Episode 764 Scott Adams: Emotional Impeachment Versus Practical Impeachment, CNN Whistleblowers

Date: 2019-12-22 | Duration: 56:00

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bum bum bum bum bum bum hello Kevin come on in here Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Tyler bill Merry Christmas good to see you Mathias Eric Happy Holidays to all of you I'm why you here it's for a little thing called the simultaneous if in all of the simultaneity that goes with it but special surprise special surprise I've updated the introduction to the simultaneous sip to make it easier for you to sing along in fact turned it into a generic drinking toast are you ready so here's the rework introduction to the simultaneous sip that goes like this watch the rhyming pattern you'll be impressed home I'd like to perform this correctly for the simultaneous zip all you need is a cup or a Margaret glass a tankards tankard chalice or Stein

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tankards tankard chalice or Stein canteen juggler flask vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee but if this were a drinking game or you were doing here for a toast everybody would get to say their own favorite liquid at the same time so I'd be yelling coffee you'd be yelling vodka perhaps it all works now joining me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine to the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous sip go yep yep yep yep that's good stuff so I think this rhyme is better so let me let me tell it to you slower so all you need is a cup or a marker glass a tanker chalice or Stein canteen jug or flask a vessel of any kind come on you know that's better all right let's talk about all the stuff because they're stuff happening stuff all over the place so we're going to talk about that stuff

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talk about that stuff let's talk about impeachment now you know how some stories they start out as being one thing but then as they start to settle in with the public and they settle in with how your own mind and how you think about it a story starts to drift from what you thought it was to some different thing even though the facts haven't changed have you ever noticed that and I'm going to give you an analogy to make the point this analogy is not meant to persuade you because analogies don't do that but analogy is really good at explaining a concept here's the concept or here's the analogy have you ever been in a situation where you were playing a game as an adult with a child and of course you as an adult could easily win the game you know be it checkers or racing or you know any kind of a little game what do you do as an adult if you're playing against a child well I know that

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playing against a child well I know that some of you beat the child so that the so that the child can learn how to lose yeah so that's some of you right but more commonly you let the child win because that's how both of you win as an adult you would get no joy out of winning but you would get something out of helping a young person become more confident learn a game you know have a social interaction with you and so most cases if you have a contest a game or you know anything like that usually you have a winner and then a loser that's the normal way things go but in my simple example of an adult playing a game with a child and the child doesn't know how to play yet the best way for both of you to win is for the adult to let the child win because it's good for the child depending on this situation and the adult wins do because they've you know taught a child something useful

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you know taught a child something useful now let's talk about impeachment there was an old kind of impeachment that I would call the bad kind let's call that practical impeachment President Nixon was impeached for what I would say are practical reasons meaning that the country said hmm that's impeachable and the country even in a bipartisan way at least as much as these things could be bipartisan all agreed that what Nixon did was mmm that's over the line that has to be stopped for practical reasons all right you can't have that kind of a leader because the whole system falls apart if the leader could just break the law any time they want so that's a practical impeachment this latest one with President Trump is not really that and the more it the more it sinks in and especially as you see the reactions to

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especially as you see the reactions to it on the Democrat side and also the reactions to it on the Republican side does it not look a little bit more right right now today doesn't it look a little bit more like an adult letting a child win in the game and here's let me you know of course analogies are imperfect so let's just forget the analogy for a moment I'm just using that to introduce the point the point is that if you're looking at the reactions from the Democrats they appear to be weirdly happy about accomplishing absolutely nothing meaning that the president will not be removed from office right but they're still very happy on their unambiguously happy how do you explain that they're unambiguously happy when they didn't remove the president from office they probably all were aware that there was more chance his popularity would increase and more chance he would be elected more chance he would raise you

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elected more chance he would raise you know get have good fundraising which he did so do you think that the motivation from the Democrat side would be the stated motivation oh he's a criminal the world's gonna go to act if we don't get rid of him right away I think they have revealed by their willingness to weigh on the actual sending of the the impeachment articles the Senate they seem to have revealed that it wasn't really a practical impeachment because there doesn't seem to be anything happening that looks like it could become anything practical anything that actually happens but what did happen and you see the the Democrats cheering about it is that they have blessed President Trump with a stain that can't be removed and they talk about it that way we've we've impeached him he will always be an impeached president there's a stain he has to live with that what does that sound like it sounds like people working

