Episode 946 Scott Adams: Biden Versus Trump, Food Psychology, Your Questions and More

Date: 2020-05-01 | Duration: 51:23

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My new book LOSERTHINK, available now on Amazon https://tinyurl.com/rqmjc2a Content: Great press conference today by President Trump Why is Biden’s wife always next to him in interviews? Per top virologist in France, viruses always Peter out? Bad comparisons to Sweden Viewer questions

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bum bum bum buh buh buh buh buh-buh-buh hey everybody come on in it's time for coffee with Scott Adams here's a little thing I do with my pen because I can do do-do-do - yes I used to practice doing this throwing my pen in the air and then catching it in a way I could still write watch this ah oppressive if you're listening to this on audio it's really boring well hello everybody it's another amazing evening in one of the coolest weeks ever yes we feel bad about those who are suffering with coronavirus their families and the victims but we don't necessarily have to dwell on it do we not every hour we can pay our respects and then we can live our lives how about that who's with me let's find a way to enjoy at least part of this weird experience

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at least part of this weird experience we're having so did y'all catch the president's a press conference today Dana Perino beat me to it on Twitter while it was going on and she said that the president's answer about Biden was really good and I had to say it was really good we'll talk about that but in general I thought maybe one of his best press conferences and let me tell you what he's getting right and man is he good at it and you might not have noticed well you probably noticed but maybe maybe I'll add something to it which is this when the president has a a message whether it's build the wall or or whatever he is the most disciplined repeater of messengers of messages he will just hammer that simple message to death so he's really good at hammering a message home and one of the things that

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message home and one of the things that he's been hammering and maybe you haven't noticed it because he does it so well is that no matter what the question is what's the first thing he always answers with you probably know the answer at home no matter what the question is cuz it's all at least roughly about the coronavirus or politics he answers with first respecting the victims have you noticed that he's been really really disciplined about that and I thought by now he would have departed a little bit and you know of course he gets heat whenever he talks about himself or gets off of the off a message but he was really good at every question saying well you know one death is too many people have died and then he starts stance to the question but did you catch how he answered the question about the accusations about Biden I think it's the first time the president has at least maybe at a press conference answer this

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maybe at a press conference answer this question and how does he answer it with one of the best answers you'll ever see a president give on any question let me tell you what he did right the president going completely against type when he's asked about it he starts saying that it could be a false accusation and their false accusations are real and that he's been the victim of false accusations but he doesn't know what happened and certainly she should have her moment to talk and he should he should you know he should answer to it now by going first and saying it could be a false accusation didn't you just fall under the chair yeah somebody's prompting me in the comments thank you and bye he's seamlessly won from it could be a false accusation it's happened to me and if he'd stayed with that that would have been a mistake and when I was watching I thought oh oh don't stay with that no don't bring the focus to things you've

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don't bring the focus to things you've been blamed on blamed for that's the worst place to take this but he goes through himself says he recognizes the problem admits that false accusations are a real thing he doesn't doesn't limit it to me to stuff just saying false accusations but that he seamlessly goes into cap the energy goes over to Cavanaugh which we at least his supporters all agree was completely illegitimate so now he's he's he's basically giving Biden all the out an opponent could ever give you because he's saying could be could be a false accusation it's happened to me but my god look what happened to this poor guy Cavanaugh now Cavanaugh of course is a much better example because people actually believe Cavanaugh was innocent at least people on the right do whereas the president you say to yourself well maybe you have some false accusations

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maybe you have some false accusations but then again maybe you have some actual just accusations so he very cleverly took it through him all the way into Cavanaugh and left clean this idea that he's open to the possibility that it's a false accusation did you see that coming I did not see that coming and I'll tell you it blew me away because first of all it's a repetition of the the pattern the pattern is do you see the pattern yet the pattern is that no matter what the question is the first thing he says is he recognizes the victim so he recognized that you know the woman has the story to tell we should listen but he also recognized that Biden is the subject of an accusation and you know if you were to be innocent yeah I'm not giving it an opinion on that but if he were to me he would be a victim too and so the president quite definitely used his pattern that has worked so well before

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pattern that has worked so well before which is first recognized the people were getting at the worst then tell your story and man when he keeps to that pattern he is powerful I mean good because that's when his his charisma is highest because remember a charisma is power plus empathy he always has the power and of course he's president so duh but he doesn't know show the empathy but man when he does the empathy first and then follows with power wow that is really a good package so I hope that that he's doing this consciously which would suggest you know he's found something that works and he'll just keep doing it there were a number of other things that he did well oh and let me just to finish that point now the president can afford to be generous with Biden partly because Biden is falling apart you know there's not much there to attack but partly because

