Episode 756 Scott Adams: Shampeachment, Artists Versus Economists, Greta, Cod Pieces

Date: 2019-12-14 | Duration: 54:31

Topics

My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a The worst INTENTIONAL thing we’ve ever seen in American politics Idiot of the day: Senator Chris Murphy’s trade deal math
Why were so many experts WRONG about a China trade war? Mollie Hemingway, great Twitter content and Federalist articles A recommended follow Fun Tweet Game: Guess the tweeter’s background Artist or Economist? Enemy press flailing around for a new attack line on President Supreme Court taking the case of President Trump’s taxes Democrats changing transcript wording to promote impeachment Even CNN is calling them out Cenk Uygur’s past comments don’t pass the Bernie sniff test CNN attempts to ADD emotional content to their stories… …Example: Lemon Face

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oh hey how’s it goin I was just reading my book upside down I know a lot of you when you read a book you’ll you’ll do it this way what kind of challenge is that if you have to read a book right-side up yeah I don’t think you’ve brought the right spirited energy that you need to that book read it upside down darn it oh it’s time let’s bring it let’s bring it and you know what I’m talking about it’s called the simultaneous sip and you are about to be part of it yes you and you and you I see each and every one of you I know you can’t tell but I can actually see you running to get your beverages putting them on the table preparing your hand do you have your mmm copper mug arugula snifter Stein Chaves tankard thermos flask ante and Grail goblet vessel of any kind is it filled with your favorite liquid - it’s a little thing called coffee and join me

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little thing called coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous simp huh uh huh just as good as I thought never disappoints kudos to whoever said in the comments that you listen to my audio book of loser to think upside down I almost spent my coffee but I was in the middle of the simultaneous Septon I didn’t want to lose my rhythm if you know what I mean alright so let’s talk about things I tweeted around a picture from GQ GQ has I think an article in which they’re promoting a new kind of fashion for men now features a codpiece and short shorts I don’t know if you’ll be able to see this but I’m gonna try to blow it up here

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can you see that it’s a codpiece that GQ of the magazine fashion magazine would like men to wear with a suit top and then sort of hot pants short shorts with with sort of V legs and then a codpiece now you might not be able to see it clearly on your screen so I’ll tell you what I’m gonna do I’m gonna bring down my light and then you’re gonna see it in all its glory there we go you see a better nail now the reason I’m showing it to you up close is that correct me if I’m wrong but that codpiece is sort of in the shape of a vagina if you could tell how the material is let’s say there’s a seam there’s a identifiable seam that’s only at the bottom of the codpiece now if you

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at the bottom of the codpiece now if you needed to any more evidence that the testosterone level of men in the United States has been dropping for decades I give you exhibit a not judging I also like to imagine that when my Twitter trolls come after me you know the the badly bearded ones I always imagined they’re wearing that when they’re typing the—this got ya stupid cartoonist why are we listening to the creator of Garfield haha did you see what I did there I called you Garfield oh I always imagined that they’re wearing those fat codpiece all right Kimberly strosahl stressfull tweeted provocatively in response to a Hillary Clinton tweet in which Hillary Clinton was telling everybody to make sure that their friends and family read the IG reports Kimberly replies in her own tweet make sure family and friends see the IG

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sure family and friends see the IG report Clinton didn’t just invite for it influence 20:16 she paid for it her team funneled Russian dossier lies to the FBI for her political gain Americans deserve freedom fair elections if only press would hold her accountable so Kimberly’s wording is a play on Clinton’s own tweet so the actual sentence structure is she’s just mirroring Clinton’s tweet and there’s something handshaking Lee amazing about this little situation from a psychological standpoint and here it is you’ve got two narratives Trump blah blah blah with foreign countries whether it’s the Ukraine whether it’s the Russian collusion hoax whatever it is and then you’ve got Hillary Clinton paid for the dossier and you know Great Britain’s Christopher steel got it from Russians follow-up why is it that we

