Episode 812 Scott Adams: James Woods is Back, Donny Deutsch Gets Cancelled, Optimism is High

Date: 2020-02-07 | Duration: 56:16

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a President Trump’s victory speech after he wasn’t impeached Young healthy Doctor who reported coronavirus, died of it? Donny Deutsch and Elizabeth Warren’s “packaging” Chernobyl fungi that eats radiation Nancy Pelosi’s hinge Bette Midler’s ALL CAPS fear Kudos to Aaron Rupar for his 48 Hour Rule, public apology

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all right on schedule yeah that's some good stuff well I think you've all noticed by now if you're on Twitter for even one second you know that James Woods is back now and he's back with a splash let's just say he's he's back and he's not shy so the fun begins now I can't think of a better way to cap off the best week this president has ever had I mean by far this is Trump's best week of all time and maybe best month of all time if you look at the outcomes and there's just something perfect about James Wood coming back in time to enjoy this coming election season so welcome back James Woods we're happy to have you and let's let's enjoy the ride together all right you may have heard that there was a whistle blower in China a doctor

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was a whistle blower in China a doctor who was essentially saying that China wasn't taking seriously enough it wasn't it wasn't accurately reporting the coronavirus deaths that doctor ironically in treating people got to coronavirus but here's the weird part he died of it now is it a coincidence that what are the most dangerous critics and whistleblowers in China is one of the rare people the 1% or whatever percentages who die from it now I saw a picture of him it looked like he was getting good medical care and that's one of the one of the biggest factors about whether you're survived or not is if you get medical care the other big factor is if you're old or you're a compromise with your immune system well I saw a

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with your immune system well I saw a picture of this guy and even in the hospital he did not look like he had any kind of compromised immune system he looked like he was 30 years old 34 simply says he was 34 years old what is the total number of 34 year-old people in perfect health who are receiving medical attention on time who are they themselves doctors so they know if anything's going wrong they're sort of a second check on things how many people like that the fit into that category are gonna die of the coronavirus it's pretty close to zero I'm guessing right so the reputation of China continues to decline just when you thought it couldn't get any worse man do we need to decouple we need to decouple hard now let me ask you an outrageous question just to just to keep this in

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question just to just to keep this in the back of your mind China quite impressively I must say we're all impressed that China built in record time a bunch of hospital like the facilities for keeping all of the the infected people quarantined there so now they have how many tens of thousands of new hospital beds that are not total hospitals but they're good enough for now
now - just keep people away from the rest of the public what do you think they're going to do with those after the corona virus is done so when there's no more coronavirus do you think they're going to dismantle those facilities or I'm just going to put that out there are they going to use them to store some more Weaver's or some more or dissidents which one do you think is going to happen do you think they're gonna waste a completely you know a perfectly new building that is good for

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perfectly new building that is good for detaining people and having guards to make sure they don't escape do you think they're going to waste that after they don't need it for the coronavirus I don't think so I think it's the beginning of something that might get a lot more evil based on history and recent history all right funniest story of the day pundit Donny Deutsch who you know from appearing on TV especially MSNBC and saying that President Trump is the worst person in the world the worst person in the world and it looks like he's given canceled by his own team now and when I say cancelled I don't mean just his TV show gets cancelled I think that already happened but he's given canceled as a as a person basically the way the left cancels people for saying the wrong stuff so apparently what he said on Morning Joe this morning and he became a trending hashtag on Twitter is that Elizabeth Warren can't

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Twitter is that Elizabeth Warren can't win because she is quote too strident
and not likable enough now what do you think happened to Donny Deutsch when he said on TV that Elizabeth Warren in his words was too strident and not likeable enough oh yeah you know what happened people were hopping mad because he was being misogynistic but was he was he I hate to do this but I'm now about to launch into a full-throated defense of Donny Deutsch his opinion not Donny Deutsch he can defend himself as a human and he can defend all of his other opinions that's on him I'm just gonna defend him totally on this one point and I'll do it this way if it were true that there were no such

