Episode 698 Scott Adams: Russian Asset Tulsi Gabbard, “GET OVER IT” Shirts, Hunter Gatherer,

Date: 2019-10-19 | Duration: 1:10:29

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu President Trump is suing CNN for fake news Mick Mulvaney’s press conference was genius All talks between world leaders are quid pro quo The persuasion value of “Get Over It” tee shirts The persuasion value of holding the G-7 at Doral Elizabeth Warren’s plan to fundamentally change our system How did Gregg Jarrett guess the title of Tiger Woods new book? Hillary says Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset An embarrassing day for Don Lemon Tulsi’s persuasion phrasing: ”personification of the rot” Huffington Post struggles financially Ivanka Trump’s Chinese trademarks The strategy behind Chinese trademarks Mexican police outgunned in shootout with cartel paramilitary Funnier than usual FOX News headlines Who’s lying to America about the cost of universal healthcare?

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boom hey everybody come on in here I didn't notice you were here till just now
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unparalleled pleasure the dopamine end of the day the best part the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous up go Oh could it possibly be any better than this I don't think so I don't think so Wow well once again we are blessed Thank You president Trump for all you have done for us to entertain us thank you once again for your bounteous harvest of news that is not just enjoyable but dare I say delicious yes the news is delicious let us enjoy some news number one the Trump administration is suing CNN for I don't know fake news or something this is probably one of the funniest things they've ever done suing CNN for faking

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they've ever done suing CNN for faking now I guess they're using the project Veritas insider hidden camera reports as sort of the the trigger for this so now there's a visual now did Project Veritas tell us anything that a hundred percent of us didn't already know well not really but putting it in a visual sense and put it in putting it in pictures having an actual face to go with it watching the insiders say it with their own words it's different it's different than just knowing it so it took it to another level in the print the president apparently is taking advantage yes by suing CNN for I don't miss reporting or or fake news or something along those lines I don't even think it matters so here's the best part though that's not the best part the best part is not that the president pursuing CNN for fake news that's just

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pursuing CNN for fake news that's just the setup here's the best part CNN can't report it CNN can't report it because if they report it it just makes them look terrible but if they are you had to be yet you're probably ahead of me right but if they don't report it it validates the claim but if they don't report it and the president says well see there it was big news and they don't even report it fake news now honestly I can't even tell I can't even tell if they are even a little bit serious about this yeah I'm sure the lawyers will get paid and CNN will probably have to pay some lawyers too but I don't know if they're serious about this because it seems like every news organization could be sued for bias one way or another but the hilarity of it that they can't

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the hilarity of it that they can't report it and it's national news they can't report it that's just the funniest thing maybe the funniest thing you've seen all month now remember I keep telling you that reality and entertainment you know the government and entertainment have just merged the funniest thing that's happening almost every day is whatever Trump is doing am i right or sometimes it's whatever crazy Hillary is doing we'll get to that but there's nothing there's nothing if you go to Netflix right now and say I'm in the mood for some funny entertainment good luck good luck find a funny movie in 2019 you can't they yeah you've even seen the reporting this us even the directors who was the director of what was the least or the the Joker movie he used to make funny movies and he said hey you just can't make them anymore nothing's funny yeah so you end up with

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nothing's funny yeah so you end up with Bill burr and Dave Chappelle and then you're done there's like nothing's funny it's like the the world isn't producing funny content except for those two guys anymore and then the Trump administration here's the other thing they did so you probably saw the news about Nick Mulvaney chief of staff so he did a press conference which apparently didn't go so well which is funny because in my opinion it was genius so part of the problem with any administration is that it's a lot of different people with competing opinions and it looks like maybe they're not all in the same page about how to describe what happened with the Ukraine phone call Mick Mulvaney did so far in my opinion the best job any of them have done except for maybe the President himself all right because the president has his own way and he I think

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president has his own way and he I think the president also handled it perfectly I thought Nick Mulvaney also handled it very well but it looks like maybe there was somebody in the White House who disagreed and sort of put pressure on them to walk it back in some way that didn't even make sense so what Mulvaney originally said was genius and I will paraphrase it to improve it even more basically what Mel vainly said is if you're having a conversation with another world leader it's always quid pro quo that is exactly the right framing if you took the quid-pro-quo out of the equation for any two leaders who are having a get-together or a conversation what would you have left no reason to talk if you took the quid pro quo in here I'm talking about the implied quid pro quo that's always there because because

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that's always there because because remember the president is not being accused of directly saying if you do this we'll do that everybody agrees he did not directly say that but everybody also agrees that there's always an implied Withrow quo I've got a little something here waiting for you there's a little something I want later it's always there so what would be even the point of meeting with another world leader unless both leaders came to it with an implied quid pro quo quo and the the implied part could be even general which is hey if you play with us you know play nicely with us on this topic I'll sort of owe you something for later right doesn't have to be direct but if you took the quid pro quo out of the meeting there's no point in talking then that's the only reason the talk am I wrong there's literally no reason to have a conversation if you take that out so

