Episode 819 Scott Adams: Talking About Barr, Stone, Swalwell and Taking Questions on Valentine’s Day

Date: 2020-02-14 | Duration: 53:20

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Ukraine’s Secretary of Defense offer to LTC Vindman CNN creates another something-out-of-nothing news story President Trump versus AG Barr Mike Bloomberg’s Twitter comedy writers Anderson Cooper’s body language, Eric Swalwell interview Would America care if our President was gay? Dr. Karlyn Borysenko opinion piece, shedding her TDS

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hey everybody happy Valentine's Day come on in here it's time for coffee with Scott Adams and it will feature yes it will a special Valentine's version of the simultaneous sip what makes it special you ask well you're gonna have to wait and see but I think you'll agree it's pretty special and all you need is a cup or a mug or glass a tanker chalice or style in the canteen junker flask a vessel vedhika in filling with your favorite liquid could be hot chocolate today but I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better these simultaneous sip the Valentine version go mmm yes just as I suspected when you match the subtle undertones of Valentine's Day with the exceptional flavors and pungency of the simultaneity

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flavors and pungency of the simultaneity I think it makes a lovely bouquet and you don't have to hate me for that I ain't myself just for saying that sentence so what's going on it's a weird slow news day so I thought I'd take some questions later except I put out my headphone and I forgot to click the option for taking questions so it turns out I won't be taking questions today I just realized because if you don't click that option before you turn on the periscope you don't have that option so this might be the slowest periscope or the shortest one you've ever seen but I will take you questions in the comments after I start paying attention to them all right I learned some news today should have seen it coming I tweeted about earlier but did you know that you probably knew that Ukraine had I guess

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probably knew that Ukraine had I guess on three occasions had offered lieutenant colonel of Inman the job of Secretary of Defense for Ukraine now if this is the first time you've heard that I don't know what you've been watching if this is the first time you've heard it but if it's the first time you heard it I want to assure you that you heard it correctly you're not crazy American lieutenant colonel vind Minh the very one of the Ukraine perfect letter story while he was working I guess with Ukraine they offered him the job of their Secretary of Defense for Ukraine three times I guess he's got some ukraine heritage in his background so there was some reason for that but here's the part I found out the only reason that Ukraine offered vinden the job of Secretary of Defense is that hunter Biden turned it down no that's not true but wouldn't it be funny if it had been true yeah yeah that's the way

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had been true yeah yeah that's the way the news should go the news should always follow whatever is the funniest now you can fill in the rest of the joke on that hunter Biden joke I know you're doing it in your head he turned it down because it wasn't paying enough exactly hunter Biden turned down the job of Secretary of Defense for Ukraine because he was overqualified good job nice writing yeah there are a few more jokes you can fill in there and they're all good all right today we have the biggest story of the day is not even a story at all the news business is so good at weaving something and of absolutely nothing then it's starting to be quite impressive you know you saw that collusion hoax something out of nothing the Ukraine story is something out of nothing the president is a big ol little dictator something out of nothing you know so they're really good at baking something

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they're really good at baking something that nothing today's a good example so you probably know the story but if anybody doesn't President Trump tweeted about I'll just give you the rough outline of the story he tweeted about the Roger stone sentence being nine years said something about it being excessive I guess and then everybody said whoa the president can't be tweeting about a case that's still active and still going on you would be influencing the Department of Justice which tactically is in his his domain as president but by tradition you're not supposed to do that because you don't want to show you don't want to look like a dictator who's telling your Department of Justice to do what you want versus doing what they know to be right so then part two of the story is that after the President did that or sometime around that time bill Barr simultaneously also had the same thought he saw the verdict

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had the same thought he saw the verdict about stone and said what that looks excessive let's let's look into this and see if we can you know find out what's going on or adjust it which he did so here's the story President of the United States and the Attorney General that he appointed are in complete agreement that's the story right the president thought there was something wrong with this stone sentencing independently and I think we believe that it really was independently because Barras Barre is a pretty good reputation right as a straight shooter so Barr has had no independently and having nothing to do with the president's tweet and I think even before it he said what's wrong with this this stone thing we're gonna look into this so the the real story should be this the President of the United States and his attorney general completely agree so does Alan Dershowitz so does Jonathan Turley famous constitutional