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sound like it sounds like people working through an emotional problem that has more to do with their own life now Oprah is the first one I ever heard say this so here's I'll give you the the Oprah view on this if you come to somebody let's say you're talking to Oprah and you say you know Oprah I've got a real problem with whatever it is there's you know costs too much you've got a kind of problem here it's hard to fix and if you can talk about the problem in objective ways and give objective reasons why it's a problem and maybe why you're gonna fix it you would be a person who probably has a real problem you understand the problem you're looking to fix it so Oprah would say that's a person with a real problem who knows what their problem is but as Oprah points out if you come at a problem purely emotionally Oprah would point out and I hope I'm not I hope I'm not let's say miss stating Oprah's opinion on these things but I think I'm pretty close Oprah would say that if you

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pretty close Oprah would say that if you come to a problem and you talk about it with great emotionality maybe the problem isn't the real problem maybe the problem is making you think of something in your own life other problems your your past experience and that you may be sort of trapped in a bubble of your own reality and that the way you reveal that you're in a bubble as opposed to just someone who has a real problem and they can recognize it is that their reaction is completely out of whack with what the problem is now that's what we've been watching with the reaction to President Trump the reactions to him seem disconnected from results you know the economy doing well all the usual stuff we talked about so here's what I think and what I recommend for your holidays those of you who are Trump supporters you've got a holiday gift that you don't realize yet and it

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gift that you don't realize yet and it goes like this the the temperature of the country was going up and up and up and you as a trump supporter were part of the targets of that higher temperature in other words you were being vilified you were being you know targeted I mean especially you're being targeted by people saying that even if you supported this president you know you must be vilified too just for being a voter this is not normal right you never saw that before right you didn't see the voters being vilified just for voting for their candidate that's new and I think what you're saying is that Democrats are working through some personal problems there there are a lot of people who would have a reaction to somebody like Trump because he presents himself as a bully now ask yourself about the main players in the impeachment saga how many of the people whose whose names and faces immediately

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whose whose names and faces immediately come to you when you think of the Democrats trying to impeach the president and then ask yourself how many of them have probably had bad experiences with bullies and I'm gonna lump into the category any of the me to sexual harassment stuff just for this conversation let's just put it into the bully category you know strong men behaving badly let's just say that how many of the people male and female have exterior have experienced over their lifetime extraordinarily cruel bouts of bullying and harassing probably 100 percent I'm maybe every one of them so when they wake up every morning and they see a president Trump how does that make him feel forget about politics how does it make you feel well what it makes you feel like is like let's say somebody beat you up and went to jail and then

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beat you up and went to jail and then they got into jail and became your boss even if they were a really good boss and everything they did was good for the country and even if they paid their debt they went to jail for beating you up if you're an employee and your CEO is the guy who beat you up for it even though he went to jail and even though he's doing a good job as the CEO and even if he's not bothering you necessarily can you live with it not really you need revenge you need revenge so here's the gift Democrats Democrats got revenge the the impeachment is revenge and it's pretty good because the revenge they were seeking is not to kill the president they were asking for him to be killed I mean some crazy ones were but generally now they weren't really asking him to go to jail for the things that you know anything that we've seen because none of it is illegal as far as we can tell at least not jailable and legal stuff so I

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least not jailable and legal stuff so I feel as though the temperature will go way down now and that Pelosi is completely smart to delay things until after the holidays because people are going to go onto the holiday feeling pretty good if you're a Democrat you're gonna say wow you know I've been bullied all my life but I got one back I got a bully back and not just an ordinary bully I got like the that the super bully the biggest bully the but the bully of all bullies Trump the one who's been making me lose sleep the one that's making me you know the seeking psychiatric help which is literally thing a lot of people getting medical help for the way he makes them feel and it's not because the economy's bad it's because the way that he makes them feel so in a weird way this is like the adult who plays the game with a child in which there is a way for both sides to win because you

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way for both sides to win because you just watched it happen the Democrats feel they got the win because they stained a bully forever there is there's no situation there's no arguing way there's no there's no saying well the Senate didn't you know didn't confirm the impeachment that may all be true but it is nonetheless true that the people who feel they've been victims of bullies all their lives they won one it's a win somebody says how is not this not a bit of mind-reading it would be mind-reading if I said this is the case what I'm doing is saying compare this to your other alternatives and you can make your own mind up and the argument is this not based on mind-reading but based on knowing people and and now what people do in certain situations if you put me and let me let me give you another a good example when Hillary Clinton was running for president I hated her fricking guts and it wasn't that I hated

