Episode 836 Scott Adams: The Biden Bounce, Bernie’s Math, Iran’s Zombie Apocalypse, Uighur Slaves

Date: 2020-03-01 | Duration: 1:07:12

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a AOC’s impressive skill set (healthcare video) Biden’s lack of passion and platform Bill Kristol and HOAX8 The “Mike Pence Rule” looks smarter every day Uighur slave labor in China says Wapo article Turkey/Syria situation ISN’T a war? An optimistic prediction about coronavirus

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hey everybody come on in I'm glad you noticed that it's time for coffee with Scott Adams I'm your host Scott Adams today's episode is brought to you by the three amazing books behind me if you haven't purchased any of those books and read them well you're not operating at peak efficiency let's just say that I pity the people who haven't read my books so don't be part of the people who are left behind well I think it's time we have enough people here and it's time for the best part of the day the simultaneous sipping all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker chelators time to canteen Joker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for this unparalleled pleasure the scientist II don't mean end of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous if and it happens right now

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yep before and after you can almost feel it before the simultaneous if the day was okay but after Oh after much much better all right let's talk about the stuff that's happening in my life I'm up to almost three hundred ninety thousand followers on Twitter I have predicted that should I reach a million followers I will effectively control the world now I know you don't believe that but that's part of the fun and the the reason it goes like this that influence is a function of how big your platform is in other words how many people know you exist and can hear you and skill so it's not enough to have a lot of people following you Kim Kardashian has that but she may not be skilled in persuade in quite the way that I'm talking about were the actual techniques and and you

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were the actual techniques and and you know methods of tech of persuasion and worked but if somebody who has my kind of actual trading I'm a trained hypnotist if anybody's new to this and I've been studying and writing about persuasion for years but if anybody with my kind of skillset ever had a million Twitter followers my hypothesis is that that person would run the world and it wouldn't matter if it's me or somebody else it would have to be somebody who had those skills and had an interest now could Tony Robbins run the world I think he could I really think he could but he doesn't seem to have any interest in doing that his interests are elsewhere so you'd have to have somebody who was interested has the talent stack and has the followers and maybe a year and a half that'll be me so you'll get to find out yourself all right speaking of influent influence I tweeted I know I

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influent influence I tweeted I know I can't even believe I ever did this I did something today that if you had ever asked me if I would ever do I would say probably not but i retweeted a lawrence O'Donnell tweet in which he was retweeting a clip of aoc giving a little talk I'd like it was in Congress and the reason I treated it without comment is you really have to say it and here's the thing you have to say she's making the case which you know I don't agree with that we should be providing free health care for anybody who comes across the border illegally now her argument is not the one that I subscribed to which is that it's the most you know godly religious biblical way to treat people you know treating everybody well and while that's true it

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everybody well and while that's true it ignores the implications and what would happen if we just start giving all our stuff away it would be very godly but it would be a very lasting system in the end it would all fall apart that said you have to see how well she bakes her case it's just crazy skill set just skill set you know forget about whether you agree with or disagree with it you just have to see it it's one of the it's really impressive now some I saw in live I was talking with somebody who was saying that they thought it was scripted then maybe somebody wrote it for her and she was just doing a good actress like job of performing it to which I say I'm not sure there's a gigantic difference because you would still have to know whose words to speak you would still have to feel them you'd still have to be able to perform them you'd have to remember them you'd have to really incorporate it into the you know the way you're thinking so I'm not sure it

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you're thinking so I'm not sure it matters if somebody helped her with a speech somebody help to Reagan with his speeches to write somebody helps people you know leaders get helped with speeches that's not that's not today's news Winston Churchill had some help I'm sure but just see it to see the skill level that's all alright have you noticed that the election has only become about Trump now when I say that you say well duh it's always always event about Trump but listen to the way people talk about the election the the Democrats have completely stopped talking about what good they're gonna do although birdie does he talks about his health care stuff but if you look at it at Biden Biden only talks about beating Trump so so Biden sees the world and you know it's sort of a binary world there's Trump and then there's B Trump but he

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Trump and then there's B Trump but he doesn't have any kind of a positive message and there was a somebody in the crowd who asked him a really good question a spy did what was his passion you know what's driving him what's his his main calling why he's putting himself through all this and what he said was that he wanted to return decency I'll see decency and honor to America that's what Biden's passion his fire yes that's the the question was what's your fire it was a good question and he wants to return decency and honor to America does that feel like your fire does Joe Biden's fire match yours because here's the thing I don't even know if it matches his base does it because when you hear when you hear the professional pundits the people literally get paid to talk on TV they they say things like

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talk on TV they they say things like this they say oh the president is destroying our credibility and our honor and our decency and stuff like that but that's plug to talk have you ever met a voter who has really fired up about America's brand not me I've never met one not one that I believed I mean I suppose you can find somebody you will say anything but what yeah what the pundits are talking about it it's because they're paid to talk about you know conceptual things and you know decency and honor and the reputation of the country blah blah blah I've never met an actual real person like hey Bob have you noticed that your life is worse because the United States is losing its honor and its decency and Bob would say you know I haven't noticed I haven't noticed so the the the great fire

