Episode 670 Scott Adams: Sipping & Talking Biden, Brownface, Children in Charge of Big Decisions

Date: 2019-09-21 | Duration: 52:19

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu Justin Trudeau and Canadian blackface? Children…the dumbest, least experienced humans Why are we looking to children for leadership? Houthis have promised NOT to use weapons they don’t possess Naval…the smartest person in the world, brilliant tweet “Panopticon” see on Twitter, @Naval Ukraine controversy is a good example of… …Is it GOOD news, or BAD news? We can’t tell Bill Maher and his bobblehead panel omit REASONS Elizabeth Warren adds to list of reasons she’ll never be POTUS Dan Crenshaw tweets a pro-nuclear position Booker and Yang are both pro-nuclear Mark Schneider and Mike Shellenberger have succeeded Candace Owens Farmer RIPS left-leaning person in hearing You can SEE her patiently waiting, collecting energy …And then, it was her turn to speak

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um hey everybody come on in yes beautiful weekend morning and it's time for coffee with scallops luckily as luck would have it you came to the right place coz that's me and I know you want to enjoy the Sun with a new set of course you do who wouldn't really and all you need is I always wait till thousand users are here before I said here we go a cup or a mug or a glasses Diane is jealous detector to thermistor plastic can't eat acrylic goblet a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid get ready for the simultaneous EPS the dopamine yet that makes the rest of the day awesome here it comes Erica let's go sublime well my book loser think which comes out of November 5th is available for pre-orders if you didn't know that already and the pre-orders are are going briskly so it

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pre-orders are are going briskly so it looks like it could be a sort of a big book could be a big book because loser think is sort of sticky a lot of stuff I talked about in there is going to make your head explode in a good way so I love the fact that Justin Trudeau decided to announce an assault a ban on assault weapons in Canada really good timing really good timing now I can't even I can't even dislike that because it's so it's transparently obvious what he's doing he's distracting but at the same time totally it works totally works so let's give it up to Justin Trudeau for that now here's my other comment about Trudeau how good a life do you have to live in terms of being good to people you know treating everybody the same

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treating everybody the same how many years of a really good life do you need to live to get away with being discovered to have had three brownface slash slash blackface events in your life and people look at it and go yeah you're still not racist that's pretty good if you think about it yeah could any of you do that could any of you be discovered for having three separate blackface pictures in your past and still have people look at you and say you know hey you still alright I you know you you've been so good I know that's just a bad decision it's kind of impressive and I saw two different schools of thought well maybe I only saw one because the only other school of thought is me apparently so that's not quite a school that's like one student so what school of thought is that even though Justin Trudeau is clearly not a racist he he he crossed some line that if you

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he he he crossed some line that if you were on the right you would be skewered you would lose your job you would be vilified forever and so people quite rightly say hey they do it to us we cannot be cowards we must be brave and do it right back to him is that a good strategy I ask you now maybe that was sort of a good preliminary strategy because it did it did frame things as it's not just one side doing stuff but rather it's people doing stuff so I think it was useful for a long time to push back on all of these little gotcha situations but maybe we're reaching a point where a little leadership is necessary because remember if you were on the camp that says you know I think I'm gonna accept Justin Trudeau's apology let's say you do it in public and you do it on Twitter let's say you did what I did I think I did it publicly

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did what I did I think I did it publicly I accepted it as apology yeah it wasn't really apologizing to me but on behalf of a pub like which often gets worked up on behalf of other people that we imagine are offended by art I decided to forgive them now let me ask you this if somebody else if someday somebody produced a picture of me in blackface there are none trust me there are none hypothetically if they did would I be in a better better shape or worse shape having publicly created record of saying yeah that's just a custom better right because if then then if somebody found you or I had made that same dumbass mistake or any version of that you know there's there's lots of versions of that mistake if we made any version of it wouldn't it be handy for people to know you're not a hypocrite right

