Episode 939 Scott Adams: Fake News and Loserthink in the Headlines That is Humorously Dumb

Date: 2020-04-27 | Duration: 53:04

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: NYT Davey Alba and AYTU’s Healight (Far UV light) video Huffington Post hit piece on hydroxychloroquine under-informed Drs. Dan Ericson and Artin Massihi Bryan Cranston, a one dimensional thinker

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hey everybody come on in yes it's another wonderful morning in the age of coronavirus but I think we're gonna get on top of this thing yeah yeah humans were pretty good in fact our winning record about a hundred thousand years of winning name a species that has beaten us yet you can't name a virus that has taken us down and finished us off none Spanish flu nothing you got nothing you shouldn't Blanks flu well there's no virus they can stop us especially when we have powerful powerful medical technology not the least among them is the simultaneous sip yeah the simultaneous sep has been shown in studies that are not peer-reviewed and allegedly we hear from people who are anonymous sources in test run in other countries by people with very long hair who should not be doctors those people

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who should not be doctors those people tell us with great certainty that simultaneous sip will raise your immune system yeah it's true and all you need is a copper marker glass of tanker chelators time the canteen trigger a flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me there for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine diem of the day the thing that makes everything including the stupid pandemic betta it's called the simultaneous if but it happens now go yeah my immune system just went up about 3.6 percent I think feels about like that all right here's my idea of the day that does not come from me a a Twitter follower sends me the following ideas and I would like to
to share it with you so the president is considering scaling back on his press

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considering scaling back on his press conferences I think most of you would say that might be a good idea at this point we were a little bit over informed and every time he's on stage taking questions the press is doing nothing but trying to bait him into a mistake so I don't really need to watch the press asking illegitimate questions which are only designed to force unforced errors basically that doesn't make sense but you know I'm talking about so here's here's a suggestion how about the president take questions from the public right now when I say the public there are several ways to do and one is you could literally just say you know tweeted me a question and I'll pick the ones that look good right that would be a perfectly fair way to do it just look at his Twitter feed go on television and say all right I got a whole bunch of questions I've marked some good ones so

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questions I've marked some good ones so user blah blah blah ask this question here's my answer now of course that doesn't give you a time for some follow-up so let me suggest another idea why is it the only CNN and the big networks get to ask questions of the president do they have special powers of question asking they don't right but what they do have is a big channel so in other words the president is sort of forced to answer questions from people he doesn't want to deal with such as you know see you then because they have such a big reach but it's 20 20 people can you imagine I'll just throw out this hypothetically if I personally interviewed President Trump on video do you how many people would watch it and the answer is just about everybody in the world so do you need CNN you tell me this isn't true if I

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CNN you tell me this isn't true if I personally interviewed President Trump it would be huge and it's not just me yeah you you could pick you could come up with 20 names off the top of your head who are just people with blue checks on Twitter they don't need blue checks I'm not saying that makes you a you know a more effective because you have a blue check obviously that's not the case but you could think of 20 people that you would put on camera and say hey you know I was gonna say you know Jack poo Sabich but he has you know he has a network so he he doesn't count because he's got his own network at arrow and but take somebody who doesn't have a network just somebody who's got a lot of Twitter followers do you think i'll just you know throw out a name do you think if mike Serna vich interviewed President Trump on video that that wouldn't get 20 million hits of course it would of course it would yeah do you think I can't ask better questions that the entire press corps I can't I can't

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the entire press corps I can't I can't and I think you know it too all right I can ask better questions of the entire press corps I say that with complete confidence and I say that because lots of people could I'm not saying that I could do better than the press corps because I have magic powers I'm saying there are lots of people who could you just have to take it into that weird little artificial environment where they're showcasing and you know trying to force an error and just give somebody that there's a there's a good a suggestion Dave Rubin could Dave Rubin to ask better questions of President Trump about the coronavirus than the professional reporters in the room yeah would it be close Tim Poole Joe Rogan I'm seeing other names yeah yeah Dan bunch you know you can find a lot of people who could get who could dig in a little bit better than the pros so why not why not do that so here's here's my invitation I invite President Trump to do a