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noticed so the the the great fire invited the thing that's driving him is something that his base hasn't even noticed literally doesn't have any any sensation of it being a thing when you go to the store and you buy some groceries do you say Oh I can't complete this transaction because the decency and honour of my country has been so degraded now you know you just buy your groceries take him home on bag them cook them up and eat them and you are completely oblivious to the decency and honored degradation of this country because it's never been real and it's part of every campaign and it's just blah blah blah so Biden has bought into a cold in which there are just two things there's just Trump and less Trump he's not even trying to make your world better it's not even part of the plan it's not part of the plan he's not even talking about what he could do to the world they this

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what he could do to the world they this real except for this decency and other stuff all right so of course the big news is that Biden got a big victory in South Carolina it's probably because he got an important endorsement from a prominent African American leader there a lot of people who voted said that actually did make a difference so we're in this weird world right now between now and Super Tuesday and here's what all these smart people who need to talk about the news for a living are gonna say they're gonna say Biden got this great advantage from South Carolina let's talk about that and all the things that means because Biden did so well it's the Biden balance and Biden's back and then almost within a period and the same breath everybody smarts gonna say the same thing and it doesn't matter a bit none of it South Carolina if you could if you were

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South Carolina if you could if you were a god-like figure and you could take the the historical timeline and you could just find that the South Carolina primary and you could just get rid of it like flick just flick that out of the timeline like it never existed nothing would be different if you were a time traveler and you went back in time and completely changed the results of the South Carolina primary the entire timeline of the future would be unchanged because nothing could be less important than the South Carolina primary but it's what happened recently so we have to talk about it I'm talking about it there's something wrong with our brains that we can simultaneously say you know this thing we're gonna talk about I know you know everybody in the world agrees has no importance whatsoever no implications no ramifications completely meaningless let's talk about it for a week and we're all doing it I just did

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week and we're all doing it I just did it I guess I can't stop myself what's wrong with us all right so the smart people are saying that Super Tuesday will be a good day for Bernie he'll get California probably Texas and that's going to be the end of it in terms of who has the most votes not a majority but the most folks going into the convention and then I think Biden's got that actually pretty good chance compared to other people and here's a question for you names of people who most want Joe Biden to be President you just make a list here are the people who famous people people you've heard of who would most like Joe Biden to be President I'll make my list top of my list would be the Ayatollah Khamenei I think the Ayatollah would like a Biden presidency am i that's not wrong is it when you wouldn't you say that feels

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when you wouldn't you say that feels obvious to me that the Ayatollah would prefer a Democrat and one who is one who's going to be kind of friendly now Bernie might even be better but I think the Ayatollah beef would be happy with Biden what about Hillary Clinton's happy because I think she would get a vice president installed who who responds to her so I think Clinton would effectively be a a shadow leader if Biden got in there so she'd be happy I tweeted this morning that I think 75% of the country doesn't want burn to get elected because it's a hundred percent of Republicans or you know exaggerating but it's something like a hundred percent of Republicans the hundred percent of Republicans don't walk Bernie but also about half of Democrats so somewhere in the you know general range of seventy five percent of the country doesn't want Bernie to get elected and he's there is their leader

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elected and he's there is their leader their best their best vote getter right now and I think the twenty five percent who walk Bernie to get elected they have confused him with obi-wan Kenobi because it seems like they only want him to do something magic you know to use the force there's something completely disconnected the Bernie supporters seem somehow disconnected with math and in whatever the rest of us like is reality I guess they have their own reality but it feels like Bernie has become almost a mythical character who doesn't need to do real stuff he can be a hologram and you can still worship and miss a hologram he doesn't need to do anything he can just talk and obi-wan is the only one that can save you from the Darth Vader of Trump all right I'm having this image of

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all right I'm having this image of Elizabeth Warren as Princess Leia and obi-wan being Bernie and Darth Vader being Trump have you noticed that you can take characters from movies and they they out so often will map into real people you can do that with chess as well if you take well that's another story it's just weird how well the Dilbert cartoon characters map onto a chess set if you spend a few minutes thinking about it you can agree each of the characters in my comic strip you could pretty easily map them to the characters on the chess set now I didn't develop them that way but it's a phenomenal coincidence that they map so easily to those characters and I don't know if it's a coincidence there may be something about chess this speaks to the universal way we soar things that our minds so it's probably

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things that our minds so it's probably not a coincidence the chess has lasted so long all right let's say so the big story that's an odd story is that Biden got you know massive amount of the black vote in South Carolina so people are gonna say Bernie can't get the black vote but then the Bernie supporters will say he has most of the black vote nationally it was just a weird state thing so that'll be the conversation that it won't be interesting the other big thing that's coming out of this and well steyr dropped out so Stiers 1% will go to somebody else I guess I heard I heard Jesse Watters
of the five insulting a star and I've been laughing about it for two days I have this belief that once you see somebody's animal you can never unsee it and here's what I mean by that have you

