Episode 674 Scott Adams: China With Brian Kennedy, Impeachment, Defamation, the Panopticon

Date: 2019-09-25 | Duration: 1:23:12

Topics

My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu Special Guest: Brian Kennedy, China expert Topic: Understanding China, its culture and people Historical, cultural differences between China and America Cultural Warlordism versus cultural law & order Honor and Individual behavior versus business behavior Should we “decouple” from China? Ramifications? What can China do for us…that India can’t? Chinese students in the US are the Chinese elite class
Nancy Pelosi’s solution: impeachment that isn’t impeachment The government has weaponized impeachment for political gain Donations to Trump have increased…coincidence? Intelligence agencies have blackmail on leaders Are the intelligence agencies running/controlling US? President might be our last legitimate President CVS update, my rant yesterday about their receipt policies John Cook, former Executive Editor of Gawker Media Former Editor-in-Chief of The Intercept Now Investigations Editor for Business insider & Insider.com John Cook’s legally actionable accusation Should I also sue Jezebel for the things they said about me? Update on losing my hearing, sense of smell, sense of taste, wicked allergies, asthma

Rough Transcript

This is an auto-generated transcript and may contain errors.

Transcript

[0:08]

I’m pumpin pumpin hey everybody come on in here it’s gonna be the best morning you’ve ever had coffee with Scott Adams that’s me and you’re here for the simultaneous f-plus all of the content which is gonna be good today so there are two parts of today’s periscope there’s the amazing part in the front that I’m going to tell you about in a moment and then there’s in it the incredible part that comes after that I don’t know which one’s better the amazing part of the incredible party you’re gonna have to decide for yourself but if my technology works the way I hope we’re going to be talking to China expert Brian Kennedy I’ll be reintroducing him in a bit but before I do that before I do that we have to have the simultaneous it yes we do and it goes like this all you need is a cup or a mug your glasses tying the cello a tank or a thermos a flask you can Tina Grail a goblet a

[1:08]

flask you can Tina Grail a goblet a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the simultaneous SEP the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better go oh just right I’m gonna put that back in the coffee warmer and let me just check on my guests to make sure he’s ready is I’m gonna fire him up and then give that introduction do do to to to Brian can you hear me are you Brian you are president of the American Strategy Group a think-tank dedicated to understanding the strategic threats to the United States also a board member and senior fellow of the Claremont Institute to where you have been president for several years in Prior and during your many years there

[2:10]

Prior and during your many years there you’ve directed Golden State Center in Sacramento well you’ve got a lot of accomplishments here let me get the highlights yeah like a whole page of stuff you’ve done and it’s pretty impressive but the parts that people here will care about is that you’re the chairman of the committee on the present danger China founded in March 2019 and also you were national security surrogate for Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016 did I miss anything that would be important to our listeners to understand who you are no I think you got that pretty well covered and we’re going to talk about China and I don’t know that anybody in this country has a good understanding of what’s going on over there so I’m hoping you’ll help us penetrate and let me start with this general question that I think you can you can take and run with what is it that you think the American public needs to understand about China

[3:12]

public needs to understand about China then maybe they don’t catch in the news or they their understanding is incomplete what are the important things we need to know in a geopolitical sense well that’s a that’s a great question to start off and let me first say Scott what a great pleasure it is to be with you because you’re you’re a great national treasure and I think your way of your way of thinking about the world has done more good in these last couple years than almost anything else but enough of that China is one of those strategic concerns of the United States that most people don’t quite comprehend partly because they think we won the Cold War back in the 90s we’ve been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and China they’re a new problem they’re a new kind of serious threat I thought we trade with China we buy stuff everybody knows Chinese people they don’t seem like bad people they seem like good people they’re our

[4:13]

seem like good people they’re our neighbors they’re our friends they are yeah they are yeah absolutely and so when we encounter Chinese people there it’s typically in a pretty favorable transaction so it’s hard for Americans to get their minds wrapped around that there is this country of 1.4 billion people half world away that is causing us all these problems but of course president Trump ran on trying to make better trade deals with China he didn’t talk about them as a strategic threat but just at the level of better trade deals President Trump made at the case to the American people that in fact a lot of our economic downturn stagnation whatever you want to call it for the middle class of the country has been caused by these bad trade deals with China they’ve they’ve taken our manufacturing they’ve stolen our intellectual property and most Americans are only now I think getting their minds wrapped around that that narrative of the president well can you help us

[5:14]

the president well can you help us understand how much is just the Chinese are good at competing and they’re taking the the board as it was presented to them and they’re just maximizing yet exactly like we would have and versus something deeper and darker or what what why should we assume about their intentions well at the level of there’s two two points here one is intellectual property theft the Chinese are experts at either hacking into our systems and going in and stealing our intellectual property or simply taking something that America’s made reverse engineering it or more easily simply working with somebody in the company or the company itself to have a forced technology transfer say if you want to come come to China we have to have you know a patent on this too or we have to be co-owners of all this now I might I might need to break

[6:17]

this now I might I might need to break in a moment just for some clarification sure don’t mind my audience always yells at me when I interrupt anybody who’s an expert because they say you’re not an expert let le’Bryan talk you know they’re gonna say that but let me just understand this in context an American an American tech company would probably routinely get a hold of a competitor’s product and reverse-engineer it if they thought there was some advantage they were trying to figure out so if China does it in just the reverse engineering sense isn’t that completely normal well in America if you look at if Google looks at what Apple’s doing or vice versa and Apple you know says wait they’ve stolen something we’ve done then they take them to court in China when you steal someone’s intellect you know if they steal the intellectual property what’s the recourse it’s very hard for that American company to go to a Chinese Court and say wait a minute you’ve

[7:18]

Court and say wait a minute you’ve stolen you’ve stolen what we’ve created here and the Chinese say no of course not we’ve not stolen anything in fact in these trade negotiations Chinese say what intellectual property theft in their mind it’s just good business that they can steal something they think that’s just how the game is played no apparently in America we would sue now now literally I want to understand this as specifically as possible if we were to talk to a bunch of see Chinese CEOs you know let’s say tech CEOs and we said you know it’s bad business practice and spade for the world and you shouldn’t be stealing other people’s technology would they look like look at you like they didn’t even understand the point I mean do they even get the point that there’s a there’s a long-term business benefit in dealing with people squarely versus just taking every advantage you could get is there a difference in the culture in terms of not understanding the long-term advantage of trust and