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I invite President Trump to do a long-form interview with me I guarantee it will be better TV than anything that's been produced by any other interview by any other Network period and you know it's true you know you would watch an interview with me and president Trump you know you would so anyway I'll throw that out there it doesn't have to be me but I'd like to see real people asking questions so the Democrats are so worried about Trump's decision-making and it kind of comes that down to that doesn't it they use lots of words for it you know they'll say we think he's a monster we think he's crazy we think he's not paying attention to the facts we think he's speculating about medical things he's a loose cannon they they have a million different words for it but doesn't it all come down to they don't trust his decision-making right they give different reasons for it but it all comes down to we don't we

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but it all comes down to we don't we don't know if you'll make the right decisions so Democrats are so worried about Trump's decision-making that they want to replace them with an elderly dementia patient with credible me to allegations I'm not even making that up right the is this not a true statement I don't think it's even machinae did a in especially provocative way the Democrats are so worried about Trump's decision-making that's true they're very worried about his decision-making everybody would agree with that first part of the statement that they want to replace them with an elderly dementia
patient with credible me to allegations do you would you disagree with that statement now you could disagree whether he's technically a dementia patient but that would be a distinction without much a difference right or is it a difference without a distinction it's one of those maybe is not technically you know technically maybe he doesn't have dementia but he looks an accident way so

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dementia but he looks an accident way so and I wondered how could Trump ever learn to make good decisions like that because the Democrats who are judging Trump's decision-making abilities must feel that they can make better decisions because they're comparing Trump's decision-making to what they would have done I suppose because how else could you do it there it's not like there's another president who's doing the same job so if you're saying president Trump is not making good decisions the only thing you have to compare it to is the decisions that you yourself would have made in that situation so one has to assume that you're good at making decisions in order to judge that the person who's doing something different from what you would do is doing it wrong so the people who judge themselves to be good at making decisions have decided that they should put all of their hopes with an elderly dementia patient with credible me to allegations what part of that did I make up is any of that is any

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that did I make up is any of that is any of that exaggeration I mean baby the dementia patient part but barely right
here's a story that is so shocking that I can't even process it did you ever have that happen where there's a story that you think is true I'm sure it's true I mean this one's true for sure nothing is true for children but I think this was true and and it's so bad that if it were true and it is true I should immediately get into my car and and go like start a revolution or something it's so bad that my brain can't even tell me what to do about it because it can't even it doesn't even feel real and here it is there's a an employee of the New York Times Devi Alba who said I contacted you YouTube about this video which is being shared on tons of replies

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which is being shared on tons of replies on Twitter on Facebook by people asserting that it backs up Trump's idea throwing it out there the UV rays kill coronavirus YouTube just said it removed it for violating its Community Guidelines now the the video in question many of you know the story is the the company whose doesn't I don't forget their name but they're in trials right now as cedars-sinai for a far UV light technology which is known to kill coronavirus it's not speculated that it kills coronavirus it's already a commercial product it kills grown a virus outside of the body now there's there's a trial going on to see if inserting it in the body can also kill the corona virus similarly without damage to skin the way that we use it externally because it's already used in hospitals Israel's already using a little robot with a UV light on it to

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a little robot with a UV light on it to clean down buses or Airlines or something so it's a known technology that's being further tested to see if it also has an extra use the most normal thing that happens in the world hey we have some evidence this might be good this is what we're doing to test it the president mentioned it and this guy from the New York Times decides to take it upon himself he takes it upon himself to have that removed from the Internet why what was the reason he gave he said because which is being shared on tons of replies on Twitter and Facebook by people asserting that a backs up Trump's idea throwing it out there the UV rays kill corona virus it doesn't just assert that it backs up Trump's idea it proves it it's not an assertion it's a proof that a hundred percent of

