Episode 883 Scott Adams: I’ll be Taking Over for our Lying Surgeon General. Come Get New Guidelines

Date: 2020-03-31 | Duration: 45:22

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: Lying to us about the pandemic, during the pandemic The Chris and Andrew Cuomo show is highly entertaining Chris Cillizza admits he believes he can read Trump’s mind Mike Lindell, a great patriot The likelihood of looting

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bum bum bum bum bum hey everybody come on in here yeah it's time it's time for coffee with Scott Adams Oh mark good see you
you JP always a pleasure and welcome to your first day on periscope Edison well it's good to see all of you and what a strange day today is we'll talk about that in a moment but we're not going to talk about it until the simultaneous sip that fire here and all you need what do you need what do you need yeah that's right you need a cup of our glass of tanker gel is just I'm the canteen juggler Plaskett that's a little Betty try and fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me down for the unparalleled pleasure that don't put me in today the day the thing that makes everything including the pandemic better it's called the simultaneous sip go yeah yeah

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called the simultaneous sip go yeah yeah so let's take an accounting of all the people and entities who have lied to us during the pandemic now wouldn't be big news that somebody lied to the public because that's sort of every day somebody's lying to the public but it feels that feels to me that lying to the public during the pandemic about the pandemic something important about it that's sort of a bad life and so far we've seen the CDC tell us that masks don't work an obvious lie the World Health Organization who telling us that masks don't work and obvious lie China telling us that they've totally taken care of their problem over there an obvious lie as well as a lot of other obvious lies the surgeon jelton general telling us that we should wear masks in the general public because they don't work that's an

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public because they don't work that's an obvious lie then of course the fake news in general I don't have to give you any any examples but it's kind of remarkable isn't it that the the entities that we we thought we could trust I mean really the Surgeon General even I think even this morning he was back on Fox and Friends just lying to the public and and the thing is that it's one thing to lie to the public when they don't know you're lying or they can't prove it but when they know you're lying and you don't even have to prove it because it's just obvious that material stops air you know ever slows it down so it's really quite remarkable that they continue to do this right to our faces so I don't think you could listen to any of these organizations going forward so I don't think you should trust the Surgeon General the CDC or who you have

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Surgeon General the CDC or who you have to listen to them but you're gonna have to use your judgment it looks like because they're apparently they're not committed to telling the public the truth for whatever reason or reasons you don't need to know the reasons you just have to know that apparently it's not it's just not an objective to tell you the truth so keep that in mind President Trump said something that you wouldn't expect to command of his mouth but again you know it's part of the reason that he's so appealing to the people who like him I'm talking about Trump that he just says stuff that you're only supposed to think you're not supposed to say it out loud and then he says it out loud do you think well I didn't see that coming I didn't think you'd say that out loud he's doing it again but in a very delightful way because I I like this and so apparent I don't know where he was maybe on the Fox and Friends or

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maybe on the Fox and Friends or someplace wherever he did an interview Trump said [Music] we want to always make sure that we have a great president we have somebody that's capable this is Trump speaking he says I personally don't think Joe Biden is capable the president said in an interview with Fox & Friends and then he went on and said quote I wouldn't mind running against Andrew talking about Andrew Cuomo I have known Andrew for a long time I wouldn't mind that but I'll be honest I think he'd be a better candidate than sleepy Joe and here's what's funny about that that's a hundred percent true it's a hundred percent true the president is just saying is straight up that he doesn't think Joe Joe Biden is capable and that's it's just true right I mean we're watching Joe Biden from his basement bunker struggle through to try to get through these little video things without gaffing and

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little video things without gaffing and he can't even do that so the president's just calling it like it is he's not capable and the president said something that I've been saying I've actually said this privately to Democrats but also publicly which is the country's a little bit exposed here because typically we've got you know two candidates maybe you disagree with their policies but they could both do the job you know they can both do the job you just would prefer one of them over the other but that's not what we have now we have a dangerous situation where people over 70 are at risk we've got a president who's over 70 and it's not wearing a face mask every time you see him he's around people he's at risk you know we can't ignore the fact that our leaders some of them might not make it I mean maybe in other countries more than this but this is real risk and when I talk about the

