Episode 806 Scott Adams: Comes To You From Space Force, Zero Gravity, Coronavirus, Fake News

Date: 2020-02-02 | Duration: 59:40

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Amazingly…CNN continues to take quotes out of context, S.E. Cupp mischaracterizing Alan Dershowitz Speculation that Hillary wants to be Biden’s VP Coronavirus virus origins and death speculation 6 additional countries banned from the “Green Card Lottery”

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oxygen good artificial gravity turn back on well as you can tell I'm here in the space force command center orbiting Earth geosynchronous orbit and a lot a lot of you don't know that space force was actually formed decades ago when we found alien technology we've been using that at area 54 for a long time and of course space forces has been up and running for decades but only recently President Trump decided to try to make it legitimate so he had announced it as if it were just starting not really the truth and I'm here to tell you is that many of us have been in space force for a long time I'm actually an admiral I'm an admiral in space force but all of the all the people in space force had to

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all the people in space force had to take secret identities because the public wasn't supposed to know we have all this alien technology that we've been weaponizing and so they said to me you need to cover some kind of cover story and I was like I don't know like what kind of cover story and they said anything you want I said well what if it's some kind of job where I'm not even qualified they said doesn't matter you could be totally unqualified totally oh you think you have area 51 no area 54 is where they keep the good stuff area 51 is where they tell you the good stuff is but if you were actually going to storm that that area once you got inside you'd see just you know cardboard cutouts and stuff and you'd be like I swore I thought there were aliens here no it's the area 51 four is where the real stuff is 51 is just a diversion so I've been in space

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just a diversion so I've been in space force for years my cover story is a cartoonist weirdly enough the fact that I I can't draw very well didn't tip off anybody that it was just a cover story but now you know so I thought I'd take a few questions later after I talked about some of the news up here in space and there isn't much news probably because it's a Superbowl day but I'll tell you what we got I am absolutely amazed the CNN continues to do something that you would think just couldn't be done which is to completely make up news based on taking a quote and a context even when the rest of the context is publicly available and everybody's seen it it's the weirdest thing that they can get away with it they are no longer just reporting news that isn't true in some cases instead they've they've started conjuring

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they've they've started conjuring reality out of nothing so in the case of Alan Dershowitz his testimony they continue to take that one sentence out of context where he was talking about a specific example with Lincoln to act as though he's generalizing that to trump which is not what he was doing he was making I'm not going to go over the arguments but let's just say that they completely make a fake argument for Dershowitz and then see c-cup in writing on cnn.com today this is this must be maddening for Dershowitz I can imagine what he's thinking imagine imagine seeing that your opinion the one year you argued so well in front of the world has been mischaracterized and then after they mischaracterize it they here's here's this is so so clever and despicable it's just funny first they mischaracterize them and

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first they mischaracterize them and that's always stage one after they've mischaracterized it into something that's ridiculous then they say the majority of experts say his argument was ridiculous and you know what the majority of experts would say that the argument that they mischaracterized is ridiculous at least the mischaracterization is ridiculous but not his actual argument to the best of my knowledge nobody in the world has actually argued with him well I can see in the comments there's something you're missing doesn't it bother you doesn't bother you your addiction is now so deep then you need the simultaneous hip and all you need for that is a copper marketer glass of tanker chalices dime a canteen flight geography a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and joining me now for the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better than the simultaneous

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everything better than the simultaneous Impa go oh yeah and all you need is an SE Cupp somebody said in me in the comments so what did I call her CC cup I think I called her a CC cup not a C cup which is funnier much fun here alright so what does it mean when CNN can make news and the stuff that you could just look anybody can look and see is made up all you'd have to do is listen to Dershowitz explain how there mischaracterizing his opinion you could look at what he said originally it's easy to it's so easy to know that it's completely made up just like the the Charlottesville fine fine people thing a man this morning I got into it with somebody who alleges to be an MIT professor now this is interesting

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professor now this is interesting because I don't think you can be an MIT professor unless you're pretty pretty smart wouldn't you say and so this professor apparently has never watched any I'm just guessing never watch any news source other than the ones that present the fake news so at first this professor thought oh this quote from Joshua's is actually accurate but it's taken in the context had to do with one example about Lincoln was not a general comment so and he was so I argued with him a little bit because I was curious how could somebody that smart be so easily fooled and it turns out that is really obvious in the context that he'd never heard the other arguments think about that imagine imagine if you were watching this whole you know impeachment stuff or even just

