Episode 740 Scott Adams: Loserthink Opinions in the News, War With Cartels, Thankfulness

Date: 2019-11-28 | Duration: 51:47

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Whitehouse lockdown due to unidentified flying…”blob” FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organization) designation for Cartels Options for dealing with the cartels Is legalization of ALL drugs a viable option to deal with cartels? IG report, was the Trump campaign/administration SPIED on? Charlamagne tha God recommends looking at the past… …not the present? Pete Buttigieg’s impressive strengths

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bump bump button hey everybody happy Thanksgiving if you happen to be an American and if you don't happen to be an American Happy Thanksgiving anyway because it turns out you could be thankful no matter where you live does it matter today's the day but while we're thinking about all the things we're thankful for one of them is that you get coffee with Scott Adams even on holidays think about it no commercial breaks free holidays every single day coffee really what's better nothing nothing and all you need to participate I think some of you know but if you're new here these are your instructions to participate in the simultaneous sip oh it's good it's good if you haven't tried it yet you're gonna you're in for a surprise and all you need is a copper mugger

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and all you need is a copper mugger glasses snifter stein chalice tanker thermos flask iam team Grail goblet vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous sip go I am so thankful for coffee and for all of you you know I say that way sincerely I am very very thankful for all of you because I enjoy spending my my mornings with you probably more than you enjoy being spent with so there's that let's talk about some fun things in the news hey how about that so apparently there was a lockdown at the White House because of a unidentified blob that was flying toward it that's right there was an unidentified

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that's right there was an unidentified blob in the air that was picked up on radar and they were like we don't know what this is but we better shut down the white house now they think it was Birds so it might have been a flock of birds flying in a tight formation but what do you think they thought it was they probably thought it was a drone attack with lots of drones probably because sooner or later there's going to be a drone attack in this country that will not be that different from the multiple drone attack on the Remco oil refinery in Saudi Arabia there will be lots of small simultaneous drones attacking targets now I don't know if it would be the White House or something else but how in the world would you stop a whole bunch of drones coming from different directions how would you what kind of

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directions how would you what kind of defense yeah even electronic defence couldn't get them all could it maybe it could well let's hope it could so as you know President Trump is working on designated the designating the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations now I'm told that that mostly means messing with the banking and finance so that we could now once that designation is in place is swimming it does get finalized once that designation is in place the United States can go after banks and anybody who deals with anybody who deals with the cartels now people who are smarter than I am have said if you start a war with the cartels they're gonna fight back and they're gonna fight back in this country will they I don't know it's

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this country will they I don't know it's really hard to imagine that we know what cartel people are thinking one thing I don't understand about the cartels is this would it ever be possible to do a peace deal with the cartels could you negotiate peace in which we don't kill them and they stopped sending drugs now your first impression might be well even if they stopped somebody else somebody else would do it that's probably true but suppose we made a peace deal in which the cartels agreed not to send any more drugs we do we agreed not to kill them all because we can and we and then we paid the cartels to stop anybody else from selling drugs could you bribe the cartels just to work for us because they already got guns and they know where everything is they know what everybody's doing and they control territory could

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doing and they control territory could we just say look we give give you two choices you can keep all the money that you've you've made already you can keep all that money and you can work for us we'll even pay you every year to make sure that immigration and drugs coming across the border are lessened would that work you know anybody who says you could never deal with the cartels well you're probably right probably I'm just asking the question I don't think anybody's ever tried now one of the things I also wonder about is if you're the head of the cartel you're wonderfully rich and you never have to work again but they keep working what's up with that what is it that causes the heads of the cartel who have already made their billion dollars or whatever but the more that they continue to work the more likely they'll be killed or jailed well what makes them keep working I kind of wonder about that I mean that's an

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of wonder about that I mean that's an honest question why don't they say I got my billion I'm gonna go retire well probably because if they retire they think they won't have the power to protect themselves or somebody else will take over then kill them and take their money yeah it must be some kind of fear but is there any way to fix that could we say to the heads of the cartel if you retire we'll make sure you're protected somehow I don't know I'm just I'm just saying that dealing with it in the way we've always dealt with it hasn't worked same with North Korea the way we dealt with North Korea in the past hasn't worked could we actually negotiate with the heads of the cartel well your first impression might be no you don't negotiate with people that bad but in my work so it's just these are just questions I just don't know what the options are with the cartels but I would

