Episode 703 Scott Adams: Shampeachment, Michael Moore Racing Bernie, Zuckerberg Getting AOC’d

Date: 2019-10-24 | Duration: 1:06:56

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu Matt Gaetz leads group “storming the SCIF” Grand juries versus Shampeachment, are they the same? “Exbondentially” speaking, Joe needs better advisors Kamala Harris non-Presidential low energy campaign ad The Colorado border wall When a Vice President selects a Vice President Who’s the strongest Democrat team? Tulsi’s dilemma Syria is Putin’s problem now, good luck! President Trump’s implied Middle East strategy Senator Cornyn’s VERY good question for Schiff and the Dems Tayler’s damning super secret non-leaked-immediately testimony Which candidate would Russia promote to weaken America? AOC interrogation of Zuckerberg Representative Green’s number of LGBTQ employees question Joel Stein’s question: Would I be a good Secretary of State? TodosConBiden.com and the Biden Latino outreach effort

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Oh papa hey everybody good to see you Eric Andrew Jesse always a pleasure you're looking more attractive every day all of you really I've noticed that as the days go by the more you enjoy coffee with Scott Adams and the simultaneous air the better-looking and stronger you get possibly smarter but definitely sexier and better-looking so before I'm blinded by your brilliance and your sexiness let us have a little thing I call the simultaneous if it's the best part of your day you don't need much to enjoy it all you need is a cup of our glasses mr. Stein cellist anchor thermos flask and team Grail goblet vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit that makes the rest of your date great it's called the simultaneous

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date great it's called the simultaneous sip and you're about to do it now oh so good so good do you remember the old days when the news was sort of the news was really oriented around the idea that if it bleeds it leads and the idea was that the news likes to focus on violence because everybody is interested in violence it's just automatically interesting so that doesn't seem to be the case anymore I feel as if we we don't really get any reporting out of the war zones so you don't have any you know any bad news to Lightcap from war zones because there are no reporters there and the rest of the news is just so much more fun I mean could could

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so much more fun I mean could could today be any better let me give you an example Michael Moore said in some recent address that Bernie Sanders could be him Michael Moore in a hundred meter dash even after his heart attack I don't even need to add the joke I don't sometimes you don't need to add the joke sometimes the joke is in the setup but I'll add this I think it's the perfect commercial for burning it could be a campaign for his could be a dad for his campaign and I'd like to see the ad it would be you know show burning and then it would say I'm healthier than Michael Moore let's just go with that I'm healthier than Michael Moore do you know who else is healthier than Michael Moore China everyone that's just one

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Moore China everyone that's just one country alright there's a lot of funny stuff happening today so Matt Gaetz congressman Matt Gaetz led a bunch of well-dressed Congress people to the the skiff to try to obstruct injustice I guess and of course it's just an event that's made for the cameras but everybody everybody cooperates by acting as though it's some kind of a more serious thing than it is a really a persuasion mechanism it's all I really was but really good so as I often say Matt Gaetz is sort of the the strongest I would say maybe just the strongest but certainly the strongest of the younger generation on the Republican side AOC is still the the gold standard of

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AOC is still the the gold standard of younger persuasive people on the left but watching Matt Gaetz do this it's super visual it captured all the headlines it did we have changed the narrative of the story it was completely successful completely successful so good work on that now III hear some people trying to defend the secrecy of the skiff process the way it's being done for the Sham Beach meant by the way that's the word of the day it's impeachment but it's a sham hashtag shy impeachment I want to see if I can get that trending today so the Sham Pietschmann is being defended by people saying that don't you understand there's a lawyer on the on Twitter who put it this way I'm paraphrasing but this is close enough don't you understand

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don't you understand let me make this simple for you poor poor moronic bastards do you not see that the impeachment inquiry or whatever they're calling it is really more like a grand jury situation and those are meant to be private so if it's similar to a grand jury and grand juries are meant to be private why can't this be private well let me suggest one reason I don't think you have grand jury you don't call a grand jury simply for the purpose of winning an election producing leaks and fake news it's a perfect example of loser think to use the analogy of a grand jury to make your case and persuade that therefore secrecy is okay in this completely different context as

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in this completely different context as Byron York pointed out one of the reasons that this gif impeachment impeachment thing is different is that the majority can just make it whatever they want they can change the rules that well as long as the majority and they vote for it so that's a basic difference but really has to do with the purpose I don't think anybody thinks that the purpose of this at least nobody in politics thinks that the purpose of this is anything about politics you don't really call a grand jury just to ruin the accused that's not the point of a grand jury let's call a grand jury to see if we can use the grand jury to destroy the accused that's pretty big difference so I have a chapter in my book about why analogies are terrible for persuasion and this is a perfect example one of the things that

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a perfect example one of the things that I recommend in my book loser think that you can order right now is is how do how to deal with things like mind reader's online people who think they're reading your mind and they can see it argument in there that's different than the one you're saying and so instead of debating the argument you're presenting they argue instead what they imagine you're thinking so I've said that when you run into that situation the bad analogies and some other situations you should just use your phone take a picture of the page in my book and just post it into your Twitter response when you're debating somebody and then you'd have the benefit of something from a book that's you know I let's say a tightly organized argument so I was trying that this morning on some of my own critics and one of the critics said Scott Scott Scott you apologist paraphrasing here you apologist can't you see the Trump is