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real risk and when I talk about the Democrats not having a viable candidate I'm serious about that that's nice that's not joking around that's not politics they need to give us a back-up plan you know what happens if you know worst case scenario something happens Trump quits whatever we need a back-up plan and I'm talking about before the election so that we have an actual candidate we can elect I'm not talking about you know Mike Pence is a good backup I think in my opinion you know I wouldn't choose Mike Pence for president but is he a solid backup yeah yeah he's a very solid backup so I'm completely comfortable with that but are you comfortable with Joe Biden being the backup in case something happens between now and Election Day how could you possibly be comfortable with that now would Andrew Cuomo be a better candidate and a better president than Joe Biden yes yes a thousand times yes in order to

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yes yes a thousand times yes in order to know that much about Andrew Cuomo because I would say the same thing about almost anybody right almost anybody you know the the birdie folks are different because they've got a quite different view of the world so you could you could argue maybe that's not better but to have the mainstream Democrat who just can sort of do the job you know and John Kerry just somebody who could do the job I feel like the Democrats are oh the Republic that I feel like they always that they they always a real candidate and and I mean that they always a real candidate this is it's no joke now I mean this this is playing this is praying playing at the top level at the highest stakes and Democrats are offering this is just no option at all really you could do better than that so I don't think the president really thinks that Democrats could you know switch horses at this

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could you know switch horses at this late stage but I think he's being completely obviously he actually would rather run against somebody who's capable I think that's actually true even though you know Andrew Cuomo might be able to beat him you know if we're being honest Andrew Cuomo might be able to beat him but I don't think he's gonna get into race
I'm gonna mention this just because it's funny you should put no credibility whatsoever on the next thing I say even less than the usual so on the internet but not in the regular news of course there's some photographs that appear to show governor cuomo with his shirt being kind of tight it appears to show that he has nipple piercings now I'm no expert on nipple piercings and why would I care one way or the other well why would I care I don't care if he has some nipple piercings you can have anything he wants pierced I'm completely okay with that

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pierced I'm completely okay with that and it shouldn't be a story but apparently according to the internet you can see it through his shirt and it makes you wonder if you know it makes you wonder if he's even more interesting than you thought in a good way I have only good things to say about it and by the way I was just watching another clip of you know Chris Cuomo on CNN interviewing Andrew Cuomo and I gotta tell you I could not recommend this more highly watching Chris Cuomo like you know do his little routine too with his brother you know sort of the the mocking each other and the love/hate stuff is really good it's just good TV and you're also learning stuff that you want to know I could not be more more praising how good that is just it was just sort of something we need like I feel like when we're all locked down watching these two brothers you know who love each other mocking each other is just

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each other mocking each other is just really good for the the country is soul one of I Chris Cuomo was a little little digs at his brother Andrew and I had to write this one down because it made me laugh and it is just a throwaway line there was just one of the many things they said so Chris comment goes to his brother he goes I know you like to run around with your ill-fitting jacket I know you like to run around with your ill-fitting jacket that is such a brother thing to say that was great
so I tweeted yesterday and I mentioned before that it's jarring to me to watch the professional news people broadcast from home I think they're using Skype it looks like they're just using the laptops or whatever and that part's fine everybody understands is emergency but it's weird that they're wearing suits to Skype from their basements or their you know their living room in their basement

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know their living room in their basement or something kind of weird to wear a suit so I have ruled as the creator of Dilbert I have this authority you probably didn't know this but I can rule on office dress and I rule that no matter what your job is on TV if you do it in from home over Skype the proper the proper dress code is pajama casual now pajama casual is what I'm wearing right now it's sort of like the the mullet of dress codes because from here up oh I'm all business but from the waist down it's pajama time so it's like the mullet of dress codes here's something you didn't see coming Trump is absolutely just killing the ranch to transfer money to the poor now the poor in this context is anybody got