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Russians follow-up why is it that we tree one of them so differently why why is one of them so different and it’s it’s an interesting question now of course they’re different on in a number of ways certainly a sitting president asking a foreign leader to do something is different than a candidate hiring somebody to do what you’d call what he call opposition research but it is nonetheless true it’s just a factual statement that Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid foreign entities for information that they then fed to the FBI etc and probably they knew it wasn’t true so that’s probably not too different than opposition research in general but how is it that we got duped we the entire public how did we get duped into thinking that wasn’t important because people will read this

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important because people will read this tweet and they’ll read things they already knew all right so what Kimberly Russell is saying is not anything that we don’t already know but for reasons that are hard to understand except the ‘we are weird brains work and the psychology of it all and how we’ve all been brainwashed we’ve been led to believe that one of these things is bad and one of them is it’s just a weird thing and I’m not gonna say anything other than completely irrationally we believe they even though everything about this is true Clinton paid for this research were from other company countries it was fake gave it to the FBI work their work the press one of the worst things that’s ever happened in the history of the United States well yeah let me say that let me say that with more confidence because I’m thinking about it as I’m saying it at the same time I would say that what Hillary Clinton’s team did with the

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Hillary Clinton’s team did with the dossier and if you count working the press to get them on her side and and to create the story in a certain way and then to corrupt the FBI in the process isn’t that the worst thing you’ve ever seen in the political United States it would be hard to think of what was worse because other things were I would say mistakes for example the weapons of mass destruction that was a gigantic mistake and it was worse because people died but I think I think we believe that was just a mistake right when when the United States did the the Gulf of Tonkin you know BS to get us into the war with Vietnam I don’t think that anybody had bad intentions it was a bad thing but I don’t know that that we were trying to do something bad for the United States I think it was a convenience to do what the leaders believe that the time was

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the leaders believe that the time was good for the United States it wasn’t good politically it was just good for the United States so well either the JFK assassination yeah that was pretty bad good point but you don’t really think of an assassination as a political event in the same way that you think of these other things but point taken assassinating the president would be worse except that assassinating the president actually brought the country together if you think about it as bad as if assassination is when Kennedy was assassinated my sketchy memory of the event maybe the historians can fact check me on this did it not bring the country together so I would argue that while that was clearly bad for the Kennedys in the worst possible way therefore the country’s health I don’t know might have brought us together

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know might have brought us together because we do tend to clump together with that sort of risk so my only point is that we are psychologically have been biased to think that what Clinton did wasn’t the worst thing we’ve ever seen in all of American politics but I think it was can if you were to make a list let’s say that if you were a historian and you were going to make a list of all the worst things that somebody did intentionally now I’m going to put the word intentionally meaning that they were not intending to pursue the greater good now when a candidate is trying to get elected well in some way they might think that their election might be the greater good but that’s not really why you do it you do it to get elected you do it for power so what Clinton did was for power it seems like the worst thing

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for power it seems like the worst thing I’ve ever seen by far because it caused the entire Russia collusion thing which was deeply destabilizing for the country divided us greatly whereas president Trump’s phone call that said you should look into burry smih is something that even Democrats agree needed to be looked into they’re making great great hay out of the way it was done but even his evident Amis say well okay it had to be done but we don’t like the way you did it I mean that’s not really the biggest problem in the world here’s the idiot of the day in my book loser think I teach how different people think in different disciplines they’re gonna give you some stark examples of how if you do not have expose you to different disciplines you know whether it’s psychology history economics math whatever then you might have a blind

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whatever then you might have a blind spot in your thinking that is not obvious to you but it would be obvious to someone who was in that field I’m gonna give you an example Senator Chris Murphy I assume he’s a Democrat based on the context here he said he tweeted this he goes here’s some back of the napkin math on the China deal so he’s gonna criticize the president who announced that he has the first part of a China deal I’m skeptical about that will talk about that minute but Chris Murphy wants to take the steam out of that you know take that take the political positive out of it because he’s on the other team so he says here’s some back to the math or back of the napkin math on the China deal all right so now senator Murphy is going to educate us with his math all right so this is math from a senator I don’t know the Senators background and I’m hoping somebody can Wikipedia that and let me know tell me his college major and maybe

