Episode 686 Scott Adams: Kurds in the Way, The Palace Coup, the 3rd Whistleblower

Date: 2019-10-07 | Duration: 58:25

Topics

My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu My “Whistleblower 3” video Matt Taibbi and others questioning “whistleblower” sincerity My WSJ article today and NPC responses CNN reporting that FOX news hosts have diverse opinions… …and that’s bad because? CNN’s casual racist opinion piece by Jeff Yang President Trump’s pullout from Turkey safe zone ISIS prisoners are now Turkey’s responsibility and cost Hard, adult decisions are a President Trump talent Kanye’s powerful “mental slavery” comment Democrats gathering SECRET testimony for impeachment? How is that going to work out for them? Michael Moore promoting Michelle Obama for President Does that mean Elizabeth Warren isn’t viable?

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[Music] hey Dale good morning come on in here everybody Andrew Jeff it's great to see all of you and you know that this is the beginning of a great day a great day and you know it makes it great yes you do it's the simultaneous up it makes everything better so please prepare to join me in the simultaneous if all you need is a cover of our glasses time the chalice of sanctity thermoplastic canteen the Grail goblet a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and get ready for the dopamine head of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous it go oh it's better every time I don't think that's an exaggeration hyperbole no it's actually better every

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hyperbole no it's actually better every time alright so the news is just full of news today there is so much news there's news all over the place well before we talk about that let's talk about my amazing book loser thing which is number one in some categories before it's even available you can't even you can't even read it yet but you can pre-order it it's available November 5th audiobook and Kindle and regular book and all that I wrote a article for The Wall Street Journal's you know when you when you're out promoting a book sometimes people will say hey you write an article for our publication and we'll give you a little attention for your book now if you're right for The Wall Street Journal you don't really get any attention for your book all you get is at the end of your article you get to say that you wrote a book so writing for The Wall Street Journal because they don't you

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Street Journal because they don't you know then they're not going to asked you to put a commercial in the text of your article and reasonably and that's a reasonable thing to not want it doesn't do much to sell the book but I thought it would be interesting for you to see a preview of some of the types of thinking in the book so The Wall Street Journal is running that article today and I wanted to give you a an update on the graphic I told you that I did some art for it and that there was a sort of a complication and that was that since it was about politics and it was two characters talking by a problem I have to give characters that are you know it's gonna be in a colorized presentation I had to give them an ethnicity now that doesn't mean I'm intentionally giving them an ethnicity it means that however you draw them and color them there's an implied gender and

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color them there's an implied gender and implied ethnicity or at least a you know general what's their kind of white they're kind of brown they're kind of something so what do you do because there are two of them and I knew that if I made them the same people say where's your diversity man you know two white dudes there's no diversity if I made one white and one anything else people say uh-uh why'd you make the other one look dumb even if I didn't so people would read into it whatever they wanted to see so I couldn't make them the same I couldn't make them different so what do you do so I want to show you my solution so this is actually the way was wished I made let's see I might have to change the let me change the brightness on this I'll take it way down then you'll be able to see it sort of I made the characters grayscale so the

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made the characters grayscale so the characters don't have any color at all the only colors in the background so they both have light gray hair and no color whatsoever anywhere else now one of the characters and this was just a random difference the smaller nose and one of them had a larger nose it was only to make them different because I wanted the reader to say oh these are two different people it's not the same person talking to and then I realized that I couldn't do that either I couldn't have one character with the small nose and one character with the big nose you know why right because somebody's gonna say oh the big nose is obviously making fun of some ethnic group or another no I just wanted them to look different someone had a small nose one that a bigger nose wasn't giant nose but I actually adjusted it I took the big nose down about 60% so that so that they had closer to similar noses anyway just so you probably saw that the

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anyway just so you probably saw that the director of The Joker movie was also had been the director of The Hangover movie and and that director Todd Phillips I think was saying they can't make comedies anymore comedy movies because people are too you know to to woke I guess and here's a perfect example all I wanted to do is draw this harmless little comic in a major publication and it was almost impossible I actually had to use graphic trickery to even do it that that's how dangerous the playing field is now in Dilbert I don't have that problem because Dilbert's been around for 30 years so so people are just used to the characters being the characters some people are probably concerned that it should have more diversity the reason it doesn't have diversity would you like to know do you know why the Dilbert comic does not have

