Episode 805 Scott Adams: The Unpeachment, Coronavirus, Bernie Surging, Our New Dictator
Date: 2020-02-01 | Duration: 58:05
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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a WHY are we waiting till Wednesday to vote on acquittal? Olivia Nuzzi notes the happy, dancing Trump supporters at rallies Bernie Bernie Bernie, his supporters, his policies and the deficit DNC rule change qualifies Mike Bloomberg for next debate Closing air traffic from China and the Muslim country ban President Trump’s huge persuasion error requires an explanation
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hey everybody come on in it's good to see you I'm so glad you could make it this morning today is going to be one of the best coffees with Scott Adams since I don't know since yesterday it's been a long time but this one will be off the hook coming in hot we're gonna have some fun today now for those of you who are new to this let me give you a little a little expected you know a little preview we're going to talk about a fun stuff first and then toward the end I'm gonna give you what are the deepest criticisms of this presidents persuasion skills you've ever seen for me so you're gonna see the the biggest criticism I think probably the biggest criticism I've ever made of president Trump's persuasion skills specifically all right but before we get to that and before we get to all the fun stuff first I know why you're here that's probably for the
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why you're here that's probably for the simultaneous sip and you don't need much all you need is a copper of Margaret glass a tanker chalice or Stein in the canteen juggler flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like my coffee and join me down for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better the simultaneous imp go mmm
yeah you know and all this talk about impeachment I think we tend to look at the negative too much let us just take a moment to look at the positive side of the impeachment process that we've just been watching and continue to watch here's the positive side if you didn't have this impeachment the only time you could enjoy Trump winning is on election days so he actually Trump actually found a way to win in between elections
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a way to win in between elections now bad after he wins this next election and maybe even before that I think you'll have a few more opportunities to win impeachments the all the smart people are saying that they're just going to keep on going because they don't know what else to do they're sort of running out of attacks wouldn't you say and let's give me here's an update on one of the prediction filters I often talk about I told you to watch the impeachment process play out and one of the filters for prediction is that politics will go in the direction that would make the best movie script in other words the thing that's most mystery and twists and turns and intrigue and interest now that would have been probably calling witnesses but it's also entirely possible that the witnesses would have had absolutely nothing to add to the process which would have been a boring movie but still I thought that the the movie filter
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I thought that the the movie filter predicted that we would get witnesses and we did not so if you're keeping score and this is a good thing to do if you have a filter or predicting method it's kind of useless now I'll go further it is useless unless you also track how well it does historically because if you don't track it you're going to forget when it doesn't work and you're going to think it works more than it does so the movie filter did not predict the next step in the impeachment so just keep that in mind when you're keeping score now remember I told you that there was a there was going to be this weird thing happening where the Democrats would simply misinterpret what's happening and then complain about the misinterpretation and that that's that would be all we'd be watching is them miss reading what somebody said miss quoting somebody putting words in somebody else's mouth and then criticizing the thing that they just literally hallucinate it here's one of
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literally hallucinate it here's one of the best examples you aren't going to say now sometimes you think to yourself well that's sort of a subjective things isn't it no no it's not a subjective thing I'm gonna give you an example from today it's a fresh off the press you tell me if I'm being subjective okay you've never never going to see a better example this so this is Chris ELISA who writes for appears on CNN and he wrote in an opinion piece today and it was about Marco Rubio and he was talking about Marco Rubio's why he would call what crystals would call sort of a twisted and knots explanation of why he voted the way he did to not have witnesses and so this is what Chris liz' says just picking out the part where he is mocking Rubio and SaLuSa says and more broadly how can anyone read much less right all right so so crystal is a
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less right all right so so crystal is a saying how can anybody else read this differently that I'm going to explain it I think you might but you say you say how could you how could anybody read or much less write this sentence and think that it all makes sense all right so Rubio said and I quote just because actions and being a standard in impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a president so Rubio saying that there could be a situation where something technically meets the standard of impeachment but it's just not really good for the country that's a pretty simple concept right now you can certainly say you should never do that that would be a reasonable thing to say you should say I can't think of any examples where that would be true that would be a reasonable thing to say you could say maybe you know maybe we should rethink that there are a lot of things you could say about that but here's what crystal is a-- says about it all right and you have to see siliceous
