Episode 940 Scott Adams: Sleepy Joe, General Flynn, How to do Civil Disobedience, Flat Curves

Date: 2020-04-28 | Duration: 51:38

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: General Flynn’s case and evidence of serious FBI corruption Coronavirus info from the beginning, all wrong…different now? Video view and multiple credible pilots see UFO? China debt was wiped out…when China changed their name? Did Rachael Maddow’s lawyer say nothing she says is reliable?

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well it's time yes it is for the evening edition of coffee without Scott Adams because well you could have your coffee but I won't be having it and it's another sunny beautiful day here exactly the kind of day that your coronavirus doesn't like it all we don't need the outdoors we got each other let me recommend to you if you'd like a good laugh you know the me maker Sol Sol Sol beam saw memes one well she's got a beam of I'll try to play it for you I let's see well let me see if I can do it I'll just play it looks like you might be able to see it

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then watch it Joestar I could watch this forever I get to watch that all day it's funny it's it's literally just one joke and you could watch that one joke for like five minutes at a time and then just just loop it watch it again oh that's the funniest thing I've seen today so the the bided protection program continues I can't think of anything more perfect for Joe Biden than they don't let him campaign it was the corona virus designed to get Joe Biden elected because I mean think about it

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elected because I mean think about it the only the the worst thing that could have happened to Joe Biden is that there was no corona virus that he would be out there trying to talk in public but there is a corona virus so he gets to he's actually going up in the polls because nobody sees him doing anything apparently he's got a strategy his strategies died in the basement and not let anybody see him talk until he's president could work I'm not saying it's not going to work so no I'm just sort of catching up on this general Flynn stuff and all of these legal stories they tend to have too much detail so I try to figure out what's going on it sounds like somebody was bad to somebody and you can't really I don't I just lose interest on all the legal stuff but it doesn't take you much detail to find out that in the general Flynn story it looks like the FBI literally just framed him for political

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literally just framed him for political reasons like I've been holding out you know the the benefit of a doubt as long as possible which I like to do in any legal situation it doesn't matter who's accused I like to at least try to hold out the benefit of a doubt until that you know the process has worked it's magic there are some exceptions I mean you know Kavanaugh was obviously not guilty but generally I try to hold my hold by fire but I guess it's time to talk about it because it seems we have enough information now that's been released then apparently the FBI is thoroughly corrupt you know we I know I'm gonna regret saying this but I'll say it anyway you know we've been saying for like three years I think we've been saying the same mantra you know well there are a few rotten apples at the top of the FBI but they but the rank and file the you know the the people doing

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file the you know the the people doing the work you know they're they're good Patriots and everything and now I think we just have to question that sorry which doesn't mean that you know obviously doesn't mean all people at FBI are bad most of them I assume are good but the people at the top and at least you know far enough down that we're evolved in this Papadopoulos staff and the general Flynn stuff all this stuff or just completely crooked completely crooked apparently maybe that's what the news is telling us they're completely crooked and and it's not my fault that that reflects badly on the entire organization so I'm gonna have to stop saying well there are only some bad eggs at the top because I don't know do you know I don't know that the bad eggs are only at the top why would that be why would bad eggs coincidentally be all at the top I'd like to believe I'd like to believe that that's the only place

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to believe that that's the only place it's run but I guess I have to suspend my disbelief at this point and say I don't know maybe if you have that much power maybe you're all corrupt I don't know what would it want to take them and of course I'm a highly biased because I'm watching the the Waco documentary and that is really damning to the FBI I only watch the first part of it and it doesn't look like the problems are new whatever the problems are with the FBI it doesn't look new so this is a gigantic story that's just sort of hidden by the corona virus but it's amazing you know if you take that plus the Russia gate our yeah I'm still not buying into deep state as a term you know I've said from the beginning I could easily believe lots of individuals did individual things I can easily