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Jonathan Turley famous constitutional scholar scholars and lawyers so do pretty much all of the independent lawyer looking at this yeah the ones who are not blatant partisans pretty much are all the same team so what kind of a story do you make out of everybody agrees well how the hell do you turn that into a news story well see you then could do it and here's how they did it because bar clapped back as they like to say he clapped back at the president's tweet saying and again this is just paraphrasing yeah that he it was impossible to do his job under these conditions when you know when the executive is tweeting about it it makes it impossible for Bart to do his job and and that he wouldn't be bullied by anybody the Congress the press or the president now what did CNN say about that they said whoa whoa it looks like

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that they said whoa whoa it looks like Barr and the president are having a little tiff let's make something out of this now what did the president say when asked about Bill Barr clapping back and saying that the president shouldn't be doing all this commenting the president said that's fine I'm gonna do it anyway all right so what's the story what's the story let me let me put it to you whether they get another frame do you want a president it doesn't matter what what party they belong to it cetera what do you want a president to watch a travesty of justice the stone sentencing would you want him to watch any travesty of justice whether it was stone or anybody else and watch it with the public the public is watching the same thing he is we're all watching the same stuff it's clearly a travesty of justice it's obvious it's public everything we know all the facts we need to know we

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know all the facts we need to know we watched it we all have the same opinion travesty of justice we all at least the president's supporters seem to be and I don't want a president who won't comment on that I certainly do want a president who would not here's a easy keyword here I would not want a president who privately weighed in I want the justice system was doing in other words if the president put his finger on the scale privately with the individuals in the Department of Justice such as calling bill bar in and saying you know hand on the shoulder bill you know I really made it really means something to me if this you know went this way I think you should do this it could mean a lot for your career you know what it is something like that had it been a private conversation I think you'd have to filter it differently but when your president does something in the most public way it can be done should you see it the same because I don't think so I think that if

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because I don't think so I think that if your president tells you exactly what he's thinking publicly that's always good now I'm sure somebody's going to come up with an exception to that you know maybe have had to do with national security you don't want to know the president's inner thoughts but that's what the president says to the president says when it comes to national security and sometimes even to you know negotiations that being unpredictable is an advantage so when you watch the president of negotiate with let's say an adversary he acts unpredictable and he doesn't really let them know exactly what he's thinking and he tells you I'm doing this intentionally and then you watch it work it's a good strategy but when he's talking about domestic stuff do you want your president to not tell you his actual opinion in public so we can all see it I don't want that why would anybody want that in what world would

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anybody want that in what world would you not want your president to publicly give you his opinion so this is all good news now there is one situation in which that would not be a good idea and that would be if he had a weak Attorney General do we have a weak Attorney General well argue some of the some might argue we used to but not now is anybody arguing that bill Barr is a weak Attorney General no no your perfect situation is the one you just watched your perfect situation the one that you know if the founders could could map it out on paper and say you know we want to update this constitution let's build a system that's really good what's you know let's map out what's the ideal situation the ideal situation is that your commander in chief your President of the United States says in public on domestic issues not defense issues but says in public what is his real opinion is what's

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what is his real opinion is what's better than that I can't think of anything and it doesn't matter if it's about the Department of Justice or anything else now again this is predicated on the fact that your Attorney General is not going to be swayed by this strong executive president Bill Barr is I want to say he's alpha as f you know what I'm talking about right does anybody think the bill bar is going to be bullied I don't think so doesn't look like it to me and and he said so in public now do you think that President Trump respects bill Barr less for clapping back in public we can't read their minds but if I had to guess I'd say that they're both pretty happy with the situation in the sense that they both showed where their their line is bill Barr said here's my line all right you just crossed my line so now I need to

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just crossed my line so now I need to make sure that I've defined this line a little bit more clearly I'm gonna do it clearly strongly and in public how do you beat that how do you beat that really what system in the world is better than a strong Attorney General publicly strongly and clearly saying okay you pushed a little too hard now here's my line so everybody knows now I'm not joking about this this is the line perfect situation along with in my opinion a president who's willing to tell you in public his actual his actual thoughts on the issue and certainly I appreciate it when a president weighs in and something that looks like a miscarriage of justice so CNN is reporting this like some kind of a problem while you and I are watching the most perfect system you'll ever see it doesn't get better than what those two did this week that's as good

