Episode 992 Scott Adams: I Put on my Angry Pope Hat and Make Rulings About Churches, Pharma, News

Date: 2020-05-23 | Duration: 1:09:34

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hey everybody come on in it's time for coffee with Scott Adams yeah yeah somebody says they sense cussing today well there would be cussing there would be under normal circumstances but today I'll be putting on the Pope at and making some judgments so today will be a more solemn affair but first we must enjoy the simple pleasure of the simultaneous sip it's coming up and all you need is a cup of our glass a tanker tells our sign that Kensie injector flasks a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join them now hung for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine to the day the thing that makes everything better including the damn pandemic it's called the simultaneous sipping that happens now go ah let me start with a confession

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now go ah let me start with a confession already it's a medical confession last night on periscope people asked me why I kept whistling when I'm talking and you're probably gonna hear it again today and so many people mentioned it and they were worried that I had asthma wheeze or that I my nose was whistling or something so let me tell you what it was just to get it off of your mind okay you will probably hear it again today I was back on prednisone for last week or so because of this sinus problem so it's clears up my sinuses and what happens is that my speech production changes completely so the the process of using speech which actually involves your old craniums situation is a bit off right now because I at the moment I'm

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right now because I at the moment I'm tapering off so last night people are asking me on periscope are you stoned what's wrong with you and what was wrong with me is that I'm just on the the tapering off part of the prednisone when you're in the middle of it it's sort of like a superpower it just creates a it creates a just incredible energy and focus and you know you can you can just do anything you're physically and mentally you're just operating at about 30% better for about a week so I used that time what I knew I would be operating at a higher level to get a bunch of stuff done so whenever I've got a problem I always say alright I got a problem I have to stay home for a month or whatever the problem is how can I make something out of that and then you figure out what can you do they wouldn't have done before staying home for a month so the prednisone I knew is going to screw me up it basically turns you into a different person for a while and it's really freaky because you are a

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it's really freaky because you are a different person I mean your personality changes you know I warned a warrant christina says she knows what's coming you get more aggressive definitely more aggressive I'll tell you the weirdest thing about the prednisone you lose all fear you don't realize it's gone until one day you think to yourself huh when was the last time I worried about anything it's just gone all of your fear now I'm not saying that you should take it of course obviously yeah this is a doctor prescribed drug it's and it's pretty dangerous stuff if you take it too long you get real real trouble but the experience of taking it for a very short time is really mind-altering forever it's is mind-altering in the sense that you get to experience living in another person's life for a week because you really do live in another person's life and what you're yeah you

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person's life and what you're yeah you know what you're more angry but afraid of anything so it's pretty dangerous I mean it would be really easy to imagine that you can get it in a fight you know I probably wouldn't give him the fight but it's easy to imagine somebody could get in the fight like that so I took advantage of it to do a whole bunch of work that I wouldn't have gotten done otherwise man was I productive oh my god the ability to focus incredible the ability to work out incredible so you know you saw my my photos in which I was showing my you know my muscle growth during the pandemic and some of that I think is because it was easier to work out you know just on the prednisone anyway so if you hear that whistle it's not my asthma it's just my speech production is temporarily temporarily a little weird let's talk about the news an FBI director ray has launched an

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an FBI director ray has launched an internal review of Michael Flynn investigation to which all of us said what what are you kidding me that the FBI director did not already have an internal review of the Flynn situation what does that it sounds like the news that that you think you think couldn't possibly be news when I read this I kept I kept reading and thinking what what did I just travel back to the past are you telling me that ray didn't already have an internal review who doesn't he need to get fired just for that do you have any confidence in director ray when you find out that he just started a review and where the hell has he been shouldn't that guy be all over the news and explaining stuff I feel like he's got a lot to explain so he might have perfectly good reasons for why he didn't

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perfectly good reasons for why he didn't do it and one of those perfectly good reasons might be that someone else was doing it for him you know so maybe he didn't need to do anything if other people were doing the work you know in Durham or somebody the IG so we might have a good excuse but wouldn't you like to hear it wouldn't you like wouldn't you like to know why you waited so I would say this gives me zero confidence in the FBI now of course the FBI had a credibility problem because of everything from you know the fake Russia collusion hoax etc but if you assume that the biggest job of the director of the FBI is to return them to credibility could you say that the guy who's not showing up on TV is doing that it feels like he's not so I would say I would put a question mark on that so I'm not going