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conversation if you take that out so Mulvaney got close to what I said now let me be immodest here may I be immodest the way I said it is the end of the conversation right if you put me on the stage with somebody who has the other the other view that it's the end of the world and you should be impeached and I say that you know there's no such thing as a conversation between leaders that doesn't have an implied quid pro quo if you were to take that out there's no point in having a conversation ever any leader no point in talking about anything ever even socially it's a waste of time what does the other person say after I say that well they better change the subject because it's the end of the conversation all right Mulvaney was right there he was right on the edge of saying it as clearly as I just said it it's still good I would say he still did one of the best jobs except for the president in in in making that case now the president's version is it's

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case now the president's version is it's a perfect call here's the transcript see for yourself there was no print quid pro quo in the sense that I did not directly ask for something that's pretty good it's pretty good but then everybody finds all this little evidence of conversations before and they're tracking the time line and all that so the president's approach which is pretty good pretty good just coming around and saying yes that's exactly what I did I had that phone call see for yourself but it did leave him open for a little bit of criticism because they find the timeline doesn't match and you know who knew about the funds being withheld and all that whereas the way I did it there's nothing left I've removed all of the opportunity for criticism because I just said yeah that's every meeting between leaders you couldn't take that out if you wanted to you couldn't remove the quid pro quo it's not possible and then on top of that you'd want to say it

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then on top of that you'd want to say it is a top this is also something Mulvaney didn't quite say but he could I think he had at it but you could do better then it is a top priority for any president to find out if anybody's compromised in our government and Biden certainly is on the at least Paul wise he's on the cusp of looking like he could be the next president so find again if that guy has any entanglements with foreign countries is pretty close to the top priority for the sitting president you got to look into that so totally appropriate call the funniest part is that F the Mulvaney thing I guess Mulvaney used the phrase get over it meaning that ya leaders leaders talk this way just get over it so the Trump campaign which is the funniest campaign of all campaigns ever Brad power scale I think probably is behind a lot of this they did a t-shirt.this it just says get over it and and there's a little Trump haircut

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and and there's a little Trump haircut sitting on one of the the first letter of get just get over it now the get over it shirt is again right on message because you know you heard everything I said which is this is just how leaders talk you couldn't remove this even if you wanted to and so he's quid pro quo well get over it get over it is sort of this summary after you've said yeah that's just the way the world works you know thanks for waking up and being an adult and noticing that everything is quid pro quo even if you don't stay in it yeah yeah welcome to the adult world get over it it's pretty good it's funny it probably raises money I have to admit the moment I saw it that wanted it as soon as I saw that t-shirt I was like I kind of want that I'm not gonna wear it cuz I don't want to get punched in public it's too dangerous but I wanted it so that's pretty good it's not often I see a t-shirt where I say yeah I kind of want that alright I would like to

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of want that alright I would like to talk about loser think it's a little thing which I have to show you the cover of the book hold on don't go anywhere don't go anywhere stay
well back you didn't go anywhere did you all right now I want to give you three examples of loser think which is concept out of my new book which you can pre-order now the best book I've ever written probably the best thing you'll ever read in your entire life don't don't let other people read this before you do you're just gonna be well you'll be unarmed you'll be going into debates without knowing how to do it right alright one of the concepts that I talk about here and the idea behind loser think is that if you have exposure to

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think is that if you have exposure to different fields you can see around corners and you can see situations more clearly so for example if you had experience let's say as a lawyer and then you also knew economics let's say you also knew psychology you'd be way ahead of somebody who only knew one of those things and an loser think I don't teach you everything that those fields would teach you just the important concepts I'll give you some clear examples of this I've got three examples of people who either exhibited loser think or did not let's take number one the doral decision the decision to hold the g7 at the doral Country Club what do people who have only let's say their only filter is government or reporting let's say they're they know the news they know history and they're good at reporting

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history and they're good at reporting and government stuff and then they see this story about the president chose his own his own property Doral Country Club for the g7 what would they naturally think about that they'd say that's a problem right if that was your experience if you if you knew journalism government in history and that was that was your main focus and you looked at that you'd say this is terrible this is terrible it looks like it's just an inside job he's looking to profit from it and sure he said we'll do it at cost but you're still saying to yourself yeah but it brings attention to his property right now what if you had an additional skill let's say your skill stack included journalism and the media a little bit about government a little bit about psychology history etc but suppose you also understood negotiating yeah

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suppose you understood persuasion which in negotiating are sort of the same same general area if you do and I do and the President does you would say that this is the most brilliant thing you've ever seen in your life well I'm exaggerating a little bit but you know I do that sometimes here's the thing when you're negotiating you always want the home-court advantage you want to be somewhere where you are most comfortable your own property and you you want the other people to be impressed by your surroundings you want something about you you know yourself your personality but also your property to literally surround them and develop them and become part of their world you can't set the table better than this so much so I would say that every time that a president of our country hosts someone in this country they should always take

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in this country they should always take the home-field advantage let me ask you this question would it be better for the President of the United States to meet another world leader at a hotel ballroom or in the Oval Office you see it now right if you meet with the President of the United States in the Oval Office the president has a huge advantage in this situation because you're in the Oval Office you're literally surrounded what by that president's power and prestige that makes a big difference if you meet them in the arrest and have lunch well then your the table is being set by just randomness yes you're just somewhere else you have no advantage in that situation so that's my first example of loser think now remember loser thing doesn't mean that the people who are doing it are losers nothing like that I'm saying that as a method of understanding your world

