Episode 696 Scott Adams: Third-Rate Politicians, Sharing All That Syrian Sand, The Hypnosis Coup

Date: 2019-10-17 | Duration: 45:10

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu Pelosi and Schumer’s Outrage Theater scene Can America survive the Syrian pullout “crisis”? The Hypnosis Coup continues Did the Kurds release ISIS prisoners…or just their families? Are the Kurds a whole lot more capable… …and much better armed than you hear reported? America’s political system guarantees that we can’t be trusted Our leadership and our priorities change periodically Have we lost the “moral high ground”? Lindsey Graham supports, promotes sale of US weapons Moody’s prediction: President Trump will win in a landslide How do Hypnosis Coup victims reconcile that? Competition to be first saying their opponent had a “meltdown” Pelosi and Schumer sold out the Kurds for what? The hope of a few political points? A verbal kill shot for Elizabeth Warren’s campaign

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hey everybody come on in here it's time for coffee with Scott Adams and as you're streaming in here because I know you don't want to miss it now you don't today will be a good one oh yeah today it's all kinds of fun news the kind that goes well with coffee and if you're prepared and I know you are because you're that kind of people you may already have what you need and all you need is a cup or a mug or glasses snifter Stein cellist anchor thermos flask canteen Grail goblet vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and now get ready for the dopamine hit of the day hey Hardwick and the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous em go oh oh that's a good simultaneous sipping whoo so

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good simultaneous sipping whoo so Felicity Huffman has reported to prison you know about that story from the College Admission scandals and here's the the local angle so it turns out that the the jail that Felicity Huffman is going to is right down the street from me practically walking distance it's technically walking distance is about five miles but it's a place I Drive by all the time and I thought to myself well I should tell William AC to stop by sometime he'll probably be in the area a lot probably an easily nice place to stay so we'll you may see if you're watching this DM me we can have lunch or something but it only be two weeks and then I guess she'll be out so this is one of the funnier days in the news all right I'm right so watching a

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all right I'm right so watching a Schumer announced to the the press the president Trump had called Nancy Pelosi either a third-rate politician or a third-grade politician and they really needed to figure that out is it third-rate or is it a third grade there's some controversy about that so here's my takeaway first of all the funniest tweet about this is when you see the pictures of Schumer and Nancy Pelosi talking to the press somebody somebody tweeted a picture of the two of them and said I heard the Cryptkeeper and his mom are having a bad couple of years the Cryptkeeper and his mom
it's cruel but it's funny now here's my take away the whole Pelosi

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now here's my take away the whole Pelosi Schumer walking out thing is nothing but outrage theater and if you know why outrage theater is or if you don't let me invite my my partner Dale to come over and explain it to you outrage theater goes like this Oh Tom calls her a third-rate politician
and then she walked him now let me ask you this how important does how much importance does Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer what importance do they put on saving the Kurds so she goes into a meeting Pelosi does with Schumer and Trump and they're trying to literally save the lives of the Kurds our allies

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save the lives of the Kurds our allies but they decided not to save the lives of the Kurds because Trump may have insulted her what she decided not to save the lives of the Kurds because Trump said something mean and so that was a better thing to do go to the go to the cameras go to the microphones and try to win a point with a little point hi we got him we got him now he's saying insulting things who ever imagined the president Trump would say something insulting now who was President Trump talking to with this alleged comment that he or she mostly she was a third-rate politician was it the third a politician who's been calling the president it deranged racist

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calling the president it deranged racist for the past three years I think if somebody calls you a deranged racist for three years and you call them a third-rate politician I don't even know if you're even yet I would say the president actually owes are a few insults he's a few insults short he could he could crank it up a little bit just to get even but I think we can conclude from this that neither Schumer nor Pelosi could give a rat's ass about the Kurds well we're all on that page right is there anybody who thinks that's humor and closely care anything about the Kurds nope I'm gonna make a prediction here there will be the strangest prediction given given what the headlines say I think that Trump's decision to pull out of Syria will once the fog of war settles and there's a little historical context and we know

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little historical context and we know what's actually turned out instead of just guessing I think Trump pulling out of Syria is going to turn into one of the great decisions of any president and every time he talks about it and they mock him for his let's say his plain-spoken way of just telling it like it is I can't help liking him more is that happening to you too
too let me give you some quotes from Trump about the Syrian situation and I swear I just like him more every time he talks like this he said I wish them all a lot of luck he waved off concerns that he was providing an opening for Russia Iran and Syria to swoop in to the area quote I wish them a lot of luck Trump said if Russia wants to get involved in Syria that's really up to them and the