[8:20]

long-term advantage of trust and building partnerships versus well I well if you left it on the table I can just pick it up like yeah no I told me about yeah yeah no I think that’s a great point too I think in part they think that’s just how the game is played it’s often said about Chinese business deals in American business deals first of all you know do you want to sell something and I want to buy something if you sell it for $1andIwanttobuyitfor$1 and it’s something I want that’s a good transaction in China it’s thought that a good transactions one where that the Chinese are able to screw you to be blunt you know that’s a fun way of thinking but now do they apply the same thinking locally in other words when two Chinese companies are doing business do they ever think in terms of well I want a win-win situation here because I I want other people to you know trust me and work with me and I want everybody to win because in the long term that’s better for everybody or do they also say no if I if I got one over on you that’s

[9:20]

no if I if I got one over on you that’s that’s a good day for me well in all the writings about culturally about Chinese business it’s the latter if they can get away with it they will it’s not that they’re not forced very often to play fair but it’s usually even on the local level it’s two it’s two competitors forcing one each other to play fair and have you ever looked into the historical cultural reason for that difference I was reading this book called what is that American Nations something like that it was talking about how our early business ethics if you will I think came from the Dutch so that the Dutch had sort of will deal with anybody it just has to be fair you know everybody’s playing fair doesn’t matter who you are we’ll deal with you but it just has to be fair and I feel like that came from some sort of a Christian influence do you think that there’s something in the Christian influence of Western business even if you’re not a Christian you’re still influenced by that that ethical standard

[10:22]

influenced by that that ethical standard do you think that just as lacking in China because there’s not a religious kind of God’s watching situation well perhaps I certainly can see in America why that made sense to what you’re what you’re describing in China I don’t want to assign them that so much as they’ve not really lived under the rule of law and constitutional government the way we have to where we automatically think in terms today of law and order I just in terms of where it comes from China has been living under a certain form of warlordism for thousands of years to where it’s all it’s all strength against strength bone competition but where does the the concept of family honor or personal honor come in because it seems to me it would be dishonorable this is my Western brain right dishonorable to

[11:24]

my Western brain right dishonorable to to screw somebody in a business deal when they would know it it would come back and haunt you and people would say oh this this guy screws people in business deals how it how is that not sort of a source of shame yeah I think it’s partly that’s just the way the cookie crumbles to mix maybe mixed metaphors they do have individual honor certainly but I do think they separate individual behavior from business behavior and they think business more like they think of war whether it’s internally or externally and businesses like war and all is fair in war and so they that that that goes beyond any kind of personal honor they may have now and I’m assuming that the big problem is that their government has these same set of philosophies or ethics and so tell us

[12:28]

of philosophies or ethics and so tell us about China’s government’s intentions in the long run about the United States what do you know about that well right now I’m chairing the committee on the present danger China and we’ve had several hearings and we’ve had a lot of experts talk about what the intent of Chinese are it’s primarily to put China on top of the world as the hegemonic power that doesn’t mean China’s going to invade the United States and we’re all going to speak speaking Chinese in a generation what it does mean is that China’s in the process of building their economy into the most powerful in the world their military into the most preeminent power in the world than that they still take some time but they’re going to take whatever steps are necessary to get there right now is is that just a natural extension of businesses war and we’re going to take everything we can get we’re the

[13:28]

take everything we can get we’re the biggest country we’ll have the most money someday it’s just our natural place to be in charge of things yes yes philosophically they see themselves as the Middle Kingdom meaning you know the Kingdom between heaven and earth and so they see themselves as you know Chairman Mao had a he would read up you know books of philosophy and there was one particular story about you cannot have two suns in the sky and that was that had a profound impact on him you can’t have two suns in the sky there was going to be one son and that one son was going to be China and so they think of themselves in a in a very profound way America doesn’t mean we happen to be the most powerful country in the world and the richest but that doesn’t mean we’re the biggest and there’s a lot of indicators against us at this moment China has a long term view that they’re going to be that preeminent power now do

[14:29]

going to be that preeminent power now do does the United States not also want to be the most influential country and stay that way I mean it because it sounds like what they want is pretty similar to what we want wouldn’t wouldn’t we want to have enough control over the Middle East wouldn’t wouldn’t we want to be able to get the trade deals we want I mean if we could get deals that were better for us than them wouldn’t we take it it maybe yes maybe no right now we have a whole bunch of environmental policies just to take one example that that disadvantage us with regards to China China has all sorts of trade laws you know China has access before President Trump to any US market or almost in a US market the United States did not have a similar access now why didn’t why weren’t US leaders before Trump pressing for United States to have that advantage because we thought we want China to

[15:32]

because we thought we want China to develop we want other countries to develop and so we’re not going to do everything in our power to keep all this manufacturing and wealth here we’re going to be willing to export it somewhere else and that’s been the globalist philosophy I think for the better part of 50 years hasn’t but but I think everybody would agree that there always had to be a time when China got strong enough that that situation would have to be readjusted so that this is the readjustment period right right yeah this is the readjustment period and so this is like you’re right in that regard you’re certainly right that you know America wants to be on top but we haven’t pursued the policies that would keep us on top until so yeah so what do you think is gonna come out of the trade deal and do you think we should decoupled I can deal well I mean it’d be perfectly fine to do both in a 180 couple safety couple well I’m certainly

[16:32]

couple safety couple well I’m certainly I’m certainly for decoupling because I do think we can do all this manufacturing in the United States and I think I think I think it’s irresponsible by the way to have our electronics especially those we use in the military but even those we used in use in everyday you know telecom equipment made in China that that seems that seems in like just a silly proposition given the facts about their theft of intellectual property so let me let me give you some hypotheticals here just just so I can understand you know the this how the smart people think about let’s say and I’m not saying this could ever happen let’s say China made some kind of a promise about intellectual property that had a little bit of teeth in it I don’t even know if that’s possible but let’s say what they could if that problem were solved or even if we said to help out we just take technology out of it and we’re not gonna make that there but everything else is still in play could we make a deal if we could solve the IP stuff which I don’t

[17:34]

could solve the IP stuff which I don’t know if could be solved if we if we could make that deal and we had access to their markets yes absolutely we can make a deal the problem is the problem is they say they’re don’t steal IP they say that we don’t steal it that’s a problem and they’re not going to allow any kind of enforcement regime that actually holds them to account they’ve said as much so why are we even talking to them what what what is honestly what’s the point well can you tell me is what smart person is saying okay we can still work with this they they say that no matter what we do they’re gonna reach into our body cavity rip our hearts out and show it to us before we die but I like all the rest of this stuff so I think that still looks good well except for that one part where they reach their systems of our chests rip and our heart and show it to us before they die is that what’s happening is there somebody on the on the team that says yeah we can make this

