Episode 783 Scott Adams: Loserthink Opinions on Iran, Google Shenanigans, Free Money, Bad Liars

Date: 2020-01-10 | Duration: 59:10

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Rich Lowry’s tweet on the shot-down Ukrainian plane What will happen if US pulls out of Iraq? Matt Gaetz votes for House Resolution constraining President Preet Bharara calls out Doug Collins for Loserthink mind-reading Australian fires, abundant arsonists and climate change

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I'm pumpin pumpin I'm pom pom pom pom hey everybody guess what you came to the right place again every day you're nailing it I gotta say your system for having a good day is going well you know what a good system is the system is something that you do every day you don't know where it's heading exactly it's not like a goal but you do it every day and you know it leads to something good well what if your systems is watching coffee with Scott Adams every morning and finding out the news before all the bad people turned it into garbage so I'll start your day with a little dopamine hit that will make your day better it's a good system start the day on a good note get some momentum going it'll be hard to derail your excellent mood and does it take much to enjoy this new system the system we call coffee

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new system the system we call coffee with Scott Adams no no it doesn't you can enjoy the simultaneous sip with the least amount of resources all you need is a copper of Margar glass a tanker chalice or Stein a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I'm partial to my coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better simultaneous up go oh yeah yep yep yeah that's hitting all the right spots round starting our day right well there's an unusual amount of loser think in the news loser think what's that you say well look over my shoulder right there that's a cup of coffee and that's my book loser think in which I teach people how to think more productively by introducing them to the various disciplines of thought gonna give you

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disciplines of thought gonna give you some examples already here's one have we not been listening to the anti-trump pundits tell us for the last several days that that President Trump is impulsive he's reckless he's reckless and he's impulsive he's so reckless and impulsive we don't know what's gonna happen and then and specifically he's reckless and impulsive when it came to ordering the taking out of general Soleimani but CFN is reporting today that Mike Pompeo has wanted that Salomon a neg eye off the field shall we say for about 10 years and has been one of his main priorities so Mike Pompeo who nobody thinks his dumb right can we agree with that whether you agree with him disagree with him no matter what side you're on nobody thinks Mike Pompeii was dumb right I

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thinks Mike Pompeii was dumb right I think that's true I've never heard anybody even suggest that so he's a smart guy and for 10 years he's been thinking about this exact situation he's the president's primary advisor on this topic and the president decided to go with what CNN is reporting would have been Mike Pompeo strong preference is that the same as impulsive somebody was saying here he was a number one at West Point okay point made III said everybody agrees that he's smart I didn't actually know he was that smart you got to be pretty pretty pretty pretty smart to be number one at West Point pretty pretty pretty pretty smart so what does CNN do with its previous reporting which mostly came from pundits let's be clear about that

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from pundits let's be clear about that not not the hard news people but the pundits saying the president is impulsive impulsive impulsive and then we find out that he took the advice of a guy who was number one at West Point is exactly the job you current job Mike Pompeo this is exactly the one you're supposed to be listening to for this kind of question and ten years of knowing about researching caring about this one guy he gives advice to his commander who accepts his advice and that's reported as there's something wrong with the president's brain right how could that be more opposite that's as opposite as you can get to there's something wrong with the president's brain he's too impulsive and reckless all right so they're reporting opposites now as if as if they could both exist so apparently the US Canadian and British official officials fizzles all the officials who

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officials fizzles all the officials who you may call officials they've all agreed that it was probably a russian-made missile coming out of Iran beating the Iranians were operating it and has shut down that Ukraine airline Russia's response to this is that quote there's no basis for the claims what have I told you about Liars here's what Liars do first let me give you an example of what non Liars do hey Scott did you shoot down that airplane no what the are you talking about I'm sorry I'm trying not to swear as much as here what the hell are you talking about no of course I didn't shoot down in the airlines what are you talking about that doesn't make any sense that's what an honest person says here's what a liar says Scott did you shoot down that airliner show me the evidence I what's

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airliner show me the evidence I what's your basis you have presented no evidence that would suggest I shot down your airliner so Russia I don't know if there are idiots I mean honestly I can't tell are they idiots in Russia I don't think so right Russia has smart people too but why do they act like idiots is it because they don't know that from a I think it's a social difference by the way my expectation is and this is just speculation I don't know this it could be that in Russia lying is so prevalent that you don't care if people know you're lying that's just speculation is that true because when the Russia the Russian representative says there's no basis for the claim a hundred percent of the people in the West go oh so you just signaled to me you're lying you just told me your line it couldn't be more clear because honest people don't talk that way but maybe they do talk that way