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know tell me his college major and maybe his background all right so it’s Chris Murphy senator just put it in the comments so he can see and you know I’ll tell you why this is important in a bit so here’s his math he says China agrees to buy fifty billion dollars worth of agricultural products next year and that’s an increase of twenty-nine billion so he’s pointing out in his math that our benefit is the twenty-nine billion will get extra in terms of agricultural products and then he goes on to say why that’s now such a great deal that we gained twenty nine billion because he said the tariffs cost the US farmers 11 million which is you know less than we got the twenty nine billion but but taxpayers put up an extra 28 billion in emergency AG payoffs so the the farmers were compensated now he adds together the 11 billion and the 28 billion and says that together they’re 39 billion so

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says that together they’re 39 billion so it cost us 39 billion but we only gained 29 billion this idiot is a senator of the greatest country on Earth let me tell you a few things that are wrong with us I’m just going to come right off the top if the farmers lost 11 billion but taxpayers put up 28 billion to compensate them you don’t add those numbers together you don’t if if somebody paid 11 billion but then the taxpayers compensated them with twice as much you don’t add the numbers together you subtract you subtract the 11 billion from the 28 billion now the real problem is that the people getting money and losing money are not all the same people so you’re not you’re not exactly compensating them but my point is you don’t add those numbers you subtract one

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don’t add those numbers you subtract one from the other now again remember this is back in the napkin so it’s neither correct to add them because it’s not it’s not really giving you a clear picture so it’s not correct to add them or subtract them it’s not that simple but if you’re gonna do a back of the napkin you got to get at least the addition or subtraction part right all right that’s sort of minimum if you add something that should be subtracted you’re moving in the wrong direction but it gets worse he does his calculation based on one year so if you look at one year it costs us according to his napkin the 39 billion and for the 39 billion that it costs us this first year all we’re getting back is 29 billion per year for ever you don’t compare the first year and

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you don’t compare the first year and walk away do you know how many investments would look good if you only looked at the first year none of them none of them none zero there’s no investment that looks good in the first year that’s what investments are you pay a bunch of money in the first year so that every year after that you’ll make more money oh my god this man makes decisions on behalf of the United States he’s one of the top 50 you know senators that didn’t make sense he’s a senator oh my god oh my god I don’t even know if I can stop saying oh my god all morning oh my god oh my god oh my god all right now has anybody looked up his background yet because I’ll tell you what it’s not alright I don’t know what his background is I’m gonna look him up right now because I didn’t see your answer in the

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because I didn’t see your answer in the comments yet maybe it’s there alright he’s Chris Murphy’s in it or Chris Murphy what do you think his background is we’ll check Wikipedia and he is a politician obviously he was a representative before that he was a politician before that and the politician before that let’s go all the way back to his education lawyer lawyer there you go so I don’t think when he was doing his law degree he studied much economics or he’s just lying to you and hoping that you’re dumb enough to think that 39 million billion spent once which isn’t even thirty nine billion is not worth it to get twenty nine billion a

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worth it to get twenty nine billion a year which none of these numbers are real by the way the back of the napkin is is is too complementary to this no there’s just so much more going on here that none of these numbers are really useful but what a ballsy thing to tweet amazing how many people in the United States let me ask you this how many people in the United States do you think could read Chris Murphy’s tweet and know what was wrong with it what percentage of the public could do what I just did just look at this tweet and say oh my god you subtracted when you added when you should subtract and you forgot about future years what percentage twenty at tops probably 80% of the people reading this say hey Trump just made a bad trade deal because trade deals don’t work and by the way do

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trade deals don’t work and by the way do you remember when all the smart people said trade deals don’t work think back to let’s say what two years ago whatever what did a hundred percent of the smart people say about starting trade wars not trade deals but trade wars what did all of the smart people say about trade wars they all said they’re a bad idea they don’t work am i right use your memory think back did not a hundred percent of all the smart people tell you that a trade war is always a bad idea everytime right what did I tell you from day one that’s not true then a trade war is exactly the right idea under certain conditions which actually were our current conditions one of those conditions is that our economy was just great if your economy is amazing and you’re negotiating with somebody whose