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did individual things I can easily believe that some of them talk to each other but you know not some great organized conspiracy but still deep state I would have to say at this point it is demonstrated to be true and corrupting the country and Trump came in and just ruined all their stuff you just broke all their toys so I would be super super disappointed if they're not lengthy jail terms for most of the top of the FBI at this point and what the heck is Christopher raid to him have you do you have any confidence in Christopher Rea that we're we're finding this stuff out now yeah I hate to be the guy who says it should have been done sooner because that applies to just everything but we got some questions for Christopher Rea I was asked on Twitter to give some recommendations on how one would do civil disobedience in the current

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civil disobedience in the current situation let's say you decided to decided to ignore the guidelines and I don't know wanted to ignore them how would you do civil disobedience and I would suggest the following there's only one thing you can do which is if somebody opens a store go to it that's it that's it but I don't think people are going to be opening many stores and when they do it'll be a national story the authorities will probably close them down pretty quickly but if if people open just go there you you don't even have to buy much you know buy a buy an eraser you know buy a greeting card just go now I'm not I'm not recommending that you do that the question was how would you do simple of disobedience I'm telling you how to do it if you want to do it I'm not telling you to do it now we're caught in California we just heard that in my County and others that

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heard that in my County and others that were we're going to be locked down till the end of May so I'm gonna be in this house and for five more weeks all right do you think I'm going to adhere to the guidelines for five more weeks no no I'm not I'm not I'm just not I will make my own decisions I would trust other people will make their own decisions as well but I will I will make my decisions based on what I determine is good for society and for me and my loved ones but I would say we can't really trust the authorities at this point pretty much everybody in power has disappointed us so I'd say you don't want to ignore what they say but you don't want to necessarily believe it either and I think we've just got to make our own decisions at this point

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decisions at this point hmm speaking of Bologna so this morning on my periscope I spent a great deal time debunking this video that's a kind of a viral video of two doctors but mostly one doctor talking and the essence of it was if you saw this morning's periscope that the one doctor especially is saying that according to the data that he can see that it doesn't make sense so we're closed down and it was overblown and we should basically go back to work and our civil liberties are being curtailed for not a good reason now I spend a good amount of time completely debunking that it was the least credible thing it looked like the guy the doctor didn't know how to compare things using the wrong numbers extrapolating the wrong way ignoring gigantic facts that really matter like they don't matter so it was the least credible thing I've ever seen and that was just featured on Tucker's show so

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was just featured on Tucker's show so the way the world works that you live in the world - so you know what happens next right yeah you can sort of connect the dots first of all you'll all be calling for me to debate with Tucker which probably won't happen secondly Tucker's show has a far more wattage so probably at least half of all conservatives now believe that debunked doctor thing debunked in my opinion so I'm the one who's saying it's debunked by my own work and some other people who joined in in the comments section but it's very disappointing to me because it looks like Hannity all over again now who knows how this is going to turn out and I would say if you're trying to figure out who to believe if you tried to figure out who to believe in all this specifically the big question of how bad was it should we have shut down should

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was it should we have shut down should we go back to work here are the big questions I would say the people you should not believe is anybody who expresses certainty so anybody who who tells you confidently it's time to go back to work because that's what that's the numbers show that it's time to go back to her if somebody says that confidently you should never listen to them again because they've lost all credibility likewise if they say the opposite we need to be locked down for whatever it doesn't even matter what how long they say into June next week three months as long as they're sure about it you should ignore them forever the only the only people oh if somebody says that dr. drew went over there math errors oh good so I wasn't the only one who thought and I noticed that other people saw it as well and they're really big errors I mean they're they're embarrassing a big if if it's the same ones I'm thinking of so

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it's the same ones I'm thinking of so I'm sure I had a point there all right so the the situation is that because of this non credible doctor video the conservatives of the world the Fox News Watchers have all been deeply misled in my opinion all right now the in my opinion part should be the most important part of what you just heard and I will emphasize that by saying do you remember the early data that we got and how it was all wrong and you remember that right so stick with me we all agree that all the early data we got about the coronavirus pretty much all of it was wrong but as time went by we would get new information how was the new information all wrong right but there was more information after that each week there'd be new information how was the information after that all wrong now coincidentally we finally get this