[18:35]

the team that says yeah we can make this happening even though the IP part can never happen anybody on that ship I look I think president Trump put secretary maneechan and Robert light hyzer ambassador Locke my eyes are on the job to see if that’s actually possible and so the president didn’t want to arbitrarily say what you just said that this is hopeless he wanted to make the case that I’m gonna give it my best shot - oh she ate something if at the end of the day they’re not willing to have a kind of acknowledgment and enforcement regime then when I walk away from this everyone can nod their head on Wall Street by the way Wall Street someone pushing for the trade deal because they want they want to status quo you know before Trump but someone is trying to make the case that in fact a deal can be made I don’t think it actually can be made but he president Trump’s giving it his best shot do you think our government and I almost don’t

[19:36]

think our government and I almost don’t want to ask this question because I think you might know the answer and if it’s the wrong answer I’m just gonna flip out I swear to god I’m gonna flip out do you think our government would ever make a deal with China of any kind of trade deal before their top fentanyl dealer whose name we know the address is known I think 60 minutes interviewed him while that guy’s still a free man are we gonna make a deal with China under that condition if President Trump understands that the answer is absolutely no thank you you on the other on the other hand a lot of things get presented to President Trump and he doesn’t you know look he he has to delegate a lot of this to other people but the fentanyl thing is so simple it seems so cut and dry no those Kemsley chemical water biological warfare against the United States it’s crazy right but it’s it’s ambiguously easy to identify whether China is acting against it because that

[20:37]

China is acting against it because that guy is either alive or dead we know his name we know his face we know his address and we know China knows it we know the guy the specific guy who’s killing tens of thousands of Americans if that guy’s alive I can’t imagine the president a wouldn’t understand that concept he’d energy he would ever put us into a trade deal with mass murderers I just don’t see any any way they’re anything but decoupling is going to happen here if I had to place a bet on decoupling how good about would it be I think it’s probably a by my own judgment today would be an 8020 that wasn’t I feel up that we’re gonna temple again you know from from China simply because their their rhetoric has not aged in fact has become more strident they have the the anniversary be up their original coming up on October 1st they see Trump you know having to run

[21:37]

they see Trump you know having to run real circumstances so they’re gonna their best or not gonna they’re not gonna make deal now if they can wait and make a trade deal possibly with Elizabeth Warren what oh my god what what is it that China can do that India can’t do and and is there anything stopping us from saying look we tried China but now India is our best friend watch what we do together because obviously Modi and and Trump get along pretty well oh look I think India is very advanced country and I don’t see why there’s anything I think you’re right we should be doing business with India and other people around the world there’s no reason I should be locking all this you know technological manufacturing and if you know look if China wants to compete they can compete but they have to do it fairly and openly and right now they’re

[22:39]

fairly and openly and right now they’re not willing to do that they think they can bully their way through almost anything now let’s talk about there we Gers the the ethnic minority they’re Islamic and they’re being rounded up I saw the video Kyle bass at it do you know if that do you have a sense of what that video was real news or fake news a showed it showed I don’t know hundreds of weekers lined up and handcuffed and you know sitting there with things over their heads and stuff by the Chinese government do you think that was a real real video you know I don’t know I’ve not gotten any confirmation one way or the other so I do know right but we see what they’re doing in Hong Kong if that’s a parallel right and so I can imagine they’re doing that to the weekers the weavers they like even less than the people of Hong Kong who are who are ethnically Chinese so I couldn’t map

[23:39]

are ethnically Chinese so I couldn’t map Weaver’s very badly yeah so that is that is look I think at some level they want people to see just how violent they are they want people to see that they’re willing to do anything a lot of people in the West that will scare them and so if you scaring the West as well that’s a benefit to them yeah you wrote a great article on that where where can people find that I think that was on the hill calm but I think it’s also present danger China don’t work crisis in China Dollard so so your view is that China gets a twofer with Hong Kong one is one is that if they prevailed and I believe they will in the long run because they have you know the long long view of things it will first of all give them more control that they want but it also shows the world a you know there there’s not a line we’re not willing to cross so

[24:40]

not a line we’re not willing to cross so make sure that you make sure you’re nice to us is that that’s the basic idea that’s the basic idea I mean there in America we have a motion to violence we don’t like violence and we’re willing to do internally almost anything to avoid it so when the other countries engage in that kind of violence we’re you know we take a step back now again not president talking about the liberal media and it almost operates at a subconscious low whatever we can do to make them happy maybe they’ll stop hurting their own people so they’re almost keeping part of their people as hostages and they’re top there top got hurt look they know how to invade one point four billion people into doing what they want that’s the height height of sophistication so can you give us a little summary of what the average was a middle class and higher

[25:41]

average was a middle class and higher Chinese citizen can or does see on the Internet in other words how much of the the external truth are they saying versus just China’s version of truth I think they’re mostly not truth I think there are there are times in which two people can convey all the cells of the truth mostly through Western contact but by and large it’s exactly what the government wants them to see and also though they know they live a kind of electron surveillance and the real credit scoring and study in China in the middle class and you’re doing okay you have you know I don’t know wipe a kid a job car a house are you gonna risk that in China for trying to you know illegally hack you know get your way into and access weather and information

[26:42]

into and access weather and information that your own government maybe beat her on it and I think she knows how how many Chinese actual Chinese citizens are going to college in the United States do you have an estimate for that I think right now it’s about 50,000 almost almost 60 I think and would it be fair to say that those people are getting a full taste of non China propaganda or are they also may be surveilled by China so that they can’t even do a Google search without shine and knowing that do you do you have a sense of how track they are when they’re in this country you know well it’s it’s hard to do all that they certainly can’t it certainly can be tracked whether whether China would expend resources on that they certainly have the resources to to

[27:42]

certainly have the resources to to monitor those Chinese nationals who are in this country but I can’t again once they’re sent here they’re part of the Chinese elite and those folks who sell regulate to a large degree because they want to go back home to China and be part of the Chinese elite but I I get what you’re saying about self regulating and certainly their self-interest is let’s just go back to China and live live migrate life but they would still be infected with a set of knowledge that would not be common to the Chinese people and it feels like that would seep out out absolutely well let me ask you this are we better off or worse off because we host so many Chinese students in our universities are we sending them back with like a little freedom virus that maybe they don’t even know they have but time goes by and you’re like you know I saw how America does it and I’m just not

[28:43]

saw how America does it and I’m just not going to put up with this anymore are we winning or losing by educating their elite yeah probably unfortunately we’re losing because we’re exporting a knowledge base that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to easily acquire and they’re taking that back and making data communism is digitally the lives those people I’m not saying it’s a total waste I can I mean what when I’m on the board of Catholic High School for instance and we have 30 kids from China and two of them you know heard the story recently two of them FaceTime their parents it’s an all-boys school for 17 years old they in they’re preparing both these boys tell they’re fun and they’re I’ve told them in the back and it’s which time is 17 years