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as a method of understanding your world it takes you down the unproductive path it's a losing path it's better to increase your talent stack so you can see around corners a little bit better alright so what was missing for the Doral story was an understanding of negotiating it is a magnificently correct decision the decision to do it at Doral isn't just pretty good it isn't just now he can get away with it it's magnificent it's one of the best smartest cleanest wins you've ever seen reported by people who don't have a full understanding of the world because they've got a blank spot there and the negotiating part of their their brain map can't see it this is visible to them alright here's another one
so elizabeth warren plans to fundamentally change the system and she

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fundamentally change the system and she uses words like that where she's going to fundamentally change our economic system if you did not have a degree in economics as I do I've got a degree in economics and I've got a know an MBA Business School so I have I have that part of my mental map is largely filled in so when Elizabeth Warren says something like this I want to fundamentally change the system people who have my background whether they say it in these words or not are having the following a thought when is a good time to make a radical change to your system is a good time to do it when it's working great or what is not working great now people say hey Scott you said to me that it was actually a really good time to do a trade war with China because you said that our economy is strong that's a good time to take a risk because your economy is so strong that if that goes wrong

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is so strong that if that goes wrong you're still okay because the economy started so strong that is correct the trade war is a change within the system so the system didn't change at all we're just tweaking one variable within the system that's normal business now the China trade war is bigger than normal variable but it's still within the system no matter what we do with China the system will still be the system what Warren wants to do is take the system throw it away and replace it with something we have not tried in this country in quite the way she wants to do it that is a radical and unpredictable change which is way beyond the the level of risk there anybody who had a degree in economics would accept there's almost nobody who if they were being honest let's say you know in the political sense you will of course find people who will take any position on anything right

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will take any position on anything right because it's politics but even somebody who pretended to disagree with what I'm saying if I could take them privately and say look nobody will ever hear what you're gonna say to me this is just between us I swear trust me it's just us nobody else will hear your opinion do you think it's a good idea with your degree in economics to change the entire system when everyone agrees the system has never worked as well as it's working today yeah three point five percent unemployment I mean really that's just crazy and you don't change your whole economy when it's the best it's ever been ever it's just the dumbest thing in the world now let's say that you had no experience in economics and now experience in anything else in which you would do risk management decisions let's say you were a journalist let's say you had a degree in history let's

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say you had a degree in history let's say you have a demeans anthropology in which of those in which of those domains would you have learned risk management none right risk management wouldn't be part of what you do but let's say you were a doctor let's say you were an emergency room doctor or even the most extreme case a battlefield doctor you know you you work in a war zone well in those cases you're doing risk management decisions all the time you know do I work on this patient this one might die but this one's 85 participants 20 so you're doing all this risk management decisions that might get you to the point where you would recognize that Warren's plan is completely the worst risk management decision you could ever make it's the worst now compare that with Julian Castro who was asked about ubi during the last debate what do

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about ubi during the last debate what do you remember what who lian's response was he just gave a sort of a dismiss as one sentence and he said well you know that might be worth a pilot a little test program a pilot program did you catch that it was one of the smartest things said at the debate and it was just he just mumbled it in one sentence because well you know maybe to a pilot program on that Julian Castro showed you had to do it no I don't know what his background is was this able ought to be I don't know what Julian Castro's background is but maybe somebody can tell me in the comments while I'm doing this but based on that comment the fact that hooli and said let's do a pilot program what does that tell you about Julian Castro it tells you he understands risk management that's exactly what you do if what if Elizabeth Warren had been saying look I know this is a radical thing we can't do this all

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is a radical thing we can't do this all at once but I'm going to pick out this part of the economy I'm just gonna work on this one thing let's let's do a pilot let's try a small let's try it in one state let's let's see what we can learn and then we'll decide later if we want to do it bigger if Elizabeth Warren had said something like that well maybe she wouldn't be getting as much attention as she is because that's a little bit too normal being extreme gets you a little more attention but I would certainly say to myself oh there's a leader I could trust because they understand risk management alright here's another example of loser think and this is this is a positive example I was watching meaning I'm gonna give somebody a compliment here so I was watching Tucker Carlson last night and he does a little game show thing I think on Fridays or something in which he has other hosts or personalities from Fox News compete in a little trivia contest

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News compete in a little trivia contest and one of the questions was the name of Tiger Woods upcoming autobiography and Gregg Jarrett was competing against here my Bernie I wish I could but he was competing against somebody else and but I'm only going to talk about the Gregg Jarrett part so neither neither the competitors had heard of the name of the book but it was multiple choice so the magellan Turner I'm sorry yes it was Jillian Turner and neither of them knew the answer but there were four choices and Gregg Jarrett looked at the four choices rang in and said the answer is back one word just back and he said I and he said I don't know what the answer is but like the other three titles are hackneyed which is sort of a writer's term nobody room but nobody writers never uses that word and you know he was the best-selling author he's got a new book that's a best-seller right now last

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book that's a best-seller right now last book bestseller so Gregg Jarrett I believe has a legal background he has a media background he knows that all right you so he noticed the publish world so he knows how words work right he's an attorney he's a TV personality and he's an author so when he looked at the list the word back jumped out as obviously the title that anybody would have chosen under that situation because back referred to Tiger Woods coming back but also he had a problem with his back and also a one-word title is very strong if you could make a title with one word one word lose I think it's not an accident that my titles are good if I do say so myself it's because I work with professionals who really know how to put titles on books right it's not like I