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now coincidentally we finally get this video of this doctor who says the things you want to hear because you want to hear a doctor say I've got the secret scoop it's all a big phony hoax you can go back to work that's what you want to hear I mean you want that as much as you've wanted anything in your life you really want that to be true so how did you hear it you heard it this true that's how your brain is organized you wanted that to be true so badly that it became true even though on the surface it looked just ridiculous I mean just crazy not incredible now so these these new doctors have some new information is this the time that the information is accurate just ask yourself this it's never been accurate yet no matter where it came from or who said it it wasn't accurate but this is the time guy on video that we've never heard of he got

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video that we've never heard of he got it all right totally possible you could not rule out that eventually somebody gets the right answer and for the right reason not just guessing could be him but what are the odds just ask yourself what are the odds that this guy got it right and the people who still have it wrong are the experts who were seeing the whole field so the guy who is just from his one little perspective and in an emergency room that apparently didn't have much action I mean that part of the reason he was talking about it is that that he wasn't very busy from his little perspective he got the right answer but all the experts didn't totally possible because we watch that happen we watched all the experts say that mess don't work and people were not experts like me said I'm sorry but all the experts are lying to you I don't know why exactly maybe to conserve supply I mean that's what I'm saying at the time and then of course it

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saying at the time and then of course it turns out they're all just lying to you did you believe the stories that said hydroxychloroquine was a magic pill a lot of you did I wanted to believe it then news came out that it's killing people did you believe that well I wanted not to but I thought well maybe a better better hold on you can't believe the fact you can't believe the debunk of the fact you can't believe the debunk of the debunk we're living in the world where all of our information is flawed deep we flawed flawed to the point it doesn't even point you in the right direction that's just--that's this most flawed you can get when I talk about Trump you know departing from the fact-checking I always say that at least he's sort of you know directionally he's pushing you in the right direction but with the coronavirus stuff none of the information is credible and appoints in opposite directions what do you do with that right well the only thing you do is tiptoe the only thing you can do is try something so one of the things that

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something so one of the things that Tucker said to us that there's a Wall Street Journal article I did not hear I did not read that claims and again I didn't say it but it claims according to Tucker that a study was done of states that closed down quickly and tightly versus ones that didn't I think it was just States not countries but the claim was there was no correlation in outcome now I don't know what to say about that cuz that's so obviously wrong isn't it again let me do let me be as big a jerk as I was a few weeks ago when I said it in public they're all lying to you about the masks of course they help a little bit obviously so so I went out on a limb disagreed with all the medical professionals and I was right now Tucker

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professionals and I was right now Tucker is saying that there's some somebody must be a professional at statistics somebody who knows how to do this sort of thing look at it and the expert who's far more expert than I am I wouldn't even be able to check their mouth that expert has said that when you keep away from each other in a pandemic where the very nature of it is that being close to each other is what makes it spread but if you don't spend as much time close to each other it doesn't make any difference what what are you kidding me and Tucker repeated that because the experts and there's some Wall Street Journal article maybe somebody can tweet it at me but doesn't matter do you need to read that article - no it's not true do you need to be an expert on statistics or viral adji to know that two people standing together one of them has the virus and one does not is that better or worse than two of them on the

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better or worse than two of them on the opposite ends of the planet which one of those is more likely to make the virus spread I don't know I'm stumped come on now I don't know what the Wall Street Journal claimed to see maybe it was a more narrow claim they got misinterpreted either by Tucker or by me but let's not pretend that the the shutting down and and the social isolation doesn't work that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life it's as dumb as saying that masks don't make a difference because obviously they do obviously all right obviously shutting down and having tighter controls made some difference to imagine that there's a statistical evaluation of that is the most ridiculous claim I've heard this week and it's been a week of ridiculousness I mean there's been a lot of ridiculous stuff but really really staying away from each other doesn't