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that way but maybe they do talk that way and in Russia I doubt it it's more likely that there's so much lying in Russia that people just go it's another liar it just doesn't make any difference I feel as though Russia is lying to us in a way that maybe they lied to their own people but maybe it works with their own people because their own people weren't gonna believe it under any circumstance it's like it's just another lie whereas maybe they think we will I mean do they think anybody in the West is looking at this and say oh all the evidence seems to indicate is a Russian missile operated by the Iranians but the Russia says there's no basis for it so I guess we can you know release on that now what did they think we're gonna do with that anyway that's enough of that
I'm having this truck this problem of trying not to laugh at disasters and I

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trying not to laugh at disasters and I don't know if you're having this problem too but when people lose their lives no matter who they are you know if there isn't civilians especially you know as human beings we should be focusing on that the tragedy the survivors the you know the family is etc and I'm fully on board with being good people and and focusing where it's most productive but there are some things about disasters that I can't help it I can't help it they're funny and rich Lowry did a tweet that is one of those so rich Lowry GOP you know famous person says in his tweet is the new standard really that a president of the United States can't defend against attacks on US personnel by a terror regime because the regime might accidentally shoot down an airliner taking off from one of their own

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taking off from one of their own airports in other words their threat is if you attack us again we'll shoot down another one of our our own Airlines or an airline filled with our own citizens what kind of thinking is this that it's somehow the u.s. is joint responsibility that the Iranians has shot down a plane taking off from their own capital airport do we really take the blame for that because we shut the box yeah when you shake the box you're gonna get unintended consequences yeah we all understand that right we're adults you take a big box and you shake it you're gonna get unintended consequences you know what else you're gonna get only unintended consequences because that's what shaking the box does that's all point the whole point is you don't know what you're gonna end up with after you shake the box you just know that where you are is the wrong place and you can't get where you need to be from where you are so you shake the box I don't think

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are so you shake the box I don't think that we could be responsible for other people making mistakes that feels like kind of a stretch
speaking of unintended consequences here's something you haven't thought about much when we talk about the United States decisions about what to do in other countries especially if there's military action we always talk about unintended consequences and we say well we intended to get rid of those weapons of mass destruction but oops there weren't any and we ended up wrecking the entire Middle East and giving power to her and that's a pretty big unintended consequence right let me tell you who else has to worry about unintended winces I tweeted yesterday that the worst thing that the US military could do to Iran the country of Iran is to leave think about the implications of the United States military just saying you know we're just kind of done we're

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you know we're just kind of done we're done in Syria where did we're done in Iraq how about we just leave now keep in mind we have ton of bases in the area you know they're the friendly countries to us Saudi Arabia etcetera we have bases so we've got bases that surround Iraq we've got bases this around Iraq we're all over the place over there but we could get certainly good out of Iran and we could certainly I'm sorry we can certainly get out of Iraq and we can certainly get out of Syria what would be the unintended consequences of Iran getting exactly what they're asking for because that's what they're asking for they're asking for us to leave what would happen think about it what would be the unintended consequence of Iran getting from the United States military not being the big dog in the area well if you take the big dog away you get a new big dog right because there's always the next biggest dog who becomes the new big dog who would be the big dog in that

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big dog who would be the big dog in that area of town if we leave Russia all right does Iran want to have Russia as their frenemy jockeying for let's say influence in the area because remember Russia isn't leaving does Iran really want the United States no longer to be I'll say in between you know I'm speaking very loosely and figuratively but doesn't the u.s. military sort of stand in between the two let's say allies of you know Russia and Iran now Russia and Iran are are somewhat working together somewhat allied but not really do you think that Iran in the long term wants to be Russia's good friend doubt it do you think Russia in the long term thinks that they want really help Iran get its national goals met and I'll think so because Iran's

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met and I'll think so because Iran's national and objectives seem to be the death of everybody in Russia or or the let's say the conversion to Islam so Russia and Iran it seems to me and again we're just speculating because the whole point of unintended consequences is you don't know what's going to happen it's not unintended if you know what's going to happen it seems to me that if you've got United States military got out of there it would put the Russian military in the Iranian military suddenly from being on the same side ish on some things to a lot more confrontational you know who else would be a lot more confrontational Israel Israel would no longer have the luxury of having the United States do any of the things that maybe they wish they would have to do themselves or they would have to do themselves if we weren't there what about Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia wouldn't