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you're not a hypocrite right because at least you have that going for you because if you've said of other people you know that's not a big deal that's just a joke or bad judgment or whatever happened 20 years ago let it go if you're on record of saying that you're not a hypocrite if it happens to you and you say you know I treat everybody the same way I did it Justin Trudeau did some version of something maybe we should all just lighten up you're in a you're in a lot better shape to not be a hypocrite if you're willing to let such an obvious the thing that's different about the Trudeau case is that I haven't seen one single person suggest he's actually racist have you that's kind you know I said this before but that's kind of impressive right now I'm with most of you which is he's a bit cringe-worthy to watch with his don't say mankind say humankind study he

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don't say mankind say humankind study he takes it a little bit further than it needs to be mmm I wish you would stop calling himself a feminist I know what he means just the way the words hit my head don't work but none of them know them suggests he's a bad person there it's just a little cringy when we hear him talk that way for some of us and I suppose other people are saying sorry my cashier I suppose other people are saying that's exactly what we want all right so people are talking about how their children are making a big impact on this climate change stuff so they had their big climbing sprite day and they took our day off of school all over the world mostly the United States and they protested that their government is not doing enough about climate change here's what's wrong with that everything that's what's wrong with that everything at what point did we decide that we would consciously turn over leadership to the dumbest and least

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leadership to the dumbest and least experienced people in the entire world actually literally the dumbest and least experienced people in the world least knowledgeable least experienced and dumbest children now I of course was once a child and so that's one of the ways that I can notice that I got smarter since then have any of you noticed that you're smarter since you were a child why are we letting children make our political decisions could it be a worse idea no it is literally the worst of bad ideas now even in the sixties when young people were protesting Vietnam those young people were still older those young people were often over 18 they were just young so that was a little bit different and and protesting a war is sort of a simpler

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protesting a war is sort of a simpler situation how many of these children let me ask you this how many - how many of the children know the phrase carbon-capture how many of them even know that there's a whole bunch of startups making carbon capture devices to suck co2 out of the air how many know that none how many of them know the children who were in the climbing strike how many of them know that nuclear energy is really sort of the only way to attack this you know with with everything else but it has to be part of the big part of the picture and that even even reasonable Democrats say the same how many do you think out there were against whatever the climate change policies are and also against nuclear energy probably a lot so somehow we managed to weaponize the dumbest people in society and again I say that was love we were all children we're all smarter now wouldn't you

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we're all smarter now wouldn't you rather have the decision made by the smart people I mean if you have a choice and I think we do now I would even go so far as to say that children do not have opinions on climate change they don't have opinions children do not read the news and form opinions opinions are assigned to children am I wrong I you know opinions are assigned to adults too usually by your favorite news source but for children is far more obvious children don't have independent opinions about climate change they what they know about it is so small that you could not interpret anything they say about it to be anything like an opinion what they have is not an opinion they have anxiety they have anxiety who gave them the anxiety well their teachers maybe their parents

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well their teachers maybe their parents maybe some of them watch the news but I kind of doubt it how many of those kids do you think watch the news five percent tops so children are all getting all worked up by adults and it couldn't be a more a more unproductive situation than adults making children scared to death and then wait for it making children scared to death and then putting them in charge because that feels like what happened yesterday that they were sort of empowered to you know have a political clout that maybe they normally wouldn't I have so there we should not be happy about that that crowd that climbers strike thing we should be condemning it as total manipulation of young minds now if

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manipulation of young minds now if adults took a day off work and say well we've looked into it we've been watching the news I'd still think they were under informed but at least there are adults at least they you know had a chance to look into it and you do what they could to make a decision the children don't look into it children don't research they take whatever opinion this assigned to them and what was assigned to them was anxiety and then we put them in charge it could not have been a more ridiculous situation all right I have an announcement to make first announcement is you probably heard that the Houthis in Yemen who took credit for sending the the missiles and drones into the Saudi Arabia oil facility and blowing it up they claim credit for that but now more recently they said that there they're announcing that they will not use drones and cruise missiles to attack Saudi

