talking about neckties that's it

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you're talking about neckties that's it so that shows you that Trump has an issue that's a pretty strong one going into 2020 it's legitimate to I would say that the president's increased pressure on China is entirely warranted by the situation now it has a political ramification which coincidentally could be good for the president or it could be bad depending you know things go but it looks like it's both political and necessary here's what I would tell you about this if you if you're trying to figure out how much risk is that economically how much economic risk is there for the president going after China as hard as he is and you know they're they're the half opinion people the people who are literally half-wits if you're a half-wit you'll look at half of a situation either only the costs or only the

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either only the costs or only the benefits and a lot of half-wits are looking at the president's actions and saying hey there's some bad economic things happening because you're pressing on China well that's half the story the other half that the half-wits just don't talk about they don't even have an opinion they don't say good or bad on the other half which is if you don't push against your economic competitor you end up just transferring all of your money to them because that's what they will demand and if they're demanding that you transfer all of your money and your intellectual property to them you know indirectly they're demanding that by the nature of the relationship what's your alternative just give them everything they want you at least say that if if you're a half-wit and the only thing you can see is that the president's actions are having a depressing effect on the stock market at the moment you know short term

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market at the moment you know short term if that's all you can talk about and you can't even say a sentence or reference you can't even wave your hand at the fact that the alternative to this is worse your half-wit you've mastered a half of a conversation all right so here's what I would say to look at look at employment and wages so wage growth and employment levels are all you need to look at I'm going to give you a degree in economics in 30 seconds all right this is 80% of everything you need to know about macroeconomics in 30 seconds you're going to be the equivalent of a degree in economics here it is employment at wage growth will tell you everything else that's it that's that's your degree in economics if you're just following those two things employment levels and wage growth and they're both

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levels and wage growth and they're both doing well everything else is going to work well short of some external you know shock like a war or you know something like that asteroid but short of that if you've got super strong employment levels and you've got wage growth and we have both of those things and I saw the Wonka did a tweet I think yesterday saying that the women in the United States their employment levels are just amazing apparently so women are just killing it in 2019 just killing it you know you even better than the men in terms of employment growth so as long as those things are looking good the president's is a pretty solid situation now I'd like to introduce again a new segment that I'll be doing on these periscopes I call it outrage and theater outrage theater is where people pick things in the news and

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people pick things in the news and pretend to be outraged on behalf of other people now in reality I've never met anybody who was actually outraged at anything really in person you know I've certainly met a lot of people in person who will say oh I wish the President had said that or this thing was a bad way to word it or this situation is impractical and maybe they get a little you know they get a little bit let's say emotive when they say it but I've never really heard anybody who's outraged did anything you know yeah you could be a range of fentanyl deaths but yeah you're not how regional anybody in this country over it so I'll do I'll pick one piece of outrage theater which somebody in the news is actually engaging in and I will reproduce it for this periscope today

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reproduce it for this periscope today it's economists alms be is that designers name who was talking about the president asking whether Jerome Powell the head of the Fed was a bigger enemy to the country than China to which the Democrats say attacking the head of the Federal Reserve he's calling him the enemy illa PayPal
see so I'll be mocking one one character from outraged theatres each of my periscopes so there's one of the other the second biggest story of the year the first story is that the president has created a a common enemy for the country in the form of China that's a big big deal for 2020 the second thing that we don't know where it's gonna end up yet but apparently Prager you you know

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but apparently Prager you you know Prager you there make videos I think they're all conservative-leaning and they have a very big footprint on YouTube or they would accept that YouTube is suppressing their videos very much like I imagine my videos the ones you're seeing which get uploaded to YouTube and then demonetized instantly that's right my content is demonetized automatically nobody even looks at it it's automatically demonetized regardless of content now this is some version of this is happening to Prager you and they're taking it to court so apparently this Tuesday they'll be going to the Ninth Circuit Court in their lawsuit against Google and YouTube for restricting over 200 Praeger you videos and they they tweeted this morning that the mainstream media continues to ignore this historic case that's true isn't it I didn't even