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options are with the cartels but I would say this it does seem to me that if there were war with the cartels that they would fight back and that they would fight back in this country and you probably see stuff start exploding in this country and mass killings and stuff for them trying to get us to back off so if we anticipate that's gonna happen what would you do in that case I think the only thing you would do is you would wait for it to happen once because you probably have to have it happen once something blows up in this country and then we unleash the dogs of war I think based on what's happened so far it's all been happening in Mexico except for that the drug deaths in this country I think if they ever responded let's say the cartels responded and they blew up something in the United States I think the only course of action would be full-out 100% of war to eradicate every

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full-out 100% of war to eradicate every last one of them you know Isis style I don't imagine that we would just do you know tip for tat do you because it wouldn't be a big good strategy anything short of complete eradication would be a waste of time because would still be enough people to focus and sell it sell drugs but I also wonder if one way - take them down isn't to just legalize drugs okay do you know does anybody know why the administration doesn't at least have that conversation you know I hate it when people use that word you know we have to have a national conversation because it doesn't mean anything but has the Trump administration ever said even yes or no just a yes or no to the question of legalizing the harder drugs
right shouldn't we get a yes or no has anybody ever said Trump administration

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anybody ever said Trump administration would you consider to this would you even consider it research it do a small trial if that makes sense would you ever consider it has anybody even asked that question why isn't that the most obvious question to answer all right so I think the the press has led us down but not at least making that a topic why is it why are we talking about maybe militarily attacking cartels in Mexico we're actually talking about that it's in the news but we're not talking about we're not even talking about the only thing that anybody thinks could work think about that as far as I know there's exactly one proposal that has ever been floated the smart people think

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ever been floated the smart people think could and probably would work and we don't even talk about it at the at the government levels and just not even talked about what's up with that all right what what's up with the fact that there's only one known solution smart people back it and we don't even put it on the table seriously what's wrong why why is that happening so it could be that maybe it's not such a great idea but I'd certainly like to see the counter counterpoint to it it could be that if you try a locally you'll find out so maybe try it locally see what happens trying it locally wouldn't do anything to stop the cartels because it would be too small but we could find out what it does to the users we could find out what's the impact in say one city of just legalizing all the drugs and

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just legalizing all the drugs and putting more emphasis taking the money from criminal prosecution movie and into treatment making sure that the drugs are cleaned and not the kind that they don't know what they're getting so they died of overdose just try it now let me let me tell you this let me let me put it as clearly as I possibly can all right you've often seen me say that bugs me when people my critics come in and say you just agree with the president and whatever the president bauhaus you just agree because you're just aw you're just now apology bah bah bah bah well here's a perfect example can we say that the Trump administration is doing even the minimum right job just the minimum good job on drugs if they're not actively at least looking at a trial just a trial someplace small could be a city to legalize everything if you're not even

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legalize everything if you're not even testing that or if you're not even at least floating the idea of testing that could it be said that you're doing your job could it be said could you could you honestly say if you were let's say if you're the boss of the President and you're giving him his annual performance review you say well President Trump it's time for your annual performance review we've got this massive drug overdose problem crying coming across the border etc have you done the first minimum the smallest thing that we know we should do which is a small trial somewhere in the United States where we can find an athlete zatia makes things better or worse because you can always reverse it if it's just one city try it for a year or two see what happens reverse it if it didn't work out if you're not proposing that forget about even whether it's going to work it's the

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even whether it's going to work it's the obvious thing to try it's the most obvious thing it's completely practical because you could easily get some local city or county to say yes to it if you're not proposing that are you doing the minimum that would require for we the public that people will elect these people to say yes you're addressing the problem I say no I say no and unambiguously no no completely no no with no caveats the Trump administration is not doing the minimum the minimum that you would need to do to be seen as even taking us seriously not even the minimum all right now if you hear some day that the the federal government said yeah we would back that if there's some state that wants to try it you know it has to be small has to be limited but we would back it as a test if you hear that then you've heard your government do the

