Episode 683 Scott Adams AOC Eating Babies, Impeachment Theatre

Date: 2019-10-04 | Duration: 50:35

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu AOC and the crowd…couldn’t tell if the “eat babies” lady was real 30% of people, have no sense of humor, can’t recognize it The greatest pranks, are invisible to the pranks target The “Parity Inversion Point” 50 year LOW unemployment rate announced Punchy De Niro is being sued for sexual harassment, discrimination President Trump’s communication style is now weapons grade Impeachment won’t hurt him…the Dems however IDF’s “Mean Girls” meme, mocks Khamenei, Suleimani, Nasrallah Samsung is PULLING OUT of China (decoupling) Kamala’s Jake Tapper interview about kicking POTUS off Twitter “Uptalk” Harris was painful to watch Kamala asks audience if the world is ready for her to be President

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pom pom pom pom oh I don't think I could be in a better mood I'm sure you're in a pretty good mood to the news is serving up lots of entertainment isn't it but you know you know what makes that entertainment go down better coffee or something like it oh we got things to talk about today well before we do that we've got to have the simultaneous sip because that's how your day starts out perfectly you've heard of perfect conversations well this is gonna be the perfect simultaneous at trademark and all you need to participate is a cup or a mug or glass and sign the chalice integrity that Armistice Cantina Grail the Goblet defense'll of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like my coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better as if the day could get any better seriously come on join me now for the simultaneous

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come on join me now for the simultaneous sip Oh delightful delightful so there are some things happening in the news it's one of the funniest news days of all time now if you didn't see it where have you been but there's a there's a great video going around of aoc doing a town hall meeting and a member of the audience gets up to ask a question and it's a young woman who says she's very concerned about climate change but she's worried that we don't have enough time to do what we need to stop it and the only solution is gonna be to eat our babies so maybe bomb Russia but definitely eat the babies and she revealed that she had a t-shirt eat the babies now if he didn't see it here's the funny part AOC and the rest of the crowd couldn't

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AOC and the rest of the crowd couldn't tell if she was a troll or if she meant it now approximately a third of the country have you ever heard that estimate before one-third of the people in this country and really one-third of humans don't have a sense of humor and don't know it it's the don't know apart that's the funny part approximately I saw somebody do a Twitter poll asking how many people thought that the woman was a real person who was maybe a little distraught and how many thought she was obviously a troll 38% obviously this is not a scientific poll that's on Twitter but 38% said they thought she was real 38% kind of close to one-third it's in that neighborhood yeah about one-third of people can't recognize a joke when

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of people can't recognize a joke when they see it they actually have to be told by other people or they have to listen to laughter or you have to have some kind of cue to tell them it's a joke now you probably think that the first time you heard me say that because I've been saying it for a while the first time you heard it didn't you think that was the biggest load of BS you heard in your life didn't you say to yourself one-third of the people in the world can't recognize a joke Scott Scott Scott that's crazy talk well I am a professional humorist who's been doing this for a number of decades and I promise you one third of the public doesn't have a sense of humor like actually just doesn't have one let's talk about this prank now I'm gonna label it a prank because I don't think there's a slightest chance as anything else I recognized it immediately the moment she said something about eating babies I was like Oh prank let's see where this goes and then at

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let's see where this goes and then at the end I noticed that people were sort of not sure if they should take her literally and I thought to myself best day
day ever haha best day ever now there's somebody taking credit for the troll but I don't believe them yet so I'm not going to even mention that but let me teach you something about a good practical joke and I would I would call this a practical joke you could call it a troll but the best practical jokes have a specific quality to them that poorly playing jokes do not this one was a thing of beauty because the the essential quality of a good practical joke a really high-level one you know one that's that's really well thought out is that the only person who will believe the essence of the joke is the target of the joke so of the best joke is one that only somebody who was living in their own little delusion could

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in their own little delusion could possibly believe that the prank was something real that's what makes a great prank it has to be only invisible to the target man did this prank kill that and then on that dimension it's very clear not only from the comments after the event but what was happening during that the people in the audience and aoc for a while anyway and maybe she still believes it couldn't tell they actually couldn't tell if they had alarmed people into being so afraid of the climate that eating babies unded like a pretty good idea now some of you know the Jonathan Swift Modest Proposal history of this I won't get into it you could you could google it just google a modest proposal and you'll you'll see some historical precedent for this now this joke or practical joke Wartrol did a lot more