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you know impeachment stuff or even just the whole Trump administration imagine if you had never seen the alternative arguments you'd only watch CNN you'd probably think it was true right you'd probably think that the way they characterized Trump and his comments and stuff is actually accurate so I felt sorry for him all right there's a rumor that a continuing rumor that this is a new one instead of Hillary saying that she wants to be president the rumor is speculation really more than rumor that she would potentially agree to be Hillary's vice president I'm sorry that Hillary would agree to be Biden's vice president now I'm gonna say not now here's the thinking and then I'll tell you why it's cray-cray the thinking is the Hillary so wants to be Trump that she would take the vice-president position and doesn't bring the entire

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position and doesn't bring the entire Clinton machine to bear and that would be enough you know Biden plus plus Hillary Clinton and maybe it would I'm not even saying that wouldn't be a strong package it would probably be a pretty strong package and people and the speculation goes that she might want to do that because being the first woman who's a vice president is still breaking breaking a barrier so she would own that here's what I think and she's already said that she's not going to run for president I don't think she would say that directly unless she meant it and of course the play would be that she wouldn't bother running for vice president unless she thought she could run the show from there or she thought that Biden was going to fade fairly quickly and she would just have the top spot because of constitutional order here's why that's not going to happen this is my prediction I don't believe

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this is my prediction I don't believe the Hillary Clinton from a psychological perspective from an ego perspective I predict that she could not accept running for the second spot yeah I just I don't imagine it I also imagine that she's enjoyed not being in government these past years it's hard to be that age and be sort of retired and enjoying yourself even though you're giving speeches it's all just stuff you want to do and it's just fun and you don't really need the money and I think she's just enjoying herself so the first factor is it's kind of hard to get back in the game after you've been out of it for a while and you're that age secondly Hillary does not solve Biden's problem what's Biden's biggest problem he's old he has said himself that he's going to pick somebody young for his vice

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pick somebody young for his vice president I think he means it I think he would not pick somebody who would be in their 70s if elected if what he's trying to show is that well I've got a back-up plan because I'm too old so it doesn't make sense and it wouldn't get the the minority vote necessarily although you know Clinton did get a lot so it wouldn't be terrible in that way but it wouldn't it wouldn't satisfy the a person of color on the ticket so I say that Hillary is very unlikely to take a second position and here's the last reason why imagine if she lost imagine how much it hurt to lose to trump but imagine if she lost twice I think of that what if she lost twice that if that would be devastating I don't know that she would put herself in that position all right

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put herself in that position all right let's talk about the corona virus I have a very controversial provocative thought I like to say in advance there's nothing racist about this at least nothing intended that way so if you misinterpret it that way that's on you and here's the thought there apparently there is now the first report of somebody dying outside of China from the corona virus and the first thing I looked for and it was easy to find is that the first person who died outside of China was ethnically Chinese and here's the question I'm just gonna put it as a question right now as anybody who is not ethnically Chinese died from the virus yet I know people have gotten it and I'm sure that would include people who are not ethnically Chinese but I kind of need to know that fact

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but I kind of need to know that fact before I feel I have a full opinion about what's going on here now I've heard and I don't know I don't know if this is you know completely true or sometimes true or it depends in the situation but I have heard that there there can be different viruses that might affect different ethnicities differently that's not don't take that as a fact take that as a something I heard but yeah most of the people dying are going to be compromised or older which is sort of the same thing but I'm just going to ask the question is anybody is anybody gonna die who's not ethnically Chinese because remember one of the mysteries that I've been hammering on the mystery was why was the United States not as concerned as we thought they should be meaning our government why was our government not that concerned compared

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government not that concerned compared to how concerned we were pretty sure they should have been and now apparently they're making the right move and and banning travel for a few weeks anyway from China so at least our government caught up and got with the program why do you think it could have been slow why do you think the United States government is still saying it's a low risk for our country is it possible just speculation is it possible they know that it doesn't transmit as well outside of an ethnic group now I just gonna put that out there because some of the conversation is about whether or not there's something unique about this virus you know could it be man-made because it could be weaponized etc apparently there's no evidence of that so the rumors you've seen about it being escaped from you know a bio lab or something apparently there's no evidence of that well let's keep watching there's maybe it's me but there's something

