Episode 788 Scott Adams: The Whitest Democrats Running For President, Ukraine Confusion

Date: 2020-01-15 | Duration: 1:03:06

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a General Flynn might not need a pardon Democrat debates and Van Jones takeaway CNN’s Abby Philip’s questionable questions Climate change wasn’t emphasized in the debate? Articulate Pete Buttigieg Klobuchar’s urgency voice Biden gaffe watch

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I'm pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom hey everybody come on in here stream on in here for your morning streaming and your morning simultaneous it which is coming up as soon as we get enough of you in here or thirsty and ready for a bit of simultaneity and I think we're there alright you know what you need to play along doesn't take much all you need is a cup or a mug during class but tanker chelators time a canteen juggler flask the vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I am partial to coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hill is the day the thing that makes everything better this simultaneous sip go alright there a few things going on number one Michael Shellenberger it will be on

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Michael Shellenberger it will be on c-span testifying very soon any minute now to the House Committee on Science Space and Technology and he'll be talking about the quote green nuclear deal yay so in other words our Congress and the House the House Committee on Science Space and Technology which I imagine is exactly the right place we'll be hearing a positive message about the potential for nuclear power so they'll be hearing it from the right guy at the right time in the right place that's good news now will that message break through and change anything we'll see but it's definitely the right person talking to the right people so system wise the system is working general Flynn has withdrawn his guilty plea odd so apparently there's some

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disagreement on whether general Flynn did everything he was supposed to do and whether the government did everything promised to do which is keep a man in jail if he cooperated but apparently now they're talking about putting him in jail because they don't think he cooperated enough and so they've withdrawn their plea deal suddenly it's starting to make sense why he hasn't already been pardoned do you see it yet because I thought the end of the year would be sort of a perfect time to pardon Flynn but there might be a smarter play here it's entirely possible that general Flynn is gonna win this thing flat he might not need a pardon he might win this the old-fashioned way and you know I say this a lot but if you ever get in a dispute that becomes sort of a chess match which is what a this there's legal proceedings against Flynn or kind of a chess match the last person you want to

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chess match the last person you want to be in on a sort of a strategy chess match the last person you want to compete against is a general literally somebody who learned how to do stuff like this in other words somebody who knows how to play a chess game so it could be the slim is trying to win it outright and get just cleared in the normal way because if he got pardoned or whatever the word is if you haven't been convicted it would always look like he was guilty wouldn't it it would always look a little like he was guilty if the president had to bail him out but it looks like he's gonna fight it the old-fashioned way and I think the president probably not directly but I think because it seems likely the president would pardon him if things went the wrong way it changes his risk assessment if you thought if you thought

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assessment if you thought if you thought you had no help and no hope of any help from the outside you might play it a little cautiously say well I don't want to go to jail but I'd better take this six months because it's better than better than what might happen if I fight it but he his risk profile might have changed he might say now I might as well fight it I've got let's say a one in three chance of winning it outright but if I don't have no worse off because I've I've always got the the pardon option and I'm assuming I'm making a gigantic assumption here that the pardon is in the bag which I think it is because I think the the public the the public that supports the president seems pretty firmly on the side of of you know helping out Flynn so what for that all right let's talk about the debates did anybody is anybody enough of a masochist that you watched

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enough of a masochist that you watched the debates I literally fell asleep I mean actually blacked out and fell asleep about halfway through the debates so I had to catch up with them by looking at the coverage now I think looking at the coverage of the debates is sort of everything you need to do because any impact that the debates are going to have are gonna be because of those few moments that percolate it up and the the press decided that those moments are the ones that are gonna emphasize so you can just look at the press coverage and you know what matters because if the press doesn't report on a particular answer well it kind of didn't matter because not many of the public are watching the debates but a lot of them might watch the reaction to the debates I would say absolutely nothing happened and I loved Van Jones's riff takeaway on this Van Jones said quote there was nothing I

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Van Jones said quote there was nothing I saw tonight there would be there would be able to take Donald Trump out there was nothing I saw tonight that would be able to take Donald Trump out it wasn't one person on the stage that Van Jones thinks would not be absolutely obliterated by Trump and then then he said Van Jones that none of them are prepared for quote what Donald Trump will do to us he says us which is accurate I guess I love the fact first of all I'm a big fan of Van Jones so you you may disagree because he's a Democrat and you don't like that but as Democrats go he's the smartest one now the the most interesting thing about hearing Van Jones say that nobody on the stage looked ready for running for president is that if Van Jones were running he'd

