Episode 718 Scott Adams: China, Bloomberg, Bad Communicators, My Loserthink Book Tour

Date: 2019-11-08 | Duration: 49:38

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My new book LOSERTHINK goes on sale 11/5. Pre-order: https://bit.ly/2NRammu Bernie’s immigration plan and the recent border area massacre Elizabeth Warren’s health plan challenged by major Democrats Kamala Harris low-budget campaign ad China’s spare parts program and living human inventory Update: Disagreement with Nassim Taleb Don Jr. appearance on The View Dilbert Jake Tapper art auction now, at “homes for our Troops” https://www.hfotusa.org Helping find homes for injured veterans

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I'm bumbum bumbum hey everybody come on in it's another early early coffee with Scott Adams I'm in a different time zone Jordy you're awake all the time Brian how's it going Kevin it's good to see all the regulars well come on in here cuz you know it's coming I think you do you know it's common it's a little thing called the simultaneous zip the best part of your day and you don't need much to participate all you need is a cup or a mug or glass stein chalice canteen shot glass the vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the simultaneous sip the thing that makes everything better ready go oh so good

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ready go oh so good somebody says on here I'm too drunk to sleep well you came to the right place my friend too drunk to sleep is exactly where you want to be is there anybody on here named bill anybody named it bill because if you are you can just screenshot this and you'll have an autograph for your book yeah I just did that just did that for somebody on Twitter and maybe I'll do some more so I'm still on my book tour guess how many interviews I did yesterday just yesterday take a guess what what I can't hear you okay periscope doesn't work that way 25 I did 25 interviews yesterday and do you think I'm tired a little bit I got

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you think I'm tired a little bit I got more today today I will be if all goes well these things change sometimes but I should be on Dana prinos a show on Fox News today depending on your time zone you can find it and I'll be getting ready to tape the Greg Gutfeld show so I'll be on that that appears on Saturday and then someday I'll be able to get home Oh some of your guesses are good I'm seeing your delayed guesses here somebody guessed 26 25 24 it good pretty pretty good that's Larry David saying but I stole it pretty pretty good alright let's talk about some stuff you ready so apparently Bernie has released his comprehensive immigration platform so

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comprehensive immigration platform so Bernie apparently does not want to be the President of the United States every once a while one of the Democrats will do something where you say to yourself huh
huh it looks like they're running to not be President so mere days after the cartels who open the border between Mexico and the United States they gunned down women and children in a convoy Americans and right after that while still fresh in the news it's still being reported on Bernie releases his comprehensive immigration of platform here are some of the highlights he wants to dismantle ice and CBP which means if you can get in I guess you get to stay you also decriminalized illegal immigration might as well give it a shot

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immigration might as well give it a shot if if you thought maybe you couldn't get in before well might as well give it a shot there's no penalty stop all deportations so even if you came in yesterday and murdered somebody you're good to stay except 50,000 quote climate migrants in the first year and much much more so are there really climate migrants that we can identify is it does science really say that it might so I I don't want to be a science denier here so I know science says climate change is already changing things so so in that much Bernie would be compatible with science but is science so sure that any particular area of the earth got

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any particular area of the earth got worse recently because of it they might be it's possible the science issue or what that feels like something science couldn't be sure about it seems you know it's a lot more believable if they say well we think the average of the planet is changing over time and we think we know why that that feels like something I can believe they would understand but do they know do they know that Iowa is getting hit especially hard but Nebraska is fine isn't if you know I just don't know that that's a real thing or at least I don't know that science would go as far as birdie is in identifying specific places that the climate is definitely definitely the culprit as opposed to any other thing you know keep in mind here's one thing I love to remind people of it especially if they're new to the climate topic when we