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if it were true that there were no such thing as women in the political sphere who are not too strident and are likeable in addition to being effective wouldn't that make Donny Deutsch seem right in other words if Donny Deutsch said every woman who ever got into politics was unlikable and too strident I'd say whoa whoa Donny Deutsch I'm out I'm out that's not true there are plenty of women who don't have this alleged problem of being too strident or unlikable things that get blamed on you know we say this about Hillary Clinton you said it about now Elizabeth Warren but if it doesn't apply to all women or even most because nobody is putting a percentage on it I don't know you know it could be rare that these politicians are unlikable but let me give you some

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are unlikable but let me give you some examples of people who is politics I much do not agree with but I find likeable are you ready you're not gonna like this this is the part you don't like Tulsi Gabbard his tulsi gabbard likable totally totally you can hate everything she says about politics and you still say oh you know but she seems like a nice person how about AOC now you might not like her I realize there's you know very radical different opinions about her but in my opinion I don't think you could call her unlikable you could hate her opinions you might even hate her in some way because of her opinions but she's kind of likable right how about here's the worst one I'm really gonna challenge you

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worst one I'm really gonna challenge you on this one ilan Omar Alon Omar has some of the worst opinions I've ever heard I don't think she's good for the country I have a very negative opinion of her as a politician but she's kind of likable
yeah I hate to say it but she has she has a likable vibe about her that is completely at odds with her messaging which is so vile you can barely stand it but she's a likeable person am I wrong I mean just your vibe alright here's another one so this is a non politician but I want to make the point that it's not about your it's not even about your your physical attraction to the person because I want to make that distinction we're not talking about somebody is attractive on you know biological level

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attractive on you know biological level what about Ellen so Ellen we assume has very left-leaning opinions probably you don't agree with them but would you ever think the Ellen was strident or unlikable let's say she ran for president tomorrow you'd like her right it has nothing to do with being a woman or not being a woman Ellen or even not you know whether you want to you know in your your primal brain if there's something thinking well I would I would want to meet with that person even even without that Ellen's very likable am I wrong here's one getting into a little grayer area probably what about Klobuchar maybe your your mileage might differ but I don't find her strident and I don't find her unlikable she seems like she'd be kind of fun you know again I'm not I'm not a not

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you know again I'm not I'm not a not that attracted to her policies but isn't Klobuchar she seems like a pretty nice person now some of you are saying no because there's rumors is she's you know she's bad to her staff and stuff like that but I haven't seen it in terms of the way she presents herself on stage seems like able to me now let's let's take it to the other side of the aisle what about so here's a TV pundit I've just used her as a good example Tammy Bruce you've probably all watched Tammy Bruce the entity she's on Fox News alot etc conservative she identifies as lesbian and if she ran for office tomorrow forget about what party she runs for doesn't matter she runs for office tomorrow would anybody call her strident or unlikable not a chance

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or unlikable not a chance not a chance she's totally likable compare that to judge Jeanine that Judge Dean as a you know popular TV show physically attractive but she's a little bit strident when you sing so if somebody you know if she ran for office tomorrow and somebody said that judge Jeanine is yeah she's a little too strident for me I don't think that's likable enough would you say that was unreasonable or sexist I wouldn't I would say that you know she puts on you know everybody on TV who's pundit they sort of put on let's say an exaggerated personality it's part of the show and if somebody said I don't know that she's a little a little too much for me I'd say that seems reasonable but I wouldn't think it had anything to do with her gender so and we should also realize that Donny Deutsch is base of

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realize that Donny Deutsch is base of knowledge and what he is speaking to is is advertising is what he's famous for so Donny Deutsch a very successful advertising you know executive entrepreneur so he knows advertising you would say what you want about his other opinions say what you want about him personally but he knows advertising he knows that people are responding on Biological reflex level so when Donny Deutsch says that Elizabeth Warren is too strident and not likeable enough that should be regarded as him speaking about her as a product in the same way when you open up a product from Apple that the packaging is so delicious it's just so tactile and fun to look at fun to touch you have this great first impression of Apple products it's a very similar thing that he's saying about Warren he's not talking about the quality of her of her policies he's