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much there to attack but partly because the tie goes to trump if if Biden is accused of me doing and the president has his own accusations let's say it's a tie because you know people are gonna believe by it in or not Trump or not maybe more or not but it's gonna look like a tie but I didn't can't get elected if he's only as bad as Trump because the only thing he's offering is better character that's it the only thing he's offering is better character he's not really offering better judgment because I don't think anybody thinks that he's not really offering he's smarter I don't think anybody thinks that they might think he's as smart but nobody thinks he's smarter so if you've got somebody who's you know done the job and performed for four years and he's got he's got some accusations and you see it made no difference didn't affect his performance at all but you don't know about the other guy

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know about the other guy so what tie is gonna go to Trump in my opinion yeah now there's some some more reporting that maybe Biden was not the angel there's some people thought he was I'm gonna take some questions here a little bit so if you have any why don't you think of them get ready but before that I saw another video of Biden on you know from his basement studio and can somebody do a fact check with me when was the last he appeared without his wife sitting next to him because are you starting to feel what I'm feeling that the the having the wife there is not just to add another personality and they have you know make it more interesting I don't think it's that don't you get the sense that she's there for us a health

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that she's there for us a health guardian purposes you get that right now I don't think she was on camera when Biden was getting Hillary's endorsement but that makes sense that really had to be a one-on-one well otherwise how often are we gonna see his wife sitting next to him clearly in a protective mode that's how you take it right you take it as a caretaker mode right you taking those protective Handler a care taker how I mean how long can that go on I mean really are we the only ones to see that I don't think so I think everybody's seen it here's a
interesting thing I love it when people who I think are smart agree with me because when that happens I say that person I think is smart just agreed with me that might mean smart at least on this one topic although I know you many

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this one topic although I know you many of you vehemently disagree on this following point I would simply like to note that is a very smart person even if you don't like him you will admit he's smart even if you don't like him and he agrees with me and where's Bill Gates who said today I just saw I think it was on CNN that the the testing for the corona virus and the United States is just crap and then it doesn't come anywhere near the right way to do it or the right degree we're not doing it in the right priority is nowhere near as good as Asia now if you were with me this morning or was it last night I believe I told you directly you should just stop thinking testing is gonna because it's a mess my my sense of it was the more we were unclear about the testing situation and the more competing stories we would hear let like yeah they

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stories we would hear let like yeah they have plenty of tests no we don't well they have everything they need well that's the the other kind of test we've got plenty of testing let's the test facilities but what about the kits we got lots of kits they don't have any cotton you know I'm making some of those up but the the point is you kept hearing these confusing stories about all these different kinds of kids with different places and people didn't know what to do but then you hear from an actual human as I have from somebody who got tested three weeks ago and doesn't have a result did you hear that someone who was tested three weeks ago and doesn't have a result at all at all now how much of that is going on around the country in my opinion somebody says you're wrong you must be new here if I had more time I would lock you for that I block people for saying you're wrong that's that's an

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for saying you're wrong that's that's an automatic block if you put no reason said so I'm on the page of saying that testing is BS and we're we just are doing it in a way that will get us there so and I'm not saying that we couldn't ever get there I mean eventually we could I'm sure but we're nowhere near it and we're not we're just so far from it you can almost discount it when you're trying to figure out what's going to happen but I do think will have good therapeutics I wouldn't rule out that we have a vaccination faster than we've ever had one and I said this I've said this on another parent scope but it's blowing my mind and I got to share it with you this is just blowing my mind so I'll just repeat it again the top vie religious guy in France dr. ddae Rao or some says that all of these viruses peak and

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says that all of these viruses peak and then they peter out and here's the mind-blowing part from the top biologists in france we don't know why at peters out we don't know why any virus stops being a virus did you know that did you know that the top experts in the world don't know why it goes away now if it were heard if it were herd immunity the top virologist and france probably would have mentioned it just guessing right if it were because of vaccinations Plus herd immunity the top fire ologist and France would have said yeah it's probably some combination of those things if were those things plus the virus mutates let's say the top of our ologist and France would know that he would know that it mutates you would know what the vaccinations are doing he would know it and herd immunity does so when he says nobody knows why these viruses stop is it that mind blowing I