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is that if Van Jones were running he'd be the top guy am I wrong if Van Jones had done part of this mix and he were on stage wouldn't he be the nominee I mean seriously is there anybody on the stage who could who could last against Van Jones now I don't I don't think he's shown any interest in being president but he's stronger as a candidate than every one of those people in part because he's not a partisan meaning that well he's he's clearly prefers Democrats and says that directly but he's willing to look at issues on both the Pro and the con side which you don't see that all you don't even see it from pundits so he would absolutely be the front-runner if he were running but it looks like the Democrats have set themselves an impossible task so here's here are the expectations from

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so here's here are the expectations from the Democrats own supporters all right so in order to win the Democratic candidate who wins has to do two things at the same time be really nice to the other the other candidates because there's the nice party and they've they made a big deal about being civil and nice to each other so whoever wins has to be civil and nice to the other Democrats at the same time that person is tearing the other ones apart in other words to show enough toughness to be qualified to run against Trump you're gonna have to show your toughness but the only way you can do it at this stage is by showing it on other Democrats but you can't those are two Impossibles well it's an impossible that they can both happen at the same time so you see the Democrats setting themselves up with a no-win situation we have to be kind and also rip apart our our other

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kind and also rip apart our our other people in our party can't do it there's actually no space for them to do the thing they know they have to do and they've created this situation themselves did you ever see the Republicans do that what maybe I mean maybe there was some Republican who said well we should be nicer to each other that probably happened but did anybody really try to talk Trump and do a ana being Trump not really I don't think so I mean a lot of people said it was a bad idea to be so caustic and stuff but I feel as though that the Republicans let their candidates be their candidates and the Democrats are just absolutely killing themselves you know the the circle circular firing squad reference seems to fit now I turn down the debates primarily to watch I felt like I was watching the Democrats doing everything they could

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Democrats doing everything they could they could to lose the black vote did it feel like that to you all I can see was a whole bunch of white faces losing the black vote in real time because if you're you know if you're flipping through the station let's say you haven't paid too much attention you know you're one of those voters who you'll get serious closer to to Election Day but right now you just label the noise play out wait for the noise to die down you'll get serious your float you're flipping through the channels and you come to the debates you say I haven't been paying too much attention let's see who's who was running for a candidate to be our next president white person white person white person white person white person white person about I don't see how the the Democrats can possibly compete with not a single minority face on there well you could say that actually women are no longer a minority since the last woman who ran got most of the popular vote and

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who ran got most of the popular vote and as Elizabeth Warren said the two women on the stage are the only ones who have won every one of their elections which was a great line by the way very well done meanwhile Trump is at his rally and while the Democrats are up there losing the black vote by being as white as they can possibly be in standing in the same place while being hypocrites because where's your diversity Trump said this quote in his speech last night Republicans are fighting for citizens from every background and from every race religion color and Creed we are a movement for all Americans who believe in fairness and justice equality and dignity opportunity and safety we are a big tempt and a big party with big ideas for the future so President Trump is saying directly and forcefully that the Republican Party is the place for

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Republican Party is the place for everyone now I've said this before but it's one of those things that gets smarter over time if you just wait for this it'll just keep getting smarter when I first said it it sounded kind of stupid but just watch it's gonna morph over time from well that's stupid Scott that's the dumbest thing you've ever said - well that's starting to make a little bit of sense now now wait a wait for six months from now when people say that makes total sense now and here's the statement the most natural fit for black voters this is a Republican Party here's what the Democrats are obsessed with identity and black people are only one of the identities so they're scrambling and fighting for a place at the table in their own party who has to fight for a place at the party a place at the

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a place at the party a place at the table in their own party why are black people fighting for you no representation in their own party meanwhile Republicans have one overriding characteristic which I say all the time but it's the most important thing and if you can find an exception to this good luck but here's my statement I want you to fact check this all you want that if you're a typical Republican you know they're always weird exceptions to things but if you're a typical Republican are you okay with anyone who is a legal citizen who respects the Constitution and follows the law a plus if that person also is religious a Christian for example well extra credit for Republicans I'm not a Republican by the way I'm just describing if you're black and you only

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describing if you're black and you only have to do those things to be completely accepted completely no there's absolutely no there's no wiggle room there the Republican view is if you do follow the Constitution follow the laws great you're a plus so if you want to be respected for who you are instead of who you look like Republicans are the best game because if you if you hang around with Democrats you know that they are going to judge you by strangers that's right Democrats are going to judge you by other black people who are not you because they've decided you're a you're a group you're an identity you know you must be treated as a group Republicans say nonsense you are an individual why should you be held back by the group