[29:46]

back and it’s which time is 17 years that had ever happened that both sides that’s it but I love you know I like that what I find that mind-blowing that never instead what your son it father said about theirs after being in America at a Catholic over three years that made an infection what whatever you want to say but so what would you think of this idea suppose we said a China we’re going to send back one student for every fence and all death in this country do whatever you want that that’s just our new system we’re gonna we’re just gonna pick one send them home and there are 50,000 of them here so that should take a little over two years to get rid of

[30:46]

a little over two years to get rid of every Chinese student how long would it take in other words I’m asking how important is it to China that they can get education here how long would it take before the elite said wait a minute my kid can’t get the finest education because we’re killing their citizens I mean do we really need to do that I’d like my kid to get an education how long would it take before that would change minds over there or would it it would probably change it immediately the elite is very very much to one well I think really very much the elites very much want their children educated they want the expose the Western Western you know wealth and education the genius of my idea is that they would know exactly why their kid got kicked out and they’re gonna make a big stink about it and and so we would be weaponizing one person after another one set of parents after another in the elite to go back to their other lead and say you know maybe

[31:47]

their other lead and say you know maybe this isn’t gonna work out just the way we want I like the part where we kill Americans but I don’t like the part where my kid can’t go to college there yes I think that out there I know I think I do you know I noticed some people saying they can take the hammer very well read so if you’ve seen my periscopes you know that they say that all the time they’re too to think and hear me yeah I can hear you fine and then the replay and the replay is usually fine some people have problems on their end with their connection and then they start complaining and some of those trolls just saying the sound is bad they’re trying to just interrupt their the program so I’ve got a number of other topics but I want to give you as much time as you want to get your message out because I think it’s important and people don’t hear from from this well what should I have asked about China what’s what’s a theme that you’d really like to make sure we

[32:48]

you’d really like to make sure we understand well I think the the neck phase of this whole trade debate is going to be around the fact that China defaulted on their sovereign debt and that President Trump right from the opening of their markets and in theft of intellectual property I think one of the big things coming up is going to be the fact that China defaulted on their sovereign debt and it’s a lot owed define sovereign debt in this context for the audience because I don’t think they understand this is a historical different government system debt right yes yes that and I cannot buy a century early in the last century when they had their revolution from the from maybe Czech Republic

[33:49]

maybe bonds the way the US government has u.s. Treasury bonds Dinah had China bonds and they went and they raised Lily’s Italian revolution or consolidate their revolution and for China to become the country to detect even the bow going from a republic communist government well they owe with the quit paintings but again I don’t get too deep in the weeds here other than to say China global system where they they engage in trade are only now let me let me go with a present then we can jump it back right now China is talking about coming to wall street over the next five years and having new sovereign debt and debt of their state-owned enterprises for between one two trillion dollars over the next five years

[34:49]

the next five years no fricking way unless they pay off the debt they already have right and you would think before they that they pay off the debt that they previously do now they paid the British but he’s bummed because Thatcher stood up to them and they were negotiating Hong Kong and about other things but now they want they will back to American camera its morrocoy sauce they haven’t made good on this instead knows about it inhibited benefit I think the city is all set over that honey that twenty twenty thousand leaves and I think forty-six states own and the American people money can’t get in you interrupt you the the audience is going nuts let me say the audience I’m not going to reboot there’s nothing I can do about it I know you’re having a little crackling with the sound you don’t have to all tell us

[35:52]

the sound you don’t have to all tell us yeah a few of you told a few of us it’ll fill this up now I understand all right so the sovereign debt in other words these are bonds would you tell them are they boss yes yes they’re bonds so I’m I’ve pushed the idea that China likes their social credit scoring system but they might like less if we created and I mean literally created some kind of a business credit scoring system and and score them you know on unworthy of business because you’ve got your debt that they won’t pay you’ve got your China deal that they’re trying to abrogate you’ve got the stealing of the IP you’ve got the defense at all etc and I think you could just make a checklist and say if anybody if anybody’s you know got five of the things on this checklist they’re not credit worthy just and just just make it a banking issue because banks are completely risk management objective

[36:53]

completely risk management objective it’s not political just risk management you think in a rash in the world that’s exactly it would work you know it picked to select bulk that would be up on it any Nessman house would have to show Daniel investor write his Wall Street powerful lobby be upon of China is all Street be firm’s Goldman Sachs’s of olden in the Morgan Stanley’s that are going to be there selling this debt to investors and making the Commission on all these debts Wall Street has no interest in highlighting all defects to either the American people or specifically to the investors with whom they want to support they want to tell this debt well well maybe there’s some solution where the investors and the public says well I don’t want to deal with a Wall Street company that would take such a bad loan on because why

[37:54]

take such a bad loan on because why would I invest in that company there they’ve got troubles Brian I’m going to move on to another topic I think the big stuff do you feel like we I if you feel like we get the big stuff dude and thank you so much where could we find you on twitter let’s say beyond the present danger china da to work and then the twitter handle is at bride trap kennedy bri t Rav Kennedy all right at Bri TR AV e RI t Rav can identity alright so follow him on Twitter I’m going to disconnect you now Brian and go on to some other stuff and thank you so much that was really Scott it I think they got it appreciate thank you Scott you thanks all right that was terrific great great context I got a few other things remember I told you the first part would be amazing and

[38:55]

you the first part would be amazing and then I told you the second part would be incredible well we’re in the second part now how lucky you are let’s talk about a few things number one if I ever have a nemesis you know like a like a proper nemesis I want it to be Jerry Nadler can you think of a better name assess that guy just reeks incompetence and loser and I have you ever seen anybody who just says I’m the penguin and you’re Batman more than Jerry meant Nadler I mean I would actually feel like Batman if Jerry Nadler were my nemesis and I think it also has to be said that Nancy Pelosi has been replaced by the wax museum version of Nancy Pelosi but she has she has recently announced something like an

[39:56]

has recently announced something like an impeachment but it’s not an impeachment it uses the same words but it’s different and I was wondering how Pelosi could could make it work that part of the Democrats wanted peach meant but it’s the worst idea ever so what do you do well apparently she found a solution where she can tell the people she’s doing impeachment and then go do something that’s not impeachment because it’s like looking into the process of becoming maybe something that could be impeachment that maybe we would vote on later and AOC is like yeah ah I got impeachment wait what’s the Pietschmann means I thought that meant that the the house gets the vote on it no it just means that some of you are talking about maybe doing something oh okay well let’s call it an impeachment because as long as it’s bad for the president it’s all good it’s all good