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viruses stop is it that mind blowing I mean doesn't that just blow your frickin mind that first of all that we're finding this out now because I'm not sure that foul she's ever said that directly I would love for somebody to ask him that question and say do we really know why any virus Peters I don't like why doesn't it just go to you know if you said the planet always has a winter somewhere and everybody's traveling everywhere from everywhere to everywhere if you only had 60% herd immunity so that 40% had never been exposed there's a winter somewhere people are traveling how in the world does a virus ever go away now somebody says viruses get weaker and but again the top biologists in France said he doesn't know why they peter out now it could be that they get weaker we don't know why maybe but that but it's a big

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know why maybe but that but it's a big mystery all right the Sweden story just keeps getting more interesting and it's not interesting because we can tell anything useful by looking at Sweden let me say this as clearly as I can't we can't tell anything useful by looking at Sweden so what do we do it's basically become a national sport to make bad comparisons to Sweden that don't mean anything because they're way way way way too many variables to know anything so but that doesn't seem to be stopping anybody from making these comparisons both good and bad the president apparently is taking the position that things are not going well in Sweden which is interesting because that allows the President to to say that the United States is doing better than Sweden cuz we used a different approach now I'm not so sure that I'm gonna agree with the President on this but here's what was impressive when the president

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what was impressive when the president was talking about it he he did talk about the differences in Sweden and there was one there was one thing in particular he noted about their lifestyle I forget what it was but I was pretty insightful and I didn't realize that he had looked into that into it that deeply so apparently he was very curious about Sweden because so many people were holding it up as a model but he's decided that things are not going well there but I ask you this what does it mean to say the things are not going well in Sweden because if their hospitals are not crushed aren't they doing better and suppose suppose it never gets to the point where the Swedish hospitals are ever overloaded wouldn't we then say that they did better even though you know even though they had more deaths and per capita than we did wouldn't we say that was a victory because they would have kept their economy going somewhat oh here's the thing that the

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somewhat oh here's the thing that the president said and I'd only seen this I'd only seen one other place that somebody said this besides me and I copied it from that person which is that although in Sweden they did not have a very rigorous lock down so many people were afraid of getting it in Sweden that they were sort of voluntarily not doing as much in public so the president rightly pointed out you're not looking at a bottle where they are they're free to do anything versus one were they're not that's not what you're seeing you're seeing two bottles where they're not doing all the things they could do was just a little bit more strict than the other so it's not it's not quite the good Apple to Apple that you want um all right I've decided that what I'm gonna do on the locals dot-com platform I told you I'm moving some of my content there I'll still do the periscopes you'll still see them in the same place places that you always did but in

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places that you always did but in addition I'll have some extra stuff the locals platform and I put a lesson on writing humor there so I'm gonna put some very small micro lessons on that platform because it's a subscription service and people will want to get a little extra so so I'll try to do at least one one less of the week so that over the course of a year you would learn 52 skills you know micro skills things like writing humour how to start a conversation yeah I didn't sleep that sort of thing all right so that will be there what is locals locals is a new platform go to locals come in which creators Dave Rubin started and creators are moving there to not be guided by the algorithm so if I put my content on say Twitter and YouTube Twitter and YouTube get to

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YouTube Twitter and YouTube get to decide what you see so I can only grow as much as those entities want me to but if I put it on a subscription service nobody sees it except the ones who want to have a subscription and and it's all the air you don't have to you don't have to go looking for it all the content will be in one place so that's that somebody says Dave Reubens on Fox right now so he's got a book I'm gonna be talking to him tomorrow I think we'll do that life yeah I'll probably do that life talking about his new book called don't burn this book all right I'm gonna take some so I thought I'd answer this question somebody says so no more periscopes incorrect the Paris ghosts will be exactly as before when the coronavirus is done I probably won't do an evening one release is often but I will do the morning ones just as always

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will do the morning ones just as always they'll still be on YouTube they'll still be on iTunes you'll just have one extra place you can watch them and then you can watch them at double speed and you know there'll be other advantages you can send me messages stuff all right so gonna take some questions questions who's got a question I think I think amy has a question Amy Banta do you have a question for me Amy do you have a question if you're periscoping as part of some grand master plan of pacing and then leading conservatives to some of your left of Boerne worldview such as universal hair health care and well I certainly not in terms of a grand plan which I put together to conquer the world but in general as I've said before people who