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practical joke Wartrol did a lot more than just make us laugh because it did it also suggests a very productive way to ask questions of people who are concerned about climate change and are in the political realm and here's the quote here's the serious question that the troll sort of makes us think of and now it's in now it's in the public mind and here's the serious question hey AOC so this is not a troll this is a serious question AOC you said that you know we're all in trouble and it's too late probably to do anything about climate change you know maybe it's too late maybe it's not but here's my question what should I do as a citizen to prepare for the climate catastrophe now besides voting besides being politically active what can I do in my actual personal life what should I do with my investments what should I do with my home what should I do with my where I live you know all of my personal

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where I live you know all of my personal big decisions what should I do differently because climate change is coming should I change my investments should I move should I you know other than recycling and voting and stuff what I wish should I really do to prepare for a calamity because if the answer is nothing what does that say about the risk and if the answer is not nothing what exactly should they do let me give you some examples wouldn't you invest differently should you put your money in Bitcoin sure I'm by the way none of this is financial advice or anything like it I'm just running through things that could be said I'm not saying these are good ideas just to be clear should you take all your money out of the stock market should you stop spending because there'll be an economic meltdown and you

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there'll be an economic meltdown and you need everything you can keep exactly what should you do to prepare now again I'm not talking about plant a tree vote for a Democrat you know form a you know grassroots movement I'm not talking about political stuff like what should I do in my personal life think about it how would you answer that question it's a it's a devastating question here's another one a or C I hear what you're saying about climate change and I believe you I believe what you're saying about the risks can you give us a sense what is a bigger risk is it a bigger risk to aggressively pursue the newer safer types of nuclear power plants or is it a bigger risk not to can you can you lay that out for us now keep in mind I believe that a or C has an economics degree and I would love to see your answer the question economically and otherwise which is the bigger risk

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otherwise which is the bigger risk because part of what you learn in economics is comparing things and risk management I'd like to see your answer that question all right so to further my point that one-third of the world does not have a sense of humor I tweeted this morning because of the AMC troll situation I tweeted this exact sentence I said is it true that a or C had Greta thumb burg over for dinner now everybody who heard of the you know the a was the baby-eating troll should have known that read-a-thon burg being a minor AOC inviting her to dinner obviously I'm making a reference to a or C might eat her for dinner now two-thirds of you are saying the Scott why are you explaining that joke that joke didn't need to be explained if you

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joke didn't need to be explained if you knew about the a overseeing troll situation why are you explaining it well let me tell you read the comments under that tweet from mostly conservatives and Republicans and Trump supporters an alarming number of people said hey I think she's having her over to be eaten as if that wasn't the joke they needed to add the joke to the joke
so about a third of the people I don't know I'm just guessing but a lot of people maybe a third saw my joke which they already knew the story about AOC and the baby and I said a UC is a true a UC as having greta thumbr go over for dinner and they felt they needed to add the joke because they didn't recognize the joke they couldn't say it now don't ever doubt me again when I tell you one

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ever doubt me again when I tell you one third of the country actually doesn't have a sense of humor and I don't mean that as an insult I mean it the same way a lot of people don't have you know can't hold a tune you know we're not all born with exactly the same capability it's the same way people you know some people can tell the difference between fine wine and some people can't yeah there are all these minor skills that we have they're not important terribly I mean it's not like you know you don't have to be institutionalized if you don't have a sense of humor so it's not it's not a big thing now I tweeted the other day and I've got some Dilbert comics running this week about what I called the parody inversion point where we actually can't tell the difference anymore between a joke and reality have you ever seen that more clearly than this a or C baby-eating think we're at the parody inversion point a huge percentage of the public maybe 1/3 can't tell can't tell literally can't tell and there's no joke

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literally can't tell and there's no joke here actually literally no joke can't tell the difference between the joke and reality any more than because they've become so so similar all right Fox News referred to the aoc baby eating situation this way this is a quote from the Fox News website a seemingly troubled woman at a time who all hosted by blah blah a osa the seemingly troubled woman so they don't call it a troll because well and and to be fair this actually is a completely accurate state so the way Fox News reported it is a hundred percent accurate and unless they've actually tracked down the person who was there and determined that it was a joke all you could really say is that she was seemingly troubled because that