[40:58]

I heard that donations to Trump went up and I have to say it might have been the first time in memory that I could think of I was actually inspired to donate money now I didn’t do it because same for the same reason I don’t vote as soon as you vote or donate money you become committed and then it’s hard to be objective at all so I try not to do those things but I was certainly I felt it like I could feel the I could feel the tug and it wasn’t because it was merely a take a sighs you know this is good for trauma this is bad for the other team it wasn’t that at all it was the idea that the government would weaponize impeachment I think you have to be punished for trying to weaponize impeachment for political games and I don’t think anybody’s looking at this at least anybody I think the Republicans are not looking at this and saying oh yeah they got good reasons to a peach I mean it looks like it’s political

[42:02]

mean it looks like it’s political to all the smart people now the people who think you should be impeached may think may also think you should be impeached but even they know that whatever the heck it is that Pelosi is doing is political and I don’t think impeachment was meant to be a political tool and so the ultimate bosses of the process are the voters and we voters can vote in two different ways by giving money well three ways if you if you count speaking out in public and then voting so I got a feeling that the citizens of this country who have some respect for the of the Constitution are gonna say you know that wasn’t exactly what we had in mind with impeachment maybe we should punish you a little bit with our votes and our money so somebody said on the comments here the transcript is out tell me in the comments since I can’t look at it is anybody saying there are any

[43:02]

it is anybody saying there are any surprises in there any any surprises I doubt there would or wouldn’t he wouldn’t have announced it uh let’s uh let’s put a pin in that because we did too here let’s see what the transcript says to catch up with that story alright here’s an idea that’s like the scariest thing you’ve seen I I mentioned it before when I was referencing a tweet by a novel and he mentioned the panopticon’s panopticon is a building where somebody can observe you but you can’t observe the people who are observing it’s a one way observation and the idea is that we the citizens are the ones who are being observed and the observers are intelligence groups and we can’t see them observing us they can only see us and that that’s a bad situation because it’s unequal right somebody is observing but you can’t observe them back and this thought comes

[44:02]

observe them back and this thought comes from a Twitter user and Sylla you could find her at @n as a neighbor see I ll a and she talks about this a lot sort of a primary topic so if this interests you you would want to follow her at n c IL a to LS l la and the thing about this thought this this this came from her anyone that’s born now gets all of their blackface or anything else whatever else you’ve done bad in your past registered by the the watchers and it can be used against you later if you ever run for office think about this the people watching the intelligence people can watch anybody if you start emerging let’s say you’re a OC do you think our intelligence agencies are watching a OC and monitoring or one way or another

[45:06]

and monitoring or one way or another probably in some way or another i believe that anybody who seems to be rising and gaining political power could be because we saw it happen with trump I imagine it happens with there’s there are ways to watch them without breaking any laws for example you could say you’re watching somebody else and well they were on the phone call - that’s what we do when if they call a foreign leader you can listen it so there are probably a number of little clever ways that they can kind of find out what you’re up to you find out your deepest problems and here’s the problem if the intelligence agencies have blackmail information on everyone who runs for office who’s in charge of the country not the people who get elected and that’s sort of our situation we have become a panopticon where the the Trump situation clearly shows you that the intelligence people can find a reason to

[46:08]

intelligence people can find a reason to watch you if they want to and they want to if they’re watching they can effectively blackmail a hundred percent of candidates because everybody’s got something you know even if it’s just embarrassing it might not be a broken law and doesn’t that effectively put us already like right now today we don’t have to I’m not I’m not worrying about the future I’m talking about right now doesn’t this mean the intelligence agencies are in charge and I say not as long as Trump is president there is something about Trump that makes him uniquely immune from I don’t know everything yeah I can’t imagine another candidate who would have survived anything the Trump is accused of anything absolutely anything there’s nothing he’s been accused of that anybody else could have survived I

[47:08]

that anybody else could have survived I don’t know how he does it well I sort of do know how he does it I mean in a general sense he’s he’s got a unique situation one part that’s unique is that he’s been transparent forever about not being an angel and having some skeletons so when people find some skeletons they say hey you’ve got a skeleton and he says I told you that you elected me anyway and then you go okay that’s not a bad point so the people who elected Trump seemed to be completely clear eyed that they were getting they were getting a street fighter not an angel and that’s what they chose enough of them chose it chose him to become president so I think he might be and I’ve said this before the last legitimate president I think Trump might be the last legitimate president because nobody else could handle the

[48:10]

because nobody else could handle the blackmail and anybody else who’s just gonna cave and like ah it’s just easier to do what you want yeah I don’t need that trouble that’s just easier to do what you want so that’s the situation we’re in our republic has been lost to the intelligence agencies we won’t know it until the next president whenever that comes four years six years eight years all right let me give you an update on CBS so I went on our angry rants yesterday I was CBS the big drug store around here that they would give me literally this is not a joke a six-foot-long receipt with lots of text and offers that are too hard to use and then I complained to them and they said oh you just have to ask the cashier and she’ll put you on a digital receipt and that I complained that that process would require me to get an email and according to the cashier out I would

[49:11]

according to the cashier out I would click on a link and I would have to connect my shopping experience and receipt from the email to my account and then I could get discounts in a digital way and I said to myself well that’s great but I still hate you for not telling me that there was an easier way there was so easy I just went into the cashier and said put me on the digital receipt and she did probably took out ten seconds she just pushed a button say okay you got digital receipt now and I thought really nobody told me I could just do this but here’s where it kind of fell apart so I get my first email and I say to myself let me see how easy it is to do this step which they insert unnecessary step where I have to click something to connect it to my account the obvious reason that you have to do the extra step is so you will not do it meaning it’s one extra piece of friction

[50:11]

meaning it’s one extra piece of friction that you might forget you think the email is a spam you say is CBS is sending me offers I don’t know so it’s obviously designed obviously designed to screw the customer obviously and if that’s not obvious to you consider the fact that when you click on your receipt to connect it to your account it already knows it can do that it knows who you are are does it sent you the receipt it sent you the receipt because it knew which account you’re you’re which customer account you’re part of it didn’t need you to click it you did not need to click it they have both databases and you click it and they put them together why do I have to click it because they want me not to click it right alright so that was my starting point from yesterday so I get my email and I go ok I’m gonna see how this process works and look for the part where you click it it’s not there there’s nothing to click