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general as I've said before people who know persuasion don't turn it off it simply becomes the way you talk because everybody wants to persuade so if you know how to do it well why would you do it with less well than you know how to do it so I'm always persuading which means that in any situation I will be pacing because that's pretty basic and I'm always looking for a reason that I could lead because that's why people want to get based in the first place they want to get a little extra they don't want to just know what they already know so but I would say it's very unlikely that I would move conservatives far more likely they would find out that there's something in the middle which is for example there's no conservative who's opposed to everybody having health care they just don't like the way it's proposed that it happens I would propose that everybody has health care too but that we could almost certainly get there through capitalist ways without you know

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through capitalist ways without you know taxing somebody to pay for somebody else's health care you know there's some people you're gonna have to pay for but it feels to me that we could just be more clever and get there so I wouldn't I wouldn't say that would be moving conservatives to left Bernie or vice versa rather it would be acknowledging that there's a solution that both could be happy take another example I would not be trying to for example lead conservatives to think that climate change is what aoc and birdy think it is because I don't think that but I would try to point out that both the left and the right on climate change have a solution that's the same solution which is nuclear power the left is a little behind in understanding it if they were up to speed about generation four I would say if that is and can be they would have a different opinion the right is a little more up to date because they care about nuclear so they tend to pay attention to that stuff so that's not a

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attention to that stuff so that's not a case of moving anybody anywhere except recognizing that there's an obvious solution that works for everybody and I think that there might be a number of cases like that so I'm more about the solution I would call myself a pragmatist when I say I'm left to Bernie it's just so I don't get put in a box you know if part of the reason I say that is that nobody knows what it means so that's part of the value of it people go I don't even know what that means I guess I'll have to ask you so as you did basically and others have like I don't get that who are you that's the preferred situation so that I can be pragmatic maybe somebody on the left has a great idea maybe somebody on the right has a great idea well it wasn't long ago that it was that AOC had some very good idea that was neither left nor right and and I tweeted it right away so I'm not really I'm not really about the left of the right I'm about pragmatism thanks for the question yeah well you've definitely been

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yeah well you've definitely been persuading me well we were you on the left of the right oh definitely on the right I ever Trump er until you started Trump splaining for me well I'm glad I could be of service alright thank you Amy all right that was a good call let's have more good questions like that I'm gonna go with Mike Wynn Bigley who was smart enough to put the title of my book in his name Mike Wynn Begley you got yeah further to her question we can't afford health care we can't afford universal health care we can't afford three college but we seem to be able to print money whenever we need it so what I don't understand and if we can print money why we can't afford it I'm not for it or against it understand

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you're you're asking a tremendous question and gap and to the best of my understanding nobody knows the answer and this is fascinating because I've been so because I've been asking your version of this question let me let me try to frame it a little bit for you so you know I've got a degree in economics and an MBA but I can't answer this question and I don't know if anybody can and here's what here's why it's so weird in a normal situation if you print money and that means you have you've got more money in the system but there's the same amount of goods you know in the short run
run so that would cause inflation yeah but we're in the most special of special cases in which we have all this production facility but we don't have enough demand because even if we're pumping tons of money and there's so many consumers got whacked they're not going to be buying any extra so we're gonna be we're going to be entering a situation where except for some minor things that people are trying to hoard and there might be price gouging you're not going to see

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price gouging you're not going to see anything like inflation almost no matter how much they print because because nobody anybody who tried to raise the price it just wouldn't work nobody would have paid more what if we go one step further and we stay with inflation after 2008 when they printed two trillion dollars and they just printed four trillion dollars they can grant however much money it's not causing us well--there's well 2008 I think we borrowed maybe you can I need somebody to maybe but there's there's a big difference between borrowing where you absolutely have to pay it back you know sooner or later you got to pay it back unless you do fault and that's worse by the way Trump answered the question about not paying China's debt really well because he you know he's worked with banks and he understands it's not about the moment it's yeah it's about your creditworthiness so you don't want to win the moment and lose your creditworthiness that would be the worst

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creditworthiness that would be the worst play in the world so he understands that so so here's the thing if we borrowed money that would you know be interest payments and that would be real pain and borrowing definitely as a limit everything has a limit but when you're just printing it in this one strange situation where inflation is basically impossible and that's the only risk I have asked the question what's the limit because I think I think if you look at the stock market the smartest people in finance just watched us print four trillion dollars or whatever it was and they said and they just said looks good to us more right and and what is it that Trump wishes that he had gotten done in this last round he wishes that they thrown another trillion on it for infrastructure so is there any sense that we can that