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and you have to see siliceous misstatement of it really close to the original to see who see what he's doing so I have to read the original again so you see it in in close proximity so what Marco Rubio did say was this just because the actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the interests of the country to remove a president for office solicit comments this is huh question mark so truck remember what I told you about the words sell the word so in this context almost always very close to a hundred percent of the time signals that what follows the word South is a complete misstatement of what somebody else said so let's see if this is a complete misstatement following the word so so Trump has done things that meet the standard of impeachment no no that was an in Rubio statement Rubio said that it was a hypothetical just
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said that it was a hypothetical just because this happens doesn't mean you have to do this but I do think that was a reasonable inference inference so so far I would say SaLuSa is making an inference that isn't in the sentence but it's not unreasonable that's pretty reasonable so so far okay all right good inference but and this is what Melissa is putting into Rubio's mouth but impeaching him for committing and pgo blacks would be a bad for our partisan divide am I reading that right no Chris you're not reading that right there's nothing in Rubio statement that said anything about healing our partisan divide it's not there it's absolutely hallucinating let me read Rubio sentence again and then yeah this is amazing if anybody could do this in public and not be aware of what they're doing so Rubio did say just because actions meet a standard for
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just because actions meet a standard for impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a president solicitor interprets that as are you saying removing in for a teachable acts would would would be bad for our partisan divide whereas partisan divided that sentence this is crazy stuff anyway so so look for how often you see a Miss statement after the words so you'll be amazed I wrote about that in my book behind me the so tell where is it this one when Bigley all right now of course we're waiting till Wednesday for the actual vote that everybody knows what the vote is going to be so you say to yourself why are we waiting till Wednesday now the explanation given is that it gives time for all the Senators to make a statement is that why ken senators not make
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is that why ken senators not make statements after votes what what's the reasoning that says the Senators have to make the statement before the vote they can't make a statement after a vote because nobody would pay attention is that sort of sketchy isn't it who exactly is explaining to the public why we're waiting for something what do we know what's going to happen there's no mystery everybody was already there why don't you just get it done here's a rule that I'm gonna I'm gonna reinforce as often as I need to when your government does something that you don't understand on its surface and they know you don't understand it on its surface because it's something you can't really understand and they don't explain it to you in a way that makes any sense at all or at least is good for the country it's something corrupt is happening all right so something corrupt is happening so I've seen in the comments that somebody was saying it's to get it on the record yeah I suppose I suppose
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on the record yeah I suppose I suppose that would get the speeches on the record that's pretty useful right because when I go back and read the rep oh that's right I'm never going to read the record who reads the record why does it matter if if a senator said something on the record or if they tweeted about it which is sort of on the record right and no you can make an argument for why they have to wait till Wednesday or why they should or could or want to but it doesn't pass the sniff test does it let me ask you this what's the argument that it's good for you if your argument is well it's good for the senators because then the senators get to go on the record and they'll get more attention if they do it before the vote okay I get that but how is that good for you in in this case I'm saying you a citizen of the United States I know many of you are coming in from other countries but if your government right in front of you is
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government right in front of you is doing something that can only be good for them wait a minute wait a minute are they are the Democrats delaying this vote because it's only good for them politically and it's not good for the interest of the country what is it that we do in those cases when it's obvious that something is done for political reasons that is bad for the country because it's delaying you know our ability to get something done good for the politicians reelection but it's bad for the country what do we call that is there a name for that oh yeah that's right right impeachable offense that's right it's an impeachable offense I'd like to see witnesses I think we should call some witnesses to find out why the Democrats are insisting to delay this vote and damage the country by being
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vote and damage the country by being more inefficient and diverting this from real real important stuff feels impeachable to me unless I missed the entire point of the scheie impeachment if that's how it works right when you do something that's only good for politics and it's bad for the country it's obvious I mean it's obvious right give me one argument why waiting till Wednesday is good for the country go none there are only arguments why it's good for the politicians that is impeachable according to what we've learned all right I don't mean that literally but you know what I mean so remember if abuse of power is a standard for a beach meant what in the world did we just watch did we now watch a massive exercise of the house totally abusing its power I mean this is
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totally abusing its power I mean this is what we just watched let me see if anything I say about this the strike she was not true there was a she am impeachment for purely political reasons we know that because they they explicitly started planning as soon as the president was elected or sworn in I guess and and they didn't care what the reason was and I think that's you know Molly Hemingway reported that she actually overheard mendler talking about impeachment before they had even considered reasons right so I think it's fair to say since then those facts are not in dispute I think it's fair to say it so it was a sham impeachment so they do a sham and peach meant but beyond that they do it in competently according to their own standards so the house wanted witnesses but did not go through the proper process to get them by their own description I don't know how you could call that anything but incompetent so it was a sham impeachment
