Episode 741 Scott Adams: Hong Kong, Kamala Harris, Google Bias, and other Disasters

Date: 2019-11-29 | Duration: 32:51

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Black support for President Trump Hong Kong protesters waving American flags Waving meme posters of President Trump Chinese spokesperson Zhao on American race relations Google search bias study by Dr. Epstein Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey abandoning Google Kamala Harris campaign advisor struggles

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oh hey Jennifer company 20/20 come on in here good to see all of you Erica always a pleasure do you have your copy of loser think yet it's Christmas season and this is the perfect book for reading and giving away so make sure you get yours because everybody's talking about it hmm
you might wonder why you're here it's because today is black coffee Friday you don't have to have black coffee but it's delicious join me now for the simultaneous M all you need is a cup or a mug or glasses and if there's time chalice Tigra thermos last canteen Grail goblet vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and get ready for the dopamine the end of the day the thing that makes everything better this simultaneous sip go oh yes

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better this simultaneous sip go oh yes it's always good why do I act surprised thank you for buying my book and Jonah well let's talk about what's in the news as you may have know last week Rasmussen had a poll showing that President Trump had 34% or so support from African Americans and people like me said well that's not true I saw that poll and the first thing I thought was yeah how did he ask that question and then an emerson poll came out soon after asking the same question and getting same answer 33 34 % support for President Trump among African arrogance and I thought to myself what

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arrogance and I thought to myself what are the odds that there would be two poles that would get the same result yesterday there was a third three poles three different companies have all found unprecedented support for President Trump by african-americans now does that translate into votes some of it but we don't know now are you surprised that the president has spent three years fighting to reduce immigration primarily for the benefit of the african-american population as well as others but there's a bigger bigger impact and you're doing a prison reform and lowering unemployment and helping the historically black colleges and having Opportunity Zones I don't know this might be real if it turns out that it's

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might be real if it turns out that it's real that the president has a third of the support from the african-american communities I think Candace Owens needs some kind of a Nobel Peace Prize I don't think they give Nobel Peace Prizes for domestic politics but Candace Owens as James things I mean lots of other people are involved but she's probably the most effective effective let's say advocate for the president all right so a weird and unusual and wonderful thing happened in Hong Kong where most of the situation is dire and terrible but after President Trump signed the legislation that was overwhelmingly passed by Congress there were two bills that were sort of putting some pressure on China for what's happening in Hong Kong I guess one put some pressure on the individuals or involved in other limits the Li I guess

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involved in other limits the Li I guess limits the things that we sell to the police force now neither of those things has much impact you know China is not going to be too influenced by those tiny little bills signed in America but they don't like it they don't like it at all and
what was interesting is that the Hong Kong protesters gathered on Thanksgiving which is not their Thanksgiving obviously it's our Thanksgiving with American flags and big posters of that beam of president Trump's head photoshopped onto the body of a muscular boxer that's actually sliced alone and they're there holding up the the poster as sort of a showing the power of President Trump and I don't know about you and apparently they were they were singing the national anthem or something

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singing the national anthem or something and I watched some of that coverage just you know the photographs and the articles and they have to I gotta tell you I had a strong emotional reaction to it I don't know if they happen to any of you but watching people on the literally the opposite side of the world
what they're basically saying and maybe I'm reading too much into it so just tell me if you agree I think what they're saying is that their only hope is President Trump now they wouldn't word it that way I'm sure but the more I think about this situation the more I think that there's literally only one person on the planet that has any chance should he try to do it of protecting Hong Kong think about that there's seven billion people on the planet or so Hong Kong is in desperate

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planet or so Hong Kong is in desperate times obviously if China gets there you know their way with Hong Kong a lot of those protestors their lives are over and they gathered to say to wave American flags and show pictures of our president because I think they understand he's actually the only person and of seven billion people he's the only one who can save them now I don't even know if he can save them I don't know if he if it's practical I don't know if it's good for the country I'm not saying it's gonna happen but I found it very powerful that they've they that they focused on President Trump as their sort of symbol of hope there's a lot there it takes a while to sort of process that thought that the United States through its electoral process

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States through its electoral process produced a leader who is the only leader in the whole world there's nobody else who could make any difference realistically who could save them it's it's a remarkable situation certainly worth watching now there was a tweet from an individual who's in the Chinese government Li Shan Zhou I hope I'm prevent pronouncing it right zi h AO and he's the they have big big titles over there so he's the deputy director general information Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs for China and his profile on Twitter says try my best to tell the story of China and spread the voice in China so he's a he's sort of like one of the spokespeople for China and he decides to tweet this he said in Washington talking about Washington DC and I'm gonna read it the same way it's