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she was seemingly troubled because that was that was the image he was presenting so that's a true statement she was seemingly troubled but they don't get into whether they think she was you know lose control or not seem conspicuously missing from the story let's talk about the unemployment so we had a 50 year low unemployment rate he's three point five percent I want to introduce an idea president Trump and by the way I don't know that this is true but I'm gonna I'm gonna guess that this is probably true have we ever had our unemployment rate and our GDP the same number in the history of the of the United States now we don't have it yet GDP I think is maybe sub three but we know it can flirt with 3.5 em alright our GDP could

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with 3.5 em alright our GDP could certainly flirt with 3.5 our unemployment rates down to three point five has that ever happened as that ever happened now people are worried about recession especially before the election you know so we're all talking about it but here's a little brief lesson in economics for you are you ready unless you have a major shock coming such as a war or something like you know a bubble meltdown so if you have a big economic bubble that's ready to burst or you have something like a war or an oil shortage something big like that you know meteor strikes the earth well then things can go bad and they can go bad quickly but we don't seem to have anything like that hanging over us right now you we've got more national debt than we want but it doesn't seem like it's going to crush us right away so here's

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to crush us right away so here's everything you need to know about economics if your unemployment rate is three point five percent you're great you're great you can ignore almost everything else you can ignore every other indicator because you know those indicators bounce back and forth and they don't always tell you something clean cleanly they they indicate things and there are various variables that might be conflicting and sometimes they're in the same direction and sometimes they're not but if you want to know I if you want to really understand economics there's just a few things you need to know and one of them is when unemployment is at 3.5% you're in great shape and likely everything else will eventually if not right away is gonna it's gonna start ahead trending any good directions that's amazing

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The Joker movie is out does anybody care I don't know who watches movies anymore I think the long-form movie is I don't know people are talking about it so I might have to watch it at some point but I don't know who could watch a two or three hour movie our attention spans have shrunk and the news is serving up such great entertainment that's different every day but movies are all the same ok can I describe the movie the Joker has an ordered I've never seen the movie The Joker has an origin story something bad happened to him now he's a bad guy and so he's cleverly gonna kill a lot of people but the Batman stops him and
that's about it what why would you spend two hours watching that even no matter how well is made punchy De Niro is being sued for some kind of sexual harassment and discrimination who saw that coming

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and discrimination who saw that coming everybody the the odds of dinero being sued by an employee for sexual harassment and discrimination seemed pretty high to me there's another famous Hollywood producer / director who I'm not gonna name who is a famous anti-trump er and I just keep telling myself I'm just waiting for the that guy to get me to I don't want to give a name gives that and you know then I'm accusing something something terrible but do you believe there's any such thing as a top-level Hollywood director who doesn't have some me to stuff in the closet do you think there is one even one I think there's a little more me too and it's going to come out in for the anti-trump errs and they're not going to like it alright let's talk about impeachment that's the fun stuff right so I'm gonna be a little contrarian here on impeachment

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contrarian here on impeachment contrarian to what you're seeing in the news I this morning I was looking at how the president was handling things you know he made a statement about China you know doubling down and there's nothing wrong with it a blah blah and of course people were criticizing you've been saying our president Trump stop bringing up China you're making it worse blah blah blah you're making it worse and I'm sitting here thinking whoa something's happened because suddenly the president's communication approach on impeachment just went weapons-grade and I don't think it was before so in the early the early moments after this whole Ukraine phone call thing became a story the president seemed correct me if I'm wrong the president seemed a little defensive more like the call was perfect you know I didn't do anything wrong didn't it feel defensive and I thought to myself playing defense is not his

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to myself playing defense is not his strong suit and then yesterday the president stands in front of the entire world and asked China to look into Biden and I said to myself there it is there it is I'll talk more about that in a moment and at the same time apparently the Trump administration is thinking of pressing Pelosi to hold a vote on impeachment she wasn't gonna vote she was gonna sort of handle it through you know committee rules and stuff like that without a vote but if you make the vote you put the Democrats on record and you can hold it against them during the general elector the next election so the president went on not just offense both full offense and I said to myself what changed and because his whoever is advising him now is frickin nailing it now I don't think