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is there any sense that we can that there's a limit to how much of this money we can print now in theory there is but do we know where that is and is there any Nobel Prize or Nobel Prize winner who can answer that the smartest people in finance and then all these sweater-vests Republicans keep talking about gonna end we got too much dad you can't do all these things and then we just do it and nothing ever happened yeah change the Republican position about financial ruin never come true never come true well so part of it is that we we over we overstate the problem in the first place secondly were we humans are amazingly good at figuring stuff out so even if we get into trouble we can figure out a weasel and the trouble if we have enough

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weasel and the trouble if we have enough time and enough people are working at it but I tell you I spend a lot of time every day thinking about exactly your question which is what's the limit that you can just print under this special situation and no idea okay take care got chased off by the commenters alright about about Gabriel I feel like I've talked to you before Gabriel Gabriel Gabriel hey Gabriel do you have a question deep-diving on a super current event but you can indulge my question or not you can and just you just you just have to be interesting that is well I I I was wondering how you and say your group of friends would

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and say your group of friends would approach helping one of your best friends who might been diagnosed with cancer
fatal terminal we don't know precisely but there was some very terrible news today which does not carry a good prognosis well I don't think there's any magic bullet I mean other than you know having your love and comfort and visiting and asking what you can do and helping out there there's no special formula there's no right way to do it but certainly showing your concern and you know offering help that's all you can do I mean unfortunately it's an easy question to answer because there's no good good answer to that but are you are you worried how the the person with cancer is gonna feel about it or you worried in terms of your own internal sense of whether you're doing the right stuff I think I think both I think I

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stuff I think I think both I think I think we'd all like to think we can create a you know I guess an environment of positivity around the situation to help the person but part of me wonders if even that efforts to tell well I I don't think there's any case where positivity is a better so the person with cancer is going to give you all the negativity you need the last thing they need is more on top of that so you probably do have an obligation to at least keep you know your contribution light because it's the last thing they need so yeah I would say stay positive and
and that probably is the best thing you can do all right all right thanks for appreciate it
yeah all right let's see if riot has a question Brian do you have a question a

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question Brian do you have a question a little bright eye your kind of light can you speak up the question I had for you was well you know I have the same curiosity but I would give you this a thought experiment when Trump was running the first time the Democrats were saying my god can you republicans not see what we see he's obviously crazy he's obviously mental you know mentally challenged so I think that a lot of the Democrats honestly saw that in other words that was their honest intelligent adult opinion that Trump was dysfunctional mentally now in fact they still say that

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mentally now in fact they still say that but do you see it cuz you know I we all have our own criticisms right he's not above criticism but I don't see the crazy part I just don't see it well okay so so here's the second part there there may be some people who don't see it but I'm totally with you that you can Matt it's easier to imagine how people would see two versions of Trump but it's impossible for me to imagine how anybody would see a second version of Biden if they're paying

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version of Biden if they're paying attention and all the people were endorsing him are paying attention so here's my best guess number one there's definitely something going on and you know what I'm talking about right there's something there's a conversation happening behind the curtain there's maneuvering there there's a power struggle clearly there are conversations yeah yeah there clearly there's a conversation about what to do about this and and indeed I've talked to at least one topic top Democrat who would know the answer to this who says we don't know what we're gonna do I mean in those exact words we don't know what we're gonna do meaning they know that they don't have a candidate but they don't know what they're gonna do about it now this was a while ago maybe they know now my best guess is that they're playing for the vice presidency and they got themselves in this situation before they realized how bad it was because I think it's not gone upon them oh by the way I'd like to ask in the comments from the very early

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ask in the comments from the very early on when Biden was you know being discussed as a candidate was I the first person in the country to say that he was mentally incompetent because you know I think this that this might this might be a selective memory in my part because you know I like to remember when I get something right and immediately forget if I get something wrong like everybody but oh I'm seeing some some people say some people say no but I was saying it before it became part of the national conversation and I think it's worsened it quite a bit so I would say that I was seeing the the first flickers of it well before it got to where it is now and I had also predicted at the time that there was going to be a rate of decline that was going to be a really awkward for the Democrats if he got the nomination and that's exactly where we are so we're water-type situation would just snuck up on him yeah because in my opinion I did