[51:13]

it’s not there there’s nothing to click or if it is I couldn’t find it so now this came from the like the customer the customer what a response person who responded to my complaint so she gave me the easier the use of your way to do it and it doesn’t even exist or if it does exist I couldn’t find it I read the whole email I don’t see it so it’s either intentionally hidden in the email or a doesn’t exist so now I don’t have a paper receipt which I could use in conveniently I could use that to get a discount now I never will get those unless I change it back now I get a digital one that I can’t use in any way way all CBS this is the worst customers experience of all time I hope somebody as CBS sees this because you have to know I’ve never seen on any company in any way you know other than

[52:15]

company in any way you know other than maybe company that won’t return your your call at all or something I’ve never seen a more despicable unethical blatantly abusive process than than that it’s it’s it’s beyond its almost unimaginably despicable alright let me give you a little update my story you might be following it involves my internet conversation with a fellow who used to work at Gawker yeah he used to work at Gawker but now he doesn’t work at Gawker his name is John Cook and he listed his profile that he’s the investigations editor at Business Insider former executive editor of Gawker Media and editor-in-chief of the intercept so in other words he’s a news person he is a news person that’s important to the story he tweeted at me this was a reference to the Jake Tapper

[53:16]

this was a reference to the Jake Tapper is drawing my comic Dilbert this week and that will go to charity for homes homes for our troops and if you see my pinned tweet you’ll know how to get there if you want to participate in the auction to buy that anyway a lot of bad people weighed in to to explain why they were so unhappy that Jake Tapper would be working with somebody as bad as me now of course conservatives weighed in and said Scott why are you working with somebody as bad as Jake Tapper so we both we both got a good dose of it but John Cook of Gawker oh and have I ever mentioned that Gawker was my nemesis and that they ran many completely fake news pieces about me I don’t know how many but a few so this person acts of goth Gawker he tweets this and he’s tweeting it too I think that he use tweeting it to Jake

[54:19]

think that he use tweeting it to Jake where at least it was part of Jake’s Twitter comments so John Cook says it is extremely wild to see the Louis Farrakhan policer so he’s calling Jake Tapper in Lewis Farrakhan policer because Jake called out Louis Farrakhan for anti-semitic stuff all right so that would make him the Louis Farrakhan policeman so he says that it’s extremely wild to see the Louis Farrakhan and policer teaming up with Scott Adams who is basically the Louis Farrakhan of insel white nationalists but hey it’s for the troops now I said I commented back to John Cook and I quote no wonder your piece of Gawker publication got his balls cut off my lawyers will be contacting you now immediately the the with the trolls rushed in to say Scott Scott Scott you don’t know anything

[55:20]

Scott Scott you don’t know anything about the law because the law says people can insult you in public that’s not illegal is it well I’m going to give you my court case I’m gonna give you my legal case now you’re probably gonna say Scott Scott Scott don’t embarrass yourself you’re not a lawyer don’t act like you’re smarter than lawyer lawyers will tell you there is no case here Scott Scott Scott but let me make my case anyway um ladies and gentlemen of the jury I present the following argument this statement that I am basically the louis farrakhan of insel white nationalists has within it a joke but also a statement effect the joke part is

[56:21]

also a statement effect the joke part is that I’m the Louis Farrakhan of insel so that the first part pretty funny I’m okay with a good joke a good analogy that makes makes at least is you know just because it’s not funny to me I’m not the guy who says humor is objective I think this would be pretty funny to the people who would read his tweets so I’m gonna say it’s pretty good you know he made this Louis Farrakhan analogy and I’m thinking his people probably liked it so as a joke well done but here’s the thing jokes can also include statements of facts if something’s a joke it doesn’t mean that everything in it is intended not to be true in fact your best jokes are based on something true have you ever tried to write a joke about a person and say something that wasn’t at least based on something true or something you believe to be true

[57:21]

or something you believe to be true it’s hard to do jokes don’t work as well it’s kind of rare unless there’s some kernel of truth to them and then the joke just sort of built around the truth so let me read you this sentence again and let me tell you what part is the truth part meaning the alleged truth not the actual truth so what he says I’m the Lewis basically the Louis Farrakhan of insel white nationalist if you were to hear from a credentialed editor-in-chief and journalist of news organizations let’s say Business Insider let’s say he was at the Loza use the editor-in-chief of the intercept if that person says that I’m a white nationalist do you say well that’s that’s obviously hyperbole well ladies and gentlemen of the jury let me let me suggest this had he called me a Nazi I

[58:24]

suggest this had he called me a Nazi I believe everybody reading it would have said it’s the internet everybody is a Nazi on the Internet doesn’t mean a thing would we agree ladies and gentlemen of the jury they had he called me a Nazi there would be nothing to talk about we’re a great right suppose he had said I’m a racist and it’s not true just like I’m not a Nazi would would that be legally actionable if he called me a racist you because he’s a journalist remember no it would not because journalists call people racist all the time all the time and people who read it I would say generally any normal person would say yeah everybody’s calling everybody racist you know there’s probably nobody in public life who hasn’t been called a racist it sort of comes with it so we would agree would we not ladies and gentlemen of the jury there had he called me a racist that would be nothing the legal system would care about had he called me a Nazi

[59:27]

would care about had he called me a Nazi everybody would have known that was hyperbole but suppose someone who works for news organizations business insider for example or the intercept for example and has a high-level job such as an editor-in-chief now an editor-in-chief is going to be pretty careful about facts and if somebody calls you a white nationalist isn’t that a little bit more specific and isn’t that kind of different when you hear it then racist a Nazi that are obviously just hyperbole so the joke part is that on the louis farrakhan of himself that’s the joke part and I acknowledge that it’s kind of funny for for his followers but when he says white nationalists do you think that the average citizen would see that as untrue well ladies and gentlemen of the jury I

[1:00:29]

well ladies and gentlemen of the jury I ran a poll so I actually pulled a hundred people I paid for this poll and I have it in my hands and it shows that 63% of the people polled would have assumed that because this came from a journalist that they get the joke part the Louis Farrakhan part but they would reasonably assume that the white nationalist part was fact and then I asked them if I said he if he had said I was a Nazi would you assume that was a fact and it came in a zero-zero people would think nazi was real but 63% in my poll and I’ll present this as Exhibit A said yeah if if somebody who’s actually a journalist said you were a white nationalist I’d probably think there’s something to that now ladies and gentlemen of the jury I have not taken that poll but you know

[1:01:31]

have not taken that poll but you know damn well I could and you know how it would turn out maybe it would be 63% maybe it would be 38% maybe it would be 20% still actionable now other people said what is the what is the definition of definition I think I wrote that down somewhere bump bump bump no that would be terrible if I didn’t write that down but let me tell you and somebody on Twitter who’s a lawyer I guess said oh that all run into the run into the case of the New York Times versus Sullivan 1964 so I guess in that New York Times versus Sullivan it was decided that people insulting or saying things about