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staying away from each other doesn't make a difference in transmission of freaking viruses that's what we've come down to that that that's on on television and we're all like oh I'll bet that statistical analysis pretty darn kote know all of our statistics are lies all of the data is lies I mean until we get something that's reliable they all look like lies and when there's this obviously stupid I mean this is just obviously stupid of course staying away from people makes a difference in transmission rates of course it's making me crazy all right here's another one that's making me crazy everybody has taken an assumption that what we're trying to do is flatten the curve but other people say this not me and they say that the point of flattening it is it sort of eventually you'll get on top of it and then the curve will you know maybe slowly but it will approach the zero and then and then

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will approach the zero and then and then we're out of trouble would somebody ask somebody who's an expert how we get from the flat part to the down part because you know there's no plan for that right because you know by the time we have a vaccine it's at least a year now I'm not saying there won't be some new development or we'll find some way to do something better because I I do predict that our our creativity and our innovation and our just ability to invent is off the chart and we'll see you probably the next few weeks just amazing things so I think that you know something could come up maybe one of the therapeutics works or something and that that would give us the ability to plan but would you agree with this statement that nobody who knows what they're talking about in terms of the curves and epidemiology that nobody has told you

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epidemiology that nobody has told you what could possibly make that curve go down now you're gonna say to me well yeah the curve will go down because they always do all of the other curves have gone down no the other curves went down because we had vaccinations and herd immunity have you heard anybody say that the herd immunity is definitely something that can happen with the corona virus no no you've heard maybe and if we're flattening the curve how long does it take us to get to say 70% herd immunity if there is ZERO immunity when's that going to happen if it takes a year we're gonna lose hundreds of thousands of people so here let me see if I can summarize my point we've got a curve that's got a flat part and then I presume to drop off tell me what's different that makes the

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tell me what's different that makes the drop off happen what's going to happen in the future that makes that it's not just heard immunity because we're not going to have much because we had a flat curve it's going to take you a long time to get there I don't think there's a plan the the plan is that you invent something right the plan is that you get a vaccine sooner than you thought well even if even if the warm weather makes it pause even the experts are saying there's gonna be another hump after that because it's not going to go away there's always be a summer if there's a big story about UFOs but it's not a real story it's a fake story fake news so there's fake news about UFOs it's fake news in the sense that it's the same same video in the same films that had been leaked a long time ago and the US government simply released what they had so you can see it in its totality so that you know so you could see that nothing was edited out but it's the same story it's not new and I would like to

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story it's not new and I would like to say once again in public that it is one of the least believable stories you'll ever see in your life probably one of the least believable stories now most of you believe there was some kind of like weird spacecraft right and multiple pilots saw it and because multiple pilots saw it that's pretty credible and they also captured it on some instruments right but the only instruments we see are that one that one video view and the video view looks exactly like there was something like in the camera like there was literally a bug in the camera or a piece of dust or something I mean it looks so not like of a spaceship to me it looks literally just like a bog or you know just piece of dirt on the camera now you say to me Scott Scott Scott that might explain why one of the pilots thought he was seeing some because you know only one of them would

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because you know only one of them would see the bug on their own camera but what about the other pilot I'd explain that well do you think there's no other way to explain it would you say it must be true because two pilots or more I forget how many said is true is that how it works if three pilots said it's true it's probably true not my universe in my universe it just means the three people got together and started a hoax do you know all of the crop circles well when I was a kid that was a big thing they thought that you the the aliens were coming down and making flattening corn or wheat to make it look like there was a circle and then designs and of course it came out it was just farmers having a good time the thing was all a prank well there were lots of witnesses to crop circles there are lots of witnesses to alien abductions do you think that the number of witnesses even if they saw exactly