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the poor in this context is anybody got to you know didn't have much in the way of resources and also lost their job and will lose their job because of the virus situation so those people are getting large amounts of money and the people who probably are going to lose everything are the people who owned businesses so the people who had money are going to lose in many cases everything and end up with that and the billionaire's even though you're probably going to go down by a third you know in the short term anyway the probably go down by a third so the people who didn't have anything didn't have anything to lose so there's not much room to go from not having anything to having it's sort of the same thing and in fact they might get some direct transfers but the rich are getting killed now I'm not complaining because you know the rich of the last ones you have to worry about take me for example my job

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worry about take me for example my job is basically gone so my career will never come back after this I predict because most newspapers won't be able to survive the downturn because advertising was already so bad and their model was so bad so a year from now I would suspect I will not be a cartoonist because it won't be a market for it the way there used to be I'd still be doing it probably online and stuff but in terms of my my career is over basically I mean this will be the last few months that there's something like it you know a comic and something like newspapers so I don't expect newspapers maybe 75% of them will go out of business would be my guess yeah and along with them 75% of my income but I'll figure it out so I won't be in the bread line I'm watching CNN try to find something to say bad about Trump and so

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something to say bad about Trump and so Gloria Bohr Borgia one of their main personalities and pundits she wrote a opinion piece saying that Trump doesn't have the same amount of empathy as Andrew Cuomo well that's it that's it the the best thing or the worst thing that Gloria Borgia could come up with about Trump and this handling of the crisis is that oh yeah he does have empathy she didn't say he has no empathy and she actually gave examples about how he talked about the hospital Elmhurst I think in his old neighborhood talked empathetically about somebody new personally who was now on a ventilator and in a coma so she did say he has empathy and that he is actually displaying it and she didn't really complain about his job you know doing the job of the crisis management but her complaint was that compared to Andrew Cuomo he seems to not

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compared to Andrew Cuomo he seems to not have as much empathy that's it really that's it I mean should be noted that one of the things that Andrew Cuomo does better than just about anybody in politics is show empathy he is sort of the you know if you were gonna have a contest and you know put all the all the politicians in one place and say alright show us some sincere empathy and it was like a contest where you could pick a winner it might be Andrew Cuomo he does seem to have exactly the right fit of charisma and personality and empathy just just the way he presents himself he feels he looks like he's you know heart and soul completely engaged in empathetic so and the president is not famous for empathy being his you know primary characteristic but he's certainly doing it he's certainly

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certainly doing it he's certainly performing you know you know I'll agree with you that compared to the best political empathizer of all time you know Andrew Cuomo's were really good at this stuff he's not that good but does that matter I mean it's like the least important criticism I've ever seen all right but who else was criticizing them so Krystle is a again CNN critic of the president he can't find anything to criticize so he falls back on hallucinating that he can read the president's mind and all that although the actions seem to be okay there's something he can see penetrating the skull and peering inside the chrysalis I can see the president's mind oh do you think I'm making this up does that sound that sound too hyperbolic am I am I making too much of what crystal is I said well let's read his exact words these are his exact words crystal is a--

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these are his exact words crystal is a-- in Trump's mind that's the first part of the sentence he's actually telling us what's in Trump's mind in a direct sentence in Trump's mind the reason that people are watching the briefings is because of him what really can we see inside his mind and and when we peer inside this mind of a stranger with our ESB we can tell that the only reason he thinks people are watching the briefings is because of his good performance do you think the president is unaware of what yeah well most here's what chrysalis Llosa thinks the president doesn't understand how do I know that the less Alyssa thinks the president doesn't understand this well it's the sentence he wrote which says quote he doesn't understand that because for him it's always always always about