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case that's true isn't it I didn't even know this was going on did you and what could be more historic than a case against Google and YouTube for controlling the election that's a really big case what it can you imagine if Prager you winds us now I don't know what their odds are you know again not a lawyer I can't I can't put the odds on this but what if they win because they might right they might so if Gregory wins this would it force Google and YouTube to open their books or even if it goes to some kind of a trial is there some part in this process where Praeger you can say hey Google let's see your algorithm because that'll tell us if you've done something intentionally they would suppress our videos I don't know how Google and you could YouTube could have a defense in court

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YouTube could have a defense in court without opening up yeah the discovery process should should give them access Prager you should give them some kind of a look I don't know how you'd manage that given you know given that there's a privacy issue that's legitimate I don't know how you manage that but somebody's gonna look at their or algorithm and then what because what happens if Google doesn't show them the honest algorithm what did the odds let me ask you this if there were a high level court case and Google were required to tell the truth completely you know all the records all the algorithm all the the emails relative to it what if that happens would they tell the truth I'm gonna make a prediction they would not I believe that if Google /youtube it gets cornered in a in a

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/youtube it gets cornered in a in a court case that they will lie to the court that's a prediction so write this down that if Google goes to court for Prager you and it is required to disclose their records and their algorithms that they will actually lie to the court because I'm not sure the court would know the difference first of all I don't know if they'd be able to find and find the error but I'm going to here's the basis of my addiction I believe that YouTube would have to lie because the consequence of getting caught would be too big and I think that they will be caught lying because the lie is too big there'll be too many people who know about the lie so there might not be people in Google who are willing to be the kind of whistleblower who says yeah I was in the room where I watched Bob changed the algorithm so Prager II you couldn't show up probably we're not

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couldn't show up probably we're not gonna get that kind of a whistleblower but suppose there's somebody at Google who's totally in favor of Google they're not in favor of conservatives whatsoever they're watching the case and they notice that their own company Google just lied to the court hypothetically I'm not saying that Google has done that I'm saying I predict that they will do it I think it would be tough to be an employee of Google be aware of Google lying to the court and just sit there on it I got a feeling that that's the sort of news that would bubble up so here's my prediction if Prager you forces Google to open their algorithm Google will conceal the truth they will lie they will omit and they will get caught that's my prediction okay I don't know how long it will take might be after 2020 let's talk about goofy Elizabeth

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2020 let's talk about goofy Elizabeth Warren you've seen the the videos of her dancing in a kind of awkward goofy way and a lot of a lot of pro-trump people are using that video as evidence that she is goofy and she won't get elected and blow and I can tell you I'm just not seeing what you're seeing yeah I get that she's an awkward dancer but do you think that's gonna matter because what I see is an energy and I see somebody getting out of her comfort comfort zone I see her this is the other thing I was complimenting Elizabeth Warren on Twitter yesterday she's really fit you know that that video of her running you know we you know turned into a meme and it was funny and stuff but she's whatever her ages how old is she and she ran across the field like it was nothing and when you see her

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like it was nothing and when you see her on stage it looks like she I don't know if she lost weight or she's got a fitness thing going on but she looks like she's really in good shape and I gotta say politics aside I always like to call him somebody who's got the fitness thing handled because that's it's a big deal you know and it's certainly part of her her ability to be president is is her physical fitness and she did it well Joe Biden same thing Joe Biden is in great shape physically you know mentally is another question but I like to call that out as a positive thing but here's my question to you do you think that women think Elizabeth Warren looks as goofy as men do I think we some of the men who were mocking her might have male goggles on sort of saying well I wouldn't do that if I do that that would look weird but have you ever been in an automobile

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but have you ever been in an automobile with females and somebody turned on the music what happens if you're in a car with any kind of adult woman and a good song comes on that she really likes she gets us goofy as Elizabeth Warren and doesn't bother you too much right there's there's something about getting goofy to music that is just so American I don't know if you're looking for that to be her problem you're gonna have to look a little deeper because that's not gonna turn away any votes but it might make people watch her might say she's got energy it might it might make people say hey that's exactly what I do in the car when I listen to music is what I do in the shower I don't think that's going to cost her event likewise I believe that the Pocahontas thing is exhausted meaning that if the only if the only criticism that Trump can come up with about Warren is that the Pocahontas

