Episode 828 Scott Adams: Blago - The Poor Man’s Roger Stone, Russia Putin its Nose in Our Election

Date: 2020-02-22 | Duration: 47:36

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a President Trump has obliterated public trust in… …the press, congress and national intelligence agencies NYT and Wapo push Russia helping Bernie and Trump stories Anderson Cooper interviews Rod Blagojevich Making Bernie’s healthcare plan PRACTICAL Why isn’t China being accused of interfering with our elections?

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buh-buh-buh-buh-buh hey chirp star first day on periscope I see glad to have you with us this is the place where we gather once a day at the same time for that amazing celebration the thing that makes well everything better you know it does it's called the simultaneous hip and you don't need much to participate now the requirements very low all you need is a cup or a mug or glass a tanker chalice or Stein in the canteen Joker flask a vessel of any kind filling with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine's into the day the thing makes everything better the simultaneous sip go oh now aren't you glad you hurried to get your beverage get in here on time and enjoy it in the most simultaneous way possible yeah I

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most simultaneous way possible yeah I think you can feel your white blood cell count increasing I think you all look a little bit younger I can tell you're happier more productive smarter for sure and all of that all of that because of the simultaneous up yeah you'd like to take some credit yourself uh-huh but I don't think that's appropriate I think it was the SIP that did it all all right I yes somebody is reminding me in the comments here so Bloomberg did a post which he wrote in Russian so it was just a Russian tweet this that if you hit the translate button and Twitter and said feel burn as in birdies slogans so so of course it makes you think about why would he write it in Russian and that's because the headlines are that Russia may be helping Bernie as much as they're helping Trump or they're helping one of them or something

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them or something and so Bloomberg at least has not been accused of being helped by Russia yet so that was pretty funny tweet so I'm hearing I haven't seen Benny Bloomberg commercials I guess I don't I know we can soup anything that has commercials on it but I hear they're good so people are saying that the quality of his his ads were quite good so here's a prediction for you you know Mark Twain famously said that we humans can't tell the difference between good news and bad news and here's one of those examples so here's something that is widely considered bad news but I think historians are gonna look at it and say you know that was actually really good news it didn't seem like it at the time but it was good to us and here it is true or false I think this is

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here it is true or false I think this is true that President Trump has obliterated the credibility of the press with you know fake news etc true he's obliterated the credibility of the press he's obliterated the credibility of her own intelligence services true all right now you could argue that the press did it to themselves you could say the intelligence agencies brought it up on themselves but it really sort of took Trump to to bring it home didn't it then of course the credibility of Congress running you know pushing the fake the fake Mullah report the fake impeachment so I think historians are gonna say that although all three of those entities you know may have already had some credibility problems didn't most people let's say most citizens didn't most citizens think that most of the time anyway they're worse yeah you could

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anyway they're worse yeah you could start a trust them you know sure some some politicians are crooked and sometimes they do a little self dealing but you thought you know basically they're just doing their job but you probably don't think that anymore after watching the impeachment saga you probably think well they don't even look like they're trying to do their job if that doesn't even look like a good attempt it doesn't even look it's not even in the approximate universe of honestly trying to do your job how about the press does anybody honestly think that the press is independent and reporting the facts as they see them well I used to think so you know during the Obama administration I would say Oh Fox News is a little a little out there on the at least with the opinion people and you know but that didn't seem anything like what we're seeing now what

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anything like what we're seeing now what we're saying now feels like a whole different level of lack of credibility of the press and then of course our intelligence services we've never seen lower credibility you know of course the whole weapons of mass destruction thing was a big blow to the credibility of our government and and intelligence services but I think at least this is my own opinion it was still sort of easy to put that off as a one-time situation you know sure it was a gigantic miss you know thinking that there were weapons of mass destruction caused a war untold you know consequences ripple effect horrible horrible stuff but I have to admit it kind of felt like just a one-off mistake but now that we've watched something that looks like a continuous March of incompetence I think they've lost pretty much all