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frickin nailing it now I don't think that the press has quite figured out what's going on now but he's nailing it right now and and I just read the little tidbit who knows how much of this is true this says that Jared Kushner and and Mullaney Mulvaney are in charge of impeachment strategy so Jared Kushner is involved and Mulvaney who seems to be very capable as well and suddenly the president's impeachment game just wouldn't weapons great coincidence is it a coincidence when good advisers are involved and suddenly you get good results let me tell you why this is so great the public doesn't know how to understand this whole issue now you and I may be we're following it because we're sort of news nerds so some small amount of the public might dig in enough to form something like an independent opinion but most of the country is not

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opinion but most of the country is not going to have anything like an independent legal opinion they're going to look at people and one lawyer will say one thing the others will say another and they'll be like ah I don't know let me just retreat to my bias but if you have a situation where the president's being accused of picha bull crimes or behavior let's not call them crimes some people are calling them crimes and you have the president simply defending himself what does the ignorant viewer conclude somebody's charging him the are serious Congress is charging him with horrible behavior and he's defending himself what's that feel like feels like was guilty right I mean if you're if you're disposed to have a bad feeling about the president you're gonna say well you know currently Nancy Pelosi held off for so long she must have finally got a good reason I don't quite understand the quid pro

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I don't quite understand the quid pro stuff you know I I don't know what Biden was doing and not a lawyer but I can tell that Congress just went from not serious to something that looked serious and he seems to be defending himself feels guilty that's where we were What's it feel like today well it looks like Trump is in the middle of doing doing the grabbed the gun and turned it around trick that he does so well do you remember when fake news was a phrase that was used against the president this is still used against the president no the president grabbed that gun and turned it around and made it his own right fake news became the biggest weapon he's ever had very effectively you know lowering the credibility of the news so that the attacks on him don't have the same effect very effective now

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same effect very effective now do you remember when people were saying hey president Trump it looks like you went quid pro quo there with Ukraine and you said to yourself AHA man that quid pro quo thing that's quite an attack against the president and then he nicknamed Joe Biden quid pro Joe he took the gun out of the hand turned it around and now he's quid pro Joe who's got the stronger claim all we're talking about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden quid pro Joe he took the gun and he turned it around now you say to yourself well sure that's something you can do with words yeah you can turn a word around you can turn a nickname around sure not everybody could do it but oh I'll give you that I'll give you the president can turn a word around but I'll tell you what the president can't do nobodies this good no president could be so good that he could

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president could be so good that he could turn impeachment around but he is right in front of you he is when the president went on TV and said you know what not only do I think Ukraine should look into this what's China doing China you should look into the Biden's too he didn't just double down he tripled down he quadrupled down by bringing China into it now of course he doesn't expect China to look into anything so there's no seriousness to that to that it's a political statement but let's say you're watching TV you're the person who doesn't have a legal opinion you're just trying to sort this out if the president asks guilty what do you think is probably true well maybe there's something there but if the president says not only am I not guilty I showed you the transcript and I'm gonna do it again right in front of you watch this China if you're listening to

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watch this China if you're listening to me can you look into the Biden's did you see that did everybody see that I just did a legal thing right in front of you it's not just legal it's desirable it's not just something that's technically okay it's very desirable it's my job it's my job to make sure that elections and foreign interference are minimized we have treaties with China and Ukraine which spell out that they will cooperate with us on on legal investigation and type stuff we have an agreement the president is using the existing laws exactly as they were intended to be used which his countries can talk to each other and ask for help that's what the law says what's his job to make sure that we don't have foreign interference that's the sitting president's job would

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that's the sitting president's job would it be a problem if Biden had some foreign you know blackmail potential and then he got the he got the presidency of course it'd be the biggest problem this country ever had does does I give the president the crew sitting president a reason to look into it that's his job so the first thing that they're doing this brilliant is by going right after it and quadrupling down he didn't just double down he quadrupled down by bringing China into it that completely changes how you feel about it it's like well why would he do that unless it's so legal that you could shout it he can stand he can stand in the public square and shout that he's asking a foreign country to look into Biden and say look I'm shouting it China Ukraine look at me hey everybody look at me I'm gonna do it right in front of you again why cuz it's legal and because it's my job and because it's a top priority for the country is it also good

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priority for the country is it also good for his campaign of course but we allow that our system allows him to do what's good for getting reelected as long as he's doing it's in public and as long as it's also his job he meets all the tests he's doing it transparently now I mean he's released the transcript now it's transparent and it is his job that's sort of all you need to know so let's say you're not a legal person you're not following all the details how hard it is that to understand it's so legal and so part of his job he's gonna do it twice three times if you count Russia and then the best part asking the Democrats to hold the vote asking Pelosi to put it to a full vote of
of of the house so that they all get on record this magnificent I might want to