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incompetent so it was a sham impeachment which they managed in confidently and then in order to fix their own incompetence of their sham they decided that the best way to approach that would be to ask the wrong part of the government to fix their sham hoax incompetence that actually happened right in front of us it's funnier when you say it altogether they incompetently managed a sham impeachment but they thought they could fix it by asking the wrong part of the government to fix it and surprise surprise it didn't work out for him so if that's not abuse of power I don't know what is so it looks like the of the day because every day the media and the that's collude they collude I say on messaging and the messaging that they're colluding on seems pretty pretty obvious
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colluding on seems pretty pretty obvious today they're going to be saying that that because impeachment did not succeed or is about to fail on Wednesday they're about to say that Trump has expanded the power of the executive branch getting closer and closer to being a dictator ah he is becoming a dictator why does Trump becoming a dictator let me explain it again because there was a sham impeachment there was done and competently and then they asked the wrong part of the government to fix it therefore logically president Trump is a dictator you followed the logic right that all makes sense to you couldn't connect the dots if that didn't make sense to you talk to a Democrat because apparently that makes sense to them so
here's what I say about that can you imagine that if the the media the messengers in the media if they had not
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messengers in the media if they had not packaged this idea that the outcome of this failed sham incompetent impeachment was that the president would become more like a dictator would any of would anyone have thought of that on their own in other words is there anybody sitting down in America watching this on TV and before the pundits tell them that the the natural outcome of all this is that Trump becomes more like a dictator can you imagine you see you know guy he's in the middle of the country sipping a beer watching the news and he's thinking to himself hey I think the incompetent failed shyam impeachment that they tried to fix by asking the wrong part of the government I think is going to make Trump look more of a more of a dictator there are how many hundreds of millions of people in the United States the
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of people in the United States the number of them who would have come up with that interpretation on their own without being prompted by the media messengers and brainwashers I think is zero zero do you think even one person would have thought of that on their own I mean it's batshit crazy yeah so the three hundred and sixty or eighty million or whatever how many people there are the United States you know men women children and old people do you think there was even one person in the whole country who would have come up with that on their own and yet that is the primary message of the day they've all they've all decided that the messages Trump he's taken it to a new level of dictatorship all right so pretty on pretty funny so Trump tweeted an article by Olivia nosey newsy so she's sort of an anti-trump ER but she
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she's sort of an anti-trump ER but she wrote this article that I thought was was weirdly balanced until it wasn't and she talked about how the Trump rallies at least in her subjective opinion I haven't been to a rally so I can't I can't verify that this is true or false but it was interesting that an anti Trump er would say that the Trump rallies are like a celebration everybody's happy and dancing and and her interpretation was that in the beginning when Trump was running for president it seemed that they were angry so Trump supporters according to her have changed from this angry mob who wanted to I don't know get revenge changed the country break the government whatever it is they wanted now they've now they're getting what they want they have a president Trump the country is running well in their opinion and so they're celebrating this is a pretty big deal because I was talking to somebody smart the other day who was saying that there
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the other day who was saying that there could be a problem with motivation that Trump voters might not be motivated because they sort of got what they wanted so it doesn't make you get off the couch unless you want to change something you know it's easier to up and go to the polls and get excited and everything if something is intolerable and you just got to go change it now I hear that argument that's that's not historically that I would say that has some validity but here's what's different everything about Trump yeah let me just summarize here's what's different about Trump everything everything just everything so every rule that used to work doesn't exactly automatically work with Trump here's what's different Trump supporters have turned the whole Trump phenomenon into a walking party they they enjoy it for literally the entertainment of it and I don't know if
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entertainment of it and I don't know if we can quite yet measure what impact being entertained has on people's motivation to actually get off the couch and go vote I think especially since the experience of 2016 where the people who voted for Trump had this amazing endorphin dopamine hit when he won the election so imagine this feeling you are a trump supporter in early 2016 and before maybe you'd been beat up you've been called a racist you've been told you're not going to win you know you're supporting a crazy man a dictator there's no way it's gonna be Hillary you're all gonna pay I mean really some dark literally dark thoughts about you and your candidate and then against all odds on election night you turn on the TV and the unbelievable happens the thing that you wanted to happen some of you expected it a lot of you
