Episode 759 Scott Adams: Schiff, Comey, Impeachment and More Fun

Date: 2019-12-17 | Duration: 40:36

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Michael Bloomberg Me-Too accusations Adam Schiff townhall ruckus and his public speaking future James Comey admits mistakes were made Impeachment riots What happened to Black Lives Matter? Accusation: Scott Adams is a British globalist paid troll

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buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh-buh-buh hey everybody come on in here it's another beautiful morning and it's time it's time for the simultaneous sent yes coffee with Scott Adams begins now but the real fun begins after the sip and all you need for that is well a copper of our glasses snifter stein cellist actor thermos flasks empty and Grail goblet a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure this the dopamine here the day the thing that makes everything better simultaneous up here it comes go mm-hmm oh yeah that just that just unleashes the tiger with it and doesn't it Wow alright just like that alright

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it Wow alright just like that alright let's talk about some stuff so in the category of perfectly predictable let me tell you the most perfectly predictable thing in the world Mike Bloomberg is being accused of various frat like let's say male behavior what's the best way to say it sort of a me-too ish kind of a situation over the course of his career now do we think those things are true or do we think those things are false well no way to know but it's certainly predictable that we were going to hear of some right do you think there was any chance that a billionaire at that age did not have some vetoing in his background any chance at all no not really there was no chance like he had

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really there was no chance like he had nothing so so how bad is it how true is it are the individual accusations true I have no idea but we knew that there would be accusations the what let me tell you what's what he's accused of he's accused of among other things one of the accusations that specific is that there was a woman who worked for Bloomberg who I guess got pregnant and then she alleges that Bloomberg says kill it and then she said what and that he repeated kill it meaning abort the baby now do you think that really happened I'm gonna I'm gonna say if I had to bat you know gun to head Scott you have to put a bed down did Mike Bloomberg ever say to a pregnant

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Mike Bloomberg ever say to a pregnant woman you have to kill your Venus I'm gonna say now all right now there may have been some conversation about the pros and cons of of terminating a pregnancy that could have happened may be possible but do you think he actually said that I mean really I'm not defending Mike Bloomberg I have no idea what he has done or what he's not done but just on the surface of it does that pass the sniff test it does not which doesn't mean it's false because we can't tell but if you're gonna ask me what sounds credible on the surface on the surface it doesn't even sound a little bit credible here's some other quotes which have been attributed to Mike Bloomberg which I think you have to take with a grain of skepticism here's one

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with a grain of skepticism here's one he's allegedly said I'd like to do that piece of meat speaking of some attractive woman apparently quote I'd like to do that piece of meat do you think the Bloomberg or indeed any man with an education ever said the sentence I'd like to do that piece of meat maybe a baby you know certainly and then the second one that he's accused of is that he said to somebody I would do you in a second and it sounds like it sounds like that was a witticism based on whatever was happening in the conversation as opposed to just an of left field now do I believe that Mike Bloomberg or any other male who has been in business for many decades would have ever said to a female colleague in a listen it looks like this

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colleague in a listen it looks like this was probably a joking situation well we don't know the context as any man ever said to a female colleague I do you in a second yeah yeah that's probably happened about a billion times not defending it and I'm not giving you an opinion now saying it's good or bad I can imagine situations in which the people know each other really well have a history of joking exactly in this way in which the woman would just laugh because it might be you know part of a million things they've said to each other each of them just as bad in the real world women say things just as bad as men by the way you knew that right
you know that the women say things that are just as bad as the man right so is it is it possible that Mike Bloomberg could be in the situation in which everybody both the men and the women were saying things that would be deeply inappropriate by 2019 standards but in

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inappropriate by 2019 standards but in 1970 whatever didn't seem that different because everybody was doing it men and women could he have said I do you in a second as part of a joke with people he knew well who knows we have no way of saying but certainly you'd have to look at the context and did he have some reason to think that the people there would just think it was a joke and wouldn't mean anything you don't know but it was very predictable that he would get me to and I would imagine that takes them out wouldn't you you you can't imagine a Republican getting me to let's say president Trump and surviving but you can't really imagine a Democrat surviving through the primaries with a big little me to thing hanging over him I would also expect that if Tom Steyer ever got some got more attraction you

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ever got some got more attraction you know in those words if his poll numbers went up you would almost certainly see accusations against him I'm not saying that they would be true but don't you think Tom Styer because he's a he's old enough he's been in business a long time don't you think there'd be some accusations against him again I'm not saying he's done anything and I'm not saying any accusations would be true but wouldn't you expect them you should expect them all right did you see the video of Adam Schiff doing a town hall so he was doing a town hall I think the topic was on Armenian Genocide I believe that was the topic but there were some Trump supporters who went there and started shouting liar and treason liar and caused a big a big ruckus and they were they were shown the door and I thought to myself that's 2020