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should you be held back by the group because Republicans aren't holding you back there's no Republican who says you can't rise to any level you want president obviously a Republican is going to help you or Republicans can help you get a job a Republicans can help you network the Republicans gonna you know help you with advice and mentoring Republicans are very helpful if you want to get ahead make some Republican friends they're the ones we're gonna say hey try this do this this will work come to church with me if you want to get ahead make a Republican friend it's one of the best advices you love right you'll ever see you know good luck finding better advice than that alright so over time in six months you're gonna hear people saying wait a minute isn't the most natural place for black voters to be in a Republican Party where everybody can be exactly equal I mean exactly equal because if you're a citizen and you're following the Constitution you're

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following the Constitution you're exactly equal there's no wiggle room if you're a Republican that's exactly equal especially you know if you're a Bible lovin Republican extra equal whereas the Democrats well I don't know you're gonna have to figure out if your little group of Democrats is liked or respected as much as the other little group of Democrats that's a whole different game and I don't know how you win that one so the natural place for the black voters as Candace Owen has been telling people for three years now is a Republican Party and again I'm not a Republican I'm not a Republican I'm just saying that's where the fit makes sense to me all right and also you'd have the most leverage in a Republican Party because there are fewer members there are fewer black people in the Republican Party and anybody who's got a good idea then again is compatible with Republicans and the Constitution and

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Republicans and the Constitution and everything you're gonna be heard you have a much better chance of being a notable important voice in the Republican Party if you black just because of scarcity all right let's talk about more on the debates
apparently Elizabeth Warren I couldn't tell if she refused to shake Birdy's hand at the end or it was just an awkward moment where when Bertie he put out his hand to shake hand she was still several steps away and I think it just seemed walk were to maybe walk with her hand out so it's not entirely clear to me that she made a decision to not shake hands with him it might have been an oversight just a walk word situation but on camera it looked like she refused all right so to the public all that matters is it looked like it and I think that's how people will interpret it now

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people will interpret it now as by now most of you know that the weirdest thing happened when Bernie was asked about his statement that a woman couldn't win the presidency which of course he never said he said his response was so the so he was asked by Lizzie Abbey Phillips I think one yeah Abby Abby Philip asked about that statement and Bernie said well as a matter of fact I didn't say it that's pretty clear as a matter of fact I didn't say it and Bernie is very credible love him or hate him it's not likely Bernie is lying on this it's very unlikely I mean so deeply unlikely I don't even count it as a possibility because he has earned that well I'll say this over and over again Sanders has earned the credibility which I am assigning to him in my mind you know my own personal view he's earned it he absolutely earned trust on this

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he absolutely earned trust on this statement and Warren has absolutely not earned our trust on this disagreement so so after a birdie says well as a matter of fact I didn't say it then then she asked are you unequivocally denying happened and birdie says that is correct that's as clear as you can be unequivocally denying that is correct and then phillips ignores the fact that he's categorically denied it happened and she and she goes to warren quote what did you think when senator sanders told you a woman could not win the election so she acts like it's a fact after the guy who was in the room 50% of all the people who were in the room just told her it didn't happen and he's far more credible that warren is on this question now let me tell you what almost

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now let me tell you what almost certainly did happen oh let me finish this point so if CNN is trying to act as though they're not actively trying to kill Sanders this time - they're not doing a good job of acting because it's sort of looking like CNN doesn't want Sanders to be President they're the ones who they reported that he said this about women and then the way this question was asked like he's just the liar which is not the case I'm sure
that's just so biased it's it's even even other Democrats noticed it so even other Democrats are mad so we have this weird situation that whoever wins the nomination is going to have a whole bunch of other angry Democrats doesn't matter which way you go imagine if Warren wins the nomination what will the Bernie supporters do will they just say well similar policies

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they just say well similar policies we'll just move to Warren after Warren said what she said about Bernie and most of them if not all of them believe it's not true I don't know if they're going I don't know if you I don't know if Bernie supporters will leave the most credible whether you like his policies are not a separate question but as a human being as a politician he's the most authentic credible person the Democrats have if you support that authentic and credible how do you switch parties or not switch parties with switch candidates to Warren if
if she wasn't nomination how do you do that I don't think you do I think Trump picks up a lot of those votes just like last time and no matter which way it goes I think somebody's gonna be angry at whoever so let's go through Oh so here's what I think happened with that Sanders war and conversation and see if this doesn't sound like your experience all the time