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about Warren is that the Pocahontas thing I'm sorry it's too old it just aged out we just got too used to it and it didn't make any difference to anything she is still you know in my in my view at the moment and she would be the the favorite to get the nomination and all this poke on his stuff has been following her the whole time it made no difference no difference you know and I think this is a case where at least on that for the Democrats she she acknowledged that she thought she was Native American she acknowledged that it was a mistake now the Republicans want to push further and say but you haven't apologized specifically for preventing someone else from I don't know getting an opportunity because your your fake Native American credentials took somebody's opportunity but she can't go back in time she can't go back in time she's apologized to the Native Americans she is you know she is

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Native Americans she is you know she is identity and a test I would say she's completely you know removed that mole so Trump's gonna need a much bigger better attack than Pocahontas that's fun and only barely fun I'm not even sure it's that's fun anymore like just the fun got drained out of that bite overuse all right so yours so here's the issue Elizabeth Warren doesn't have a major flaw now you can say her policies are flawed but I'm not sure anybody cares about policies almost nobody cares about policies it seems so I suppose you know they'll be conversation better socialist policies and the budget and all that but she doesn't have a major problem you know Biden has his mental situation Bernie is also old and he's Bernie he probably has a cap on what what his

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probably has a cap on what what his support will ever be but if Warren decides to pivot toward the middle you know somebody says you're you're propping her up it is not my job to tear her down all right if you're here for a purely partisan I'm not really interested all right I'd rather say here are good points you're bad points and if you prefer to be a half-wit looking at only the bad points of people I'm sure there's a periscope for you and put this wouldn't be it so let's admit she's got some strong game and I also say about one that you know a year ago yes when I was looking at her a campaign game Republic speaking game or just public persona game I said now she doesn't have it she didn't seem to have the the the will say the charisma and

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the the the will say the charisma and the public projection that I thought I had the gravitas to be president but now she does so here's the bad news for those of you who don't like Elizabeth Warren she's a learning machine and maybe you didn't see that coming but she's learning do you know who isn't learning Komal Harris yeah Conley Harris was my pick a year ago to be the strongest candidate but it depended on Kabul Harris improving her game she never did her game never got good Elizabeth Warren similarly I thought weak in terms of just being presidential but in a year Elizabeth Warren improved her games Harris did not I don't know if any anybody else that we're watching it's

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anybody else that we're watching it's done the same thing somebody says so you have to be careful the people who are learners because the learners sneak up on you because you say yeah that one's no good and then they learn to be good and then you say whoops didn't see that coming so if there's anything you can say about Warren that I think we would all agree on is she's smart she's smart she's a learner you can see a hole you see her entire history is learning don't count her out because she can't learn now I think her weakness might be that she's going to be too lawyerly to academic to walkush too boring but she might learn how to get her way out of that too so remember her biggest weakness is that she's boring and Waka sham librarian like and she won't that won't look so strong next to trump but

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won't look so strong next to trump but don't expect she can't fix that so be careful let's talk about the zombie apocalypse I say this only a little bit tongue-in-cheek but if you look at the drug problem plus the mental health problem which are largely overlapping quite a bit both the drug problem in the mental health problem have created a zombie class we call it homeless because they happen to not be living indoors in many cases but it's not really a homeless problem as dr. Drew has taught us it's mostly a drug and mental health problem there's there no or there insufficient resources to treat people or they don't want to be treated and so they prefer to be outdoors so you could have all the housing in the world and it wouldn't make much difference because these are people who don't want to be in homes they want to take drugs or they

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homes they want to take drugs or they don't know how to handle themselves even if they had all they have mental problems so there are more and more people and I think that the percentage of the total public that will be in this category is likely to grow because as as civilization gets more stressful and more complicated fewer and fewer people will be able to cope with just normal life fewer and fewer people will be able to I don't know program a computer or have a job compete with robots compete with immigrants so we should have a growing and rapidly growing zombie class which would be Mental Illness plus-plus drugs now and Plus you know we've got a rat problem at cetera now on top of this I saw that Kanye West built some massive dome huts on some property he owns in California as an attempt to try to design and build this sort of a