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and cruise missiles to attack Saudi Arabia and I thought I would follow their lead and so I'm announcing today that I too will not be from this point on and this is a promise I personally will not shoot any drones and cruise missiles into Saudi Arabia now you're probably saying to yourself Scott that's stupid you don't have any cruise missiles Scotty you don't have any drones that can go attack Saudi Arabia just like the Houthis they don't have that either so if they don't have that stuff and they're promising not to you it and I don't have that stuff can I promise not to use it I mean Iran has that stuff but I don't see that making any promises but yes you're all Saudi Arabia you can rest rest easy because like the Houthis I am NOT going to attack Saudi Arabia with all my cruise

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attack Saudi Arabia with all my cruise missiles of my drums because I don't have them Christina says differently okay that's funny so there are reports that were tightening the banking related sanctions on Iran but have you noticed that's not a big story the first time I heard I was like whoa we're going after the National Bank or their central bank or something about a bank we're gonna shut down their bacon man Iran is in trouble now and then you look into it a little bit and it's like well it turns out we're not really gonna do anything to their banking system all right because I think we did all the things we can do whatever this latest thing is I don't even know if they're gonna notice because the news at least this is just based on the news coverage the news is treating it like maybe all the good good sanctions have already been used and whatever is left with this banking situation probably won't make any

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situation probably won't make any difference so we'll see so here's one of the most clever tweets that you will ever see this comes from navall Rafa Conte now I've talked about an evolve before I refer to him sometimes as the smartest person in the world I don't know that that's true but until I see somebody who's smarter I'm gonna go with that as far as I can tell he might actually be the smartest person in the world in terms of things that you need to know you know not you know certainly they're scientists who know things he doesn't know but in terms of a good general understanding of a reality and had a deal with it business-wise social wise intellectually a lot of different ways now I I know him he's a friend so I can confirm that he's just a smarten person if not smarter so

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just a smarten person if not smarter so he's a real deal anyway he's no vowel he's at M as a neighbor AV al and if you're not already following him you're missing out on some good stuff so here's his here's his tweet I'm gonna read it and then I'll tell you why it's so good because it won't be obvious at first he said navall says quote does it bother anyone else that our elected officials live in a panopticon run by our intelligence agencies now what's the first impression you had when I said that you said yourself what the hell is a peon Opticon what's up al Opticon so that's the first brilliant thing about the tweet Navalny was and you know I'm not doing mind-reading here exactly I know him well enough to know that he certainly knows that the vast majority of people who see that word as in 99 percent well know what it means all right so the first thing you need to

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all right so the first thing you need to know is he's definitely smart enough to know you're gonna have to look up the word that's the first smart part because I did look up the word I don't know what I meant it's what it means is what it means is a situation like a building for example in which the observers can observe whoever they're observing but the people being observed can't observe them back so in other words it's a one-way observation system so what he's saying is then I'll read it again so now that you know that a peon opticon is a situation where somebody can see you but you can't tell who's watching you he says does it bother anyone else that our elected officials live in a panopticon run by our intelligence agencies now here's the second brilliant part of this suite the moment there's a word for it it changes how your brain processes it because if I said to you let me tell you about a concept there's a concept in which some people can see you but other

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which some people can see you but other people can't see you back and that could cause from probable you know concepts don't hold us they don't they don't move us they don't persuade us they don't frame things but as soon as you've got a handy word for a thing you can you can capture all the concept into the word people can look it up and from that point on the word is weaponized so what wouldn't have all did here this is not an ordinary tweet this is not ordinary alright you don't see ordinary people doing something like this what he did by putting a word on that pan opticon and making us look it up and then collapsing everything that we know about the concept of people spying on us into this thought and then it gets even better he puts it in the form of a question all right very powerful statements you automatically want to disagree with right if somebody else suddenly makes a statement

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statement we're spring-loaded say yeah what's wrong with that statement I disagree and then I'll figure out why I disagree later so instead of making it a statement he puts it as a question does it bother anyone else that our elected officials live in a paean optica and run by our intelligence agencies and i have to say that after i looked it up I had an O Shi T moment where I thought that's exactly what's happening as long as your intelligence people can see the politicians and the politicians can't see them back who is running the country and who's running the country if the intelligence people can see you and you can't see them back and they are watching and they're watching all the politicians who's running in the country it's not the politicians because if you're watching carefully you can always find something to take the politician