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know why the Dilbert comic does not have much diversity you know the shift the intern was born in India but beyond that there's no diversity that's unfortunately intentional and I say unfortunately because it's not my preference my preference would be that the comic looks like society but here's the problem all of the Dilbert character have flaws that's what makes them funny you know Dilbert is nerdy and socially awkward and Alice is angry Wally is lazy and the boss is stupid and they've all got they've all got something going on that's a flaw so when I introduced I shook the intern I had to give him a flaw but since he was going to be the only diverse character if I can say that I had to give him a positive flaw so his flaw is that just that he's young so he hasn't had the experience of other people it's not really a flaw to be young I mean you could think of it that

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young I mean you could think of it that way but it's a curable self curing flaw because everybody has been young so the worst flaw I could give to a person of color character in the comic was one that's just not so bad because everybody goes through the phase of being young so you can't make it interesting and also make it humorous in the way that people are flawed because it just wouldn't just wouldn't sell in today's world all right let's talk about all the things how many of you saw my my whistleblower 3 video did everybody see that so I posted a whistleblower 3 video you really have to see it I don't want to I don't want to ruin it but it's got had two hundred and eighty five thousand views or something and one day that would be a lot and apparently it's just tearing up the internet now let me tell you the actual

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internet now let me tell you the actual reason I did that video the reason I did the video is so that I would be labeled whistleblower 3 do you see it yet if I can get myself labeled whistleblower 3 then the next whistleblower after me and you know that they're more lined up right it's it's obviously an organized you know attempt so you know there are more coming so the next whistleblower what are you going to call them because we have whistleblower 1 and we have whistleblower if this video gets enough views I'm Whistleblower three and every time that anybody reports on it they're gonna say we got a third well not technically a third whistleblower what let's call it whistleblower four please sort of the only real third one but we don't want to call that one that Adams did that's you know so should we call it four or three so that that's the the secret persuasive

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so that that's the the secret persuasive clever part about it is not just that the video is funny and people are people are laughing and crying when they see it but that it it actually will interfere with the with the news so it's designed to interfere with the news in a humorous and maybe productive way speaking of the news I think I we're watching the Democrats start at least some of them start to understand what's going on here so Matt Taibbi I won't call him a Democrat I'll just say that he's typically not a supporter of President Trump I don't know what he is in terms of his politics but he is more identified with the left and in Rolling Stone it was quite notable so Matt Taibbi if you don't know him he's a very respected writer one of the best probably one of the best pure writers working in the

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the best pure writers working in the world and by that I mean just the sentences and the thoughts there are always a plus anything meant Taibbi rights is worth reading and I wouldn't say that about many people but in in Rolling Stone he basically said that this whistleblower doesn't look like a whistleblower that it looks exactly like an organized coup attempt now those are my own words but I'm paraphrasing then you say it's not a real whistleblower it's an organized attempt to overthrow the government about that Bob Baer I believe eat better fact check me on this but I think he called it a palace coup now he didn't say it is a palace kid who I think he said something more like you know it's starting to look like one or as the signs of a palace coup or could be but just the fact that a you know a frequent CNN guest who is an expert on the intelligence agencies

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an expert on the intelligence agencies looks at the situation remember he's an expert and he's usually CNN's expert and he said and he said it looks like a coup attempt what so now you have two people who have sort of broken with I'll say the Democratic message now to be fair I don't think either of those individuals are much influenced by anybody's common message there they seem to be free thinkers you know by their nature that my observation is that they do seem to be independent thinkers Matt Taibbi and Bob Baer so when you see them saying independently it looks like a palace coup well what do you think because it looks like to me it looks like a coup like an actual legitimate organized

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like an actual legitimate organized effort to overthrow the government that's what it looks like to me and I'm not there's no hyperbole here this looks like a civil war without the shooting and I would say again that I don't expect there will ever be any shooting in terms of us you know any kind of a widespread civil war but it's certainly a coup and we're watching it play out in slow motion as if it's not happening with our our collective grasp on what is real and what is not real is so weak right now that we actually are watching a coup attempt in progress and we're not really sure well I'm maybe it's a good thing maybe it's a coup attempt but yeah reality just stopped working so people have retreated to their hallucinations so