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design and build this sort of a prototype low-income homes for the homeless now here's the problem apparently they do not meet California Building Standards or they haven't been checked out and permanent so they haven't been permitted and if they don't get permitted he has to tear them down because that's law if you build something without a permit and you can't get a permit after the fact you have to tear it down now what are the chances that these experimental dome structures meet all of the California Building Standards well maybe because he had professionals built it and they would be aware of all those standards so maybe they just built it in it's possible I don't know probably not though probably not what are the odds that these particular homes are the solution love all right the odds of anything being a

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all right the odds of anything being a solution for a big problem or low it wouldn't matter what it is doesn't matter there's Kanye doesn't matter that the houses are well built or not well built just in general the odds of anything making a big difference or kind of low right but here's the thing Kanye again being a genius among humans every time Kanye does something I look at it and I say you know even if that doesn't work it's smarter what than what the other people did here's why Kanye is working a system he's not he doesn't have a goal he's got a system and you can see the system he built a prototype boat Kanye built prototypes Kanye has a system do you think that Kanye believes that the first thing he builds is gonna be it that's going to be the end of the the

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that's going to be the end of the the thing and and he's all done and he solved homelessness I'll bet not I haven't talked to him about it but I'll bet the Kanye thinks in terms of his system the system in this case is rich guy has some land tries a prototype looks at them sees how they work sees what happens with the permitting system maybe if it gets permitted he can put some people in there see what they like see what they don't like build a second set alright if you see Kanye learn something from the first set of homes and then say all right good we learned something that's exactly what we hope to get into this now we're gonna build a second set then you've got somebody who's the most important person in the country in terms of solution it's very important now I'm assuming that that's what Connie has in mind is to try things until he gets something that works because I imagine that's what he

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works because I imagine that's what he did with his clothing line do you imagine that that when Kanye was designing his sneakers or any of his clothing line then he made one design on a napkin and walked out of the room I doubt it I doubt it you probably had a system probably had a system of bringing people in you know focus groups he probably you know iterated lots of different designs I imagine so I it looks like he's taking the same systems thinking game into this homeless arena now as I said I don't I don't know that the problem with Louis the homelessness in LA in Portland etc I don't know that that homeless this really requires a hope but what we do know is that there are plenty of people who are on the edge who don't have mental illness and don't have a drug problem who can't afford a home and so he's certainly filling in a you know he's going after a very very very important area even if it doesn't solve the

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area even if it doesn't solve the homeless problem in LA for example so three cheers for Kanye weather his dome Hut's get ripped down by the mean old California government or not he builds something Kanye built something he did something what did you do all right what do you do today how did you help the homeless today probably nothing so yesterday I was talking to Bill Polti and a gentleman that had just met bill who is an expert on low-income housing and government programs that actually support low-income building which I didn't even know existed so we're watching now bill pulled a through partly through his blight Authority stuff and partly through his efforts as internet philanthropy in general has now created energy remember I always talked

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created energy remember I always talked about energy being more important than the details so bill Polti has now created all this energy and that is drawing resources to him sort of the flame strategy where you know the Maw's are attracted to the flame so now bill Polti because of all the energies greater novels I was attracted an expert who has exactly the kind of expertise they would need if you want to do something with some blighted land that's been cleared now will though will that turn into anything now who knows I'm just tell you that the the general idea of creating energy around something that needs some energy it's a really good system and that's what what pulled a stir all right I guess Joe Biden and his daily gaffe was that he posed the hypothetical question during the speech what if Obama had been assassinated and everybody just said Biden maybe you

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everybody just said Biden maybe you should speak class are you seeing anybody on the Democrat side who really is excited about Biden all the reporting says that nobody is excited about him and that they're just waiting for something to happen now the other the other interesting story is that apparently Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been treated successfully for her to the third cancer details don't matter so much she's 86 but so she's wobbly but apparently out of immediate danger now how effective is she in 86 like really you know I get that the Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment but don't you think we should have don't we don't you think we should also have an age limit I get lifetime appointment but I feel as though there still needs to be a maximum