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maybe it's me but there's something about the whole situation that just doesn't smell right beyond the fact that it's an obvious you know big problem there's something about it I don't know what it is you can smell it before you can see it let's in a related story that you would not think is related but it is so the US has banned six more countries from being able to enter the United States or get or be part of the green card lottery as it's known so those countries are Eritrea Kyrgyzstan Nigeria Tanzania Sudan Miramar my mine amar my NMR
NMR literally the first time I've ever said that word my NMR my my anymore I've read it many times literally never said it alright so here's why this story about immigration and the coronavirus story are actually the same story because what

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are actually the same story because what is the difference between an idea virus and a physical one so the reason for banning immigration from these you know so-called banned countries is that these are places that we imagine bad people could be in the mix and we wouldn't be able to tell us they're bad people it's exactly the same as a planeload of people who coming in from China you know regardless of where they're born or what nationality or ethnicity they are it's a planeload of people and we can't tell who might be infected with the virus and who can't so how do you treat it if there's a big potential risk and you can't tell who's innocent and who's not well if it's a virus you quarantine and you temporarily block until you can figure out what's going on get a handle on it if it's the idea of virus of being a terrorist it's exactly the same in

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a terrorist it's exactly the same in effect the effect of it is exactly the same it's a big population most of them use uber fine just like with the virus planeload of people come in from China almost all of them are going to be free of the virus but you don't know which ones so why is the medical situation so different from the idea of virus situation when they both have those same qualities now I don't like to argue from analogies but I'm not even sure this is much of an analogy it's so exact in terms of how you would handle it and now the fact that the United States is handling those two situations roughly similar in other words were we're doing something bad for 99% of the people so we can stop that 1% and here's my point I believe that it's going to be much easier for the administration to get away with

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the administration to get away with these travel bans from the various countries you know the ones that we think have some terrorists risk it's going to be a lot easier for that to be accepted by the public because the public thinks in terms of analogies the public thinks in terms of stories and precedents and past examples and patterns and since this pattern is being formed with the coronavirus that pattern is going to you know accidentally spill over into immigration and here's my prediction the the outcry over being tougher on immigration is going to be substantially reduced because people watch the coronavirus situation and because they they agreed that you have to be bad to all the innocent people to stop that 1% once you've agreed that that's okay to be bad to 99% of the

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that's okay to be bad to 99% of the people just to stop the 1% then it's still okay it generalizes at least through people's minds yeah you could argue they're not the same so you treat them differently I wouldn't I wouldn't disagree with you on the details but people's minds are going to treat them as the same so that's about all that's going on right now I'm gonna take some questions it looks like some people are lining up to ask me some questions let's do them in no particular order Cheryl you're you're coming at me Cheryl Cheryl do you have a question Cheryl Cheryl did not have a question Cheryl went away so I'm gonna pick liner

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Linna can you hear me hello lino do you have a question you're live hi I but I'm not sterile I said lino lino do you have a question yeah yes can you tell me more about how there's a corona fire yes and you tell me how that all relates anti-vaccine oh so the question is how does the corona virus relate to the vaccination and anti vaccination I'm not sure that we should make too much of that I appreciate the argument that says if you're going to be cautious about one thing you should be cautious about another so I think you know there's a little bit there to make a political argument but I think you could ignore one when you're working on the other so I would just treat them as separate there there's a little bit in common but not enough to make something of it that's that's what I would say

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of it that's that's what I would say thank you for the question I've got a bad connection there anyway let's see if we get a better connection from Aras so Aras come at me Aras with your question eres el o eres do you have a question for me sales pitch if you want to let me do that real quick not really okay tell me what you were gonna sell I'll tell you if I want attached I was gonna make the argument that capitalism is already dead because I have some friends that they're more socialist on the socialist side or outright communists and I want to get this into a sales pitch form to kind of convince people to kind of drop that a little bit does that make sense yeah I don't think the audience is ready for that but let me engage on that topic I have a theory hypothesis really that the people who

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hypothesis really that the people who were pushing you know the deep socialism that bore some communism the anarchy and stuff like that I feel like they're treating it more like a lifestyle and more like theater and Rand if and that if you actually sat in anybody down with no witnesses and say oh look look Bob you know I hear what you're saying I get it you like to March and stuff you ain't the president I get it but do you really think this system would work for the country I don't think anybody really thinks it so it feels not real I know is I have a hard time taking you seriously and and I'm pretty sure that the serious people in the government don't take you seriously there now I suppose we could get caught off-guard it could be that there's a whole generation that's brainwashed to the degree that they don't know it's not serious and then right they bought into it so there is risk but anyway thanks for bringing up that point I want to hear a little bit more questions yeah so that