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they're new to the climate topic when we talk about rising sea levels one of the big surprises if you haven't already heard this is this sea level does not rise everywhere in the same way you think well how's that possible if you drop something in the water you know shouldn't it affect all the water you know if you if you add water to you know a gallon jug is there anywhere on the surface of the water as you're adding it where that where the level is not going up so you say to yourself that makes no sense how in the world could the sea level go up in one place and not go up in another well the answer is that the temperature of the ocean in that local area makes a big difference so if it's extra warm let's say on our well let's say it's extra warm on the Atlantic side the volume of the water would increase because it's warm so you can have a situation where the where the sea level goes up on one coast

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coast and your other coasts go down as if there's something happening with the the land land ocean situation so the land itself can go up and down
somebody says could it be that the world is tilted well the world the world is tilted but I don't think science is going to back you on the tilted world hypothesis anyway so mere days after the cartel is shown to be a lawless lawless essentially a terrorist force on our border Burnie decides to run for president by saying Alice look just let everybody in glad everybody in essentially because if you decriminalize and you don't deport and you don't build any more barrier stuff you're basically

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any more barrier stuff you're basically saying everybody can come in I'll drink to that being Bernie's plan I'm not drinking to doing that all right if somebody says can I ask you something I'm not gonna stop yeah you got a comment go ahead and ask me something I might not see it so you see Elizabeth Warren with these plans for her health care and taxing that even the Democrats say that looks like you're not even trying because there's no way you can become president with those policies and now and now Bernie has joined has joined the crowd of an explicit policy that isn't even slightly not even slightly likely to get him elected there's just no chance now cobble Harris did a new little campaign ad which I believe the total cost of her

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ad which I believe the total cost of her ad was zero she put $0 into it looks like somebody just filmed her with a camera on the tripod looking at a computer and laughing and mocking clips of President Trump Wow was it a bad look now I'm not saying anything about what her commentary was or what the president said or whether it was worthy of criticism or not it doesn't even matter just the the mere fact that she ran a campaign ad with her little headphones on sitting in front of a laptop and just making faces a hoo-hoo oh and that was her campaign dad yeah and she said ridiculously general things like he sold out our values he sold out our values let me do a little poll here calmly

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let me do a little poll here calmly Harris says that president Trump sold out our values did did you feel any change because I feel as though my values pretty much the same Pete tripod Westfeldt but if it feels like my values are the same has anybody changed their values who bought them who bought our values somebody says yes come on art you have to be the contrarian
so exactly what does that mean when when Trump is no longer the president won't the new president have a you know a set of values it doesn't doesn't you mean anything it's the best you can do is somebody sold down our values and you can't explain how that hurt anything now does that mean we can negotiate with

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now does that mean we can negotiate with China anymore well what does that mean doesn't mean we can't travel overseas did my taxes go up what what exactly happened with my values now I certainly I certainly understand that people can disagree on specific policies but he sold our soul down our values that just doesn't mean anything all right there's the rumors that Mike Bloomberg is has not decided whether or not he will get in the race so Mike Bloomberg billionaire 77 years old doesn't like soda which might not be popular with most of the country they like their soda so I was on Kennedy show on Fox Business last night and I made a prediction to Kennedy she asked me about

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prediction to Kennedy she asked me about Bloomberg and I said there's no chance at all the Bloomberg went into the race he's 77 and if he's not sure by now it means he's not going to be much more sure in a week from now or a month from now right in order to jump in the in the race late spend a billion dollars you'd have to really know that's what you wanted to do if you've been the ambivalent up to now does he really want to be President so the entrance of Bloomberg into the race would have the effect first of all adding another another ancient white guy to the mix is that what they need are the Democrats saying you know yeah I'm trying to imagine the meeting of Democrats you know the Democratic Party let's say at the meeting of the Democratic Party or they're saying you know what we need we

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they're saying you know what we need we need a really old white billionaire cuz that if we put a really old white billionaire on our ticket that's gonna excite the base that gets the base out what is anybody thinking so here's the thing there you've heard the the old joke from Groucho Marx I think somebody said it came from somebody else before Groucho but I'm not sure about that but the saying is that I wouldn't want to join a club that would have somebody like me as a member yes a famous saying and there's something like that with Bloomberg well let me give it to you this way if blue Berg did get into this race now that would be proof he's not qualified to be President am i right because what could be what could be better evidence of bad judgment than