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then you've heard your government do the best it could do on this all right but don't don't kid yourself the Trump administration is in complete failure mode on this topic complete failure mode now do I like the fact that we're pushing China to crack down on fentanyl yes do I like the fact that the cartels might be designated terrorist organizations yes do we like the fact that we're tightening border security in part because it would reduce the amount of drugs coming in yes I love all of that I do all of those put together reach the minimum just just all of it together does it reach the minimum to say that the government is competent no it doesn't because all of those put together aren't going to change the amount of fences and all we have it's not going to make any difference I absolutely they think we should push the countries that are pushing the drugs on us they should be punished the people involved should be killed they should all be

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should be killed they should all be killed so maximum punishment to any country that's involved in any way to sending us stuff but let's not kid ourselves it's not going to change the supply as as people tell me almost every day scoffs cause god don't you know it's not gonna change the supply somebody will just make you somewhere else dope the dope too though didn't you know that Babu to which I say yes idiot I did know that that I I am aware that you could put enough fentanyl in this pen to kill an entire state I do know that I do know that other people will make it if you kill all the vendors or if you killed every supplier today if you murdered every person who's involved in the fentanyl business it would take one week for it to regrow because it's profitable if you don't take the profit motive out of it you're not trying let's let's be honest if you're not trying to

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let's be honest if you're not trying to take the profit motive out of it you're not trying you've not reached the minimum to say that you're even doing anything useful but I do like pressing the other countries all right let's talk about something else the I guess the IG report is going to come out and we're going to find out if the Trump campaign was spied on or not spied on by our own justice people and the FBI now on Fox News they're priming you against the priming so there's priming and then there's anti priming going on and everybody's like set in the table getting ready for this IG report so what the smart people are saying we're going to expect to see is that Carter page was a target in other words he was spied on and here's the fun part do you remember in the very beginning of the the Russia collusion hoax

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the the Russia collusion hoax there was there was there were reports that Carter Paige might have had some connection with Russia what did all the pro-trump people say when it came out that Carter Paige may have had some conversations with Russia do you remember what everybody said they said Carter Paige he's not really part of the he's not part of the the campaign he's just some insignificant adviser who went to a meeting doesn't matter if Carter Paige talk to Putin he's just some insignificant outsider wannabe almost kind of sort of thinks he's connected with the the campaign but the president never heard of him well now there's some expectation that it will be confirmed that the not only was there spying on Carter Paige but we also know from the Moller report that there was nothing there Carter Paige was totally cleared so now that the Carter page is totally cleared and

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the Carter page is totally cleared and it looks like the report will say that there was spying on him what do the pro-trump people say now Carter Paige he was totally part of the campaign oh yeah Carter Paige campaign Carter paid he was right he was right there so how often do I tell you that the facts don't matter they do matter to the outcomes of course but they don't matter to our decision-making you just saw that the the facts actually reversed well yeah and it didn't change anything except all what would people just quickly just reverse their opinion so more persuasion talk please well that's what this is this is persuasion talk so you're seeing the the pro-trump errs trying to set the table because the other side is setting the table as sort of anti table setting so I think the New York Times is already

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so I think the New York Times is already leaking that and others may be leaking that the campaign was not spied on and that's going to be the result so they're trying to frame it as campaign was not spied on so once you hear the details you'll already have that in your mind and then when they they fit the details and you'll say oh okay that fits what they said not spied on because Carter page was just sort of an outsider he wasn't really part of the campaign from a mile away you'll see the the pro trumpeter is saying no no Carter page it's the only reason you the only reason you spied on him was connection to the campaign that's spying on the campaign so facts won't matter we'll just line up with whichever side we agreed with for the record I would call that spy another campaign could we what do you think do you agree that if the FBI Department

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you agree that if the FBI Department Justice whoever if they spied on Carter Paige would it be fair to say that they spied on the Trump campaign I say yes I say yes okay I hear some of you having some garbled audio probably because it's so damn popular here but we'll just carry on as if as if not so here's the most provocative thing I'm going to say today I like to give you one Thanksgiving provocative thoughts that will get me kicked off of social media forever so since I might get kicked off of social media forever in the next 10 minutes I would like to remind you that my book loser think is an excellent gift yeah a gift what the hell is a gaffe gift is a gift it's a gift item which you could give to