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little bit more questions yeah so that we can hear more for me thank you all right so the the reason I didn't want to do that is I know most of you were watching these periscopes because you want to hear more from me and wherever that's the case Cassandra are you there good morning do you have a question for me how much I love you and gar simultaneous tips in the morning and how much I appreciate you well thank you thanks thanks for telling me I appreciate all of you too and I'm gonna take your question now Cassandra but thank you for that you too all right let's give some questions here be provocative come on give me a hard time Joshua I know you can do it Joshua do you have a question for me yes we're

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you have a question for me yes we're having appreciate it my pleasure what's your question yeah so you know as I'm reading the books I've read all your are you decent for simple kitchen there's nothing which one has been you
before well yeah so which of my books is my my favorite and that would depend you know what what aspects of it you're gonna talk about but my book had a failed almost everything and still win big I hear from people I I've been wondering how to even tell this story in public and I think I can start to tell it now because there are enough people who would back me on it that it doesn't sound crazy every day I hear from people who read that book sometimes a few years ago and tell me that it's changed their lives I've heard people losing 80 pounds people getting off of opioids I've heard people getting huge raises changing

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people getting huge raises changing their social life around going from depressed to happy I mean ridiculous stuff really I mean such kinds of improvements that it's a little bit mind-boggling and I don't even know how to process that it's more that I would have ever imagined now why I like that not just because people are having great experiences by it but I wrote it for that purpose and there was a there was sort of a deeper purpose on top of that I mean it was meant for anybody to read to to improve their life and it appears to be working very well for that but it was written specifically from my at the time fourteen-year-old stepson as a way to capture everything I knew in a friendly forum that I thought I could get him to read he did not finish that book before he he died of a fentanyl overdose but it was written for him for a very special purpose so I had I guess I had more of my heart and soul into that book because even though I was

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that book because even though I was writing it for the public it's it's often the case that you write a book for one audience an audience of one with with the assumption that that is generalizable and it was written for that one person my stepson and he's not with us anymore so what I hear when I hear other people whose lives have been changed it gives meaning it gives meaning to the effort gives meaning to my stepsons life because I'm not sure I would have written it the same or maybe as well if if I hadn't been writing it for you know somebody that I cared about that much so that one's the most meaningful for me and if you were gonna sort of looking for a starting point for my books that are non Dilbert books that's that's where I would go maybe so and yeah you're another example a lot of people telling me that the talents snack idea and the systems over goals are just life-changing concepts that's what I was

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life-changing concepts that's what I was hoping thank you so much for your question yeah the reason the reason I have trouble talking about it is that it doesn't sound believable if you actually saw the types of messages I'm getting they don't translate if I if I simply told you what people are telling me I don't think you'd believe it because they there's some ridiculously
transformational you know people who have changed in very fundamental ways all right cholera can you hear me hey do you have a question for me yeah I'm an expert I've been divorced once so I would give you these tips you you've probably at some point you could correct me if I'm wrong talk to yourself into the fact that you could never be happy

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the fact that you could never be happy you know again because you know you found that one love and it didn't work out and how can you move on and I would give you this one advice I don't know anybody over my entire life I've never met anybody who got a divorce and then five years after the divorce said you know I wish I hadn't gotten that divorce I'd never heard of it not a single time by the time people make this change it's time for the change because it's so hard getting the divorce is so much work it's so much pain that nobody does it until they're ready and I'm gonna guess you're ready are you ready oh yeah yeah enjoying the process I can tell you that the first year after being married when I could wake up and do anything I wanted just anything I wanted as long as it was legal that was an amazing feeling and I enjoyed it but

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an amazing feeling and I enjoyed it but you also get to the point where you need something you need something more substantial you know it's sort of like hey you know you're off your diet you can eat all the junk food you are and so for a couple of weeks you're gorging on junk food but eventually you say you know this isn't the way I want to live my whole life some people might but was it wasn't fulfilling to me so I'm I'm engaged again and I'm very happy about it so good luck to you I think your your your future life looks better than your past it's on your engagement thank you take care all right let's see what else we got here it's funny I look at your faces and your before I choose somebody and trying to pick somebody will challenge me the most and let me see if I picked correctly hello caller can hear me can you hear me