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fricking guts and it wasn't that I hated her for just being Hillary I hate her because she reminded me of women that I hate people that I hate but women that I hate because you know you see things in too in terms of gender now there are certainly men who would give me the same reaction I I could see lots of situations in which there would be a man who would remind me of other kinds of men and I would hate that man just as sort of a proxy for all those other men but that's the that's the feeling I had with Hillary Clinton especially when she became full MS andrius is that a word when she actually went out and said that women would be better leaders because they have extra skills compared to man and that was sort of that just one of the things that triggered me and it seemed to me that I treated her as sort of an enemy and I felt a lot like even during the election I could feel it in

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during the election I could feel it in myself that my reaction to Hillary more to do with my feelings about people she reminded me of yeah and I felt it at the time I had a visceral dislike for her that was not connected to anything she actually had dog Nora would do it was just visceral and I will I will cop to that clearly the anti-trump r's have a visceral emotional reaction that's a little bit disconnected to anything he's actually doing I think we have the weirdest situation where everybody won because let me ask you this most of your Trump supporters you wouldn't be on this periscope do any of you feel really bad that Trump got impeached because I wondered how I would feel about it and I didn't really have any bad feelings about it at all you know if it were up to me I would you know if I could just snap my hands and snap my fingers and

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snap my hands and snap my fingers and make something different I would prefer he not be impeached but now that it's happened and I can actually see all right well how do I feel you know how's my coffee taste this morning hmm still the same but I actually am happy and I know this sounds weird but maybe it's the Christmas season and the you know full of the good spirits for the holidays or something well I'm not joking about this I actually feel good for the Democrats today because you imagine if you if you wouldn't your whole life being abused and bullied imagine that and you got you got this one chance to in a very public way hit back at your bully in a completely legal way you know nobody went to jail nobody got physically hurt but you stained him you know you put the scarlet B on his chest forever how would you feel about that pretty good pretty good and so I'm

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that pretty good pretty good and so I'm looking at the situation where half of the country who got what they wanted the impeachment he's probably feeling pretty good about it and I have to say I have to say I can't hate half of my own country feeling good today like I I don't feel bad you know I didn't see anybody lose a did you today Ben lose there's anybody a loser in any of this I don't think so I think we have this weird situation where Trump supporters are saying yeah we just guaranteed re-election you know Trump supporters like that and at the same time the other team you know the other team that should have been the winning team I guess maybe there's the losing team if you count the Senate we'll we'll turn it over but how do you ever get a competition in which both sides completely won am i right because I think Democrats on some level maybe don't think that they're gonna win and certainly if they look at their own field the candidates I don't

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their own field the candidates I don't think they think they're gonna win so I'm not even sure it was about that I think it was just a bully reaction which worked out really well and so when you go over the holidays I would make this recommendation for your your Trump hating relatives who got what they wanted the impeachment congratulations congratulations now I'm a I'm a trump supporter but do I think that Trump's style is good for everybody who is a citizen no not at all it's very obvious that his style which doesn't bother me personally even a little bit not even a little bit just me personally but I'm I can observe and it's completely obvious that his style really really really bothers a lot of people all right let's be honest about that you know doesn't bother me doesn't bother most to you you see it in a different frame maybe you didn't have

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a different frame maybe you didn't have a big problem with bullies in your life or maybe that's just not your biggest drama and you know you don't focus on it but in any case most of us are completely unaffected by it but some people are not some a lot you know ten civilians people are deeply affected by how they just feel about them and they just got something to make themselves feel better congratulations well thought you know congratulations and I mean that actually yeah you got what you wanted now here's an interesting point according to me I've talked many times about this concept of affirmations now affirmations is the process of repeating or writing down what you want over and over every day and then is somehow magically manifests itself into your life now since I don't believe in magic I'm gonna say it seems to do that right so the the human perception of of this process of