[1:02:31]

people insulting or saying things about public figures are not going to have the same treatment as if it was private citizens and saying something about each other so if you’re if you’re an elected politician and the news business says something about you that’s untrue you’ve got a real tough case but I’m not in the news business I’m not I’m sorry I’m not a elected official I would be more in the category of something called a public figure you didn’t elect me right had you elected me I could say nothing about this comment I would agree with you if I were an elected official and somebody said I was the Louis Farrakhan of Insull white nationalist I wouldn’t have any case I’m an elected official and probably that was settled pretty much in that court case there’s a but but that decision lets them let’s allows that you could still be liable to public figures like me so

[1:03:32]

be liable to public figures like me so if I were a political figure I wouldn’t have much to go on but I’m not not only am i a public figure but I have a unique quality to my career the unique quality to my career is that I’m a brand as well as a person that’s not true to most people right I am basically the Dilbert brand right that’s different so I’m a political person who’s not like I’m not you know I’m not the gardener and I’m not saying that a you know putting down gardeners because I love gardeners I’m just saying that a gardener would not stand much to lose if somebody tweeted at them that they were a white nationalist because they’d be like yeah I don’t even know anybody who’s gonna read that tweet I am an at lawn mowing business whether somebody on Twitter called me a bad name and I just I

[1:04:33]

called me a bad name and I just I couldn’t prove any financial loss but if you were a brand and somebody puts on the Internet you’re a white nationalist and then that is can be demonstrated that has been tweeted and viewed by thousands of people which would be easy to demonstrate you could also demonstrate that it’s obvious that any brand in the United States would be injured and badly by being branded as a white nationalist that would be an easy case so ladies and gentlemen of the press I give you this I am NOT a political figure and I’m not not bound by those more strict rules I love those strict rules they should be strict keep them strict because we don’t want politicians suing newspapers every day for for insults that’s great but if you are a private citizen ladies and gentlemen of the jury and your personal reputation was connected to your brand and somebody on the internet who as a journalist not a regular citizen

[1:05:34]

as a journalist not a regular citizen someone who has editor-in-chief of a news organization in their profile so everybody can see who they are if that person says even jokingly bla bla bla white nationalist and I show you the survey that says how many people believe that that was probably true I have demonstrated first of all it’s obvious that a brand is damaged by being a white nationalist do you ladies and gentlemen of the jury agree with that point that it is I don’t need to show you my spreadsheet of the actual damages I simply have to show you that it’s a public public idea that it’s false that the person who showed it could have easily known it was false and by the way if they are reckless in checking the facts they’re still guilty of defamation so just because they’re a journalist doesn’t mean that you know just being wrong is going to protect them if they’re wrong and they did a good job of

[1:06:36]

they’re wrong and they did a good job of trying to be right they’re safe you don’t give sued for being wrong if you did a good job of trying to get the right story and you just got it wrong that’s a perfect defense what did John cook put any time into finding out if I am a white nationalist or not I would contend he did not because of anybody who would put in a minute of study would have found out that’s obviously easy to disprove so here is the test case that I do not believe there is a precedent so all of you lawyers who tell me Scott Scott Scott you’ve got no case here here is the test case he was operating under the flag because it’s in his profile what his job is he was under the flag of legitimate well-known news organizations right that’s what makes this different secondly the other thing that makes it different is me I’m not a regular person I’m not a I’m not a political elected person in which case I’d have no case

[1:07:38]

person in which case I’d have no case I’m also not a regular citizen in which case I would also have no case I’m a special case I’m a regular citizen who is associated with a brand and known worldwide to some extent demonstrating that I have been damaged and that he did not do any care would be easy now imagine that I hired the best lawyer in the world whose name I already have so just imagine just imagine that I’ve already been I’ve already started the process of contacting the Darth Vader of lawyers just imagine that hypothetically because it’s actually happening the worst lawyer you would ever want to see on the other side just imagine that’s happening right now now secondly imagine that I’m a trained hypnotist oh wait I am imagine that I’m unusually persuasive oh

[1:08:40]

imagine that I’m unusually persuasive oh wait I am imagine me working with the Darth Vader best lawyer in the world the last person you ever want to see who one imagines is quite persuasive him or herself how would you like to be on the other side still wanna bet against it I don’t think you do so let’s find out what happens I’m also thinking of suing Jezebel I was looking at a piece they wrote where they quoted something I did say and then immediately after the text of what I did say they summarized it as the opposite of what I just said and what they just published again easy to prove that that it was intentional because it’s I don’t even have to look at another source the actual page says what I said and then the the writer says well and he’s saying the office of that

[1:09:41]

the office of that there’s not a jury in the world who would see that that that person summarized what I said correctly easy lawsuit and very damaging I would say that Jezebel I could sue for a hundred million dollars in lost revenue I hate to brag but they probably did cost me a hundred million dollars because almost no no woman who would let’s say be in charge of hiring me to be a speaker or something like that they’re gonna Google me and the Jezebel article comes up it says terrible things about me would you hire somebody to be a speaker if you could Google and one of the one of the search results is like he said that now I didn’t say that I didn’t but they’re going to think so so my licensing business and my speaking business have both collapsed a lot of it is because of the Trump stuff but even before that there was a huge disappearance of female

[1:10:44]

there was a huge disappearance of female mostly female followers so I had a you know a substantial female fan base for Dilbert when the fake news came out it was pretty widespread when it happened and yeah I just watched those numbers just disappear so yeah I could demonstrate I could demonstrate a pretty clear correlation between years when Jezebel did their thing here’s all the people who repeated it on social media it’s all discoverable and then here’s what my income did easy so I’m looking at the comments and I’m waiting for people to say what people were saying on Twitter for the last two days they were saying they were saying that I don’t understand the law and Scott Scott Scott how could you be so dumb I’m not really seeing anybody saying that here maybe that’s just because you’re more supportive than me yeah as opposed to my argument somebody

[1:11:46]

yeah as opposed to my argument somebody asked is the is Business Insider owned by The Washington Post I don’t think that’s exactly the case but Jeff Bezos who is a major investor in Business Insider any owns Washington Post so they’re both Jeff Bezos properties which I hate because I gotta tell you it Amazon is just the best company ever you know they’ve had their hiccups right like everybody but damn do they get the customer experience right I mean it’s like it’s like a eighth wonder of the world so you know I will disagree with the Bezos politically but as a technological you know entrepreneur Wow Amazon literally just impresses me every time I use it I can’t even use that thing without going wow that was surprisingly good all right let me give you one one extra tidbit that’s only for