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quality of her of her policies he's saying that the packaging just the packaging not quite as friendly as it needs to be and he's sort of on a biological reflux level is that is that sexist well it would be again if he said that about all women or he had a problem with all women running for office and there's no indication of that not at all in fact I'm sure it's the opposite without you know without reading his mind it's safe to say given his other policies that he's you know Pro women Pro pro you know diversity in general I think that's fair to say so while Donny Deutsch rubs me the wrong way like I have a I have a really negative reaction to Donny Deutsch it's not sexist is it I'm a man Donny Deutsch is a man but God does he rubbed me wrong when I'm hearing him do his political

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when I'm hearing him do his political talking so I would say the same thing is true of Donny Deutsch if he ran for office tomorrow he would seem like little too much now you might because of gender it's entirely possible that people would use different words to describe it when you're describing a woman and she's just rubbing you wrong there's just something about her presentation that's bugging you maybe you use words like strident ooh not likeable maybe if it's a guy you say he's a jerk he's an a-hole you know so you might use different words he's a bastard but it's kind of the same thing all right so there I've defended Donny deutsches opinion as I think being totally reasonable and I think the Democrats would be smart to listen to him frankly because he's talking about the thing he is really an expert on which has had a package a product in this case a candidate all right so there's an interesting story somebody

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there's an interesting story somebody said this is an older story but it's I only saw today so I I tweeted it around apparently at Chernobyl they have discovered a type of fungi that eats radiation that's found inside the nuclear reactor what that's right a fun guy that eats radiation as its food now can that be you know commercialize is it is it an answer for storing rady you know spend a fuel I don't know I don't know probably there's a lot of there might be a lot of you know obstacles to actually using this but it's a sort of surprise that you can guarantee it will happen between now and the next hundred years in other words in this whole realm of climate change and nuclear energy and fuel in general this is exactly the kind of surprise this one turns out to be meaningful or

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this one turns out to be meaningful or not we don't know but it's the sort of thing you can see a lot of people are gonna say what suddenly we have new options so nuclear looks better President Trump tweeted I think yesterday that he was supportive of the people in Nevada who did not want to store nuclear waste at Yucca Yucca Mountain now I don't know a lot about the you know the the topic except that nobody wants nuclear waste stored in their backyard and the president mentioned that they were looking at innovative alternatives well one innovative alternative would be to find a organic way to put your nuclear waste somewhere and have the mushrooms eat it I don't know what becomes of the mushrooms I assume they develop superpowers and eventually secret identities and fight crime and that's good too because we have too much crime so if you're a fungi eat the radiation and become superheroes and

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radiation and become superheroes and fight crime well that's a twofer you got two things there the other thing and I love saying this because everyone's while you see something that completely changes how you feel about something and Mark Snyder did this to me on the subject of of nuclear waste that the current nuclear power plants when they create waste it's a solid it's not a liquid the the old I guess when nuclear weapons create waste the weapons do create a liquid waste and our minds process the difference between a solid waste and a nuclear waste you really feel like the risk is different don't you and I'm not sure this is logical but the way you feel about it is different because when you think it's liquid you think well how good are those containers you know kind of put a little liquid get out and you know and and like acid could chew its way through the bottom of the barrel seems kind of scary but if you if

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barrel seems kind of scary but if you if I tell you it's solid like a solid rod you say to yourself okay well that's that's not like acid probably they probably figured today now I have no reason to believe that the solid from a from a engineering perspective is more protected than the liquidus they're probably equally protected they're probably just fine in both cases but the way you process it is really different the liquid just seems scarier than the solid so it's worth knowing the the other innovative way to take care of nuclear waste is of course building more generation four or building them in the first place that use that spent fuel as their fuel so if you can get to generation four quickly enough you have a way to eat up that fuel without storing it so you eat up the waste because it be used as fuel and between now and then

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between now and then apparently it's fairly common to store the nuclear waste on the same site as a nuclear power plant I guess that's a normal way it's done which makes me ask what's wrong with just doing that if you've already got a nuclear power plant isn't the local population already as scared as they need to be I mean they're they're already not building their house next to it you know it's they've got a little bit of space there but it's not their biggest problem you know if it's a nuclear power plant the thing people are worrying about is the nuclear power plant unfortunately now if it's avert if it's one of the newer ones like you know generation three none of them have ever had a nuclear meltdown event but people still worry about it so we have some options for the waste all right um let's see what else is going on Rachel Maddow