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those two did this week that's as good as it gets it really is we don't want all of our we don't want all of our leaders to be on the same side all the time and I like the fact that the president is simply acknowledging you know I think in a sense the president acknowledged the bill Bars opinion is valid because he didn't push back and Bill Maher's opinion he just said I'm the president I'm gonna keep doing what I'm gonna do you know I'm gonna communicate with the people the way I communicate with the people nobody's going to tell me to not do that perfect perfect all right do you think that Mike Bloomberg has hired comedy writers so that he has clever responses to president Trump's tweets I think so and this is going to be something to watch for because it's going to be kind of obvious after a while if if Bloomberg starts spouting these these little you know rejoinders that are a little too

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know rejoinders that are a little too clever a little too funny a little little too well packaged it's going to reveal that they're coming from comedy writers now who's the comedy writer for president Trump's tweets nobody and nobody the president writes his own company he writes his own tweets he writes his own insults now he also retweets you know funny memes and stuff but you can tell the difference between a president Trump tweet you know the insulting ones the the funny ones those are all him there's no comedy writer feeding him stuff I think it's obvious by the way he doesn't nobody nobody could right you know there are good writers who could write good stuff in their own voice well I don't think anybody could write a tweet in the president's voice quite the way he writes them I don't think that could be done we wouldn't know right away if the president started using comedy writers that's not going to happen but so Bloomberg was responding to the the height comments from the

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to the the height comments from the president he came up with a quip he said I heard a little clip where he said where I come from height as major is measured from the neck up and then the audience has to think for a while weight height is measured from the neck up so he's saying that if you have really tall forehead that's good what now that doesn't make sense so so your Hut your height is measured from that neck up is that because you don't have a long enough measuring device or is it good to have a big head what exact oh oh I get it I get it I get it he's saying I measure my height from the neck up because he say the brains brains that's right brains brains are the important part now who wrote that I think Bloomberg might have you know pulled that out from you know something from his childhood or something because it sounds like an old saying it doesn't sound like something that was written

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sound like something that was written for this purpose it sounds like he pulled it out from maybe his past you know somewhere he heard it but I think you're gonna see Bloomberg hire writers and it's going to be funny when they when they start doing their thing all right Eric's wall well it has crawled out from under a rock he was hiding after the collusion rush occlusion fell apart and the Ukrainian thing fell apart but he's back and he's my representative here in California and he said on CNN he was being interviewed by Anderson Cooper and I just tweeted around the tweet right in his screen grab of SWA well talking to Anderson Cooper and you have to look at Anderson Cooper's body language which I will demonstrate here in a moment for those of you watching on video and and I'll describe it for those of you who are listening but the swallow was talking

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listening but the swallow was talking about the stones situation and he said that instead of essentially instead of tweeting about it the president could have just pardoned him but here's where a swallow goes into full crazy-crazy land swallow says that the reason the president doesn't simply just part in stone is he wants to show the world that he can he can manipulate the Department of Justice and Anderson Cooper is sitting there listening to this crazy and he had to see the enters in Cooper's body language and I'll demonstrate for those of you watching on video but you can see it in my Twitter Anderson Cooper city got the desk with him he's leaning back and he's got both of his arms crossed and it's just the two of them and so all was talking and swall was leaning in and Anderson Cooper's got his arms tightly crossed these and he just says you really think the president is thinking that and it

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the president is thinking that and it was that moment when you realize that only even your own team let's say that the left learn leaning anti-trump team if you will roughly speaking it was that moment when you realize that even your own team wasn't buying your anymore and you know I've said this before I think Anderson Cooper is he's one of the people who is capable of seeing past the craziness I'm not sure that everybody who even works in the industry is even capable doing that but I think Anderson is and I think you know I think Anderson Cooper has his own biases and political preferences like everyone else you know everyone kind of shows their bias in that job so he's no different in that way but I do think he's also capable of noticing when his own team just off the rails and you could watch it happen sois Wells assumption of that the president was cleverly not pardoning him because he wanted to really show that