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it's a gift item which you could give to people who are not even necessarily losers but rather perhaps they do not have effective debating and thinking techniques if you want to cause some trouble at the holidays and your family just just gives somebody in the family one of these and then sort of leave it on the tape in the main room into your house where everybody's milling around all your family is because it's a sort of book people are gonna pick up you can say loser think it's gonna settle though they're gonna come to a page and you can say oh what about this one thing yeah they'll call I was some little item let's call down and then the next thing you know the knives will come out and you'll be fighting with your relatives but you'll be winning because you already read loser think anyway it's a great gift item I hope you support this periscope by buying it all right here's the part where I get kicked off of social media forever if I never see you again it's been a pleasure so there's an I

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it's been a pleasure so there's an I don't know if you know Charlamagne tha God so he's a what would you call him activist maybe african-american activist slash radio host I don't know his full resume he's very well known considered an intellectual one of the one of the I would say leadership type figures in the african-american community as Charlemagne the god of the spell tha and
apparently he's been saying that even though President Trump is making black Americans richer they're making more money so he acknowledges that African Americans are doing better financially under Trump and he says that you should not vote for him anyway even though you're doing better because yet you should look at his civil rights record you should look at his civil rights

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you should look at his civil rights record are talking about the president
Charlamagne tha God is the worst leader maybe you've ever seen so he's a DJ people are saying in the comments I said radio host DJ kind of the same
Charlemagne God's advice that you should you know discount the fact that you're making more money and you're doing better in your life but you should look at the president's civil rights record here's what's wrong with that Charlamagne tha God is asking people who look to him for I would say wisdom because he is it I would call him a thought leader he's often very much praised by by people for being a smart you know informed capable useful good

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you know informed capable useful good leader so I hear mostly I hear only good things about Cheryl Denis in the God so let me get that context in there highly I would say he's sincere and I would say that he's thoughtful and trying to help thoughtful sincere smart trying to help all right so I'm gonna start with the compliment to say that generally speaking very capable talented successful person and trying to help this didn't help let me tell you why if you look at somebody's civil rights record you are looking at the past if you ignore that you're making more money today and your life is better today and instead you say I'm gonna ignore what's good and happening today and I'm going to focus on something that doesn't exist anymore do you know what

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doesn't exist anymore do you know what doesn't exist the past the past doesn't exist so Charlotte mean the God has asked you to focus on the past which doesn't exist and make your decision based on that and ignore the present which does exist and is going well of course the point of looking at the civil rights record is to assume that if things have happened in the past that you didn't like that might tell you that more of that will happen in the future so as an indicator of what might happen in the future I would say that's not in the table so let's talk about that is the president's record on civil rights good or bad in terms of the african-american community well first of all I'm only going to talk about his record as president does it matter what he is alleged to do or did 20 years ago or anything else well it might matter how you feel but it

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well it might matter how you feel but it doesn't matter your life because your life is influenced by what he's doing today what he's done as president so far so let's look at what the president has done so far as president there you could call his civil rights record he's worked on the first step backed and hugely popular with the african-american community he is put emphasis and the historically black colleges I believe he's looking to help fully fund them I don't know the details but he's getting a lot of praise for that and of course the unemployment rate and the wages and everything we're looking good for african-americans so that's how far is all good right but the president is highly criticized for his actions on immigration his immigration his so-called ban on some of the countries who were mostly Muslim countries looked racist to some people

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countries looked racist to some people his ban on not ban but his emphasis on border security with Mexico looks to some people like being racist because the people on the other side of the border are mostly brown but here's the thing that was all to the benefit of African Americans explicitly directly and unambiguously for the benefit of African who exactly is competing for all these jobs that the immigrants are taking well everybody you know I mean it's spread around but the african-american community probably hit a little bit harder and the president is absolutely discriminating against other countries he's totally discriminating against other countries for the benefit of Americans and he calls it out directly for the benefit of the african-american

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for the benefit of the african-american community so if you wanted to get President Trump or even your government let's say you wanted to get your government to do more stuff that's good oh and also the president is against the green New Deal which which would ruin the economy and affect African Americans more than other people all right rich people are just gonna pay a little extra taxes and they're fine poor people have to live in with an economy that would be crashing during the transition into the screen New Deal stuff so if you look at the president's actions on civil rights there are a hundred percent of them since taking office the only time that matters a hundred percent of them have been Pro African American compare that to Obama compare it to anything compared to anybody is it worse than every other president we've had I'd say you'd have to go back to I don't Lyndon Johnson and