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titles on books right it's not like I come up with one title and everybody says yes it's a whole process a lot of people get involved in fact you know the the subtitle is different from the title the people involved in that I mean it's a whole process to come up with a title Gillian Turner as far as I know I'm not aware of her having a best-selling book probably didn't have experience in getting a book published and picking a title Gregg Jarrett had an extra skill he is a best-selling author he has had I know because best-selling authors all have this conversation long conversations with editors and publishers about what the title will be so when he looked at the list he and I said the same thing at the same time because I did not know the title of Tiger Woods book book but as soon as I saw the last list I said oh it's obviously back no question about it in my opinion it was clear as day that added that multiple choice the answer

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added that multiple choice the answer was going to be back and then Gregg Jarrett speaks almost like it's coming out of my mouth well the top three are hackneyed and back fits a couple of different ways it's clever that's the answer all right so that's my point Gregg Jarrett having a deeper talent stack that happened to be just perfect to this question because he knew publishing it shows you the power of having an extra talent now didn't have to be the most experienced publishing person in the world you just had to have a little exposure to picking titles and and it would have been obvious to you which of the 1 which of those choices jumped out alright enough about that more about the funny day so let's talk about Hillary Clinton saying that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset I don't know where to start this is so this is some of the funniest news ever let's start with Don Lemon I turned on

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let's start with Don Lemon I turned on the radio as I was driving yesterday and I heard Don Lemon say this and I've been laughing to myself for hours he said that he thinks maybe Hillary Clinton is playing 3d chess pause pause for effect let that sink in Don Lemon says he thinks Hillary Clinton is playing 3d chess by accusing tulsi gabbard of being a Russian asset because what she's doing is making it more difficult for Tulsi to mount a third party run by making Tulsi go on record as saying she doesn't plan to do that oh you had to hear it live to hear him say it and I felt as though I could I could hear him it was almost like he was talking and knowing it was ridiculous at the same time because nobody has been rougher on Trump

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nobody has been rougher on Trump supporters for that 3d chess and 4d chess analogy because we're always saying that the president is thinking at in fact I did it today talking about Doral I said the president is ahead of everybody because he noticed that it's important to have it at his space that just makes a difference so hearing Don Lemon resort to the 3d chess analogy for something which is clearly not 3d chess
I'm pretty sure the Hillary Clinton was not trying to prevent Tulsi from a third run and guess what if she had been trying to prevent it it wouldn't have made any difference do you think tulsi gabbard would have said you know I was really planning to do it a third party run but then Hillary said something that one time that's not gonna change anything if tulsi gabbard planned on a third party run she would have a third party run there's nothing that Hillary's gonna

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run there's nothing that Hillary's gonna say that's gonna change it this is the most ridiculous comment from somebody who I think had an embarrassing day here's why it was embarrassing imagine if you had been fighting to get Hillary elected for however many years imagine too that you were sorry that she hadn't been elected for the three years that trump's been there would you say to yourself after hearing hillary clinton go full full conspiracy theory and blaming tulsi gabbard and also who was a Jill Stein of being Russian assets after you heard that if you were a Clinton supporter a Hillary supporter right up to that day and then you heard that news what did you say to yourself how did you process that did you say to yourself well I've been right all along as Hillary Clinton

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been right all along as Hillary Clinton is on the ball for a mental game or her mental stability totally where I wanted to be and it looks like she's playing 3d chess again look at her with that 3d chess maybe maybe you do that but don't you think and this is just a question because I can't read minds but don't you think that all over the country there are people who in their own quiet moments are hearing Hillary accuse people of being Russian assets tulsi gabbard and Jill Stein do you think that her supporters in their private moments are saying to themselves oh
looks like we dodged a bullet there sure maybe I don't like President Trump or his policies but I don't think I wanted that either whatever that is whatever

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that either whatever that is whatever we're seeing you know whatever it is that we're seeing Hillary Clinton do now remember that's who she would have been in office that craziness that you're seeing that would have happened even while she was president could you could you possibly watch Hillary Clinton's performance this week in her private life and say to yourself you know I I wish she'd been president I don't see how anybody could have that thought I think they would all have to say as much as I don't like President Trump I have to admit there were two bad choices that election I don't think there's anybody saying man if only we'd gotten her in there don't you think it would have some effect on their confidence about how right they are about anything it should shake your confidence to watch the candidate that you've been fighting for

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candidate that you've been fighting for for years go bonkers exactly a time when she would have been in her third year of the presidency do you want that making decisions well think so all right so a little more on Tulsi so Tulsi quite cleverly took this opportunity to boost her visibility I'm pretty sure it will help her I think Tulsi will get a bump for this the biggest problem that tells the Gabbard has is that Republicans like her have you noticed that from the very beginning it's been literally annoying me how many people have said to me what about Tulsi Gabbard Scott you know you never talked about Tulsi and I didn't just because I wasn't talking about people with 1% support just never seemed relevant to me but the number of Republicans who were in love with her and that's the best way I can say it she's because I don't think it's like it