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you apologist can't you see the Trump is ruining America in so many ways and I said what would be an example of that can you give me an example of how Trump is ruining America and he came back with a list of about ten things now I anticipate that in my book it's the laundry list persuasion people make lists of ten things because they don't have one thing that's a good argument if you had one good argument would you bother with the other nine no you wouldn't so the whole point of having a whole list is to distract from the fact that there's nothing on the list that's a good point there's no if you live to be a thousand you'll never see somebody who has a really good point add nine things to it that aren't important they'll just stick with a good point good point done so I of course took a picture of my book the page that talks about that and post it and I challenged the I also used a

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it and I challenged the I also used a technique from my book in which I challenged my critic to pick his strongest point say in the interest of time what's your strongest point and would you agree that if I debunk your strongest point maybe you would rethink your confidence of your own points that are less strong than the one I just debunked what do you think he did do you think he said well that's an excellent plan here is the strongest point on my list nope he did something else that I predict in the book he devolved into insisting that the only way to have this conversation is to deal with all the points on the list as though they're one solid and he fought for it we I've been going back and forth with him all morning and God he fought for it he fought to not pick one item from the list to just say how about deal with this one so I modified after it was

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this one so I modified after it was clear he would not pick out anything on his list he thought was a good point that they're all somehow equal or additive or something yeah he's still fighting I think he's still tweeting me right now is that talking but you can see the the advantage of making people crazy by taking a picture of my book just sending it to him and it's a good technique I think you're gonna enjoy it if you use it yourself alright here's my question did you see you the the Joe Biden thing is just so funny all the time so did you see the video compilation of all the times he said in public he is incorrectly pronounced the word exponentially as
exponentially with the real emphasis on the dead that doesn't actually exist in the word which is weird because his name

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the word which is weird because his name is Biden and he's added in a he's added at half of his own last name to the word exponentially so he calls it exponentially so I clicked on the video and I said to myself well you know how many times has he said the same misstatement once maybe did it twice well turns out that for years he's been saying exponentially in public and apparently nobody loves him because nobody's pointed out that that's not how you pronounce exponentially so that was hilarious because I really didn't believe when I saw the first one that there could be two of them and then the second one plays and I'm thinking oh that's funny they found a second time that he said this this word completely wrong and then there was a third one and a fourth one and a fifth one and the longer you watch it the funnier it gets because you say to yourself there can't be another one this word of god there's no one there it is there's another one but even funnier

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is there's another one but even funnier than that was Biden did a little campaign video in which he managed to demonstrate everything that's wrong with him in one video number one it was low production so apparently it was just somebody standing there with their phone in this orientation not this orientation that's right Joe Biden and his crack staff made a video to play on the internet in portrait instead of turning aside Elise now that should be disqualifying right there now I get that maybe the candidate is not you know steeped and had to create content and maybe the candidate wouldn't know but who was holding the phone was there nobody on his trusted team who could say um okay good good but just you know just turn it this way because this way is

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turn it this way because this way is what smart people do when they're creating video that will be replayed everywhere on the internet if it's only gonna be on Instagram sure yeah if it's only gonna be on Instagram you could do this well I think you wanted on Twitter and I think you wanted on Facebook and I think you want it on YouTube and you want to be viral so do this do this that's what a little hint and then of course because it was just the sound from a phone he's standing in front of hard objects like a door and something else and the sound is terrible she's got terrible sound terrible video and then he goes into his his message that's just so weak I can't even remember it and then he ends with a request for funding and he starts his request you know there's a visual there the shows you could give $1 or $5 or $10 never start

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could give $1 or $5 or $10 never start negotiating with the lowest amount you're willing to accept the dumbest persuasion thing you could do is to say I'm raising money gimme how about $1 you know could be five could be ten but if the first thing that comes out of your mouth is how about $1 you've created an anchor in people's mind the odds of somebody giving you somebody who was going to donate anyway the odds that they would say I guess he doesn't need five or $10 you did mention a $1 was good enough I think I'll give him $1 so if you can't negotiate better than that starting with $1 that's my offer $1 do you think in your wildest imagination can you ever imagine Trump asking for money and starting with $1 you can't

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money and starting with $1 you can't even imagine it you can't even imagine it one of the things that is amusing me greatly as I'm watching the election process is that on one hand and Trump's campaign you've got Brad parse Cal who is creating the best campaign ads and tweets that we've ever seen period I'm gonna say that with complete confidence normally this is the sort of statement you'd want to hedge a little bit you'd say something like well you know I haven't seen every campaign ad but you know these are really good I'm not doing that I'm not gonna hedge what Brad parse Cal is creating for Trump or by far by far the best campaign ads you've ever seen and even his tweets are the best tweets you've seen from somebody who's an operative for a campaign by far there's nobody who's even close to that league it's not like there's somebody else in the league but they're playing