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retreated to their hallucinations so here's what I wrote in The Wall Street Journal so I'll give you I'll give you one paragraph and The Wall Street Journal article it's there's a paywall but many of you have a subscription so you can go see it but here's what eyes that I said all sides can agree that mr. Trump was and by the way in The Wall Street Journal there style guide is to call Trump mr. Trump so after I think after you've referred to him as the president once you can call him mr. Trump after that so I said in my article all sides can agree that mr. Trump was serving his own reelection interests by asking Ukraine to investigate mr. Biden so wouldn't you say that was true wouldn't both sides agree that has serves mr. Trump's re-election interests to ask Ukraine to investigate by them we'd all agree that's true right it helps his reelection campaign I don't think anybody's arguing about that here's the second part but we also agree our

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second part but we also agree our political system allows that right our system is designed to allow our politicians to act right in front of us in a way that's good for their election we encourage that that's how the system works so so far that's not a problem but we allow we allow people to pursue their re-election so long as you're doing it as I said so long as the president is also clearly pursuing the national interest so as long as he's doing something that's good for the country it doesn't matter that it's good for his reelection that's what we want that's what we expect and the system is designed to encourage it do more of that stuff that gets you elected mr. president do more of it because he can't do it in with people watching unless it's a good thing so then I here's here's the kill shot here so I said that before the Democratic primary would it be good for the country to know more about Joe

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the country to know more about Joe Biden's relationship with Ukraine is the country better off knowing the nature of the relationship before the Democrats decide where their nominee is because what if there's nothing there don't the Democrats want to know that what if there's something there don't the Democrats want to know that because the last thing the Democrats would want here's how I finish it up I said Democrats who should appreciate finding out Tsun Tsun being the operative word here because they got a primary folk they'd want to know soon if there's anything of concern regarding the Biden's and Ukraine because I assume they don't want to go into the general election with a candidate you have some surprises in his Ukrainian closet if you're a Democrat did you want to go into the general election with Biden as your candidate with some things we don't quite know about the Ukraine do they want that I'm pretty sure both sides

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want that I'm pretty sure both sides want to know what went on and it also would be very nearly the president's highest priority what would be the president's highest priority other than finding out if the guy who's pulling number one for President of the United States Biden finding out if that guy as the conflict of interest which on the surface seemed obvious to me it seems obvious that if your son is making a lot of money from a country you're not going to go hard at the country that's paying your son am I wrong that you don't need to dig into any kind of secret quid pro quos or you don't even need to know about prosecutors being fired you don't need to know about any of that all you have to know is that his son is making a ton of money and you couldn't really expect that if Biden was president he would act against the interests of his own son you wouldn't expect that so certainly the Democrats would want to

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certainly the Democrats would want to that situation totally vetted so they know they've got a clean candidate going into the general election so here all the things we know did chunk do it because it's good for his reelection probably I don't we all assume that to be true that he he tried to get Ukraine's help because it would help him get reelected it also happened to be one of the top priorities for both Democrats and Republicans in this country so he pursued his job to do those things the other thing I said in the article is that anybody who says that they shouldn't have been the president's conversation that should have happened to some kind of lower working level if we wanted to do an investigation you do with investigators you don't do it with the president to which I say that sounds like something that somebody would say if they had no experience anybody with experience will agree with what I'm gonna say right now you really can't get lower-level people in two

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can't get lower-level people in two different organizations to work with each other until the bosses have talked and agreed what's going on until the bosses talk in this case president trompin zalenski is less key is less key in the Ukraine until they talk there was no lower level thing that was gonna work because they're just like every other organization the lower level people don't do anything until the bosses agree so given that we have a treaty with Ukraine about sharing information given that the president released the transcript had lots of witnesses was pursuing his his job and so I said that in the column and I want to give you one of the NPC responses to it NPCs as you know are non player characters in a video game people who seem to be interacting with your environment but for reasons that you don't quite understand they don't seem to have actual brains now I'm not saying they

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actual brains now I'm not saying they don't have brains I'm saying that our impression of them is that there's no thought process going on I'm not saying that they're thinking something different I'm not saying that they're just agreeing with me I'm saying that there doesn't seem to be something that looks like a thought process somebody's asking where the column is it's in the Wall Street Journal today so just Google my name and Wall Street Journal it'll pop right up so here's here's an opinion that was written to my article in The Wall Street Journal today and look for any signs of thought okay here's what this person says it is truly pitiful to witness the rhetorical contortions some employ referring to me in defense of the indefensible is there anything there the sentence doesn't have anything in it I'll read it again it is truly pitiful to witness the rhetorical contortions some employ in defense of the indefensible there's