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and here's what I mean by that have you ever known somebody who and I'm gonna try to make this sound not racist because nothing I'm talking about it should be construed that way so everything that I say next just assume it's a universal doesn't apply any any one group but there are times in my life where I'll be looking at somebody I've seen them forever you know somebody I'm familiar with and one day you see them as their animal has that ever happened to you you ever looked at somebody and you say you know I know you look like a human but just just at this moment I don't know what it is but you also look like a weasel I don't mean conceptually I mean there's something about your look or your mannerism that's a little bit weasel now a famous famous example of that is McConnell like a turtle now the first time you hear that Mitch McConnell looks like a

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hear that Mitch McConnell looks like a turtle can you ever unsee that no you can't you cannot unsee Mitch McConnell as a turtle I'm sorry it's all over so and I'm also seeing you know Bernie has obi-wan Kenobi but who was I talking about oh I've steyr so Jesse waters says that on the 5 the end the day mentioned in his little monologue he was doing about the candidates that Tom Steyer reminded him of a lizard and once she hear it once you hear it it's just there forever and I I didn't know what it was about Tom Steyer that I didn't like and some of it was about it wasn't even about the things you were saying there's so much it was about his mannerism is I don't know his vibe is something but as soon

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know his vibe is something but as soon as you see that he as soon as you imagine him as a lizard because I think he does something with his tongue doesn't he all right so I think Stiers done well he says he's done Elizabeth Warren interestingly is going to stay in the race to degrade Bernie's chance of getting a majority by the by the convention now a warrant is being misinterpreted by her side because that's what they do the Democrats only have one mode and the other Republicans do this too I shouldn't I shouldn't say it's one side there's pretty much both sides but half of at least half maybe more let's say at least half of all of the all the jibber-jabber about politics is people misinterpreting what somebody said and then criticizing their own misinterpretation that happens both ways Elizabeth Warren is the recipient of

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Elizabeth Warren is the recipient of that today so when she said she's going to stay in the race then she said why because she you know if she's trying to keep birdie from getting it before the convention people said oh she's just doing it to screw Bernie and I thought to myself that's not what I heard that's just your misinterpretation what I what I read it I read it the way a normal person who would read it if they were not biased elizabeth warren saying she would stay in the race why do politicians say they will stay in a race to win to win because i think elizabeth warren like everybody else believes that this will be a brokered convention okay not everybody else thinks that but if elizabeth warren goes into a brokered convention in let's say fourth place maybe she could maybe she could build herself up to third you know she might optimistically think that's possible but

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optimistically think that's possible but suppose she goes into the third or fourth place does she believe that she has a chance of being the brokered nominee well maybe maybe she might have enough friends and contacts that she has a sniff that that's possible but I don't think it's fair to say that she's staying in the race just to screw Bernie that might be the outcome but why would that be her motivation no nobody stays at a race just to screw another person that's not a thing you that's a lot of work to be in the presidential race you don't do it just to get revenge on one of the other candidates alright so I think the fixes in for the for the convention and we'll see somebody says Perot did that yeah different situation all right here's an update on the the

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all right here's an update on the the rumor so this was the fake news that was going around now so much from the news people themselves but rather from social media Bill Kristol was one of the several people problem that people tweet fake news and their version of it is the fake news version of it is that President Trump called concerns about the virus or the virus itself depending who you're talking to a hoax and of course he didn't he talked about how the Democrats are framing it as the hoax part as opposed to the virus itself so of course it's a ridiculous stupid misinterpretation and an obvious one and all you have to do is look at the video when it's obvious what he really said versus what he was reported to have said so what I tried to do was get in really early and I don't remember help me out on this was I the first person you saw

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on this was I the first person you saw called this out as fake news that they were misinterpreting what the hoax part of the virus was probably other people were doing it at the same time because as soon as you saw it you probably said oh oh faint news and yeah I'm sure it wasn't the first but I tried to get it early uh-huh so whether we're just certainly the point is the same I tried to get it early and ruin it because if you can kill it fast it might stay dead but if you don't kill it and it gets it's like a virus you know if you don't shut the border the first time you get a you get a reported case it's just gonna spread and then there's nothing you can do that's what happened with the fine people hoax the fine people hoax became hardened as the fact before people like me and you know Steve Cortes and you know Joel Pollock started hammering on it just all the time saying no just look at the transcript it's fake news so I tried to get this one early to see if a kill it and one of the tricks I used was

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kill it and one of the tricks I used was to say that the only people dumb enough to believe it were artists now I don't know if that made any difference there's no way to know but I know that if I were one of the people who was inclined to believe it but before I before I had been less i infected by it the first thing I saw were somewhere near the beginning of my belief system if I saw somebody say only artists are dumb enough to believe it just speaking for myself that would immediately reset my brain and I would say oh maybe I had a look at this myself because I don't want to take sides with just the artists if I know that The Economist's and the lawyers and the the scientists and the engineers are all going to be on the other side now that doesn't mean that's true but if the first thing I saw was that only artists believe this this BS I would immediately