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else in the league but they're playing not well in the league there's nobody even the league the Joe Biden had a video taken of him standing against a brown wall by somebody who had the phone and the wrong orientation and didn't think sound quality mattered or message or persuasion or visuals or anything anything now how about Kamala Harris's video I tweeted I tweeted that it's the worst her video yesterday was the worst one I've ever seen in any context in Apple in the political context but in any kind of a campaign and it showed her again it was just somebody with a phone taking pictures of her with very low energy talking to a teacher who's sitting in a chair and some students around and the most unimpressive setting you can ever be the second one I know of in which he's just interacting with children looking so non-presidential

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looking so non-presidential look more like a teacher's assistant whoever said let me take a video on my phone of you acting like a teacher's assistant and talking about the issue of Internet access to rural communities whoever told her that was a good idea and by the way even the camera angle of her is terrible it's like a sideways slumpy poorly dressed image if you're gonna make a campaign ad something you're actually gonna tweet make sure it's your good angle at the very least don't have a bad picture of yourself low energy on a topic that very few people care about now before you jump on me yes I do understand that internet access to rural communities who don't have it is a really important it's a very important topic and she's not wrong for for mentioning it as an important topic and I would very much you know a hundred

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I would very much you know a hundred percent agree that that's something that needs to be fixed right away because it's leaving a whole bunch of students of all types just behind they can't possibly compete if students don't have access to the Internet they just can't compete so yes it's a big topic but is it a sexy topic is it a topic that gets you the presidency it is not even though it's terribly important it's just not the kind of topic that excited here's why who votes who is it who votes is it people who already have the Internet or people who don't mostly people have the Internet so when she's talking about this she's basically telling the people who do vote to transfer their money to people who don't because the people who don't have the internet probably don't even know who to vote for so you don't have the internet I don't know you're probably not voting either it's probably

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probably not voting either it's probably not your highest priority so Camilla did literally everything you can do wrong in that campaign act from energy to message to film to audio to setting literally everything about it was the worst you could do in that dimension it was almost unbearably bad and I'll tell you you don't realize how good Trump's team is on the messaging and the campaign stuff until you see the best from the other side because remember we're looking at their best work this is their best work it's not even in the league with the competition all right now imagine if you saw the the Joe Biden thing where he's just standing there talking in front of the door imagine President Trump or even candidate Trump before that giving any kind of a message there was so low

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kind of a message there was so low energy and lacking of anything interesting you can't you can't even imagine the Trump being uninteresting he doesn't have that I don't think Trump could be uninteresting if he tried to do it intentionally because everybody would say hey he's trying to be uninteresting let's get it let's talk about that
here's some more funny news so apparently the president either misspoke or was misinterpreted I don't think it matters but he said something about building the wall and said that he was building the wall on the border of Colorado now Colorado does not have a border with Mexico and so people said what what let's make this a headline now I don't know did the president miss speak did he get his geography wrong I think he tweeted a clarification saying that what he meant to say is that like Kansas who you also mentioned they they

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Kansas who you also mentioned they they benefit from the wall without actually you know being a border country no this is in the category for me of things that I don't really care I don't really care and to be consistent if a Democrat said something that was you know missmiss spoke about a state or forgot who the forgot who the leader of a country was or called somebody by the wrong name or even said exponentially once I would say that doesn't mean anything people if you speak in public all the time you miss speak all the time how many times have you seen me miss speak a lot every now and then I'll replay my periscopes back just to kind of see what I'm doing right doing wrong and I'll hear myself miss speak and I'll go oh that was entirely the wrong word I put in that sentence it actually reversed its meaning I do it all the time does it mean I'm you know I Val's armours well I

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mean I'm you know I Val's armours well I don't know maybe maybe it does but I'm pretty sure I would have done the same thing at any age so so the president talked about putting a wall around Colorado he misspoke of course or where he was misinterpreted we don't know doesn't matter but on the same day because the simulation is kind to us and the simulation which I pray to oh dear programmers of the simulation deliver to us humorous news so that we might feast upon the humorous goodness of your generosity and sure enough the simulation provided the very next day the Trump misspoke and said he might want to put a wall around Colorado we hear the news that Colorado priests sexually abused at least a hundred and sixty six children over the past seventy

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sixty six children over the past seventy years and my media thought was we need to put a wall around that state I don't think I've ever had that thought before it's literally the first day I've ever had the thought maybe we should put a wall around Colorado I don't want any of that stuff getting out into my state so the simulation has provided here's something else the simulation will provide are you ready for this when somebody picks a vice prez and what goes into that calculation well of course they're picking somebody who could who has some qualifications for the job sometimes they're picking somebody who has a geographic advantage maybe they're from a state that you want to weigh in there they're from the south and you want to you want to pull in the south something like that but above even those considerations the vice-president has to be somebody who is less impressive than number one on the