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that's really up to them and the president appeared to make light of the situation when he said he said they've got a lot of sand over there so there's a lot of sand they can play with they've got a lot of sand over there I can't tell you how perfectly that explains what I feel about the situation there's a lot of sand over there I'm not even sure if anybody owns it right I mean at one point I'm sure there were property rights and stuff but at the moment I don't even know if any of anybody owns as sand and there's a lot of it I probably have enough to share there's a lot of sand over there there's no more perfect way to describe how low our national interest is than to call it a bunch of sand so he got somehow the president got all of our enemies and frenemies to fight over a big pile of

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frenemies to fight over a big pile of sand and he left he left them to fight over a pile of sand that's actually what happened how is this not going to be one of the greatest decisions the president ever made because everybody told him he couldn't do it now I think that the criticism will start to concentrate on the question of whether he could have done it more elegantly the Kurds better and you know what I think I I think that no matter what was gonna happen the Kurds and the Turks both wanted to fight was er were the Kurds begging for mercy and saying please turkey don't attack let's talk that wasn't happening unless I'm wrong you know if I hear later that that did happen and the Kurds were saying please please help us have a conversation

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conversation don't let the Turks in here today but I don't think that was happening I think the Kurds said let's fight and the Turks said let's fight and Trump said well there's a lot of sand good luck fighting over it I don't know that feels that feels exactly like the right thing to do so I think history is going to judge this very kindly like very very kindly as in it was just sort of the past like a president numbered it one of those situations at least in for him
him foreign affairs and the and Trump is even being honest about the Kurds he goes the KERS know how to fight and as I said they're not angels and he's just acknowledging that you know they're that all of the Kurds are associated with part of the Kurds that are flat-out terrorists at least in terms of Turkey's perspective so the president is just saying well we helped them win wasn't

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saying well we helped them win wasn't that nice to help us but because we helped them once that does not obligate us to help them forever it doesn't work that way now the way the illegitimate news is trying to frame this in the coup by hypnosis so if you knew this what's going on is a sort of a slow-motion coup in which the coup planners are using brainwashing and hypnosis to do a bloodless clip bloodless coup and part of that is the way they're framing the Syrian situation and they're framing as we've abandoned our
our allies except that both both sides were out lies one was a NATO ally one was a different kind of ally we didn't have a choice of abandoning an ally it was gonna be one or the other so that's illegitimate framing by the hypnosis coup people they also act like

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hypnosis coup people they also act like it was impulsive was it impulsive because I'm pretty sure the president's been talking about this forever do you think President Trump was getting the answer he wanted from his generals no because the generals never want to leave the generals don't want to leave the generals want to finish the job
job so if you spend three years arguing with your own generals and they haven't changed your mind and you're the civilian leader you get to make the adult decision which he did and the adult decision was I'm gonna shake the box some people are gonna die but it's the fastest way to get to a stable situation that doesn't involve us dying so he shut the box and here's what we don't know so I looked at Fox News homepage I looked at the CNN homepage and what I was looking for is an update on the violence between Turkey and the Kurds did you find any can you find any

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Kurds did you find any can you find any current reporting at all any that would indicate who's shooting it who how many are dead can you tell me how many Kurds have died approximately fewer than 10 fewer than 100 fewer than a thousand I don't know there's no reporting this er which leads me to believe not many now suppose that history says oh my god the president pulled out and I know 200 Kurds were killed and X number of Turkish troops were killed in the process of wanting to fight each other they both chose the fight didn't probably didn't need to because they're gonna work on a deal and they had that deal all along they they always could have invited Russia and they always could have invited this Aryan said but now they got flexible so there's that now now what

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flexible so there's that now now what about all those Isis fighters that got released here's what I think happened I think what we'll find out in you know after the dust settles I think we'll find out that the Kurds either intentionally released some low value Isis family members as opposed to Isis you know top lieutenants family members so that they could have a legitimate story that said Isis is getting away don't you think the Kurds were behind that don't you because if they weren't they're stupid the one thing that everybody says about the Kurds is that they're smart and capable if the Kurds are in fact smart and capable what's the first thing they should do when Turkey starts heading toward them the first thing you do is let a few Isis family members away get out and say whoops we don't have enough personnel looks like