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some of you expected it a lot of you didn't and suddenly BAM something happened president Trump won Florida you won the election BAM how did that feel think about it that felt so good for the people who wanted him to win people who voted for him that felt so good that I can say that in my lifetime you know if you don't count like you know intimate physical relationships and you know maybe falling in love or something but outside of those things I don't know if I've ever felt a better feeling and really now I was pretty deeply invested so I had more to win more to lose you know I was definitely out there because I was so public about my prediction that he would win but I've never felt anything that good outside of close personal relationships and I'd like to feel it again I have to think
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like to feel it again I have to think that the people who voted for him and got that you know the dopamine hit what that again I don't know that regular voters who vote for regular candidates and when they feel happy I mean I think people who voted for Obama were happy don't you think I think the that the Trump voters got a dopamine hit that was probably unprecedented because it was more unexpected and I think that that's gonna drive a lot of people who the polls are gonna be one of their wonted they'll want to feel how good it feels again and some people didn't feel it the first time and want to feel it so I think they're gonna want to go feel that feeling so I'm not worried about enthusiasm from Republicans and by the way if we're gonna make some gross generalizations let me make a gross generalization all right this doesn't apply to every person Yeah right there there are no gross generalizations that apply to each individual but as I as a
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apply to each individual but as I as a let's say a gross generalization I think it's true that why you could say about a conservative voter versus a liberal voter is that the conservative will do what feels right even if it's hard let's see where I'm going to this the conservative voter is still going to vote even if it's hard if their schedule doesn't work the car broke down because voting is important so I'm not sure that motivation means exactly the same thing to conservative voters IRS's liberal loader I think a little bit liberal voter needs more maybe an emotional reason I think a conservative voter is just gonna vote anyway because why it's who they are it's part of their identity there are people who support the Constitution they vote so I don't think anybody's going to stay home was a conservative I don't see that happening let's talk about Bernie so all the chatter by the political
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so all the chatter by the political Talking Heads they're saying that Bernie is surging in the polls he's depending on what poll you look at he's winning everywhere or he's at least tie with Biden but the but all the talk is about Bernie Bernie Bernie and so I thought I would run you through a little bit of Bernie strategy in other words how to beat Bernie if you're president Trump the first thing out note is that it seems to me and this could be just a biased interpretation but it seems to me that Bernie supporters are disconnected from policy now certainly there are plenty of Bernie supporters who want his policies and they're not disconnected they they want exactly what he's offering but when I look at the and I'm gonna use some names without you know let me admit I can't read minds but when I see people like Bill Maher jump in I see Joe Rogan supporting Sanders when I
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see Joe Rogan supporting Sanders when I see people like that supporting him I say to myself is it because of the policies do you think Bill Maher I'm just asking because I don't know can't read their mind and it won't make an assumption but do you think that they support him for his policies because there's certainly not what Joe Rogan said when he mentioned that he might vote for him he meant what he mentioned was his I know consistency and authenticity something like that and those are much to be admired you know I have the same feeling about Bernie there's a whole bunch of how Bernie that's pretty good stuff but not his policies his policies are not good stuff so that's the first observation that there there's some people want to be Trump or just being winning side or or signal that there you know part of good people not bad people whatever it is they're thinking it does seem disconnected from policy so that's the first point then let's look at the
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the first point then let's look at the matchup you've got you've got a president Trump who at least his supporters who would you'd have to peel away some of his supporters to Bernie in order for Bernie to win and so you want a good matchup what would Republicans the ones that Bernie needs to you know even independence I guess the ones he wants to wean away from Trump what would those people think is Trump's biggest error mistake or flaw the people that Bernie wants to convert I would say they would say the deficit deficit spending wouldn't you wouldn't you say if you were talking to a conservative and you said okay I know you like Trump but tell me what you don't like about him nine and ten are gonna list the deficit and the top one or two reasons right so how does Bernie line up on the most important point he's the only candidate you could imagine running against Trump
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you could imagine running against Trump who would make the deficit worse he's the only one who would make it worse forget about the fact you would probably crash the economy and make us weaker internationally and whatever else you think about him on a matchup he's the worst person you could run against somebody who only has one a one measurable flaw he president Trump has a lot of subjective things you can't measure his personality I think he's dangerous he might be impulsive so he's got lots of that stuff that you can't measure but the one thing you can measure that he's unambiguously badass is the deficit and they're gonna run the only guy who makes that worse against that how does that make sense that's the worst matchup ever you know plus you've got somebody with a booming economy running against somebody who wants to completely transition it what now what is the other thing that Trump has as sort of a political