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human perception of of this process of affirmations is that it seems to work it's something I've used all my life I think it might have more to do with focusing on what you want you know there may be some just psychological reasons why it seems to work even if it doesn't but in the process of affirmations whether or not you think it's magic or just getting more because you're focusing on it whatever you believe about it there is one piece of advice that the proponents of affirmations always make and that is don't be too specific and an example would be let's say you're at an affirmation i scott adams will become a millionaire i will become a millionaire and then you win the lottery and you get a hundred million dollars but somebody immediately steals ninety nine million dollars of it and you're left with 1 million dollars the the trap is that you'll get what you asked for and you could have had a hundred million so the trap with

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hundred million so the trap with affirmations is don't be too specific about what you're asking for because you might limit yourself from getting something better so it's better to say that you'll be wealthy then you'll make a million dollars because wealthy is uncapped a million dollars that might be exactly what you get when you could have had two million impeachment is just like that for how long have people been saying let's impeach President Trump you see where I'm going with this they got what they asked for they didn't get what they probably were thinking they wanted what they wanted was to remove him from office right but nobody thought that or nobody nobody repeated that is their mantra take a look at you know even what's his name who's the billionaire Steyr steyr he didn't say removed from office I mean he may have used the phrase but primarily he was talking about impeachment impeach and peach

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about impeachment impeach and peach impeach impeach so the Democrats got exactly specifically what they asked for but not what they wanted and that's the trap of affirmations if you focus on the thing you're asking for you might get it it might not be the thing you wanted thing you wanted was to remove him from office and that also is a tell I think that I don't even think that a Democrats in their in the small rational part of their brains everybody has a small rational part so that's not specifically Democrats but in the rational part of their brain did they really want to remove a president with all of the trouble that would cause I don't know if they did I mean if you ask them they would say yes but I don't know if if in their private thoughts they wanted that where they just wanted to punch a bully and so my my take on this is that everybody won nobody saw that coming I

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everybody won nobody saw that coming I didn't I didn't predict it but I think this is one of the best things that's ever happened to the country because you had a country that was genuinely suffering from having a bully president that's a lot to ask for people who have been bullied all their life would you agree so even if you were not personally ever affected by a bully maybe you were a bully but would you still not agree that if you had been a victim of bullies all your life that putting somebody who clearly has the bully vibe in the presidential office how do you how do you wake up in the morning with that like how does that make you feel pretty bad and the impeachment I think went a long way to evening things out in people's psychological framework I got to tell you I am so proud of the people who follow me on Twitter I set a little trap for you and not a single person fell

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for you and not a single person fell into it now I didn't think of it that way when I posted it I wasn't thinking of it as a trap I wanted to get opinions on it without biasing you but here's what I did I I tweeted an idea from a group called Folsom based citizens again and Dewayne Mason he's the founder and he's released details of the plan for building a three billion dollar private city equipped with amenities and services for 150,000 of what he calls the high needs population or the or the homeless now I put that out there because it was basically like a dormitory situation low cost housing with probably some facilities for helping people have special types of needs now I put that out there and I wondered what people would say did people say thank goodness there's a plan for ending homelessness nobody did not one of you not a single

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nobody did not one of you not a single person thought that was a good idea or at least people commented I don't think a single person said it was a good idea do you know why because almost all of you have been educated largely from dr. Drew's good work and you know people like me or amplifying his message to know that it's not a homeless problem it's never been a homeless problem it's a drug addiction problem it's a mental mental health problem and the people on the street want to be there you could put them in a house tomorrow and they just say yeah I kind of like the sidewalk and so not a single person who follows me on Twitter that I noticed I mean there might have been I didn't notice any fell for the trap of building homes for homeless people we all know it won't work right now many of you pointed out that there were other attempts to do this they've failed there's some famous ones that are in the literature people tried to do almost exactly this thing and then ended up tearing it down because what happens is if you take all the people who have

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if you take all the people who have problems and you put them in one place it doesn't make it easier to solve turns out it turns out there's probably some ideal ratio of people with the addiction and mental health problems that you know you don't want to put them all in one place because they're not going to fix anything if they're all in one place it's just gonna become a mess and you're gonna have to tear it down later now contrasting that there's a place in San Francisco for drug treatment and career training called the Delancey Street foundation Delancey Street foundation and they've been around for decades and they're one of the most if not the most and one of the most at least respected treatment centers for long-term addictions or things so I believe that people go there they live and work there they learn to trade I think they've got a restaurant so you