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for him it's always always always about him seriously is he just imagining that the president can't handle two variables at the same time because I also can't read the president's mind but if I were gonna make let's say a reasonable assumption wouldn't you say he can handle more than one variable at the same time don't you think the president has some notion that people are watching the briefings to get information as well not just for his performance you don't think the president's caught on that there's some transfer of information that people would find valuable and useful and would tune in for it you don't think the president's caught on to that at all Chris ELISA he's just blind to that he just thinks they're watching because his performance is good and your and and you you were so confident in this opinion you would write it directly and publish it I mean what do you even say about

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it I mean what do you even say about that but anyway that's the worst complaint that they have about him is things they hallucinate and he's not as empathetic as the most empathetic politician we've ever seen in public okay all right okay I all accept those criticisms my gasps here's a question what I would like to know yeah so this is data that we are not being told em should how many doctors who have been taking the hydroxychloroquine and these are through Meissen how many doctors who were taking that preventatively prophylactically ahead of being affected how many of them later got infected wouldn't you like to know that because it seems to me and maybe they just don't want to admit it yet there must be a lot of doctors who are taking it just because they're working in the front

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because they're working in the front lines and of course they're being exposed to it of course how many of them went on to get the virus and then of the ones who got it how many you're advanced to some kind of a ventilator or serious stage because I feel like the answer is going to be none now maybe we don't have enough numbers to know if it's you know enough I don't know how many doctors have been on the frontlines where they're definitely getting exposed at least a little bit and also took it prophylactically long enough that they know they weren't exposed before I suppose so maybe we don't have enough numbers but I think we do well that we do so why don't we hear that let's see and this is a from Meridian health facility so a doctor was I think I'm Fox News or someplace he was

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I think I'm Fox News or someplace he was talking about it might have been CNN he said they're more than 300 in the ICU and more than 300 on ventilators and then he said this he said we're probably using the hydroxychloroquine recipe in some way or shape or form in about three-quarters of our patients right now to which I said three quarters why would you not use it on all of them it could be because the other quarter are testing other drugs or maybe they're too far to go on and they think that hydroxychloroquine only works if you don't have you know strong symptoms yet I don't know but it's a question what will happen to the other quarter is it because they don't have enough I'd like to know more about that so the public has responded quite remarkably to all those shortages and needs and stuff and especially the 3d the 3d printer community came up with faced bet the

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community came up with faced bet the face mask designs then I think it creates sort of the plasticky parts that you can put the mask in somehow so somehow they figured it out but I thought I wonder if that's the future could it be that instead of having all of the components we need for an emergency like this just sort of sitting in a warehouse I'm sure we'll have lots more m95 maths and warehouses from this day on but in addition to that wouldn't you like that all the 3d makers have plans just in case and so you know the first side of the trouble could the 3d makers just start you know pumping out stuff that they need for this emergency maybe we'll be ready for that the next time here's an idea restaurants of course are just getting devastated and I'm wondering what kind of things can be done to help them get

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of things can be done to help them get by now of course you'd buy a gift gift certificate you could you could use you know delivery you could do pickup and stuff so those things are all great if you have a way to keep your local restaurants in business but there are also tons of restrictions that the local community puts on restaurants the state the county in the city and one of the restrictions is outdoor dining so there they're always tons of outdoor dining restrictions and you know don't be on the sidewalk and you don't have a permit for that and you got to have this and that and you got to make sure your dog can't be look next to a table and and all that now I'm wondering if we could just do away with all of that for you know a year or whatever because the warm weather is coming and it seems to me the restaurants should be able to spread their tables down into the street or the sidewalk or just maybe the parking lot maybe the parking lot maybe maybe every