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she's because I don't think it's like it doesn't feel like some kind of a lust they just think she's attractive kind of thing the way the way Republicans talk about her is like they're in love not like they're in lust it really looks different there's something about her that makes men crazy and you know I normally I wouldn't even talk about that right I mean that's that's not my thing and I'm trying not to be sexist about this I'm just trying to be observational my observation is so I'm not making any comments about tell C's appearance that's not my deal I'm not about that but my observation is that people keep coming to me telling me they're in love with her and the Republicans I've never seen anything like it literally I've never seen anything like it so she has some effect on people mostly men as far as I can tell that or at least more men that is hard to deny there's some kind of X Factor thing going on there that I can't say I see it

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going on there that I can't say I see it exactly I mean I can I can see it but I don't have the same reaction to it so she quite cleverly used this to boost her exposure I think her her rank will go up I don't know if it's enough but I think her rank will go up and I love that she said she talked to by tweets she talked to Hillary Clinton and said you the queen of warmongers embodiment of corruption and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party personification of the rot that's good stuff now I have not seen anything from Tulsi prior to this that made me think oh she's good at this persuasion stuff there was something she was doing right the X Factor stuff but I didn't really

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the X Factor stuff but I didn't really see
see you know persuasion talent but then this tweet comes out and I'm thinking damn this is fire you know you kind of expect it from somebody in the military don't you expect a military personality something who's been shaped by experience in the military is that they would be extra controlled until they don't need to be right wouldn't that be sort of a basic characteristic that you would learn it would be like hold hold hold hold hold hold kill that's why you learned right don't kill until you're ready to kill don't pull the trigger unless you're ready to kill and it looks to me like Tulsi in my opinion was just a spectator in this process hold o this this debate

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in this process hold o this this debate didn't didn't have much to go on hold and there's Clinton she picked the Clinton pops her head out of the the foxhole and suddenly Tulsi says no now somebody says we told you so I'll give an A+ for a Tulsi for the week I think she won the week easily easily won the week of the Democrats and I'd be surprised if she doesn't hit 5% on the next you know she's gonna be in the top six I think probably because of this just gives her a little more attention
so there's that so I hear the Huffington Post is for sale by Verizon oh the poor Huffington Post my nemesis for years the the organization which has been slandering me for years they're not

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been slandering me for years they're not making it financially oh oh I feel so sad for them so I've I put in my bid I've been $1 for the Huffington Post and I will take it over and fire everybody so if Verizon would like to get rid of this this financial sinkhole I will take it off their hands for a $1 and I'll do what they don't want to do which is I'll fire everybody I'll just go in there and say I'm your new boss I just want your company for a $1 you're all fired get out of here you stinking fake news people all right did you watch oh here let me give you another example of loser think when people are looking at the hunter Biden thing the the other team likes to say oh yeah well you can make fun of hunter Biden but what about Ivanka and the in the example that people keep giving me on social media as that Ivanka was

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on social media as that Ivanka was granted a bunch of trademarks in China recently now if you're deep in loser think you say to yourself my god China is giving Ivanka trademarks not just one but multiple trademarks has she sold out is she working for trying it China now because they gave her a bunch of trademarks no let me explain how trademarks work I have trademarks in China quite a few do you know what do you know what it takes to get a trademark in China let me show you the process for getting a trademark in China it looks like this I got some paperwork I got my trademark paperwork it says what do you want I want I want to have a trademark on this name or this product what categories this will be just for ashtrays and

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this will be just for ashtrays and automobiles those are the only categories I need my trademark are you using the trademark actively yes I am now I put this in the mail or my lawyer does and you send it off to China then China in some some office gets your it gets your trademark requests and says huh let's see in my database if anybody else is using this nope nobody else is using a trademark called Ivanka Trump
granted done that's it I just described the entire process you fill out some paperwork China looks at it and says does somebody already have this one nope we don't have somebody called Ivanka Trump in China trying to sell things with the name of Anka Trump on it approved that's it that's the whole process and why do somebody to get a trademark in China it's because the

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trademark in China it's because the Chinese will otherwise is steal your product the reason you get a trademark in China even if you never want to do business in China is because you don't want the Chinese Dilbert comic to emerge if I did not have a trademark in China they could make Dilbert products and just call it chill Burt or Bill burr or Gilbert or anything they wanted they could actually even call it Dilbert if I hadn't already taken the trademark the same with copyrights and other things so the people who don't understand a little bit about intellectual property here the story that Ivanka Trump that got trademarks in China and they say my god they're in bed together they're in bed together it's like President Xi and Ivanka they've got some kind of unholy deal together now somebody in Ivanka's organization probably a lawyer filled out some paperwork somebody at the

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out some paperwork somebody at the lowest level of Chinese government looked at the name on the paperwork looked at the database and said no we don't have an Ivanka Trump approved that's it that's the entire process yeah this it's like a big deal to people who don't understand what a trademark is all right enough about that
as if y'all seen the video of the Mexican police shooting it out with the cartel and losing losing a shootout to the cartel and you know there's a bunch of phone videos I bet so you don't see any of it too well but you can tell that the cartel actually has these fairly large trucks which they've rigged up with armor on the sides and they've got these military-grade machine guns and military-grade handheld machine guns as well and they they just hang gun the police and the police had some pretty