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better evidence of bad judgment than Mike Bloomberg getting in the race now no I think if he you know been in the race from the beginning or he'd been in the race when he was younger I thought he was actually you know a pretty strong reasonable you know middle ground kind of candidate with a lot of lot of talents but if he were to jump into the race now that would prove he's not keen on competent because it would be such a such an obviously dumb decision and couldn't possibly lead to something good couldn't help the Democrats in any way because he doesn't have a chance at winning and he would be just urinating all over the people who are already there who put in the work he I don't know what it would do to funding I guess he would fund it himself so maybe that wouldn't matter oh did somebody on CNBC make the same point that if he gets in the race it proves he's not capable to be President because it would be such a bad mistake I

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because it would be such a bad mistake I don't know if anybody else said it the way I said it all right you may remember that in the past I have been skeptical of the so-called Chinese killing of of prisoners just for their organs to sell them and the part that I was doubting in particular I was not doubting that they execute people and I was not doubting that they used the the organs of the executed prisoners so that part I figured well that's probably true I mean that doesn't even sound that controversial because if you're going to execute him anyway you know it's China now why not use the spare parts so that part was completely believable because I was a little skeptical this has attracted much new information to me and one of the one

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new information to me and one of the one of the things I say in my book Lu's I think is I say that if you want to know how to do something right the one of the fast ways to do it is to do it wrong in public if you do something wrong in public it attracts all this good advice my god you did it wrong you should have done it this way why didn't you look at this link I would have done it this way can I help you so this is a perfect example so I gave my opinion that it seemed ridiculous to imagine that the Chinese were systematically using the flung Falun Gong or or the we Gers for spare parts and killing them just for parts I mean in other words they weren't going to die anyway they were killing them just for the parts and apparently you have to keep the body alive after the brain is dead in order to get a good transplant so the the thought is that they were you know shooting him in the brain or

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know shooting him in the brain or killing them in some way that keeps the the heart beating so that they can get the organs and I said well that's crazy there's no way they're doing that in some large systematic way well say then public attracted many sources of information and I would like to officially revise my opinion it looks pretty clear that there is a widespread Chinese program to eliminate the at least the flu and God we don't know about the Uighur yet but apparently they are using them for parts and they are telling them apparently there are lots of reports where the guards are actually telling the phlume gong that they're going to use them for parts and they even x-ray them and test their blood and when they beat them when they beat them

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when they beat them when they beat them which they do they torture them they make sure that they don't hurt their organs and they actually say that and there are a number of reports from people who are actually in the Chinese jails now if we had a few reports I would say I don't I don't believe a few reports because there's always someone who's willing to say that country did some atrocity you can always get somebody to say that any country did it an atrocity so a few people I'm not gonna buy that but apparently statistically it's impossible to have organs on demand unless you're killing people on demand yeah there's there's just no physical mathematical practical way to have that many organs and apparently you can go to China and just get yourself a kidney fresh off the corpse well as guess it's not a corpse so I am now a convert I

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not a corpse so I am now a convert I revise my opinion it does seem that China has gone full nazi full Hitler so China is now I would say equivalent you know this is something that's really it's difficult to say this in fact in fact I just said the other day you should never say this I'm gonna say something now that I just said the other day in public one should never say this and now I'm gonna say it it's as bad as the Holocaust now what I said the other day was one should never compare anything to either the Holocaust or to American slavery because there's really they just standalone there's just you know they're there it's kind of a special kind of evil and comparing anything to them tends to diminish them because the thing you compare to them tends to be smaller is this smaller do

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tends to be smaller is this smaller do you know how many saloon God there are in China the Holocaust was what six million they're gonna beat that number they are going to beat that number because they're way more following God right if I'm saying it right somebody give me a give me a number in there Wow hold on a second I will Google this how many flume Gong many how do you spell that in China somebody will probably say it in there say it in the comments let's see other sources have estimated the flume guard population in China to have peaked between 10 and 70 million