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maybe the parking lot maybe maybe every restaurant is a is a drive up from now on you can eat in your car but they'll take it out to you into your car you know you just park in the parking lot like yeah like a driving so it's a general question but I'm wondering how many restaurants would have the the space outside them where they could at least temporarily say will serve you outdoors or in your car or we drive through there's that there's a business in town called the creamery it's been here for decades before I was here so I don't know it might be 50 years old but it's a local institution and what it is is a drive up soft ice cream place and all summer and even much of the winter there's a lion on the streets and you get your car and you just get in line and they'll take your order while you're in your car so that by the time you get up to the front in your car they they have it ready for you and they're handing it to you and you drive away and it is insanely popular even though it's

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it is insanely popular even though it's a little bit inconvenient but you never get out of your car and I've often thought that the part of the magic is that the kids are bugging the parents hey go to the creamery you know and the parents are thinking you know if I had to park and I had to get out of my car I'd probably just say no you've had enough ice cream but because I can just sort of drive up and I'm already in the car or the kids are in the car or and it's it's only across the street it's hard to say though because all you have to do is drive over there and suddenly you've got ice cream so I think we should think expensively and think about dropping a lot of regulations including you know bring your bicycle bring your dog you know side even your car just all of that just just make it all possible and let people see what they can do so Senator Bill Cassidy is pitching the idea of an online registry

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pitching the idea of an online registry for recovered coronavirus patients so that you know they're not you'd have a way of knowing who could go back to work who is relatively safe we're still thinking that having it gives you some degree of immunity but I think there's a little bit of a question mark in there
Ford and GM I guess are teaming up to build ventilators that's good news it's good to see our big businesses stepping up you know the president hasn't had to use the War Powers Act too much because the businesses are stepping up and I'm thinking you know a lot of what we think about these big companies will be determined by how they respond you know how did they treat their employees did they step up to try to make ventilators that sort of thing so I think it's just smart afford to really be on board and all these other companies you know they shouldn't have to be asked of course

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shouldn't have to be asked of course Michael and Dell is getting some heat because he was at the Rose Garden and then the president let him speak and he said good things about the president and some things about God so people want to use that as an excuse to complain about Michael and Dell and this is what Sean Davis over at the Federalist he tweeted this it was while you are watching Netflix talking about Lyndell here he said he retooled his entire company to make tens of thousands of masks every day to protect people from getting the Wuhan Karenga virus has there ever been somebody who was more typically American than Mike Lyndell he's the most American guy because first of all I think he's admitted yet cocaine problems or whatever so he was younger he had drug problems so that's the first part this very American you know he started started from some disadvantage formed an American company

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disadvantage formed an American company makes an American product and then as soon as there's a big problem in the country what is Michael and L do well he's an American what's an American do if he has an American manufacturing plant that can do stuff with you know cotton he makes products with cotton he just he just turned over his entire company in like a week and turned it into a mask making company because he's a patriot great American great great American so here's a weird thing that's happening today doesn't it feel like it's a little too quiet don't you think doesn't it feel a little too quiet today you know I tweeted that and some people were agreeing because they're feeling it because the news has been coming at us like a just a firehose lately and I look

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like a just a firehose lately and I look at the news today and it's a Tuesday it's a sort of a big news day a lot of news happens on Tuesdays and there's not much you know it's just sort of continuation mood news and thing people are talking about stuff we've been talking about now I actually any news now it could be just a coincidence every now and then you get slow news day so that would be that the most likely explanation is there just slow news day relatively speaking but it doesn't feel like it does it did any of you feel it I feel like there's something happening and it's too quiet so well I'll just put that out there because I like to you know put my predictions out there right or wrong right or wrong and I'm not sure we'll ever know if this is right or wrong because if we just go back to a big news day by this afternoon well

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big news day by this afternoon well that's not that I knew but look for something that's bigger than normal it just might be something bigger than normal comment I don't know what it is I see people talking about civil wars and looting and and all of that let me say this while we were all distracted by the corona virus we're all distracted by the economy in stay at home we're very distracted and in all the right reasons because we should be focusing on that but here's what we didn't notice while we're focusing on though the bad news the country and I can only speak for America because I don't have a sense of what's happening in other countries I wouldn't be surprised if it's if it's not the same there but in this country just just think about this following the fact and just enjoy her for a moment here's the fact in my lifetime the