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I think they've lost pretty much all credibility now of course we're watching this play out in in what only looks like it looks like a joke the fact that the New York Times reports that our intelligence services believe that that the Russians were trying to help Trump and a month ago they apparently The Washington Post reports that Bernie Sanders campaign was told by the intelligence services that that the Russians were trying to help him now here's something interesting the New York Times and The Washington Post aren't they usually on the same side right feel you feel like they would be pushing both stories that would be anti Trump but one of them is pushing sort of an anti Bernie story as the Jeff Bezos owned Washington Post now let me ask you this would Jeff Bezos be happy

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ask you this would Jeff Bezos be happy to have a president Bernie well if I had the biggest corporation in the world and I wasn't paying my share of taxes according to birdie I would be pushing pretty hard to not have a president birdie even if I were a Democrat and even if I hated President Trump I still wouldn't want my son wouldn't want a president Bernie if I'm the biggest capitalist on the planet that's right Jeff Bezos is the biggest capitalist on the planet maybe so is it a coincidence that the Washington Post goes after Bernie or at least you know creates a story that associates him with Russia oh no good B could be a coincidence but you can't trust the coincidences of that nature anymore as somebody said on Twitter and I wish I

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as somebody said on Twitter and I wish I wrote it down because I didn't know I was going to talk about it when I first thought but somebody said is it a coincidence that Russia is always helping the candidate that is the most you know the biggest problem to the Democratic lead what what a coincidence Bernie is shaking up the established power structure of the Democrats well he must be a Russian it Trump tries to get power well you must be a Russian puppet is that a coincidence what could be it could be a coincidence but it's another one of those that you can't really trust to be a coincidence all right I love the way Trump summed it up in a tweet so eat we do this the reason for this is that the dude nothing Democrats using disinformation hoax number seven now where did he get the idea to number the hoaxes well I don't know one

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the hoaxes well I don't know one specific person but it's a social media thing right on Twitter are you not seeing people number of the hoaxes now I know I did it a long time ago and I've seen other people do it but this is in the category of you know if you write humor for a living you sort of recognize a category that you know other people had the same idea independently so you really can't tell who's the first person to number the hoaxes because it's a little bit too obvious that it would be a you know a good thing to do to make a point so I love that the president is numbered at number seven and it makes you say well seven what were the other six okay let's see there's the other Ukraine thing there's the Muller thing are there really that many other ones where there are four others that I'm not remembering and it's kind of brilliant because it makes you count them up and you might

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makes you count them up and you might even argue it's like it's not seven at most it's three hoaxes but you're still thinking in the way you want you to think that that it's a hoax after hoax all right so the rest of this tweet is that using disinformation hoax number seven don't want Bernie Sanders to get the Democrat nomination so in other words he's supporting Bernie in this this tweet on the in the field of entertainment what could entertain you more than president Trump the greatest I'd say funniest political praying stur if you could call it that who really knows how to combine have you combined a work and pleasure like nobody ever else ever did I mean he can golf and work he can tell jokes and campaign he combines pleasure and work all the time and he's doing it again because there could be nothing funnier than Trump destroying the Democrat Party by

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Trump destroying the Democrat Party by supporting their preferred candidate that's what he's doing for you know when I say their preferred candidate I mean the one who has the most votes so far it's still a plurality not a majority but he does have the most votes so isn't this a noble thing that President Trump is doing supporting Bernie Sanders against the evil evil fake news that's trying to take him down now of course the whole player is that the Sanders would destroy the entire Democrat Party if he gets the nomination and they know it they know it and they know what he's doing because you know the funny part about it is that it's obvious it wouldn't be nearly as funny if it wasn't a hundred percent obvious to Democrats and Republicans that the president is just boosting Bernie to absolutely destroy the Democrat Party so here and and Newt Gingrich who kind of

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here and and Newt Gingrich who kind of yeah Newt Gingrich comes out to bayonet the survivors and and he the Fox News I said money yesterday talking about how the real problem is that with Bernie as the candidate they're gonna lose the house so so Newt is coming on to make you think past the sale it's like oh yeah you're definitely going to lose the presidency there's not much else to say about that so let's let's just take that as a given so you've already given up on the presidency so now we're just talking about how badly you're gonna lose the house and if you lose the house you've lost everything so new is just coming on yeah I just I just loved yeah he's usually the smartest guy in the game you put new in the room with most people and the smartest one in the room is going to be new so you know he's somebody's 6 years old I just I just read his age and in the article and you know he said is that