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it's a proof that a hundred percent of scientists agree with is there anybody in the world that you could produce in New York Times they would say you know we've looked at it and for UV light does not kill virus because that would be quite shocking since 100 percent of the science says it does and multiple commercial products are selling it to hospitals filled with doctors who don't know that it doesn't work so this New York Times
permission to swear I need permission to swear I know there's a little delay in the comments but I don't want to do this until you get a little warning you know I know you have kids kids at home and stuff that's but it's early in the morning kids are asleep right there at least they're not watching this I'm watching and so there will be some swearing I'll just give you a little warning on that this David Elba guy tried as successfully he successfully

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tried as successfully he successfully had content removed from the internet only because it backed up the president being correct and agreeing with every scientist in the world the UV light kills coronavirus and it is also a fact nobody questions it the Cedar sinai is testing it right now internally by injecting it injecting into the body through the trachea etc could be in little in the bloodstream through the vein there's another way to do it and this this idiot de eval before the New York Times takes it upon himself to try to change the history of the world by making it look like the president's and not for proof for the furry for just speculating aloud about a technology that looks pretty solid David Alba you goddamn this is the kind of thing that makes you unqualified to be a

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that makes you unqualified to be a human being we're in a goddamn emergency hundreds of thousands of people are dying and you you are trying to remove useful information from the internet because it doesn't agree with your stupid goddamn politics really really you would rather destroy the whole earth then let Donald Trump be right about something that he's clearly right about that you you're gonna change a little Internet and then the on the internet take it off Twitter you two yeah let's just take this information off because it doesn't look good for president Trump this is the worst thing I've ever seen I mean this is this is the kind of person that I can't say enough bad about this person this is a horrible person like as a human being you really have to check yourself check yourself David Elbe

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yourself check yourself David Elbe you're a horrible person what the is wrong with you seriously what the is wrong with you Jesus let's talk about the Huffington Post well I warned you that it's hard to process that but I guess I managed to do it anyway so the Huffington Post ran the story not too long ago this said that the hydroxychloroquine was killing more people than it was helping so they they did a study and they found out that the people who took it had worse worse outcomes and the people who didn't okay so a guy who's a professional with lots of experience at examining the quality of studies so he's got years of experience he's been hired at the high levels to do exactly this the look of studies and say does this look good or

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studies and say does this look good or not yeah it's a Peter Breggin MD with ginger Ross Brennan and here's what he notes and see how obvious this is to find out what's wrong with this study so it was a study in which they gave the hydroxychloroquine only to the sickest patients and they found out that the sickest patients had bad outcomes compared to patients who are not as sick this sounds like I'm making that up doesn't it that there was a scientific experience it wasn't even a study about an experience that The Huffington Post reported on it's not peer-reviewed and they compared sick people to not sick people and they said that the people who were really sick and near death more of them died than the people who were not very sick and then they reported that is because the drug is killing them now they only gave the drug because it was only

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gave the drug because it was only allowed to be given to the sickest patients so are we surprised that the people near death were more likely to die than the people who were not having any real symptoms I mean come on I mean it's not it's Devi Alba DAV EUI so I'm Twitter he's at da ve y al ba if you want to send him a copy of this song this rant be my guest what a horrible person I mean really I generally don't make I generally try to refrain from opinions about people you know I'd rather just say they're good at something they're bad at something you know I'm I don't I don't want to be your God and judge somebody being good or bad as a good person that's not my job but sometimes you know sometimes there's an easy call you know Hitler didn't have his good points Hitler was just a bad person right you

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Hitler was just a bad person right you can't say well you know he had some pluses you don't say that for most people I would them for most people I'd say you know Nancy Pelosi I don't like what he did what she did today but you know she has all those other things she did those are pretty good for most people I'd say you know it's a mixed bag it's not the way I would have gone but I can see why they might have done it but sometimes you're just evil and this Davey Alpha guy needs to really really look at himself in the mirror really hard anyway so so the Huffington Post is I would put them in the same category of the worst people in the world because they ran the story that is so filled with errors about the hydroxychloroquine that it's obvious that it's only purpose was to embarrass the president so here we are in a emergency in a crisis and Huffington Post decides to do an article with test misinformation because it will