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believe this this BS I would immediately be biased against it so that's what I was trying to do I was trying to basically you know strangle this strangle this fake news in its crib interestingly I saw Jake Tapper tweet on this subject now Jake is the most interesting personality at CNN and he's interesting because I don't I can't think of an example where he's ever sent an outright lie and you could probably think of some people and see and then the opinion people who maybe you think have but remember when the fine people hoax was government was raging and when Jake tweeted about it even though CNN was widely reporting the hoax as true when Jake tweeted about it he simply you know referred to the controversy and then connected to the full transcript or the full video I think it was not the

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the full video I think it was not the transcript so you can see for yourself and I thought to myself okay okay I would prefer you went stronger at it and said you know this is a hoax but he did tweet the actual the full video which shows us out without comment and at least one time of the air when one of the guests brought it up brought up the hoax Jake did add the context though again without an opinion he said the context is that the president went out to say I'm not talking about the racists there so Jake added that so we know that the president said clearly that's not what I'm talking about so this comes up very similar situation it's a misinterpretation of something that the president said and Jake tweeted about again the same technique which is he said this is what people are saying basically pointing to them the issue and then just included

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them the issue and then just included the the full video so you can see for yourself fair enough you know I think it is reasonable to assume that you know Fox News and CNN and MSNBC they they know who pays the bills they know who watches the network and you know there's there's a limit to how far anybody's going to go in the in the constraints of their job but I would I'm gonna give him a thumbs up for that because he just played a straight said here's what they say see for yourself so I appreciated that I'm following a guy on Twitter who seems to know a lot about Iran so he's got family there and we I saw somebody else I think it was Balaji Srinivasan pointed him out as somebody to follow to keep up with the Iran coronavirus situation we think he's real

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coronavirus situation we think he's real I mean it's hard to know in today's world but he's had his account for a long time and and he seems to know stuff so here's what he's telling us Oh his name is Ali Oh stead you can see him in my Twitter feed but his his handle is at Al i OS t ad and he is a good follow this is what he says about the Crone barson rent for points he says the regime he had the initial cases since number one it was just before the election that needed high turnout now I don't know if that's true so that's an allegation that they had an election coming and they needed high turnout and it would have been suppressed if they said there was a problem out there number two due to political lead did not stop flights to China again that's an opinion because we're not inside anybody's heads but

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we're not inside anybody's heads but it's a reasonable reasonable suspicion right it's certainly in the category of yeah you could be number three sources seem to be cleric students from China arrived in Qom or however you pronounce q om I don't think anybody knows that but he seems to have some information that it was just a normal you know travel from China situation and apparently that I ranted about clothes or religious shrines which of course causes transmission to be greater yeah but here's the thing the same observer who seems to be quite insightful I can't vouch for so these items seemed a little opinioni but he's got a little more the very opinion be as opposed to factual but he's speculating that Iran is going to implode and that's going to happen

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to implode and that's going to happen quickly he thinks that law and order is actually going to break down in the red and that it's a matter of days now do you believe that do you think law and order will break down and around in a matter of days so this falls into the category of anything is possible I don't think in in a matter of days you're gonna see Iran's social fabric break down I think is more likely people will bog together and just try to get through it and they're not going to want to have I don't think the rate citizens want to have a revolution and a corona virus outbreak at the same time so I think he's wrong I think that the citizens will say let's stand on one problem at a time current problem emergency all right I've got to put a tourniquet on this virus

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got to put a tourniquet on this virus now later later once we've got a handle on this it might be a year from now it might be later but later we're gonna take a close look at how our government handle this and you know that may be the revolution is odd but I don't see somebody in the middle of a medical emergency also wanting a revolution it's the worst possible thing they could do so as much as I would like to see the Iranian people fulfill their wishes and dreams and have the government that they want which is probably not the one they have as much as I'd like that and as much as I would like it to happen quickly my advice to the people of Iran is don't do it now because the last thing you need is a breakdown of society at the same time we got a medical crisis so I'd say I'd say no breakdown of society I think the Iranian people are going to be smart collectively and I think that they're gonna they're gonna keep their

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they're gonna they're gonna keep their priorities in order and I'm on their side so so if the citizens of Iran need our help I hope we give it to them I know we've offered and this is probably not the time for a big change so Twitter user B Machiavelli one of my favorite follows makes this question / observation the yes he asked me on Twitter what are the chances given their ages you know because the coronavirus affects older people more one of the odds that given their ages that that birdie Biden or Bloomberg end up in the ICU in other words what are the odds that one of our very senior politicians gets the coronavirus before Election Day what do you think the odds is are well here's the thing they can't really stop shaking hands can they and I don't want

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shaking hands can they and I don't want to give anybody ideas but I think in this case everybody has the same idea so it's not like you know it's not like I'm gonna cause this to happen people are gonna be evil and the odds or the ability to spread this thing intentionally is easy you know pretty soon all of us are gonna know somebody who has the coronavirus feels like it it's not going to be hard to send somebody to a rally to shake some hands right so one of the things I expect and I hate that I'm even saying this yes I expect dirty tricks in the campaigns and there's probably as much chance that they will all get effect infected then there is that none of them will so let me say that again there's as much chance that all of the elderly candidates get infected all of them same chance as none of them it's like a 50/50 so I think