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the article and you know he said is that that point is career there presumably he's just enjoying the ride you know he's done all the hard parts he's just sort of enjoying that enjoying the ride at this point and he comes in on Fox News he's just Bay and having the the survivors it's like well yep looks like Trump won the battle but there's still a few survivors let's see let's see it there's anybody over in the house that needs to be bayonet in it dad but both the in heading so anyway this whole thing is the funniest now I started this by saying that the intelligence services have the lowest credibility so if it's true that our press and our intelligence services have just served up that the Russians are promoting both Bernie and Trump and and they're trying to keep both stories in the air at the same time just so good it's just so delicious this

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just so good it's just so delicious this could not be a better reality TV show I'm sorry I mean this could not be better politics it's now politics it's it's some new hybrid that Trump has invented that is part entertainment part government and I don't know I don't think I'm too much being I don't think this is a stretch to say that he's nailing both of them right is it just me I don't think it's just me it looks like he's nailing both of them alright here's the other hilarious thing that that Trump has done again look for ways that he combines humor with just getting stuff done he's literally a genius at doing this exact thing humor and work in the same package so there's nothing funnier than the fact that we all know he's prepping to pardon

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that we all know he's prepping to pardon or do something for Roger stone right we all know that's coming he signaled it he's made it as clear as possible that he thinks Roger stone has been treated unfairly and even with the new lowered sentence everybody sort of expects the President to part of them so that's the first thing that's great because this president knows how to keep the suspense going like this is one of those shows where you know you know something's coming you know that the script has it coming it's coming it's going to happen in act 3 oh no so you know that's coming and this is how Trump preps us for it by but by is a commuting or pardoning blog blog a blog a like a blogger Jovic logo logo Javitch or a beautiful pages I think the pertinent the proper pronunciation is Bob if they put it I think I think I nailed that but you know I'm talking about and so this

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you know I'm talking about and so this guy blog out let's call him blog go goes on CNN and and the Enderson Cooper just tears into him for being the worst person in the world and a lying hypocrite criminal oh my god it was just a bloodbath so Trump and in my my title to this parata's periscope I called blogger the poor man's Roger stone you see where I'm going with this right in your mind haven't you already paired blog of itch and Roger stone you have you know you have because they're in the same conversation now what do you think of when you think of Roger stone you see that that way too much gray hair for a man his age right now what do you see when you see blog image you see a guy with way too much gray hair for a man his age now we're visual creatures we know they're different people you know intellectually knowledge-wise waited they're just

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knowledge-wise waited they're just different people and of course if we're wise and reasonable people we know that they should be treated individually your opinion of one should not have anything to do with your opinion of the other they're just different situations but we are not reasonable people and you can't help it you're pairing those two in your mind Roger stone and the poor man's Roger stone blog oh now blog Oh has gone out and done I don't think that Trump asked him to do this I think it was just I don't know good luck or I guess maybe you could expect it would have happened but blog of Mitch goes out and makes such a bad case for himself that you start feeling sorry for Roger stone you think my god this guy is terrible and he got a pardon wait a minute wait he's a Democrat are you telling me that this Trump a dictator he

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telling me that this Trump a dictator he said dictator I tell you all he does is reward his friends and wait what he just pardoned a famous Democrat who's guilty as all hell what so that broadens your it broadens your idea of what a presidential pardon can be and it makes it easy to put Roger stone right in the middle of that because bloggers sort of set the edges it's like well if you can pardon that guy I mean what he did looked a lot worse than war Roger stone did right selling a Senate seat I mean it's not even close to being I mean and here's the other thing Roger stone is literally famous for being a fabulist as as I think somebody said meaning that he tells lies a lot and it's almost his identity or his brand is that he says things that aren't true in public

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things that aren't true in public that's his brand and even apparently privately so you get that guy in a situation where lying will send you jail but what the hell do you expect is gonna happen do you do you think that's the one time you just gonna start telling the truth oh maybe but after a lifetime of being a fabulist you're probably gonna be fabulous all the time especially at that age you're not that nimble anymore so anyway the blogger thing was just brilliant because it makes the Roger stone thing easy did you see that Trump's reaction to the news that the think he might've said this even before the news came bad about Bernie being warned about Russia trying to help him and the first news was that it was they were trying to help Trump again and there was some doubt about that because no details have been provided and of