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find something to take the politician off the game and we're watching that with the with the Ukraine situation now baby the Ukrainian situation would have happened anyway etc but as long as we live in a world in which the Watchers can suddenly break the fourth wall I'm using a terrible analogy here but as long as they can go from just watching to leaking and then or even getting the justice you know system involved as long as they have that power the politicians are not exactly in charge even though those people work for them the people who are watching the people who can't watch back it's the watchers who are in charge because they have the power of the leak which were saying this week it's a very powerful thought it's one of the most powerful tweets maybe I've ever seen you know I don't know how to rank such things but you're not gonna see one that's like a bulldozer in your head

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that's like a bulldozer in your head I have often not often that's that was pretty impressive all right I'd like to go back to this quote by Mark Twain Mike sort of itch surface this quote the first the first time I ever saw it so I give him credit for surfacing it because it it applies to just so many things and if the Mark Twain quote is I'm paraphrasing but he said that we we humans we can't tell the difference between good news and bad news now isn't that true like we just can't tell the difference you know is the economy good or is it on the edge of a recession there's a good news yeah this is North Korea going a great way because the president kimber friends or are they building nukes I don't know I can't tell good news from bad news can you I mean I literally can't tell now I have opinions I can't really tell because I can't know the future I can't know all the things I don't know so I'm thinking about that what I'm looking at this Ukrainian

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what I'm looking at this Ukrainian situation well what's happening with this Ukraine situation we're framing it people are framing it in all different ways so the anti-trump herbs are saying my god it's a quid pro quo even if he didn't directly say what he would get what the Ukraine would get in return should they look into Joe Biden so from the Democrats it's all bad news and the president has crossed the line and that whistleblower is absolutely right to do what he did how could you possibly ask another country to interfere in our elections by researching your opponent who's leading in the polls how could you do that so that's one frame the other frame is it was a private conversation even if you don't like it the president can do that all right so the conservatives are kind of stopping at kinda doesn't matter what he said he got elected you didn't

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elected you didn't as long as what he said was legal as far as I can tell it was whatever he said no I don't think anybody's saying it was illegal as long as it was legal as long as he had a reason you don't have to agree with the reason he can he can be asked questions now I added a third frame so you're two frames are that you that he did something horribly inappropriate by asking another country to get involved with his with the election and with a competitor the second one is the Conservatives saying it doesn't matter what he said private conversation end of story I'm adding the third one and I tweeted about it comes with two questions number one whose job is it to guarantee the integrity of presidential elections
president Trump am i right isn't it literally his job as it was Obama's job

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literally his job as it was Obama's job to make sure that the Russians didn't interfere in 2016 we've been saying that forever it's Obama's job he didn't do his job and now we have a situation where the current president is now his job so we I think we would all agree that if there's foreign interference whether or not it could have been stopped it's still the president's problem still his responsibility no matter how it goes that's his job now let me ask you this does election interfere include knowing who might be influenced by another country such as blackmail of course it does that's what we've been talking about for three years we've been talking about how Russia might have have had compromise might compromise might have had some secret information on trump could have could have had control of them that matters right that's all part of securing the integrity of the election because you wouldn't want to have a fair election that elected the

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have a fair election that elected the person who is a Russian puppet or a Chinese pot or a Ukranian puppet everybody's agreeing right so so far we all agree it's Trump's job to secure the elections and they're part of that job quite legitimately is to make sure that nobody who gets elected is being influenced by another country now with this Biden situation obviously the other entities in in the administration were not having any headway and getting any information about what could have been a compromising situation for Joe Biden should he get elected how is it not president Trump's job to ask the question now if he didn't need to ask the question that would be the best situation because then the let's say the FBI or whoever's whoever's working on making sure that foreigners do not interfere if they could have gotten