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Trump has as sort of a political weakness and I wouldn't say this is what Republicans say about him but it's more about what Democrats say about him because Bernie also has to get democrats to you know be unified against Trump and one of the biggest complaints from prior years about Trump is that he's a misogynist you know women he's not good for women who is the only candidate who also has that issue at least in terms of his supporters not in terms of him Bernie Bernie is weak on women now here's the thing he's not weak on women there's literally nothing that Bernie's ever said or done that is anything but positive for basically everybody you know that's that's the consistency our new admit that Joe Rogan points out and it's true I think Bernie has a hundred percent solid record of being supportive of women being supportive of you know blacks being supportive of everybody but
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blacks being supportive of everybody but but the trouble is that through the election campaign his supporters are being painted as misogynist and boy and boy did they act that way at least online now I don't know what percentage act that way it's probably a low percentage but the active ones that you see a lot on social media they tend to be kind of anti woman ish in their approach I don't know how many of their so just in terms of impressions while none of this is real at least in terms of Bernie's own views he looks like he's not that strong with women and I think what is his breakdown of men versus women who support him Bernie appeals more to men doesn't he somebody has to fact-check me on that so if you've got somebody who appeals more to men running against Trump I don't know if that's the way you get the woman vote let me put this in other terms Trump could say and I'll just give you
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Trump could say and I'll just give you some messaging that he could use to run against Trump could say that Bernie won't protect you but Trump already is suppose you're trying to get the female vote protection is a really strong word because I think there is a male/female difference in terms of how frightened you would be about certain risks men tend to be less frightened about physical risks because we don't have as many you know if I go out in public the odds of me being assaulted by anybody in public or you know pretty close to zero for a woman it's a continuous every time you go outside you've got a risk so protection is one of those words that I think it just has more deep meaning to women because they live in a more dangerous world than men do subjectively speaking oh and statistically speaking
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speaking oh and statistically speaking as well so I think Trump could say he's already protecting us in all these ways he's good on law enforcement he's he's tough on terrorists and all that so that's a Trump advantage but now and then there's a practical question how would burn again if his policies passed I don't think Bernie is popular enough even with Democrats because there are enough Democrats who know his math doesn't work they're not going to sign up for first things how what would be the point of electing Bernie because you know his policies wouldn't pass right the big stuff doesn't really have a chance does it I don't think so I suppose they could you know hope that they get the entire Congress but I doubt it all right so here's your a few things well let me describe an ad or a meme or maybe it's a viral video or something
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maybe it's a viral video or something that would take out Bernie and it would go like this it's a five second advertisement political ad starts with a black screen and then you see an EKG heartbeat go put on
on pump pump pump pump the pump and then the voiceover says something like you know the economy's is the best it's ever been why would you ever take a chance don't take a chance pump pump the pump the pump and then the EKG which is flatlined so the words would talk about the economy see where I'm going here so they were it would be an analogy between the heart the heartbeat it's fine Boombah Boombah Boombah Boombah poop why would you take a chance with an economy that's the best in the world but what would people think they would immediately be reminded of Bernie's recent heart attack and it's all anybody would talk about in the ad because the ad would be about the
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because the ad would be about the economy boop boop boop boop it's going great don't do this man don't flatline the economy right five-second commercial black screen heartbeat voice over done that's the end of the election because it's so scary and it's so right it's completely right people don't like taking chances with an economy that's working if you talk about the risk it's over all right here's an update on me remember I told you that Google through through YouTube seem to be limiting my youtube videos and D monetizing them now when they D monetize them it means that they don't run ads the Creator doesn't get paid for the time that people watch it would no ads but worse than that when it's D monetized it doesn't get recommended by YouTube so it gets much less awareness so I was
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so it gets much less awareness so I was talking to you Google and I actually got ahold of the the group a very small group and one person in particular who handles these kinds of questions for Google and for YouTube and they're working with me and apparently they're putting together a a beta program if you will that I'm trying to get into and looks like I will in which there'll be some people who might be white listed in other words I wouldn't be automatically demonetized because I have a long history of not doing anything that would make me demonetised so as long as you have a long history of not crossing that line you can you could potentially once this is implemented could potentially not be deep monetized automatically so we'll see how that goes I'll keep you informed as that goes if it happens it would happen in the spring I think so we're talking about a few months from now but if you see my YouTube numbers jump that's why there is a horrible