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of witnesses even if they saw exactly the same event do you think that lends credibility because you know even the fact that they were pilots do you think it lends credibility we've had eye witness accounts for everything from the Loch Ness monster the Bigfoot to aliens to ghosts and many of them have multiple multiple eyewitness accounts so it's the most ordinary thing in the world for multiple people to think they saw something that it wasn't there that's very ordinary so what is more what is more likely there's a an advanced race of aliens who have been here and they've got this you know physics-defying ship they can do things that aren't even possible under physical laws and yet we did capture them on camera but even though they're here we can't find better evidence and we can't really get a clean photo it's always a smudge and and it seems to flip upside down more like a

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seems to flip upside down more like a piece of dirt on the camera than a spaceship how so it could be there's a vein alien civilization visiting us and for all these special coincidences we can only see them on grainy video and that's it we can't get better evidence to that that's possible possible you cannot rule that out that is completely possible let's compare it to I don't know another hypothesis let's pick one other explanation no matter how wild it is just so we have a comparison because you want to have a comparison to know you've really thought about it right so I'm just going to throw this out here people are stupid and they're lie and we're deluded about things all the time I mean I'm just gonna throw that out there people lie about stuff people believed they saw things I didn't people believe

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they saw things I didn't people believe they saw things because their friend said he saw it how easy would it be to imagine that one pilot was just looking at something and you know saw so something natural and didn't know what it was and the other pilot was saying did you see that did you see that it defied physics and the guy on the other planes like I think I did see that as a matter of fact I did think I think I did you can convince somebody they saw something that quickly and then a false memory can be spontaneously created just that quickly very easy to do we've been watching false memories be created all week do you know that all bat if you did a survey and you said did you hear the President of the United States say in his own words that maybe we should consider injecting a household bleach and Lysol into your veins did he say that on TV do you know how many

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that on TV do you know how many Democrats would say see it I saw with my own eyes I heard it yeah of course he did no it didn't happen all right most of you know that right it didn't happen but how many people could you get to be an eyewitness who say not only did it happen I was there dude I saw it I mean I heard it I saw it there's no question about it I saw alive I was in the audience and yet it didn't happen so you're watching every day in the news people have spontaneous false memories for which there are literally millions of other witnesses millions millions of people believe the president suggested shooting up with Clorox and Lysol millions never happened there there's no part of the real world in which that happened so how unusual would it be for some pilots to be spewing some BS and have you know some dirt under camera or

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have you know some dirt under camera or some other malfunction one of them's a lot more likely than the other that's all I'm saying if you had to put a bet on it one of them's a lot more likely than the other it looks like diamond and silk got booted from Fox rumor has it for spreading some coronavirus conspiracy theories to which I say boy that's a fine line isn't it this is that kind of a fine line you know what's the line between a coronavirus conspiracy theory and what's actually happening and how people are actually talking about it don't we have legitimate people saying it's no problem at the same time other legitimate people are saying it's a big problem I mean we're reporting the facts completely opposite are you telling me that diamond and silk they're the only ones who got something wrong about the coronavirus I don't think so now I don't I don't think it's a good

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now I don't I don't think it's a good idea to speculate on too many conspiracy theories but I'm just going to say that there's no distance between a conspiracy theory and all the bad information we've been getting from every legitimate source and I don't think there's anybody who hasn't speculated you know we've all speculated about the medical possibilities we've speculated about who's lying we've speculated whether it's a bio weapon or accidental what's the difference between what down so queer doing can't they speculate was a rule that says they can speculate but everybody else can alright so I I don't know that Fox needs to hire them back they may have you know their their act kinder it could be it was convenient you know I'm guessing the Fox Management probably said yeah they're great but they're actus is sort of repetitious yeah if you see him a lot you might say to yourself yeah I've seen that before