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a question mark on that so I'm not going to say he's doing a bad job or that he needs to be fired but I can say that the job he's done so far does not give me confidence and I would think that would be job one would be to give me confidence and he just for myself don't have it here's the most interesting data that I would like to have about the coronavirus that I don't think I'm going to get but I really really want this data so there's a story about a woman who Chi hair I think it Supercuts or someplace and had cut 81 customers hairs after she had symptoms now I don't know why she kept cutting air when she had symptoms I assume she needed the money which is tragic in its own way but she caught 81 customers hair so they're they're doing the contact tracing and they've apparently she had really good records so this is the interesting part so her records were so good that people could

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records were so good that people could tell exactly who she spent however long it takes to give a haircut 20 minutes men's haircuts probably so let's say even last maybe 15 20 minutes and so they're eighty one of them now here's the interesting part both the customers and the person cut the hair wore masks so you have the the two things put together this is what makes it interesting or the the current working presumption subject to change of course from the medical community is that wearing masks seems to be the number one thing that helps so so they're wearing masks the number one thing that helps but at the same time the activity that they were involved in which is close continuous contact of two people is exactly the worse situation if you're trying to avoid getting the corona virus so you have the worse situation protected by the best

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situation protected by the best protection and there are 81-81 examples don't you want to know how many of those eighty one got it that would tell you a lot wouldn't it because we're making decisions about opening retail we're making Church decisions every other cabinet decision wouldn't you really really really really really really really really want to know how many of those eighty one people caught it I would say that should be a national story that we should follow from beginning to end you know to the extent that privacy isn't an issue maybe it is but we'd like to track it you know two weeks from now can we go back two weeks from now and and test every one of those eighty one people now now of course it gets confused by the fact that they could be getting it from other sources as well so maybe there's no way to test it I guess you'd have to test them as soon as possible and then yeah I don't know maybe there's some way to tease out the useful number from that all right so

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the useful number from that all right so I just want to talk about this again because it was so much fun but giving credit to gateway pundit who got it from the safe PJ glad neck at the citizens Free Press blog who found this obscure little audio from a Michael Smerconish program I don't know what it was in which Amy Klobuchar had mentioned that she thinks her husband was on hydroxychloroquine and he recovered from the corona virus now that doesn't mean the hydroxychloroquine saved him or made a difference but the the awkwardness that that puts her in is just sort of wonderful because you know that she's gonna be asked about it now let me take a poll here so club a char of courses in the news primarily because she's still in the shortlist for maybe vice

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in the shortlist for maybe vice presidential pick by Biden now do you think there's anybody except calm lairs it was on the shortlist anymore how many people now believe that Carl Harris will be the vice presidential pick for Biden in the comments it will take a minute for them to catch up to the two real-time but watch the comments and see how many of you think calmly Harris is the likely vice presidential choice in the comments go oh and I'll read them off for those listening to it me yes me me not yet Harris yes me somebody says Stacy a Draper's might no no I do me yes Harris yes not me yes Harris or Klobuchar there is no question now for Harris I guess so yep of course yes yes yes yes all right so you can see now the trend let's at least know three-quarters of you oh there's a few more knows

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of you oh there's a few more knows coming in oh I'm still getting some notes on calmly alright so here's my only point closer to maybe half yeah for 60% maybe say yes for a cobbler check your opinion today compared to what it was two years ago when I first started saying that cobble Harris would be the likely presidential candidate not the vice presidential candidate but then I updated it when she withdrew I updated it to the idea issue would be Biden's a vice presidential choice but really the the real power behind the throne so it essentially the candidate did you not watch that go from the least likely thing you ever thought would happen to about sixty percent of you think it's a lock did you not watch that you know that

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did you not watch that you know that simulation conform to what I told you it would do for two years youyou watched reality slowly morph into the direction I told you it was going to go now if I miss this I'm gonna be really disappointed and I think there's at least a 50% chance that is not Harris and the 50% chance is just the is just that gigantic wild card that nobody really is good at guessing vice presidential picks it's it's just a category of thing that's the hardest thing in fact I've never gotten one right in the past every time I've ever tried to guess a vice presidential pick I've gotten it wrong I think a hundred percent of the time I've been wrong and it's because they're they're their selection looks pretty deeply into you know governors and people in important States and then there's the vetting and you don't know what they found out about any particular candidate so I in some