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less impressive than number one on the ticket so if you look at Obama Obama's choice of Biden was kind of perfect it was a perfect choice because Biden I'm sorry Obama whether you like him or don't like him I think most of us would agree he has charisma he's a music superstar even if you hate everything he did he's still a super summer so having a superstar of Obama makes perfect sense to get this sort of boring low energy not too capable with Joe Biden who people say yeah as an emergency spare I suppose you know in the worst case scenario something happens to a president I guess we could put the spare on and Limp to the to the big Oh tires to get a proper tire on there yeah I guess Joe Biden would be good enough for that right but here's the fun part Obama is the star Biden is the

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Obama is the star Biden is the low-energy you know empty version it was perfect for a spare tire but what happens when the spare tire runs for president the spare tire has to pick a vice president too let's think ahead let's say Joe Biden gets the nomination who does Joe Biden pick as his vice president who is wait for it less impressive than Joe Biden do you see it [Laughter] who in the world is going to take the job of vice president when it's obvious that that means is that the world sees you as less impressive than Joe Biden who is literally decomposing in front of us I mean he's got his eyes falling out his teeth are falling out you can't remember words I somebody's a Harris I don't

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words I somebody's a Harris I don't think so because even Harris looks younger and more on the ball even though she has the worst campaign I've ever seen if she looks younger more vital probably smarter I think she would look like she should be the top of the ticket that's a problem right so Biden has a problem of vice-president dilution if you are the vice president you still have to pick somebody when you run who's less impressive than you so your two versions away from the guy who won Obama now if you think I'm joking consider Ronald Reagan who was Ronald Reagan's vice president Bush Senior right Ronald Reagan superstar Barack Obama superstar Donald Trump superstar they have to pick a vice president Trump picks Pence is pence a good emergency spare perfectly

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pence a good emergency spare perfectly good perfectly good almost even if you don't like pence if you're on the other side politically you say to yourself well he's experienced he knows all the right people he knows how everything works I don't like his views but you know the country is not gonna fall apart if he ended up being president for a year or two good spare tire now look at Reagan he picks bush bush senior was Bush Senior a good spare tire perfect did not have charisma was not a Ronald Reagan how long did he last one term because all it took was a charismatic challenger Bill Clinton and suddenly the water down and vice president who had to pick his own water vice president in Dan Quayle by the time you get to Dan Quayle you're 2 levels away from the superstar and that's the team would you be just as confident if

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team would you be just as confident if George Bush senior had somehow left office for whatever reason and Dan Quayle took over hmm Dan Quayle isn't the emergency spare Dan Quayle is the emergency spare is broken too and you have to get out and try to jog you know 10 miles to your destination so Biden has the vice president problem there's nobody he could pick who wouldn't look like they should be at the top of the ticket here's my prediction of how things are gonna go are you ready a version of this I've said before but I'd like to update it and make it a little bit crisper here's what I think is gonna happen number one Bernie's poll numbers will continue to drop Elizabeth Warren will be the benefactor that and she'll continue to rise so far we probably agree right at some point and this is the key part of the prediction i think bernie is going to say damn it it's obvious that I

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to say damn it it's obvious that I cannot get the nomination but I would like my ideas to go forward so if Bernie decides that he's not gonna continue because his poll numbers have shrunk and it just doesn't look like he could get the nomination what's the most reasonable thing he would do he would endorse whoever might have a chance of winning and is the closest to him in policies which is Warren so the most likely sequence of events is Bernie's numbers fall to the point where he says I think you know this would be the right time to make a graceful exit I will endorse Warren and then he does now what happens when Warren's numbers get above Joe Biden's numbers even a little bit and they stay there for a while now we've seen some where they've they've traded places depending on whether you're looking at national Laura or a battleground state or an early early state but let's say that Bernie leaving causes

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but let's say that Bernie leaving causes Warren just to get above the Joe Biden and just sort of stay that way what happens to Biden's campaign funding well it's already shrinking and he's already you know a low fundraiser especially being the front-runner so he probably almost certainly I would say that Biden will be starved of funds and that will drive him an at the race and he and I don't think it's obvious to me at this point probably you too I don't think there's a scenario in which people simply go to Biden and say you know I think you've lost the step Joe for the good of the country for the good of the party maybe you should step aside it's obvious that nobody's doing that now maybe somebody tried and it didn't work but far more likely there needs to be a situation that sort of evolves and somewhat of a natural way that would cause Joe Biden to make his own decision and the best way that would happen is

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and the best way that would happen is the money people will just starve him of money and then he sort of has to drop out he'll just say I'm leading in the polls which is weird but nobody's giving me money I guess I have to drop out now there might also be a yeah you might say is energy or something isn't where it needs to be or something so you might come up with some other reason but I think the money is going to be the key thing even if he gives a different reason now what happens if warns at the top and Joe Biden says I no more campaign money or not enough I'm gonna drop out - who does he endorse well probably not Elizabeth Warren right because Elizabeth Warren it wants to do things that even Biden says is crazy I don't know that he could make that kind of a leap you know where I'm going so if you get past the top three you're starting to talk about Budaj edge and