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defense of the indefensible there's nothing there here's another here's the next sentence so I will restate what the whistleblower and the White House transcript demonstrate Trump attempted to extort and notice how NPCs will just insert words that don't that are not demonstrated as if it's just reality so it's an extortion attempt the Ukrainian government to damage his main reelection opponent and then here's the fun fun part he finishes is comment by saying full stop end of story what if I taught you about people who say full stop end of story those people know they that they haven't made a point people would make a point just make their point people who have an argument give you their argument people don't have an argument just state that something's true and say full stop and the stories that's MPC talk so there you

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the stories that's MPC talk so there you go that's why part of that I was just watching Van Jones a little clip of Van Jones you know asking both sides to be reasonable and you know try to protect the system so Van Jones has a lot of credibility in terms of he has been able to work with both sides and he does him legitimately interested in some kind of middle ground on a lot of stuff but he also called out Trump saying in public that China should investigate Biden now how can you go on television you know be a be a modern you know informed watcher of the news how can you go on television and say that you thought that was serious how many people thought that China was listening to the president say a China should investigate Biden and then China was gonna say you know we've got this tensed trade war going on but I

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got this tensed trade war going on but I think we'll will do a favor for the guy who's busting our balls is there even one chance in the world the China was going to listen to that say oh this whole time we've been you know sort of pushing against Trump and hoping he doesn't get reelected because we'll get a better deal with the Democrat but now we'll because he said that will suddenly change course and and try to tank his opponent so that we'll have four more years of the guy we can't get a deal with is there any chance that China took that seriously is there any chance the Trump took it seriously as him I think I'll say this in public and then China will start investigating no no it was a framing statement here's the framing the framing is this I'm the president in the United States if there's some kind of you know high-level corruption thing that's happening in another country I'm gonna ask that country to look into it so long as it has something to do with

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so long as it has something to do with the United States you know as long as it's within his domain of interest he'll ask anybody he'll last China he'll ask Russia he'll ask Ukraine he's gonna do it right in front of you as many times as you need to until you realize that's his job so say asking China to look into it was essentially reframing the situation as okay you all understand this is my job it's my job to protect American elections if there's a top polling candidate who might become president and he's in the pocket of China or he's in the pocket of Ukraine don't you want to know Democrats wouldn't the Democrats like to know that before before election day of course they do because it could take their kid the day right out of the running of course they want to know everybody wants to know so there's that all right see what else we got the weirdest thing

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what else we got the weirdest thing happened in the news recently which is that CNN is reporting that Fox News has diverse opinions just think how funny that is CNN is reporting that a number of the Fox News hosts are disagreeing with each other about I think the Ukraine call for example CNN is reporting the Fox News is showing diverse opinions like it's something wrong is there anything CNN can do right now I'll tell ya do you have more more respect or less respect for Fox News and knowing that they're allowing on the air completely opposing opinions on this Ukraine thing well not last I don't have less respect for them for allowing diverse opinions

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for them for allowing diverse opinions because I don't think any of the people with those opinions are lying you know I think if Tucker or Shepard Smith or anybody else if they say something that's you know opposed to the president's interest I don't think they're lying does anybody think they're lying no it's their opinion they could be right they could be wrong they could have different priorities but they're not lying they certainly wouldn't tell those lies on Fox News it's the last place they'd lie it's their employer and everybody would you know it would be so obvious so it's weird it's like CNN's doing a commercial for Fox News by calling out the fact they have diverse opinions it's the damnedest thing all right there's a racist article in CNN there was kind of mind-blowing it's it's so casual and so racist that it that's

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so casual and so racist that it that's the shocking part is it's shocking that it's just a casual article an opinion piece in which it was of course using that dumb Joker movie as as the key and the CNN opinion piece by Jeff yang he says quote the true appeal of the new Joker movie lies in its invidious validation of the white male resentment that helped President Trump to power so this guy's saying that the Joker movie isn't an invidious I don't even know what that frickin word means invidious probably something bad I literally I've never used that word have you ever used the word invidious what the hell does that mean so first of all learn to write learn to write if there's anybody there sex God's God's thought you're so uneducated I know what that word means

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uneducated I know what that word means well that's not what I'm talking about if you're gonna write an article for the public don't say invidious now I didn't say insidious I said it invidious is that even a word madam invidious validation of the white male resentment do you think - Joker validates white male resentment and I don't think anybody who saw the movie thinks that but I mean this just seems straight-up racist to me that's how I took it nothing but I also don't care too much because yeah
I know what you want to talk about you want to talk about Trump and the Kurds don't you don't you so Sunday night Trump apparently blindsided at the Pentagon as it's been reported he blindsided the Pentagon and announced that the u.s. is going to pull out to