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don't have enough personnel looks like some Isis people are getting away maybe you ought to pay attention to us now it could be that something got bombed and some Isis people got away that nobody wanted to get away and then and then they didn't have to release them intentionally but if it turns out that there was a genuine Isis escape I think they would have had to do one that was fake if the real one wouldn't hadn't happened in other words no matter what there was a guarantee that some small number of Isis would escape because that works for Isis and it would work for the Kurds in terms of positioning and framing the situation so I think the president alluded to that by calling them you know low value Isis people and I think that he's sort of wise to the fact that the so called Isis scapes are not really Isis escapes now I think I'm the only person who will say

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think I'm the only person who will say this in public all you would need is one curd guard to guard all of the ISIS prisoners because that really involves assuming that everybody else had to go and fight Turkey because that guard would just go around and machine-gun the the ISIS people in their cells at least at least the combatants maybe not the family of members but you only need one because they're not gonna let them free there isn't the slightest chance the Kurds that go saying you know we captured all you murderous killers but you know it looks like we got a personnel problem we don't have enough staff I think we'll let you go not a frickin chance the last Kurd at the prison is gonna machine-gunned Isis and if they don't well they got some explaining to do because even I would machine-gun Isis if I were the last Kurt

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machine-gun Isis if I were the last Kurt and that's not even a joke put yourself in this position you're the last Kurd guarding the ISIS prisoners who have killed your family members raped their way across your country and if you let them go they're gonna do exactly the same thing again you know they well they even tell you they will what are you gonna do you're the last Kurd you're gonna burn down the jail and you get a machine gun anybody who's runs out in flames even I would kill them all I swear to God no joke I would murder every Isis prisoner if I'm the last one with ammunition I can't believe it would go down any differently with the Kurds and probably we'll never hear the details as we don't hear the details from that area quite often now I speculated yesterday that one of the reasons we might not hear about this the Turks slaughtering the Kurds is that the Kurds might be a whole lot more capable than anybody is giving them

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capable than anybody is giving them credit for and what I mean in particular is do you think that America left them with no good weapons and when I say good weapons I mean the really good stuff I don't think so I think that when we left we probably managed to leave them with some good stuff now yesterday I did hear from a reliable source who has sources there I guess that in fact we did leave them some good stuff now it's just one source so I can't can't say that that's confirmed I would need at least one more source to you know have a legitimate to source opinion but commonsensical II do you think we left our allies unarmed that didn't happen so my guess is that turkeys bogged down with a combination of the Syrians and Russians moving in the Kurds being probably really well armed oh and here's the here's another little story we heard before I tell you

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little story we heard before I tell you this keep in mind that every bit of reporting on the first few days of a conflict is likely to be wrong but the story we heard was that the Kurds were sending the the families the women and children toward the Turkish invasion unarmed men and women the Kurds were walking toward the Turkish invasion and and how was that being described it was big described as they were using them as human shields is that what was happening now I don't know if first of all the reporting is correct but let me speculate let's say you're the Kurds and you were part of fighting force and part of civilians and you're all in the same places you know you're in urban areas what would you do if you were the curves and remember this is you always have to keep this in mind the Kurds are the most effective fighting force and the most

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effective fighting force and the most strategic they're the most strategic they're the best in terms of just figuring out what to do strategically what was Kurds best way to stay safe and also defend their territory it was to send all their women and children and families toward the invasion not to be human shields that's the part that the that the coup people are going to tell you you know the hypnosis q q would sort of describe them as human shields what would Turkey do if they saw a bunch of dong non-combatants coming their way would they shoot them I don't think so it's Turkey you know turkey is gonna have their issues you know in a war situation but do you think a standing Turkish army is going to machine-gun women and children walking there away with their hands up no what's it gonna

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with their hands up no what's it gonna do it's gonna take all the women and children out of the blast zone and it's going to slow down the invasion because the invaders are gonna have to deal with all of the non-combatants they're gonna have to do something what do they do do they round them up do they feed them do they just sort of get out of the way whatever do they negotiate with him do they you know try to get some intelligence out of them whatever the Turks do it's going to slow them down and during that time the combatants who remain fortify their positions so something tells me that turkeys not having a good day militarily but we won't know maybe maybe we'll never know because there's just no reporting coming into the area and that tells you something too right how important was it for us to stay when once we left it's not even important enough to report on