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test misinformation because it will embarrass the president in a crisis right how about the people of the United States who would like to maybe survive Huffington Post maybe people want to live and not have organ damage how about those people you pieces of now I'm not saying that I'd rocks of chloroquine works but I am telling you that if somebody told you it doesn't work just to embarrass the president those people are not good human beings they're just not there's video going around of to doctors I don't remember their names you've probably all seen it by now is it's everywhere there's two doctors one of them is doing most of the talking and he's he's making in general the point that we've overdone this economic lockdown and he goes through his reasoning and his numbers and his data for for why we've gone too far with the lockdown and we should you know maybe

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lockdown and we should you know maybe maybe loosen that up and I can't tell you how many people sent me the video to get my opinion on it and I looked at it quickly you know the first time I saw it and I had a preliminary opinion but because I do it would be so unpopular I kind of held back on it but more people send me the video what do you think what do you think what do you think and I thought all right I'll spend a little time looking at this video I got through five minute summits in five minutes just in my opinion and I know your opinion will vary in five minutes it was so obviously butt full of that I couldn't watch the rest there's no way that the rest of it could redeem what is so amazingly bad in the analysis and misinformed in the first five minutes that I would recommend that you discount everything in it unfortunately I think it's an example of a video that agrees

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it's an example of a video that agrees with what you wanted it to say so it just happens to be exactly what you wanted to hear but it is the most confused bad analysis and and even I can tell that that they're missing big things and I shouldn't be able to tell that so easily it is the least credible thing I've ever seen well except for the Huffington Post and and whatever Davey elbows doing today but I was I would give it no credibility and I'll just point out a few problems with it one is he does this calculation based on how many people tested positive in in various tests than the given and he makes the mistake of assuming that that tells you something and that and his partner who is off camera at the time is trying to correct him in real time because he's just being really really stupid and the partner saying well I just what you know that's just the people who you know had symptoms they're the ones who got tested

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symptoms they're the ones who got tested so if a lot of them seem to test positive that doesn't actually tell you what's happening in the rest of the public because these are just the people who self selected because they thought they had symptoms so of course you'd expect to find a lot of them in the self selected group so his friend who's being embarrassed by the guy who was talking because the guy who's talking doesn't seem to be able to even understand that distinction keeps on talking like that had never been said other things he he gets wrong is that he completely ignores the the observation forget about the math if if Wuhan had to be closed down and the New York hospitals were crashed and Italy got crashed you don't need to run the numbers to know that there's something going on that you don't want in your house all right and he just ignores them like that doesn't have to be explained then he does the bad math of a figure of you know saying that maybe the total number

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know saying that maybe the total number of dad won't be that much compared to the regular flu which of course is just bad analysis bad math comparing the wrong things here's the path we're on correct me if I'm wrong if the next thing I say is wrong please correct me because it's important and if I this wrong I certainly want to know and it goes like this current death rate is about 54,000 ish probably higher today we're losing about two thousand a day in the United States correct any of this is wrong and I'm just talking in general terms so fifty something thousand dad two thousand something today our goal our goal is to flatten the curve because we know we can't drive it to zero flatten the curve means keeps it keep it at two thousand a day dad for as long as we can until something changes right so if it goes above two thousand will consider it will consider maybe doing a little more social

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maybe doing a little more social isolating if it goes below maybe will open up some things until it goes back to two thousand because apparently two thousand a day is somewhere in the range that we're willing to take if you multiply out two thousand people down a day with no therapeutics working with no vaccine just just just multiply it to the end of August and you end up with three hundred thousand dead now why can't this doctor do math now it somebody sent eleven hundred yesterday the the individual day-to-day variances should not be trusted especially if you're looking at a weekend we've seen lots of evidence that the weekend number of deaths are way lower because they just haven't been recorded because fewer people are working than the weekend so ignore any Sunday and Saturday numbers just look at the weekday so the doctors seem to be ignorant of how to just multiply unless he knows something I