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here's the fact in my lifetime the country has never been this unified you know you could argue that 9/11 was unifying but not like this in 9/11 most of us didn't have anything we can do about it you're right there wasn't anything I could do about 9/11 you know some people signed up for the military and they found something to do but most of us didn't it wasn't much I can do about it but with this virus situation everybody can do something every single person needs to do something you not only can you do something but you're being called on you're being called on to do something and I would argue that America has never been closer as a people never been stronger in terms of the idea of America than we are right now right right exactly now I mean exactly now like as I'm talking this country has never been more United we all have exactly the same mission

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we all have exactly the same mission which is to get out of this alive and with our economy as as good as we can make it we've never been this unified yeah that the polls are showing some more support for the president I think that probably will you know continue unless something new happens and it probably matters that Joe Biden who should be the big voice of let's say the voice of dissent is basically irrelevant so the biggest voice that you'd expect to be making news and making noise just sort it doesn't exist now one of our Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders you would expect would continue being Bernie Sanders and maybe criticizing the president and doing all that have you seen that today have you seen that yesterday did you see Bernie Sanders attacking the government of the United States during a pandemic well we all criticize right I criticized

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well we all criticize right I criticized today lying about the mass and stuff like that but Bernie Sanders apparently is a patriot I hate to tell you because Bernie Sanders is not making it worse and he's probably working very hard to make it better so Bernie Sanders I would like to read up my my respect for you for having the right intentions I still don't like the the policies per se but Bernie I think you're you're being a positive force right now and I appreciate it so that you know you'll well we'll always have Jim Acosta but I think you would agree he's he's part of the he's part of the entertainment at this point you can't take him too seriously are you somebody says are you watching the news I don't know if that means are you watching the news right now as in something might be happening because I'm not Oh somebody says described United

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not Oh somebody says described United yeah here's what I mean your your your neighbor can't get out to shop for groceries that would be my situation right so I'm socially distancing and I prefer not going to the store because it'd be a little dangerous I asked somebody to help me you know a person in the neighborhood a young person to help me get some groceries and of course she said yes so did either of us ask for our political affiliations did I need to know the political affiliation of my neighbor I asked for help no did she need to know my political leanings in order to give me help no no it's not a question when you see the political squabbling in the news they used to be fun even a few months ago any political squabbling I'd say oh this is fun we got something to eat about now we've got a

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something to eat about now we've got a little red meat in there or I like this I like this trouble it was sort of fun trouble but now when you read some politician as just being a politician it just looks sort of gross doesn't it because we're in the middle of this together it just looks slimy looks disgusting and you see more and more people who are willing to acknowledge that this isn't a political moment you know the you know the Jim Acosta is going to be the outlier but I think for most of us most of us are Mark Cuban right now you know what did what are Mark Cuban's political feelings about anything well not exactly maybe what the president agrees with but is Mark Cuban being political or is he just helping his employees you know being a leader in a time of when we need

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being a leader in a time of when we need lots of leaders he's doing that and it's not political he is just trying to help his country you know what am i doing trying to help the country what are you doing trying to help the country so the point being that our I think even our our racial divisions are class division are looking better than ever now there's there's sort of a Robin Hood thing happening because as I said you you're watching the rich very willingly give up their money or you know portion of it they're still going to be rich but you're watching the rich completely committed to what do you need and that's what I say to me it looks like the rich have universally said just tell me what you need nobody's saying no have you seen any rich people be asked for something and