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on him yeah because in my opinion I did not think it was obvious to everyone on day one so maybe it wasn't yeah so and and wouldn't you say he's gotten worse in the last six months right it seems significantly worse so and I don't know if anybody else had predicted like I did that however bad it is now I don't know if he's gonna make it to the nomination I mean I said that directly and a long time ago and you know nobody's ever made any more accurate prediction that a candidate might not make it to the nomination I mean I said it about Hillary and she she literally like passed out and god knows what else she did and got dragged into a limousine and it's the only time I've ever said somebody doesn't look healthy he was running for president I've only said it once and there's video of her like passing out and being dragged into a car so this is the second time I'm saying it clearly on point I mean everybody agrees with it now but to your point I believe the people who have endorsed them do see

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the people who have endorsed them do see it I think they just know they got trapped and they don't have an out there's no there's no good way to do it and and here's the weird part what if he wins because I'm not I'm not gonna rule that out you know I yeah if I if I if I'm updating the slaughtered meter it looks like there's no chance in the world that Joe Barton could win but I might be making I worry that I'm making the following analytical error I'm thinking of Joe Biden as a candidate like as a person one-on-one against candidate Trump and if you think of it that way there's no chance I mean there's not even a little chance that he could be candidate Trump but I don't know if that's how Democrats see it I think they see Trump and no Trump yes no it's like a yes/no vote and they'll figure out the let they'll figure out the rest later I don't know that they care

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the lack of exposure is really yeah absolutely I would agree with that and did you see the president's approval is just jacking all over the place it's like way down that it's way up I don't know what's going on with that but it but what we can tell is that the the coronavirus we don't know which impact it will have on the race because the the public saying okay good week bad bad week that means they don't know I was gonna turn it out but if I had if I had to guess today how it's gonna look on Election Day I think it's gonna look like the United States did a solid job you know - let's say test it wasn't good they're gonna be things that we have to complain about but I think in terms of turning the economy back on at the right amount of death etc and getting back up and having that you know v-shaped recovery that the president talks about optimistically we might be looking really good by November or at least this

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really good by November or at least this is all it would take for Trump to win all it would take is that things have been moving in the right direction over the summer you know through November if it's moving in the right direction people will put up with it being slower than they wish that it needs to be moving in the right direction I think it will be exactly as I often say all right thanks for the question all right I think we got time for another one don't we let's find somebody who would just be the best question to ask her of all time well we're gonna have to pick Oregon history because cleverly put my book in is icon it is a profile hi do you have a question for me nervous I would suggest that you're doing the greatest community service of anyone at the moment to me is

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service of anyone at the moment to me is in particular because I I'm on Twitter all day reading about lies and all this nonsense and then then there you come that you come on we hear you and you talk some sense into us especially especially you labeled the disinfecting hoax I found that really really helpful just disinfectant hoax you said that's so concise and so good and like it the energy creature concepts the other night the four dimensional energy creature concept just awesome so thank you for that thanks you have a question uh yeah well do you have I know your answers gonna be you're gonna say don't argue with those people but during this time of being off we have more time to argue people on the internet and I've come into arguments against some anti-semites and I'm wondering maybe do you have a kill shot against general anti-semitism

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kill shot against general anti-semitism or anything this particular well I don't know that anybody has a kill shot because somebody would have used that by now I think yes if there was one if I had one I would certainly unleash upon the world but my experiences that anti-semites are coming at it from a point of an inferiority complex now I can't say there's one explanation of everybody and I'm not reading minds or anything it's just an observation that if you ask why if somebody says yes you know they're anti-semitic if you had a quiet moment with them and you said why like what's your answer eventually they're going to come around to the fact that they feel threatened and that and that they they think that it's a group of people who just perform better and just do better and therefore anybody you know it's a if you feel that the resources in the world are limited then

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resources in the world are limited then you get a bad feeling about anybody who's good at acquiring resources in your opinion so the anti-semites are of the opinion that it's a group of people who are extra good as success and acquiring things that it's you know that means they'll be left less for other people according to that point of view so I don't have a kill shot but if you were to quietly have a conversation as opposed to in public with somebody the question that I would ask is what are you afraid of and and I would try to figure out what it is because obviously there's some kind of fear at the bottom of it because there's there's something special with anti-semitism that doesn't seem to be the same with anti other people you know anti other people have all different reasons there's something special about a semitism but I just asked them what they're afraid of and see if you see if you can get them to deal with the fact that they're they're