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to go back to I don't Lyndon Johnson and you know stuff that happened and the you know the middle of the civil rights era you'd have to go pretty far back to find somebody who was a better president for african-americans in terms of actual results so Charlamagne tha God I think you are guilty of loser think and while I hear really good things value in general and I'm sure they're true I think it is terribly off it's just it's a departure from logic to look at the past which doesn't exist and ignore the that does if you want good things to happen you should you should encourage the good things imagine this if the african-american community decided in any significant part you know you can't get anybody to you could never get everybody to agree and then anything but if you get a significant part of the

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if you get a significant part of the african-american community to say hey president Trump you've done good job so far but there are a few other things we'd like done and you could give him more support here are some specific things we'd like can you help us with these what would President Trump do as a response to hey I think you're moving in the right direction can you move even a little bit more we've got a few more things to do how would president Trump respond to that positively I would think can you imagine anything the president Trump would like more think about it if you think about all the things that President Trump would like to accomplish you know he'd like peace and good trade deals and he'd like North Korea to denuclearize and peace in the Middle East there's a lot of stuff he wants right but put in that list being the best president for the african-american community how much would President Trump like to

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how much would President Trump like to leave office as the best of president for african-americans how much would he like that can't read his mind but I would imagine anyone in his situation would say that would be like the best thing you can even imagine because it would take away all the the bad stuff right it would with one with one set of actions it would it would just erase anything that there anybody said negative about him up to this point so I would I would give the following advice in contrast to Sheryl me in the gods advice you should look at the president's civil rights record didn't vote against them what I'd say is that success is the best strategy and I had a little pause after that because I like that to think the every community needs a strategy you ting to strategy every individual needs

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ting to strategy every individual needs a strategy in other words what are you doing every day to make things better what's your system what is your system for improving your life and life of any anybody in your group whenever your group is what's your system here's the system I recommend success because the more successful black people are the less will be discrimination the less will be racism but wouldn't you like when you like to be in the world where a black person who walks in for a job interview and you say to yourself whoa that's a member of a group who are extra successful they're trying extra hard it's a group that's really hitting hitting the books they're staying out of jail they're doing all the right things now of course you know nothing happens overnight

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overnight but if you're trying to get rid of racism try success there's nothing that convinces like success you can't beat that all right so the focus should be on individual success because that will fix kind of everything if you get that right would you have individual success if you voted against the guy who's giving you individual success financial success in this case in favor of feeling bad about something that bothered you historically that doesn't exist anymore I I get you know I get the warning to fight right and wrong I get that you want to go directly our problems etc but it's not a good strategy somebody said in the comments Scott's and white Lee by the way that that article that I talked about with the I wish I forgetting his name but the writer for the route I'm

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name but the writer for the route I'm still gonna I'm still solidly on the side that says his writing is excellent I guess Buddha jej Buddha judge called them because he the writer for the route wrote a scathing article about Buddha judge and Buddha judge actually called him Harry OTT yes that's his name his last name is Harry OTT and they had a conversation now I don't think it changed either their minds but how much do you like Buddha judge for calling him I like it don't you like the fact that Buddha jej just picked up the phone and called up and said let's talk that's pretty strong move that was a baller move I've got to say but a judge does a lot right you know you we're watching all these Democrats self-immolate I one after another they're doing things that you don't even have to be an expert you

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you don't even have to be an expert you could just be a person watching television and you're watching one of the Democratic candidates and you say to yourself okay that just cost you the election oh no I want to said that bet oh no fifty two trillion dollars a little bit expensive Elizabeth Warren so you you you don't have to be an expert to see each of these candidates just totally destroying themselves and then you watch Buddha judge and this is sort of the dog that doesn't bark look for his errors
it's hard to find any he's running a very smart campaign he's found the reasonable center he's biding his time he's waiting he is not buying into the the drama so much yeah he's he's playing it really smart you cannot underestimate the power of just raw intelligence and I