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of them it's like a 50/50 so I think it's going to happen here's a here's a weird optimistic thought they ready for it this is this is a horrible thought on its you know on its surface so I don't want to make light of this so there's no joke here but it's actually optimistic and it goes like this there's a really good chance that the corona virus is already in the United States in a much bigger way than is so far been detected so the number of cases been detected is that the you know the low few dozens the number of the number of cases that we assume must be active because you couldn't have a few dozen to confirm unless certainly there's a larger group of people who also have been exposed but what does that group is it a hundreds is it thousands so here's the good news disguised as bad

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so here's the good news disguised as bad news if I had to guess and this is just speculation I saw somebody on Twitter saying they thought 50,000 people were infected in the United States I think that's probably a reasonable Allah saying it's true but that's a reasonable speculation that feels well within the well within the area of if you found out later than fifty thousand people were infected already today you'd probably say to yourself yeah could be but here's the thing if 50 thousand people are already affected it means it's almost below our notice not almost it means it's below our notice which means that if we had let's let's say we were less clever and nobody had ever identified the corona virus suppose nobody ever knew what it was or that it was special or than to travel that it you know was

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or than to travel that it you know was more viral suppose nobody knew any of that and you just woke up every day and went to work and some of you got a cold and some of you didn't but it's winter so everybody gets a little something we all get the flu take a few days off go back to work talk about it yeah you got the flu yeah I got the flu too it's pretty bad had a bad week wasn't too bad not the worst flu I ever had do you hear somebody is a great-grandmother died oh that's too bad how old was she 85 what killed her oh you know she pneumonia so it would be really easy to imagine a world in which if we didn't know the coronavirus had a name and it's special that you could live your entire life and never know it destroyed the entire country the the thing which I equate to this is climate change so the the the people who were most afraid of climate change they did

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most afraid of climate change they did some economic estimates they said that in 80 years the GDP could be down to 10% because of climate change now what they say is down 10% from where ever it would have risen to in 80 years which is about five to 10 times bigger than it is now so if it grew by five to ten percent five times or ten times and then at the end of that you know we saw that well we could have gotten up another 10% more we wouldn't notice it it would both be a multitrillion-dollar problem because 10% of the global GDP is many trillions of dollars at the same time you wouldn't notice because you've gone up five percent before you lost that ten percent just wouldn't even notice so it's possible that if we'd never heard of the coronavirus we would hear that a lot of people in their 80s or dying of pneumonia and we think to ourselves ah I will miss them that's that's terrible that they died but they

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that's terrible that they died but they were 85 and they were gonna die it wasn't gonna be that long so just keep that in mind if you find out tomorrow that this is already massively taking hold in America that's good news because it means you didn't notice am I right about that that's not crazy is it that the best news could be that a hundred thousand people in the United States already have it now we still don't know why people are dropping dead apparently in Iran just walking down the street we don't know why China has a high death rate and we don't know why the United States has not yet experienced that except one person died who was elderly somebody says Scott's writing off the 85 year olds that's not what's happening so maybe you missed the first part of this when you said that when you said that anyway you

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said that when you said that anyway you probably missed the first part of my periscope when I was talking about misinterpreting people and then criticizing the misinterpretation which is what you're doing of course everybody cares about every single person but I'm just saying you wouldn't notice it which is different from saying it's not important well I I noticed that I mean I'm gonna jump around a little bit I've noticed on Saturday Night Live that the actress which they brought back to the show to play Amy Klobuchar is a Rachel Dratch that's that's the whole story I'll give you my opinion on it but you've probably already filled it in if you know who Rachel Dratch is she's very very funny comedian that had been done Saturday Night Live in the past but what she's most famous for and here I'm not being cruel because she's except that

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being cruel because she's except that this is sort of her brand but she's sort of famous for looking strange looking and you know sort of not attractive and I'm not saying she's not attractive I'm just saying that that's her brand you know that's the comedic the comedic role she takes is sort of that person and so they've got that person playing Amy Klobuchar and there's something about that that is first of all hilarious but second of all it's just so it just so gets that irrational part of your brain where you look at her and you look at Rachel Dratch and you say okay she doesn't look like Amy Klobuchar like if they showed up together at a party you wouldn't confuse them they don't look like each other but you still get it you you kind of get where they're going which is hilarious but I also think it's sort of the the end of Amy Klobuchar she's gonna get I

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end of Amy Klobuchar she's gonna get I think there's a hashtag you know hashtag Amy Klobuchar quit or you know get out of the race or something so she's gonna have tremendous pressure on her Adam Schiff is in the news Adam Schiff says that somebody's mentioning Larry David playing the part of Bernie Sanders now think about that Larry David is a incredibly popular comedian playing a popular politician it's sort of a compliment you know even though he plays it with a humorous way he doesn't really insult Bernie he just has fun with his personality but when you see Saturday that live dropped the hammer on a bit Amy Klobuchar that might tell you where the where the left mind is at the moment all right so Adam Schiff is back in the news because he says quote profound concerns about how the White House is handling the coronavirus situation so