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not even important enough to report on now I mean somebody must be trying and maybe it's just too hard to report it might be too dangerous I could respect that if it's just too dangerous but it's not feeling like a priority is it I feel as if this were some kind of American priority we'd have a little bit better porting out of the area but we don't so here's some here's some other takes on this situation Ian Bremmer called this Trump foreign policy crisis so they said it's a foreign policy crisis to which I said what's the crisis can somebody describe to me what the crisis is now I've heard the the speculative what-if crisis the the what-if speculative crisis goes like

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the what-if speculative crisis goes like this if people can't trust the United States because of our president abandoning the Kurds that will hurt us later in ways that we can't quite specify but we'll it is there a country that won't do a trade deal with us because of this no is there a country that won't partner with us militarily because of this situation no because what are their other options partner with us to defeat your local enemy or don't partner with us and good luck it turns out that when you're the strongest country in the world people still going to work with you because the second choice is way worse who is not going to work with the United States no one all right which countries uncritically trusted the United States under all conditions what we promised we'll do something which countries

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we'll do something which countries believe the United States will definitely do something if we say we'll do it how about nobody how about nobody believe that because at the very least we elect a new president every now and then is there some country that could trust that the next president won't reverse everything that this president did no nobody could trust that we have a system because democracy our system guarantees that we can't be trusted we can never be trusted because we'll just vote in a different government and they'll have different priorities so if there's one thing that everybody can be sure of is that the United States can't be trusted forever because our priorities change and our government changes they all know that so what exactly is the crisis is it the few dozen maybe Kurds who are being killed is that a United States crisis because

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is that a United States crisis because I'm pretty sure people were getting killed there all the time and I'm pretty sure something bad was gonna happen whether we pulled out 50 people or not so what's the crisis is the crisis the one that's so bad that nobody's even reporting on it it's not even on the front page of any of the news sites the crisis is what the military will stop fighting I don't think so the crisis is that the military will stop obeying the commander-in-chief not a chance where we are so far from that even being worth talking about not even close somebody says we lost the moral high ground well we had the moral high ground before right we never had the moral high ground we only said that to ourselves do you think the do you think Syria and all those other countries were saying well we hate the Americans and death to America but I gotta say they have the

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America but I gotta say they have the moral high ground no we've never had the moral high ground why should we pretend we ever have it nobody has the moral high ground all there are is countries pursuing their own best interest that's all it is and this whole moral high-ground thing is something that comes from the hypnosis coup people the people who are brainwashing you into thinking that something terrible has been lost nothing terrible has been lost because there was nothing there to lose we never had the moral high ground it's just something we said we never had the moral high ground we never wanted it it's just countries pursuing their own self-interest every time no exceptions right why is it we're not mobilizing to send billions of dollars into Africa to bring their standard of living up to hours why where's our moral high-ground

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hours why where's our moral high-ground we didn't have any there's no national self-interest in using our blood and treasure to fix countries that are they're not well-off now we do give some money to countries because we think it gives us some leverage with them but that's about leverage we do give money to South Central American countries or at least we used to I don't know if we are now because we think it might help their economy and that helps us because it would reduce immigration just one small example but it's always self-interest countries operate on self-interest there was no moral high-ground nobody had it if you could find the moral high ground and you went up to it you'd be all alone Switzerland isn't there Japan isn't there Russia isn't there China isn't there nobody's there we never had the moral high ground because that would require other people to agree that we were there nobody would agree to

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that we were there nobody would agree to that nobody would agree here's what I think this whole Syria thing that withdrawal part is going to look like one some time is gone by I've used this example before of corporations will always say oh we have this employee who's so important you can never fire this employee because they're just so critical and then one day that employee quits and you check back in a year and everything's the same you can really spin yourself up into believing things are important that are not important why is it that we think there's a crisis with a Syria thing I can't think of any idea honestly I don't even have a I don't even have a theory do you it's only a crisis because the coup plotters are brainwashing the public to some kind of a crisis is happening literally nothing bad has happened now did something bad happen to the Kurds

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did something bad happen to the Kurds yes who chose that bad path the Kurds as far as I can tell they weren't begging for peace they weren't begging to have a conversation they thought a little bit of war would get them to a better place a little bit of war and then maybe yet offer some peace because then you get a better peace deal right if you if you don't offer a little bit of war you're not gonna get the same deal I don't think we can take responsibility for turkey making decisions that kill people it's kind of not our problem we could stop it but we could stop a lot of bad things in the world and we don't do that where's our moral high ground in stopping whatever a country's got some civil war why are we not moving our troops into Yemen to stop that horrible Civil War why not but where's our high