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see what else is going on Rachel Maddow is sounding the alarm as others have that the the voter turnout in Iowa the number of Democrats who actually went and voted was quite low by historical standards that was hard to compare anything to the Obama situation because Obama was he was sort of a hundred you flood himself or maybe more you know Obama was more like a thousand-year flood if you look at it historically yeah we assume that that flood will happen more often now but until you add your first black president that was a long flood or a long drought with that in a flood but what does it mean that Democrats are not turning out in droves for the very first one well you know there is something special about the first one right do you think that the the people who normally vote in the Iowa caucuses do you think that that there's the kind of people who would be

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there's the kind of people who would be apathetic in general I don't think so Iowa is very dialed in there very clearly they have great energy around there their special role as the first the first election like the thing so the fact that that turned out was low I think it probably means something somebody's saying that it was the black turnout that made the difference I don't know how big the black population in Iowa is it's 90 percent of white so I don't think that was all the difference might embed could have been all right so that alone it could turn out that that variable alone is all you needed to do could be because remember all of the Democrats that we think are among the pool of people who might become the candidate I know people say Hillary is going to jump in and Michelle Obama's gonna jump in that's not going to happen this pool are the ones that someone is

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this pool are the ones that someone is going to be picked from this pool and and I say that because if somebody came in at the last moment in a let's say it's a you know a negotiated contested convention and they just broker it and pick somebody who's not even in this group it would destroy the Democratic Party totally it it would am I wrong if these candidates did all this work and all these supporters you know they work for what years some of them and got to this point and then they picked somebody wasn't even trying that's the end of them that's the end of the party wouldn't you say that's really the end of the party so I don't think that's going to happen so if you couldn't generate enough excitement with the people who are going to be one of the one of them is going to be the candidate that might be over that might be everything that you need to know about the election there's there's no other questions to be asked all right there's a lot of chatter about Trump's

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there's a lot of chatter about Trump's so-called victory speech yesterday after he was not a beached let's see what I did there I hope you're all I hope you're all in on the prank the prank is that we just keep saying he wasn't impeached because it's true in the sense that alan dershowitz famous constitutional scholars as know if you're accused of something and then you're you're acquitted because the the accusation didn't hold the accusation is expunged you know you're not guilty of a thing after being found innocent of the thing so by that model you have every right to say he was not impeached but the fun is not whether it's true or not true or it's the right words or not the right words it's just gonna drive Democrats crazy so just think of it as this long-running practical joke in which you never argue it you just say it's the fact don't debate it just say

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it's the fact don't debate it just say it wasn't a beach didn't happen it will make them crazy already is all right so so the of course the the perpetual critics of the president said he was unhinged and and it was so unusual and I don't know inappropriate or something and I guess he at his speech not I guess I watched something that he went hard at his critics he was very insulting to his critics and he was funny and he said things that presidents don't say he said he said about the Russia collusion thing or wasn't about impeachment who it would apply either way and people kept acting shocked and I don't know what else and so I tweeted this note to pundits who are act so here's my tweet acting shocked that real Donald Trump insults his critics and enjoys his

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insults his critics and enjoys his victories is so 2016 in 2020 it's okay to acknowledge that the only impact of it has been to entertain us it would make perfect sense and I would say it would be a reasonable thing to say if this were back in 2016 to say hey our president who acts this way and insults his critics you know it might cause some problems that would have made sense because you'd be speculating well I don't know exactly what problems but it feels like when things are changed you know that there was nothing broken before I mean there was nothing to fix right you know presidents acting presidential was totally working so if the president acts non-presidential according to his critics well that would be changing something that was working fine so it's adding a little risk I would agree wouldn't you say wouldn't you say that if something's working fine