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handling the coronavirus situation so watch how often the criticisms of this president are not about anything you can measure just just keep that in your mind every time you see a criticism every every time you see something that the president did well isn't there a number attached to it unemployment here's my number you know number of people died from overdoses here's the number I went out so all of his accomplishments have a number something you can measure but all of the bad parts of President Trump fall into the category of profound concerns we're no longer just concerned we're profoundly concerned that's right the good parts of what President Trump are doing are all things you can measure but the bad parts profound the concerned and it's a weird kind of profound concern because it's the kind that doesn't activate in the first four years of the president's term but rather it

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of the president's term but rather it only activates in the second term now he hasn't said that but I think we can all figure that out on our own if the profound concerns about all the ways that the president is ruining the country if they could be active in the first four years the first term we'd already see it we wouldn't have to use words like profound to concern because he could just point to the stats and say look this went in the wrong direction
Chris Matthews got leased reportedly was excluded from the coverage of the debate the thinking is because he got the allegations of him being inappropriate in his language if not actions mostly language I guess to a woman who was on the set for a guest and I I try to look at sort of the the national consciousness and and how do we feel

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consciousness and and how do we feel about these stories because if a story is about one person then it's just about one person but your brain can easily start forming patterns where there was no reason for a pattern to be there in other words you can you can see false patterns quite easily here's one that's starting to form the people who have been in the news recently because of sexual improprieties include Chris Matthews he's not accused of anything sexual just the way he talked but it's in that domain so your brain puts it in that bucket the you know the b2 bucket then of course you've got Epstein you've got Harvey Weinstein and you've got Bloomberg accused of saying uncomfortable things as well again not accused of doing anything sexual just as language in the past now what did they all have in common they're all Democrats somebody says watch out Scott why watch out for what

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watch out Scott why watch out for what so here's my point you've got four Democrats in the news for this me two ish behavior and at what point does the public start alright so we've got the anti-semites coming on board saying that three of the four are Jewish that is true it's not relevant but you're correct and saying that people will form a false pattern and you know it'll give them one more reason to be prejudiced if they already are I wouldn't make anything ahead of the religion of the people involved but it is true that will form false patterns and I think part of the false pattern will be that we'll think the Democrats are the ones who are creepy in the meaty way and that the that the Mike Pence rule is getting smarter every day

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rule is getting smarter every day now do you remember when Mike Pence was first mocked because he said he wouldn't go to let's say a meal like lunch or dinner or something with a female colleague unless he brought his wife and do you remember how around Lee mocked he was for that how does this sound now every day Mike Mike Pence's rule about not going to lunch with a woman unless he brings his wife gets just a little bit smarter you know it's not all the way up to yeah we're all going to do that that's the only thing that makes sense but it started out as ridiculous right the first time you heard it even if you were Pro Pensieve and if you're a Republican the first time you heard it didn't you say to yourself that's a little bit ridiculous it's a little bit too far now what do you think now what do you think you don't think it's ridiculous do you you might not do it you might think it's a bad idea you

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you might think it's a bad idea you might think that you'd rather not you might wish the world wasn't like that you might wish a lot of things but I'll bet you don't think it's dumb anymore now I've mentioned before that to the best of my recall I have been following the pence rule now not as specific as bringing your wife per se but as specific as I wouldn't have a solo meal or a meeting even with a woman now I've had some awkward situations where the you know let's say there was some reason to be interviewed or something and and it was just a professional reason and I've honestly made excuses I shouldn't say this in public but I I've avoided I believe a hundred percent of those situations and I'm also feeling smart about it because you know all public all public figures get accused of stuff falsely I

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figures get accused of stuff falsely I don't know if you know that but is it the first time you've heard that all public figures are falsely accused of sexual improprieties all I mean I've told you before about my Canadian stalker there's a woman in Canada I've never met she lives in Canada I live here but she comes off her meds every now and then and calls people I work with newspapers when I read a restaurant she called the restaurants and accused me of traveling to Canada - lets see what was I doing I was ransacking her apartment going through her computer hacking it and various sexual improprieties now literally I've never even met her now how common is it for a public figures such as myself to be accused of that sort of thing it's almost 100 percent pretty much all of us and I'm only giving you one example because that one's so clean that means literally

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one's so clean that means literally someone had never met now extend that and imagine imagine the rest of my life right being accused of things by by people you don't know or things that didn't happen is just the most common thing in the world a few famous alright Kyle Bass who is a big anti-china regime person almost as big as I am well he's he's bigger in terms of his influence but this may be not in terms of his internal thoughts about it so he's tweeting and I guess there's a story in washington post's so it's got some credibility that china's Weger we girls are being used as slave labor reportedly that factories the supply Nike apple and Dell now is it true well any reporting out of China you have to put a little grain of sand by and any reporting from the Washington Post