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about Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia wouldn't act the same because they might say uh god the US military's gone we might have to get more aggressive so whatever would happen after we leave if Iran assumes that the one the way the world looks is better for them I would say as the Russians say there's no basis for that there's no book there's no reason to believe that Iran would do better if we left it's what they want
but I don't know that they would do better so remember unintended consequences were work of both ways and I can't think of anything that would be more sweet revenge for people who think that we need to revenge on Iran for whatever going back to 1979 then putting them in a direct conflict with Russia because if we leave I think sooner or later Iran

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we leave I think sooner or later Iran and Russia are going to be in direct conflict am i right now I don't know anything about the area so let me let me be
be as as we'll see transparent as possible by saying that I don't know what's going on in the Middle East I don't know I don't know enough about all the players to make you know who's smart geopolitical statements clearly but it does seem to me that we are the thing that keeps Russia and Iran from being at each other because they have us as this common enemy so that's my only point here's a question for you is Iran a dangerous military power who if Unleashed would cause great havoc to us and our allies or completely incompetent paper tiger who has overextended itself and is on the on the brink of going out of business so to speak as a country and all their equipment is rusted and it would only take us 10 minutes to take

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would only take us 10 minutes to take out the whole country which of those is closer to the truth by the way I will talk about Matt gates so I see some people prompted me but it's in my notes I'll get them so I'm continually amazed at how often the common assumption about things is a hundred percent wrong because Iran is either a really formidable military foe or the opposite and we're here in I'm seeing evidence of both keep in mind that when we talk about when we talked about invading Iraq it was understood that that was always a ground war in other words you couldn't really invade Iraq and do anything useful unless you put boots on the ground which is what happened with the Iraq Wars but if Iran ever got into a shooting war with the United States would we ever have to put boots on the ground because the smart people say no the smart people say that

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people say no the smart people say that we would take out the refineries take out their missile sites was one other thing if you take out the refineries that's the entire economy that's one afternoon you take out their missile sites might take you a few days you know because they've got probably jamming and you know anti-aircraft and stuff like that few days so if you take out their anti-aircraft we would control the sky over Iran and they would have no economy you wouldn't really need to do anything else except wait right you could take out their entire Navy in one more afternoon so you and their airforce would be I mean destroyed on the ground I would imagine so it seems to me that when we talk about war with Iran we're not really even in our wildest imaginings imagining that anything could create a situation where we'd want to put people there it just doesn't make any sense if we wanted to destroy them given that

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we wanted to destroy them given that they're their own population is ready to do the hard work for us I mean the protestors seem to be poised to give us a new government in Iran if the conditions allowed them to do so so it could be that if the US military just kept the Iranian military busy for a while that the locals would do the rest now that of course is wildly optimistic and the laws of unintended consequences are very big in this case and there's not even the slightest situation in which I would ever suggest we should go to war with Iran so just to be clear there's no smart argument to go to war with Iran given our current situation mmm I don't think anybody can make that argument and I don't see it changing which leads me to Matt Gaetz congressman Matt Gaetz one of just a few Republicans who voted in a way that we presume

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who voted in a way that we presume president Trump would not it like we voted in favor of the house the house motion what is that resolution motion legislation I never know what to call stuff doesn't matter for this purpose so he basically agreed with Congress confirming its role as the approver of wars meaning that we won't go to war with Iran like a proper war as opposed to a you know a defensive military action but that we that we don't want to go to a proper war with Iran or anybody else I suppose unless the Congress has approved now the point of that was to constrain President Trump so that he doesn't go to war with Iran against the wishes of Congress now have I told you before the following things number one Matt Gaetz is a strong contender and I'll go so far as to say probable presidential

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as to say probable presidential contender at some point in the future probable probable winner as well because just based on his skill set he has all the skills he has all the skills I don't think he's missing a single skill to be a GOP candidate and I think you would I think he would clean the table on any Democrat that ran against them with the exception there's only one exception there's only one Democrat I could imagine in the future remember we're projecting now five ten years in the future or whatever we in that's AOC apparently AOC is just killing it unfund raising and doesn't want to share it with the DNC which is the normal process she doesn't have to so she's not and she's using her fundraising to fund her more radical Democratic folks so remember I told you in the very beginning the AOC was not a flash in the pan others told you this as well but we