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any particular candidate so I in some ways it's the the most opaque thing in politics it's the thing you know the least about before the actual pic happens so I would say there's a 50% chance I'm wrong but to get this close and have a 50% chance of being right I mean just my opinion it's 50% that's kind of kind of weird isn't it it's kind of weird you have to admit
cNN has effectively taken out Biden's me too accuser did you know that did you see all the news yesterday about Tara Reed the accuser of Joe Biden no you didn't hey you didn't see that because the story just ward away do you know why the story went away because you know and killed it so not just seeing that but the the anti-trump are they they managed to look into the accuser Tara Reed until they

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into the accuser Tara Reed until they found out there were some discrepancies there was a little bit discrepancies in her and your history it turns out that at least this is the claim and the news I don't have any independent information about it apparently she had claimed that she received a Bachelors of art degree from Antioch University in Seattle but the school tells CNN that she never graduated from that University so so the person that we would depend on for her accurate accusation against Biden the person we depend on to be credible according to CNN lied about where she got a degree in college now would you believe anything else she said no unfortunately no which doesn't mean it

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unfortunately no which doesn't mean it didn't happen right I always have to stop and make this distinction you can be credible and and wrong and you could be not credible at all and telling the truth so those are still possible so I like to make that distinction so I would say that Tara Reed in my personal view of things went from a hundred percent credible when she first made the accusation cuz she had some contemporary contemporaneous reports where she'd mentioned in there was her mom called in to called in to the Larry King show and you know it didn't look like she had a reason to lie exactly so I'm day one completely credible but then you tell me that at one point in her path she lied about where she got her degree and I say to myself that's not a normal lie that's a little extra isn't it now again I'm

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little extra isn't it now again I'm depending on CNN to be telling me the truth because I don't want to throw this poor woman under the bus if CNN has given me fake news and what are the odds that CNN gave me fake news pretty good right pretty good so let's lucilla say that there might be more to this story about the school it could be that she was you know if it turns out that she was one credit short and she claims she graduated I'm not really gonna care about that right I mean do you really care if it turns out was she was one credit short or something like that if it turns out she was almost a graduate or something like that you know would you care too much not really you know that I would say that would be close enough if you tried to get a job and your one credit short from your degree and you claimed you got a degree does anybody care yeah there's a little white lie so we haven't heard her side if it turns out that this is sort of a harmless white lie the sort of thing

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harmless white lie the sort of thing that people do on their resume then I would judge it differently but if it turned out that she just made up a college and since she got a degree there then I don't think you can believe anything else she says are you with me if it's true that she just made up a college degree there's nothing else she could ever say that you would ever find credible again even if it's true it might be true so I'm gonna give the play of the week to see you then because they actually they actually took her out they actually looked into her until they took her out and they did it looks like they took this story right out of the news so political play of the week see you then
so you were we're still talking about Biden and his his comment about I just

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Biden and his his comment about I just have to read that his claw it again because it's so funny Biden said if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump then you ain't black now of course he's getting criticized for everything you know the the people on the right are entirely illegitimately claiming that what he meant as if we can read his mind we can't that what he really meant is that you know basically it's just assumed that black people will vote for Democrats no matter what they do they're just taking it for granted now of course nothing like that happened but that's how it's being reported on the right and if you buy into that interpretation you really have to ask yourself you have to ask yourself are you letting your own team brainwash you now if you're doing it for fun or for politics because you just know it works like it is pretty effective so if you're just doing it because it works as long as you're self aware that this is not a real story this

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aware that this is not a real story this is a completely manufactured story this is manufactured news usually it's manufactured at CNN but sometimes sometimes Fox News will manufacture a little news and this is clearly manufactured news in the sense that there's certainly no evidence that what Biden meant meaning his personal feelings his internal unstated thoughts were that blacks sort of were automatically gonna vote Democrat just because it was assumed and it's automatic and they don't have to do anything to earn it nothing like that isn't evidence what is it evidence of course is that Biden thinks they use a better choice for the black community and he was telling them that that's it you just have a better choice there's no story here whatsoever but of course we're gonna look we're gonna look into every every word choice and people are saying hey are you pandering because you said ain't did did lunch