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hello caller can hear me can you hear me I'm calling from Denmark hi Damon from Denmark do you have a question for me yeah I just wanted to hear your thoughts on this whole wires and it been a bio weapon having patents on it and all that yeah I just wanted to know what are your thoughts on it is it something politics or something well you're talking about the coronavirus cronauer's yeah yeah there's no evidence that I've seen in the news anyway that it's a bio weapon but there is just something about this you know there are all kinds of things that make this a little different one is that it seems to be affecting people in China more than here but it's too early to say that's real versus it's just early in the process secondly the rate of growth looks unnatural meaning that you would expect a bioengineered virus to be more viral

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bioengineered virus to be more viral than something else because you would make it that way so it's it's so extreme and it probably is way worse in China that is being reported I think almost certainly we can say that that just the extent of it is concerning you know because we know we could make such a thing but it doesn't make sense that China would make a weapon and use it against itself I can't really see some other country you know trying to infect China in this way I mean we do some bad stuff to each other the the theory that I like not like is the wrong word because it would be terrible let me let me take back like the theory that and this would just be a conspiracy theory you know we've talked about how the fentanyl coming from China is revenge for the opie oh the opium wars a lot of people say that so you could imagine

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people say that so you could imagine again this is just this I'm just none of this has any evidence alright so nothing I say next should be taken too seriously but could there be somebody who knew how to make a virus who had a family member died of fentanyl I just put him put that out there what are the odds they'd given I don't know 50,000 Americans and who knows how many from Europe or whatever maybe in China too how many people have died from illegal fentanyl that came from China just a question with all those people was there even one person who was a surviving less a family member of all those people who were killed by Chinese fentanyl was there even one of those people who knew how to make a virus that would kill mostly ethnic Chinese people I hope not I certainly don't want to live in a world where that happened

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live in a world where that happened but you can't rule it out get ruled out you know fifty thousand people would touch a population of I know maybe a million people would be a family member of those people who died if you count fifty thousand a year so that adds up pretty quickly probably at least a million people and if a million people is there not one of them who was willing to engineer a virus and drop it off in China probably not you know if I had to bet on it I would very easily bet that it did not happen it's just an ordinary virus like every other every other one but because of the crazy way the world is you have to ask yourself that question you can't rule it out on the surface now of course I don't know how hard it would be to bioengineer a virus like that so maybe it's so hard that that's a ridiculous theory I'll put it out there anyway that's all I got to say on that I don't think we're gonna find out it's an intended by bioengineered weapon but it's terrible that we can't rule them

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it's terrible that we can't rule them exactly alright stop thank you thank you very much and just just just one thing to note in Denmark there's been as far as I have heard there's been two cases of the virus but it's still no China ban and that's kind of weird I just want every country to ban you know China or the flights until we know what's going on but nothing here it seems like an enormous political risk because every leader that does not do a ban has to answer why the other countries did and if the countries that did the ban have a you know measurably better outcome than the people who didn't I don't know how those leaders keep their jobs I really don't I to me that would be a lose your job decision because you're seeing the other people doing it the right way and I would have said the same thing about Trump I think he was way too slow on this but if he hadn't done it at all you'd have to ask yourself if he's your president for the next cycle anyway thanks Damon all right yeah you too Mike

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thanks Damon all right yeah you too Mike all right let's take some more Oh doo-doo-doo Barry looks like he's got something to say Barry Barry can you hear me hey hey what's your question Barry what question about loser think in the book you say there's about a dozen opinion shapers in in the country six and either side you revealed on Twitter that sucker is probably one on the left can you talk about who the pinion shapers are well I it's a it was more of a conceptual point and it's based on observation and you know one of the things that there happens when you start dealing in politics and you become let's say somewhat notorious as has happened to me in the last few years is you start learning things about the nature of reality that are very disturbing and

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reality that are very disturbing and can't be communicated they actually can't be communicated so the things I know that I just can't tell you and and I know they're true I mean they are by their nature something you can determine to be true independently and you don't have to wonder about it but the the real way the world works is that they're just some people who determine what the news is
is and then within politics a few people who determine who's gonna run who gets what money etc now there are lots of people were playing in that game you know hundreds and hundreds and you know thousands but I believe that the ones who were best at it and the ones who have the positions where they have the most influence like you're Jeff Zucker at CNN he can literally determine what CNN considers the news that day you know as I was talking earlier in the periscope they've decided that their news will be to misinterpret where Alan Dershowitz said so they can continue the