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you say that if something's working fine which is hundreds of years of presidents acting presidential every every bit of that works or we're all on the same page totally works then somebody comes along and says I'm gonna do it differently that's a perfectly reasonable thing to say which is whoa why would you change something that's working it does that introduce some new risks and the answer is yes of course you don't know what risks they are and exactly but changing something that works is always risky but it's not 2016 you don't have to speculate what might happen you can just look what happened we've got three years of history that I would consider fairly solid in terms of telling us what are the ramifications so let me check let me check how president's insults of his critics have affected me see first I'll check my stocks nope no impact except maybe they went up nope nope how

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except maybe they went up nope nope how about hold on let me get a check things let me check my coffee because it might taste different because the president isn't acting presidential Lucy no it's exactly the same weird huh all that insulting didn't check didn't change my income didn't change my coffee how about my health same it's as if it didn't affect me well it did affect me a little bit it entertained me didn't it entertain you it was good for news ratings and made stories gave me something to tweet about I think we know what happens when this president insults his critics as long as he stays in that lane where it's somebody who started the fight and he is responding to it as long as that's what's happening you know somebody who had it coming somebody who

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somebody who had it coming somebody who entered the fight willingly not a citizen just somebody who entered the fight willingly what about that person you know I mean so far we can see that there's no no cost to that so it's time to update your criticisms of this president and just acknowledge that nothing happens because he insults his critics just nothing meanwhile speaking of unhinged this is probably confirmation bias at in my part because you know if you want something to be true or you're expecting it to be true and then you see some evidence you say oh there's the proof that's how confirmation bias works so I will alert you that this might be totally confirmation bias on my part but let me ask you this doesn't Pelosi look unhinged she looks like she lost it well this if you saw the last interview in which he was responding to the president it's attacks on her etc it looked like

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it's attacks on her etc it looked like she'd lost a little bit of stability now I'm sure if if confirmation bias is all that's happening you're gonna agree with me I see in the comments everybody saying totally totally yes but it doesn't feel like confirmation bias of course that's not what kind of formation bias works if you could tell when you were experiencing it it wouldn't be that formation biased but anyway that's how it looks to me it looks like and let me put it in a different ways so this is more objective so the next thing I'm gonna say is not an opinion I don't think I think you could just say yes that is objectively true Pelosi has not changed Trump so far are we right does everybody agree with me that Trump is still exactly Trump he is exactly the same person who took the job am i right there's nothing that Pelosi or any the critics did that turned him into something else well you probably agree

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something else well you probably agree on that here's the second part of that same thought Pelosi changed into Trump
right because Pelosi started out being on the adult in the room I will not I will not stoop to insults we're just gonna keep it professional I would never want to be a big ol angry cloud like this president I'm just gonna keep it on the straight and narrow how'd that work out didn't Pelosi is a completely different person Trump broke her he broke her heart he's exactly the same and she and she has a brand new personality apparently you rewrote her personality that's not even the joke her brain is reprogrammed because you know her actions of course are informed by her brain it's her brain

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are informed by her brain it's her brain that causes her to do what she does and if she's become a whole different personality and I think you don't look objectively that doesn't feel that doesn't even feel like a subjective question we're just watching her insult the president when before that never would have happened you know at least the way she's doing it the depth of the depth of it what about the theatrics you know tearing up the the document you know if you had asked her five years ago would Pelosi have said you know there's no place for theatrics the that's you don't do that in the Senate you don't do that in your professional work you know the Speaker of the House I don't need theatrics I just need a good argument and then she goes to theatrics so Trump broke her and reprogrammed her into a version of himself you can't win harder than that can you

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you can't win harder than that can you let me tell you the only person who ever won harder than Trump did by breaking Pelosi reprogramming her into a female clone of himself that happened right in front of us we all watched it only one person has ever won that hard and that person you know was a fictional person it was in the Silence of the Lambs in which he would murder his victims and then use their skin for some kind of a hat or clothing or something that's basically what Trump did to Pelosi so you can't win harder than that all right here's another case of elder abuse Bette Midler tweets and all caps and it's funnier because it's all caps so a president Trump pinned the carpe Noctem famous meme of showing himself with the