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peaked between 10 and 70 million practitioners it's between 10 and 70 million practitioners and China is using them for parts
I think that's just a fact so you know the thing I said the other day is like well it's never gonna be anything like the Holocaust so stop comparing things to it if you just go by the numbers if you just go by the numbers China's gonna go for the record and that seems pretty clear right now now the thing that blows my mind about this is that the Falun Gong thing which I don't fully understand it's more like a practice than a religion there's some kind of a spiritual component to it but it's more like a lifestyle self-improvement sort of thing I don't quite understand has

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of thing I don't quite understand has something to do with you know exercises that improve your energy or something like that I'm gonna have to look into it but apparently if you get picked up and say for being a practitioner all you really need to do is sign a document that says you were announced it and then you're good and the people who are jailed and beaten don't want to sign the document that says oh I renounce this now if you were gonna be beaten and then used for parts and all you had to do is sign the document that says I I renounce my yoga wouldn't you do it so there's some part of this I don't quite understand I don't see why people are so insistent on dying for you know a self-help process so clearly there's something I don't understand about what the falutin Gong people are getting at in the whole thing all right I have to

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in the whole thing all right I have to give you an update yeah I know they're they're treated as a cult so maybe the idea is that there's so many of them that they could be organized or something I suppose but they could still organize after they signed the piece of paper you still signed the piece of paper and then just go off and do it in your home well nobody's looking so I'm gonna give you an update on a weird little story that I'm not even sure I understand so some time ago I often thought that now seemed Talib who most of you have heard the name was one of the smartest guys around he wrote the Black Swan which is sort of a you know a brain breaking idea and totally accurate and good it was a huge bestseller and these says other lots of other smarter stuff but he and I had a

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other smarter stuff but he and I had a little disagreement online along with some other people on Twitter and I ended up just blocking him for being a dick right so I didn't block him from being wrong I just blocked him for being a gigantic now I I'm pretty sure even his friends would agree he has that kind of personality and I think you could ask his family you know I blocked the scene for being a what are you thinking that I I don't know if he has siblings but I think they'd say oh I did that too he is kind of a I'm not even sure he would I I don't even know if he would deny it he's he's he's pretty out there and in his jerkiness so it's just a preference what's called it a lifestyle preference to be sort of aggressive online and unpleasant yeah I'm sure he knows it because he's smart so here's the disagreement that he and I got into and I want to just run this by you to see if

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I want to just run this by you to see if I'm nuts there was I think it was the question was climate change and this and the set up was this that some data was collected some projection models were created and then the people who who did the models went back and they said oh we've got some errors in our data we believe and we think we can correct it this way and when they corrected it they got a perv that was more in line with what they expected and more aligned with other people's models now several people including Talib said oh you can't do that you can't go back after you've done your prediction and after you've done your model you can't go back and change the data so I said there's no

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change the data so I said there's no situation in which it's a bad idea to turn your bad data into good data and for that the Talib I thought it was after I had blocked him but somebody showed it to me Talib told this little story about the shoe maker apparently there's some parents some story of the shoemaker who saw a famous master paintings paint painting and tracked down the master painter and the shoe maker said you know that the part where you have the shoe in your painting is wrong yeah that a shoe doesn't quite look like that and the master painter listened to the shoemaker and looked at the shoe he'd painted and said oh good point they changes the shoe and then the shoemaker goes on and it starts noting some other things that could be improved it's like well this part of the painting you know invade this tree or whatever and then the master painter quipped and

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and then the master painter quipped and this is the point of the story shoemaker stick with shoe making so in other words the master painting master paint we're saying I'll listen to you when you're talking about his shoes but that's sort of where your expertise ends don't tell me how to paint but I don't mind if you tell me what a shoe looks like the point of the story was that people like me who are unqualified in statistical scientific fields and of course I am I'm completely unqualified should not have an opinion that is respected when talking to people who are experts if we disagree we should just understand that we're talking to experts and our disagreement is unworthy that's not really the problem the problem here was I asked for an explanation of why it makes sense to not correct data if you