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Dershowitz said so they can continue the fake news that the impeachment was illegitimate etc and probably somebody at the New York Times has that power probably one or two people at MSNBC and you very and and then of course Washington so you very quickly after the first you know five or six media lets you get down to people were just not that important you know once you're down to you know the the third or fourth level of news outlet they're not newsmakers the the firm's like CNN and New York Times The Washington Post or consider the the ones who decide what the others cover so yeah only they're about six on each side now Trump of course is you know one of the people who just is shaping reality and they're probably I don't know I couldn't name them but they're probably half a dozen people who advised him or have some influence on the process you know

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some influence on the process you know somebody at fox news obviously etc so yeah something like twelve people are the ones who have the most influence over everything not the only influence but by far the 8020 influence science true questions oh you went away I lost him all right let's look at I'm gonna take Carl Carl can you hear me Carl Carl hi do you have a question for me Carl at one time he said the slaughter meter was at zero percent the Trump would win because of the media I never heard me explain why he took it back to a hundred percent the other time I don't remember what I was saying when I said it was zero percent I don't remember the context we've gotta kill them they decided all the media and all the social networks were against him but

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the social networks were against him but he had no chance to beat all that the thing that for a while mmm that doesn't even sound like something I've said so I can't speak to that but I'll tell you what the current slaughter meter is that I I think it's over a hundred percent you know sometimes I jokingly say it's four hundred percent or whatever but I can't see a scenario where he loses because we're the illusion is that the Democrats have an idea of an ideal candidate which might have a name they might say my ideal candidate is burning your Biden or whatever but they have sort of an idealized version of their team Trump hasn't even started as soon as Trump has one individual target and more importantly all of the opposition research has one target and it's going to be a bloodbath I I think Trump is is going to just destroy whoever it is now at the moment he's laying down suppressive fire he's sort

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laying down suppressive fire he's sort of hitting everybody who does well in the polls so he's going after what he calls mini Mike Bloomberg now who has as Trump said at his rally I've had it up to here with him so apparently he's going after mostly his height now if I if somebody had said this ten years ago that a politician is going to strictly focus on his opponents height you say that you'd say well he's not going to win with that but we did watch him take out the entire Bush dynasty with one word or two low-energy so could the height thing work against Bloomberg it might but you won't know because he's gaining in the polls because he's spending a lot of money so you don't know if he would have done even better if not for Trump's attacks that we'll never know but yeah I don't see I just don't see anybody in the race giving him a serious competition so 100% plus thanks for the

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competition so 100% plus thanks for the question
all right let's take Nancy Nancy looks like she's enjoyed a simultaneous sip or two Nancy do you have a question for me Nancy do you have your mute on your phone because I can't hear you Nancy we're going to move on you missed your chance let's try let's try facts or safe facts are safe can you hear me do you have a question for me all right so I've learned from the master obviously but I want to know when in Trump's second term do we seriously start talking about repealing the 22nd amendment remind me what the 22nd amendment is term limits for presidents

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amendment is term limits for presidents we're never gonna talk seriously about it
it no you know I I could easily see Trump supporters and they even Trump himself running that as a four-year practical joke because it would be a practical joke because yeah at least half the country would believe it's true but I've never met have you I have you ever met any even one Republican or one Trump supporter have you met even one who would seriously be okay with him staying beyond two limits what know what seriously CNN's business model ever seriously answer the question have you met even one who would seriously want that like it's a joke but anybody really wants that I don't think so I doubt it you know for if if for no other reason he'd be too old all right but thanks for the question all right let's go with let's go with

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all right let's go with let's go with Perry what's your name Perry Barry are you there Barry hi do you have a question for me I'm wondering why in the trial the president's attorneys never brought up the fact that you know first of all that Obama administration spied on a candidate because the FISA Court already had come out and said that two of the four applications are invalid but what I got was I got to do with in such well that's why it's gonna say - I mean I know it kind of sounds like what about ISM but it sounds like even even the president's attorneys are or what what's that term passed the sale where they're just assuming Russia even meddled there still isn't a shred of evidence in the molar report or anywhere that Russia even meddled oh that's not true that's not true yeah you you apparently have been stuck in a news silo it is it is