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famous meme of showing himself with the the years passing by as if he's going to be president for a thousand years you know president for life and the joke of course is that there are literally zero Republicans who would favor him having you know any kind of a third zero not a single person in the entire you know right Trump supporting universe would also support him having their third term so that's why it seems like a joke to all the Trump supporters but part of the joke is that the other side doesn't know it's a joke that's that's what makes it such a good joke and here's what Bette Midler said he goes he pinned this meaning that carpe don't and mean in all caps she shouts you think this is a joke don't you it's not he means it he will change the rules and his enablers will let him if he wins again he will rule until he dies you die or both then you'll get Ivanka

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now the first thing that I would say about this is it didn't sound that bad actually you know what I'm not in favor of Trump having more than a second term but the way she describes it doesn't even sound that bad is that we would have more of this president who is even if you think he's not responsible for it he is presiding over the greatest period in American history period not even close there's nothing there is nothing like the last three years this is the Golden Age so if you say we're going to get more of that Golden Age and when the president Trump goes well then the real trouble starts you can have a vodka taking over and I'm thinking were you trying to scare me because Ivanka becoming president like everything about that I like I don't think she's gonna run for president frankly but I like the idea but anyway let me say this as

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idea but anyway let me say this as clearly as possible if there's anybody listening who thinks that there's even one even one Republican who wants the president have a third term and it goes like this have you ever met a Republican have you ever met one what is the number one thing the Republicans say Constitution Constitution Constitution Constitution if it's not the Constitution there's zero Republicans who support it that's it that's the end of the story if you don't get that you don't understand anything you really don't it's the most basic fact from which almost everything grows out of that the entire political thought and disagreements and everything comes out of that one basic fact if you're a Republican you like your Constitution and you're not going to mess with it now of course you can always change the

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of course you can always change the Constitution by having you know two-thirds of the states vote for it whatever or whatever but that's not Trump Trump can't vote it in so there's there's zero risk so when I see Bette Midler apparently legitimately worried about this and you see the president playing this prank by actually pinning that pinning that beam he's the best practical joker of all time and what's funny is when I thought about this I thought you know he actually did just become the most effective you could say bass that's subjective but I'll say the best practical joker of all time and that was just a hobby right if you take the other things that he's been number one in the world and he's had a number one best-selling book you know he became the president of the United States he's the best number one I

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United States he's the best number one I think it was number one for a while best you know best television show and then he gets into office and that he does all these things that are the best best unemployment I think we just reached you know something like the best economic optimism we've ever had it's all these bests we've got the best military I mean you just go on and on how many things has President Trump become the historical best ever at or at least he was number one for a period and now he's added practical jokes to his resume kind of funny all right
and to that point there was just a Gallup poll that said quote America is happier than that any time into 40 years that Gallup has done the poll what according to Gallup who is not known to be any kind of a trump supporting poll

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be any kind of a trump supporting poll you know they're they're independent says that in their poll Americans are happier than at any time in 40 years how does that square with everything the illegitimate fake news is trying to tell you every day every day the news is telling you that our society is being ripped apart by Trump but every day I walk outside and I'll see it that was it do you in your personal life you know of course you know you don't want to wear your Maggie hat in public because you'll get beat up that's kind of a special case right when you go to work you just go enjoy your life you probably want to avoid talking politics but mostly everything's better I would say that race relations are better than ever I would say that the way society thinks about and treats the LGBTQ community better than ever the way people treat I

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better than ever the way people treat I know that the disabled community better than ever I don't think there's anything that isn't better but literally just everything's better except but I suppose the national debt but in terms of how people feel it's pretty darn good all right I asked this question on Twitter I put it in the terms of a poll you will enjoy the persuasive nature of this all right so it was a poll in which I was curious I actually wanted to know what people would answer of course it's a Twitter poll so there's no scientific validity to it but you know it's provocative and interesting anyway so I'm going to so here's here it was my poll question I said question for Democrats only what was your reaction when you learned that the quote Trump called neo-nazis find people's story was always fake news so that's the question and the choices were