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because he wanted to really show that he's a dictator who can control the Department of Justice is so batshit crazy they even Anderson Cooper couldn't couldn't treat it as a serious statement at least in terms of his body language in terms of his professionalism of course he did alright yeah I thought that was hilarious rush limbaugh I don't know when Rush Limbaugh said this but it was reported I guess in CNN that möhippa they say conservative radio personality and Medal of Freedom recipient so they throw that in there to further mock him they say Rush Limbaugh said the 2020 presidential candidate Peter Budaj had little chance of winning the election because quote America is still not ready to elect a gay guy now of course on CNN they want to make this look like Rush Limbaugh is anti-gay is that what he said did did Rush Limbaugh say anything

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said did did Rush Limbaugh say anything but bad about gay people well he may I don't know what he's ever said in the past but in this case there's nothing that you dip about gay people he's talking about other people he's talking about other people being prejudiced is that isn't that just an objective statement he's not even giving you his opinion he's just saying I think other people not ready he didn't say anything of himself but the implication the way it's framed and sort of presented makes you think does that be is that because Limbaugh has a problem with this now I don't even know them boys opinion on this topic I have no idea what his topic is but is he right let's just talk about whether the country's ready or not I'm going to disagree with Limbaugh on this I disagree I say that the country actually is ready and that the reason that the reason that boon and judge

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that the reason that boon and judge might not make it to the to the dance so to speak might not get to the final nomination and might not get elected to president I think the reasons have everything to do with him and almost nothing to do with his sexual preference that's that's my my view my view is that if Buddha judge had the skills of an Obama that he could be President because you you you know you've got the skill and then you've got whatever other people might suggest is a disadvantage but if your skill is high enough it doesn't matter that you have a disadvantage of any type your your skill level can overcome it you see this with President Trump better than anybody else president Trump has a lot of negatives according to some people you know his his personal life in particular his personality etc but because the president's skill level is so extraordinary he can get past you know

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extraordinary he can get past you know grab them by the you-know-what and maybe nobody else could have it's possible that nobody else may be no other politician in the history of the world could have gotten past that but if your skill level is enough you can't so here's where I disagree with Rush Limbaugh I think the country is absolutely ready totally ready we would just need a better candidate do you agree because I don't think it's even right to say that the country is not ready it you can't ignore the variable of how good the candidate is when President Obama ran for office the country was not ready for a black president Obama made us ready all right he didn't I would say that Obama did not come into an opportunity and it well lucky its lucky that you're the first black guy who ran for president and exactly the time the country was just ready for it I don't think that exactly happened now

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I don't think that exactly happened now of course the country was getting more and more ready over time it was the it was the register than ever been but I would argue that Abama made us ready I think he made us ready he didn't wait for us to get ready and that's what's missing in Limbaugh's analysis Budaj edge if he if he were Obama quality politician and he's not he could make us ready so when you say is the country ready that's I think that's looking at the wrong variable he could make us ready and I would argue he's doing a solid b-plus job at it all right Buddha judge is doing a solid b-plus job of making the country ready and I like actually like a lot of the things he's doing you know in that domain of getting us ready I like that he's he's now hiding anything he's he's fully transparent you know he's got his his husband involved in the campaign you know nothing is being nothing is being

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know nothing is being nothing is being de-emphasized you know he's just transparent exactly the right thing he's not saying that being gay is an advantage because that's a mistake that Hilary made about being a woman she tried to make it an advantage it's what Obama did not make as a mistake Obama never said hey it's time for a black guy he didn't that would have been a mistake he downplayed that and so I would say Budaj edge is a solid b-plus but he'd need to be enable us to get elected and I don't think he's quite anyplace yet maybe he will be someday
and and I've said before and I'll say it again I think - I think the country needs to have an LGBT president if it's not this time let's get around to it you know check that box it's just good for the country good for the country - you know and I wouldn't I wouldn't want a situation where you picked somebody for their immutable characteristics just to get it