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been stuck in a news silo it is it is not true that there's no evidence of Russia meddling because the now I'm not saying the evidence is accurate I'm just saying that there's plenty of evidence that there trol farm was was doing something extraordinarily trivial well it is but but they seem to know and then beyond that there's a question of that the hacker who got the emails and so far the government seems to be unified and saying that those were Russian hackers - so much so that they know the names of the organization and the people who were involved and they have details now I don't know that you could say those have to be true but it is an absolute false statement to say there's no evidence of Russia interfering in the election because those two pieces of evidence are the official government positions so it could be not true but there's certainly evidence right it wasn't the Russian government that did the ads and then as far as the hacking goes they didn't give

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far as the hacking goes they didn't give us any any evidence of they well there's there's an assumption with the ads that the guy who owns the troll farm is a good buddy with Putin so that part we know so the odds that he would do this without Putin's support seems low which is which is the thinking now I happen to think that's not necessarily the case meaning if you're a troll farm you probably take contracts from whoever is going to pay you right so if the manager of the troll farm got a contract and said hey can you make it doesn't matter who it came from can you make a bunch of fake ads and and do this they probably just say yes because it's just a job I'm not positive that the troll form was coordinating with Putin but they're Russian and they are associated with an oligarch and you'd have to say that the oligarchs are part of the government effectively even though I'm not officially effectively they are so yeah I can see the validity

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they are so yeah I can see the validity of the of the accusation well a judge actually ruled that Muller was not allowed to say that they were associated with the government because there is no evidence he wasn't running even sooner that's right there's no direct evidence but the the argument is still strong that we know the person who owned it is connected to yeah I have my suspicions about that as well so I think I think they probably just didn't want to bring them all her stuff in there too much it was just a distraction okay well it wasn't directly on point I think everyone to what the crane revealed by Oliver Stone amazing film that'll teach us all a lot take a look at that thank you
alright let's take another question or so Michael Michael Cantor come at me Michael our technology did not work fail or Michael went away let's talk to doc doc

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Michael went away let's talk to doc doc Wilson are you there doc Wilson went away maybe it's maybe it's periscope itself could be that these people didn't really want to talk to me that's the other possibility let's do Jordan I'm intentionally picking men with beards Jordan are you there do you have a question for me it's not a dating girl she is a moderate since you go to Robbie's can you turn down you I think you've got some volume up on something so I'm getting some feedback is that there that's better now you're dating a girl and so she's a moderate so she good for Rami sivanna but she she has they needed strong so she considers Trump negative for London so I'm really wanting good persuasion device to go ahead and try to sway her protection so you should go with the

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protection so you should go with the protection persuasion if you were a woman imagine going outside and every time you walk outside no matter where you are you walk inside and you're basically in danger because men are dangerous to women in a way that they're not exactly dangerous to other men so I don't live in that world because I don't ever never afraid anywhere I go just period because if you're a man it just doesn't come off that often but women are in a perpetual worried about security at about physical safety and they have to be it makes perfect sense so that's that's probably the most base thing you could do so you if you make the argument that Trump is all about that which is he is all about military it being so big that nobody will messes with us he doesn't want to start a war he'd rather finish them you'd rather kill the terrorists so the terrorists doesn't come here you'd rather be strong

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doesn't come here you'd rather be strong on crime and cetera so there's probably nothing that women need more than to know that the government and society is going to protect them I'll go with protection and and I would I would contrast that since she's not going to have a choice of voting for Romney for example contrast that with what any of the progressives will offer which is really risky it's risky for the economy which could be you know more dangerous for women and it's risky for security because he would probably you know open the borders and reduce the size of the military so I would go for the danger element and I think that's real there's nothing I would consider that such a perfectly valid point that you would never be worried about you know being disingenuous so that's the way I'd go I'd go with risky and dangerous and and Trump before people thought he might be risky and dangerous but now we have some

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risky and dangerous but now we have some tracrac he's put the economy where you need it got his trade deals and I was gonna be mentioned earlier what does the public think about the fact that it's been a few years now that we've had these bans on the in the countries that we can't vet the terrorists we haven't really had a major terrorist attack in this country now those are not necessarily related not it's not a one-to-one relationship but in people's minds they're gonna say okay I really hated it because he was gonna do something more extreme that I thought was prudent but I gotta say it looks like something's working you know whether it's that alone or that plus other things so I think in people's minds it's gonna look it's gonna look better as time goes on so that's my best answer thanks for the question thank you Scott I'm not stay YouTube all right let's take another one Christie