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jump that's why there is a horrible story in the news about a health records company someone who sells software to doctors in which the software company worked with an opioid producer the news is reporting it's probably Purdue but that's not confirmed and that the software company accepted money from the opioid making company to have a little screen pop up to suggest more opioids and suggest that somebody managed their pain with opioids and it was even created to to have basically to market opioids more aggressively in a sort of a clever way but also to get people to take prescriptions longer now how evil is that yeah I'm looking look it look at the comments every other comment is oh my god oh my god what would what do you
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my god oh my god what would what do you think should be the legal penalty for bribing a software company to push your opioids which would cause certainly they would know by then would cause people to be addicted who didn't need to be addicted what should be the what should be the penalties for that at least life in prison wouldn't you say now I think you could argue for the death penalty but the way society is organized at the moment it's unlikely you would secede at least life in prison that's what are the most evil things you'll ever see I mean it's just shocking did any of you see that the the funny video of Chuck Schumer was getting ready to be somber and and solemn and give a little speech about the the vote about witnesses with impeachment and Connell Harris was standing behind him and joking around with sherrod Brown and and Schumer turns
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with sherrod Brown and and Schumer turns around and es alike put up the hand to Shusher like Schumer's look acting so yours he has to he has to shush her happiness and if you haven't seen the video it's very funny because Komal Harris makes a face so so Schumer looks at her and hashes her but as soon as you know Schumer turns back toward the audience kabbala makes like a humorous face like like a child who's just been scolded by a parent but isn't really sorry about it it was actually a pretty funny reaction now of course conservatives are you know floating that around because it's funny and it makes Carmel Harris look bad and it makes her whole impeachment look ridiculous because they're laughing and joking and only pretending to be solemn so you know politically it's a fun little viral video but here here's the thing I did not like Carla Harris less because of it and I'm curious if anybody
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because of it and I'm curious if anybody had the same reaction I feel like I'm too biased because I have this prediction that Biden will get nominated she'll be the vice presidential nomination so I know I know I'm I know I'm biased and I'm just asking if you have the same reaction I didn't mind at all in other words she looked kind of funny and authentic it was a very authentic moment because she and she did it in public on stage and it was a funny spontaneous it was just funny and I haven't seen her actually be funny in a way that I thought was funny and I thought she played it off in a way that I kind of liked did anybody have that experience or was it just being and I'm I'm certainly oh a few other people did yeah there's a few other people and I think most of the people here would not you
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most of the people here would not you know be naturally supporters of Camilla Harris yeah okay a whole bunch of you are saying the same thing you know if you looked at just the social media comments and the way the news was handling it was sort of portrayed as a negative but it looks like a lot of people are having the same feeling I did which was it's kind of cute you know in a good way ah somebody's saying in the comments she seemed to be flirting with that guy I was gonna say that but I didn't think it was fair I'm very much opposed to the attacks on Kamala Harris that are about her past you know her past relationships with Willie Brown or anything like that I get that it's funny and then social media people do outrageous things and you know anything about sex is going to get more attention I'm just not on board with any of that stuff I'm just not on board with that because it's not a standard that I would want any of you to have to live - all right I don't want any of you to live up
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right I don't want any of you to live up to the standard of what you did years ago in your sex life or in your personal life or anything they just let it go it's not a good look to be hammering on that it doesn't it doesn't make you look like a good person and it doesn't make your candidate look like a good person if you're a trump supporter and you're tweeting about Kamala Harris you know her knee pads and all the things you see on social media you're not doing a good job for Trump because none of that stuff is making people not want to vote for her it just makes you look like you're a certain kind of person and you're and you're part of Trump's brand by talking about him online so just think about the the look that you're putting out there all right so there's that did you see the news the it's unconfirmed but there's a good good reason to believe that the al-qaida leader in Yemen was and using the word likely killed by an airstrike here's my
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likely killed by an airstrike here's my first reaction to that is Trump running and targets his Trump is so successful at fighting terrorism that were down to the al-qaida leader in Yemen I don't know that doesn't feel like it feels like the all the a targets might be dead maybe maybe he's going down to the second level now I get it I get it there's a big war in Yemen and it's a big hotspot for terrorism and so even though it's a tiny country you know it's important in terms of the the war on terror but just the way it feels if you're killing the al-qaeda leader in Yemen maybe you're running out of targets maybe it's good news you all saw that the controversy that Mike Bloomberg made it into the next debate but only because the Democrats changed the rules and it appears they changed the rules just for him but I don't know if that's