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because you said ain't did did lunch bucket Joe saying ain't because he was talking to a black audience and so he was talking down he wasn't using his regular vocabulary well how did he answer the complaint when he was challenged about it and asked to apologize he did you know as a good Democrat he apologized and then he said he shouldn't have been cavalier about it so the people who were who were saying that Joe Biden was talking down and reducing his vocabulary in an insulting way as if he's being condescending to the black community when he talks about it that he pulls out cavalier I'll bet about half of the people of this country don't even know what that word means so can you say that when Joe Biden is is talking and obviously when he was apologizing he was talking to the black community as well as everybody else but do you think you would use a word like Cavalier I think the thing that you

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like Cavalier I think the thing that you could conclude is they just uses lots of different words in different contexts and it doesn't mean anything I think that he definitely was trying to be casual and funny when he said ain't I don't think has anything to do with who he was talking to I think he would have said that to anybody he felt comfortable with because it's just the thing it's the thing people say if they say eight when they're trying to emphasize the thing it's just an emphasis word all right so that story is you think it would have no legs but then it does have legs because part of what Biden claimed was that the n-double-a-cp had endorsed him it turns out that the n-double-a-cp doesn't endorse anybody so it's like not what they do so they had to put out a statement that says not only did we not endorse Biden but we don't do that [Laughter]

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[Laughter] so that's funny you think this story would just go away but it doesn't alright let's talk about churches I'm gonna put on my Pope hat here for a moment because you know the president's weighed in on the question of whether churches are essential for those of you are new to by periscopes I will give you this context I'm very Pro religion very very Pro religion but I'm not a believer myself I'm Pro Logic Pro pro religion for other people meaning that I observe that other people find tremendous benefit from living a religious inspired life why would I want them not to have that now of course you can make your case for you know people misusing anything whether it's a religion or it's a gun people can misuse anything but a tools a tool and people use it to great effect in my opinion good for

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effect in my opinion good for civilization good for families good for people so I'm all-pro religious I want you to have as much as possible secondly I'm Pro Constitution the Constitution is very clear about your religious rights your federal government your state government nay none of your governments can take away your religious right that's pretty prominently written in your constitution so is the President of the United States right when he says your religious institutions are essential services let me check my Constitution checking checking checking Constitution looking for the exception the virus exception to the Constitution the part where the Constitution says you have freedom of religion unless there's a virus looking looking doesn't seem to be here doesn't seem to be here president I judge him to be a 100%

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president I judge him to be a 100% accurate 100% accurate you have a constitutional right - you're religious your religious expression and your federal government if they try to stop you I will join you in fighting them Oh people are saying is that a different opinion than I had yesterday no no I'm not done did you think I was done no so far I have on my constitutional hat while wearing my constitutional hat I agree with the President and I agree with I think every single one of you I'll bet there's not one other person on here who disagrees with what I just said but that's my constitutional hat with if we were only constitutional people we'd be done but the entire context of the conversation is your your soul your your

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conversation is your your soul your your entire spiritual self your spiritual life so there is at least one more hat I have to put on wouldn't you say I mean we're done with the constitutional part that's long and big ulis in my opinion there is no wiggle room whatsoever constitutionally but we want to be thorough and so we're gonna put on the Pope at and give this a second look and now from the perspective of my I'm not sure I'm wearing this right maybe it goes like this anybody know how a pope hat goes on like this there's a more like this giving the straps I'd say it's more like now this was like dog ears that were like this like well anyway you get the idea so let

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like well anyway you get the idea so let me let me take the Pope perspective and I will I will take the the advice to imagine what would Jesus do do you agree that that's a fair standard because whether you're Christian or whether you're Muslim you would recognize Jesus as a wise figure and let's say let's say you know you might view his his role in the universe differently you know whether you're Jewish or Muslim or Christian or anything else but most people would agree that there was probably an historical figure at least and that he had some good things to say so let's take that approach and say to yourself what would Jesus do if Jesus knew that churches were essential services would Jesus say to you take off your masks go to church sing as loudly as you want

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to church sing as loudly as you want would Jesus say that mmm no no my judgment is that Jesus would not say take off your mask go to church pack it in tightly and sing as loudly as you want I ruled that he would not say that would Jesus say put on your masks observe social distancing be smart I
think you might I think you might would Jesus say you can get in your car and stay in your car and have an outdoor service in which your religious leader is standing up there away from you and your family that you've been quarantine with and locked down with there in your car and nobody else is in your car and nobody else comes up to your car and you don't even open your window if somebody does would Jesus allow you to stay in