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so President Trump who is terrible at keeping a secret apparently let slip that Kim is alive president that Kim jong-un now he did that indirectly so he said several things they indicate that he knows the Kim is still alive but obviously not in good shape so without confirming if the president has confirmed that at least based on the information he has which one assumes is better than what we have he said he wouldn't talk about it but that he wishes him well and he's really sure that Kim did not send a message on his own over the weekend which means the president noticed the Kim BISM conscious he's not making any decisions but the president did wish him well which is not really what you'd say right after you said you know what the situation is if it turns out later that he's already left this planet why would trump say yeah i know the situation and i wish him well if he are yeah if he had already passed on all

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yeah if he had already passed on all right that didn't happen so the president who was terrible at keeping a secret basically just told us that kim's in bad shape did you watch the press conference today it was really interesting because I thought Trump's blowing off of the illegitimate reporters was was right on today I thought he was right on today because he stopped treating them seriously and he also stopped treating them he stopped going just hard at them because when he goes hard at them he makes stars out of them and it elevates the whole thing but today he got a couple of you know those ridiculous questions I don't even remember what they were there they were the you know trying to get you gotcha questions and and he just blew them off and went to the next question and I thought oh that is so boss cuz I didn't like it when he gets too defensive even though I liked the show after admit I do like it when

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the show after admit I do like it when he goes after the reporters because I like the show but I didn't think it was helping him it's one thing for me to enjoy the show but I would also like him to do well right but I don't think he was helping him so today I thought he had just did anybody see this today did tell me if tell me if that's an accurate description I thought he I thought he threaded the needle this time you know you never know what you're gonna get with Trump with so that's part of the fun but I thought he's friendly the needle it was just the right amount of dismissing them without being a jerk and if you if you lower your own you know jerkiness if you will your own response it it helps to put some contrast on the other reporter it's like well I'm being normal right now I'm thinking about the country right now what are you doing like what is that question somebody doesn't know I do a periscope at night so I enjoyed that so

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periscope at night so I enjoyed that so good work there here's an interesting story so I asked this question in a tweet but I already knew the answer so sometimes it's more fun to put things in a question for him and this is what I tweeted I said historians please verify
but didn't China once have a huge foreign debt problem a lot of that was owed to the United States that is solved by changing its name and saying the debt belonged to the last government did did you know that's a real thing it's a real thing so in a pre Communist Party you know pre government before the government that now earlier China had borrowed and I think something like a trillion dollars from from the United States and other places and and we were still own it so there are people in the United States who have these ancient I think there are

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who have these ancient I think there are bearer bonds you know like a piece of paper that says I will pay you X you know money you know my name is China so we have like a trillion dollars of debt that China says they don't owe us any more because they changed their name that's a real thing they changed their name so let's said oh are you two thinking of old China no no we're not old China we didn't make that deal look at our government do you see anybody in this government who made that deal no that wasn't us and so they didn't pay so there's a trillion dollars of Chinese debt I think maybe just the United States part is that big and they just didn't pay and they don't have to because they're they say no that wasn't us
us that was those other guys so I'm now suggesting that we do that but I'm not suggesting we don't just saying we should look at it you know just just giving a look I don't know what the pros

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giving a look I don't know what the pros and the cons of that are Rachel Maddow is lawyer said in open court he was trying to defend her from charges of defaming somebody and he said that to her statement is a quintessential statements of rhetorical hyperbole and capable of being proven true or false in other words her lawyer said that she can't have defamed somebody because you have to understand that nothing she says is reliable so how would you like to be a Stanford Graduate a Oxford graduate and what was she like a Fulbright Scholar or something like that so Rachel Maddow is seriously smart like you know say what you will you know I know you don't like the politics blah blah blah but seriously smart I mean you don't want to you don't want to compete with her on the SAT this

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want to compete with her on the SAT this is what I'm saying so the super smart person has to have her lawyer also smart one assumes arguing on her behalf that she doesn't know what the word literal means that's actually a big part of their case because the the the insult in question the the defaming part used the word literally which is key to the claim because what she said is ex person is literally being paid by Russia which was not true ex whoever was was not being paid by Russia not literally and not figuratively now the the lawyers pointed out that she is used the word literally correctly to mean something actually happening you know not figuratively she's used it correctly a whole bunch of times in ways that it's obvious that she knows the difference you know as him this literally happened two minutes ago and there you know it actually did happen two minutes ago so literally it did so she knows the word she has two