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starting to talk about Budaj edge and Warren let's think about Budaj edge and Warren and remember or Warren I'm sorry Buddha judge and Harris Connell Harris in my in my brain I store a warrant and Harris in the same bucket because they're sort of that the same feeling kind of a name so I confuse them all the time see I misspeak all the time let's put a wall around Colorado so let's say the party leaders start looking at Kabul Harris seriously and she seems to have some good connections in the old Hillary Clinton Network etc and they say to themselves what would be our best package here's what the best package would look like and by the way let me also say I was watching Budaj edge a little bit lately because he's more interesting because his numbers are going up he's good I'm gonna say that Buddha judge is the best can I say this yeah I think I could say this with some

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yeah I think I could say this with some confidence among the Democrats Buddha judge is clearly the best campaigner so anybody disagree with that it seems to me that although he's you know he's having trouble getting purchase I think that mostly has to do with lack of name recognition in the beginning and the fact that he is a mayor of a smaller City it doesn't seem to be that he has the name recognition or resume that people imagine as president but can you imagine him as vice president imagine this team calmly Harris at the top and Pete Buddha judge as the vice president think about it because you would have on your team Buddha judges brains because he's not willing to say that ridiculous plans are worth trying you know he's willing to do things that

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you know he's willing to do things that he can afford that you know the country can afford and I know he probably has the most reasonable centrist opinions but probably he's not ready he's not seasoned enough in the in the public's mind anyway he's now seasoned enough for the top spot but imagine him working as a team with Harris because he corrects a lot of her biggest problems III think that with a little advice from Buddha judge assuming that she was willing to take it he could fix most of her big problems the same as I could but she's not listening to me of course it seems to be getting a lot of super hearts at the moment for saying this stuff so now imagine if you have a package of of caramel Harris and Buddha judge who votes for that package well you got women so women is covered alright so you get the Hillary Clinton folks who just say you know it's time

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folks who just say you know it's time for a woman you've got the people of color you need that right if you don't have if you don't have a black person at the top of the ticket are you going to get the same kind of energy that an Obama could get now a calm below is you know I I'll call her a person of color because she's has a more interesting ethnicity but seems I think people would say well you know that she's more like me than somebody else so I think she would get the the people of color I think she'd get the women and then Buddha judge probably would get something close to a hundred percent of the gay votes do you think there are people who would vote for a Buddha judge who simply won't have bothered to vote before you know it you know it within the gay community you know whatever that is 510 percent I think you could increase that to 10 or

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think you could increase that to 10 or 20% if you include family members of gay people and that's the part you forget if you said to yourself well how many people are gonna vote for a Buddha judge just because he's gay a lot a lot and it's not just gonna be people who are gay it's gonna be family members who say you know I my brother my cousin somebody I know is gay and wouldn't the world be better for my cousin my brother my friend if we had a gay man in the White House it would that's one of the reasons I think it would be great to have a gay president eventually whether it's now or later so I think these smart people on the Democrat side are gonna look at their matchups and they're gonna say we can't win on policies but maybe we can win on identity and the best identity

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win on identity and the best identity package you could put together by far would be Kamala Harris and Pete Buddha judge now I don't think they could be President Trump but they would be the best competitors by far does anybody have a different opinion here's the problem with the Tulsi Gabbard she's very popular with Republicans that's a problem I just don't see the Democrats picking the candidate who's the most popular with Republicans but you've probably had him into hell and you're saying wait a minute Scott hold on if you have a candidate that the Democrats would vote for just because they're Democrats and also a candidate that a lot of Republicans would say huh you finally have another Democrat I can vote for I'm gonna go for it wouldn't that be the strongest candidate you could ever have well logically you'd say yes but I don't think logic is going to rule the

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don't think logic is going to rule the day I think that a Democrat who says who hears wait a minute are you telling me the Dilber guy said some good things about Tulsi wait wait did I just see a tweet in which Don junior said some positive things about Tulsi that's the end of me that's the end of her because she would be destroyed by association now I am willing to change my opinion on her as her if her poll numbers increase I will I will modify my opinion appropriately but at the moment it looks like mushy she may be sort of captive there now I've got a few I've got some questions and I wrote them down so that I would not forget them here they are if we believe that Trump loves Putin let's say you're a Democrat and you believe that Trump loves Putin how do you explain that Trump gave Putin

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how do you explain that Trump gave Putin Syria if he loves Putin I can't think of anything that would be worse for Russia than having to take care of Syria the thing that people forget because when you talk about Russia it's easy to imagine them as sort of our peer it's like yeah there's United States and then there's Russia you know superpowers with big nuclear weapons and stuff and Putin's always on the world stage just like Trump is and so there's somehow there's some kind of equivalence there and there is some equivalence in terms of let's say punching power Russia Russia punches way above its weight class but here's what they don't have money Russia is like a dot compared to the United States wealth they don't have a lot of money and if you were to say hey should the United States stay in Syria for forever basically protecting a Kurdish homeland

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basically protecting a Kurdish homeland or anything like that what's the first thing you ask well can we afford it no because we wasted a bunch of money on Iraq and other places so probably even the United States couldn't afford it how hard would it be for Russia to afford a continuous presence in Syria feels kind of expensive to me so I'm not sure that Putin is winning here there's a great article I just read I think I tweeted it if you want to read on it's just talking about what the president Trump's appearances strategy is and the Middle East I thought this was a pretty good tape I forget where was but if you look at my Twitter feed you'll see the article tweeted and the idea was that President Trump seems to have an implied strategy that says that there are two priorities in the Middle East number one contain Iran true number two