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you’re negotiating with somebody whose economy is a little bit wobbly and the imbalance between you is is grotesque in those cases in this very specific case talking about China primarily in that case a trade war is the best idea ever it’s exactly when you want to do a trade war it’s the safest time it’s the smartest time and I would go so far as to say that not doing a trade war would have been malfeasance in office because there never was a better time to do it explain to me why Trump alone could see that and others couldn’t why why is it that he could see that so clearly and I could see him so clearly and many of you could but why were the experts 100% wrong about this I don’t know if it’s a hundred percent but it felt like that why were they why were so many of them wrong well Trump derangement syndrome

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wrong well Trump derangement syndrome would be one but the other is history repeats have you ever heard people say history repeats trade wars of the past were bad history repeats and a story period I’ve got a chapter in the best book you’ve ever read the best gift I had him the thing that all your relatives will love you for if you give it to him for Christmas I’ve got a chapter in here talking about that fallacy that when you imagine the history repeats it’s the worst tank ever because history can’t repeat it doesn’t have the option because all the variables have changed and and if nothing else has changed at least you know about the last history so you’d know how to avoid it’s like God last time it went this way we better watch out for that so history doesn’t repeat you have to look at these the specific situation by itself as if as if it were you know one-off because they are one-off now and now it’s becoming clear

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one-off now and now it’s becoming clear with the USMC a I think we’ve got deals correct me if I’m wrong I think we have better trade deals with South Korea we have better deal with NATO in the sense that the other countries are paying more I believe Japan’s giving us gave us a better deal and there’s suggestion that the phase one and the Chinese deal will be a better deal for the Unites it’s now ah but let me put some skepticism on the China deal okay the China deal there’s so many variables there that it might be that we can carve out you know a little part of it and say okay at least this stuff we agree on and while we’re still working on the other stuff now I think that as long as we don’t have a comprehensive trade deal with the United with China that we should decouple and we should do it at the same time now when I say D couple I don’t

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now when I say D couple I don’t necessarily mean that the American companies who are already over there need to pack up I’m saying that you know they’ll make their own decisions about reputation profitability etc and I would say let’s leave that leave that to the individual corporations but be aware that if you made a decision today if you’re an American company and you said hey where should we move our manufacturing or our business if today you decided that China was your best choice as a vendor or a best place to move your operation that would be one of the biggest mistakes a CEO could ever make it would be hard to imagine a bigger mistake because it would be very analogous to moving your operation to Nazi Germany in 1938 or pickier I don’t see how it’s that different because once you know that the Chinese have literally concentration camps with a weigert

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concentration camps with a weigert minority where they’re beaten and tortured and they’re their wives who remain home or assigned rapists you’re gonna move here you’re gonna move your operation there do you care what the trade deal is no you don’t move your operation to the place that’s kind of Holocaust going on right now it’s not like it’s in their past it’s happening right now you don’t move your operation to a place where you depend on them to honor their contracts if you’re watching the Hong Kong situation play out where they’re not honoring their contract alright you don’t move to the country that right in front of you rips up its agreements nobody moves there if they’re smart secondly thirdly the the flute and God people are being used for spare parts literally being murdered on demand when when some rich foreigner needs a kidney transplant they’ll go kill it we’re literally that apparently

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kill it we’re literally that apparently all the experts have looked into it and have concluded that’s exactly what’s going on how do you move your operation there if you’re a CEO of an American company well at great peril I would have to say that there are very few things that are unambiguously stupid you know if you’re a CEO you’re dealing with lots of uncertainty yeah the the job of a CEO is to peer into this vast you know multi variable situation and sort of use your judgment about the best path and the best strategy and sometimes it’s sort of guessing you know there’s there’s a lot of risk management involved but if you’re deciding to move your operation let’s say you’re manufacturing to China that’s not a gray area anymore there was a time it was and it wasn’t very long ago a few years ago you could have said well I don’t know exactly what’s going on over there I don’t know what’s going on but you know it doesn’t bother me you know it’s