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immutable characteristics just to get it done I'm not in favor of that but should we have a contest where that's the best candidate let's do it alright I I tweeted it around yesterday an article that's getting a lot of attention I saw that Don junior also independently had tweeted around it's and it's just worth mentioning again and it was written by dr. Carlin borisenko and what was remarkable about it is that she was a lifelong Democrat I guess and went to a trump rally and described you know the story of how she felt and what it was like at the rally and and how it changed her now the bottom line to it is that she thought it would be a big scary thing with bad people she went to the rally and they were all really nice that was it she just she found out that her worldview about what a trump supporter was and how they acted and who they were

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was and how they acted and who they were was just totally wrong and had been fed to her by the media now what was remarkable about the article is that first of all it was a first-person account of somebody changing their mind how often does somebody change their mind when it was you know you just don't see it I mean it's a it's a dog bites man situation so first of all the topic was really interesting to watch that journey of the mind but secondly is really well-written and it sort of jumped off the page um because I can't read long articles I mean I skim them or I look at the headlines pick out the key points I can't read a long article but I could read hers I could read it and was happy to read the entire thing because the way she formed sentences is just just the the journey that she took me on it was really well done but I'm getting to a point here I'm not just going to compliment the piece there's something I'm getting to that's useful so

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I'm getting to that's useful so given that it's very rare for somebody to change their mind and for somebody to break out of what I would call a a tds bubble and i think she called it that herself you know in her own words she basically referred to it the same way to watch that journey was extraordinary and I said to myself and you've seen me do this a lot of times I said to myself what kind of person can do that who is qualified to break out of a bubble doesn't matter if it's on the right or the left who has those who has that skill so I clicked on her profile and then I did a little hunting down on her LinkedIn page to see what kind of background she had now you know in my book loser thing I tell you that people have had experience with different domains have an advantage in understanding reality and that you could escape your bubble if you're in one and most of us are you can escape your bubble by adding to your talent stack so

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bubble by adding to your talent stack so let's see what kind of a talent stack you've got from somebody who can break out of a TDS bubble arguably the hardest bubbled anybody ever broke out of alright and by the way she did not break out of the bubble to become my trump supporter that didn't happen and she had some negative things to say about the president's style so she didn't become a Trump lover that would be suspicious looking but she simply became a non Democrat because she could see what was happening on her side all right so that's the highest level of awareness I would say what kind of background gets you there and so I look at her background organizational psychologist author coach speaker she's written a book yeah I guess workplace organizational behavior kind of stuff and she lists herself as a chief science officer and then I went and clicked on her LinkedIn and I see she has a Masters of Business Administration Bachelor of

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of Business Administration Bachelor of Science and communication and public relations in a doctor of philosophy she's a PhD in industrial and organizational psychology in other words in other words she has exactly the talent stack that her article predicted she has a full view of the field and you could see it because nowhere in the article was there any loser think nowhere in the article were there dumb analogies trying to prove something nowhere in the article did she act like she could read the minds of strangers nowhere and that's why you'd expect for somebody who was you know a Doctor of Philosophy who understood psychology communication and it masters a business corporate experience wrote a book knows public relations the talent stack works so here's my point oh and here's the funniest part of the story it's just funny because she you know her writing was so good that she

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know her writing was so good that she became a sort of a national headline there not a headline but at least on social media she became kind of a little sensation for a while she has the last name of borisenko and somebody accused that accused her of being Russian or something and she said that she's married to a Ukrainian now I don't know if he's Ukrainian American and American real life I don't know but he has a Ukrainian last name and she married him now what are the odds what are the odds that Ukraine just keeps popping up yeah that's the simulation code reuse it's like the system is down for maintenance and you only have some of the options you know like like half of the simulation is down for maintenance and they're saying all right until until March all foreign countries are just going to be Ukraine what what are you talking about that can't work how can every story in the news be about a Ukraine I know I know it doesn't make sense but we got to bring the simulation

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sense but we got to bring the simulation down for maintenance we're just bringing down that the modules that give you a variety of international events it's just all going to be Ukrainian from now on all UK yeah so you got that going on so congratulations to dr. Carlin Boris and ski for breaking out of her tedious bubble seeing the full field and doing the honestly by building a skill stack that is world-class it's a world-class skill stack all right that is all I got in my prepared notes does anybody have any questions that they've been dying to ask by the way you know I apologize for always having to deal with my nasal problems while live-streaming Here I am looking to schedule some surgery to do some roto-rooter in my nasal polyps to solve this problem it's not really allergies I'm not sick it's sort of something that has to be roto-rooter down so we'll do that and what I do I'll probably miss a