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Civil War why not but where's our high ground why are we not moving it to Yemen is it because we have no national interest in Yemen yes we have no national interest in Yemen so we have no troops there guess where else we don't have any national interest in and by the way if I were to describe this situation tell me if you should stay around or leave here's the situation well it looks like it's going to be a mess between Assad's Syria whatever is left of it Russia Iran Kurds and Turkey and they're all going to have to sort things out and they're fighting over the same sand that pretty well describes the situation right does that sound like a place you want to be to me that sounds like the place you leave if you tell me if that's what's going on in any part of the world at any time anywhere my first reaction is get out of there get the hell out of there there's nothing good that can

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there there's nothing good that can happen by injecting Americans into that mess sometimes you got to get back to your own backyard right now when we inject ourselves into the lives of say Hondurans well at least they're neighbors you know at least you got some commonality common interest because of geography well man we got nothing nothing going on over there so that's my prediction that Trump will not only weather this crisis that's no crisis at all as far as I can tell but that it will you will in retrospect look like one of the great decisions that's my opinion now I know there are people here who are saying Scott you apologist you will apologize for anything but I put a prediction out there and so we'll be able to check that in the future all right so I guess a bunch of Republicans

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right so I guess a bunch of Republicans joined with a bunch of Democrats to do some kind of a resolution in Congress against the president's decisions does that mean anything does it mean anything that even Republicans are complaining about pulling troops out here's the thing do you remember the prank phone call between there was some prankster who got through to Lindsey Graham and got him on the phone and pretended to be somebody from Turkey and what what did Lindsey Graham start talking about almost instantly Lindsey Graham sneered that conversation almost instantly to buying weapons systems from the United States do you think that's because he thought that would be good for the for the regional security or do you think Lindsey Graham always recommends what's good for the military-industrial complex

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because I like I like me some Lindsey Graham on a lot of different topics so there are a lot of things where I say a good job and I think Lindsey Graham actually is benefiting from president Trump's let's say model he's adopted some of the effective parts of his persuasion so I think Lindsey Graham is a good productive Patriot but all evidence suggests that anything he can support that would sell a weapon system he is in favor of it now I realize that's you know that's a big accusation what I'm saying is that the pattern I observe is that whenever Lindsey Graham is involved he's trying to sell some weapons to somebody because that an accident I mean can you take that guy seriously secondly how many Republicans are there in Congress who also have some kind of connection to

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also have some kind of connection to where the weapons industry a lot of them right the the thing that you should look for is how can the Republicans ever be wrong by telling the president he didn't leave in the right way because remember they get to have it both ways the people who are not the decision-makers the the the peanut gallery who is criticizing the president be they Democrats or be they Republicans they get the advantage of they can criticize the way he left and still be okay with the fact that he left they get it both ways so oh yeah we we also agree that we should get out of there but I'm gonna criticize the way you did it because that that makes me look awesome to people so I think you have to see the Congress's vote as really just peacocking people people showing off for the public a I would have made a better decision or I would have talked to my allies before I did

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have talked to my allies before I did that so that's really all about them it has nothing to do with the president meanwhile Moody's and I think there was one other entity that did the same you use their forecasting powers to say that Trump will win in a landslide and I think what they look at is mostly economic stuff so if the economy on several variables is I'm strong that's very predictive and Moody's Moody's has been winning in literally a landslide and I think there was one other entity that made a similar kind of prediction so now let me ask you this let's say you are a Democrat let's say that you have been rolled up in the hypnosis ku now the hypnosis Q is the brainwashing that's going on that's telling people that the president is committing atrocious legal crimes and betrayal and B selling his office and he's in it for himself and he's

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he's in it for himself and he's impulsive and crazy so that version of the world how did they reconcile that version of the world with legitimate third party saying he's gonna win reelection in a landslide how did they reconcile that now the way I reconciled it is oh it's obvious there's part of the country is brainwashed into thinking something's happening when I can observe nothing's happening that the phone call was a big nothing the Ukraine phone calls the big nothing and all the rest is a big nothing even if every part of the facts are true the way we see them it still doesn't add up to anything so I see a bunch of nothing the people who have been brainwashed into a version of reality that's scary and evil are seeing a lot so my my worldview is completely consistent with everything I I can explain why they see things