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reporting from the Washington Post unfortunately you have to say to yourself maybe maybe not couldn't be political but here's the thing The Washington Post typically leans left and is anti-trump but this doesn't seem to have any internal political element to it in other words I don't think the Washington Post is acting I don't think it's fake news for any bias reason it could be incorrect it could be correct but I don't think there's any bias being expressed as they're talking about another country not our internal politics and they say we Gers are being used for slave labor now I think this is just part of an overall trend in which decoupling I think is guaranteed at this point wouldn't you say I think that decoupling from China is guaranteed it will happen slowly maybe it'll happen faster than we

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slowly maybe it'll happen faster than we think but I think it's a done deal now don't you can you imagine a fortune 500 company let's say it's a year 2021 fortune 500 company they say we're going to we want to relocate our manufacturing outside the United States first do you think you're gonna get away with it do you think that your company can take the hit of making a decision to move your manufacturing out of the United States in 2021 you're gonna get a lot of pushback for that because the the move to manufacture in America is pretty strong right now I don't think you could make a decision to move your manufacturing to China anymore I think it's done now all the stuff that's already there you you could easily see people who are already doing business they're feeling it's easier to do more business there than to remove it so you'll see that but I don't think you

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so you'll see that but I don't think you give to see a new business of any scale go into China you'll still sell them small companies do it because maybe they don't have options I think it's done for the big which means the decoupling is a matter of time all right there's a weird situation happening between Syria and Turkey and I don't know what to make of it so I'll I'll give you the details and see what you think so what we know is that Turkey has claimed that they they've got into a scuffle with Syria and they say that Turkey has neutralized within Syrian territory at in lib which is kind of close to the Turkish border turkey says they've quote neutralized more than 2,200 Syrian troops 103 tanks 8 helicopters and today two jets so turkey whatever neutralize means so some number of the 2,200 Syrian troops were

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number of the 2,200 Syrian troops were killed or wounded or you have made irrelevant a hundred and three tanks eight helicopters and two Jets and that's just happened in the last few days and apparently they're avoiding war with Russia and directly rather they're trying to go after Syrian troops even though it might have been Russia involvement they killed some Turks earlier now here's the part that I'm curious about here the reporting of this this is from the headline tensions soar tensions soar if the United States had taken out 103 tanks 2,200 Syrian troops 8 helicopters and two Jets on another side would you refer to that as tensions of soaring or would you say that's a war how is that not a war do you see where we're going here

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war do you see where we're going here the headlines are treating this like it's not a war why is that I don't know but here's a question / suspicion I think NATO is the issue because of the moment that we say Turkey our NATO ally ally is at war what is that do with NATO does NATO have to join the war by by agreement I mean that's what NATO is right if a NATO member gets into a hot war doesn't NATO have to join now I'm not saying they should I've seen somebody saying no oh don't do it yeah I'm not I'm not in favor of it either but I'm wondering if the way we report it in the West is all designed to keep NATO out of it because there's no way I don't call this a war that's a war 103 tags do you know how much firepower it takes to take out 103 tanks this

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it takes to take out 103 tanks this didn't happen in an hour that's a lot of war going on right now and that's a hot war it's active it's a war but we're gonna call this tensions soaring in the headlights it's gotta be because of NATO if I'm wrong about that somebody fill me in but I guess the and and Turkey is making sure that they don't directly fight with Russia no because I think that would trigger it for sure and we don't want a NATO war with Russia it's the last thing we want so I think that's why Turkey's doing that but they're they they're doing this clever thing Turkey is by opening their northern borders to let the refugees stream through Turkey into Greece and Europe and I guess this threat had been made before that if turkey doesn't get more help from Europe they're gonna say well okay now you're now you're having you can have the same problem we do now on one hand I hate that Turkey is doing this it's a really

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that Turkey is doing this it's a really messed up thing to do because they are intentionally causing Europe a pretty big problem because Europe is not helping them avoid that same problem and I look at this and I think to myself why is it that turkey is responsible for the refugees and Europe is not is it just because turkey is bordering them turkey says that's not that's not good enough apparently just being on the border doesn't mean we have to take them I think turkey is making a move here that from a let's say a moral standpoint and even a political one is kind of solid even though I hate it I mean I hate that all the the problems that the refugees are gonna cause all the problems that Turkey is causing by letting them pass through to Europe I hate all of that but I have but I have to admit if I were Turkey and I had to manage this situation I think I'd do the

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manage this situation I think I'd do the same thing I think I'd opened the border and saying you know we don't need to be the solution to your problem Europe because Turkey doesn't have the responsibility for these refugees they don't the world has responsibility you could argue but not turkeys specifically and so turkey said this doesn't have to be our problem watch this it's actually a pretty good move I gotta say I don't know what Europe does in response but that's a pretty strong move all right so enough of that I think that's about it for today let's see if I miss anything Oh Benjamin Netanyahu has a new campaign slogan Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign slogan is keep Israel great remember I talked earlier about how everything is about Trump or no Trump the entire world