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and I'm gonna read it the same way it's written so his English is a little bit broken so I would just could read it the way he wrote it he says in Washington the White seldom go to Southeast area as it's an area for the black president Trump even demanded for women lawmakers of color to leave us and respect for President Trump us and the black there please follow quote America first policy and take care of racial discrimination and then it goes on in a thread to talk about the bad conditions for african-americans in this country so their response to us meddling in their foreign affairs is to interfere with our election now it's interesting that they went for this target president Trump is doing everything he can that's you know practical to help the African American community and

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African American community and apparently the polls are showing that they're recognizing that we have three polls now showing yes unparalleled unprecedented support for a Republican and China's decided to go after that you know they see that weakness domestically there like a Ellis let's stoke that racial division but is there anything that's happening in this country that could be at the moment that could be compared to what China is doing with Hong Kong what they're doing with the Weger splitting with concentration camps what they're doing with a flume Gong which is literally murdering them for parts and selling off their organs is there anything we're doing in this country this even slightly slightly as bad as any of the four whole Holocaust going on in in China the four are the weaker is the Fallujah the what the fence and all they're sending to this

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fence and all they're sending to this country and then Hong Kong now I'm calling it a for Holocaust to trap idiots into debating it now if if I've taught you anything one of the best ways to get attention is to be wrong because when you say something that's just true it just kind of lays there so well it's true doesn't have any power but if you say something provocative that's a little bit wrong people will pay attention because they want to tell you you're wrong so I've been talking about the four Chinese Holocaust in progress and by throwing the Hong Kong into the mix because they haven't killed a lot of people yet people to stop and say I don't know about this Hong Kong is a fourth Holocaust yeah the other three I can see the point there but that fourth one I don't know I don't think that belongs on the list that's right you have fallen for my trap so I'll be

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have fallen for my trap so I'll be saying publicly there are four Holocaust and letting people debate it it's almost too easy alright dr. Robert Epstein you might remember him he did some testifying in Congress about Google's potential bias so now he's operating a study in which he has a whole bunch of people that are identified only within the study but not publicly who are simply using Google and using regular search terms and stuff and they're trying to see if they can get different results over time as the election approaches than they would on the other search engines and the hypothesis here is that if Google continues to show a bias that is not present in Bing or Yahoo or Dachau that that will show something it will show that Google is intentionally biasing their search now here's what's interesting they're definitely going to

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interesting they're definitely going to find out that but Google is massively biasing their search then what Google massively biased their search last election did that hurt Google in any way doesn't look like it what would stop Google from just doing it completely getting caught and just saying well no we didn't do that you know you can't look at our internal stuff we didn't do that I don't think there's anything to stop them it looks like it just go ahead and do it I saw the news today that Jack Dorsey CEO Twitter you tweeted I think that he's using DuckDuckGo on his phone and as his browser because of the privacy stuff and I just downloaded the DuckDuckGo app on my phone I was already using the browser of my computer's but I thought oh yeah I should I should move

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thought oh yeah I should I should move to that on my phone as well so for privacy reasons and because Google is really on American on American in the sense that they're messing with our elections which is about the most unamerican thing you could do
I'm also looking into doing some research on some alternates for YouTube as you know YouTube is throttling my content and it's just shrinking instead of growing even though it's growing in viewers and shrinking and revenue you know so obviously there's something going on there so there are several platforms on the way and already up and I'm going to take a look at those and see which one to move to yeah mines calm is one rock fin is another and I don't know the differences between them and

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know the differences between them and there's at least one startup that I know of that's coming online as well so there there's some alternatives to YouTube and I will be probably selecting one of them or possibly using all oh yes bid shoot is the other now there's a problem with the alternates if you if you go full bit shoot and you're saying we're not we're not going to six hammer uses shoot see the trouble with Bishop is that they do attract a lot of bad elements I think what I'm likely to do somebody's mentioning think spot and I don't know about think spot is is who what is think spot is that Jordan Petersons think I'm gonna look it up here so I know what I'm talking about think spot is yeah Jordan Peterson's

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think spot is yeah Jordan Peterson's thing that is that what he's working on with Dave Rubin so I'm looking at a something on medium so there's a blog a medium that and the title is Jordan Peterson's think spot is doomed to fail
it's doomed to fail I think people say that about everything what about Vimeo I don't know so I think what I'll do is maybe for 2020 I'll be looking to put my content on more platforms and if any of those other platforms work out well then I just get off of YouTube but in the meantime I'll probably just have multiple platforms
there's report that the Kamala Harris campaign is totally falling apart and I guess Mike Bloomberg just hired one of her top campaign advisors as I suspected you know how I was telling you that that