[1:12:46]

you one one extra tidbit that’s only for the people who stayed this long that I like to make sure there’s a little gift at the end for anybody who sticks with it you probably know the story that I was in some beds to deal with a sinus infection thing and the weird thing that came out of that was I regained my sense of smell and taste that I had not had for over a decade completely unexpected I didn’t realize I had some kind of polyp problem in my eustachian tubes you don’t need to know the details but they put me on this thing called prednisone and some heavy antibiotics and fairly quickly my hear my my my taste and smell came back and I still have them imagine that like how cool is that but here’s the funny part the reason I went to the doctor in the first place is because I was losing my hearing so my hearing returned - because it all turned out to be related to the same things now I have my hearing back so I got my taste back I got my sense of

[1:13:48]

got my taste back I got my sense of smell back and I got my hearing back I’m not done yet if that was my whole week that would be amazing but I’m not even done this week I learned that I thought I had allergies the worst allergies people have ever had like I’m talking about you know half a box of Kleenex a day allergies just all the time it doesn’t matter if it’s spring or fall just all the time the exception is when I smoke marijuana which immediately stops the symptoms but generally speaking I we know that I’m sorry allergies all the time now I also had have asthma now the asthma is triggered by the allergies so yeah I had to treat them both all the time with different meds and neti pots and you know you name it so it was this lifelong thing and guess what turns out I don’t have allergies because

[1:14:53]

turns out I don’t have allergies because when the when the sinus infection was treated I have no allergies for the first time in my adult life let me say that again I don’t have allergies I’ve gone let’s say 40 years ish having the worst allergies I thought anybody ever had every day all day except when I smoked marijuana and it was triggering me to allergy to asthma and I might not have either one I’m completely free of allergies they’re gone and so I said to my ear nose throat person I said you know my allergies went away for the first time in my life and I said is it possible that I had this sinus infection for decades because that doesn’t seem possible right could you have the same sinus infection for decades and she looked at me and she

[1:15:53]

decades and she looked at me and she goes yep this week I got my hearing back my sense of smell my sense of taste I found out I don’t have allergies and presumably won’t ever have them again you know if I treat this and I don’t have asthma are you kidding me are you kidding me if I’m not running the the simulation I don’t know who is so if somebody’s asking if it’s connected to voice loss indirectly because the voice loss that I suffered there was three and a half years where I couldn’t speak I got all kinds of issues that happened because of a normal respiratory problem that I tried to speak too hard and then I locked into the the talking problem that in this way happens for most people they strain their voice and then it triggers something in their brain and then they lose their ability to speak so I got

[1:16:55]

lose their ability to speak so I got that fixed obviously or you wouldn’t be listening to me now there’s a better part are you ready so I finally got off the prednisone and off the the worst of the buy antibiotics one of them was just kicking my ass I mean it just made me feel sick all the time here’s the best part do you know what one of the side effects if there is both of those drugs the prednisone and the antibiotic they had a number of side effects and I had pretty much everyone but there’s one side effect that you might find interesting it can make you aggressive have I seemed aggressive lately yeah yeah pretty much and I don’t think I’ve been much a much more aggressive that I have in the last several days now here’s the interesting part I had friends contact me was very worried because they could see what looked like a change in behavior and I

[1:17:57]

looked like a change in behavior and I was being unusually angry and aggressive because I you know for a while I was just blocking trolls but for the last several days I’ve just been using them for target practice I mean just just obsessed with you know mocking them into irrelevance no I don’t need to I just liked it I enjoyed it so here’s the part that you can’t recognize from the outside yes I could feel the anger yes I could tell that I was more angry than normal yes I could tell that I was being more aggressive not just online but just a little more aggressive but here’s the party you don’t get well you’ll get it easily when I explain it I didn’t feel bad there along with this aggressiveness and the anger is a feeling of power yeah somebody has so many heroes out of me there is a feeling of confidence and

[1:18:58]

there is a feeling of confidence and power yeah weight gain oh yeah oh yeah I ate like a pig so I gave little weight I love the lost most of it already it’s easy for me to lose weight so I just you know I was back in a couple days so yeah so while people were worried about me and saying my god you know you must be having a terrible time I hope you’re okay I kept thinking what why is anybody worried about me I’m having a great day today I’m yelling at roles I’m I’m railing against CBS I’m getting ready to sue people whoever coming now one of the one of the tricks I’ve told you before is that when you have a bad day or a bad few days then you can batch up all the things that you’d put off because you didn’t want the trouble you know how many things in your life are if you pull it off because you don’t want the conflict you don’t want to complain about that thing you don’t want to you don’t want to get that person mad well

[1:20:00]

don’t want to get that person mad well that’s all go on I think I’m coming off of the the effects now but certainly the certainly my personality completely changed now this is also instructive for those who are you trying to understand addiction because a lot of people think hey oh yeah bill pulled a was it was doxxed yesterday can you frickin believe it bill pulled a just trying to give money away his own money and getting other people to give money to people who deserve it and he and for his work he got doxxed and it caused them a lot of trouble yesterday can you believe it can you believe anybody is that evil unbelievable unbelievable I would be swearing - if this were yesterday but I think I’m coming off the effects of the drug anyway my point was there are people who don’t understand addiction when a person is making a decision for the first time to do a drug

[1:21:03]

decision for the first time to do a drug there’s something like you know what you would call free will but I don’t call it that but something like a decision that’s being made to do a drug for the first time but once they reach addiction which happens pretty quickly if it’s an opioid for example once they reach addiction they aren’t the person who can make decisions anymore they’re now a new person they’re a combination of who they were plus this drug and that makes it a new creature and that new creature doesn’t have the will or the capacity to say no to the drug so the worst opinion about addiction is that that person should just try harder and use the willpower d’arnot I can avoid the heroin why can’t you a complete understanding of how the brain works and what it makes to be a person the drug and the person are a new entity I I can tell you my stepson who died a little less than a year ago from fentanyl when he was using because he was badly addicted for years when he was

[1:22:03]

was badly addicted for years when he was using you almost couldn’t recognize the person I’m almost at the you know I almost had the cake to share that of him one day because it was it was like a zombie situation you know he was conscious but the lights were out there there was nothing like a human in there anymore I’m just complete lack of the original boy he just wasn’t there anymore now when he would briefly clean up he would you turn back into the boy that I knew and loved but when he was using he wasn’t even that boy he was just a different creature and we had to deal with it like a creature you couldn’t even deal with it like a person it was just a creature so if you’re wondering why I was so angry that might be why it probably was the meds I was on there was a known side effects and it was I did feel different but I didn’t feel bad I didn’t feel bad so if you’re feeling sorry for me don’t I had a good week and

[1:23:06]

sorry for me don’t I had a good week and I will talk to you later