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record this magnificent I might want to swear because this is so beautiful like in the persuasion and political way it's beautiful president Trump has done the impossible
he grabbed him Pietschmann and of Pelosi's hand and turned it around and he's shooting her in the leg with it see what I did there he actually turned impeachment into a weapon against Pelosi and the entire Democratic Congress which he's on the verge of flipping back to Republican because of impeachment it's really good now it's the framing that makes it special because by going on offense and saying yeah take a vote put it up to a vote he reframes it from something that's good for a Pelosi of necessarily bad for Trump into something that's good for Trump and bad for Pelosi and it's not

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Trump and bad for Pelosi and it's not even a stretch there will be plenty of experts will come on and say you know that's pretty good play mr. Trump that's a pretty pretty good play every time I say pretty pretty good I should credit
Larry David for that for that's that's his say it's so catchy I use a lot but it's not it's not me that's Larry David say and so I say if Jared Kushner and Mulvaney are part of this package of persuasion perfection it's really impressive it's super impressive obviously it might be that you know the play of the year it's so good it's like crazy good now I don't think the news will report it that way of course but man is it fun to watch and and let me

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man is it fun to watch and and let me ask you this most of you I believe are Trump supporters if you're watching this periscope I personally don't have a preference about whether Trump is whether the house of votes to impeach him because you know the Senate is going to protect them we I think everybody agrees on that so he's not going to be out of a job but I kind of want them to vote on it I kind of do I mean I'm clearly a supporter of the president but I would kind of like to see the vote because he's the only president you can imagine who wouldn't be hurt by it you know certainly people who said that Clinton wasn't hurt by it but you know that was that was more in the the very special case of you know maybe caught it got more votes right because people were mad about the system being being over-applied so they they sort of reacted with her funding with

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sort of reacted with her funding with their votes so you'll see that too with Trump I think it just it's a winning proposition for him vote wise and energy wise and fundraising wise it's just a whim but beyond that he's he's making it look like it was almost his idea I mean he's almost turning impeachment into something that was good for him that's that's way beyond what Bill Clinton was doing Bill Clinton just survived and you know it was good that there was some pushback on and that they helped him but in trauma I think he found a way to weaponize it you know more so than than even Clinton all right definitely and
did you see that the Israel and the IDF Israeli Defense Force they tweeted a photoshopped picture of Iran's leaders how many and rouhani the president so it was a picture of them and then they

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was a picture of them and then they photoshopped in I think it was Lindsay Lohan or something from the movie Mean Girls there's some kind of Mean Girls you know anniversary or something and so they decided to call Andrew honey the Mean Girls of the Middle East and I thought to myself it's pretty good it's pretty good let me tell you why that's good a good nickname or a good persuasive attack is one that there's something about the target of your attack that just fits and then it makes you say oh yeah I wasn't really thinking it but I was feeling it now you put a name to it I'm thinking it harder that's like a perfect attack when you think of many and you think of like what's he trying to accomplish and you say to yourself alright best-case scenario he thinks he's trying to spread his Islamic Revolution the Iranian Revolution he's trying to spread it but

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Revolution he's trying to spread it but it doesn't look like it has any chance of working right so that almost doesn't make sense it's like why is he trying to do this that you know can't work you can't really spread his you know basically shrinking if anything things are going very poorly in rent so it doesn't really make sense why he's doing what he's doing unless you just mean have you seen a picture of how many doesn't he look mean it just looks mean it looks like a mean old man and so I don't think that the reason he's doing anything is because he's mean but it looks that way because nothing else makes sense if you try to figure it out rationally it doesn't make any sense at all he's been squarely pushed into like a prison cell of irrationality because unless Iran comes with comes to us meaning us meaning the rest of the world with some kind of an offer or a deal

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with some kind of an offer or a deal that actually makes rational sense and could be practical unless he does that come up with a better reason for why he's doing the opposite of that can you think of any reason his motivation because the Revolution is sort of over I mean it's just not working or is just shrinking every day their economy shrinking their powers shrinking because of the economic sanctions so there is no explanation for how many that makes sense to the observer and then the IDF labels him as a mean girl and I think to myself that's pretty good it's pretty good because it does look like he's mean and it does look like he's employing the rationality of a teenager I'm not going to say teenage girl cuz that sexist but the Mean Girls was about teenagers so he's a bad rational as a teenager looks mean it's pretty pretty good alright I got to stop