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no details have been provided and of course our intelligence services have no credibility whatsoever which is good because we don't you know I don't know if I finished that point but it's good that we don't have credibility for the news or our intelligence services or a Congress that's the best possible situation because if they're going to try to get us to do something they're gonna start with we don't believe you that is the best place to start from because you're gonna have to turn you could have to convince us this time so I think that's a great thing that Trump did maybe not for great purposes I don't think he thought of it that way but I think that we're all way way better served by losing all credibility and those in those institutions so long as they stay intact and so long as we challenge them to prove their credibility and we're a little bit harder on them than we ever were I think that's all good you know as long as the

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that's all good you know as long as the institutions remain intact all right
let's see what else we got going on you know I always talk about the two movies on one screen and what I see great examples of it it's still mind mind-boggling when you see it starkly here's another example this you know on Twitter I end up looking at a lot of conservative tweets and every now and then I'll wander over into some tweet thread that has some Democrats in it and some anti-trump errs and I'll be like entering another movie because the facts that they believe to be facts are so entirely different from the facts believed to be facts on the left the left and the right have different facts here's the perfect example so the Democrats believe it is objectively true and nobody could doubt this that Trump is soft on Russia and of course to every

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is soft on Russia and of course to every conservative observer it is objectively true that Trump is the toughest on Russia now what would be the argument most of you are going to say what are you kidding me I mean it's not even close look at the facts and some of the facts that you would say for example are that Trump gave deadly aid these javelin rockets to Ukraine and that's more than Obama did so Trump is you know at least more badass than Obama was in terms of Russia and I go over through the Democrat part of Twitter and the Democrats have a belief and I don't know if this is true by the way so here's the fun part the it's a belief that they have that is a fact that I've never heard before I don't know if it's a fact I don't know if it's not a fact I'll just give it to you they believe that for reasons that weren't listed that the Ukrainians were not allowed to use the

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Ukrainians were not allowed to use the javelins what now I'm not saying that's not true I don't know what it means but then somebody else weighed in and said yeah they'd never tell you that and I thought never tell you that what why would we give them javelin these you know tank killer weapons and then they're not allowed meaning who says they're not allowed not allowed in what way were they not actually delivered what is it what does any of this mean now I don't know the answer to it I wish I could have come to you and said I looked into this and I found out what the truth is Morrow my point is how different that movie is how different the movie is that one says we gave them deadly weapons to use against Russia and the other says no you didn't it just didn't happen I don't know no idea which one of those is true all right you're

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one of those is true all right you're say here's a STONER question for you is history fiction or fact you probably see where I'm going with this right away is history a matter of fact or a matter of fiction now of course you're all immediately the first thing that pops into your mind is that the history is written by the winners right so somebody's gonna say that in the comments because by now you've already typed it out and it's too late to call it back because there's a little delay in the comments so somebody's going to be telling us history is written by the winners and that's true but for every history there are some winners and losers and they get to write their own histories because they have different countries and you know and we have enough of a freedom of speech that there are different versions of it etc but wouldn't you say that the thing that we agree is history is just the consensus I'm not sure it's so much the winners as it is the consensus so I would say that

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it is the consensus so I would say that history is a fictional consensus meaning that it's not really even intended to be exactly the facts it's an interpretation that the majority feels comfortable with it's not even a question so much of winning and losing so long as all the entities still stay intact and they can make their own books and tell their own stories it's not like one group is just dad or can't talk so just think about that yeah just think about the fact that history is a lot closer to fiction that are just a fact now that's not to say that there isn't an objective history I'm not even in that conversation I'm just saying that the way we live in an experience is as a fiction that is hardened by consensus not necessarily you know what happened except for the big stuff you know we get the dates and the explosions right all right I want to call your attention to something I tweeted it's in