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interfere if they could have gotten Ukraine to tell them everything that needed to be known about Joe Biden and especially his son's involvement hunter Biden's if the FBI could have done that on their own probably they would have done it do you think that the president would have asked eight times somebody says your what about us at the show I don't know what what about ISM would apply to this case so so the point is that it was literally the the president's job that we all agree to now if Ukraine influence on the election and we certainly would need to know if Biden was compromised by anything that Ukraine knows and we don't yet know now had you heard that frame before I tweeted it this morning who was it who said to you in this whole conversation you've been watching it's like wall-to-wall story

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watching it's like wall-to-wall story has anybody said to you it's Trump's job to ask that question because if the FBI can't get the answer maybe you have to talk to the boss you know the head of the country and say can you work with us to get this done he wasn't asking the the head the president of Ukraine to answer the question at the moment he was asking him to get his people involved with Trump's people how else could you interpret it he wasn't saying you personally go find out what's going on and you personally tell me how else could you interpret it then can you have your people work with my people and my people are the right people FBI whoever does this stuff I assume it's the FBI so let me ask you again because I'm not saying anything in the comments is there anybody before I said it was there anybody who said you're describing

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there anybody who said you're describing his actual job experiences job duties as president he is supposed to ask the president of Ukraine to help us look into something that is so well known they even the public knows there are some questions to be answered now it might be there's nothing there but he still has to ask that question doesn't he now some of you might say Scott Scott Scott you naive poor bastard don't you know that that's not why he's asking he's not asking because he wants to protect the country he's asking because he wants to hurt his political opponent so it doesn't matter if he's also doing his job in exactly the way you would want him to do it and by the way that is exactly the way I'd want him to do it I'd want him to be talking in front witnesses which he was I would want him to say can your people work with my people because this is a legitimate question which he did and apparently you

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question which he did and apparently you have to ask eight times because Ukraine wasn't catching on the first seven times and I don't know if they've agreed to do anything or not so that's that I tweeted that jokingly that you know President Trump made his critics talk non-stop about Joe Biden's son which is all good for the president a number of other people have made that observation that the more we talk about this sort of the better it is for the president because over time your your let's say your outrage over the fact that the president made a phone call because that's what it was how outraged are you that well the president made a phone call there's not much there it's pretty thin but but all of these things seem bigger because the way they're covered and talked about in day one a month from now I'm not even sure that anybody remember this unless there's new news about it so but I just to clarify in my tweet some people took

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to clarify in my tweet some people took it to mean that I thought it was President strums clever plan from the start that he was gonna you know put this out there and get it leaked and talk about Biden and I don't think that's the case but it's just it's just what happened what happened was it turned out great for the president should this should be the end of Biden I would think right if if you lose sound just sign off inside an icon so I just saw a clip by Bill Maher whose show runs on Friday night so I guess was a segment there and I watched it in which he talked about how the Trump supporters are always in claiming that people like him have Trump derangement syndrome now first of all I was very happy to hear me use the phrase Trump Benjamin's syndrome but he suggested that that they're not to the crazy ones and that were supporting Trump the supporters are the crazy ones to

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the supporters are the crazy ones to support that they showed a montage of President Trump saying a bunch of things which if you saw the amount of context sound kind of crazy most of them were actually literally related to jokes where where they you take a little bit out in context where the president was making a flourish to tell the joke then you put them all together and it looks like he's you know acting crazy so the first thing you should learn is that any any compilation of a person's verbal gaffes makes them look crazy so you know Bruce here with Biden but you also see it with the Trump compilations it doesn't mean either of them are crazy I think that Biden is incapable not because of the gaffes but because when he's just regular talking he looks incompetent to me I'm not waiting for the gaffe but here's my takeaway this is very much a protest too

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takeaway this is very much a protest too much situation because if you look at the clip you're going to say to yourself this looks like the worst case of trim derangement syndrome I've ever seen it looked like Maher is just enough material material meaning criticisms of the president because he kept saying he would show the president doing the president's usually let's say theatrical style and then he would say you know we can't normalize this you know we can't allow this to be a normal president do you know what he left out the reasons he left out the reasons so the statement is here's Trump bunch of clips showing Trump being Trump just the way you expected to be most of them uses clips you've already seen and then they say and all and all the the panelists are nodding their heads oh yeah oh yeah yeah you can't you can't let this be normalized but they leave out because