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know it doesn’t bother me you know it’s that’s China’s business I’m just gonna move my plant over there I’m not into politics there was a time you could have said that Willa Valka give her China trademarks back alright we have an idiot with lots of smiley happy faces here so a Callahan who says well Ivanka give back her China trademarks Scott will Volker give back her at st. marks because I’ve made a comment in public and I don’t know what a trademark yes I don’t even know what it is I don’t know what that is is that like a patent is it like a copyright I don’t even know what it is but I’m gonna put extra happy pieces on my comment so that it’ll look like I really made a point I got ya I’ve got a vodka scene that was you Callahan however I pronounce your name trademarks are literally somebody had a piece of paper

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literally somebody had a piece of paper and said oh so you say you would like to use this trademark in our country like all the other countries check no problem all it means when you get a trademark in China is this somebody else is it’s already using the same trademark that’s it if you get a trademark in China it means nothing else but that they’ve validated that nobody else is already using that and that you’re a real business that’s it that’s it so mister how many laughy mocking faces did you give me on your dumbass comment that makes you look like a idiot in public one two three four five six and twenty I think forty I think there are forty little emoticon laughing mocking faces to make your excellent point will the manga have to give back their China trade marks oh well enough on that so no Ivanka

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oh well enough on that so no Ivanka doesn’t need to give back her trade marks because if she gave them back or cancel them do you know what that would mean that would mean that a Chinese company could just make Ivanka products with her trademark on it and sell them and compete with actual Ivanka learn a little bit about business before you make a comment like that all right before you make a comment in the international business realm and I know whoever made that comment is working in the arts you just know it right that was the trademark comment even the lawyer would know the difference that’s not an important point but an artist if you are an artist maybe you wouldn’t know the difference if you’re not following Molly Hemingway on Twitter you are missing one of the best tweeters of all time in the political realm so Molly

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time in the political realm so Molly Hemingway if you’re not if you’re not watching her you’re just missing great great content all the time both the articles in the Federalist and her tweets so she tweeted this the amount of belligerent mocking have you seen any belligerent mocking recently the amount of belligerent mocking our media did over the past three years on this issue meaning the whole the IG report telling them talking about Russia collusion in the investigations of the president so all the belligerent mocking from the media for three years instead of honest journalism looks even worse now because now we know we know they were wrong that they face no negative consequences and plenty of positive consequences is how we know the level of corruption so corruption scores sort of a broad term but when you look at the fact that the American media apparently

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the American media apparently intentionally lied and colluded with a foreign country to corrupt our election that’s pretty bad and there’s not going to be any consequence and the reason again is the psychology of it the psychology of it is that that we’ve been forced by the media to focus on president Trump good or bad president Trump good or bad and we’re so distracted by that that there’s a magic trick that happens so mad magic tricks depend on making your focus go to the wrong place so you’re now seeing what the other hand is doing and the Democrats have mostly with the help of the media have played this multi-year magic trick on the United States in which they’ve caused us to look in the wrong direction while the media is lying and colluding with foreign entities to overthrow the

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overthrow the legal electoral process in this country in favor of their candidates and power amazing alright as Molly have you a points out I’m gonna give you another example there’s a game I play that you just saw an example of it it it’s called artist or economist okay this is a game that you can play on Twitter and I’m quite serious that I play this every day now it’s a game you just play in your head but it goes like this you see a tweet on politics and you say to yourself huh that’s a that’s a pretty good tweet I might not agree with it I might agree with it but that’s not the point it’s just looks like good thinking I somebody put some good thought into this and then you click on the profile and see what kind of occupation they have now I’m using economists as just a stand-in for the let’s say the the the

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stand-in for the let’s say the the the critical thinking parts of of Education so economist engineer scientists yes stem somebody who whose entire background in training isn’t knowing how to compare things right how to analyze and how to compare essentially critical thinking but practical critical thinking alright yeah yeah there are there are other occupations that have similar skills now artist I’m using as a stand-in for any kind of your writer poet visual artist musician alright so I’m gonna read you a tweet and now you have to guess was this written by somebody who is more like an economist critical thinker or more like an artist not so much right here it is this is from a Renu ‘some bass and she tweets this morning I think I’m going to keep saying this to y’all Trump is being