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did so she knows the word she has two prestigious degrees she has an IQ that's probably through the roof and she has to win her case by arguing that she's not actually smart that's her best play her best play is that she's kind of dumb and she lies a lot or she just makes stuff up I guess some version of that well good luck with that I say making tons making 10 million in the year yeah whatever she's doing she's doing it well apparently if she's getting paid that much alright it's a show not the truth that is correct you know you I say this a lot but the Fox News deserves a lot of credit for how well they labeled their opinion shows versus their new shows and I know there's some people can't tell the difference but I think the obligation of the program

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the program is just the label n't you know to make sure people know the difference if they choose not to know the difference if they choose to treat the opinion people as fact people let's sort of on them but you have to admit that on CNN it's a little less obvious you know who is the news who's the opinion and the fact that they all hate Trump is pretty obvious all right smart does not equal intelligence somebody says yeah I suppose you can argue that China holds us bonds confer different trade imbalances these are bought and sold on the open market yeah so I don't know if we have any options for doing anything to to China to get reparations or anything from this coronavirus stuff they're just gonna say that yeah I assume they'll just say yeah it wasn't us and that's the end of it

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yeah we're hearing some stories about meat packing problems and shortages but I don't think that translates into a food shortage because if you had to be a vegetarian for a few months you wouldn't die all right if you have to be a vegetarian for two months you'll be okay but I have a feeling that they'll get those meatpacking places up and running in 30 days or something just because we have to could I do a 15-minute show for YouTube why would I do that nicotine products in France are banned yeah it wasn't there a there was some thought that nicotine might protect you and as soon as I saw that I was like oh no no people are gonna start smoking and get nicotine patches but it's even worse than that so you know when when there was a run on the hydroxyl cleric we and I said to myself I'm glad I wouldn't

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I said to myself I'm glad I wouldn't need any hydroxychloroquine I'm glad I don't have one of those you know lupus or arthritis conditions or malaria or something where I need that pillow because it'd be hard to get now and then today there's a new story that one pill that I do take my work family to got famo to die and tie down I think it's a heartburn drug so it's a acid reflux drug which I actually take apparently people who have been taking that are not having as much problems but don't go run and buy a bunch of stuff pepcid ac yeah pepcid ac is made of that material that I just said there are a number of products that have that interestingly a day one of the when people were hoarding all of the famotidine got bought out in the first few days so as what was one of the things that people hoarded and day one but so far I've managed to and I couldn't even get it from my health care provider but I know the supply is a

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provider but I know the supply is a little better so somebody says it's MOT Dean Sam ot Dean looks like you know what you're talking about so I'll say that that's true oh yeah then singulair another asthma medication has some indications it works let me ask you this so we heard from the president and others that there are a whole bunch of trials going on for therapeutics I think several dozen I don't know the exact number but somewhere in the main range of 30 different trials for different therapeutics and then a whole bunch of trials for vaccines I don't know how many but it feels like dozens now let me ask you this do you think that out of that let's say it's 30 of the 30 therapeutics that are being studied how many of those do you think are like really good chances here's why I asked at the beginning of the crisis everybody

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at the beginning of the crisis everybody including scientists realized that suddenly their incomes were in jeopardy right it didn't matter why you what you were doing or who you were you suddenly said oh my income is in jeopardy I mean even my income basically will disappear so after the end of this I have to go get a job or something because I won't be a I won't be a cartoonist anymore there won't be any newspapers after this but so so you have all these scientists who know that even they need to figure out how to make ends meet and they might not be able to do it with their regular job so then they hear that the government is desperate to get some trials going of therapeutics so you're a scientist you're not sure you have any other kind of work it's the only work you can get the government that just said we have all this emergency billions of dollars you just have to apply for it and we'll fund you because we're desperate what do the scientists do when the only place they can get money is