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deal with the fact that they're they're trying to externalize their own fears and insecurities and they can do that it's a free country but it's not a good look all right that's the best I can do sorry well I might have been arguing with Iranian Revolutionary Guard BOTS anyways so persuaded in which case good luck all right thank you Scott yeah all right we could do one more there's still a few people here some people who haven't bailed out yet oh let's see Mike Burt for adding a Burt into your name oops Mike bird is gone let's try somebody else let's try Stephanie Stephanie hello Stephanie do you have a question I can't good so um you know how Germany is suing

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good so um you know how Germany is suing China for this coronavirus yes and I'm very doubtful if anything will come of that meaning I don't think China's gonna pay up cuz they're gonna be paying the whole world but isn't it true that China holds most of our debt well if you're saying why don't we just not pay them back the president answered that question at the press conference and I loved his answer yeah so basically Eddie if you if you go back on a debt you don't get a second chance that's kind of the end of your currency at the end of your credit if we were to default on something that big yeah it's just too big too disruptive it would hurt us as much as them yeah no it wouldn't work it would be a Pyrrhic victory as I say you know you could win but you'd be so wounded by the width that you wish you hadn't won yes took it a step further and said well we're not really gonna do

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and said well we're not really gonna do fall but we're not paying interest on it and just paid them back to money they borrowed but not well who's that who's that it's an easel yeah I'm thinking Chinese nationals or I mean I don't I'm not even sure I look into that like who owns it yeah if it's if it's just you know well-off Chinese citizens that feels a little rough business
so yeah I understand what you're saying but we probably as the president said we have other levers other tools so I think I'd rather use trade and you know maybe having good allies and you know maybe we have military agreements with people they don't like it there's just lots of ways we can put pressure on yeah I was when he said maybe we will maybe we won't have any students here in our stem programs because that's that's gotten a little out of control I think I mean I think they're you know yeah you know if

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think they're you know yeah you know if you I don't want to conflate what's happening with China with what would happen to with any other country because we definitely do need as much a high-end you know scientific technical talent as we could get you know if we can get it from India we can get it from England we can get it from wherever but China is kind of a special case because even though the the scholars of the people coming over are you know incredible yeah
I have to stem kids in college and it's like they're the only white kids I mean it's not like it's it's it's not so terrible to say but where are the Americans where are the natives it's a lot of foreigners and they're not here taking our gender studies and our you know yes layers yeah some some of it is because they pay full full price and of course the colleges what people who paid

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course the colleges what people who paid full price but some of it is just bath because you know if the United States has X number of universities but it has to service not just our population but the smartest people from the biggest countries that are way bigger than the United States there would have to be way more foreign people who would be willing to pay full price than there ever will be
be you know enough in the United States so it's kind of built into the system but I would rather just not let countries that are rivals be part of that at all get as much as we can from countries that we don't think are a risk because I don't think there's any limit to how many technical and scientific people you can bring it to a country because they tend to add more than they they use so you probably had unlimited high-end technical people and it just improves the economy forever all right and I have to thank you for your cartoon I think right when I was out of college is when

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right when I was out of college is when you started that and we would sit around with you know my recent grad co-workers and we would just laugh hysterically and each of your characters we knew which boss that was was great well good glad you enjoyed it all right thanks for the question thank you all right this brings me to the conclusion of tonight's broadcast I hope all of you are feeling better I think the I think the direction of the country is finally moving where we want it to go it was a rough psychological financial and physical haul as we were going up the mountain but it feels like we just crested the mountain and that I would imagine that every day from here on it's far more likely to be good news than bad I would expect by a maybe a two-to-one ratio there from now to Election Day if we're talking about the coronavirus and we're talking about the economy we'll probably have two pieces of good news

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probably have two pieces of good news for every piece of bad news from now until we get to the other end of this so we're a much better place and psychologically oh my goodness it's better because we're moving in the right direction we have tools there we didn't have tools we have more understanding it was kind of an information problem we have a lot more information but we're getting there and I absolutely buy into president Trump's optimism I absolutely buy into it beating that I don't even think he's exaggerating I think that once the economy you know gets a foothold I don't know what that'll start you saying fourth quarter that's a good guess I think man when it comes back it's gonna come back hard alright that's your happy thought for tonight and I will talk to you in the morning you know where