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makes sense to not correct data if you know it's wrong now he couldn't explain it he just sort of went ad hominem and said idiots like basically in essence he said idiots like me can't understand this field and so I should stay out of it now some other folks who are who I know to be very smart and rational maybe even some watching this periscope right now people I've been following for a while who when they weigh in on the issue almost I was they weigh in with good data and good reasoning and they were backing Talib and I would say to them the same thing how can it ever be a mistake in science to fix bad data like explain it to me and when they try to explain it just comes out as weird word salad that I read and I go doesn't even seem like an explanation it's not even

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seem like an explanation it's not even something I can agree with or disagree with it just doesn't make any sense but here's the best I can the best I can come up with is that what I was saying if you know your data is bad and you know what it should be it can never be wrong to turn bad data into good data here's what I think they were trying to say but we're so bad at communicating that they can never actually say it I was I was trying to prompt them to say it right cuz I thought I knew maybe what they were getting at but they were saying it here's what I think so it's my best guess of what the people were smarter than me we're saying and it goes like this you have some data you do your model and the model doesn't give you what you want if you go back and adjust the data you can get the model you want well that's not science I agree with that I completely agree with that that's not my

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completely agree with that that's not my question the question was if you knew it was wrong and you knew what was right can it ever be a mistake to fix it and so I just an hour ago I I gave this example let's say you you had the document from the original measurements so you've got the actual let's say you took a picture of the of the thermometer this is just a hypothetical you took a picture of it and it said the temperatures 92 degrees then you check the database that you use for your model and you see that somebody put a typo in there and they changed it to 29 they just reversed it now you've got the original so you know what the original data was and you and you can see that it was just transcribed wrong it's obvious under that situation would it be incorrect to change your database to what you know is right it's obviously just a typo I say there's no situation

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just a typo I say there's no situation in which that's a mistake in science the people were arguing with me we're changing the situation too you've got some data that's maybe wrong or maybe right and you replaced it with other data that might be wrong and it might be right but you don't really know well of course that would be a mistake you don't have to be a scientist to understand that if you don't know you're fixing the data it's a mistake but the own example was that you know that you know it's wrong all right now you could argue any given situation whether you knew in that case or not I think the situations were things such as there were some measuring stations they had been and in the secluded areas but then somebody built an airport next to it which warms up everything because the concrete so now you know that these thermometers are running compared to the other ones an area isn't

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compared to the other ones an area isn't a mistake once you know for sure why they're running hot that mean there's not much doubt about it is it a mistake to take them out of the mix or to adjust them so that they're compatible with the thermometers that had not been affected doesn't look like a mistake to me but a shoemaker stick to shoes somebody mentioned some other topics here did you all see the Don jr. mix up on the view that was just sort of fun I don't have much to say about it but the fact that Joy Behar I think Don jr. mentioned this that Joy Behar actually has a photograph which he's invented she even showed it on the view or somebody showed it on the view of her when she was thirty years old or something wearing a costume that she called a beautiful African woman and you know

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beautiful African woman and you know it's just hard to criticize anybody when you've got that in your portfolio yeah so to do they didn't ask about his book Oh in the view well I just like the fact that putting Don jr. on the view is sort of like a cage fight where you you can't look away actually I like I like putting Don junior into any situation because he's got the same gift that his father does which is he doesn't know how to be uninteresting I don't think Don jr. could be boring you know if if you gave him a if you gave him a script and said I read this and try to be boring I don't know if he could pull it off yeah like his dad he's just interesting all the time whether you like him or not he's just always interesting