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though there still needs to be a maximum age maybe 80 you know can I just toss that out I don't know what it would take is that a constitutional change but maybe 80 is old enough right now I realize that their clerks do a lot of work and you know that it's not like the 80 year old is pounding out you know a lot of work but Oh 86 doesn't feel like a functioning Supreme Court justice to me and I wouldn't care if she were a conservative or or liberal I'm just saying that 86 86 is too old I'm sorry and there's something very sad going on which is imagine the pressure that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is on to not retire now I don't know what's in her head it could be that Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn't want to retire for her own reasons she may say no I plan to die in this job and I'm doing good things

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in this job and I'm doing good things for the world etc but it feels to me like maybe she might be influenced by other people to try to stay in there until Trump his head of office so if she stays in there another six years she'll be 92 do you want a 90 two-year-old let's say Trump gets reelected do you want a 92 year old on the Supreme Court man I don't not even a little bit so I feel sorry for for Ruth Bader Ginsburg because I think she's you know she should be concentrating on her family and herself and her health and you know just sort of enjoying her final years I just don't think it's fair to torture her this way by it's just a lot of responsibility put on somebody who's been a good public servant to all their life you know I had the same problem invitin with Biden's at some point younger people have a responsibility to

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younger people have a responsibility to act kindly to people have reached a certain age and I think that applies to Biden and begins birth all right that's what I got to say about all this stuff yeah they don't have much to say oh I saw something really interesting here's like a bonus topic this is an update to something I hark back to now on that back in the early 90s or mid 90s I guess probably closer to the mid or late 90s I guess I wrote a book called the Dilbert future and I made a prediction and the prediction got me in so much trouble it was it was the first time I had the the anger of the mob against me there were articles written calling me a for years just years of being just shat upon

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years just years of being just shat upon for this prediction and the prediction was that the theory of evolution would be rethought in scientific terms in my lifetime that we would we would have a different opinion of evolution sometime before I died now of course all the people who were afraid that you don't want people to think it's a religious explanation and they God did it so all the scientific people were guarding against you know the the barbarians at the gate rubies threw me under the bus with the creationists labeled me a creationist I'm not even a believer much less a creationist you'd have to be at least be a believer before you could also be a creationist but I'm not I'm neither of those things well articles were written all over the place about how a most secret creationist and intelligent design believer and none of that's true so that was my first massive experience with

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was my first massive experience with fake news in which an entirely fake persona of me was created and then criticized by a lot of different people a lot of people it was a big big deal for years in my life and now there are I'm counting at least three different theories the challenge evolution as we know it one of them of course is simulation theory so if we're a software simulation created by just another civilization of intelligent beings well that doesn't look like evolution but it doesn't it doesn't answer the question how did the original beings get created but it pushes back you know our story from us being things which evolved into software that got created so that's one theory now I'm not saying that's true it's a trillion to one likely but I'm not saying it's true here's another one so

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saying it's true here's another one so Eric Weinstein was talking about this today yesterday on Twitter so there's you know need to know the details but there's somebody who's a genuine genius a math kind of person who looked at evolution and said the statistics don't work the math doesn't work there's no way that random activity could have gotten to you what you got now you're saying to yourself okay that sounds like the same story that the intelligent design people have been saying forever but apparently he's adding something to it that smarter people recognize as being at least worth unless now he's not a religious guy so he's not saying you should discount evolution because it was probably God or intelligent sigh he's now saying anything like that he's just looking at the math he's saying I'm sorry I'm sort of a math expert I'm looking at the math I'm looking at the statistics it there's no explanation for how this could have

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no explanation for how this could have happened I don't know the details you don't need to know so someone who's smart is Eric Weinstein looked at that argument and said I'm you know paraphrasing Eric's opinion so am I getting a little bit wrong but essentially he said it's worth a look so that's another theory that's out there that people are looking at and saying maybe maybe this maybe evolution wasn't exactly what we thought was but that I heard a new one today or yesterday that I've never heard and it's so it's hilariously as simple as an alternative to evolution and by the way as far as I know the next thing I'm gonna say has been totally debunked but I haven't read it so I'm just gonna throw it out there for fun all right just for fun I'm not saying this is true or credible there's a biologist I'm not sure who else who said that part of the