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that and what I do I'll probably miss a few days on periscope but it's not a dangerous situation all right somebody says why do we need a gay president well need is not the exact word that I would say I would say it would be good there are things that that could be good for you that you don't really need they're just good for you and I don't think that we have to force it I think it needs to happen when it happens and it will just be there'll be a you know some somebody who's just got high-end capability slaughter meter is at a hundred percent oh yeah I heard that who is at Caruso Cabrera is running against a OSI did you hear that now you may recognize her name as a CNBC host or whatever for years and years I would be real worried if I were a OC because that's a really strong competitor all right yeah somebody

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competitor all right yeah somebody you're saying you if you notice when Pete Buddha jej or when people talk about him I think what he talks about himself he talks about himself being you know the first openly gay president I think he's actually said that or people have said it about him but it's funny that they put openly in there and they after that they have to say he would be the first openly gay because there is of course much the speculation that he would not be the first gay president he would just be the first openly gay one yeah I'm not gonna name names but you can you can do that on your own who will be the Democrat candidates well I think the odds of it being a brokered convention or high because I think that Bernie is going to come in with the most votes and it will be it will be a topic of common

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it will be it will be a topic of common understanding by then among Democrats that he can't win I did a little poll of who would be the most entertaining it was just a Twitter poll so it's not it's certainly not scientific and the Twitter poll I said which of the top four vote getting Democrats would be the most entertaining forget about who would have the best chance of winning just it would be the most entertaining and Bernie won so people think that the funniest most entertaining race would be between Trump and Bernie I don't know because there's something you're a Bernie that's that's not as fun to mock I felt like the right answer was Bloomberg because you know too insulting New Yorker billionaires fighting it out would be a lot of fun Bernie I'm not sure takes the bait one of the reasons that Bernie does so well is that he doesn't play the normal game

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is that he doesn't play the normal game so I don't know he would respond to in Seoul for insult so that wouldn't be any fun
fun everything we know about Bernie he admits you know you could put a different word on it and call him a communist but he's now hiding the fact that he wants free health care and free education and all that so I'm not sure that the normal attacks against Bernie would be fun because it was just safe it's just sort of things that he admits her true yes I'm a certain age yeah yes I want to I want to do these things that are there's not much to it
well Biden would be the funniest but I don't think at this point nobody expects them to be the nominee I think what's my opinion on Project Veritas well Project Veritas is an amazing window into behind the curtain and I think I think it's been a real eye-opener and scary when you see some of the opinions but those opinions generally are coming from individuals and in any organization

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individuals and in any organization you've got a wide range of opinions some are very supportive of the organization they're in some people think their boss is an idiot who should be fired so I always I always take it as a useful data point so when I see a project Veritas thing where there's some somebody undercover saying something horrible I don't say to myself well there's the opinion that they all share I say well there's one person maybe more if they show more people on camera who have this opinion which is odious find me any organization that does not have people with odious opinions of it I don't think you could so I try to keep it in perspective I think it's useful and illuminating definitely an eye-opener sometimes it's jaw-dropping to hear people talking candidly but try to keep it in perspective you know a lot of people with a lot of different opinions in the world let's talk about those attorneys who resigned the prosecutors

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attorneys who resigned the prosecutors in the Stone case when the president and bar started looking into their decision for them resigned now could you say that they had been dissed by bar well in a sense you could say that he dissed them and if the Attorney General was dissing the attorneys could you say the attorneys were disbarred
okay you don't have to laugh too hard that's right they were dissed by bar they were disbarred saying it twice makes it was so much funnier all right Q and on your thoughts is q still around does Q still exist you remember my prediction that Q was not real a lot of people have that same saving opinion and sure enough we don't see a lot of don't see a lot of Q I