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so there was another issue so there's there's some issue about what is that the Ukrainian diplomat - might have perjured herself because there's some document that showed she knew something bla bla bla how many people in the United States are actually following this whole ukraine letter situation not many i try to you know i because i do these periscopes and you know i'm gonna be on news programs because of the book i try to follow this topic but it's so
so complicated in a way that's not worth you know it's complicated but it's not worth understanding you know if it were worth understanding i'd say alright put a little effort into this okay who's who's this player when did they do this who lied who's gonna but it's not worth it because in the end it's still going

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it because in the end it's still going to be the president was asking some questions that the public wanted to know - do you get impeached for that if there's no crime and no crime is really even alleged by anybody who knows what they're talking about let's see I'm just looking at your comments yes I will be on Dana Perino show today but I can never guarantee that because the way things work is in that just FYI that the TV business doesn't it doesn't register time the way regular people do in TV time five seconds is a long time and the fact that I'm scheduled for any show doesn't matter if it's Dana show or any other show the fact that I'm scheduled for a show that same day actually doesn't mean much if it's the new show

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doesn't mean much if it's the new show just anything can change so it's I think I've had several several it's already rescheduled yes art I will be on Michael Smerconish his show Saturday mornings or I'm at least I'm going into recorded I think it's running live Saturday I think it's live so Smerconish on CNN I think he he puts the most effort I think into making sure that different sides are represented in a in a fairly you know even way so I always respect Smerconish for having someone like me on his show because you know he has to know his fans don't love it you know the people watching CNN they cannot be delighted to see me as a guest so that's what I always appreciate the fact that he invited me on this is the second time

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he invited me on this is the second time I've been on and I think I do something with radio with him once I always appreciate it because I know he does if were educating his audience and not because they're gonna like it it's you know and that's sort of rare Matt Taibbi z' followers say he's turned to the dark side well Matt is one of those people who can see the whole field there are many of them there's a vive affray interview with mike sort of itch somebody send me a link to that I would definitely watch that yeah we talked about the Comal harris video literally the worst campaigner in the history of the earth but let me say I don't think there's any chance at this point the commo Harris can get the nomination if I had to bet today if I had to bet today probably Budaj but the thing I can't

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probably Budaj but the thing I can't tell the thing I can't tell is if the Democrats are serious about winning can you because they don't act like a side that wants to win do they they literally don't act like they want to win because they're not doing things that obviously would be good to win now I assume that people said the same thing about Trump right because I didn't understand his you know his method I guess but it looks like they're not trying to win this time it looks like they're floating ideas may be moving the public's opinion may be getting ready for next time in some cases it doesn't look like they're trying to win as a party so I would say that Budaj edge is the I think he's pulling forth and some polls and the the three that are above him just don't have any chance I think

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him just don't have any chance I think but a judge could put up the best fight you know yet he is the closest to somebody who an independent could like and let's be honest he might peel off some gay Republicans there may be gay Republicans who say you know I wouldn't normally but wouldn't it be great to you know have a gay president for a while so and by the way I don't begrudge anybody who thinks like that I don't begrudge the black population of the United States who said it's time for a black president because it was kind of time for a black president maybe it's time for an LGBTQ president and I'd be happy if we had one because it's the sort of thing you'll have to do once right the fact that Obama existed doesn't make it some kind of necessity that the next

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some kind of necessity that the next president is also black or also anything else you we've shown that that's a perfectly practical thing that the print that the country the country can be okay with and not just okay I mean you won pretty comfortably likewise it would be good to you know get a few other categories done yeah yeah it would be great great to finally have a woman president great gay president great Avenue spamming president etc etc didn't mean to leave anybody else alright somebody says the Democrats could win if they promise to do everything that Trump promised but be nicer about it true it's true if you had a Democrat who said yeah I'm gonna be tough on China too and you know I'll talk to Kim Jong and I won't change your taxes and well we want we want health