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police and the police had some pretty good guns but nothing like that and and they're just driving down the streets of this Mexican city with a mounted machine gun in the back of a truck this is a civilized or allegedly civilized country right on our border with a paramilitary that's completely owning the police and murdering them at will now here's the question at what point does that get our attention at what point does the United States say well it would be nice to deal with the government of Mexico on a variety of things and we will when when it works but there are other things there are other things that we just have to do ourselves now one of the things that we might have to do ourselves is to start sending some snipers and some drones to just start up start picking away at the cartels I don't know why we're not

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cartels I don't know why we're not murdering them like actually murdering them what would stop us from sending our I know SEAL Teams and drones and snipers and whatever else we have to just put them in place and have them start picking off the cartel just actually murdering them wherever we can find them why don't we Bob them do you think we don't know where the cartels facilities are well we just carpet-bomb the whole thing whole damn thing just just kill everybody there why not I don't really understand what prevents us there must be a reason I think there is a reason well I would say that we could declare the cartels a I think they have to be declared terrorists and I think we've come close to that but I haven't and I don't understand the why we won't act unilaterally is it because we're afraid of the Mexican military I mean what-what exactly stops us from attacking terrorists right on our border

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attacking terrorists right on our border turkey does it we're letting Turkey do it with the Kurds if turkey can do with the Kurds why can't we do it with the cartels remember they're sending us fentanyl if fentanyl were not part of the equation I might say well you know drugs are gonna get here anyway blah blah both fentanyl is just straight-up weapon of mass destruction and the Chinese are the Chinese are sending it to the Mexican cartels and the cartels are shipping it in so really we should look at this as a Chinese attack on the homeland and if the Chinese are using the Mexicans as their go-between in their attack on our homeland we can kill him we could just kill their entire if we found out that you know some of the drug cartel people had a I don't know a mansion or a facility somewhere we could just blow up the whole thing kill everybody who was anywhere near it I don't think we have to worry about anything I think we have a full I think

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anything I think we have a full I think we have a full full you know free shot it's a free pass anyway so there's bored of that story than I understand so probably somebody smart needs to explain to me why we're not already acting militarily against the cartels here's an interesting question for you find somebody who has a strong opinion on the Syrian situation doesn't matter which position they take maybe they're pro Trump maybe anti Trump but they have a strong opinion on it and then ask them to draw a map of Syria and the neighboring countries as just a little a little experiment to see how much they know about the region just say okay it doesn't have to be to scale or anything but could you draw like a conceptual map and then draw Turkey and the neighboring countries I just want to see if you know what the neighborhood looks like very few people could do that but they would still have

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could do that but they would still have a strong opinion about what should happen over there you sort of have to see it on a map and be able to conceptualize it on a map davit but to have a strong opinion on it same with Yemen in Saudi Arabia you probably say to yourself hey why is Saudi Arabia messing with Yemen have you seen a map look at the map if you look at the map you'll know exactly why Saudi Arabia is massacring people in Yemen because they can't accept an unfriendly entity right on their border nobody can well except the United States apparently we left the cartels ship us weapons of mass destruction every day and we let them live sorry the destiny came does it sound like I had a little bit of blood thirst when it involves fentanyl being shipped to our borders because I do I do have a little bit of a blood thirst I cop to that so I was watching

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thirst I cop to that so I was watching some video of Syria in which dead bodies were being paraded through the streets to show how awful the Turks are and even the news said we can't quite can't quite verify that these people are first of all really dead and second of all that they died because of Turkey so even the news is saying we think people are dying but we don't have any confirmation isn't that a hell of a what what kind of a massacre has no confirmed two deaths I mean I assume people are dying because there's military action but we don't have any confirmed deaths it's the biggest it's the biggest you know it's the biggest going on and we can't get decent news because everybody is talking about the Kurds being left to be massacred and obviously that's worth worrying about but does anything like that

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about but does anything like that happening anything I didn't just don't know if anything like that is happening
yeah and the and the Kurds are a legitimate threat to Turkey if the if the roles were reversed if this were the United States and we had known terrorists on her border who were working with people who were not terrorists but but some of them were would we act the same way turkey is acting of course we would if you reverse the situation inside okay now you're Turkey you've got to take care of the Turkish people what are you gonna do you've got terrorists on your border who are creating a homeland you don't let us stand the Turks are doing exactly what we would do in that situation exactly what we would do so it's hard for me to come down hard on the Turks for doing exactly what we would do it's it's part

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exactly what we would do it's it's part of the same reason that I'm supportive of Israel in general even when they're you know somewhat let's say somewhat militaristic because it's what we would do if we were in their situation we'd act a lot like they act so I try not to get into the hypocrite territory by acting as if we would do anything differently my take on this is that the president should the Box probably some people got killed probably some people would get killed under every scenario there's probably no scenario in which nobody gets killed you get that right the people who are saying hey the president made a big mistake the way he did this because some people are getting killed well nobody wants people to get killed but what was the plan where nobody got killed nobody has that plan there were only plans in which people get killed the president chose a plan in which Americans didn't get killed but