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you know how I was telling you that that camel Harris seemed like a talented politician but I couldn't understand why her campaign was the worst I've ever seen the worst just the worst there's no there's no campaign that's ever been as bad as Conley Harrison's and I had speculated that the campaign staff was bad and I learned at some point I learned that her sister was a I guess the chairman chair of the campaign or something but today I learned it's even worse than that so indeed Cobble Harris's sister is a leader of the campaign but there's a another leader so the other leader is apparently associated with the political advising company that's that brought cobble Harris to the Senate and got her to this point so she's got two advisors that are not on the same page and she can't really get rid of either one of them because one's a sister and one is you know this political group that got her where she

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political group that got her where she is now and I guess she's running out of money and people aren't talking and coordinating and their message is bad and their slogans have changed basically it's just a complete mess now it kind of highlights the problem with a senator running for president Dustin do you know how senators don't do a lot of hiring and firing yeah they do some but it's not like running a business Trump is famous for firing like crazy he's how many people has Trump fired fire fire fire and one of the smartest things I ever heard this is something that navall says that that the real talent in hiring and firing is the firing part because when you hire people you know they usually look good on paper maybe they can get through the interviews but you don't really know how they're gonna do in your company you can sort of find out how they did in their past jobs but you

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they did in their past jobs but you don't really know how they're gonna do in your company so the real skill given that hiring is a lot of guessing the real skill is firing so if you can do it quickly and kindly in a way that you know doesn't make you enemies for life then you're a good manager so you look for the firing skill as the real skill it's it's sort of you know look for the blank space situation does Trump have good hiring skills well a lot of people would say no but that's mostly guessing right does Trump have good firing skills well his firing skills were a lot better than his hiring skills and the firing skills are more important so table Harris has apparently no firing skills because she's got two people in her campaign that either one of them needs to be fired or both probably both

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to be fired or both probably both but certainly her sister no doubt about it her sister needs to be fired I mean that's what it looks like from a distance so there's some some talk that Harris won't even you know make it long enough to get into the to get into any kind of a brokered convention because she's running out of money and she's got no message no nothing I feel as if I could fix her whole campaign in like an hour you know if she spent an hour with me I feel like I could fix all of that all she needs is a better message and to ignore her advisors and just take on her a better message because she's got everything else she's got you know the Democratic Party likes her she's got the right Democratic thing she's the right age people are saying don't do it don't do it well I don't think you have to worry about her contacting me for advice I would say the odds of that was very low

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would say the odds of that was very low very low somebody's saying why she'll smoke all your weed somebody said you don't don't you don't like to lose do you know I don't like to lose yeah you know when I predicted that she would be the the the nominee I don't think anybody could have predicted it would be the worst campaign staff in the history of all campaign staffs I mean I didn't see that comment so you're right it is it is tempting for me to want to fix or just well enough that she can win the nomination and losing the general I don't think there's any chance that Trump's gonna lose in the general election why are you sideways somebody asks I'm not so there's something happening on your end if she can't run

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happening on your end if she can't run her campaign how could she around the country well that's a good question poorly it appears
it's gots the mole so there's not much news going on at the moment so we're mostly going to enjoy our four-day weekend and our simultaneous set do you think this translates into a promising presidency now let me let me say as clearly as possible calmly Harris would not be a good president and she doesn't have a chance of beating Trump in the general election but I did think she'd do well enough to get the nomination
will Hillary run you know what you know what's weird is that from the longest time I'd been thinking that Hillary was too old but apparently she's actually kind of young compared to the other people in the race she's what 71 or something so Hillary would actually be

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something so Hillary would actually be one of the youngest people in the race of the people who would get a lot of support but I can't imagine her doing it it just seems too difficult to imagine because if you were her could you take a chance of losing again somebody says down 2% is down 2% or 0.2% there's one thing I want to check on the stocks right now it looks like stocks all turned down yeah a little bit but let me check oh no what a mine is up all right so there are two things that are relative relevant to Bitcoin prices so Bitcoin went up 6% yesterday and another 3% today if you put them together it's one of the biggest two days and I don't know a number of weeks so one of the