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and I thought to myself that's 2020 right let me ask you this Adams chef lied about what was in the secret information that he saw and devid newness and some other people saw before we did and he stood in front of the world he wrote a memo on it and then he repeated it and he lied to the world about all the things that we now know he lied about he knew he was lying he knew that the impact of that light could be too Oh overthrow it illegally elected president he knew the stakes he knew what he was doing and he knew he was lying because he couldn't have not known everybody looked at the same document so I'm trying to think if anybody in my lifetime I think technically I was alive of maybe a baby during McCarthy what was McCarthy look the McCarthy hearings late 50s I forget but I don't know that any politician has ever done anything worse

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politician has ever done anything worse to the country than what Adam Schiff has done can you oh he was 1954 okay that was before I was born
can you think of an example this is an honest question on his question who in let's say my lifetimes were yours who who exactly has done something worse to the country as a politician than Adam Schiff can you make some suggestions so we're not going to count McCarthy because he was before my lifetime somebody says Bush if he count the weapons of mass destruction in the Iraq war you would be right you would be right I don't know if Bush lied about WMDs that's not clear that he may have been just wanting to see what he saw but you there's no doubt there's no doubt it was a mistake the Iraq war and the WMDs we know that now but it

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and the WMDs we know that now but it might have been just a mistake we don't know if Bush was actually lying Ollie north not really Obama weaponizing the FBI NSA and CIA that's pretty bad yeah that was pretty bad all right well I guess we had quite a few suggestions here all right but I would imagine that Adam Schiff will never again and I mean never again as in now even once I doubt he'll ever be able to speak in a public event where there won't be Patriots there shouting him down and calling the liar and accusing him of treason because you know we we live in a country where that sort of thing happens and I can't think of a better reason for that to happen so I would imagine that will happen everywhere that he goes from there one I think 2020 is gonna be lit as I said Rudy Giuliani is making news again

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Rudy Giuliani is making news again apparently he has documents he has documents that are gonna prove one thing or another I'm not gonna really talk about in detail what Rudy claims he has because it's too vague at this point does he really have something does Rudy really have the goods does he have documents that prove people lied and there's some bad action going on there maybe maybe I don't know but do you think that Rudy would have done what he did which is go over there and everybody in the world was saying rody what are you doing even the president's supporters were saying Rudy Rudy maybe it's time to calm down Rudy I know you're trying to help Rudy but maybe a little less help would be good right now you know so even though even the people who support the President and certainly the people who don't I think everybody was saying Rudy Rudy maybe you stop doing that ukrane investigating down maybe now's the time

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investigating down maybe now's the time maybe now this would be a good time to stop but he keeps going why why would somebody as smart and this experienced as Rudy Giuliani keep doing something that literally everyone in the world told them to stop doing I can only think of one reason well two reasons if you imagine he's crazy you know if you think he's if you think he's mentally incompetent or crazy or something that would be a reason but I don't see that I mean what I listen to him talk he doesn't look crazy to me so the only explanation that maybe is not the only one but the one that makes the most is that he knows more than we do now he knows more than we do so that's something to keep an eye on maybe not maybe not we'll find out but the best

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maybe not we'll find out but the best explanation for why he's doing something that everybody says he shouldn't do is say he knows more than us so he knows there's something there or could be there all right well if I know James Comey admitted in an interview with Mike Wallace that there were mistakes made by the FBI and there were terrible mistakes and he feels really bad about it I guess that was the best play for Comey because he could no longer say there were no mistakes and he couldn't not take responsibility because he was the boss so I think he had to do this so in terms of Comey his strategy you probably made a lot of sense to finally just say okay there were a bunch of mistakes because that's the least bad thing we could say about him if he if he if he goes right at it and he says hey it was just a bunch of mistakes our process wasn't

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bunch of mistakes our process wasn't good then it doesn't sound so bad as a coup attempt now I don't have any reason to believe that Comey was personally involved in a coup attempt but it's certainly smart for him to get out front and frame it as a bunch of mistakes and incompetence and let me let me just stop and every once awhile you get into the details and you lose sight of the bigger picture I want you to back up for a moment just for a laugh and look at the bigger picture have you noticed the people that go after the president don't have good outcomes I don't know what could possibly amuse me more than James Comey who has been one of the biggest critics of the president having to defend himself from accusations of treason and his best defense is gross incompetence on his part