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just for him but I don't know if that's true now that would make sense because Bloomberg has essentially purchased the Democrat Party and when I say he's purchased them what I mean is that he said that even if he doesn't get the nomination he's still going to be running all these anti Trump campaigns almost certainly will support whoever the candidate is because it's not Trump and he's got hundreds of millions of dollars to push in that direction so yeah the Democrat Party is going to do anything like Bloomberg Watts he bought them you know they were first sale they had a price he paid it he did it in public we're watching it happen there's no secret here at all I'm going to put hundreds of millions of dollars into the campaign but maybe I wouldn't if he treated me unfairly you know I might ask for a few things or no big deal a little bit of a rule change it's not an unfair rule and the rule change was something about a number of number of donors something so they got rid of that in
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something so they got rid of that in favor of just the poll numbers and his polls have gotten high enough so he's on the stage so here's the weird thing about this in what world does the rich old white guy who uses his billions of dollars to control the big part of the media and buy the election how is he the standard bearer of Democrats hi it's just so crazy well I I'm usually not not the one who likes to point out the easy hypocrisy stuff you know the easy conflicts I always think they're just too obvious and they're not really fun because everybody's going to be talking about that but it's kind of mind-blowing that the person who is literally the most opposite you could be of the kind of person that the Democrats think is their brand could be their standard-bearer it's it's just interesting say so let's
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it's it's just interesting say so let's talk about the biggest mistake that Trump is made for persuasion this will be the first time you've ever heard this so there's nobody in the news who's gonna make the point that I'm making unless you hear it after this it goes like this we're gonna be talking about the corona virus of course but there's there's a new wrinkle to it that I haven't talked about first of all there was a fake news report fake meaning it wasn't the news that was the problem it was the scientists a couple of Indian scientists said they found indicators in the corona virus that it was a manufactured by a weapon it wasn't I mistakenly tweeted that because there was a couple of scientists I thought well it's a couple of scientists this would be what are the odds that these scientists would see something that's so checkable in other words you you don't make a claim that's false if it's easy to check it's false and secondly I don't know they didn't seem to have any
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know they didn't seem to have any self-interest they seem to be helping and it was such a specific claim that there were you know various HIV you did pieces put it into this you know I'm being non-technical here and then other experts weighed in and looked at their data and said now you're just reading the data wrong that's all it was turns out they just read the data wrong didn't have the right context and that the things they thought they saw was just statistical noise so they just weren't good as statistics apparently so that's the first thing it was not a bio weapon if you sit on news yesterday that suggested it was you can adjust that now and here's here's the hell of a thing I think Twitter suspended the website Zero Hedge for reporting on the story you know incorrectly I think that happened I need some confirmation and I don't know if we'll ever have it if there was any other reason beyond that but I think Twitter's rules are that they'll suspend
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Twitter's rules are that they'll suspend things that are sort of dangerously inaccurate that news was fake news and at the point that Twitter understood it to be dangerously inaccurate I mean that's a dangerous piece of fake news it really is they they they deleted that site from Twitter and I don't know if that'll get reversed you know babe maybe they would need to delete or revise an article or something but I hope it gets reversed because Zero Hedge is actually a pretty interesting site it doesn't mean they're right all the time but the other sites are not either so let me get to Trump's horrible horrible mistake this is one of the biggest mistakes you'll ever see politically strategically in persuasion wise so as you know I've been complaining that the United States has not immediately closed down incoming flights from China well it turns out that some of the airline's themselves are starting to close down traffic
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are starting to close down traffic Australia just banned incoming flights Hong Kong did so other countries are doing things that I kept asking why are we not doing that or at least why isn't why isn't the government explaining why we're doing it yes as of an hour ago somebody said in the comments that did we close it down an hour ago did that happen could somebody somebody told me in the comments if that happened I don't know if that's true that might not be true so here's here's why it's done on a strategy level political strategy level is one of those dumbest things I've ever seen in my life there's no world in which Trump would lose votes if he acted too conservatively in other words if he stopped incoming flights more than people thought should have been done even if it hurt the economy a little bit it wouldn't heard of that much because it only affects travelers it wouldn't affect trade trade with China would be
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affect trade trade with China would be exactly the same and travel probably wouldn't have much of a impact because thirty days later people would make the trips that they postponed but so it was a as far as I can tell unless it was corrupt intent which you always have to suspect in these situations the corruption being not necessarily trumps but something something in the government it is a dumb risk management to not do the thing that's free and then take the risk that's very expensive because if a number of people die and it could be a very small number if ten people die of the coronavirus in the United States and we can track it back to the fact that the airport wasn't that the flights weren't locked down sooner people will assume that was the case anyway that's really gonna cost Trump so he could lose votes by doing what he did but he could never lose votes if he went the other way why in the world would a politician in