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normalized but they leave out because because what because our GDP will continue to be strong we don't want to normalize this because what unemployment will stay low for every segment of the population now we don't want to normalize this because we might not have enough Wars what exactly what exactly are we worried about normalizing this is the strongest country we've ever had by far by far has the United States ever been this solid now some people would argue that the the national debt is a big time bomb that's a separate conversation because I'm not sure that national debt works the way you think it does so it's not like owing money on your credit card but otherwise I would say the country is in massively good shape and if you're but if your best if your best complaint about the president is we don't want to normalize

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president is we don't want to normalize the behavior that put us in the best shape we've ever been you kind of had a material your anima Tyrael all right
the there's a growing list of reasons that Elizabeth Warren can't become present and I I think it's useful to mention them I've written ever now and that because when I'm watching the Democrats say all right all right okay so now Biden turns out he's incompetent all right all right but we're still good we got all these other kidneys but bite how about Bernie oh damn it damn it Bernie Bernie's too old to and you know he's not popular now if he can't cross the line all right all right but Warren Court so now the Democrats who are the smarter ones the ones who can tell with clarity the Biden will not be the nominee you know that would be every smart Democrat knows that now and they could tell by Bernie

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now and they could tell by Bernie probably won't get there either so now they're like AHA Warren Warren yeah warrant warns killing it so you see lots of positive articles about Elizabeth Warren or crowd sizes are good the energy is good she's got policies and she's really sticking it to the president yeah but there are few problems with Elizabeth Warren here are a few she she wants aggressive movement on climate change but she is not in favor of nuclear energy you can't get elected with that you can't you can get elected if you are a Republican saying I don't think climate change is a big deal but I'm still in favor of nuclear energy that might be a suboptimal political opinion but still got Trump elected so so we know it can be done but I would state with some some confidence that nobody in the world

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confidence that nobody in the world could ever get elected being totally afraid of climate change and and knowing that we have to be aggressive at least that's that would be their position we have to be aggressive and saying no to nuclear energy it's like you just haven't looked into it that's so disqualifying now you might say to yourself I don't know people voters aren't that smart but they will be because all you have to do is that you get the voters and say do you really care about climate change as much as Elizabeth Warren yes well then why don't you do something that's not the dumbest thing in the world which is what Elizabeth Warren is suggesting which is the only thing that makes it worse what is the only thing that will make climate change substantially worse getting rid of nuclear energy every every Edit expert will tell you the same thing I believe a hundred percent of experts would agree left and right if you get rid of nuclear energy you're making things worse how could you win on that it's a completely unwinnable case especially since even Democrats don't

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especially since even Democrats don't agree with that position secondly health care for all now I'm in favor of figuring out a way to get this country to cover everybody however we can get there I don't think it's as simple as let's raise taxes and give everybody free healthcare I like something a little more elegant than that a little more market market-based but be that so so I only say that to tell you I'm not giving you my opinion on health care I'm just going to make a mathematical statement people who already have health care and like it are just not going to vote for because who wants to lose the health care they already have we are far more triggered and far more emotional about losing something than we are about the opportunity of gaining something so the the risk of losing your good private health care that you like your doctor things are working out for you that describes at least half the country

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describes at least half the country I would think those people are just not going to vote to have their own health care worse while paying more if you had good health care and your company is paying for it would you ever vote to make your health care worse and for you to pay more so other people can have it some people will some people are awesome some people care about other people more than they care about themselves or at least they live their lives that way so might be a few but you can't get elected in a general in a general election by telling half of the country their situation is going to worsen and they're gonna pay more for it that's her that's our proposition I'm healthcare and again I without even criticizing whether the plan is good or bad you can simply say that you know that for every person who gets who gets the health care they're gonna be X number of people were saying hold on mine is just gonna get worse and I'm gonna be paying more for it what's up with that can't get elected for that