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think they've got a restaurant so you could learn restaurant businesses they have a moving company I believe so you could become a mover but the point is you could learn various trades while working through your addiction problem and the Delancey Street operation has only grown for decades I was familiar with it in the 70s so something that's stood the test of time several decades several decades I mean that's really standing the test of time so there are obviously there are people who know how to do it there are people who have figured out what works and what doesn't and that's not necessarily the same people who would have good intentions and are trying to build a place for the homeless so what I would like to see is dr. drew help us with an outline of some kind of a better approach yeah just sort of a PowerPoint kitty just dr. Joe if you could just bullet point it for us tell us what it should look like is there a law or laws that need to be changed what are they and what do we

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changed what are they and what do we need to do differently based on what we've learned and what we know works and what doesn't so my take on this is that we probably do need some kind of private industry to build this now there are two things that get conflated one is building low-cost housing for the homeless which I think you know the the big problem of an addiction and mental health have to be dealt with and I would think that probably you need a separate and maybe smaller maybe Delancey Street is a good size because there's probably a scale that works best you don't want to be too small you don't want to be too big I'm guessing Pulaski Street it's the sweet spot there but you also completely independently of the homeless problem we need to fix the cost of living the cost of having a high-quality life so that people can retire into a good situation that they're not wanting for anything

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that they're not wanting for anything but it just doesn't cost very much so I think we do need to develop that and here's how it should be done I'm thinking of doing this and it would look like this I start a separate Twitter account for building low-cost housing and then I do a series of tweets which only are subject categories so one of my tweets might be put it in the comments the best kind of plumbing for a low cost housing the best kind of heating/cooling structure location you know so you have all the categories and then you let all the commenters and vendors who make the kinds of things that make sense for these questions just let them comment and then you let other people vote up things and of course people who put links in the comments so you could go and take a look at you know the the link so the question is this could you design low-cost a low-cost city and here's the other thing I think you need to design

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other thing I think you need to design it as a community you can't design a home by itself and and let me give you the most stark reason why if you're trying to make it low cost and better both low cost and better than then living is now you might want to and this is just a suggestion get rid of your kitchen and put in a iPad where you can just have your food delivered from the central cafeteria so it's the cafeteria so you know the cost is not that high but you could get rid of kitchens so you wouldn't have to shop you wouldn't have to clean you know you wouldn't have to cook you just go to your iPad and I do that now with door - right but it's too expensive so you need the sort of community co-op version of the door - you can get rid of kitchens likewise I always use the example of my dorm experience in college if you put people together who want to be together seniors

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together who want to be together seniors like to be around seniors young people like to be around young people in cetera families like to be around families you you don't need the great physical structure because it's the people that make it special that's why College was so awesome I had the worst physical living situation in college that I've ever had but even though it was the worst you know building walls bad I'd walk outside and it was kids people I wanted to hang out with so it was the best situation and had nothing to do with the cost of my housing so I think those are the kinds of systems baek's approach where you design the whole community where you can get the real cost savings and I would also like to see designs for the perfect living room the perfect bathroom low cost you know the perfect bedroom etc and then once you've designed to each each of these individual spaces then people could say are well I'll just take one of these one of these one of these they'll put them together and run it through my computer and I don't need a I

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through my computer and I don't need a I don't need a an architect and I don't need an engineer because the engineering and the architecture would all be you know built into a system that only gave you so many choices but all the choices were the best UPS it's the three best choices for what your living room could look like the three best choices for your your your laundry room etc all right so
that's that robber right right well-known Democrat I know him a little bit we've chatted by email and he's released the following estimate you said the 60% of wealth is inherited and so his point was that we have an unfair system basically because if sixty percent of all the wealth is just passed down as opposed and that's not a very fair country and to which I added this

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fair country and to which I added this question what percentage of people inherit any substantial money of all the people who will be born this year how many of them will inherit money five percent three percent very few people inherit money it's almost trivial now the amount they inherit is so grotesquely large that it makes all the averages skewed I think Bernie Sanders says I might have this wrong but it's something like this he says that the two richest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 50% of the entire country because 50 percent of the country has no wealth and you know a few billionaires get a lot so so other people weighed in and apparently only 20 percent of this is some statistics somebody put it in the comments only 21 percent of millionaires received any