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why in the world would a politician in an election year do the thing that could lose him votes when he could do the thing that wouldn't load us in phones right it's in it's unexplained and that's why you have to you have to think corruption somewhere somewhere in the government there's something going on all right doesn't mean it's Trump himself but he's now fixing it he's not overriding it he has the power I think right he's a dictator now he has the power just kidding all right but here's so that so far everything I've said I've said before here's the new point I hate to even bring it up because it's sort of devastating you know all the all of the pushback that Trump got with the so-called Muslim ban all right so the Muslim ban which is what his critics called it he was accused of just not letting people in because they were different religion or ethnicity or whatever religion mostly so he was
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whatever religion mostly so he was accused of being anti-muslim he's expanded the number of countries and I don't think they're all majority Muslim countries but he's expanded them all and so he's you know it brings up that issue again all right so one of the big the president's biggest problems was that it appeared that he was blocking people from coming into the country just because they were Muslim that was that's what the critic said it's not what was actually happening but that's what the critics said he had he had a play with this Court on coronavirus to absolve himself and he didn't take it it's one of the biggest miss opportunities you'll ever see now let me connect the dots because so far you don't know what I'm talking about probably the corona virus is almost perfectly analogous to radical Islamic belief not regular Islamic mainstream ordinary Islamic religious
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mainstream ordinary Islamic religious person I'm talking about just the radical ones who want to kill people because the Muslim population mostly innocent has a little bit of an idea of virus in it that you could call the radical terrorist element just a little bit of a larger population has that problem identical to big population of Chinese nationalists or people who've been to China almost all of them do not have the coronavirus virus the vast majority of ordinary Chinese travel have no coronavirus but a very small amount do and we treated we treated the the Muslim country band as if we would treat all the people with the same risk level simply because we can't determine who are the dangerous ones we classified the whole group as potentially dangerous just because we can't tell the
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just because we can't tell the individuals within it and then the coronavirus comes it's exactly analogous I mean there are lots of difference and you know trade agreements and our relationship and things with China so there are big differences but the way the human mind processes things is that we see why is this different why is that why is that why is the virus being treated differently in terms of allowing people into the country then the Muslim ban when in fact both of those are large communities were overwhelmingly innocent of anything but just a small amount are infected the Chinese some of them with that virus the Muslim countries that are banned just a few of them with terrorism here's the problem it makes it look racist makes it look racist because if you can't explain to me why those two situations are treated
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me why those two situations are treated differently where's my mind going to go so if people keep saying did it it did something happen this morning because I did not see a news report about banning travel I saw only that we ban to travel to China so let's just let's check it in in any event it took too long so it doesn't really change what happened I'm just looking gone I don't see it on the headline
yeah I don't see it as a headline someone needs to catch up well I just looked at all the CNN Headline so there's nothing there about restricting incoming flights so mandatory quarantines now let's let's do a fact check on that my larger point remains the same because I have assumed all
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the same because I have assumed all along that we would reach a point where we had to stop the flights so the fact that he stopped him does not make it still not a gigantic error because the error was waiting this long you know if if if the virus takes off in this country it's just going to look like the greatest political mistake of all time put it on a persuasion level he had a chance to get rid of his biggest problem I would say Trump's biggest problem was that so-called Muslim ban that wasn't really a Muslim ban it was about a band about we don't know who in that group is going to be the dangerous ones if he had done just exactly the same thing with the virus people would say oh okay I get it now I get it whenever there's a big group and you can't tell which ones are the dangerous ones you temporarily ban them all until you can sort things out and figure out what's safe cuqui could have treated both these situations the same and it would have absolutely absolved him at least to some people it
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absolved him at least to some people it would have absolved him from the claim that the Muslim ban was about Muslims and Sneden goes the other way where biggest one of the biggest mistakes I've ever seen him make persuasion wise because it was free money that was free money that the president should have just looked at that table full of free money and said I'm just gonna temporarily ban things I win on the Muslim ban I win on being rough on China I went on being cautious and protecting the country win win win win win win and he took the losing path I can't explain it
it unless there's massive corruption somewhere it doesn't mean that it's Trump could be whoever's advising him could be Congress Santa at the I don't know could be anybody but there's something corrupt going on there all right somebody says it's already banned so I'm going to go check the news there could be a reason that and CNN does not have that in the headlines I
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headlines I you might I have to check because there's a little confusion about what got banned so I'm not sure that those of you who are saying that we've banned those flights might have only banned it in one direction but let me check on that that's a it's an open question we'll go check on that together and that's all I got for today see you tomorrow