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that the u.s. is going to pull out to this strip of land on the edge of Syria that's next to Turkey and let Turkey control the so-called safe zone and Turkey would then take responsibility for all the Isis prisoners in that area and the US would just say hey let's get out none of our business anymore now what the president wanted was some of the European countries other countries to take more of a role that doesn't seem to be happening right away anyway if it happens at all the criticism from Lindsey Graham and others is that the Kurds fought with us against Isis they've been good allies to us very effective and by pulling out we allow turkey who regards those same curves as terrorists because the curves have territorial let's say differences of opinion with Turkey so they have a real beef with Turkey and have have for a long time so the

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have have for a long time so the Conservatives that Turkey is really going to use this opportunity of our withdrawal to go attack the Kurds and kill them all now here's the first thing I say the first thing you should know about this story is what I wrote about in a Wall Street Journal article that came out today which is it's the fog of war the first reports you get about this just don't believe them just don't believe them almost certainly there's some context missing now if you look real hard you'll see that there's something about some US troops might accompany the the Turkish troops so it looks like there might be some kind of embedded monitoring or maybe an embedded you know set of eyes and ears that would have some effect keeping the Turkish military from moving against the Kurds I would think now are there any guarantees no is it dangerous

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there any guarantees no is it dangerous for the Kurds probably but this is a serious adult decision this is one of those adult decisions that you don't see very often the Trump is really good you know even though he can play the clown to get attention and stuff like that when it comes to a hard decision an adult decision he's really good at it even if you don't like what he decides he makes tough decisions this was a tough decision because she had to things that can't go on one thing that can't go on is that we just stay there forever it's just it's just not our back yard the other thing that can't go on is leaving so you have two things that can't work staying and leaving neither than work absolutely complete don't work so what do you do what do you do if you have a situation where the only two options don't work well if

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only two options don't work well if you're Trump you shake the box and he shook the hell out of this box because he just said well we're pulling out I'm sure there's more details that will come out things that will help at least I don't know if it's going to be a fig leaf or it's gonna be real but there will be something said in the coming 24 hours 48 hours that will tell you that the Turkish attack and destruction of the Kurds is not as clear-cut as the first reports would have them so the initial reports are oh my god we're pulling out tomorrow turkey will just destroy all the cards maybe I'm certainly not gonna say that's not going to happen I think that's a solid risk okay I'm not going to say there's no risk clearly that's a risk looks like a big woman but it also changed the variables and some of those variables that might be changed is how we're keeping an eye on the area

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keeping an eye on the area so if we're keeping an eye on it and and Turkey knows that we will cut their balls off if they take the church that the Kurds out might be enough I mean would would turkey take a chance of going against the courage knowing that the US would would move quite decisively against them as they did I don't know they might yes they know yeah somebody says yes you can't say no because it's a pretty high priority I understand Turkey really really wants to get rid of this Kurdish threat as they see it so I would say that we should wait for more information about what the President or anybody involved in this is planning in terms of how to keep the Kurds safe and it better be good I think we'd all agree with that right if the President or anybody involved in this

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President or anybody involved in this has a plan for keeping the Kurds relatively safe it better be a good plan the I think the public requires that now it might be that we need to work it out as we go because these things are messy we might need to figure it out as we go but we better do it I don't think this country would stand for less but here's the big part of the story that I haven't seen yet reported because we're all focusing on the Kurds that were can apparently part of this process is turning over a large number of Isis prisoners to Turkey so that we don't have to pay for basically having a permanent prison forever of all these captured Isis people let me ask you this what do you think is gonna happen to the ISIS prisoners once turkey gets a hold of them what do you think are we gonna be watching that situation closely

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be watching that situation closely probably not does Turkey want to spend money forever to protect the people who wanted to kill them and enslave them probably not does turkey have enough room and their existing prisons to just you know pull these Isis prisoners in there and say yeah we got plenty of room probably not my interpretation is that Turkey is going to kill them all maybe not tomorrow but I'm pretty sure they're gonna disappear and I'm not sure I have a problem with that can I say that can I say that in public it is genocide clearly because there's some large number of prisoners be they Isis or not and I'm pretty sure that this will put in motion all of their deaths sooner or later you know I think