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that's the question and the choices were you know I they blew my mind was one choice choice two was I immediately changed parties and then the third choice was what meaning I'd never heard that before and then the fourth choice was just showing me the the options and about three and a half percent each said that it blew their mind or that or that they switched parties now I assume there's a overlap there but the way that poll was written you couldn't answer both so there could be people that blew their mind but they didn't change their party presumably but I think you could add them together so around seven percent of the respondents and again this is not scientific but you know if you get seven percent answering something it probably means somebody somebody's in that category that there are people who saw that that was fake news and it affected them and it

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news and it affected them and it affected them in a big way somebody saying three percent trolls yeah it's possible that they're just Republicans or trolls or something trying to game the game the thing but here's but independent of the results which I acknowledge are not scientific and yeah you don't want to draw too much of a conclusion from them but here's the part I thought you'd enjoy the persuasiveness of the way it was presented I'm presenting this as something you haven't learned yet but other people have that is a really strong frame if I say to you hey your fact is wrong you say known isn't know my fact is not wrong then you say well here's a link to show you your fact is wrong what do people say I was doing this much of yesterday I would send people a link of Steve Cortez is a great Praeger you video in which he talks about all the all the proofs that the fine people hoax was hoax and what

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the fine people hoax was hoax and what did people say when for the first time they were hearing that that was a hoax and then I showed them the link to the proof they said and I quote lol Praeger you ha ha ha ha Praeger you ha ha ha ha do you have any credible sources now that of course is cognitive dissonance you you would recognize it by now if you've been following my periscopes because the pregger you what makes it powerful is it first of all Praeger you as a platform there they're not the ones who told Steve Cortez what to say they're the ones who said we have a platform you've been saying something like this would you like to put it on a platform in addition to the other places you've been saying it so in this regard Prager you is like any other social media platform it's like the news that brings on a pundit etc it's just the platform by the way I will also be on the Prairie guru

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way I will also be on the Prairie guru platform in a few months I'll tell you more about that but I've there's a video that they've asked me to do and I've agreed so more on that later but the point was that when I put it in the form of what was your reaction when you found out it was fake I take people into the future and so that they can imagine that their minds would be blown because all these other people who are on their team are already there very powerful frame so remember this technique you make them think past the decision of is this true or not true and you make them think to the how did you feel about it when you found out it wasn't true by the way that is exactly the way the illegitimate hosts on the last debate treated Bernie Sanders do you remember that they asked Bernie Sanders did you say that a woman did you say to Elizabeth Warren that a woman couldn't become president

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woman couldn't become president and birdie says no you know unambiguously no I didn't say that and then she immediately turns to Elizabeth Warren and says some version of how did you feel when II said that and Bernie just laughs it's like and part of the laughs is that it actually is very effective all right if she hadn't asked the question immediately after he just said no you wouldn't have noticed it so much but when he put it in stark contrast there it just looks ridiculous so why only member that trick I might use that again and I baited a lot of people into telling me that I was crazy and all the things I say and threatening to boycott Dilbert because I had dared to say that maybe the fine people hoax was hoax and then I waited until they were really mad and they were really sure that there was nothing to it yeah and then I gave him the link now they really hate it when the whichever link I give them whether

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the whichever link I give them whether it's Steve Cortes link of the Prague Review thing or my own stuff on that or Joel Pollock's writing on that they'll they always go for the source it's like oh no that came from you or it came from Breitbart or came for prank are you so therefore don't have to listen and then I point out that all of these sources show you the original source they show you the actual transcript and if you don't believe it you can just google it just google it you can get the transcript yourself it's right there so I didn't mess up a lot of people's minds when they did that all right last item a very rare and weird thing happened recently there was a Vox journalist named Aaron drew Parr who several days ago misquoted mischaracterized something that greg gutfeld said on the 5 and he misquoted it just just egregiously to the point of

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it just just egregiously to the point of he was putting words in Greg's mouth like he had said something racist which is nothing like what he said it was just a complete mischaracterization and character assassination that part we assume is business as usual in fact it is the primary tool used by by the left it is the primary tool when you say at this point it has happened so many times you'd have to say this is their primary tool is mischaracterizing was someone else said and then acting like they said something different so they could insult them but here's the fun part Aaron Rupert apologized in public on Twitter and he said this while watching I guess Greg was on Tucker Carlson show when he said whatever he said so he said while watching Tucker Carlson show on Tuesday I posted a tweet in which I quoted Greg Gutfeld remarks I misheard and falsely attributed a racially