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taxes and well we want we want health care but we'll do it by you know lowering costs or something yeah that'd be pretty strong if somebody says that no making sure that you've had presidents who represent the people in the country without leaving anybody out I think it's closer to our national identity than it is to affirmative action I wouldn't label an affirmative action I would say it's more it would be more a direct expression of what the United States is not just demographically but who we are is a country that can do that it's almost like showing off we're a country who can do that you know we you can come to this country and as long as you obey the laws and you know you think the Constitution is a pretty good deal

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the Constitution is a pretty good deal you could be President everything else doesn't matter that's that's what makes that's what makes the United States the United States and not something else did you hear about Rogen's interview with the guy who posed as a drug dealer and went to China oh thank you for reminding me so I haven't watched the interview but I can already if there are some things you don't have to watch to know what it's going to say you also the news that some fentanyl dealers were sentenced to death or life imprisonment there were nine of them in China now smart people are saying it doesn't mean anything it's just window dressing they tryna will still send us just as much fentanyl if not more but they'll pretend they jailed some people so they can get a trade deal what do you think do you think China decided oh yeah we're gonna stop that

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decided oh yeah we're gonna stop that fentanyl or do you think China said let's let's act like we did something and just check that box so we can get a trade deal and then we'll just go back to doing what we were doing which one do you think it is duh
so I forget the name of the guy who was the top fentanyl dealer but the United States has identified them you know officially identified him in documents as the guy who was the biggest fentanyl dealer and I don't think it was that guy they got taken down now it could be the big the ones who are taken down was based on the United States putting together a case against these people and then China followed up and I guess maybe work with the United States and got the conviction so it could be that the the top fentanyl guy just didn't leave enough fingerprints so maybe maybe we're building a case or can't build a case or something but here's the thing China knows who this guy is and it's China if

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knows who this guy is and it's China if they want to stop fentanyl they stopped that guy they know where he lives they know his name they know he's the top fentanyl dealer in their country if he's still if he's still walking around China's not doing anything about fence and all right so that's my current opinion is too little too late and I say no trade deal I do not support a trade deal I don't care how close we get the fence a little stuff it's not real and my book done Bill Maher I am NOT first interview today is with the Babylon be oh I bet I'm doing an AMA on reddit so that's coming up today I've got to get ready for the things what time is it oh yeah I've got to go get ready for first interview so do you follow the babylon babylon be sort of a satire sort of like the young and accept political stuff it's the it's

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and accept political stuff it's the it's really the funniest thing on the internet so i followed them and retweet them quite often so they got their attention and they want to talk to me for their podcast but anyway i'm doing an ama today and see the this is the they make you sold up a little sign to make sure that you're a real person when you do an AMA on reddit so this is a little sign I held up these times are Eastern time so adjust accordingly Eastern Standard Time today so if you're on reddit you can come to ask me some questions and I'll be sitting right here where I am right now typing my answers all right I'll say looking at your comments don't know if I'm booked for Adam Carolla I might be I know that we

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Adam Carolla I might be I know that we were trying to do that I've got an LA trip this coming week so I'll do LA periscope the AMAs yeah maybe I don't know that would be boring to watch so the only now the only CNN oh is speaking of Jake Tapper so somebody asked me about Jake Tapper I'm not appearing on his program but the the auction for the art that I wrote and Jake Tapper drew as a guest cartoonist is going on auction now at homes for our troops so if you just Google homes for our troops you'll see somewhere on the page information and how to be part of the part of that so there they're framed I framed them myself meaning I carried them to the store had somebody framed them carried them back mailed them so they're signed by me they're signed

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so they're signed by me they're signed by Jake and they're nice framed that shows the original the original art that's part of it and then the the art that actually ended up in the newspaper so you can see the the difference
it's called homes for our troops if you just google the whole phrase their website will pop right up homes for our troops so as far as the veterans of course what they do is they build they build they find housing for the most badly disabled veterans so very worthy group it's one that Jake always supports and we've done this before now Christina Christina and I will not be appearing on the view okay all right that's all for now and I'm gonna go get ready for my

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now and I'm gonna go get ready for my all my interviews today and I'll talk to you all tomorrow