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attention to something I tweeted it's in the near the top of my tweet feed today overrun Twitter that's something that Matt Taibbi wrote for Rolling Stone now this is not the first second or probably even third time I have recommend it they read an article by Matt Taibbi and it's always the same reason good god he's a good writer I mean just you can just enjoy every sentence and that's such so strange most writing has a lot of filler in it you know here's my background and I'll eventually get to the point and you know won't you be happy when I start stop blabbering and get to something interesting but you read a Matt Taibbi article and almost every sentence is a payoff because you like the sentence itself and so it's a very rare so I recommend it but anyway here's one of the sentences I pulled out I'm not going to say this is the best one it was just when I they pulled out and he says that

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when I they pulled out and he says that Bloomberg has been touted as a potential Democratic Party Savior across the top ranks of politics and media there's an extraordinary indictment of that group of people lots of myself yeah there's an extraordinary indictment so all the the smartest people thought that Bloomberg well he's the guy I mean once once Bloomberg gets in that's that's gonna be at I mean all this money and everything he once he gets in and then you see him in one debate and you say to yourself wasn't there anybody who knew Bloomberg who could see this coming was there nobody in the top echelon zuv the Democrat Party who said yeah he's coming but it's gonna be you know with a whimper or not a not an explosion didn't anybody see this coming now I'm not sure if I did so maybe some of you could

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if I did so maybe some of you could remind me anything I said about him before we knew he was as weak he candidate as apparently he is now maybe you'll get better in the next debate or something we'll all be surprised but I think he's a certain age I think he's lost a step I don't think I just don't think we're gonna see much better coming from him in terms of his connecting with the audience and his charisma and all that I don't see that changing too much but read read the rest of Matt Taibbi his article in The Rolling Stone alright the whole healthcare debate which may turn out to be the big topic or at least Bernie might try to make it the big topic if he's the candidate I've said this before but I want to say it again because I think I've got like a better cleaner way to say it when Bernie talks about everybody getting health care he talks about trillions of dollars and just you don't even have to be an economist you say wait a minute how big

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economist you say wait a minute how big is our entire economy wait what's he want to do it just none of it adds up even even just you know the broad brush it just looks impossible so he's doing a terrible job of selling the idea that we could go from 89% have insurance now to a hundred percent so that's 11 percent now I used to do budgets and you know business cases meaning right up to financials and projections for for decisions for corporations so that used to be my job for a while and I gotta tell you they need somebody to try to sell these plans whether it's Trump and I'll talk about that or Bernie who's better at this because bernie is terrible at selling let me give you let me tell you how I would sell how to get to a hundred percent coverage and I'm gonna give you the Republican version all right so this will not be the Bernie

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all right so this will not be the Bernie socialist version where I guess he just raises taxes and cost trillions of dollars and sounds very impractical so forget about that here's how I would sell it if I were Trump I'd say 89% of people are insured that leaves 11% that we need to do something about I agree with Bernie that we should try to get to a hundred percent but we should get there with a rational rational system that you know that the the system can handle and it takes into account people's incentives etc so you got 11% you're dealing with so in theory if you could if you had 11% more money everybody would be covered if you had 11% more that could be dedicated to that so how much is that well 11% more would costs us I'm gonna round up another four hundred billion per year could the United States find four hundred billion on top of what it already pays per year now suddenly

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already pays per year now suddenly you're talking hundreds of billions instead of trillions so the first thing I've done is I got you add of talking from about trillions as soon as Bernie starts talking and trillions we're all trillions no no I'm not going to sign up for a trillion to anything trillion is too much my taxes are going up that's all I hear when I hear trillion so the first thing you do is you take it down to well it's only 11 percent more four hundred billion and then you say how am I going to take pieces out of that this is how a corporation would do it they'd say all right the first thing we're going to do is cut drug cost quite a bit now that that would give you back a little bit money so that that that amount is taken out of the system let's say that's 1% of it well cut the paperwork we'll get rid of some insurance overhead we'll do things with competition and if see we'll have better prevention because we'll have more big data you know and will will target key areas where their big expenses let's say you know buying into MRI machines really expensive so

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into MRI machines really expensive so we'll we'll fund startups that are in that area they're trying to bring down the cost of MRIs stuff like that so you say look it's 400 billion a year that's our national target if we can carve that out of healthcare expenses we've got enough money with what we already spend to get everybody covered so let's let's you know figure out how to how to carve that up and I think that story sounds doable doesn't it even if it's not doable doesn't that sound doable because I just broke it out it's only 11 percent because you say to yourself if anything in my life increased in cost by 11 percent I'd figured out I mean I'd hate it but I'd figure out how to make it work so that sounds practical just by its nature that's the way they should sell this thing anyway okay I can't get over this