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saying this to y’all Trump is being impeached however when the Senate refuses to remove him we will effectively be a dictator he will effectively be a dictator we then have an entire year of Trump dictatorship and a slim chance of having a fair and free and fair election all right artists or economists click on the profile artists artist now here’s the thing I used to read I used to read stuff like this and say man that person is really stupid that is some stupid stupidity there that’s like extra stupid we’re talking turbo turbo crazy stupid I don’t exactly think that way anymore here’s the way I think and that’s why I wrote this book loser think I think that she’s in all likelihood she’s probably

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she’s in all likelihood she’s probably you know a successful artist um I think she was a blue checked I can’t remember but somebody who was accomplished a lot probably very smart within her field but if she has not had access to the other fields just hasn’t spent much time in the other fields that teach you how to think more productively would she know that her point doesn’t make sense no because I don’t think you would tweet this if you knew that it was just batshit crazy bad thinking you know you wouldn’t do that in public so you know so blatantly and shamelessly so I would say she’s she’s unlikely to be just stupid I don’t think that’s the case probably she’s very smart within her field but hasn’t had much experience in other fields so here’s what she should have thought if the president doesn’t get impeached then the system worked just the way it was

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system worked just the way it was designed to work that’s it that should have been the beginning and the end of the conversation if he doesn’t get him if he doesn’t get removed from office you will get a peach probably but if he doesn’t get removed from office the system worked exactly the way it was drawn up that’s it that’s the whole story all right you will notice in the coming month especially that the enemy press the faint news will be flailing around for a new attack line on the President Trump because there are old attack lines have fallen apartment so they’re desperately going to be they’re gonna be a be testing a bunch of different stuff one of the things that I think you might see more of is going after Steve and Miller top aide in the White House today we saw a story in CNN in which a former Breitbart editor was interviewed who says that Steve Miller is a white supremacists and if she says

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is a white supremacists and if she says she knows because she worked with him at Breitbart and so she knows he’s a white supremacist and she said that she was one too but she’s reformed as she believes that he has not so if you see an article that says a top aide at the White House is a white supremacist you know that article is gonna deliver right so when you you know that if you see the headline that when you read the article there’s gonna be some reasons solid solid reasons and once you see those solid reasons you’re gonna be just as alarmed as the headline wants you to be it’s like my god there must be all these solid solid reasons in the article there were none nothing there was no no evidence given no the the closest thing she came to an anecdote was that he once answered a question by sending a publication that had bad reputation but I but she didn’t

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had bad reputation but I but she didn’t say that the thing he sent her was wrong because I think it was some factual stuff it but it came from a publication with you know some racist reputation do you know what else has a racist reputation Breitbart is that true no it’s not true so I don’t know what the other publication was what but it doesn’t matter so here’s the thing Steven Miller is Jewish so CNN’s best line of attack is that a Jewish man secretly a white supremacist who hates Jewish men that’s it and and the examples that this Breitbart ex editor she got I think she got fired from some jobs after that after Breitbart so let’s say employers don’t love her we can conclude that getting getting a new job is gonna be tough for her so anyway you can expect to see more

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her so anyway you can expect to see more attacks like that but if there’s such a thing as a Jewish white supremacist if that’s the best you got a Jewish white supremacist I mean really you at least your attacks should make some coherent sense so calling Stephen Miller a white supremacist is a lot like saying well we’ve got some dry water here we’ve got a bucket of water but all the water is dry so we need to get some different water because our water is all dry I just don’t know how you can do that now we do all know this Stephen Miller is the most aggressive you know anti-immigration person we know but that’s really different there are a lot of people who want to control the immigration that are not racists apparently the Supreme Court is going to decide on Trump’s taxes you know how this is going to go right if they took the case if the Supreme Court decided to

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the case if the Supreme Court decided to even hear it it means that at least four of them thought it was worth hearing if four of them think it was worth hearing and it’s sort of a trump court at this point which way do you think this is gonna go I think it’s gonna go Trump’s way because I can’t see the Supreme Court taking him out especially a year before an election I just can’t see it happen so I would expect the Supreme Court to back trump without even any consideration to the merits of the article yeah you know how often does the court rule in a way that is politically opposite from what you expect in fact that’s a question I’m not a historian that don’t really study in the Supreme Court can somebody tell me when was the last time the Supreme Court ruled on let’s say something big forget about little stuff because nobody