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percent of millionaires received any inheritance and all just 16 percent inherited more than a hundred thousand and get this only three percent received an inheritance at or above 1 million so that feels like a pretty pretty good country let me let me give you another reframing of something you saw that the the Democrat candidates attempted to say that the economy is not so good because even though the stock market's up there are a lot of people in the middle class we're not you know gaining as much as the Democrats would like them to gain so the Democrats are at least Joe Biden is making a case that the the economy is not as good as it looks on the surface because people aren't doing as well as they should be doing here's the psychology that I think Joe Biden misses and as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip this is something I've been sort

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strip this is something I've been sort of tracking for decades and it's this when unemployment is high and you're not doing well who do you blame if the if there's lots of unemployment and you don't have a job or you don't have a good enough job who do you blame you blame the government or the system because there's no jobs for you to get if you can't get a job it's not your fault there just aren't enough jobs and you don't have the right training but your tendency your tendency is to blame the system because it didn't give you opportunities now what happens when the unemployment rate reaches an all-time low and now you're still not doing well you wish you had a raise etc when unemployment is at an all-time low who do you blame if you're not doing well do you see it yet you blame yourself you blame yourself I saw this first during

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blame yourself I saw this first during the dot-com era let me give you a little history when Dilbert first came out it wasn't really about the workplace but he became I transferred it to be a workplace comic strip in the early 90s in the mid 90s there was this huge waves of layoffs that came after the dot-com era right yeah so in the dot-com era everybody was in the you know printing money I felt like everybody felt like even if they weren't doing well it was their own fault there was a period when I was doing the comic when I couldn't really write good jokes for a few years because I couldn't get anybody to complain about their job think about that people who had the same job that they'd had for 10 years stopped complaining about their job because wait for it everybody else was doing well do you see it yet if everyone

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doing well do you see it yet if everyone else is doing well you stop complaining about your own job even if you've had it for years because you know it's your own damn fault now because all those other people don't have your problem what are they doing they're working harder they're going to school they're training taking a chance they moved they're doing something so suddenly your entire psychology of whose fault it is changes now as soon as there was lots of unemployment then everybody blames the government blames the big companies blames the I was sourcing claims to see I Elvis yeah but with low unemployment good luck Joe Biden getting your own voters to think it's the government's fault when you've got this good of an economy and this good of an employment it's your own damn fault now it's not right you know there a lot there are plenty of people are doing the best they can and you know that's the best they can do but it's gonna feel like it's your own damn fault so I'm only talking about what it feels

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so I'm only talking about what it feels like so I don't think the Democrats have a message that could really hit at the moment because people aren't just gonna feel like it's the government's problem it just feels like your own problem when the economy is doing this well if you're not following the epoch I don't know how to pronounce that epoch times epoch EPOC H epic The Epoch Times it turns out that's a word I've never said that aloud I don't think and yon You Killick whose name I also can't pronounce he was interviewing a CNN whistleblower now I'd seen this guy before but this was I don't know there was something about the way the interview went that made this a little special and this is a CNN employee who quit CNN because he couldn't stand the fake news and this guy's name is Kerry porch

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guy's name is Kerry porch he said quote I was part of that team in Charlottesville parenthetically he was talking about Charlottesville everyone said Trump didn't condemn the Nazis and I knew that wasn't the case in other words he was they already watched it so he knew that the way you see and then it was reporting it saying that he hadn't condemned the Nazis was obviously not true because he was there he watched the speech and he observed it with his own eyes so he says that basically raised my antenna he said what else am I being fed so when he saw that the CNN's reporting on Charlottesville they claimed that the president called the races fine people which of course never happened but it was widely reported that it did this guy who worked for CNN and watched it on the ground he was actually assigned to that event first of all he could see that there were plenty of people there he said this separately but he saw that there were plenty of people there who were not marching with the the racists and we're not auntie father there were

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and we're not auntie father there were just other people people in plain clothes doing we were there for their own reasons some fortune statues some against for historical reasons for free speech reasons just a whole bunch of people with different opinions what is what does CNN say about their own whistleblower saying that they've been making up the news on one of the most important pieces of news that has affected us for years it's it's kind of amazing all right one of the surviving members of the the massacred family is down in New Mexico you know in the cartel Massacre the Mormon families that had moved to Mexico recently one of the dads who lost a daughter and several grandkids in that Massacre is trying to get the Mexican government to allow him and others to form militias to farm to