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number one contain Iran true number two protect Israel true that those two things do seem like the primary variables that Trump cares about now apparently Jared Kushner has already created a 50-page plan for Middle East which he said the Palestinians might be surprised how much they like it I don't know what that means my guess is that there's some kind of a deal in which the Israelis would keep as much security type control as they need well at the same time the Palestinians get massive investment and ability to improve their their living style lifestyle so it's something like that now I don't I don't think anybody thinks that the odds are good that any kind of peace deal in the Middle East will work but you have to appreciate the clarity of our work over there you know container and protect our

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there you know container and protect our ally Israel which tends to be those are very related things because the biggest threats against Israel tend to be funded by Iran that's a very clean strategy it's very clean I like that I'm not sure I'd call it a strategy I just call it priorities because I always make fun of people saying that strategies exist because strategy is only last until a variable changes and it variables change all the time the variables change all the time so strategy is usually useless you can have priorities but be open to the fact that the variables change and you might have to change your priorities here's a interesting question that's senator oh yeah Senator John Cornyn asked on Twitter about shifts a secret impeachment the Sham Pietschmann as we call it hashtag sham Pietschmann he said senator says if the testimony is so damning for Trump why not make it

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so damning for Trump why not make it public now this is the very clever tweet because it's not as if everybody wasn't talking about this topic and sort of the way he's talking about it in the sense that we've we've all been talking about hey you why can't the Republicans you know talk about it or why can't the public see it I guess the Republicans are part of the meetings so they do have access to the base information but they're not allowed to talk about it and I thought this was really good framing because the the Democrats I don't think anybody trust them including the Democrats themselves because we're in a political season so I would I would think that you know and this would be true on both sides I would think that even Republican voters don't completely trust everything Republicans are saying in an election season you know they recognize hyperbole and you know gamesmanship and things left out and

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gamesmanship and things left out and yeah that's part of persuasion right so I don't think there's any Republican who thinks Republicans are completely credible on all you know claims in an election season I don't think there's any Democrat who thinks that everything Democrats are doing is simply to follow the law I don't think anybody believes that their only objective is to get to the truth nobody believes that right so given that that even Democrats don't believe their own team now I try to not be a mind reader here I can't read their minds but do you think it's reasonable the Democrats are looking at all the machinations of Nadler and everything and they don't understand that it's at least if not mostly if not entirely political it's not really about getting to the facts it's not really about nobody's above the law I mean I think everybody gets then it's not really that it's a political process so given that wouldn't it be strange to you that if

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wouldn't it be strange to you that if the testimony is so damning as Gordon says if it's so damning wouldn't the Democrats be fighting to make it public because it's the best thing that could possibly happen they would get their damning information and then make it public but instead they're keeping your private and having people talk about how bad it is if only you could see it does that sound like somebody who has the goods if you had the goods would you do it this way that's somebody in the comments is saying I want to see not Nadler and 100-yard dash against Michael Moore I'd pay to see that too so Gordon have that great framing so congratulations on a good persuasion there it's the perfect question if it's so damning against Trump why don't want us to see it is it because they love the rule of law so much that they appreciate confidentiality does anybody believe

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confidentiality does anybody believe that the reason the Democrats are not telling us what's going on is because they just love confidentiality it's the leakiest group of people in the entire world if they had anything we'd know what it was now I see people saying that Taylor's testimony was so damning and you know it's all over and that's the end of it to which I said what how come I'm not aware of it why is it that there are people who are alive and citizens and watching the same stuff I am claim that there's some impeachable thing and this guy Taylor has spoken out it and if you saw it you'd say well that's impeachable I don't even know what they're talking about is it because I haven't seen the right news I'm just not aware of this impeachable stuff now as I've often said before if somebody's new to my periscopes the defense that the White

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periscopes the defense that the White House is not using is the good one the good defense is not to continually conflate asking about CrowdStrike which even his critics would agree was a reasonable question because there's an ongoing investigation but rather to say it was also my job and it was a top priority for the country to find out if Biden's got any ukrainian ties we should worry about because the public information would suggest there's something we ought to look at how is that not the sitting presidents one of his top priorities so the president instead of running away from it or trying to conflate it with the CrowdStrike thing we're trying to just label it as perfect or whatever he's doing he's missing the most obvious play I think maybe there's some lawyer who would say Scott Scott Scott I don't think you're saying that there's some legal ramification if you did what you say but I don't know what it is if you make me president I'm going to say ah yeah it was quid pro quo because it's my

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yeah it was quid pro quo because it's my job to make sure that we don't have foreign interference people were watching I had witnesses when I did it I gave me the transcript I told you I did it and it's your top priority to make sure that there's no interference that's your top priority and it's mine too but don't complain when I'm pursuing your top priority I'm making sure that the there's no foreign interference if but should let's say should Biden get elected all right uh here's my other question that I tweeted too much retweeting if Russia wanted to harm the United States meaning basically decrease our power make us less effective make us struggle in some way so that they would be relatively advantaged in the Power Balance do you think that they'd be promoting tulsi gabbard there's not the way they would play it