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pan others told you this as well but we were doing the same thing we did with Trump in the early days which is said oh you might now see this coming but she has the full skillset she's not just gonna be today's news she might be the future of the party remember some of us said that very early on when all of you said no no no Scott she's just a crazy radical she'll have her day she'll get her 15 minutes it'll be over any minute now
now and I was saying now look at the skill set the skill set suggests she might be your future president or at least a running for it Matt Gaetz might be the only thing that could keep her around at the White House and people like him in other words the only way you're gonna keep a OSE out of the White House is to have a really good GOP candidate cuz when she runs she's gonna be really good all right you know you you deleted I just can't stand the the the the

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I just can't stand the the the the trolls who say that if I say to a OCS Gill that is really my way of signaling that I want to you know that I want to get with her like that that's just so it's just creepy and stupid and small you get deleted for that you can talk about politicians without wanting to get with them you know can we agree with that that bothered me more than I should've
so let's get back to Mack AIDS one of the things I said in addition to saying the maggots has all the all the tools and not many people I would say that about there are not many people you would say have all the tools he has all the tools persuasion communication his policies are are really well calibrated for the future not just today but even the future and one of the tells I give you for somebody who is a great

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you for somebody who is a great persuader and how many times have I said this the great persuaders pick up free money that other people couldn't see it's so reliable you look for this and you'll see it a lot there'll be this pile of money sitting on the table and person after person walks past it without seeing it and then the great persuader comes by and says hey hey big pile of money anybody who owns this money seriously this is free money there's nobody who has this money nobody has claim on this money I'll take it so if you see somebody picking up free money when nobody else can see it you're dealing with somebody who's got superpowers in terms of persuasion that's what Matt Gaetz did when he voted against the president here's why apparently this I don't know resolution or whatever the hell it was had contained no criticism of President

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contained no criticism of President Trump that's very important and Matt Gaetz points that out he said I voted for something they had no criticism of President Trump it wasn't there not just interpreting it differently it just wasn't there that's important so did he really vote against the president because the president wasn't really mentioned what he did vote was in favor of the constitutional requirement that that the Congress be part of the decision not to make war so in other words he voted for his own team Congress and he voted consistent with the Constitution according to a hundred percent of scholars now he said he talked to the president about it so the president probably knew he was going to do it what do you think the president said I think he mentioned that the president wasn't overjoyed about it and and we would expect that to be true right you would expect that the president would prefer all things being equal the president would prefer that a hundred percent of Republicans are on

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hundred percent of Republicans are on his side all the time but the president also knows what a table of free money looks like this is speculation because remember you can't read minds but imagine you're in the room with two of the most talented persuaders of our time Trump and Congressman is pretty close to him at gates imagine their private conversation I don't know if they had a private conversation but this is just a mental thought in which Matt Gaetz says you know I'm thinking of voting voting for this thing because it doesn't insult you and it supports the Constitution Sports Congress of which I am a member so it's completely consistent and it's free money would trump understand what he meant when he said this is free money he didn't say that these are my own imaginary speculative thought experiment words I'm putting this in his mouth would trump understood

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this in his mouth would trump understood understand what that meant yeah you would here's what it means what is the biggest criticism of Matt Gaetz well I read the Washington Post story about this very episode about him voting in favor of Nancy Pelosi's whatever it was and and they start out by saying this this long insulting paragraph about how Matt Gaetz just always agrees with the president and he's sort of the the president's you know they put bad words on it but basically it's the idea that he would just support the president no matter what so Matt Gaetz finds this pile of free money in which he can distance himself from the idea first of all that he's in favor of war or any kind of you know rash decision to go to war with their own Congress's approval that's about the safest place you could ever have a political opinion and he

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ever have a political opinion and he gets to distance himself from Trump on an issue that's war and peace a big issue now in our minds it's a big issue right the question of how much control the commander-in-chief has about making war while we're at the time of you know potential danger and potential or it's a really big decision it's a big issue and Matt Gaetz gets to disagree with the public I'm sorry disagree with the president he gets to agree with the public because the public is pretty much on his side on this that Congress needs to be part of the decision and and even Republicans like the Constitution which he's being compatible with in a direct way so what does Matt Gaetz get he gets to be on TV remember attention is 50% 50% of persuasion so Matt Matt Gaetz gets the attention being one of the unusual votes for a Republican so he gets all the attention