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sure who else who said that part of the explanation and maybe not maybe all of it for evolution might be hybrids meaning instead of a horse evolving over millions of years to be you know a dog or whatever I don't think that's real but instead of one species just evolving over millions of years into another species this one scientific person says you know what about hybrids now a hybrid would be for example a horse and a mule mating and creating a donkey no a donkey is neither horse nor a mule but the problem is that the donkey can't reproduce so that's what a hybrid is so if the new thing can't reproduce well
somebody said that explains small well okay that was a pretty funny comment so

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okay that was a pretty funny comment so anyway this idea that the hybrids so this site the scientific minded person who were saying that we are wrong the hybrids can't reproduce so one of the most basic things you thought about hybrids as well it's the horse and the mule will have a baby and it's a donkey and the donkey can't have can't mate with another donkey and created another donkey so that's the end of the line so that can't be an explanation for anything but it turns out that most hybrids can reproduce did you know that I didn't know that it's the first time I've heard it so most hybrid is not not donkeys apparently donkeys can never reproduce but other animals and creatures mating against across species apparently can produce a hybrid between the two of them that can actually mate with other hybrids or other things I suppose so the

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hybrids or other things I suppose so the the idea is that natural selection per se is was not the only or not the main driver of evolution but rather it was different species having babies that could then also reproduce it's kind of the shortcut to a new species right do donkey still try I love that question so donkeys are infertile but somebody says but do donkeys still try a B you know this is donkey gonna get a go editor yes can somebody let the poor donkey at least you know give it a whirl
seems cruel to the donkey you don't don't let it at least try hey you know your odds are not very good but give it a try yeah somebody's talking about the liger the tiger and the lion combination so I can't assign any level of

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so I can't assign any level of credibility to the idea of the hybrids have anything to do with evolution I simply note that in the years since I said that actual scientists would start questioning and overturned our understanding of evolution that first of all there was one major change to evolution already you may not be aware of it but originally the evolution experts said that there was some long slow gradual change of species except when we look at the fossil records that doesn't seem to be exactly the case it seems that there were periods where there was a whole bunch of evolution and then periods where it was you know things kind of at acting slowly at least within species so if you look at ones one line of evolution you see it was like slow so so slow and then something changed a lot and then slow again and then that was not explained it was even Jay Gould I believe if I have that right

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Jay Gould I believe if I have that right scientists very respected who came up with the punctuated equilibrium idea the idea that there were periods in time that a lot of evolution happened so it was never a long slow gradual thing it was long as slow lots of times but them to be these short periods where lots of evolution happen and that was a complete change to the evolution that I learned when I was a kid because I thought it was gradual but apparently there was something happened this sped things up and I'm not sure we know exactly why we also used to think in the the survival of the fittest that the most fit species were the ones that survived and it evolved but that's been thrown out the door as well now I don't know if I'm not sure if Darwin actually used survival of the fittest that might have been added after the fact but to the degree that we learned that in school when I was a kid well it

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that in school when I was a kid well it was debunked it's not survival of the fittest do you know what it was so the current view of evolution is it's survival of the things that survived for whatever reason so lots of times their survival just because by luck you're on an island and you don't have any predators so you weren't the fittest on the island you were just the only one on the island so fitness you could actually be totally unfit for the island but there's nobody there to eat you and you got enough food and so you're fin enough so it went from survival the fittest - well something survived for a variety of reasons which is very different from how I learned it so I'm going to say that my prediction from the 90s the most dangerous thing I ever did for my career started to look a little better it's all I'm saying all right according to the New York Times

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according to the New York Times evolution was built on us slavery you know that's I know you're joking when you say that because the New York Times says this framework role there which I call hoax 5 where everything is being thrown into the racism narrative but I believe that views on you know who is who was superior and all that actually did have an impact on at least slavery in terms of the rationalization on it all right
see James Tours origins lections well if they're intelligent design I'm not sure I want to see though it was fun Epstein was into genetic manipulation was he Ann Coulter wrote the same thing

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was he Ann Coulter wrote the same thing what did she write was she writing about evolution or about all right well that's all I have to say and I won't talk to you all tomorrow