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pretty pretty good alright I got to stop saying pretty pretty good Samsung has decided to pull an in China now with Samsung being South Korean company they're pulling out of China and so it begins and so it begins the decoupling Dow in this case it wouldn't be us decoupling it would be an ally but that's just as good I think you're going to see a lot of decoupling let's talk about Aris so as you know Carla Harris had been tweeting that the president needs to be kicked off of Twitter for his bad tweets that I don't know whatever she's saying about them it's ridiculous but I've said it was a great play persuasion wise because it did in fact get around the news so who are we talking about yesterday who's running for president well Trump of course who else did we

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well Trump of course who else did we talk about yesterday who was running for president Buddha judge no Bernie no except that he's in the huh still in the hospital Biden all bad news all bad news for Biden Elizabeth Warren I think she was quoted a few times basically non-existent oh yeah and then Harris so her play to be a little bit provocative rageous and to say something is clearly wrong there is no chance that Jack Dorsey is gonna kick Trump off of Twitter for doing what he's done so far I mean if he did something in the future it's it's imaginable but at the moment it's unimaginable but she got on TV and she got her time and she got to say what she wanted to say people saw her and they didn't see somebody else so that's a win but I was watching I was watching her performance she did manage she was

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her performance she did manage she was interviewed by Jake Tapper owns you know and Jake was pushing her and he pushed her exactly right by saying you know if the president you know did get kicked off of Twitter you'd have to kick half a Twitter off because how could you really distinguish the things he's saying from the things 40% of Twitter users say every day which is exactly the right question right how can you possibly make that distinction now first Jake was getting to the heart of the matter which is that this is not a serious suggestion it's a political suggestion and that was highlighted by the question watching her answer the question was painful because you could tell she didn't have a belief in her own opinion which is okay because it was a political opinion just like Trump saying hey China you should investigate Biden there's some things you say in the

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there's some things you say in the political season this shouldn't be taken too seriously you still need to be able to sell it man she did not sell that she did not sell that at all now she did give a serious demeanor and I don't know if it's because there was nothing to laugh at maybe she would have laughed if it had been a different question but Isis she doesn't look confident and I also noticed she has helped me with the with the terminology but I think she does up talk and it goes like this well example if you are confident you would say something like China is a major threat we're gonna do the following things this is how we're gonna respond to them all right that's a confident sentence a non confident thing is China's doing the things we're going to need to respond to them I think we'll

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need to respond to them I think we'll have to get tougher if you if you up talk in other words you almost turn your statements into questions at the end you don't sound confident and you don't sound like a leader and when I watched her answer the questions about why Trump should be kicked off a Twitter I thought it's called up speak is that what it's called I thought to myself just state it as a fact if you tried to sell this to us don't up talk you don't say things I'm paraphrasing these are not her words but if you say things like well well the way the president is talking I think we need to look at it you know shouldn't we maybe you know have Terms of Service and maybe the Terms of Service because they're a corporation and maybe corporation should look at the way he's talking so unpersuasive try this the president's made several statements that

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president's made several statements that clearly cross the line into provocative possibly danger behavior twitter should look at that completely seriously and they should make a decision now that's why you would sound like if you're trying to sound like a leader if you were trying to not sound ridiculous when she up talked something that she wasn't even confident in and you know she doesn't believe it because you don't have to read her mind to know that because it's not a serious kind of suggestion to kick the president often Twitter the whole thing seems so phony and contrived that I'm not sure she won by going on camera with that performance but I felt like she was a little bit better so it did seem like even with the up talk even with my criticisms I did think she had made a noticeable improvement in in her presentation now I may be looking

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in her presentation now I may be looking for it maybe it's something I'm expecting so I may have some confirmation bias sneaking in so let me confess that I would be not a an unbiased observer here but watchfulness see if you can see that Harris's demeanor starts getting more leisurely maybe she starts to take out the uptalk maybe you'll see some improvement and maybe you can fact check me in to see if I'm imagining the improvement all right have you seen the picture of hunter Biden lately there's one picture that Fox News runs all the time and I don't know if he looks the same in all the pictures have you noticed how crooked his smile is like actually there's one side it's like super crooked and that