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rich people be asked for something and then they say no I mean maybe it's happening but you know I'm not hearing age stories about that I'm hearing yes company will you do this yes person a will you do this yes now this is also true of everybody who's not rich you know you non rich person will you do this yes yes I will there's more yes happening in this country right now like literally as I'm talking there more more people say yes and more people saying how can I help you and fewer people saying you know what do you believe about politics then ever in my lifetime so just sort of enjoy it you know there's gonna be way more bad than good during this this next few weeks way more bad than good but that doesn't mean you can't appreciate you know the little little spots of life that are actually kind of special that are beautiful in their own way and

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are beautiful in their own way and somebody says oMG Scott you're in a fantasy things are falling apart where I live well I don't know where you live but I doubt that you're gonna see looting you know you're not going to see society falling apart I believe that we are stronger than we've ever been mentally spiritually and scientifically and we're probably the strongest we've ever been the economy is going to take a serious pounding though I will I know I'm gonna but my life will be very different after this apparently so
so and most of yours will as well but we're going to be better off in the long run
why the terms social distancing rather than physical distancing well it's a good question social does sound friendlier tds boomers

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social does sound friendlier tds boomers attacked my wife well i don't know what that's all about I keep seeing people saying Trump called Cove it a hoax I think we're past that
our all teachers being paid I don't know good question my guess is yes all right China has blue sky yeah that's weird
somebody says they don't trust a chi things are really falling apart that seemed that way yeah I don't believe anything's falling apart alright so I've looked at your somebody says looting in three weeks limit let me give you the anti looting argument looting happens because there are more people than there

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because there are more people than there are law enforcement I mean roughly speaking you know if you got a big crowd out there you don't have many cops you might get some looting what's weird about this situation is that the citizens have largely not largely but to a great extent citizens realized their government isn't going to do everything for them this time because they can't you just can't so what would happen if looters appeared in your city and police were let's say police were not taking care of it you know what would happen right the citizens armed to the teeth would walk out onto the streets they would shoot a couple of looters and that would be the end of the looters if looting were to happen citizens would shoot them shoot them dead not the place citizens would come out with their own guns and they would say looting no not

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guns and they would say looting no not on my watch the looting will be done in ten minutes they will shoot somebody the citizens of your world will shoot somebody dead and then they'll say who else wants the loot and then somebody will do it and they'll shoot him dead after about the second or third person they'd shoot dead I'm talking citizens I'm not talking about the law enforcement your lootings gonna go down quite a bit so you know you can't say that there won't be problems in some corner of the country it's a big place so everything's different you might get some problems but with our citizens so well armed and in the mood being we can't wait for the government to do everything you're probably safer from looting than any time in your life because no lunar is going to be alive for 24 hours you know the it'll at the first sign of noise armed the citizens are going to walk out in the streets with their guns and if you happen to be breaking a store

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and if you happen to be breaking a store window in the period of an emergency in front of a guy with a gun probably get killed and by the way if you're on the jury and and you're you have to settle the case of the guy who was looting during the during the pandemic all right so during the pandemic is the key phrase here so you know a guy if you saw a citizen shot somebody who was looting who didn't really need to write you know he didn't need to shoot him they were just walking out with some shoes or something and did put me on the jury put me on that jury I'm not convicting that guy so any citizen who shoots a looter you know it's against the law I don't recommend it but it's gonna happen and if you put me on the jury there's just no way I'm going to convict that guy because in the context of an emergency kind of needed to shoot that lunar sorry

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kind of needed to shoot that lunar sorry it's an adult decision sorry it's just the way it's got to go so no I don't think there's any chance of looting widespread because citizens would just take care of that right away I guarantee it somebody says you can't shoot somebody for looting let me say this as clearly as possible it's not legal to shoot somebody just for looting it will happen anyway and should I'd be in favor of it honestly I'm not I'm not saying you should do it that's not a recommendation I'm saying it will happen whether you like it or not and it will be for the best because if it's gonna slow down the looting quite a bit trust me all right that's all I got for now I will talk to you later tonight you know and 7:00 p.m. my time 10:00 p.m. Eastern talk to you later