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how do you not enjoy that President Trump has been you know demonizing this guy forever turns out there are good reasons for that and now commis best play to not look like he was evolved with with a to make him look like he's not involved with something that would be the death penalty I think treason his best defense is that he personally is massively incompetent and did a terrible job if you ever get a chance to destroy your enemies the phase that you will enjoy the most is where they're defending themselves by trying to convince you that they're not really evil they're just really really bad at their job
you're like well you have to enjoy that you have to enjoy that but we are still still grappling with the question of whether the mistakes quote-unquote were

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whether the mistakes quote-unquote were intentional were they a part of a organized conspiracy were they individuals acting within the realm of their own bias I think that we you still have two hypotheses that fit the evidence so the evidence so based on what we know so far before Durham tells us more obviously Durham knows more because he disagreed with Horowitz but we don't know why so at the moment the evidence this that's available to us would support the hypothesis that there was an organized conspiracy but it also fits the evidence the evidence also fits there was just a bunch of people with Trump derangement syndrome who maybe couldn't yet really see that what they were doing was so bad at the time in retrospect as they look back on it with some you know with some distance they probably look back on their own actions

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probably look back on their own actions it's just guessing you know I don't have no idea what they're thinking but it probably looks worse to them now that it did when they were doing it because it's not that unusual for people in a big organization to cut corners it's not unusual to act on bias but it it's different if you think you're trying to do the right thing versus trying to do the wrong thing if they were trying to overthrow the government and it was just because they preferred their candidate when it's just because they wanted to keep their jobs or any of those things well that's pretty pretty evil but it could have been the other thing if somebody says naive naive naive all right I'm gonna block you for saying naive three times that's one of my red lines you can I remind you that you can always say you can always say what's what you disagree

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can always say what's what you disagree with but just saying you're naive Scott will get you blocked as you just saw and keep in mind I don't know that naivety explains the fact that I'm saying that there are two hypotheses that both fit the evidence that's just a fact right now it's perfectly fair for you to say one of those is way more likely in my opinion for all these reasons that's fair but it's also fair that they both hypotheses fit the evidence even if you prefer one strongly all right so we'll find out from Durham you know when I one of the one of the things about this whole Trump collusion Comey FBI this this whole story is there's complicated and it takes a long time to to grasp enough of the different moving parts

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enough of the different moving parts they can start to see it as a whole and I would say I'm only just getting there I'm only just getting there and when you see it as a whole and let's say the way that Bill Barr explains it if you bill bars explanation of where we're at it's really really bad is way it's way worse then I assumed would be the case for most of the time we've been talking about this so my my current opinion you know as I've been moving between is it just biased people acting biased or is it some mass conspiracy where people really do have to go to jail forever that needle is moving closer to this looks like something where people have to go to jail forever now we're still waiting for the involvement or nod of Brennan and clapper to me I think if

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Brennan and clapper to me I think if there's a grand conspiracy those guys are probably part of it but if Durham looks around he says no there's nothing going on it's just a bunch of people acting biased but you know some of them might have to go to jail because they were so biased and they did something so bad but that wouldn't look the same as an organized conspiracy if it's organized there's gonna be a leader so we'll we'll see if Durham knows who that is alright um Larry Charles who you might know as the director of Borat you might know him as one of the early creative people and writers on the Seinfeld show and you might also know him as my co-executive director on the short-lived Dilbert animated TV show so I know Larry one of the greatest guys in the world in person you know politics

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the world in person you know politics aside Larry Charles is just one of the most beloved people you'll ever meet and I would concur with that awesome guy he's been saying some provocative things politically and one of them is he predicted that there'd be a riot if Trump is removed from office all right and he whew zippy she doesn't leave I guess yeah I thought to myself but that's true if if Trump gets impeached by the house and then the Senate no matter what the so-called trial looks like if the Senate votes to say all right it's just a bunch of BS we dismiss this I think there could be riots because anti file is just looking for reasons to Rio right so I think that's fair to assume that no matter which way it goes it would be riots now if Trump is impeached but the

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riots now if Trump is impeached but the Senate decides not to remove him from office yes I think there will be riots antiphon would be riding let's let's go the other way let's say there is impeachment and then the Senate surprisingly removed decided to remove Trump from office now they'd have to have some new information because there's nothing at the moment that suggests they would do that but suppose they did would there be riots there might be there there might be and when I was talking about the Adam Schiff stuff where the Trump supporters were we're disrupting his public appearance I was asking myself what would it look like if Trump supporters ever got mad because that hasn't happened right I mean Trump supporters you know complain about this or that and they complain about snow snow flakes and social justice warriors and blah blah blah you know so it's not