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deaths sooner or later you know I think Turkey might wait a year or something but pretty sure you're not gonna find those people again in five years checking check back in five years they'll be nobody there now here's what I say if this had been something like a normal war with normal sort of soldiers I would say no way these are just soldiers they it wasn't their fault they just probably had to join the military or else they would been shocked you don't you don't round up the the losing side soldiers and kill them you just don't do that right and if somebody else tries to do it you want to stop them but that's not what's happening here Isis is not a military in the traditional military sense these are people who wanted to torture kill or rape and slave Turkey if Isis had its way they would be enslaving the Turkish population so if you've got somebody who's your prisoner and they were trying

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who's your prisoner and they were trying very hard to kill rape and enslave you what is your obligation to them honestly if turkey murders all of the Isis prisoners I wouldn't have I wouldn't I wouldn't say a peep now you could argue uh
uh slippery slope blahblah yeah now really not really killing mass murderers who want to enslave you and rape your women is not genocide that's just taking a care of business of lowering your expenses the only thing that the ISIS prisoners can do of value from this point on the only value they have to the world is that once turkey gets rid of them they can reduce their expenses that's it yes that was my stomach growling
so I don't know if we'll see any attention on that but I think the ISIS prisoners are all dead now the other interesting part of this is the Pentagon was quote blindsided by the announcement

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was quote blindsided by the announcement are you concerned that the Pentagon obviously the the most expert people about this area in this situation are you concerned that they were blindsided I'm not I'm not concerned about that here's why because of this whole deep state situation and because of the military-industrial complex I don't trust the Pentagon I'm sorry I don't trust them the Pentagon and our intelligence services are not trustworthy on this kind of question if there's a reason we have there's a reason we have a civilian even tried this first he probably said his people over and said talk to the Pentagon his people over and said talk to the Pentagon see if they can get on board with this and then the Pentagon said no the Pentagon unfortunately they are not

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the Pentagon unfortunately they are not as credible as they should be I hate to say that but if you were to compare your civilian leader to your military leader if they disagree you know it would be one thing if they disagreed militarily if there were a military disagreement well you want to go with the experts on that this is not exactly a military decision this is really very much a civilian leadership decision and I would not be surprised if this wasn't the very best way to handle it by taking them out of the loop now you know that the middle you know that the Pentagon got plenty of time to give their opinions don't you you know that the military the Pentagon has been giving their opinions on this whole situation for however long that's been going on so I don't think the White House was uninformed about what the experts wanted and why they wanted it

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experts wanted and why they wanted it but it's up to the civilian government and if the civilian government decides to quote blindside the Pentagon because the Pentagon isn't helping that's their decision as Trump's less shrubs total right he can blindside the Pentagon it might just be the easiest way to do it get it out in public before the Pentagon can try to kill it it probably was the best way to do it because we don't have a government that you can trust to support the civilian government the civilian leaders and the way Trump tweeted it he talks about the other countries have to step up and we will only fight wars or our benefit you know his supporters love that and he talks about the captured Isis fighters in their quote neighborhood so he's making a case that you can't be you

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making a case that you can't be you can't be thousands of miles away and try to manage something in somebody else's backyard you can do things temporarily like go in and defeat Isis but you can't stay there it's just not a stable long-term situation so I think I don't know I'm gonna wait 48 hours to find there more about this situation but I'm leaning toward he had two terrible options and he chose one because he made an adult decision and if the adult decision says you can't manage something in somebody else's backyard forever that's not a bad it's not a bad decision but we hope that they've done something to protect the Kurds the Kurds are in the way all right Kanye West is back on the news gave apparently he's decided that his music from now on will be spiritual music something like that because he's he's having a great time apparently doing his Sunday services with music and he's got

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Sunday services with music and he's got it I think he's got an album coming out that might be that kind of music but he said in public the other day you black so you can't like Trump it says funny when you read a quote from Kanye because I'm about as far from Kanye lingo as you can get so it sounds funny coming out of my mouth but imagine Kanye said this you black so you can't like Trump I ain't never made a decision only based on my color West said that's a form of slavery mental slavery mental slavery and then he said that the Republicans freed the slaves talking about you know Abraham Lincoln I did not expect Kanye to come out in favor of Trump again I didn't expect him to do this again did you I thought I thought he was just gonna sort of let that go and move on to another face but