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up with that can't get elected for that the other ways reason she can't collect Adar she has low support from the african-american community and not really seeing that changing can the Democrat get elected without really really solid support from black voters we'll find out because I don't think she's gonna have it if she gets nominee and then she also did another disqualifying thing in the in the vein of Hillary she made a blatant anti male comment at one for rallies the our statement was we're not here because of you know the men who went before in fact we're not here because it men at all now of course the pedantic people are saying well but you know there have to be some sperm in and egg so there was a man involved blah blah but just I didn't emotional how that makes you feel level forget about the details away she said don't you feel that she's taking the most looser ish

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that she's taking the most looser ish path anybody could ever take which is which is basically Pro woman a little bit anti male at least in the way it feels now I'm not reading her mind I don't know that she has any anti male feelings internally but if she's talking in a way that makes people feel that man are gonna show up and they're not gonna vote for her but here's the I don't know why this isn't already a thing maybe it'll be the first time you heard it from me do you want a president who has war right in her name ward so and and I would love it if she picked a vice president presidential running-mate whose last name happened to be peace so they'd be warned peace but you think to yourself Scott that's just her name that doesn't mean anything it kind of does

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doesn't mean anything it kind of does kind of does if you have the word war in front of you all day long because that's what all reporting about the president is Warren Warren Warren do you think that that makes you more likely so that somebody's asking me if I'm kidding totally serious now what I'm saying about her last name is completely serious based on persuasion based on what I know about hypnosis if you make the country say the word war a billion times because they're just talking about war em it does influence you toward war now somebody's saying nonsense so I will accept some fact-checking on that because I don't think anybody's ever done a study that would be so specific that you could you could fact-checking on this well let me let me say it this way if it makes you feel better I will soften I will soften my opinion on this a

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I will soften my opinion on this a little bit based on everything I know about persuasion and how the brain is wired it should be true they're using the word war continuously just in the service of talking about the aim of the president should she become president should buy a shoe toward war he should I mean that would be the normal thing you would expect now how about if your last name is Trump literally a word that means win if you say Trump long enough are you more likely to be biased or wind maybe I don't know and in that gate in the case of Trump his brand is so strong there probably overwhelms what the word means but in the case of Warren she's a little washed out brand her name is gonna have more power because she's a little she's sort of a a weaker brand she doesn't overrule her own brand all

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she doesn't overrule her own brand all right Dan Crenshaw has tweeted a pro nuclear energy position and I wanted to describe to you one of the benefits of social media that's not obvious to you one of the problems with getting people in the government to say yes we need nuclear energy is what's the biggest obstacle the biggest obstacle is that they think it will bite them in the ass right they think that if they come out in favor of nuclear energy that they're exposed that it's going to make them look like the out of touch one now modern nuclear energy technology is the safest energy we have by far it's not even close but not everybody knows that so if you were a politician let's say you knew that let's say you're one of the politicians who knew nuclear energy is not the less safe versions of our

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is not the less safe versions of our past but our is these you know safest energy source we have by far in our present if you knew that you still wouldn't want to go out and say nuclear energy even as a Republican you might you might hold it back a little bit because you don't know how people are gonna respond to it and you don't want to give people a reason to hate you and it's you know as maybe it's not your cause so you're not going to go die on that beach here's what people like me and people like Michael Shellenberger and people like mark Schneider and those of you who tweet us here's the service that you perform you made it safe collectively and I would I would thank mostly the the people who were you know I judges my mentors on this so Sheldon Berger and Schneider the two most vocal Twitter users who are promoting nuclear energy and education so that we understand it's

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and education so that we understand it's a good deal those so they're their guidance allowed me to feel comfortable tweeting my full support that we should be developing that that path now what happens when I tweet it well at the world sees what happens to me do I get slapped down where do people say okay I wasn't up to date I'll take a look at that so it's not just me but everybody who retweets me everybody who's boosting the signal of the two people I mentioned or just boosting nuclear in general social media becomes the way you test whether you can stick your head up you know if you stick your head up out of the hole do you get it locked off or or do you get away with it and I think that what I and everybody who's been tweeting about the positives of nuclear energy has shown and I think Cory Booker's shown it and now Andrew yang is shown it