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Republican so he gets all the attention he's on all the Big Show's isn't all the headlines for Freight he paid nothing for that and it totally worked for his portfolio of you know his background his history what we think about him it perfectly worked because there created some distance between his independent opinions and President Trump free money a gigantic pile of free money they're only mag aids saw so he picked it up you'll never see a better resume point then can pick up free money I would argue and it's too early to say this way too early to see this but I would argue that when President Trump decided to take out a Salomon a we might eventually learn that he was picking up free money now what I mean by that is that we imagined that the risks were

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that we imagined that the risks were extreme but maybe they never were meaning that it could be and all the evidence is suggesting us that Iran is not that upset about the Salomon a getting killed now don't judge by the the size of the crowds because there's a cultural element that gives them big crowds they may have been coerced who knows so you can't really judge by the crowds but you could certainly judge by how Iran is responding and they responded by saying will fire some missiles into the desert and call it even that doesn't sound like they're too broken up I've got a feeling that that was free money it certainly looks like that alright let's see what else we got going on let's talk about Preet Barrera so Preet wrote a an op-ed

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Preet Barrera so Preet wrote a an op-ed representative Doug Collins who was a Republican and apparently Doug Collins asserted on a interview on national television then this is preached opinion pieces since on cnn.com and he said about the Democrats he's talked about the Democrats and he said that they are quote are in love with terrorists we we see that they mourn Solomon a more than they mourn our gold star families ouch Preet Bharara called him out and for discussed basically so without getting to the actual text of what he said so Preet Pereira who you might know as a very vocal anti Trump ur one of the most vocal in fact I think Trump fired him from his job when when Trump became president he's an attorney a an advocate

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president he's an attorney a an advocate I would say for his points of views but in this case I completely agree with Preet Bharara so he's calling out Doug Collins for mind-reading in other words Doug Collins is asserting as if he has some certainty the Democrats are in love with terrorists and that they mourn them more than gold star families do you think that there's even one Democrat who holds the opinion that Doug Collins just attributed to Democrats in general I doubt it I doubt it somebody says truth truth seriously all right let me say as clearly as I possibly can if you think Democrats like terrorists more than gold star families you're an idiot all right and you should just sign off this periscope and never watch it again because that is the dumbest thing that anybody could ever think it's a case of

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anybody could ever think it's a case of mind-reading it's an ultimate cases loser think as I talked about in my book loser think an excellent book you should read we don't know what other people are thinking and we certainly don't believe that people like terrorists who are killing Americans more than we like our own you know military families or the where the surviving family members whose children got killed in war nobody thinks that Doug Collins if you believe well first of all I doubt Doug Collins actually believes this so the fact that he's saying it is just it's despicable it really is it's just totally despicable yeah okay you know you on Omar rah blah blah blah Elon Omar does not represent Democrats she represents Elon or more so yes yes yes you can believe that there are maybe two people in Congress at most who are anti-american at their core that

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anti-american at their core that wouldn't be surprising and there might be a few bad apples and any big batch so there might be a few anti-american types in Congress as possible I'm not a mind-reader so I can't read their minds but certainly their actions would give you enough evidence to say okay based on their statements and their actions they seem pretty anti-american what two Democrats and that we even know of so that sort of paints Democrats as being in love with terrorists me me even if you even if he's just talking about the professional set of Democrats not just the public it's despicable Doug Collins and I'm glad that Preet called you out on that moreover since I I continuously blame the Democrats for mind reading I'm not going to ignore it when it happens the other way all right you you would not I don't think you would respect me if I did so no mind reading and that's just

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so no mind reading and that's just ridiculous Doug Collins you ought to be ashamed of yourself for that
Joel Pollak had I don't know if it's a scoop but I didn't hear it anywhere else in in Breitbart did you know and I haven't seen this anywhere else but did you know that the the so-called contractor who was killed in in Iraq by Iranian proxies this started this whole sequence of events that led to Solomon ease missile death did you know that the contractor who started this all is actually a Muslim American did you know that he's a Jew what's the exactly yeah he's a his name is was I'm sorry or I guess still is now res Waleed Hameed he's a Muslim American immigrant from Sacramento so he's one of mine meaning a Californian so how does that