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sound like your experience all the time all right imagine instead of Warren and Sanders it's a married couple this will make it easier for you watch this imagine that instead of being politicians Warren and Sanders are just a married couple and they had a private conversation and then when they talk about it later they have two versions Bernie says I didn't say anything I didn't say that and Elizabeth Warren says you did say a woman can't be president what really happened wine too backwards you know reverse engineer it let me tell you what happened Warren and Sanders were talking because Warren was I believe fact-check me in this I think Warren was telling Bernie she was going to run against them or thinking about it or probably that was the conversation what was birding going to say to Elizabeth Warren when he found out that she was going to run against him using essentially his policies what would Bernie say about that well if

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what would Bernie say about that well if he's smart which he is if he's persuasive which apparently he is he would say something that didn't sound like women can't win but certainly suggested it would be harder so it does seem to me that what birding was trying to do was talk her out of running if you're trying to talk somebody out of running against a Trump and the person you're talking to is a woman one of the good ways to do it is to say you know you're going to be drawing attacks for your gender that I would not be drawing so you can have a harder time because Bernie believes that being a woman will more kinds of heat that birdie would not attract which would be sort of suggesting indirectly that maybe she couldn't win but that's not a definitive statement it's only a statement that she

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statement it's only a statement that she has an extra burden because she's running against Trump and it might not be an extra burden if it were somebody else now two people are a married couple they walk out of that conversation the husband let's call him Bernie said it's gonna be hard to win as a woman you've got extra you know extra obstacles what would be the way the wife and this analogy Elizabeth Warren how would she characterize that same conversation well if she's like everybody else in the world she'd say my husband just said I can't win because I'm a woman is that what he said no no he would have been talking about the extra the extra obstacle which is completely different from woman can't win as birdie rightly says you know Hillary got three million more votes he's been saying for 30 years or 40

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he's been saying for 30 years or 40 years that a woman could be president it's the most inconsistent thing anybody could ever say there's no way in the world he said that to somebody who could tell somebody else it just didn't happen but like every other personal conversation in the world if you say there's a problem with something and the other person doesn't like that you're saying there's a problem with something how will they characterize it they will characterize it as an absurd absolute it's what you see everywhere all the time the absurd absolute is where you take somebody's assessment of the risks hey there's extra risks and then you turn it illegitimately into he says it can't happen happens all over Twitter it happens in all of your personal conversations it happens in every relationship is the most common misinterpretation that a probable gets turned into a can't it's the most common thing yes I believe that's in my book loser think so that's

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that's in my book loser think so that's almost certainly what happened so I think Warren's credibility is falling now let's talk about the first question that I think Wolf Blitzer asked was why they thought they could be commander-in-chief and I kind of tell you that was the weakest bunch of potential commanders in chief I've ever seen let me tell you what they all did wrong like so wrong so wrong that even I could have done it better I mean seriously with no practice I could have gotten on that debate stage and answered that question better totally honestly completely seriously I could have done better and I'm saying that because many of you could have done better almost anybody could have done better here's what they did wrong now of course they're talking to their base because it's the primary so they're not trying to win the general but if you say why are you qualified to be commander in chief here's the wrong answer well I

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chief here's the wrong answer well I would never go to war I would never use my military I would I would just negotiate what I'd do is I'd negotiate I wouldn't be going to war what did they just tell every foreign country that might want to get a little adventurous what did they just tell Russia take whatever you want that's what they said they basically just said if Russia takes over Ukraine that they're going to negotiate with them what maybe you know maybe that's all you can do but my point is my point is not even whether it's smart to be thinking negotiate first probably yes but the way they presented it to the world is as surrender errs in chief it seemed like they were competing to see who would be the least threatening to the people we want to threaten now is our situation in Iran

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threaten now is our situation in Iran better because they believe that Trump would launch the missiles I think so I mean to me it looks like president Trump's continuous credible threat of violence looks like it makes a difference to me looks like it works how would I ran be acting if the only thing they had to worry about is that the commander-in-chief of the United States would negotiate a little bit harder I'm gonna negotiate you you know you better you better stop funding those proxies or watch me negotiate you I will negotiate you so hard weapons no I'm not gonna use that in weapons are you kidding me I'm not even going to cyberattack because that's like a weapon too but I will negotiate you like a surrender and chief negotiates I think you know Van Jones is correct when you see them they all look weak

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particularly for a job which one of the greatest assets of the job that you could bring to the job was the impression of strength Trump did that Trump brought to the job the impression of strength that's important they're all offering to bring the impression of weakness are you kidding me you're running for president to be the commander-in-chief and you're telling the world I'd like to bring weakness to the job I mean not with those words but when you say you know negotiate negotiate don't want to use that military it just sounds like you're gonna let anybody do anything they want and maybe that's a good answer so even Democrats are angry about why the Democrats are now fighting with each other but of course they can't they're all stuck now I didn't see the whole debate but it seemed to me I'm sure I'm having trouble