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see a lot of don't see a lot of Q I think Q petered out alright did Bernie fire the Gulag guy that's a good question the guy who appeared on the project Veritas video I don't know if he still has his job or not has the book Profiles in corruption changed your mind on Biden well I haven't read it so now but I'm assuming that in there there are lots of indications of stuff such as Biden travel somewhere and then you know his son gets a big deal in that same country I think we kind of know all that stuff so I'm not sure it changes my opinion my opinion is it's obvious that there was something swampy and sketchy but I don't know if anything that was technically illegal it was just awful but maybe there is somebody says you're polyps are caused by allergies they will grow back

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caused by allergies they will grow back that is correct there are some treatments to keep them from growing back quickly but there's a high chance they'll grow back
listen who said I can't tell what your groaning about I'm getting lots of some people saying nice try oh my god it's gotten worse with Q yes Q is definitely active it's funny I don't see anything about them anymore could it be that I've successfully blocked them all I I mentioned this before but something happened on Twitter in the past a month or two where my trolls all disappeared and a lot of my trolls were Hugh supporters and I haven't seen a Q supporter I don't know how long so I don't know if I I may have clicked some filter or they all disappeared and then the other day I think was two days ago several hundred people were dropped off

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several hundred people were dropped off of my Twitter as followers so I don't know if this happened to any of you I lost several hundred followers on the same day now I don't think that is Twitter doing anything I don't think that's Twitter doing anything
unscrupulous unscrupulous I think that probably those were identified box and accounts that were fake and not real so I'm guessing the Twitter is really active this year trying to delete all the fake accounts the bots and the Russians and everything and it wouldn't surprise me at all if I had several hundred of them that wouldn't even be I guess HEPA filters in the house somebody says yeah maybe am i vaccinated I am
somebody says uber says I don't know what to say but I want your attention you win you got it

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you win you got it Scott you're so out of it what's that mean you mean out of it today well I will tell you that for the last three days I have been waking up at 2:00 in the morning in screaming pain and rolling around on the floor I mean that literally actually rolling around on the floor in pain so I'm only getting three or four hours of sleep at night for the last week that's a that's a holdover from the meds side-effect
did you see the president's tweet about going to meet with the governor Governor Cuomo of New York who of course is famously the brother of Cuomo on CNN and and the president is mocking Cuomo in New York for what they're doing with the now it's a long story but doesn't matter

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now it's a long story but doesn't matter anything and he throws as he throws in don't bring freedom to the meeting he he doesn't know how to stop causing trouble
I'm saying lots of medical recommendations here yeah I use a neti pot every day and I do have meds to keep the polyps to a certain size all right but we don't need to talk about that somebody says is Buddha judge the darling of the Intel community I don't know how would you know that
have we seen yet somebody's asking about somebody's asking about the I'm sorry I lost my train of thought because I saw another question somebody's asking what the pain is that I'm rolling around it's a its digestive intestinal pain which is

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a its digestive intestinal pain which is a known side effect when when my doctor prescribed the antibiotics she in one case there was another doctor he they said this is probably going to cause you some intestinal issues man were they right thoughts on Trump cutting student loan forgiveness in the public sector I don't know about that story
as amy klobuchar worth an 18 to 1 for the nomination oh I would say so if the odds of Klobuchar getting the nomination are 18 to 1 I don't know if that's the case somebody just said I said that in the comments but I would think her odds of getting the nomination or closer to probably 5 to 1 something like that so I think you would likely

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like that so I think you would likely lose your bat but those odds are not bad
now the reason that the reason the Klobuchar has more of a chance than anyone else is that I think she could put up the best fight so here's what Klobuchar has going for she's a woman so she's gonna bring him the woman vote somewhat automatically because the Democrats are basically as primed as you could possibly be for a woman president and they would like to get a little revenge from last time and she would do that the other thing Colombia sure has is that the biggest negative she has is a little bit like a positive what's the biggest negatives that Klobuchar has which is she's really tough on her own staff now when you hear that how do you process that well we see her acting very civil and you know politician like in public and people like that they say yeah that's that's the kind of vibe we