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and blah blah blah you know so it's not that everybody isn't complaining all the time but Matt is different being actually mad you know not just politically mad not yelling at your at your television Matt but actually Matt mad as an a citizen mad what would happen we haven't seen it right I think I think the bar would be pretty high for Trump supporters to start violating the law at any a sort of the way anti-fun does I think the bar would be very high because transporters are typically not inclined to go out and create violence over politics it's just not something that's natural to them but there's some point that it could happen all right but I don't predict it have you noticed that black lives matter disappeared what happened to black lives matter

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happened to black lives matter why were they such a big thing around the time of the election and the inauguration and what was the last time you heard of black lives matter now keep in mind black lives matter it wasn't in one city they were you know they were national they were in a lot of big places what why did they disappear does anybody have a theory for why they disappeared yes the funding stopped the funding stopped now was black lives matter funded by American entities or foreign entities foreign entities yeah so I can't prove that but I have enough good authority look let's just say that I talked to somebody who believes he knows the answer to that question and said with complete certainty that it was

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said with complete certainty that it was funded by foreign foreign money so how would you like to be don't you after President Trump for allegedly you know trying to influence the election using another country Ukraine or Russia or whatever how would you like to be making that argument while at the same time one of your biggest protest groups is funded by a foreign entity right so I am feeling that funding for black lives matter disappeared because it would be politically inconvenient to be fun day something that's affecting the elections like that all right
see what else we got so this is fun I said yesterday on periscope that it would be fun to interview John McAfee founder of McAfee

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interview John McAfee founder of McAfee Antivirus stuff who is I think he's wanted by the he's wanted in the United States and for something a hundred or what and so he's living in another country but he's running for president in the United States which would be difficult since he can't enter the United States but he's one of the most interesting people in the world and I asked people if they'd like to see me interview them it took all of one day for user Mitch Broderick who might be on this periscope right now I Mitch to tweet at McAfee and ask him if he'd be in my periscope and then McAfee respondent with the email address to schedule it so I just emailed him this morning I emailed the address to see if I can schedule him sooo we might see that that would be fun I think McAfee is on my very short list of people that I really want to talk to

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of people that I really want to talk to because because I can't imagine it would be boring somebody tweeted today that I Scott Adams I'm a British globalist paid troll so there's actually somebody who is smart enough to write sentences and use Twitter who has been watching me and is determined from Washington that I'm a a British globalist paid troll good tank good take okay here's the funniest comment from Chuck Schumer he was talking about what rules the Senate would have for the impeachment trial should it come to that and Chuck Schumer wants it to be a real trial with real witnesses with one exception he says that hunter Biden shouldn't testify because it would turn the process into a

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because it would turn the process into a circus oh my do you think there's any chance in the world that if the Senate has a process that allows both sides to have witnesses do you think there's any chance that hunter Biden won't be called to be a witness Oh hunter Biden is gonna be called to be a witness so is Adam Schiff so Wow I I could not be more entertained by any of this but it seems like I think we know which direction is gonna you know I don't know if the Senate will ultimately have I mean it's kind of a tough call if they have witnesses they might do a better job of showing you how bad the other side is but the other side will have their witnesses too and maybe something will come up that didn't have to come up and it could be bad for the president so if I were the president's lawyer I'd say

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if I were the president's lawyer I'd say cut your losses just vote you don't need any witnesses and just treat it like it's a ridiculous process and it hasn't met even the minimum standard of being credible so you don't need a trial just vote on it just wipe it off the table and say sorry it was ridiculous we can't take you seriously but of course people that would complain that they subverted the system but they're gonna complain that way either way that's the way I plan I I tweeted out this morning you've seen it before but it's the transcript of the fine people comments from President Trump and what I suggested in my tweet is that you print it out and keep it with you when you meet with your family for Thanksgiving just have it in your back pocket or take a screenshot just keep it on your phone and and I mentioned this before I think last year but it never gets less fun

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but it never gets less fun and the task is this when your relative starts complaining that Trump there's a big racist ask him for Essen for an example and then when they mentioned to find people thing which they will you say hey well let's let's see exactly what he said could you read this read it out loud see if you can get somebody who believes that the president called the neo-nazis fine people see if you can get them to read and out loud to you that's the key see if you can talk them into reading out loud the entire thing including the the sentences where he says I'm not talking about the white nationalist and neo-nazis they should be condemned and totally now here's my prediction that you won't be able to get any of your relatives to read it out loud to you that's my prediction if you can you're going to notice some cognitive