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shown it and now Andrew yang is shown it and by the way even if those two lose you know I'm guessing neither them will get the nomination but you've got to give it up for Andrew yang and Cory Booker because they've completely changed the way we can look at climate change because of being pro nuclear energy and that change allows it makes it safe for other Democrats to say are you too Booker and yeah they're both in favor of nuclear energy because if you're a Democrat no matter who you are you look at those two guys and what do you say to yourself they're the smartest ones in the game all right now maybe not literally because everybody running is pretty smart Buddha judge very smart but when you're looking at yang and Booker the first thing you think is okay whatever else you think of them whatever else you think of their policies they're super smart like super smart like really

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super smart like super smart like really really smart and they're Pro pro-nuclear you can't ignore that so here's what I think I think that everybody I've mentioned collectively and many of you who have retweeted the same content collectively we just made it safe for politicians to tiptoe out and say how about about a little nuclear energy right wouldn't you say that two years ago if you if you gave a full-throated a full-throated endorsement nuclear energy don't you think just two years ago you would have been pretty slap down on social media don't you think but the the links and articles written by both Michael Shellenberger and then Marsh Nider doing his own content plus lots of tweets and retweets of useful links that show you the you know the safety of

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show you the you know the safety of nuclear energy the those guys basically created a base of tweetable links so that people like me could feel completely safe going out there and say oh yeah you know if you're not looking at this you're at a date and then we make it safer in an expanding circle we make it safer and safer we're still right on the edge and I don't think we're quite there yet actually to where President Trump could go in front of the public and say not just as an afterthought here's what the Republicans like to do and starting to bother me a little bit and Crenshaw I did it too they like to throw it at the bottom of the list doesn't after thought yes we need to do things to clean up our energy and you know we should clean those rivers and you know maybe using carbon capture a nuclear energy so that needs to move to the top of the list so that if you could have talked about anything in that domain you start with well we need a robust nuclear energy

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well we need a robust nuclear energy industry yes both for energy and for pollution reasons for safety reasons for co2 reasons if you care about that and if it's not a problem you still need nuclear energy and of course we can't be competitive in space without a robust nuclear industry which we don't have right now it's shrinking so people are saying nuclear needs to be named something else yeah I've mixed feelings on that if nuclear were any other topic I'd say yeah let's talk about coming up with a clever friendly branding for it I think he has too much history I just don't know that you can I just don't know that you could ever change that so so I see some chatter in the comments about Kansas Owens ripping somebody part at the some congressional hearings now

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at the some congressional hearings now if you haven't seen if you haven't seen the clip it's totally worth watching it and it doesn't even matter who it was like who she was slapping down so there was some left-leaning person who who said something that and I'm listening to it and watching Candice Owens because she's on the screen at the same time and I'm watching her her nemesis I guess at least in that meaning saying things that I'm you know it was obvious as soon as it came out of her mouth I thought to myself well I don't think that represents Candace's opinion but here's the funny part and this is why it's worth watching and Candice is completely quiet well while her nemesis is spouting things that are just utter BS and and and basically slandering her by putting opinions in her mouth and stuff and you watch her sitting there and that we've seen this before she gets quiet so she doesn't interrupt you you would expect sometimes people would interrupt if somebody is mischaracterizing their

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somebody is mischaracterizing their opinion but she doesn't interrupt she just sits there and you can see her like like collecting energy yeah those of you who saw you know what I'm talking about she's just like collecting your energy and that it's her time to talk and she just filleted she just filleted the the person who was lying about her opinions it was it was a beautiful thing to watch so but what I liked was how we've seen this before because I've talked about almost the exact same thing in some other context I forget but watching her a collector energy and then release it is just a beautiful to watch it's just beautiful so all right that's all I've got today I think let me check my notes that's all I got today I'm gonna talk to you later bye for now