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that go and move on to another face but I just love the fact that nobody can tell him what to say and that if he's not supposed to say it he's gonna say it three times hey Kanye you're not allowed to say it what is it that I'm not allowed to say that you like Trump okay I love Trump I love Trump I love Trump is that what I was not supposed to say I love that about him
him I just absolutely love the fact that he doesn't let anybody push him around I love that I tweeted the other day that that we must impeach president Trump's were bringing unemployment to a 50-year low because he only did it to get reelected when will this grifters start looking out for the American people instead of just making the economy strong and then the president tweeted similarly asking if he should be the president tweeted should he be impeached for three point five

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he be impeached for three point five percent unemployment so I liked the fact that he was thinking the same way all right
looking at my notes oh so there's Glenn Greenwald was tweeting about a Politico article in 2017 that reported and remember Politico again this right they're not exactly pro Trump but a 20-17 they reported that Ukraine was helping Hillary Clinton in her election and gave lots of examples and apparently Ukraine there are Ukrainians who admit that was just the case they sort of matter-of-factly matter-of-factly sayeth so just think about that Politico and 2017 reported that Ukraine was helping Clinton in the election I don't even remember seeing that I don't even remember that story biron New York is has an article in is

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biron New York is has an article in is that that DC examiner The Examiner Washington Examiner pointing out that the so-called impeachment hearings are private their secrets now what would happen if the if the Democrats get a bunch of secret testimony literally secret we don't know what it was and then they decide to a peach based on secret testimony what the hell is that
think about it nobody you said the thing I'm gonna say next I don't think yet so I'll be right be the first one to say it the Democrats have painted themselves in a corner because it's one thing to you know have the vote or not have the vote with the full house you know that would be dangerous enough to vote to impeach because the the voters might rebelled against that but what would the remoter x' do if they decided to impeach based on secret

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decided to impeach based on secret testimony wouldn't you expect that even the democrats would jump ship at that point if you're backing if you're backing the team that wants to remove your president based on secret testimony you're not on the right team you you don't have to know anything else about policy use or personalities if you're backing the secret testimony remove the president team you're on the wrong team and I think it doesn't take many Democrats to have that feeling before it's a landslide for for Trump so it's happy it's having for a landslide because the secrecy of those of the hearings really makes it impossible to vote to impeach doesn't even if even if all they did was vote in the house and then the Senate the Senate doesn't vote that way yes he doesn't so the president's not removed from office but what would voters do in the general election if the House voted to impeach

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election if the House voted to impeach based on secret testimony I don't think there could be anything dumber than that that that would be like the dumbest thing you could ever you could ever do and it looks like they're doing that they're actually doing the dumbest thing speaking of dumb things did you see Biden's latest campaign ad that looks like it was put together by a high school student who had not been briefed on what a campaign ad is you don't realize how good Trump's communication group is with all of their memes and funny things and videos and you know clever tweets and provocative tweets and all that you don't realize how good Trump's team is until you see what the other team does Biden is leading in the polls and he can't put it on a campaign ad that isn't incompetent I mean just on the surface it's like you look at it you go seriously and and I

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look at it you go seriously and and I don't say that from everybody who competes with Trump remember in 2016 I called out the best add of the the whole campaign was Bernie Sanders at the one in my opinion the one where you know they're seeking America and there's a Simon and Garfunkel music and it's inspiring and young people are you know rushing toward the scene I just look great so I can certainly call out a good video on the other team because I've done it that video looked like a high school production it first of all the entire point of the video was that Trump was in Biden's head and he was not gonna let that happen that's it that's why you're running for president joe Bryden the reason that you want to run for president is that Trump is in your head that's it it was terrible it didn't even give any reason for him to be president or anything just said Trump was in his head who put that out all right so I think we

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who put that out all right so I think we can all agree that Biden will not be the nominee it's obvious that Bernie will be sinking it looks like Elizabeth Warren is climbing what will that do to the Democrats oh here's where the fun starts you've got people like Michael Moore and apparently others who are already begging for Michelle Obama to enter the race that's right Michael Moore who whether you agree with him or disagree on his politics whether you agree or disagree alright there's somebody here I need to get rid of you to to to you whether you agree or disagree goodbye with Michael Moore you you probably do agree that he has a clear-eyed view of