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meaning a Californian so how does that fit with the Democrats view of the president he literally took out the head of Iran for killing an American Muslim American immigrant now when I say Muslim American immigrant I don't I don't know if he had citizenship but it doesn't matter for these purposes because he was if he was over there you know if he was over there helping our military in a military situation I'm gonna call him an American independent of whatever his official status was I'm a big believer and I know most of you can hate this that American is bigger than just the paperwork I think most of you would agree with that in concept but it causes problems when you're trying to decide who's a legal citizen and who's not but I'm gonna stick with it anyway being an American is to me accepting a certain set of principles and ideals and you know

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principles and ideals and you know picking a team if you will so I have never been a stickler for if your paperwork's wrong you're not an American because there are two senses of American there's the paperwork American and then there's American in spirit American in you know attitude American and preference American terms a-team yeah there's lots of ways to be an American and I'm gonna say that that this contractor who started it all will say his name again because I like to call amount as as important now Nora res Waleed Hamid Muslim American immigrant from Sacramento so my condolences to the family and much respect to Walid who was at least in activity a great American alright let's talk about something else

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have you noticed already that the that the some of the social media entities may be getting ready for the election so I was alerted to this by one of my followers who may be watching this right now I'm not going to call you out because I don't know if he wants anonymity or not but one of I was deemed and somebody said somebody who should remain anonymous for now that he was googling Mike Sunnah bitch's name because it's easier to go directly to his Twitter feed if you just you know type in his you know at certain and you said that the Google result one of the top results was from the Southern Poverty Law Center and I thought to myself and I think that's kind of new at least in terms of he hadn't noticed it before so the suggestion was that Google is ramping up for the election by you know maybe you know the the let's say the

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maybe you know the the let's say the allegation or suspicion because that's as far as we can go it's an allegation and the suspicion is that there might be some prepping for the election by changing the search results now I'm on duck go for my primary search engine so I searched Mike Serna and all I came up with as positive part of the things like his you know came up with his Twitter came up with you know things he tweeted his Instagram basically just positive objective links to things mics or image and then I oh go that I think club then I go over to Google put in exactly the same search term and number two on the list I think maybe under the Wikipedia link or something which which is sort of an automatic first number two is the Southern Poverty Law Center hippies on Mike and I thought to myself wait a minute isn't the Southern Poverty

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wait a minute isn't the Southern Poverty Law Center supposed to be like identifying like hate crimes what do you call it what are they looking for basically racists and haters and of all kinds I thought to myself what do they know that I don't know so I thought well I better read this the first thing I noticed is that I thought the Southern Poverty Law Center was supposed to be some kind of objective arbiter of you know who's crossed the line into into hate so that the other platforms can know who the haters are and maybe plot them and the first thing you notice is that it's written like a BuzzFeed hippies I'm reading the thing and I'm thinking why would you write it like a BuzzFeed article where you just throw in insults to a person instead of just saying the facts why can't they just list the facts without listening their opinion of the guy like we don't care

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opinion of the guy like we don't care about their opinion what will will form our own opinions right so the first thing is that the Southern Poverty Law Center sort of signals their complete lack of credibility by writing an article that to me just look like it could a cabana you know slate or BuzzFeed or something I mean just look it was actually funny that it was so ridiculously personal but then I thought okay what are these accusations so they make accusations that he's he's you said anti-woman stuff and he said racially-charged things and then I thought okay let's read their argument you know What did he say and it does that is it backed up by their claims and I would read the claim and then I would read their argument to support the claim and it debunked the claims and I thought what am I seeing here because they rather than repeat the claims because I don't want to give them

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claims because I don't want to give them any extra energy I will use an analogy to say what I was reading so I'd be reading something that would say something like you know and I'm just making this one up right so I'm going to speak just as an analogy so I don't talk about their actual stupid article it would say stuff like and Mike Serna is five feet tall and he's also seven feet tall I'm like wait what can't both be true so my point is that their article would make claims about him and then when they supported their claims all of their evidence was the opposite it was counterfactuals you know it was things that he's done completely on the opposite side of their own argument and when I was done at the very end it starts talking about how you know even in their own opinion he's done some positive things and I'm thinking well you could have put that first because the things that are positive are also the most current if you're gonna write

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the most current if you're gonna write an article about somebody who's in the news would you not start by saying who they are now and then maybe if you wanted to give some context you might tell us who they used to be right but if you start an article with who they used to be and then way way down the article you mentioned who they are now which is a more positive picture you just alright sorry I apparently I'm not going to make you through 2020 without what was wearing some more it was just sort of a dick move this is what I'm saying because the order that you present things is how people receive them and I don't think there's anything less fair than to start with who somebody used to be and then end with a weak statement of who they are now which is pretty good that's messed up all right so the southern southern part of the Poverty Law Center has some