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I'm sure I'm having trouble understanding why climate change wasn't pretty much the only thing they wanted to talk about because it seems to me that climate change if it's the big problem they that they claim it feels like that should have been the central point of all of their presentations they should have you know worked it back to that they they all mentioned it but it just seemed weak because I it just felt like a attack on or I have to throw this in because it sounds good I'm not sure I believed any of them were serious about it I guess that's the thing none of them looked yet Steyr steyr did make as somebody said in the comments steyr didn't make climate change more of a central thing but since steyr himself is not too important to the race at this point he's sort of a sort of a sideshow it just felt like it wasn't getting the level of importance that their own team believes it believes

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that their own team believes it believes it should have when Biden was asked about his qualifications for commander-in-chief he was asked to defend his his record on Iraq which he says to his credit was a mistake so the the frontrunner for the Democrats is running for to be commander-in-chief and he's claiming that the most important decision he's ever made there was in that realm of you know foreign defense things he got wrong and that's the only thing I remember about his answer because there were other things he was sort of on the team right there were other situations where Obama did something and Biden was just sort of he's on the team I'm vice president hey I'm on the team I'm part of this so he he took credit for some things which he wasn't too directly involved in he was

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wasn't too directly involved in he was just one of the people on the team I call that the wally play if you're familiar with the Dilbert comic strip Wally is the lazy the lazy one in the office and one of his tricks is he always joins a project that is going to succeed whether he does good work or not and then he can always get credit for being on the project so I think Biden is pursuing the wali approach well I was on the I was out of the Obama team when something good happened when he when he killed Osama bin Laden even though I told him not to the two most famous things the famous things were the war in Iraq that he says he got wrong and telling Obama not to try to kill bin Laden that day until he had more information and I'm thinking those are the only things I remember I don't remember anything else about Joe Biden's record do you quick mention all of his

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record do you quick mention all of his accomplishments in that area I can't think of any but I can think of two really big high-profile things they wanting and miss he got wrong and the other one he just got wrong that's that's tough to sell and still the field is so weak he's still the front-runner
all right I think it was Scott who was it Scott Scott forget his name Democrats Scott somebody who talked about the the Democrats being in a quote pitiful Crouch which was a great a great play of words what is his name Scott now you'll tell me he was one of the regular Democrat pundits on CNN anyway yeah and

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Democrat pundits on CNN anyway yeah and somebody who's prompted me in the comments a lot of the Democrats I believe have said that the that the Iran nuclear deal was working well what does that mean what does it mean that the Iran nuclear deal was working wasn't Iran killing Americans and you know the funding proxies to do terror attacks what about that that counts for now what about the fact that after the Iran nuclear deal timed out they would have done all the research and being been ready to just become a nuclear force and there were only how many years left and they have a long long time frame if you don't mention the fact that Iran was definitely going to get a nuclear weapon in a few years you're not really qualified for commander-in-chief it would be one thing to say the Iran nuclear deal would keep them from getting a nuclear bomb for X number of years that might actually be a pretty

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years that might actually be a pretty defensible statement but to stay but to say that the deal prevents them from getting a nuclear weapon is exactly wrong it guarantees them a nuclear weapon after the end of the deal it guarantees it because they'll have all this time to do research which they're allowed to do and then they just put it together kind of a guarantee all right so let's talk about the the bottom line under debates is that it didn't move the needle so that's good for the frontrunner I thought Budaj edge has by far the most clever and I can say this because Budaj edge is is a white male so I can call him articulate if you don't know this you don't want to use the word articulate about anybody who's not a white male you're allowed to say it in that case but it becomes like a back end and insult if you say you know if you

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and insult if you say you know if you said a black candidate was articulate it would be considered an insult because well why are you even bringing it up yeah and why do you even have to mention that unless you think it's some kind of weird exception but that's that b-buoy judge is articulate as heck and man can that guy put a sentence together he's clearly the smartest yeah I think also what we're seeing is the benefit of youth when you see Peabody Judge handle the question you're seeing somebody operating at I would say his biological peak I mean yeah he could even get better and smarter and more experienced but man is he on his game the the the complexity and the level of his answers was actually really impressive however there is a however here he was the smartest most articulate complicated speaker