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the power of just raw intelligence and I think with Buddha Joji you're seeing the benefit of raw intelligence he's just smarter than other people no doubt about it now I do worry that he's experienced enough that's that would be a real thing to worry about I do love the fact that he lives an authentic life and that is really powerful the the fact that he's not only you know openly gay which doesn't even sound does that even sound right anymore to save somebody's openly gay can that feels like a throwback doesn't it it feels like that's not even a sentence that somebody should say in 2019 because if you gain in 2019 and you're not you not I don't even like to say out of the closet these just sound like such old old terms if you're not authentic well I think you're just hurting yourself because it's just easier smarter better just be who you

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easier smarter better just be who you are and the world is ready you know the world is finally ready for that stuff so Buddha jej lives an authentic life here's my husband you know here's his website he's part of the campaign I know I just kind of love the fact that he's not compromising even in the slightest because somebody else might not like it no compromise I like it somebody say gay is not a badge of honor unless a penis I'm saying authenticity can be appealing you don't disagree with that deal do you disagree that authenticity can be appealing I don't think so people like that even if they don't like what you're doing they kind of like that you're honest about it somebody said he's a disastrous mayor well if you would read my book loser think perhaps you would not say Buddha judge was a

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you would not say Buddha judge was a disastrous mayor here's what you can say you what you can say is that during his reign as mayor things didn't go well compared to how you wish they had gone you could say that here's what you don't know there was no other mayor doing the same job at the same time with whom you could come to whom you could compare Buddha judge how do you know he did a bad job if he's not compared to anything there's no comparison because there was nobody doing the same job at the same time with the same variables but making different decisions so he had something to compare nor is that possible because there was only one job of Mayor if you believe you're positive he did a bad job as mayor you were involved in loser think even if you're right you could be right but you don't have any way of knowing it because there's nothing he did there that was being done by somebody else in

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that was being done by somebody else in a different way at the same time with the same variables no comparison now I'm not saying you did a good job I'm just saying that you can't tell and there's no way you'll ever be able to tell it is completely and permanently outside our ability to judge somebody say you could say the same for Trump that is correct and I do I say the same with for Trump that there was nobody else doing the job at the same time so you can tell you can imagine but you can't tell for sure alright so shall the name the god focus on success everything else will work out let's talk about Thanksgiving
if somebody says how can you criticize anyone ever with that reasoning well you can't do it rationally you you can't you can't look at specific things which we know to be wrong so if there's somebody

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know to be wrong so if there's somebody who let's say shoplifts from a store you don't have to say to yourself well if there had been somebody else in your situation where they have shoplifted from the store no I mean you can judge shoplifting to be bad you can judge you know breaking breaking the laws bad so there are lots of things that are just objectively bad but none of that is on the table with Buddha judge and his mayor job nobody says he broke the law nobody says he murdered anybody so you can't tell now in the context of a
a job let's say you're the boss and you're trying to judge people you kind of have to judge them even though maybe it's irrational because when people feel that they're being measured and judged they will work more diligently so if your goal is to make people work more diligently it doesn't exactly matter that you can judge them accurately it just matters that you're watching and

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just matters that you're watching and that you're judging doing it well there's actually less important it'd be great if you could but it's important to watch them it's not important to be exactly right about all their other performance somebody says Scott thinks blacks who work for Papa job should excuse his racism because he pays them did I say that did here did you hear me say that I don't know the Papa John's situation but I would say this if it bothers you to work there and you can get it as good a job somewhere else go ahead and leave that would be a perfectly reasonable thing to do you can vote with your feet but let's say you're a vice-president at Papa John's and you're black I don't know if there's anybody in senior management who's who's diverse at all I don't know but imagine

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diverse at all I don't know but imagine there is that person should they quit well again it depends if they can get a better job and it bothers them if it doesn't bother them and they can't easily or reliably get a better job go for success success pays for a lot of stuff success buys you more than stuff it buys you respect it buys you you know you become someone who is a source of inspiration you become a mentor the success is the strategy all right
somebody's saying that Greta Sundberg we should say okay do murder instead of boomer okay do mer that's kind of clever is is handing pineapple on pizza racist yes but just a little bit I said Newsom is doing a terrible job