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and others to form militias to farm to form private armies within Mexico to fight the cartels now I don't think he's gonna get approval for that because like you know I think we all expect that the Mexican government is essentially working for the cartels at this point I mean if that might not be true but I think we all assume that's true right so I don't see he's gonna get approval to form a militia to fight the cartels because the government is more Pro cartel than anti but it's interesting isn't it it's interesting that the the topic has been raised because again I think you're gonna see militias formed whether it's this guy or you know some of the Americans I would guess you are going to see militias formed to fight the cartels and those militias might be well-armed I don't know if you caught this but there was a story the other day just recently in which the US military was doing some war games in which they had a standard

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war games in which they had a standard set of troops facing off in a war game against troops that had drones that they could control and robots so I don't know what form the robots took but imagine that they're like little tanks or something you know they weren't robots with feet but I think they were like motorized robots I'm guessing and they would war game it time after time and time again who do you think won between the mechanized robot army using current equipment that it wasn't a futuristic it was stuff we already have who won between the conventional army and the robot mechanized army robots what percentage of the time did the robots with the humans beat just the humans a hundred percent that's not even the good part they they won a hundred percent of the battles because they had better drones and robots that's not even the interesting part here's the interesting part how many troops human troops did

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part how many troops human troops did the side that use robots lose in the war games every time none none zero they ran consider they ran repeated war games of a conventional army presumably you know a high-end conventional army against our forces with some drones and robots and our forces lost zero people not now now take that concept and imagine that a let's say mercenary and or volunteer militia gets a hold of some good stuff and knows how to use it could a militia with robots and drones eliminate the cartels well the cartels are an understanding force like a standing military force but at least raises the question you know if we could identify who they are is that all you need are the cartels even hiding

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all you need are the cartels even hiding I don't think they are right the cartels come in to city centers with with these you know trucks that are fortified and have machine guns on the back if you are so out yeah they had yeah they have the cartels have armored trucks with machine guns that they'll drive through a city apparently unabashedly if we can identify them and there's a militia that has drones and robots and the militia might lose zero people the cartels might lose a lot so those are some forces that are all coming together here's the the dumbest to take I saw from somebody named Pam Keith who had been some kind of Democratic politician who didn't make it I guess I don't think she got elected but I don't know she's whatever she's a Democrat let's just say that's the part I know she's a Democrat and she tweets the thing with this whole circle game talking about the cadets we're

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talking about the cadets we're doing the circle game symbol is that every one of those guys knew in capital knew it would be seen as a white power symbol and didn't care they aren't stupid just racist they lack honor do you buy that take do you think that the young men the cadets who were making the little okay symbol that apparently the Reis the investigation found out that they were just playing a game they were playing the the circle game or if somebody sees you making that gesture you can punch them in the arm which apparently is a universally known game for a long time lots of kids play I have confirmed now do you think that they knew according to this Democrat Pam Keith that it would be seeing as a white power symbol and they did it anyway on national television first of all that's the most crazy idea I've ever seen but let me say on top of that anything any prediction like let me

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that anything any prediction like let me say it a different way the worst take on any public situation like this the worst opinion you could put on it is that these young people were smart and well-informed in the same way that you are as an adult that's the worst take the worst take is that these what 18 year olds were wise they're not wise there are no why is 18 year olds there no 8 if you took 10 18 year olds and said how many of you know that that okay symbol is considered a white power side how many of and if 10 of those kids would have known that close to zero I would think don't you I feel like the number is close to zero maybe one at attend but it take like this that says with confidence and in public oh yeah they know what they were doing first of all is mind reading that is one of my clever Twitter followers

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is one of my clever Twitter followers pointed out that it's just pure mind reading there's no there's no possible way that this stranger could know what these kids were thinking but one thing we can say for sure they're at an age where their brains are not developed fully and that the average the average person in eighth age would certainly not know that doing that sign would be a white supremacist sign this is sort of thing in fact the only people who know that are news junkies if you were not a news junkie you wouldn't know about that okay sign thing would you test it at home when you're with your family ask your family members just your random family members every age how many people have ever heard of that as being a white power symbol while you'll find is that your 3 or 4 you know uncles and aunts who watch the news all know it and then you'll find that most of the world doesn't watch the news at all how many 18 year-olds watched the news almost none yes probably like 3 percent