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thing anyway okay I can't get over this question why does it make sense to be enemies with Russia and for Russia to be enemies with us I I still need somebody to explain it to me because here's the thing does Russia really have the belief that it would be to their best interest to remain sort of permanent enemies with us where we're doing stuff to them to weaken them and we're doing stuff that they're doing stuff to us because here's the thing we are much stronger than them our economy and etc if you're the weak one do you want to be poking the strong one like what I never heard anybody explain the the three-dimensional chess that Putin is playing where any of this makes sense because remember when Russia pokes us it seems like we always figure it out and maybe that part's not really there but it seems like we keep catching them why would you poke somebody who catches you and they're bigger than you

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and they're bigger than you and they punish you for it what explain the the endgame how does that work I just don't understand it and if it does work and there's something to it why aren't all the other countries doing it now we'll talk about China in a moment maybe they are but but is every country doing this sort of thing to every other country because it's such a good idea I don't really understand why we think Russia is doing this and if they are doing this let's let's take it as a fact that it's happening that they're poking us and all these various cyber ways etc and we're poking in back I guess we couldn't talk each other out of that there's no way to have a conversation say look I get it we poke you you poke us as long as one of us is poking we should not expect the other one not to poke back but are you getting anything out of this because we don't

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anything out of this because we don't see us getting anything out of this eye there's just nothing that we're getting out of it are you Putin did you get something out of this this year is your did your economy go up because you messed with us what happened exactly and let's put it this way how bad is the risk most of our elections are close to 50/50 right so our elections are sort of you know 49 51 percent of situations what difference would it make really if you know the person with 49% of the vote became president would that really be you know given that most people are voting randomly and just vote for their party and don't even know what the policies are are we really going to get a worse result well the people who lost would say yes hey it's unfair but I don't even think there's a risk at least in terms of our democratic system if all that happened is the person with 49% won instead of the person with 51 we just we

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instead of the person with 51 we just we just survived an election in which the person with the most popular votes didn't become president that didn't break the system so the most that the Russians could do is tweak it from the 51 percent to the 49 now in the case of Sanders I think it would make a big deal but you know he's not gonna get within striking distance if he runs so even that won't make any difference because even Russia couldn't put him over the top so I just don't get it
it somebody needs to explain it to me here's another question that was asked on Twitter I think it was Adam yeah I think it was Adam said this why isn't China being implicated in meddling in our elections uh-huh are you telling me that our intelligence agencies briefed Congress members of Congress about election interference that China wasn't on the on the agenda what I mean is that

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on the on the agenda what I mean is that real is it real that we have evidence of China trying to hack us but no evidence of China or do we have that as well but that's still being held as you know non leaked they you know is there there's no leakage because of the China stuff so how do we explain this again it goes to the credibility of our both our government and the intelligence services because this doesn't make any sense there's no world that I live in where it makes sense that Russia would be of doing all this meddling and getting caught so easily and China doesn't think that works or or they decided not to do it this time maybe because of the trade deal the musiims are a gigantic part of the story that's missing like where's China alright
here's some Bernie Sanders kill shots I'll just get these ready

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I'll just get these ready in anticipation of him maybe being the nominee I still think there's a really good chance that the people in power won't want to destroy their party with Sanders as candidate but might take their chance of destroying the party by having some kind of a brokered convention when they put it moderate in charge so I think that that's a still at least a 50/50 if I had to put odds of it I'd say 50% at Sanders and 50% they they steal it from him and give it to some moderate which by the way is it could be quite defended defensible I think I think they could defend that easily because the total of the moderates put together there's a lot of people it's a very defensible position but in cases Bernie here are some kill shots imagine saying some version of this you imagine this comes from the president or somebody in

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comes from the president or somebody in that position Bernie's heart is in the right place but he doesn't understand economics and human psychology because one of the best things you can do for persuasion is to agree with somebody on an important point and one of the things that you can say about Bernie that his supporters would never be talked out of it would be consistent with the president what the president said up to this point about Bernie is that he's got a big heart and I think you're just to say that yeah and and by the way yes you saw your already had me bringing up Bernie's heart but in the context of a compliment meaning figuratively he has a big heart sounds like you're just giving him a compliment but what do you think about you think about his heart and you think about his recent heart event and you wonder about his age and you wonder if there's another one of those so that