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there's not the way they would play it do you think they're over there saying yeah we'll pick somebody who is near the bottom of the list and we will try to promote that person is that your best play now I understand that there may be the play is to get her to run there's a third party and ruin things or something but does that seem likely enough that that's a serious play is there somebody in Russia who says I think tulsi gabbard is a good candidate to mount a third party challenge there's nobody in the United States who thinks that is there is there anybody who's let's say in the pundit class who legitimately believes that Tulsi Gabbard would mount a third party campaign I don't think so so here's my question wouldn't the obvious play if you were Russia let's say you're Putin and you intend to mess with the United States and make us weaker wouldn't you support Elizabeth Warren

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wouldn't you support Elizabeth Warren that's a serious question isn't that the obvious play because Elizabeth Warren is suggesting big radical changes that would put the economy at risk and if you're if you happen to be Russia you want the person who wants the the least fighting overseas and I think Warren is pretty you know peace oriented similar to Trump but a different style but she also wants to make major changes to the entire economy don't you think Putin would love the United States to make major changes to its economy I can't think of anything that Russia would like more than the United States making major changes to its economy because maybe those changes are good but probably not probably not in terms of GDP probably not it might be good for the citizens that's that would be Warren's argument it might be good for an entire class of people who would

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for an entire class of people who would otherwise be greatly disadvantaged but who doesn't care about that he cares about our GDP I think he'd like it to be lower which one gives you the lower GDP Elizabeth Warren or Trump that's a no-brainer right if you're Putin are you saying to yourself huh Elizabeth Warren or Trump Elizabeth Warren or Trump you know I think Elizabeth Warren would really make the stockmarket zoom literally nobody thinks that Wall Street is panicked about the possibility now somebody says Bernie well Bernie would be a good choice for Russia if he also had a good chance of getting elected well I would think I would think that Elizabeth Warren would be the top choice so I wondered about that
so aoc did some awkward questioning of Mark Zuckerberg and if you watched the

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Mark Zuckerberg and if you watched the video it's just sort of cringy she's just it I felt like it was a seal hunter just clubbing a baby harp seal that couldn't defend itself it's like and that the baby harp seal was just like my talking points by talking points so I I have this observation about Zuckerberg and I can't make a decision here so maybe you can tell me I couldn't decide if Zuckerberg Berg did a good job or a bad job in responding to Congress's interrogation and here's why it's confusing if you watched his answers you probably thought to yourself almost every time oh man you're sticking to your talking points you're not really answering the question you look awkward and uncomfortable it doesn't look like you're nailing it so that's that's one point of view but there is something that Zuckerberg does as well as I've ever seen anybody do it and that is

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ever seen anybody do it and that is sticking to what he wants to say and avoiding you know an emotional thing that maybe would create a viral video and avoiding answering a direct question which is only designed to get him on record in an embarrassing way so I have mixed feelings I think maybe he nailed it
it but it's hard to it's hard to score it I think he nailed it because he said nothing that was interesting which I would guess yeah it's media training I've talked about that before if you take training how do talk to the media and had to do what Zuckerberg was doing in the public they will teach you not to answer the question because the questions are traps and you just use those questions to restate your point of view you're talking points and he did that really well he's very disciplined he's smart he's disciplined the talking points were good enough I think maybe he's succeeded that's my take the funniest part was was

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that's my take the funniest part was was it remind me who who was that who asked Zuckerberg I think it was somebody else not a or C who asked him if he was aware of how many LGBTQ employees are working at Facebook or working on something at Facebook and and Zuckerberg said he didn't know there was Al Green and I thought to myself I better I better be prepared for this question because I I employ people now and then and I thought how I better collect that information from any future or current employees to find out if they're LGBTQ because what if I get called into Congress and I have to have to speak to it and I thought well it's probably illegal to ask isn't it I mean is it legal to ask your employee hey you know by the way are you gay
gay is that even legal yeah I don't know how

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is that even legal yeah I don't know how that works because I think some of these things get tracked by the government but I can't imagine that would be legal so I was trying to think well how can I determine if I have LG deep LGBTQ employees without asking because that seems illegal and I came up with this idea if it's somebody who identifies as male I would ask them to have sex with me if they say yes I would say ha okay I take out my clipboard let's say identifies as male agreed to have sex with me checkmark I have I have one statistic and then I would go to the employees who identify as female and I would say them would you like to have sex with me now if the woman says no I pick up my clipboard I'd say lesbian now it'd be a little harder with identifying the bisexuals

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harder with identifying the bisexuals and transgenders so I'd have to I need to work on that a little bit more but I think those two questions would give me all the data I needed now or you could be indirect about it instead of asking somebody's sexual orientation you could ask questions in the general field and then try to deduce it and then maybe that would work for example if somebody who identified as a man or even a woman I guess it works either way you could say it's just making conversation that was the weather today oh good good nice sunny you know I was just wondering a bob have you ever had any part of another man in your mouth or in any part of your body has any part of another man been in any part of your body now you have to be careful here because you might be talking to someone who was a doctor a proctologist for example or a