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I said Newsom is doing a terrible job yes so again there are some some things which you can see that are just objective you know if somebody got elected and just didn't come to work you wouldn't have to wonder if they're doing a good job if you don't come to work okay you yeah if you start a war that didn't need to be started okay you're not doing a good job but for most of the basic stuff you can't tell now in the case of Newsom if you can't keep the lights on
I'm sorry if you can't keep the lights on and you don't really have a plan to fix it and you got rid of nuclear when nuclear according to every scientist who knows anything is the best thing to do and you've you want to give free health care and open the border those things you can say are bad but I mean Newsom has crossed over into a category that is

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has crossed over into a category that is unambiguous I would say now of course bias always creeps in here so one never knows but I got to tell you I don't have any special bias against you know Republicans or Democrats I mean is I don't I don't identify with either group I think they both have their pluses and minuses so I don't dislike Gavin Newsom or judge him by his party affiliation but I do judge them by the fact that I can't keep my lights on and that my taxes are the highest so yeah I'm judging so there's that all right
just looking at your comments here I feel like I was too much of a downer for Thanksgiving let's say let's say let's talk something positive what do you predict for China's T greats I don't know what that means to do political

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know what that means to do political party yes we are judging Newsom yeah I think you could judge Newsom oh the Golden Age yes I think I might have a guest on next week to talk about one of the big predictions for the Golden Age so I'll tell you more about that as we go forward trade my prediction on trade is that we will not have a trade agreement with China not now and not the foreseeable future because I don't think there's any room for a deal with China they they just don't seem like a credible partner
somebody says your logic on newsom versus buddha judgment really doesn't wash sorry well let me let me defend it a little bit stronger if Buddha judge couldn't keep the lights on I would say the same thing about him but if your problem is I don't know your unemployment is this or you crime is that you know your rates of

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you crime is that you know your rates of something are different that's where you can't tell if newsome's only problem was that let's say unemployment went up or maybe our taxes were a little high in those cases I would say you know I can't really tell I don't know what the other other governor would have done but if he but if Buddha judge couldn't keep the lights on and he'd he'd gotten rid of the only reliable source of electricity you know nuclear power well then I'm gonna judge it but there's no evidence that that happened somebody's asking about the Kurds is it surprising to you that we're not hearing about a lot of Kurd massacres maybe it's happening and we're not hearing about it but didn't you think that by now we would be hearing about all kinds of massacres it looks like things might be working out and wouldn't that be a surprise to everybody except a president Trump doesn't seem to you that Trump

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Trump doesn't seem to you that Trump continuously does the thing that other people say you couldn't you shouldn't do he's fairly consistent about that somebody asked about my new show with Christina we finally finally I think figured out all the technical problems I finally got the sound and the the video and the lighting to be right we did a we did a test run but when we played it back we didn't like the lighting so we want to make sure that we've got a little higher quality production values but we're ready to go I think that sometime between now now in New Year's you will see our first production did you see in Hong Kong they were waving American flags and celebrating Thanksgiving so the Hong Kongers are trying to bring the United States into the fight if you will the United States did we just pass some legislation that

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did we just pass some legislation that condemned China for their Hong Kong stuff I don't think China likes that somebody says talk about the visuals you mean of the show I'm going to do with Christina well I will tell you that we're thinking that the first content might be her interviewing me about my book because I think she would do the funniest interview because she wouldn't ask the same questions that other people asked
so yeah the idea is that if we produce higher quality content better production values will we're testing to see if YouTube do you monetize is that because they maybe do monetizing some of the smaller political leaning content both left and right by the way just because it's not CNN or some other some other voice can we

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some other some other voice can we submit questions about the book oh that would be a good idea I'm I'm working also on a better callin mechanism so I can have somebody calling him during my during the podcast will you use your studio for a coffee with Scott probably not I'll probably still do coffee with Scott Adams right from here I'll be honest I'm not interested in your girlfriend but I would watch her interview yeah well you know the beauty of doing something with Christine is that she would bring in some viewers I would bring in different viewers and it would all be fun
any advice and that'd we've had enough of a bad career yes build your talents tact read my book had a fail at almost everything and still win big and that will give you a path out and tulsi

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will give you a path out and tulsi campaign has never gotten back to me so that's not scheduled and I'll talk to you later