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multiply unless he knows something I don't if flatten the curve what can it mean other than we're going to accept a certain flat number of deaths per day that's what it means right correct me if I'm wrong by the way if I'm wrong about that I really really want to know because it's somebody says two thousand a will drop off very fast that is the opposite of true the two thousand a should increase not decrease because the whole point is we're going to reopen the economy reopening the is designed to keep to 2,000 at 2,000 it's not designed to drop it right I'm not wrong about that is designed to keep it constant that's what that's what flatten the curve means flatten doesn't not mean doesn't not mean no peak it means a lower peak no flatten means no peak that's what flattened beans I mean

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peak that's what flattened beans I mean it it peaks at the flat part and then just keeps continuing alright and then the so here are some other things that the the doctor in that video didn't know so you Sweden as this comparison here's the way to know who you should not listen to again anybody who uses Sweden as a comparison for what we should do in the United States that that should be your red flag not to listen to anything else they say if that's not obvious to you I'll dig that a little bit more the reason is we can't tell what's different about Sweden from here there are lots of things different we don't know what the active ingredient is nor do we even know if they have good data given that every data we've seen on the coronavirus has been wrong everything everything about the coronavirus has been wrong do you believe any data coming into Sweden why would you why would you believe any data Sweden don't write we

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believe any data Sweden don't write we know it might be true but we shouldn't believe it so if you're basing your decision on if some data that came out of a country I don't care what country it is it's all unreliable all of it so that's the first problem and if you don't state that right up front you're not a credible player so if you say I'm gonna make a Sweden reference and I think it's pretty good I think that's a solid comparison you can stop listen to that person it is not a solid comparison there are too many differences here are some of the differences or potential differences what is this Sweden is it's a lot easier to social distance say people who know more about Sweden tonight apparently there are a lot high percentage of the population lives alone anyway they probably don't have the same number of elevators they have a different society a lot of people have summer homes they can just divide into summer homes you know the numbers probably aren't true and then here's the biggest fact that I that I haven't seen

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biggest fact that I that I haven't seen reported it's just some bias on social media from somebody who has direct knowledge of Sweden even though they haven't ordered a lockdown the citizens are afraid just like everywhere else so they have a virtual lockdown in Sweden because even if the haircutting the salon is open they're not getting the same amount of business so they're in a virtual shutdown which should be more more comparable to our actual shutdown than it is to something that's totally different and therefore a good comparison so if Sweden is your comparison say no more there's nothing else I need to listen to I do think it's useful to look at all the examples if you look if you saw several countries that seem to have a lot in common with Sweden in the ways that seem to be important and they all had a similar outcome that I'd say ok that's that's beginning to look like that's telling you something but if you pick one

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you something but if you pick one country and say well they got a different result in this one country so there shouldn't be anything after so all you know is they got a different result and you don't even know that because you can't trust the data alright so don't trust that video is what I'm saying just because it agrees with what you want it to say let's see there's a real interesting situation I think CNN was reporting on this there's a barber shop in Colorado that is going to open up against the governor's wishes now I'm a little unclear about guidelines versus laws like I don't know exactly where these economic shutdown guidelines sit in terms of how enforceable they are or forceable it's a sort of a gray area but this is going to be a good test case because apparently there are conflicting

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because apparently there are conflicting conflicting guidelines from this barber shops county which the county would suggest it would be okay to open up if they do the right things which they have done but the governor directly says don't open up because the state's guidelines are you know a little bit different than the county so it looks like this barber shop is gonna try to open up anyway and we'll see what happens now this is an interesting test case because I was saying in my periscope last night that and individuals and individuals can easily do social disobedience if you said two individuals hey let's all just go to the beach let's go to a protest you can get that going pretty easily and the number of individuals can can easily overwhelm you know any any law enforcement so that's a thing that can happen but what I think can't happen is businesses using social disobedience because businesses