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almost none yes probably like 3 percent so in your own family you can test it you'll find that most of your family doesn't watch the news that would be true for most of you I think and they don't know that so this is just the worst take the kids are well informed and smart all right what else we got going on here I think we hit some highlights let me just check my notes oh no there's one other thing that's really good coming in happening so Hong Kong protesters who are a plucky and I it's a group who have certainly earned our respect what do you now say if you're a Hong Kong resident and you're standing up against China you know that's not going to end well for you I mean these people have guts some serious guts Hong Kong is also well-educated that's the real risk China is not dealing with a bunch of idiots China is not dealing

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bunch of idiots China is not dealing with cowards China is dealing with brilliant people who are very brave if you ever get in a battle you don't want to do it with brilliant people who are also very brave and that appears to be the Hong Kong profile brilliant and brave braver than I would have expected them to be we don't know where this this goes but to my point the Hong Kong protesters just made a really good play they held a pro-democracy rally in solidarity with China's we Gers is that the smartest thing you've ever heard so the Hong Kong is trying to expand their grievance to include the weaker Muslim minority population that China is putting in concentration camps and torturing and assigning rapists to their wives who are still back home this this is actually happening a million we are in concentration camps so Hong Kong has said there with the we

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so Hong Kong has said there with the we Gers how smart is that because now you won't be able to talk about Hong Kong if they keep it up let's see if they maintain this but if they keep it up they will tie their faiths together in a way that the world will see for the first time in a different light if you let me put it in this light if harm Kong just said oh we're just Hong Kong we just want to solve our own problem which is we need more more freedom and more rights how do you feel about that well you probably want the Hong Kong people to have more freedom and more rights but it doesn't really it's not really tugging at your heart string is it I mean I feel for them but there are some problems in the world that just look bigger than other ones you know when you hear about the Hong Kong stuff about China can you know take somebody to China and try them or whatever there was original problem you think yourself yeah but how many people is active in effect you know there there's something about

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you know there there's something about the Hong Kong thing that lacked an emotional trigger it was you know I think we most of us all of us probably support them but it didn't have that really hard string kind of emotional thing and now they just tied their fate to the Uighur when you think of the Uighur you have a whole different feeling this is the Holocaust it's happening right now and anybody who said never again well you it's happening right now so if you were let me say this if you happen to be Jewish and you're not talking about this wig or situation every day you've lost all credibility it doesn't have to be every day but you know the point right if you're Jewish and you're saying the Holocaust never again which we're totally on board with that and you watch it another Holocaust happened right in front of your nose no question about it no doubt about it there's no no conflict in it you're

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there's no no conflict in it you're watching it if you're not complaining about that you've got a consistency problem all right now the Hong Kong people by tying their fate to the Uighur in a sense have shown you where where things can go if you don't stop them so now you're starting to think about the Hong Kong people not as people who let's say if they cave into China maybe most of them will never even have an impact but now you start thinking about the we curse were literally rounded up and put in concentration camps now what do you think is going to happen to the Hong Kong protesters if China ends up getting everything they want all those Hong Kong protesters have been captured on facial recognition China's going to take care of them so the size of China's concentration camps could double if the Hong Kong situation goes the wrong way it'll be a different concentration camp but you know they're gonna use the Hong Kong residents for parts that's just the

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Kong residents for parts that's just the fact they're using the flawed following god of people for executions on demand and then selling their body parts that's also been confirmed so what do you think they're going to do with the Hong Kong protesters if they if they get everything they want it's going to look like selling body parts and it's going to look like a concentration camp that's where those people are going to end up so tying tying the we Gers to the hong kong thing very strong play have you noticed we don't hear as much from Carl Bernstein lately I heard on Fox and Friends they were making the same point how happy are you that you're not watching Carl Bernstein say that's for a sudden Watergate because it turns out that everything that Carl Bernstein told us was going to happen or was happening was just all wrong and he's turned into basically the biggest joke I would say Carl Bernstein

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Carl Bernstein probably has the worst reputational hit in all of this for the pundit you know news class I don't I don't know how he can show himself in public after being that wrong for that long but I'm sure we'll see him again all right well that's all I got for now and I will give you my advice again when your relatives are showing Glee for getting this president impeached congratulate them they got something and you didn't lose anything so let's have a great holiday I will talk to you again before Christmas of course every day and I will see you all later