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right let's take another one Christie Christie do you have a question for me
Christie is not there I will find somebody who is there Mac cannon what a name I'd like my last name to be cannon to Matt can you hear me do you have a question for me Matt I do and first of all I just want to say your simultaneous sip is pretty crazy the other day I was in a meeting and I got out around 10 o'clock and I was trying to get away to get the SIP and I missed it and then today you purposely I think made the SIP go a little bit later so I thought that was pretty nice of you to do that was director if it was an accident well that was a little bit of an accident today because I was I was doing the wait list thing in the beginning but the the science says that addiction is caused by unpredictable rewards so if you knew that the simultaneous sip would

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you knew that the simultaneous sip would happen every day for sure it would be less addictive than if you have some scares or you miss one you know that sort of thing so anyway what was your question my question is I was going to first as a shoe the other foot test question about alan dershowitz but I figured since today is Groundhog Day and it's a palindrome do you have any thoughts on that that today is OH - OH - 2020 which is the same forward and backward as well as being Groundhog Day well and we're a simulation with you and - I'm generally oblivious to random digital coincidences so I don't have a comment about that other than we humans love to find patterns even when there's nothing interesting there but so no not much to say about that but thanks for the question all right let's find another one let's talk to some of you have very funny names I'm gonna go - oops

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names I'm gonna go - oops Bob I think Bob wants to ask me a question Bob you there Bob you have a question for me I can go ahead to you yes what books do you read for entertainment or what periodicals are what more generally what do you read for entertainment oh you know it's embarrassing to say but there have been years in my life where I've written more books that I've read and that's literally true I've sometimes I've sometimes published two or three books in a year and and read one part of it is that my attention span has reduced just as most of you have because of modern life so reading a whole book is hard for me and I also have a physical difficulty reading books which is that I fall

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reading books which is that I fall asleep if I read when I read on the plane I'm not good for more than four pages and I'm sound asleep and it doesn't matter what the book is doesn't matter how interesting four pages and I fall asleep I think the problem is if I had to guess I'm visual and I like lots of lots of inputs and even though I'm a very fast reader literally studied speed reading I mean I can read very quickly but I can't read nearly as quickly as I think so what I'm reading I feel like I'm in mental jail because my my desire for input is so much greater than the amount I can get by reading that I feel just deprived and I'm just starved of intellectual you know excitement so and I just fall asleep I just fall asleep so for me reading a whole book is hard but the alternative is that I read a tremendous amount of stuff mostly online but I do

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amount of stuff mostly online but I do you know I do a quick dip I'll see an article and I'll say oh that's something I didn't know about let's say how a virus is spread and I'll I'll jump through that article pick out a few points and then move on to the next one so I could get I get these many lessons from news articles and you know articles about topics and googling stuff and but if you read a whole book I hate to say it but not every book is filled with winning pages but if I'm picking on the internet what to read I get a winner almost every time because you can kind of tell right away if it's something that you'll find interest in so that's my answer I don't read a lot of books but the ones that have influenced me the most are ironically one is named influenced thinking fast and small those kinds of books are are transformational so I hope that was a partial answer I I'm just not the one to recommend books

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I'm just not the one to recommend books but if you wanted to read about persuasion Google persuasion reading lists and you'll see the list of books that like alright let's take one more and let's make it good I need the best question asker of all times it's gonna be Rick a Rick a can you hear me okay do you have a questions good what's your question what it was you about Latin America and the Americas right so originally the the area around the United States which I believe has been put on the backburner for way too long I know that China is very important and everything involved there's a lot of there's a lot happening on this side of the world and it's actually affecting us

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the world and it's actually affecting us in terms just from the border to the right maybe Iranian influence in Venezuela Cuba influence around the region yeah you know I would say I'm not an expert on anything south of our border but I I've had the same feeling that you have which is that it would be in our best natural national interest to make sure that our closest neighbors are doing as well as possible and there's you know less crime and cartels and stuff so it does feel like our resources have been in the wrong place now there was a reason for that because we needed oil but now that we we're not dependent on Middle East oil the national I would say the natural arc of history is that we'll move out of there and I think we're gonna end up getting more interested in things south of the border but maybe that's wishful thinking so but

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but maybe that's wishful thinking so but I agree with you we we should be working more directly on improving things south of the border for our own self-interest that's where our greatest interest is thanks for the questions thank you all right I think I've done it all for today I hope you're going to enjoy the Super Bowl and I will be maybe dipping into that a little bit and watching it and thanks for watching and I'll talk to you tomorrow