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most articulate complicated speaker however nobody wants that nobody wants that seriously you know as a mayor he would have been better as a city manager you know the guy who does the actual work I think Budaj edge is looking like a really good senator if Budaj edge was say he doesn't make it to the nomination but someday decides to run for the Senate he looks like exactly the kind of guy you want as a senator you know assuming that you're a Democrat because I like the guy who's really in the details can really analyze something he's a good you know communicator clearly he's going to understand thing at deeper levels but man you see him standing next to Trump and Trump is going to make him look like Professor duty he's gonna he's gonna look like this wonky professor who can't communicate with the public he put a judge did a great job of

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he put a judge did a great job of communicating with people who watch democratic debates because they're probably above average and you know intelligence and knowledge about things and so it was probably pretty impressive if you're CNN watcher of debates but if you're just a voter I don't think you want somebody that smart if you know what I mean people really don't love that smart they want you to be smart in a streetwise way smart in a political way smart in a leader way but they don't really want you that smart that smart is off-putting because people don't relate to it at all so that's his biggest problem I thought Klobuchar there's something about the way she talks this sounds weak does anybody else pick that up it's in her voice it's not because it's a female voice I'm not saying that so what I'm gonna say now has nothing to do with

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gonna say now has nothing to do with their gender at all but there's something when she's she sounds she talks with some kind of urgency that makes her voice quiver a little bit there's something about the confidence of her voiceless missing which again would make her a great senator but president you just need that little bit of extra gravitas confidence is it maybe it's missing some confidence I don't know what it is wavery somebody is saying but are you picking that up too now by the way I think Klobuchar is a really strong candidate I think she's smart I think she got this far as she said she's won everything she would be strong in the Midwest she's centrist she's where the voters in her party are she's really strong candidate you know experience wise and

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candidate you know experience wise and and skill wise she got this far and I would say that my opinion of her has has gone up you know every time I see her because she's just a solid solid candidate I think but the voters are not for whatever reason the voters in the Democratic Party are not finding her let's say inspirational so I think she lacks the inspirational element and I think that's going to put a cap on her Bernie was okay and Biden I thought Biden it seemed like he was barely avoiding a gaffe the entire time he was talking it felt like an old man driving without his glasses
I think there's a right turn here I'm pretty sure the speed limit is 25 if this had a car or I can't tell he missed

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this had a car or I can't tell he missed all the other pedestrians but I felt like they were all near misses it felt like he was right on the edge of gaffing because he would he would stop and he'd correct what he said to make it more accurate he would clarify as he went it felt like he was struggling for coherence now he was coherent ish you know he was he spoke in generalities so there wasn't much there to to grab on to but P held on so maybe that's good enough let's talk about something else so there's new evidence new evidence in documents and texts and messages and stuff regarding Ukraine and the impeachment process and if you haven't been following it let me explain the new evidence all right and I'll try to give this in the simplest way because it's a complicated story here are the players Murray ivanovitch UD Giuliani robber

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Murray ivanovitch UD Giuliani robber Hyde president zalanski Lev partners Joe and hunter Biden general Yurii Lutsenko and Victoria Tenzing that's all you need to know that's the end of the story now there's some details to the story but here's the rule are you ready if there are more than three people in the story it doesn't matter watch how often that rule works now not every time but I used to have a rillette I was it used to be in a relationship in which I had a girlfriend who would tell stories that had too many people in them and I realized that when you've got to the fourth character in the story I couldn't follow it anymore it became too complicated so her stories were all okay so then you know Bob was over there he was with Janice and Janice's brother came in and he was saying that they're her sister and I'd be will hold on hold

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her sister and I'd be will hold on hold on
on I'm not gonna follow any of the story four characters that's too much story for me if you can get that down to three I'm gonna follow along but here they have a one two three four five six seven eight at minimum it's an eight character story and that's not even counting the president that's without Trump it's an eight character story how many people in the public are going to follow a story about Ukraine on something that feels like old news that involves eight characters operating in a way that corresponds to and connects to a story with ten more players about something with impeachment and Ukraine and something about the letter and it was the perfect letter but maybe it wasn't perfect and who did Trump talk to and what were the dates of that and who exactly has information about the stuff

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exactly has information about the stuff that was and doesn't even matter it can care he do that anyway the most complicated story you've ever seen and watching CNN wrestle with this is hilarious because it's the story that can't be told it literally can't be told I mean you could you could write it down in an accurate way which all the details are there but nobody's going to understand it if they bother to read it it's all just becoming this what seems yes oh they said conflate in the comments it's all starting to conflate into the same stuff it doesn't even feel like new so here's a little test be ready for this find an article about these new shocking bombshell revelations that involve live porn as some kind of a loose associate of Rudy Giuliani with this you crate stuff find an article and then see how far you have to read into the article before you can find what the