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going to notice some cognitive dissonance that's really fun and then they're gonna start saying yes but there weren't any people there who were fine pill if they were marching with racists and then you say but the news has already reported New York Times etc and and I personally you could actually use me I I personally have interviewed several people who attended the Charlottesville event and they all had the same story that there were marchers the neo-nazis there were an tyfa and this is the important part there were all kinds of other people who are not marching and were not antiphon they were there for their own reasons some pros some against so you can use me as an authority i have interviewed those people and and i can guarantee that there were lots of people there for their own reasons because it's america and there's no such thing as a big protest without lots of people there with completely different ideas from

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with completely different ideas from each other it's the most normal thing in the world in fact if Charlottesville had been the only time in this country when people only had two opinions neo-nazi is an anti fine no there was no third opinion that's not even possible it's America you can't get that many people in one place and only have two opinions that's not even the thing you'll have all kinds of opinions if you have a big group it's America damn it we've got different opinions here's a question for you the press is reporting you'll probably see a lot of this because it's the end of the year people like to do these statistics for the year at the end so apparently trump is now up to you according to the fact checkers who don't like him over 15,000 lies since he took office 15,000 lines now here's a test for your relatives relatives can you

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for your relatives relatives can you name any one of the 15,000 lives that damaged the country the way the shifts lies about the FISA process in which he said everything was fine and the steel dossier wasn't important to that all of it was just complete lies which of any of trumps 15,000 lies was as bad as that one one lie by Chef give me an example was it when he lied about the size of his rally crowd was it when he lied and said that it's the best unemployment in 50 years but it was really only 40 yeah which which lie was that the one that was damaging I've said this many times but it's worth repeating before you go talk to your relatives that there are different kinds of political lies some of those lies are things like what you'll do in the future and you know maybe they won't some of those lies are

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maybe they won't some of those lies are about how bad the other side is but they're not really that bad some of it is about how good your record is but it's not really that good you left down some context those are normal political lies and the president has 15,000 of them apparently but what shifted which is reading a secret secret documents that he had access to and only the only the special people in Congress had access to he went in there he read them and then he told the public the opposite of what they said at the same time Nunez was telling us accurately what they said so it's not even like we didn't have you know something to compare it to what is worse than that I can't think of anything worse than that I can't even think I can't even think of anything that's close to that can you give me an example so I would say that Schiff has got to be if there

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say that Schiff has got to be if there were any kind of award for the most corrosive worst politician in American history he'd have to be in the running right who would be a worse politician in terms of effect on the in the world than chef I guess you said Bush before because of weapons of mass destruction which is not a bad point all right I'm looking at your comments somebody says Harry Reid Joe McCarthy yeah McCain maybe all right so let's see if Schiff can get voted out of his office because he'll have some competition this time all right let's somebody says what do you think

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let's somebody says what do you think shift lies about are you kidding Nick what he lied about was the whole FISA process where he said it was done correctly and that the steel duck the steel dossier was not part of that decision and now we know all of that was untrue
Tip O'Neill somebody says somebody hates on Crenshaw what did Crenshaw do
have I discussed the Afghanistan papers I haven't but you know that fits perfectly in the context of what I'm talking about with there are different kinds of lies there's one kind of lie that your government will always tell you so you have to kind of treat it as you know maybe sort of a normal lie what you should expect so there should be different than other kinds of lies and

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different than other kinds of lies and yes Jennifer Barbosa is running against ship this next election and I've offered to help her because I think shift needs to go so we'll talk more about her arrest yes the year the year goes on but yes so it seems that our military government who was lying to the people of the United States about how well we're doing in Afghanistan but is that important because don't we have a history of we always lie to our public about how we're doing militarily it just felt like business as usual because I am not aware of any time this is just personal but I'm not aware of any time I thought we were winning in Afghanistan so if they were lying about how well we were doing in Afghanistan and it wasn't a lie that registered with me it didn't register at all people are asking is

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register at all people are asking is jennifer Barboza a Democrat she's not she is an independent so should be running as an independent apparently there are more independence in that area than there are Democrats or Republicans somebody's asking about the the Scott and Christina video that's coming we have recorded it so Christina interviewed me on number of topics including my book and we're looking at it now but the lighting wasn't quite where we wanted it to be so we're trying to decide now whether we can adjust the lighting in post or maybe not boast it because I wanted this one to be good quality so we'll see but it is recorded
somebody says did not notice the black lives matter and pirates disappeared at the same time that's funny it's not true but it's a funny comment can I play the

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but it's a funny comment can I play the piano like Christina no I can't I don't think many people can play the piano like Christina Kemp she does seem to have a special gift all right I will I will talk to you later that's all for now