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I can explain why they see things falsely and I can explain why it's why the president is predicted to win in a landslide because the facts are pretty much in his favor the persuasion not so much so the president tweeted so the president tried to beat Pelosi to the meltdown word so Pelosi is accusing the president of having a meltdown over that meeting that closely and Schumer walked Donna and the president quickly tweeted that she's having a meltdown so they're they're trying to be first to frame it as a meltdown by the other now do you think that either of them had a meltdown no it's two sides claiming the other hand of meltdown nobody had any meltdowns the Pelosi and Schumer went in there they took a political excuse to

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there they took a political excuse to walk out and and sell out the Kurds because really let's face it Schumer and Pelosi sold out the Kurds by leaving a meeting over a minor insult in the context of Pelosi and Trump insulting them each other every day these two leaders have insulted each other every day for years not quite every day but you know what I mean so the fact that she chose this one time to walk out because cameras were outside and she didn't make a stand and get a little attention and get her two little points and she sold out the Kurds for for a moment in front of a camera what's worse than that I don't know it's hard to think of anything that would be worse than that all right let's see what else we got here would you like to hear a kill shot for Elizabeth Warren's campaign I know you do

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campaign I know you do all right let me tell you how to had a guarantee that Elizabeth Warren cannot be President this assumes she gets the nomination which by the way I do not predict I predict you will not get the nomination but here's how easily Trump could take around you ready the economy is doing great do you want to do something that is super risky done the economy is doing great everybody hears that and says yeah that's mostly true do you want to do something that's super risky nope do you know who votes older people do you know up do you know how older people don't want risk do you know when they do want risk when things are going terrible if things are going really poorly people will take on some risk to change the

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will take on some risk to change the situation because it's like well we can't let this keep going poorly we're gonna have to take on some risk what do people do when you've got a 3.5 percent unemployment and almost every major economic indicator except I guess that is looking good do you walk out and vote that guy on the office never never never you if Trump tries to argue that socialism is good or bad well people are kind of locked in right Democrats say well we think socialism is good or we're a little bit of it you know whether the socialism is just in terms of let's say education and health care you can't say socialism is bad and win the argument because there are other people say hey it's working and it's working in Europe it's working in Canada so don't tell me it's bad because I'm watching it work these are examples you can go look for yourself you don't have

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can go look for yourself you don't have to wonder if it works just look at it it's working in Denmark so you can't win the my system is better than your system but here's how you can win every time to change our system that much everybody would agree is risky that's risk is not something that people will argue with because even the people who think they want to radically transform our economy and that's the way they are talking between the green New Deal and the democratic socialist policies they are expressly saying let's make a big change any big change is risky there's no exception to that if you're talking about a big change to the biggest economy on the planet that's actually the biggest risk you could ever imagine I doubt there would be a bigger risk than any kind of a large transformation

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than any kind of a large transformation of an economy our our size so that's the kill shot the kill shot is not capitalism beat socialism even though it does the kill shot is capitalism has given us a great economy if you want to change that great economy a lot you can't guarantee you know where that ends I can pretty much guarantee I know where socialism goes because we've got lots of experience and we're watching it so that's the kill shot Warren can never get elected with that matchup all right let's talk about all right so Elijah Cummings died at age 68 a very respected member of Congress and then the weird tragic race as part of it is that there's another member of Congress named John Lewis who apparently people on social media and maybe in the press are confusing now I saw the picture of the

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confusing now I saw the picture of the two of them side by side and of course I could tell them apart easily but I know some of you could not so don't confuse your John Lewis's with your Elijah Cummings we're trying to respect Elijah Cummings today and let's not bring John Lewis into the conversation now I don't want to say any more about that because it's too easy to get misinterpreted so let's just respect the fact that he's been he was a dedicated public servant and a lot of people have a lot of respect for him and today's the day not to say bad people bad things about anybody at least under those situations
all right that's all I got that's all I got today I'm using all of my control

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got today I'm using all of my control this is my new thing I'm doing when I get trolled on on Twitter and the troll is using some form of loser think you know a bad thinking technique I'm using the trolls to advertise my book so you're gonna see a lot of this when the trolls come after me with their personal insults and their lack of context you will often see me recommending that they rate my book because turns out that it's the perfect response all right
it's a funny day let's get to it and let's see if we can all survive the crisis I think I can make it talk to you tomorrow