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social disobedience because businesses are sort of trapped everybody knows who they are that you know they can't run away with other identity there are a hundred ways for a government to hurt a business it's just too much of a risk for a business to risk its entire you know the future to open up if the governor is telling you they're going to send the police or I don't know what the hell are they gonna do something bad you know you you got to think that the government could find enough levers to shut down an individual business small businesses especially and the big businesses won't take the chance yeah I don't think you'll see a fortune 500 company bucking the government and opening so I think the government has a total lock on keeping the economy closed as long as it wants and here I'm talking about the governor's in particular if the governor is what you'd not open I don't think you're doing it even if you think you can do social obedience

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think you can do social obedience I just don't know there's a practical way to do it it's too risky a small business here's a one-dimensional thinker Bryan Cranston famous actor you know from Breaking Bad he tweeted the other day or yesterday I've stopped worrying about the president's sanity he's not sane so he's he's determined with all of his medical credentials that the president is not sane the 64 year old actor wrote and then he goes on and the realization of his illness doesn't fill me with anger but with profound sadness what I now worry about is the sanity of anyone who can still support this deeply troubled man to lead our country so Bryan Cranston I asked you this question have you noticed that the people who voted for the president are quite happy

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voted for the president are quite happy that he delivered or is trying hard to deliver exactly what they wanted so Bryan Cranston is it insane for a conservative to say you know I'd like some conservative judges let's see if this President Trump could get me some yes he can he can get you a lot of conservative judges if a conservative said I'd like to negotiate harder with China did they get that yes did they get a lot more at least energy around tried to shut the border I mean it's hard but they got all the energy in the world I mean Trump is not backing down one bit he's like he's like the Energizer Bunny he's not getting many more miles of wall belt but certainly the Conservatives are getting more wall from him than they would from the alternative so what exactly would make the Conservatives crazy if they if they started out with saying here's my list of things I want so did you see my list these are all the

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so did you see my list these are all the things I want from a president and then they elected the president and then the president started going down the list check here's your judges check here's your tax cut check here's your less regulations checked here's your China negotiations check I started the wall it's hard I mean I'm gonna be like you know pushing and pushing on every mile of this wall but you watch me working on it I promised and I'm doing it I'm working on that wall you can see it yourself yes not as good as any of us wants but I'm getting there so what does Bryan Cranston see that makes him blind to the fact that among the people who voted for Trump he has something like plus ninety percent approval how do you now see that is it crazy to have a list of things you want elect somebody who gives you all the things on the list and then to say well maybe we should do some more of this because it worked the first time

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those weird so I would call it Bryan Cranston a one-dimensional thinker I don't think he's even gotten to the second dimension where he can imagine that other people have priorities and preferences and they figured out a way to achieve them all right the big news on Fox News which they they can't let go of and and they shouldn't because it's important is that Joe Biden is getting a total pass from the left-leaning media under the allegations the b-two allegations and it really is conspicuous now you know for a while for a little while I was telling myself okay maybe they think there's something different about these allegations you know maybe they think there's something especially non-credible about them so so that's where they're lying off maybe maybe they're really looking at the big picture maybe they're saying well you know President Trump has accusations Biden as accusations well it's a tie but I don't think any of

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it's a tie but I don't think any of that's happening it appears to be that the left-leaning media is just not even trying to be news anymore because if this isn't news what the hell is news I don't know what to do is this if this isn't news all right um so anyway we watch with fascination as the news business becomes the hiding the news business because here you're saying that we've seen let's say the New York Times is removing actual news at least one employee of it of a technology that's vital to the you know vital to the conversation we don't know if it's vital to the solution yet we see huffington post literally just making up news to try to cancel out the real news is the news even news anymore it seems like the news at least half of their work is to remove information that's

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work is to remove information that's good that's already gotten out there it's like they've stopped they've gone to whatever is the next level you know the the first level as well we used to think the news was credible but then the first level of badness is that some of the news is fake so now you're like god it's hard to tell some of it's fake some of us real you know what am I gonna do as consumer I can't tell so that's the first level of badness but if it feels that they've gone to the next level which is they're making up stuff that didn't happen Russia collusion etc president advising people to you know inject in disinfectants things that literally they just made up all right that's bad enough but now they've gone to the next level where they're trying to actually remove the true news this stuff that's already out there then is true they're trying to claw it back so that there's nothing left so they're no longer happy with