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and falsely attributed a racially charged comment to him I deleted it as soon as I became aware of my error but I also want to publicly apologize to Greg I'm sorry very rare so I tweeted day you know well Doug gives us Paul my apologies go this is a good forum I think it was within the 48 hours were close enough and and and he does the good apology forum which easy said you know he said what his mistake was that's very important and then he said what he did about it he deleted it and then he apologized that's your that's your perfect apology for him if you do that you're always you're always doing it right but why is this so rare what what was it that caused just this one time Democrats to leave their primary strategy that they all pursue literally

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strategy that they all pursue literally all of them you know usually you can't say something is true all Democrats but that's true of all Democrats all Democrats take stuff out of context and act like it was something else and then criticize all it's a hundred percent now they don't even always know it because it's the news and the pundits who first take it into context then the the rank-and-file democrats believe it's true and then they act as though it's true so why would this one guy on this one time abandoned the primary strategy if everybody in left i
assume he was going to get sued i don't know i don't know the details so i don't know i don't know what what conversations happened I don't know what communications happened but you know for somebody to change the mind like that there was probably was a financial I would almost be willing to the state that there was a financial element from

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that there was a financial element from this and maybe you wanted to keep his job however I'm gonna go beyond that and say we shouldn't care about that it doesn't really matter why he did it and I'll say this a million times until you start to believe it when people do the right thing even if their motives are impure you should still congratulate them and you should still celebrate that because people are what they do alright and and by making this apology he's he's be became the person who made an apology right so I would I would promote treating him by the apology and not by what you imagine or his inner intentions or why he did it but I imagine there's more of the story there all right
why are Democrats ashamed of being wrong but are ashamed of being white I don't know that that doesn't sound like something that's generally true of

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something that's generally true of Democrats somebody says does dilbert support Trump Dilbert is apolitical I try to keep him that way just looking at your closing comments here and we'll Pelosi publisher players
oh that's Dennis Prager as much I judge people by what they do not what they say I think he and I talked about that I believe we are chatting I was on his radio program was promoting the book in the fall and I believe that that was something we mentioned as a common common philosophy somebody says their wife just observed that Trump has turned Pelosi into the bad Trump not the productive Trump yeah that's true Pelosi is the bad Trump follow up

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Pelosi is the bad Trump follow up podcast with Sam Harris I feel like we need to do that before election day don't you I when people tell me how they found me you know when people are trying to they're asking to connect on LinkedIn or they're following me on Twitter the most frequent thing I hear is that they found me on the Sam Harris podcast so that that interview has some reverb brocation reverberations reverb occasions he has reverberate 'add across several years now so I guess whatever happened there was very powerful more more so than I imagined at the time it happened so Sam Harris I think that both of our audiences would be interested in an update on that so one of us needs to be on the others show before an election day all right

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follow-up podcasts with Joe Rogan somebody says you know I don't know that I make a good second guest for Joe Rogan meaning I mean I love being on there a lot their conversation got a lot of attention and so everything about that was good and you know Joe Rogan's just national national treasure I think but I'm the kind of guest that maybe people think they already heard for me so it would feel like they've already done it I mean I can't speak for Joe Rogan but it would be normal that that didn't make sense to have me on twice so I so I wouldn't I wouldn't be pushing for that but to say of Eros the thing there there is a natural reason for an update that's a different situation alright I'll go with a variant machine particle accelerator sub limit or precision for my polyps yeah I'm gonna have to ask about that so just a little

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have to ask about that so just a little update I am going to go into I have a couple of minor surgeries and I'm scheduling so I will try to do at least the simultaneous if even between surgeries and by the way they're for nothing so you don't have to worry about me they're just most minor thing one is a assist on my leg that needs to be removed and the other is there's a gaff some surgery and my nasal situation up here but they're they both will knock me out for a little bit but nothing important you don't have to worry about it alright that's all for now and I will talk to you later