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forget about little stuff because nobody cares about the little stuff but let’s say a headline Supreme Court decision when was the last time it went opposite the way you expected somebody said the census but I remember that issue so well all right well it doesn’t happen a lot it does happen I will allow that it does happen Obamacare Judge Roberts a good example so it does happen but you can usually bet against it all right CNN’s political fact checkers actually pointed out that two Democratic representatives actually misquoted Trump in their attacks in other words say miss Gore did something he said on the Ukrainian phone call by leaving out the word US when he said can you do us a favor they left out us can you do me a favor one of them said and the other one said can you do a favor do you think it was an accident that the two Democrats when they were speaking in public left

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when they were speaking in public left out the word that was exculpatory probably not probably not an accident well what is worse than that can you imagine going in public in front of the world misquoting something that is the most the most published document in the free world right now is the transcript issue thing from the Ukrainian phone call if yeah I mean if you could go in public and lie about what the most published document in the United States says probably more people have read the transcript than have read any book on the bestseller list I think if you were to say what’s the best-selling book right now probably more Americans have read the transcript than the number one best-selling book in the world so that’s that’s pretty bold to just change the

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that’s pretty bold to just change the words and misquote the president in public in an official setting when it could mean impeaching him yeah it’s it’s just mind-boggling alright here’s the funny story for the day I may not be able to pronounce his name correctly cenk Uygur maegyr cenk cen k uy g you are from The Young Turks so he’s running for a Katie Hill’s old seat California 25 and he had an endorsement from Bernie Sanders pretty good right if you’re new to politics you’re running for office for the first time and you get a Bernie Sanders endorsement in California he’s running at California but there’s just a problem turns out that sink has some comments in his past which do not pass the the Bernie Sanders sniff test and he said bad things about women

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test and he said bad things about women he’s used the n-word east he’s been in favor of he thinks bestiality should be illegal and you know I disagree that bestiality should be legal unless the animal has consented just kidding just kidding so the the funny thing is the way he handled that when I guess birdie withdrew his support his endorsement and he said this I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the endorsements Bernie Sanders and two other people I don’t care about and local progressive groups the gave me their support their stance took real courage in the face of the corporate media and Democratic establishment onslaught so now he’s running as a Democrat and he’s throwing the Democratic establishment under the under the bus because they they tried to ratio him we years we Gege said Friday I want to be free of any

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said Friday I want to be free of any influence other than the voters so sank is saying that he doesn’t want Bernie or other endorsements because he just wants the voters to decide yeah that’s what I say when I get caught saying terrible things in public all right here’s another example of artists versus Economist’s okay I saw a number of people tweet that why is it what would Melania say so I’m paraphrasing a number of different people who tweeted similar things people said what does Melania say about President Trump mocking Greta thun Berg on Twitter when Melania just recently went what’s the best word she she criticized the people who had or the woman who had mentioned Barron Trump at

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woman who had mentioned Barron Trump at the testimony so what was her name Carlin professor Carlin me what she said a joke that the president can name his son Daeron but he can’t be a baron and then Melania clap back and said leave 13 year-old kids out of this and most people are great right I think most people said yeah let’s not put 13 year-old kids into politics and then her husband milania’s husband president Trump says you know hey Greta you know chill out and maybe you need some anger management so yeah so I’m looking into your comments all the people who are closer to economists and artists are saying these two aren’t the same one of them climbed in the Octagon one of them signed up to be an MMA fighter the other one is just trying to be a kid one of

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one is just trying to be a kid one of them one of them entered entered the fight willingly Greta entered the fight and not only did she enter fight but she has proven that she is she belongs there she might be a kid but keep in mind that Tiger Woods could beat you at golf when he was 14 does it matter that Tiger Woods was 14 and beat you a golf should you treat him as a kid or as a great golfer when he’s 14 well you know if you’re playing golf with Tiger Woods when Tiger is 14 you’re gonna lose right Grenaa has completely proven that she belongs on the world stage so she is she as the age of somebody who’s you know a minor but she has the obviously the will and the capability to play in the major leagues how in the world do you see does anybody see those as similar those are