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agree that he has a clear-eyed view of the public in other words Michael Moore for anything you wouldn't say about him you know and I know you have your criticisms he does he did call out that Trump was likely to win he does understand that Midwest and of you know their anger and their angst and their problems and he does seem to have a really good grasp on everything from persuasion to politics and he says Warren can win now as Michael Moore tells you that he would rather have and I'm gonna say something insulting here but you this is not an insult to now I'm not gonna say that I was going to call him Michelle Obama housewife is that an insult you decide I don't mean it to be one it's not meant to be an insult it's simply a factual statement about what experience she has

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statement about what experience she has which would be relevant for being the president I believe she's a mom and she's a you know an active spouse partner she's an attorney she's certainly has experience in terms of being around politics and she's a great public speaker she's a great personality she's got charisma she is popular there's a lot you can say it it's good about Michelle Obama you know you could make it if you started the list of positive qualities of Michelle Obama it would be pretty long pretty long list but if she's your best hope and when I say housewife that's no insult because you know we live in a world where sometimes a woman's sometimes the man is taking primary responsibility for the house the kids you know the you know the the lifestyle outside of the money-making

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lifestyle outside of the money-making process somebody has to do that it's important job I'm certainly not minimizing that role hugely important and by all by all accounts she was good at it probably good at a lot of things but if that's your best chance for a president it's also an author and also an author so lots of good qualities Michelle Obama
president you know even Hillary Clinton had to run through Senate and Secretary of State to to get up to speed so what that tells me is that Warren is not viable now I don't think there's any chance that Michelle Obama's couldn't jump in the race because she would just get you visited and I think I think life is better living with your retired president husband making sure your kids get you know all the all the good start

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get you know all the all the good start in life and all the good things she's doing so I don't think there's any chance that Michelle Obama's gonna get in the race I also don't think there's any chance that Hillary Clinton will get in race I think the group that's in the race is what she got now let me ask you this if Biden has no chance Bernie has no chance and Elizabeth Warren has no chance according to Democrats who were smart who is left Budaj edge how is Budaj edge going to do with the black vote at the moment not so good well if it's not Budaj edge who's next
Harris so we'll say now remember it was over a year ago that I made the prediction in the Harris is the one that the president needs to worry about we could all agree there's so far her performance as a

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there's so far her performance as a candidate has been just about the worst I've ever seen probably you know I think okay Biden's worse Biden might be the worst I've ever seen but but Harris is really bad at this however as I've said many times all of Harris's problems are easy to fix they're really easy to fix she has the kind of problems you can fix in one day you just have to work on a little bit you know don't do your self don't don't do the nervous laugh at your own jokes fix your body language you know just a few things and she would be would be the I think that would make her the Democratic candidate so we'll see if that happens she's certainly smart enough to make those changes she certainly has heard the criticisms so she knows what needs to change so we'll see if she makes that adjustment Harris won't get the white

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adjustment Harris won't get the white vote somebody says well no I think I think the Democrats just don't want to have a candidate that they have a reason to vote against so Harrison probably you know she has some rough edges she has plenty of things that people are gonna object you but probably not enough of those things that people will want to vote against her if they're Democrats and if they get all the Democrats that's all they need somebody says why don't they have any decent candidates well I think the problem is that their party is too divided with the aoc wing and Lee and the traditional wing so the problem is not the candidates the problem is that the party split in two now you could argue that trumpet did the same thing to Republicans you could argue that there was a time when Trump was splitting the Republicans in half there were the Trump Republicans and then the

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were the Trump Republicans and then the never Trump rivers and they the neo-cons and whatever but since then Trump pulled them all together and he did it by performance he did it by putting the judges in by not starting wars by having a strong economy cutting taxes so Trump did the things they would bring the two sides together and probably one of the most successful persuasion jobs of all time if you think about it um maybe Reagan I'm not enough of a historian to know but maybe Reagan did a similar thing if somebody could help you out on the on the details but I don't necessarily think the Democrats have a personality that could pull those two sides together the way Trump could and he's sort of a singer personality you know people can't do things just because he could do them he can simply do things other people can't do that's that was initially what made him interesting to me all right I will

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him interesting to me all right I will say again for anybody new my new book I think is available for pre-order now go to wherever you buy books and you can see it the Amazon or other and if you make this a best-seller which I'm hoping you will you actually will change the world that's the that's not actually an overstatement if this book becomes a best-seller it will make certain types of arguments that you see all the time mocked and of existence and I say in the book that you can take a picture of any page of the book and reproduce it put it in your tweet and slam down somebody who's not good at arguing all right that's all I have for now I will talk to you all later bye for now have a great day
day let me see if I can touch that button okay bye now