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left so they're no longer happy with well we got some true news we got some fake news they can't live in a world where there's also true news apparently they can't survive together and the fake news is eating the real news and winning I mean I just gave you three examples Huffington Post canceled though some probably realer news with some fake news you know some misreporting on a study your times literally had something scrubbed off the internet that was important and true and then and then the Biden stuff is literally just hiding the news literally just hiding it so somebody says being paid by Zero Hedge Scotty my boy you're the dumbest guy who's been in here lately like do you think that Zero Hedge and I have some kind of association good luck with that idiot all right I like the people who are stupid and condescending at the

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who are stupid and condescending at the same time I don't know if anything bothers me more than watching somebody who is condescendingly smug it's so ridiculously wrong at the same time in public like that guy oh I guess you're getting paid by Zero Hedge now huh Scotty let Scotty oh I see those people you know as others have observed I think I think we're all getting a little cranky I don't know if you've noticed but have you noticed be getting crankier yeah with the shutdown maybe a little bit maybe a little bit Oh somebody says Devi is female Oh DAV you why so the reporter for The New York Times not that it matters it doesn't doesn't change the story in any way but just a correction somebody is telling me that Devi is a woman state so I stand corrected somebody says there's

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I stand corrected somebody says there's no way Zero Hedge can afford Scott true true they could not afford me if they tried somebody says cedars-sinai denied being in a trial with that Light Company well I'd need to see that story now if it turns out that that's why the story was removed that I would say well at least they have you know at least they have something there but given that the technology you know is worth looking at whether that trial happened or not because I was talking about the technology before the news of that trial that may or may not be fake news happened so my decision to talk about it was independent of whether they had a trial going if they do have a trial going it's more strength of the case if they don't it's the same thing I reported on before then all right let's see I think I had a few more questions

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see I think I had a few more questions on here no I don't that's all I wanted to talk about somebody says take back the c-word does that work can you take back words in the past Oh somebody's somebody's pointing out that I used the c-word before I do that Devi was female Oh that'll be fun will I be canceled today for that god I hope so what would be more fun than the fake news trying to cancel me for using that word about this particular situation oh my god that would be fun please throw me in that briar patch I want to go on I want to be interviewed and asked why I use that word please

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and asked why I use that word please please let me be interviewed on live television to explain why I use such profanity in such an inappropriate way if there's a God in heaven please put me on CNN to explain myself please that's all I ask all right this slaughter meter updates well I heard there's some kind of out of digital Town Hall or something with Kabul Harris coming up and don't worry I'm not taking you back that trust me the c-word is not going back that one's out there and that's gonna stay out there somebody says talk to Bjorn Lomborg on Sweden that is a great idea that is the best idea of the day I think I might do that okay

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day I think I might do that okay somebody says the UK doesn't care about the c-word I think that's that's closer to being true than than not true you might have it you might have the coronavirus maybe maybe you never know I'd like to find out that's for sure
interview Trump I'd love to alright just looking at your comments I guess I got not much more discuss gavin newsom 75 million dollar grant to california's undocumented workers well here's the thing an emergency is emergency rules what you do in emergency need not have any direct correlation with what you would do in a non-emergency in the non-emergency it would make not a lot of sense to

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would make not a lot of sense to willingly give your money and resources to people who are not citizens because doing so willing you know more people will come in but that's not really the situation you know the situation of an emergency we're not really worried about people being attracted into the country because you know the borders kind of lock down etc and whatever we do during the emergency would be known to be temporary so it's not going to have some lasting effect on whether people come into the country so given that because it's an emergency it's not some kind of a standard that we would have to necessarily worry about forever does it make sense to save people's lives who happen to be physically in the country but not legally in the answer is of course of course and can you do it without money you can't am I happy that people who came into the country would benefit from some of my money being given to them