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doctor a proctologist for example or a cannibal you know you might accidentally be talking to a cannibal and they say oh yeah I've had I've had male body parts in me well let me tell you everybody dinner so you have to be careful you know that you don't have a proctologist or a cannibal but otherwise I think that question would get to the bottom of it by the way if you're new to these periscopes I'm super Pro gay gay or the better and by the way I mean that totally seriously here's something you never hear are you ready for this here's an opinion you've never heard gosh that neighborhood went to hell because of all the gay people who live there you've never heard that is there anybody who ever said gosh there's gay people in the neighborhood there go our property values not ever never will happen so I'm super Pro gay super Pro LGBTQ I'm your best friend but

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super Pro LGBTQ I'm your best friend but funny is funny alright so what else we got here is anything else funny happening oh so I told you the other day Joel Stein who is a very good writer one of the funniest writers in America used to write for Time magazine he had that funny article in the back of Time magazine for years he's written a number of books and his latest book about the elites in in defense of elitism has a chapter about me and I think I'm actually in a few of the different chapters and one of the humorous anecdotes that he pulled out of our interaction is he asked me if I thought I could be Secretary of State so he asked me if I thought I would be qualified to be Secretary of State and I answered unambiguously no and he was relieved at that because he was worried that I might think that with no experience I could just become Secretary

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experience I could just become Secretary of State but then I explained longer that it's because I don't have a good memory for leaders names and I don't have the stamina to do all that international travel I don't like I don't like the time zones and this feels like a lot of work so no I couldn't do the travel and I couldn't remember the leaders names so I would not be qualified to be Secretary of State at which point Joel humorously and cleverly points out that that was not why he was expecting as the reason I thought I was unqualified now let me ask you this was Rex Tillerson qualified to be Secretary of State I don't think so and turns out he didn't last is Mike Pompeo when he first took the job was he qualified to be Secretary of State I doubt it I mean he had a good resume that was very appropriate you know use

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that was very appropriate you know use closer than most people yeah if you've been CIA you've been in Congress but I don't think unless you do the job I don't think unless you do the job you're qualified right do you become qualified for a job by doing an unrelated job just because you've heard the names of world leaders or something I don't think so I feel quite strongly that experience is overrated in a lot of domains and the government's probably the main one so yes I believe if I had a memory for names and I wanted to do it and I didn't mind all the travel I could totally be a Secretary of State and I don't mean because I'm so awesome I think there are a lot of you who are watching this periscope you know maybe not a lot as a percentage but there are probably quite a few people on this periscope maybe a hundred of you who if you were given the job of Secretary of State you could probably work it out it

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State you could probably work it out it would probably be fine
what else we have going on here I think those were all the funny things so it's all about the impeachment today keep watching how are the California fires well apparently my power is gonna go out again actually my power didn't go out the first last time they threatened to turn off the power in California but it might the next time I don't know it depends where the fire is I think that's the where the wind is and where the where the fire risks are that's so I guess Snowden appeared on Joe Rogan show but I haven't listened to it yet and I plan to when I get a good piece of time Oh Toto's come Biden so Joe Biden he tries to start this sub campaign within his campaign called todos con Biden so it

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campaign called todos con Biden so it was aimed at Hispanic voters and it was supposed to make him one of them and and telling them how to get on board supporting Biden but he did not have the good sense to capture the the URL so he comes up with a tagline but he doesn't get the URL so guess what happened it took about a minute and a half for somebody probably associated with Brad parts Kelvin and the campaign to grab the domain create a page to mock Joe Biden and it's merciless and there's also a Twitter account which is you know tweeting all the the bad Joe Biden stuff that also uses the same you know this is the same name as the URL and I thought to myself even that is a higher quality campaign move than anything we've seen anything from the entire Democratic

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anything from the entire Democratic field and it even made me wonder if the campaign didn't which is my assumption I'm assuming somebody that Brad parse Cal works with or or his actual team probably did it because they would have the fastest reaction at the highest quality of production and it was a really high-quality production that their takeover of the URL and the Twitter feed looks really clean I mean it's got it's just got all the things to make it look legitimate while it's obviously not but here's the other observation they had now see if you agree with me there are Trump voters and supporters who have nothing to do with the campaign who make better campaign ads than the entire Democratic field and what I mean is on any given day you know something wicked or carpe dump them or or you know

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wicked or carpe dump them or or you know Jack poo Sabich Mike Tsarevich you know you could probably come up with 15 names of Trump supporters who on a regular basis create better campaign content and even just for fun you know they're not even doing it intentionally that is a far higher quality than what they're professionals working on the the Democratic campaigns were producing just far better it's not even close and those are just voters forget about the actual campaign which is like that you know the nuclear arsenal of you know good persuasion just regular voters are better than the entire professional field never seen that before all right that's all I got for now and I will talk to you later