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yeah that's that's the kind of vibe we want from a leader very professional doesn't go too far etc but at the same time we hear that she is she's tough as nails maybe too tough on her own staff what do you say about that well it depends what the job is if the job is president I'm kind of okay with it because it's the same thing that you hear about Trump you hear that he's tough on his own staff I generally think that might be a requirement for a good leader I think a good leader has to be pretty tough on the staff to to get that next level of performance and to even get rid of people who are who are not a plus so you don't get the A+ if you're willing to put up with b-plus work so if Klobuchar is problem is that she can't handle b-plus work from a staff that she expects the be a-plus that's not much of a problem I mean now of course we don't know the details of

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of course we don't know the details of what's happening behind the scenes but on the surface it's not as much of a negative as it could be sort of a negative that feels a little like a positive now yeah she's boring but it looks like she's solving for that because her last speech was roundly praised as being emotional and good and OnPoint so she's also very smart and she's a learner you you always you can always be fooled by the people who can learn and if you look at where she is right now compared to the day she you started is she better I'd say yes I'd say she's improved and you don't know how far that can take you in the same way that I think president Trump has become much better at being the president even with all the trouble he gets into but he's certainly better at it because practice helps so Klobuchar would be the

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helps so Klobuchar would be the strongest contender and if the Democrats decide to pull together and and go forward with their strongest candidate I think it's her but so the the the unknown is whether the Democrats will ever pull together and try to get behind a candidate who actually would have a legitimate chance of winning I think Bernie doesn't have a legitimate chance I think Bloomberg he has more of a shot than the others he has more of a shot than most of the others except clover Church I would say it may be even a better shot than Klobuchar but if you're a Democrat do you want to back the guy who's exactly the opposite of the guy you want to be your president he's almost he's almost like slightly better than Trump you know in your mind because you say oh it's another old white guy from New York with a billion dollars and more yeah I just don't know he's got enough contrast to it but Klobuchar has all the

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contrast to it but Klobuchar has all the contrast in the world and I don't think that she would take any crap from the president she seems tough enough I don't know and and I've said this before but I think the one of the things you have to watch out for is the pendulum effect because the country always likes to fight the last war if you know what I mean so if the thing that's bothering you at the moment is Trump's personality there are gonna be a whole lot of people who say you know I just want something different and and who's got the closest to the opposite of his personality Klobuchar probably she's pretty solid all right yeah Warren here's my take out of Warren I don't know that you can well let me put it this way a little bit of Warren goes a long way and I think this is not to do with their gender because I think I have the same feeling about

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think I have the same feeling about Bernie my problem with Bernie and my problem with Elizabeth Warren is that they're both very substantial people you know substantial records of service substantial careers smart you know good leadership qualities very substantial people but I can't watch them for a long time do you have that I can watch Bernie for about a minute and then I just need to change the channel it's not because I don't like you know Bernie's personality or I just can't watch him I don't know you know it's a television world and we he's on there shouting at his old man you know yelling at the sky stuff I just don't like watching it by contrast I can sit down and I can watch an hour of Trump at a rally I could watch Trump give a 15 minute press conference and I'm riffing it the whole time I'm riveted and you know

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whole time I'm riveted and you know Obama had the same the same quality he could he could hold the camera like if you know a few people before him Bill Clinton same thing I could watch Bill Clinton talk forever when Bill Clinton would give the State of the Union that was good stuff you could watch that like a like you're watching a good TV show when Ronald Reagan gives the Kansas State of the Union you'd cry it was like watching the best show you never watched you could watch him for a long time but Elizabeth Warren can you watch her for 10 minutes I can't and it doesn't have anything to do with other policies or her opinions there's there's something about her and and just so it doesn't sound sexist I'm throwing Bernie into my analysis but I have a very similar feeling about Bernie minute two minutes of Warren that's plenty that's sort of all I need a minute two minutes of Bernie that's all I need now this is not the same for let's say

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this is not the same for let's say Buddha ginger I could listen to Buddha judge I can actually I can actually listen to there's something happening around here I've hearing something of a chainsaw hope that's not in my house I could even listen to Biden for a fairly long time for a different reason just to see if he says something crazy but he's not he's not I don't know he's not hard to listen to the way bernie is the way Warren is so that's all I got for that all right I don't have much else to say so
so I'm going to end here and happy Valentine's Day and I'll talk to you later