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which Americans didn't get killed but other people did that sort of his job that's the president's job now of course all the people like Romney and and the people were complaining about our honor the United States has lost this honor and that's a valuable asset is it is it really in what imaginary world were other countries dealing with us based on our honor that is a complete imaginary sensory situation sure there are other countries who have positive feelings about the United States and pulling out of this courage situation might make them think less of us is somebody not going to do a trade deal with us because of that is somebody going to leave NATO because of that is there anything anybody's gonna do in any way that makes any difference because of that no no is there any fighting force that wouldn't

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there any fighting force that wouldn't want to join up with us if we had a common enemy now because fighting a common enemy it always makes sense to team up with the United States why wouldn't you so I cannot identify anything in the real world that isn't anyway even hypothetically damaged by what the President did and I think that you know here's his choice got X number of people killed every other path no matter what he'd done would get X other people killed do you think Turkey was gonna wait forever and just let the Kurds set up a homeland and and and be able to export terrorism across their border no no no that path was not available nobody had that option do you think the Kurds were willing to be flexible before we said we're out of here no if we had said we're thinking of pulling it out we're gonna give you lots

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pulling it out we're gonna give you lots of time Kurds you have all the time you need to work something out we'll work with you we don't want to just pull out can you be flexible what would the Kurd say no we're not going to be flexible do you think that they were ready to deal no the president shaking the box and say all right you're on your own is the only thing that made the Kurds flexible short of that nothing good was going to happen so yes it caused some lives to be lost but every path had that downside and I wonder if we'll ever find out who got killed in that area all right what else we got I'm having a good time watching Fox headlines they're funnier than usual so they they may use my pond in a headline no it's my I'm not saying that they got it from me because it's an obvious pun but it's one you heard me make I said the hunter Biden was more a gatherer than a hunter hey for a hunter

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gatherer than a hunter hey for a hunter he's kind of a gatherer and so Fox headline today is a hunter gatherer talking about hunter Biden because there's there's a report so so Fox News is saying this that hunter Biden was paid eighty-three thousand dollars a month even more than we thought by burr yzma since 2014 to be quote a ceremonial figure with a quote powerful name a report said Friday so I read this and I thought our report said Friday okay where's the link to the report who what exactly the report was that I don't think the story says now maybe it says that I missed it but I looked for it do you believe any news organization that says a report said and they don't mention what the report is or who did it or where it came from I'm not so sure that's a report that I find credible you got a name the report

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find credible you got a name the report and maybe it's in the story like in a footnote or something I just couldn't find it my guess is that it has to be there I can't believe an editor and a fox would let somebody write a report said and then quote it without telling us whose report it was so maybe that was just a an editing error or maybe it's my error so I'm not gonna say it's Fox there I'll say that I couldn't see at least obviously where that report was does anybody know anybody else know where that report came from if you if you if you do know say so in the comments somebody said that John Solomon reported this weeks ago but they don't name him all right so they also said here's another headline on the Fox News page it said longtime Trump critics comments start frenzied at President bashing Network what do you think is the

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bashing Network what do you think is the president bashing Network so so Fox News refers in the headline to a president bashing Network and you all know who it is
that's pretty funny if you think about it now as I've said the news is our new form of humor and I think Fox News embraces this far more than the other networks when I watch Fox News which is the primary thing I watch I always make sure that I sample see and then all the time to make sure I see both sides but more time I spend on Fox News by far now partly the reason I do that is that it's so well produced and so well staffed the the talent and the way they produce it at Fox it was sort of unparalleled there's a reason they're number one just just the professionalism on on every level from the human talent to the the

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level from the human talent to the the way they produce it to the technology it's the best of the business but they certainly understand that there's a humor element of the news and and you see them playing to it with their headlines here because when they say the president bashing Network you know that first of all they they know you know what they're talking about but secondly that's sort of with a wink is that it sort of that you know the president bashing Network wink and you're supposed to laugh likewise with hunter-gatherer that's obviously intentionally to make you laugh so Fox News understands who there's audiences really well and they understand that that the humor of it is part of the entertainment so I always appreciate that so the Brooklyn Nets fans brought some pro Hong Kong signs at a LeBron James game I guess Brooklyn Nets were playing must be the Lakers where LeBron plays at

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must be the Lakers where LeBron plays at Barclays Center and so I think this is going to be a thing now the the protesters I think you're gonna follow LeBron probably all season or at least as long as the Hong Kong problem goes on which is probably all season so that's fun imagine trying to be LeBron and trying to concentrate on your playing basketball when big chunk of your audience is hanging up signs about Hong Kong and how you messed that up because you know even LeBron even LeBron is is thinking he messed up don't you think I'm not reading his mind but I'm just saying if you were LeBron or anybody were LeBron and you're in his position would you think well I had a good week or what do you think it looks like I messed up this week I mean I think he thinks he messed up so these signs get

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thinks he messed up so these signs get to remind him of one of his maybe his biggest public unforced error all right he has to feel bad about it you think because it's all negative attention and it's taking away from the team the sport it's taking away from everything he cares about so you have to think he thinks it wasn't a good week and reminding of it him of it with these signs and t-shirts that's got an effect his playing I would think it's gonna affect his mental game but to be fair you know while we can we can disagree with him on his political statements I think we'd all agree LeBron James is probably one of the most mentally solid athletes of all time right so it could be that he's one of these rare people who could maybe even raise this game maybe even likes it maybe he likes you know playing against the protesters so it might actually make him better you