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anybody see those as similar those are the least similar things in the world so if you’re an artist you might see these as similar ah criticizing a child both the same if you’re an economist you’re gonna say all right let’s see what’s the same about these two situations let’s see what’s different and when he got 201 willingly got into the fight and one is aggressively trying to stay out of the fight do you treat them the same no no you don’t and first of all the president’s tweet was a very gentle clap back let me ask you this if you got a tweet from the President of the United States the same one that Greta got they said you should work on your anger management and maybe chill out what would your response be would your response be oh my god now I have to change my name and and my life is ruined no let me tell you what Greta’s likely I

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no let me tell you what Greta’s likely I can’t read her mind but I’m saying if I were in this position if you were in this position how would you like Lee feel if you would receive that exact tweet from President Trump compliment exactly somebody said it in the comments compliment you would laugh you would send it to all of your friends you would say I’m playing at the highest level it’s a gentle little it’s a gentle little mockery about my enthusiasm basically I win win Greta came out ahead no get no doubt about it did Greta know she was coming in ahead the moment she saw the tweet yes yes she did did the moment she saw the tweet she knew she won now did the president also win I’d say yes I’d say yes I would say that they both came out looking okay now of course the critics have to go after the president how dare you how dare you

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president how dare you how dare you criticize a child who’s playing at the various highest level in in global politics not even national politics Greta is playing at the highest level in global politics and he gently ribs her in a way that’s not even really insulting in any serious way I would want that you know it let me put it this way if you are ever so lucky as to be the target of a presidential tweet which is that gentle you’re gonna be having a good day same as Greta you’ll probably put it in your profile same as she did how is that the same as poor Baron Trump just trying to stay out of that and then spotlight it’s not even a little bit similar all right let’s see if I’ve covered everything I wanted to cover I think it did alright somebody says

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think it did alright somebody says you’re seeing lemon faces all over the place yeah I talked about Don Lemon face you’ll see lemon face now let me tell you what lemon face is so Don Lemon is a one of the most popular hosts of CNN and he does the thing he’s not the only one who does it but he he’s a good example of it where they’ll talk about things that aren’t that bad but they’ll try to make his seam bagged by the face so if you’re just listening to this this won’t be nearly as interesting but you know you could take anything you could find a pen on your desk and normally that would have no emotional content but CNN tries to add emotional content to things that don’t have any such as this Greta thing then they were doing that I think Brooke Baldwin was doing that with the Greta tweet my god and let me do Don Lemon face with an ordinary pen from my desk

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face with an ordinary pen from my desk here’s how normal people treat a pen hey it’s a pen I think I’ll do some drawing Oh Oh I’m using my pen I’m doing some drawing now I’m going to apply something called Don Lemon face or you could just call it lemon face where I look at the pen and I say oh I I looked on my desk this morning and I don’t even know how to express this words fail it’s a ladies and gentlemen we may never see a more important point in our entire Republic this is the sort of thing that drives societies apart it’s the sort of thing that made Hitler come to power it’s it’s mind-boggling in in the abuse of power

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mind-boggling in in the abuse of power it’s a pen it’s a pen this pen is full of I I swear I get a little emotional when I think about it I don’t know how to express this but this pen has ink in it and it it comes out under certain conditions if you press it on a piece of paper for example it’ll come right out the end is that the world do you want your children to grow up and where there are pens full of ink and the ink is comes out the end I don’t think so I don’t think that’s the world we can live in and go ahead and you know tonight look yourself in the mirror look at yourself in the mirror look at your kids look at your kids and say there was a day I found depend on my desk and what did I do about it someday when you look back you’ll have to explain to your grandchildren why you use the pen to

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grandchildren why you use the pen to write with instead of disavowing it and having it removed from this earth as it should be what will you say to your grandchildren I I just I just give me a moment give me a moment that that’s all that’s all that’s all I have next topic and scene that is called lemon face so lemon face can make anything seem bad you can make anything seem bad with lemon face all right that’s all I got for now and I will talk to you later