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of the Poverty Law Center has some explaining to do there all right did you see the story about a North Carolina church so there was a guy on meth who they found out later had I guess done some violence domestic violence but he was trying to force him way his self into a church he was acting sketchy so that church members had their own security and he tried to force his way in and the church members beat the snot out of him if you saw the the picture of his I guess his mug shot he's got like bandages all over and he's all solar and black eyes I mean he's just completely messed up and so the weird thing that's happened is that I'd be afraid to go to church these days because I think church has become the most violent place in America it just feels like a dangerous place to be like I definitely wouldn't go to churches listen I was packing that's for sure don't go to church without packing pack your heat here's an

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without packing pack your heat here's an interesting question I've been sort of half following the Australia fire situation you know apparently half of Australia is on fire and I'm seeing I've seen this weird situation and I guess the reason I wasn't talking about is there was something I didn't understand Oh somebody says that stupid Scott you are deleted for not giving a reason remember the rules the rules are if you say you're dumb or you're stupid but you don't give a reason you're deleted you can give a reason how many of you seen that I am completely open to opposing reasons but you're stupid Scott that's a block
so let's talk about these Australian fires so the public is angry some part

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fires so the public is angry some part of the public is angry because they blame the government for not doing enough about climate change because they believe that climate change is a major or even the major contributor to have bad the fires are now of course this is complicated by the fact that apparently 200 to the fires or something like that were set by arsons arsonists 187 arson arrests so there 8 187 arrests but there are even more arsons right 200 plus arsons what the hell is happening in Australia that their own citizens are burning up the country so that's a separate question but I think the critics are accurately saying that's not the only problem because even with this many arsons it wouldn't be this bad they say you suffer all the dry brush which they attribute in part to climate change and their government not doing enough about it here's my question what the

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about it here's my question what the hell are they talking about what if if you could imagine that Australia tomorrow stopped using every form of carbon how much difference would that make to Australia's wildfire situation I think the answer according to scientists would be none am i can somebody fact check me on that because my understanding is that Australia is not one of the big contributors to climate change China is the u.s. is I'm just because of size alone not because of percentage of of pollutants for a person or anything India is but is Australia is Australia one of the big contributors to climate change and if they did absolutely everything that you could do would it have made any difference because it feels like the entire conversation is stupid people yappin to each other is there any person in Australia could anybody I know

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person in Australia could anybody I know one said so Sebastian if you if you watch this I know at least one company one startup full of smart people in Australia I don't know a lot of Australians but if I were to judge only from the news coverage I would have to conclude that they're all stupid they're not all stupid obviously but the news is making it look that way is there nobody on the news in Australia who can sort out the fact that even if Australia did everything you could possibly do it wouldn't made any difference to the forest fires which is not a reason to ignore climate change I'm not arguing that they should you know that's a separate question I'm just saying it wouldn't make any difference so they're all arguing the wrong stuff in fact check me please can somebody fact check that because I think I'm losing my mind if it's if it's so obvious to me and I'm an idiot I hope I'm wrong I mean honestly I hope I'm wrong because I'd hate to think there's a

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because I'd hate to think there's a whole you know continent or a whole bunch of people who couldn't figure that out on their own let me tell you who the dumbest people are in the iran debate you ready this is how you can tell who the dumbest people are they're still arguing over whether or not the solid money's next attacks were imminent because the government said they were hey there was a tax or imminent so we had to take him out now the dumbest people are the ones arguing that point about whether it was imminent why because it's irrelevant it's where they want to spend all their time arguing and it's completely irrelevant it's just as irrelevant as what australian government does about climate change because they're too small to make any difference whatsoever it is irrelevant whether it was imminent because he had created a track record which gives you a rock-solid guarantee that there would be more of it or or you have the reason to

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more of it or or you have the reason to believe that would be more of it do you really need Intel to tell you there'd be more of it watch this I'm going do some brain brain some mind-reading brain reading here I will appear into the future um terrorists who have been being terrorists for twenty years straight and have been especially active in recent weeks will they or will they not do more attacks hmm let me peer into the future I see yes amazing right top that that's some next-level futuristic predictions right there if he's been doing it for twenty years every single day maybe he'll do it again there's some chance he might do it again or I suppose that's the day he was gonna retire what if we bombed him what if we what if we killed him on the same day he