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about Trump or no Trump the entire world is just a trump or no Trump world we've completely stopped talking about things which are not Trump and even Israel is is in it now all right I think that's about all I wanted to talk about you guys got anything to say all right so today and tomorrow I'm gonna be testing some new equipment for live-streaming against I don't know if it's gonna work but with any luck I'll have a very special guest Monday ish not for necessarily the periscope in the morning but later so we're gonna I've gotta wait on that because if my technology doesn't work I have to I have to you know do a little tap dance here but assuming everything works you're gonna see some guest interviews and I think you're gonna like a lot so there's that oh you

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gonna like a lot so there's that oh you left my audio book thank you so much Victorian somebody's asking me about Bitcoin nobody knows about Bitcoin so there's that okay let me give you my coronavirus prediction and then I will sign off and it goes like this I believe the United States is in this erase so our race is to suppress the coronavirus as much as possible so we can buy time now the time that we need to buy is about a year burn together some kind of a vaccination can we buy a year well obviously Iran can't Iran cannot buy a year sorry
but can the United States China can't buy a year but can't the United States I don't think we can I don't think the

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don't think we can I don't think the United States will be able to be somewhat free of the coronavirus for a year I would expect by summer it will be raging but most people will just have a cold and go home so that's where I think it's gonna go but let me tell you something you don't know to add to this coronavirus story so do you remember in the year 2000 there was going to be the year 2000 bargain it was going to destroy all the computers but then the technologists got involved and they got really focused and serious and somebody figured out how to do it quickly maybe more than one person they don't they built programs to automate the task of reprogramming exactly as I predicted they would and it all worked in great now of course the medical medical world is working as hard as they can in the scientific world to try to find a quick response to the corona virus now if you imagined that this would go the way other things go you might be wrong

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other things go you might be wrong because we've never had this much attention so concentrated on something so important and so Ty Burrell a that it's a lot of science focused in one place and there's one development or field of development that you don't know about and I'm going to tell you because I do several years ago about three years ago I was working with the Berkeley you know the college of Berkeley the University for startups that were coming out of the Berkeley world and I got to see a bunch of startups that you haven't seen in fact I invested in several of them and so I got to learn about something that you don't know about yet and it's good and it's this after 9/11 the government of the United States wanted the government labs to to figure out how to quickly diagnose various bio weapons in the field so the problem was that if you had some suspected

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that if you had some suspected bioweapons somewhere you needed to know as quickly as possible what you were dealing with and it would at the time the technology meant giving a sample sending it back to somebody lab if they tested it in the lab and it takes however long that takes so the government wanted the labs to develop a quick simple portable way to test for bio weapons and I assume I assume that any kind of blood test etc well hat what came out of that was some technology specific technology to make it really cheap and easy so I don't know the details but basically there's there's some microchips involved and there's some tiny needles in some cases there's basically a set of technologies that the government labs developed which are now available to private industry so a private industry can license these technologies for I don't nothing or cheap or whatever it is because the government came up with it I've seen

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government came up with it I've seen these devices so it's not theoretical I have seen on a sitting on the table several actually several different devices that you can put on a table you know easy to lift easy to carry you could probably put it in a backpack and just plug it in and you could take blood tests right there now the diagnosis part might be a little harder that that might take a special chip special piece of equipment but here's the thing that I want to tell you from where I saw it three years ago these were already well developed devices from those well developed devices I don't think it's the biggest leap in the world to customize those for the coronavirus and here's the other big technological change the reason that we used to send stuff to China and other places for manufacturing is because they could do it more cheaply

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is because they could do it more cheaply that has changed what changed is automation if the best way to build something is is robots then China pays the same for robots as we do and you don't want it to be made by Chinese robots because then you have to pay to ship it back here so the least cost weight manufacturer used to be Russia I'm sorry used to be China because you could have people do it but as long as it's robots the United States is actually the best cost so here are the trends to look for that could come together really quickly robots building test devices they could wrap up a lot faster than you think so getting the you know getting the robots built to build it is gonna take some work but once they're built they're going to build some machines and we could do that quickly and then the second part is the diagnostic part diagnostic part that these new low-cost

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diagnostic part that these new low-cost devices are very close to being able to so here's the thing what I what I knew that you didn't know until just now is that the the physical technology to be able to rapidly test everyone is way better than you imagined it is we're way closer doesn't mean it'll all come together in the homework outlets it's a little unpredictable but the technology is right there so two points of optimism one it's entirely possible that a hundred thousand people are infected in this country that we didn't even notice which tells you we might not notice it if it gets worse but also the technology that looks like it's far away in three months you're gonna see things come online that you thought were impossible well here's my prediction my prediction in three months you'll see technologies a technology let's say solutions for

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a technology let's say solutions for coronavirus and it might be only a solution for testing not necessarily a solution for a vaccine but in three months you're gonna see things that you didn't think were physically possible or technologically possible that's my prediction that's the good news and I'll talk to you later