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it might actually make him better you never know LeBron's not like other people he's he's a super athlete and mentally he's super strong as well sports wise he thinks people who disagree with him are misinformed well I don't believe he thinks he nailed it this week I think he knows he missed the layup this week yeah but-- i don't know where boo the cat is she's usually in here i guess she got a better offer today all right was there anything else going on so if somebody says are you still two left or Bernie and Warren yes but I'm better at math so where Bernie and Warren want to do some things where the math doesn't work I could still like their goal so I share Bernie and Warren's goal of making education widely

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Warren's goal of making education widely available for cheaper for free and I think health care is a basic right I don't know how to get there if I knew how to get there I would tell you cleverly how my plan is better than their plan but I don't know how to make the math work but I've said this before there there's somebody in the news who's lying to you badly and I I'm not exactly sure who let me give you two facts and see if you can make them make sense there are two things we are told reliably that there's something like 18% of the united states does not have health care right so everybody has health care health care insurance except for eight percent of the know the country so what would that tell you about how much extra each of us would have to pay whether it's in taxes or some other kind of way how much would each of us have to pay to make up for that 18% I don't know ten

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make up for that 18% I don't know ten twenty percent extra because if if you add the extra eighteen percent maybe there's some extra economies of scale because of size or whatever maybe not I don't know but somewhere in that 18 percent range right if 18 percent don't have insurance then all the people knows presumably they're also the people who are poor so they're not paying any taxes so if 18 percent of the people are poor and not paying taxes and don't have health care what would it cost the rest of the people who are not as for and have health care to cover them isn't it around 18 percent so if I were to raise my health care expense by 18 percent it would be the say three four hundred dollars a month I don't know I'm somewhere in that range
now keep that in mind that it might cost you a few hundred dollars per month more if you were asked to cover the 18

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if you were asked to cover the 18 percent who don't have insurance now how does that work with the fact that I turn on fox news and you'll hear experts and and even warn herself and burning themselves telling you it's going to cost a thirty trillion dollars and that there's not enough there's not enough money in the entire country even if every rich person gave up all their money there's not enough money to pay for covering that extra 18 percent do you see where I'm going with this somebody is lying to you by trillions and I don't know who it is I don't know who it is it's either true that we have only 18 percent you know some some I see people saying it's a little higher than 18 percent but the math will still work either way it's either true that 18% don't have healthcare or it's true that giving everybody healthcare will cost trillions and trillions and there's

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cost trillions and trillions and there's no way we have that much money they're not both true they can't be do you see that do you see that those two things which are both reported as uncontested fact can't both be true somebody is lying to you in such a massive way it's trillions its trillions of dollars they're lying to you and I don't know its side I actually don't because both of those things can't be true at the same time here's my suspicion the 18% is the one that's true because I think you can measure that fairly accurately what the what both Warren and Bernie are doing incompetently like so incompetently I almost want to like give up on supporting Trump go to Bernie go to Elizabeth Warren and say please dear God can I fix your message because you are so ruining this you know you're actually

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so ruining this you know you're actually making it harder for more people to get insurance because you've totally ruined the message here's the message that Elizabeth Warren says Elizabeth Warren how're you gonna pay for this is the middle class gonna pay more ah their costs will go down now we didn't ask you their costs we said will their taxes go up Elizabeth can you answer that question their costs will go down Elizabeth do you have a hearing problem because I'm asking you or are the taxes going out for that group their costs will go down there you go what the hell is wrong with you what the hell is wrong with you here's the correct answer allow me to be Elizabeth Warren and not a freakin idiot this is what you would say yes the whole point is that people won't have to pay their own costs and

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own costs and employers won't have to pay for it so there'll be less money paid into the healthcare the government will do that and the way that looks is that your total costs will go down even though your taxes will go up a little bit so yes what we plan to do is have your taxes go up a little bit but the savings that you'll have overall will go up a lot that's our plan so we want you to save a lot of money if you're in the middle class a lot your taxes will go up but you're gonna save a lot but Elizabeth Warren can you guarantee that that will be true for every voter who's in the middle class no there are lots of different situations probably somebody in the middle class will pay a little bit more but not a lot there I just fixed it if you take if you take that message to the people and say yeah the middle class a little bit more taxes save a lot on health care that's my plan I don't even know if that could be accomplished I'm not even saying it's true but the message is better compare

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true but the message is better compare that to Elizabeth Warren are you going to raise our taxes go clause will now go up what is wrong with her and even Bernie who does Bernie does a better job because he at least sees a little bit honest about it's gonna be real expensive I'm gonna I'm gonna really screw the rich people at least he's honest right like I don't I don't need to know the exact numbers he's telling me he's gonna screw me to give health care to other people I get it all right you don't need to give me an exact number for that I kind of know what that looks like so so that's your assignment for today here's your assignment find out who is lying is a lie that we only have eighteen percent who don't have insurance or is it a lie that it will cost trillions of dollars to insure them they can't both be true tell me which is true and get back to me that's all I got for today I hope you pre-ordered my book

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for today I hope you pre-ordered my book lose to think that's what makes me come back for the fun of it well I'd come back anyway because I enjoy doing this but it does make it easier for me to do this when I feel that I've got some support so that's that see ya see you later so awkward trying to sign off of these things because that bum doesn't work