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the only place they can get money is from the government and only if they're testing coronaviruses solutions well let me tell you how that goes person who's maybe saw simply about hydroxyl calorically and says you know i think there's a good reason this might work I'll test this somebody looks at Rome desert here and says I I got we have good indications that this is this has got a chance so we'll test this what are the others do well I'll tell you what they do they go into their closet and they take out a tube of toothpaste and they say let's use some of this in a petri dish because if it kills a corona virus even a little bit I'm gonna say we're gonna study toothpaste and we can get some study money and we will just study toothpaste so I think out of the 30 or so therapeutics that are being studied the way you should look at it is that it might be two or three they have some real promise and probably 20 or 17 or 28 that are the equivalent of toothpaste which is a scientist said you

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toothpaste which is a scientist said you know I only got one way to get paid I guess I'm testing something for the corona virus is there anything laying around I'll use whatever is in my medicine cabinet oh how about some how about some of moat eating yeah what else we got in there singulair oh yeah let's test that so I just have I just have a suspicion that the vast majority of the trials both for therapeutics and for for vaccines are not even close to being real it's not even close and everybody who has worked in a big organization isn't is nodding their head right now right for those of you who don't have experience and large organizations in which people are putting together funding requests is what I used to do for a living I would put together funding requests for you know big hardware upgrades and stuff and so I've seen the budget process all you need all

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seen the budget process all you need all you need is a big pot of money and somebody who's not checking to carefully and people are going to ask for that money that's the way it works somebody says I'm cynical the difference between cynical and correct tends to be how much experience you have so if you don't have much experience I look cynical if you have experience I just looked corrected know somebody somebody in the comments says yes they're nodding in agreement because they write grants so somebody who writes grants is saying oh yeah yeah we'll we'll throw the toothpaste and add it to get some money it's a person who writes grants don't take my guess take it from the person who does it for a loon or did it for a living
by chewing tobacco addiction is fully come full circle to help me I tell you we can't believe anything anymore

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somebody says their company gets that money and they're fully employed well there you go yeah all these companies that are close to a vaccine let me ask you this why why were there not 30 therapeutics and 30 vaccines being tested for every regular flu well I guess they I'll retract the question about the vaccines because that's a special process but why don't we have 30 trials every year for the seasonal flu that kills hundreds of thousands around the world like why is it just this year there's suddenly there are 30 things to test we didn't have 30 things that were worth testing last year so that's what makes me suspect that most of them are not real all right Oxford is supposedly close to 1 yeah I don't know what that means in the vaccine world I think being close to having a vaccine I'm not sure if it means that you think in that world it

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means that you think in that world it just means they're close to testing it doesn't mean they're close to having one
thoughts on hospitals getting paid 39,000 for every person who dies on a ventilator well that would seem some optimal money corrupts but I doubt doctors in the emergency room are making that calculation now I can't rule it out because we live in a terrible world so maybe those doctors have been talked to by the hospital administration or something but I don't know about that I think the most exciting thing happening is the the nose capua or whatever it's called so they found a way that instead of using a ventilator they do a nose thing wherein it just pushes warm moist air up your nose and apparently they've people rarely die and rarely need ventilators if they do that but the ventilator sort of a one-way trip I think 97% don't make it out in some

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I think 97% don't make it out in some places but in other places in other places half of the people are getting off of a ventilator and in other places none of them are or almost none why is it that in some places people are getting off the ventilator at least half of them and other places hardly ever what oh it's a cannula not a capilla capillary something else cannula is the word for the thing that goes up your nose thank you for that cannula CA and then ula
thanks to all the people who were telling me that alright that's enough for today - now it's enough for tonight and it's enough for now it's enough for - now that could be a word - now just because it isn't alright that's all for now and I will talk to you later