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what if we killed him on the same day he was going to announce his retirement well maybe it's possible anything's possible I mean what are the odds that a Ukraine they're alive got shot down anything's possible but I think we were pretty safe in our assumption that 20 years of unbroken record of being that guy wasn't wasn't likely he was gonna be not that guy on you know Wednesday morning next week yeah top shelf mind reading I do the best mind reading all right I would like to give a commercial for some of YouTube's competitors because they continue to demonetized me on YouTube where these periscopes get uploaded after they're done have you heard a bit shoot bi t CH ute shoot is a competitor to YouTube and

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shoot is a competitor to YouTube and I'll just mention them you can do your own research the other one I mentioned was rock fin ROK FIM and there's something called I don't know how you pronounce that ly BR Lieber dot TV so they haven't TV Extension I think there's another one I'll find out but Oh Vimeo yeah Vimeo is another option where you can charge for your content apparently so ly be ours library is that what it's called why not watch later on periscope somebody asked you can you could watch it later on periscope if you like so I just give options it's good so I'm gonna try to spread my reach this year so as long as YouTube is de monetizing me I'm going to give a commercial every day for their competitors if their competitors ever get big enough well then we'll have

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ever get big enough well then we'll have some options so it's Liberty now library okay
library TV is called okay lb or a while TV sorry if I get all that wrong yes I did talk about Krugman I won't do that again
Spotify what about Spotify please check on floatplane what's a floatplane are you on shoot not yet I'll be looking into it any other questions Vimeo doesn't monetize somebody says I think you can you can put up a paywall of your own I think you can charge for

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of your own I think you can charge for your content and video but I'm not the expert on that oh and I also these also get turned into iTunes podcasts and guess what the this this content when it gets turned into a podcast actually reached the top hundred of iTunes podcasts think about how many podcasts are and this actually made it into the top
top the last thing I saw was 1:22 because it bounces around a little bit but it actually cracked the top on grid for a week there's somebody who wants to get blocked you got it can I upload my periscope as a Spotify podcast well I didn't know that there was such a thing as a Spotify podcast so I'd have to look into that might be harder than you think because the way we upload it to iTunes is automated if they don't have an automated way to do it it's a little harder all right we're on

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it's a little harder all right we're on iTunes just google my name just Google Scott Adams or coffee with Scott Adams on iTunes and you will find me just like that Kathy Griffin versus Sandman lawsuit why is he suing Kathy Griffin do you remember my reaction to the Covington kids which seems smarter today when the Covington kids the hoax videos the first came out I was also taken by the hoax because I thought I would believe what I would say of my own eyes but now we're all getting a little smarter I think we've all really grown up even since the Covington kids that was just last year right we've all kind of grown or less last year year before but we've all kind of grown up and we know that even if we're looking at it on video it doesn't really mean anything does the video could be misleading so as soon as I saw the corrected video they show the whole context I realize I had had and I immediately clarified and

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had and I immediately clarified and apologized with no ambiguity clarify apologize amount now am I getting sued is anybody suing me no because I just made a mistake I was taken in by a hoax being taken in by a hoax it doesn't get you sued if you handle it right how often have I told you that it's better to judge people by how they handle their mistakes than by the mistakes so those of you were saying Scott Scott you made mistake you made a mistake I did you're free to judge me by my mistakes but I think that would be bad bad system on your part a better system is to judge people by how they handle the mistakes because everybody makes mistakes but not everybody handles them in a way that you can respect I handled my mistake I said public big mistake clarify apologize unambiguous no no there's no

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apologize unambiguous no no there's no qualifiers on there except the obvious qualifier that the everybody got taken in by the original hoax video not everybody there were some people who were smarter than me who said that's a hoax video from the very from the jump you know that some people were on it they sniffed it out so credit to them they saw what I did so mine was just a mistake does anybody like me less because I made that mistake or any other mistake probably not as long as you handle your mistake well you're you come out ahead you don't even come out behind you no I told you the story about the app go trashy whoo I had a bad experience with them but their customer service was so good and they made it right so well that I actually did a commercial for him so you should use that app because in that rare case where that something went wrong boy did they fix it they fixed it perfectly so I'd have to say that how you handle the

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have to say that how you handle the mistake is the standard for judging people and I leave you with that that's all I have for now I will talk to you later