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there's another one of those so that would be the first part is that you're not only acknowledging that you know he does have empathy he has a big heart and I think that the president would do well to recognize that that's a real thing worthy of respect having empathy and having a big heart for people good so far but he doesn't understand economics and human psychology in other words he doesn't have to get there he's just impractical and I think everybody would it would be an easy sale to say his heart is in the right place and also you his followers your hearts in the right place too so you know you don't want to start insulting the Bernie followers because there's the could be a lot of crossover votes there just say you know every one of you Bernie supporters your hearts are in the right place too but here's how human psychology and incentives work and here's what we know works and here's what we know doesn't and we just want to

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what we know doesn't and we just want to do the things that have always worked instead of the things which have always failed now you could argue with and that's accurate but that's the message here's another one and of course you all know this one explain how we could have open borders and also free health care because I think that's that's the ultimate kill shot because I don't think Sanders can retreat from either of those positions he's not gonna say he's not going to suddenly say we don't want open borders and I don't think he's going to back off from giving free health care to anybody who comes in and there's nobody nobody who can explain why that could possibly work letting everybody in and giving them free health care so I think that's all you have to point out and then it's sort of the end of the game I mean that would be it let me ask you this in the age of robots let's say someday in the future when robots are

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someday in the future when robots are doing all the menial labor I wonder if we're reaching a point where socialism is the better system now you still want to keep your republic and your democratic principles you want to keep that stuff you don't want to change the form of government but do you need as much human incentive when the robots are providing all the basic living goods and they're doing the work you just might not need I just put this idea here right so before you go nuts because I know this is a trigger word for you I'm not recommending it I'm not recommending it I'm just asking this question because I think it's interesting if the whole reason the socialism doesn't work is because it doesn't match human incentives meaning people will work hard unless they can get a little extra gain compared to their fellow citizens so if you don't have that kind of a system it's not going to fall apart but suppose the

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going to fall apart but suppose the robots are doing all the hard stuff yeah yeah I think you know Yang was already there somebody says they've all disagrees which probably means overall you never want to hear that you never want to be talking in public and then have somebody write on the comments you know what you're saying Scott the smartest person in the world disagrees like oh crap crap yeah if you don't know the vol raava if he has an opinion and you have an opinion and they're different just just give up on your opinions just adopt his opinion you know play the odds he's smarter than you so just go with whatever he says so if he disagrees with what I said I don't know that that's true so you may disagree in some minor part of it or more but I think when we have the age of robots we may have to reassess what kind of a political or not political well maybe political to an economic system we need that's a long way away I'm not going to

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that's a long way away I'm not going to worry about that all right here's a tip I saw this on one of the websites I think it was on CNN that murderers are using the following alibi if you can call it that maybe excuse their saying that they didn't kill their spouses or girlfriends or boyfriends intentionally it happened during rough let's shall we say intimate situations and so people are trying to get away with murder by saying no it wasn't intentional we were making love and we just you know we like it a little rough and that's the way it is and we just went a little too far now here's my recommendation to you you should you should tell at least one friend today that you and your partner doesn't matter male or female irrelevant to this point tell one friend privately you know you got to tell you you know my

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you know you got to tell you you know my partner and I she or he really likes it rough really likes it rough so you just want to put that out there cuz some day you may be accused of murder and you can say look I got a witness you call up Bob you say what did I tell you five years ago yeah you said you said you guys like it rough alibi BAM
somebody says no no Scott don't give people ideas I'm not serious lighten up you know you'll have to figure out how to get away with murder on your own don't listen to me all right that's all I got for now and I will oh oh somebody else in the comment says also mention how clumsy they are that's funny yeah my husband or wife oh yeah every time he

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husband or wife oh yeah every time he goes up on that ladder it just looks so wobbly I'm afraid one day he's gonna go up on that ladder and he's just gonna lose his balance and fall off that ladder good happen yeah that's a good one alright enough about that have a great day I'll talk to you later