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the article before you can find what the point is I've never found it so I read a very long article on cnn.com and I was trying to figure out okay it's a bombshell it's new information that's Dan
Dan Oh what exactly and I kept reading and reading looking for the part where they say and here's the important part here's why we're telling you this here's the main point here's the bombshell and I kept reading and reading and then I ran on a text and I don't know what it was I mean I actually don't know what was the Bob Phil I keep reading stories and seeing stories and I don't know and I even tried I put work into it I actually I put some muscle into it I tried to understand the story and I couldn't there's nothing there all right here's the funniest comment from representative Val Demmings a Florida Democrat and the House

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Florida Democrat and the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee and this is what she told CNN when asked about the Parnas documents which is what I've been talking about she said quote I think it's something we can't ignore do you know what this is this is something you can really you could really ignore all right so Bella is out to says I'm very disingenuous and I'm not that stupid well you got blocked reasons only
YouTube continues to D monetize me for no reason and so I do a commercial a day which I'll do again so my content is also mirrored on bit shoot bi TCH ute and rock fin you have to be a subscriber

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and rock fin you have to be a subscriber to see it on Rocklin ROK fim if you google either shoot or rock film you'll find their sites and just Google need to find it
and and I and let me tell you that my youtube channel is this content do you think there's anything about this content that an advertiser should be afraid of compared to other content where they swear and they do just about everything well well well so there's somebody at YouTube who's D monetizing me it's probably one individual whose actual job it is who sees my contents as haha d monetize I'm watching this story about the law enforcement and Bilborough wants Apple to help them break into an Apple device that this terrorist had an apple either can't or won't or there's some disagreement about whether they're

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disagreement about whether they're helping or not I tend to believe Apple and this they probably are helping but there's nothing they could do they made it they made it encrypted for a reason and I'm kind of torn on this because on one hand I do want law enforcement to be able to find terrorists and all that on the other hand I've kind of liked the fact that nobody can get into my phone unless they have my password I kind of like that so I'm kind of torn on this I could go either way on this but I definitely respect Apple for having privacy on their phone that that's a completely supportable position even if that privacy is working against the government's interests and law enforcement have you all seen the Bernie video it's about project Veritas as a video in which a Bernie one of Bernie's what we call campaign people I forget

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what we call campaign people I forget who I don't care what his name is we're saying that if Bernie doesn't win with Wisconsin would burn and that the police would police would get beaten up and I'm thinking is that guy not fired yet because if that guy's still on the campaign I think Bernie's gonna have some questions to answer has he been fired yet somebody says yes
anyway if he's not fired by the end of the day I think you have to worry about birdy now here's a birdie thought let me ask you this a lot of people think that Bernie at his current age he's not too old to be president would you want a president who was too old to drive because bernie does Drive I believe I just saw a video of him pulling out of his driveway and it seems to me

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his driveway and it seems to me somebody's saying that the name of the Bernie campaign guy was Kyle jurrac that sounds right but it seems to me that if you think a guy where a woman would not be qualified to drive an automobile because they're too old and I'd be real worried about getting in the car with Bernie wouldn't you I mean seriously if Bernie is driving do you want to be in the passenger seat serious question what do you feel safe and if you don't well maybe you should maybe you should find some meaning in that one of Rupert Murdoch's sons is mad at Fox News which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's parent company because Fox News is blaming or at least some of the pundits are not the news people but some of the pundits are opinion pieces opinion people on Fox

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opinion pieces opinion people on Fox News are blaming the fires that are just devastating Australia blaming it on arson instead of climate change to which I say loser think loser think if there are two reasons for a thing and you're only willing to say there's one reason for a thing you should not be listened to if you are saying that the problem with Australia is only arson or you're saying that it's only climate change you should not be listened to why can't it be both wouldn't that be the more likely thing that its climate change that you wouldn't have to worry about that much if not for 200 arsons if you didn't have 200 arsons would you care that there was a climate change because nothing would be on fire I mean and if it was it would be limited compared to 200 fires so the same way I criticized Hillary Clinton

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same way I criticized Hillary Clinton for saying a new reason why she lost every week when in fact it was a thousand reasons a thousand things had to happen just the way they happened for the result to be just what it was so this whole climate change versus fire thing is just dumb people arguing with each other if you can't say it might be both you don't belong in the public conversation about it now I would respect people who say there is no climate change element at all but I think you have to say that if there is some climate change you need both the climate change and the arson to get the problem you have if you take any one of those away you might have a different outcome although the climate part people will debate I saw a very convincing graphic that showed that showing the earth warming and I would say at this point