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of my money being given to them well I've conceptually know you politically know in terms of a long-term trend absolutely not because it would encourage more people to come in and take my money until and unless saying with you but we're not talking about a long-term situation we're talking about an emergency and we're talking about money that doesn't exist if if you said Scott I would like to take some of your money your tax money and give it to people who are not legal residents I would say well let me let me you know look at the pros and the cons of that but in our current situation we're spending money that doesn't even exist it's not my money it's not your money it's nobody's money it's not even real money it's just printing money so I don't know if our system will collapse because we printed too much money I you know I've got a degree in economics and I can't figure out where things are going but I will tell you we're printing

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going but I will tell you we're printing free money because either the either the system is going to completely collapse in which case it didn't matter that we did it anyway we've got to spend it while we were still alive so it was free money and if the and if the system doesn't someday collapse because of it well that it was free money so either everything goes to hell in which case at least we enjoyed it as best we could for as long as we could by printing or free money or we figure out how to get through this okay in which case it was free money now you can make the argument that oh you know if you get through it somebody's gonna have to pay for it in the form of inflation somebody's gonna have to pay for it in terms of debt if any of it is death and I guess that's true but I will tell you that everything we think is obvious and predictable and the numbers indicate will happen it never seems to happen have you noticed that pattern everything you think has to happen because that's where the numbers are you

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because that's where the numbers are you know look at the numbers this has to happen there's no way you can just spend forever but time after time we do things that the numbers say shouldn't work and then they work apparently we're not good at knowing what works and what doesn't so the larger picture is this if there's somebody standing in your living room and they're starving to death do you say to yourself I'm not going to give you my extra sandwich yes extra I don't need it I'm not gonna give you my extra sandwich I'm gonna let you starve to death on my living room floor who does that nobody nobody so yes I favor I realize this is the least popular thing they'll probably ever say I favor governor do some making some funds available to feed at least feed the the people who didn't have a way to feed themselves and are stuck in this country it's not like they can easily go home right that's the

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can easily go home right that's the whole emergency problem so yes we have to feed people who can't feed themselves in an emergency and if you can argue with that I'll like you let me just say that if you're gonna debate whether you could let somebody starve to death sitting in your living room while you have an extra sandwich because you're worried about the long-term consequences of which there would be none because it's a special case they should not last forever I I'm not sure I like you right but I totally agree with the general concept that you have to have strong borders because you have to get the incentives right or the whole system breaks down and the incentives should not be hey let's move to this country get some free money but I'm certainly gonna feed somebody starving somebody says there's no extra sandwich well there's an extra sandwich in the sense that we're just printing free money and we don't know if that actually will ever cost us anything I'll talk about more

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cost us anything I'll talk about more about that in the future I'd like to get a real economist on here when I do that
where can we find the heel light to UV insertion video which platform I here it might have been restored to at least one of the platforms and I hear some of em you know but I don't know that somebody says they disagree respectfully well let me let me just say this if you would let somebody starve to death on your floor while there is still extra food and it looks like we probably won't run out of food you have to look at yourself in the mirror yeah you certainly have that choice it's a free country and you get to make that choice but take a good look at yourself if that's the person you want to be I won't stop you

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what kind of sandwich straw man nobody is starving well nobody's starving yet say that people always make that that temporal problem that let me put it this way nuclear we don't have to worry about nuclear war because there's never been a nuclear war yet is that a good analysis we don't have to worry about the temperature going up 10 degrees a year it's not but let's say it was we don't have to worry about that going up 10 degrees a year because it's not that hot this year right you know try to get at least your time zones correct if you're going to compare two things you can download from their website the he liked website Vimeo bit shoot also somebody saying so--but shoot it would be there if it got banned on YouTube probably all right all right that's all for me and I

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right all right that's all for me and I will talk to you tonight somebody says please do an entire episode addressing the economics I think I might do that with a guest there I have a guest in mind and I will all right suggestion accepted and I'll talk to you tonight