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side it's like super crooked and that doesn't mean anything right yeah the shape of your mouth does not indicate your character or your criminal past it doesn't it doesn't it doesn't do any of that but it sure feels that way if you're looking at that picture of hunter Biden with that big crooked smile you do not trust that face that is the least trustworthy face in that one picture I'm positive there were pictures of him just looking perfectly Pleasant and honest but the one the Fox News uses wow what he looks crooked just the smile it's just so off-putting oh the other thing that Cobb Alerus did yesterday she was doing some little town hall meeting and she asked this question that she thought she was going to get a different answer for she said she asked if America

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answer for she said she asked if America was ready for her to be President now when you say that is America ready for me as president what do you think the audience is supposed to respond the trouble is is ambiguous because your first impression might be ya know the world is not ready for you because you're so awesome and honest I don't think the world is ready for you so she says she has her crowd if the world if the country is ready to have her as president and her supporters yell no and then she does her her nervous self laugh she goes yes yes yes they're ready it was a an awkward cringe-worthy moment but it wasn't quite what it looked like you know I don't think the audience was saying that that she's not she's not the right fit for the country they were just trying to imagine what she wanted as the answer and they

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she wanted as the answer and they guessed wrong but it was funny all right
that was what you said with Bill Maher I don't know what you're talking about I'm just looking at your comments so let me tell you a funny awkward situation I'm having right now which I might have a resolution to it I'm going to be talking and looking at my email to see if I have a resolution to it sorry about that I don't think I have an answer yet so here's here's my awkward situation I'm writing an article for The Wall Street Journal for an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal might run Monday or Tuesday and the Wall Street Journal asked me to do a little art to go with the article so I drew a little piece of

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the article so I drew a little piece of art in which there were two characters and one character was talking to the other and I will give you too much information but it was in the poll realm and then because it's a comic I went to add the colors to the comic and I hit a real problem because here's the thing they're only two characters they're talking to each other and and they're you know sort of different sides of things but how do you color them there are only two of them if you have a crowd then of course you put in as much diversity as the art will allow and then you're on the side of good right you got some diversity in there but if you have only two characters your only choices are that they're that they're the same which doesn't fly in today's world right it wouldn't matter what what ethnicity or gender they were if they were the same people would say why is it two women talking where's a guy or they

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women talking where's a guy or they might say you know why are they both white so you can't make them the same because it's a political context and because there are only two of them if you try to make them diverse all that would be as two different people and if I do two different people and there's some text and they're talking and they're doing something one of them is going to look like the bad one accidentally so one of them will be perceived by the audience as loja why'd you make the brown one the bad one or could be the opposite maybe someone you'll say Oh Scott you you know flaky social justice warrior you had to you know you made one you know a person of color but then you had to make the bad one the white one right you idiot you know why don't you just flip a coin or something there's actually no right answer there's no right answer

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answer there's no right answer now I've suggested a solution and some of you are probably ahead of me guessing what that might be but I'm waiting for with the Wall Street Journal I won't mention names who I'm working with but so I'm waiting for the wall Surgeon General to give me an opinion about the way I handled it because it turns out it's really hard it's really hard to handle the public's expectations about humor and also diversity because I'm I'm completely on board with making art look like the real world why wouldn't you and everything about that makes sense but it's hard to execute because you know ten people are gonna look at it and have ten different opinions one of them is gonna going to complain and want you to be kicked out of whatever you're doing so I'll just tell you that there's something that'll run in the Wall Street

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something that'll run in the Wall Street Journal if all goes well early next week and you should look at that and and somebody's saying make them both blue I will tell you that I thought about making a blue one and a red one so that you've got you know the two parties but it didn't quite map into red blue and that wasn't really the point I was making it was more about that where everybody's in their own world and and the red one looked like a person of color but to some people the blue one would look like a person of color and I would still have the same problem because people would say well you made the blue one who obviously is the person of color do something that I interpret as being dumb therefore you're racist so you can't win with blue and red and then I tried green making them both green and then I couldn't figure out what to do with the hair because if I made them both green but if I made their hair I just was a nice solution but you'll you'll see what I did with it if if I

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you'll see what I did with it if if I never get some papers you'll see what it if a tree gets on the internet you'll see what happens with it all right that's all for now I'll talk to you later bye for now