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warming and I would say at this point that the earth is warming probably is as close to effect as you can get and probably also that co2 is part of that we don't know how much you know that that parts a little harder but I think that's parts of fact to the part the only part that I think deserves serious questioning is the economic projections that come from that over 80 years nobody can project an 80 year thing and if I had to predict if there were any kind of a betting market I would say this this is what I would say if there were a betting market I would bet that will be fine and the fewer people will die in the future from major disasters than in the past because that's the way it's always been and will probably continue so I don't think there's gonna be an earth killing and but it's worth worrying about how does global warming stop

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about how does global warming stop rained well do you really want the answer to that if global if global warming changes the weather patterns you would expect some places to get warmer or some places to get cooler some places to rain more than the usual some places rain less than usual so it's the disruption that's the problem it's not some general continuous warming that affects everybody the same way if you're talking about disruptions which make everything different than it was and if you've built a society around a certain temperature and climate and it changes well your society is gonna have to adjust to that and that could be expensive and dangerous sunspots plate tectonics yeah I said before and I'll say again the worst take on climate change is that it's the Sun now even if you're right it's the worst thing

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you're right it's the worst thing because it assumes that the scientists haven't really looked into that they have they have they looked into the Sun that's like right on the that's in the top five of things you look into if you're a climate scientist because the Sun creates some warmth so you're gonna look at the Sun so everybody who says the climate scientists forgot to look at the Sun or they got it wrong that's the worst take even if you're right you could actually accidentally be right about that that it's really the Sun and amazingly all the scientists got the Sun wrong or they forgot to look at it I'd be as possible but it's not good take what's the optimal co2 level well here's the other worse to take on climate here's the other worse to take co2 used to be much higher in the past that is an uninformed take true this is a true statement but it's also true that when co2 was high a number of other

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when co2 was high a number of other variable including the Sun were different so looking at what co2 was in the past is irrelevant if you go past if you go into the far past because there were too many other things different about the earth so it's not a confidence not a comparison sorry Scott the IPCC is adding the Sun to the next report that supports what I'm saying that doesn't refute what I'm saying I'm saying that the scientists have looked at the Sun and that's not what they consider the primary mover of climate change so if it's included in the IPCC report it won't be included as oh we found out it's just the Sun that's not going to happen all right the Sun was different yes in

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all right the Sun was different yes in early Earth life when when co2 was much higher the brightness and the warmth of the Sun was substantially different that is correct that is one of the big variables that were there was different in the past what if climate climate scientists are lying somebody says why are scientists automatically beyond reproach I never said that
now the Australia thing is confusing me because even if it's climate change why are they blaming their own government does that make sense the Australian seem to be blaming their own government for climate change what is the total percentage of climate change that Australia is responsible for one percent one percent there's nothing that Australia you can do by itself it

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that Australia you can do by itself it would make any difference to climate change so I don't even understand what the protesters are complaining about they should be protesting China right and India
never hear them talk about solar cycles because it's not too relevant apparently it would take a lot to convert me somebody says somebody's saying that the co2 one of the bad informations on the internet you'll find is that co2 follows temperatures instead of the other way around or not you'll see on the on the Internet's the skeptics will say no the the the warmth happens first and then the co2 follows that's been debunked if you don't know that spin debunked just google it and you'll see the debunking

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apply both venues reporting rule bright Breitbart not Fox I don't know what your topic is there co2 has never been higher well there are experts saying it was once higher failure to do controlled burning that may be part of it I don't know enough about that topic somebody says co2 is a lagging indicator I just told you if you google it that has been debunked so it's one of the common things that skeptics say but it's debunked yeah the scientists have looked at it and they know that that's just not the case it doesn't follow but you will and I remember I've read the debunking and it has something to do with the way the graph is made blah blah so that it is just not true that it follows how many here there was cooling during the

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many here there was cooling during the industrial revolution yeah all of those things have been debunked so basically every everything that you believe is a debunking scientific fact has been debunked by the actual sign I don't there are no exceptions to that if you think that you have one that has not been debunked just google it Google what you think is true that hasn't been debunked along with the word debunked it'll pop right up no now I want to say carefully that none of this means that science is right because often there could be a consensus and they could be wrong I'm just saying that the people who know how to debunk this stuff have debunked all of these common skeptical things if you haven't seen the debunk you shouldn't believe believing believing the people who make these

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believing the people who make these claims you've got at least see both of them alright that's all I got for you and I'll talk to you later