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know a number of weeks so one of the things I said about Bitcoin is that if it's true that what the president says that they're going to designate the cartels as as terrorists it could be that the cartels will have billions of dollars that they don't have anything that they can put it into a bank because the banks just will be out of and a play so where are they gonna put their money if you're a cartel and you've got a billions billions of dollars where are you gonna put it I was I was suggesting it might be Bitcoin now I don't know because I'm not a drug dealer but I don't think they put it in any other crypto they might spread it around a little bit but at the very least they put some amount in Bitcoin because they'd have to and then we have this other news bringing Jack Dorsey back into it again apparently Jack Dorsey just spent a number of weeks in different places in Africa and has

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different places in Africa and has decided he's going to move there for part of the year so he's gonna spend substantial time in Africa we don't know the details but trying to be a positive force and when talking about that Jack Dorsey mentioned Bitcoin so Bitcoin in Africa could be a solution to what corruption a solution to no banking I suppose it could be some kind of a solution so so imagine if Africa goes Bitcoin and the cartels go Bitcoin and both of these pieces and news came out and sure enough Bitcoin is up on the news I should say that I own I own some Bitcoin just so you know for full disclosure I'll also tell you that you should not make any financial recommendations based on what cartoonists say on periscope and this is not financial advice I am NOT advising

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not financial advice I am NOT advising you indeed if you buy any kind of cryptocurrency doesn't matter which it is it's not really investing it's more like guessing so buyer beware
I will tell you one of my investments so I made the worst investment in the world a number of years ago by buying the Turkish cell phone company so the thought was that no matter what happens in Turkey there will probably be more people born you know it's likely that they'll have a high birth rate and they'll all need phones and their cell phone company has kind of a monopoly there and so a while ago I bought shares that you can buy in the United States of the Turkish cell phone company Turk cell and lately that's up sharply probably because the

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that's up sharply probably because the dangers the dangers between the United States and Turkey seem to have passed in other words US and Turkey don't look like they're heading for something bad at the moment so that's up I do not recommend anybody buy any of the stocks that I mentioned or any of the essence that I mentioned on this periscope I'm just telling you what I did and I feel I feel that it's it's necessary to share with you some of my predictions so it's very rare for me to buy an individual stock I did buy Apple individual stock quite a while ago that's worked out really well in fact it's the best stock investment I've ever made I still have that but don't do what I do because that would be a bad idea

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all right I'm just looking at your why don't you talk about when done well I will be talking about went up a little bit more in fact if your holidays as your holidays are coming up you might want to use one of our products called approach which I've talked about before so approach allows you to see a little map and you just send out a link from the app and you're you can see your friends on the map or your family members converging at a point so it's fun to watch a variety of people you know coming to Christmas or coming to an event and if you use that app which is free you can you can do an in-app purchase and buy a little header so that your company will show and if you're a small business and you service homes you probably want this app snapchat has a feature like that snapchat has snap map so if you're on snapchat and if

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map so if you're on snapchat and if you've shared your location you can see your friends on a map but that's more of a where where's alt where are all my friends at the moment but what this does is it's a temporary tracking as a timer so it times out it's just saying see see the people that you want coming to an event and they don't have to be on any service or sign up for anything they don't even have to have the app out of the app is called approach by when hub it's a free app and you just can send out a link email it or text it and everybody who hits it can see each other on the map and if they don't have the app they can still track a little browser map so it still works even if you don't have the app somebody says it's too invasive well it's it's only for people who are willing to share their location when people already know their location so the the point of it is that if you've invited somebody to your

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that if you've invited somebody to your house or your friends are all meeting at the movies or something they've already shared their location because you know that they're gonna be traveling from wherever they are to the same place so it's just being a little more specific about something that you already know where they are they're on their way to this restaurant they're on their way to the party if you have a phone you've already been invaded yeah I feel like I've kind of given up on any kind of thoughts about privacy have you I feel like privacy isn't really a thing that I need to work because it's already gone yeah so the idea is that if you shared your location of the app you can get rid of all those text messages and say I'm already in the restaurant you know I got a table I'm in

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restaurant you know I got a table I'm in the back you know I'll be there late you don't have to do any of those messages people the host or anybody else can just look at the map say uh Thorin looks like Bob's gonna be late that app approach could end marriages lol no it couldn't because it's optional every time every time you use it and it times out so we built it so you couldn't track people permanently you don't have that option it's just on the way to a meeting all right I'm just looking at here yeah the when we have some news on when hub but I've got a meeting coming up so we'll wait on that alright I don't have anything else to talk about

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well Africa become a social justice Mecca yeah what was the name of the Turkish cellphone company it's one word its Turkish cell and the cell part is like cell phone C elo Turkish cell one word but I'm not recommending it I'm just telling you I bought it and so far it's been a terrible investment so do do with that what you want all right that's enough for me I will talk to you all later after you're done with the all year shopping