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does would Jesus allow you to stay in your car to go to church mmm praying a little bit trying to get a reading on this and something's coming in getting something now yes yes you would yes Jesus as it turns out from best we know was not an idiot because the people who say that you can't stay in your own car with your family and worship your God are idiots they're not your leaders that are not your religious leaders are not your role models they're idiots they're aliens Jesus was not an idiot as best we understand so my ruling is that Jesus is ruling would be maybe stay in your car be smart but absolutely go back to church so would Jesus agree with

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back to church so would Jesus agree with president Trump well certainly would agree on the going back to church but be smart be smart people now let me let me adjust and make em conform yesterday's opinion this sounded different from this one so if you heard me talking about it yesterday here's the difference when I was talking about it yesterday I was making a bad assumption the assumption being that people would just you know sort of go back to church in the normal way which of course seems like a bad idea so if you're gonna try to take care of your your fellow humans going back to business as usual at the moment is a terrible terrible idea but I don't think anybody's going to do that the reality is smart people are not going to do what I just said go sit next to each other without masks and sing out loud is literally the very worst thing you could do so church is open yes being dumb

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do so church is open yes being dumb about it no so don't be dumb about it all right Bret Stevens wrote or is it Stephan's I think it's Stevens and New York Times had an interesting article about Flynn and it was interesting to see somebody writing in the New York Times very much being you know against the the way Flynn was handled so to have somebody come down unambiguously in the New York Times against the way the government handled the Flynn thing was interesting now of course he had to soften that because it's the New York Times so he had to put in there the well Trump did the same thing and it was also bad and it's a good thing he got he got impeached because what he tried to do with Biden and Ukraine was basically the same thing which is used the organs of government against a political opponent to which I said my first thought was

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to which I said my first thought was okay that's I can see how you'd make that analogy because in both cases it appears to be the government using the organs of government the power of government and using that power against a political opponent and I thought yeah that does describe both situations that does describe both situations but there might be one difference I'm just put this out there there's one slight difference between the Flynn situation and the the bite in Ukraine situation maybe you know what it is can does it stand out for you that one difference Flynn was innocent that's a pretty big difference Flynn didn't do anything he was literally just showing up for work and did his job that's it Flynn not only just showed up for work and did his job but he showed up early for work he

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but he showed up early for work he showed up early for work and did his job and the organs of government were turned against them is that exactly analogous to hunter by them working for Marissa and and whatever whatever problems that buy cause for the person who might be the next president of the United States Joe Biden his father do we not think that that's a at least a little worth looking into right and and secondly Flynn was actually convicted the Flint was convicted there's not even any kind of a court case or anything against the hunter Biden or Joe Biden there's no kind of wheels of government working against them it was simply an investigation and here's the better analogy if you want to compare the Flynn situation to the Ukraine Biden situation here's the right analogy if they had looked into Flynn and said well it looks like we didn't find anything and walked

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like we didn't find anything and walked away that would be the same because looking into them is actually pretty legitimate even if you tell me that they didn't have enough reason to look into Flynn I would say to myself well you know it's not a perfect world if they legitimately thought there was something there and they legitimately looked into it and they legitimately found out fairly soon that there was nothing there and they had legitimately walked away I don't know that I would have much of a problem with it at all if it given that case it would look like a simple mistake that was okay meaning that somebody thought oh I think I see some signs that this is worth looking into that's okay you know that's seeing some signs to look into something looking into it and then finding out that the signs were misleading well it's a mistake it's the smallest one in the world it's what do you expect people to be doing so I

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you expect people to be doing so I thought it was clever for Brad Stevens to make that analogy because if you weren't very critical about it you would fall into thinking yeah those are kind of the same but there's a pretty big difference between somebody who didn't do anything and somebody who was taking money for a barista for doing not much of a job I just don't see those as the same all right so here's so the story about China increasing its its pressure on Hong Kong I have two feelings about it one is of course you know I don't like the Chinese government and what they're doing of course is a human tragedy and I feel great empathy for the people in Hong Kong you know didn't deserve this and it's not going to be good for them so it's all bad on the other hand it also can't be stopped there isn't any future in which China doesn't have full

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future in which China doesn't have full control over Hong Kong that's really not there's no there's no world in which that doesn't happen so I have a different opinion about things that can't be stopped which is I I try not to worry about them too much we're going to talk about the white board in a moment I see you asking about it we'll get to that all right Bill Maher's doing some more mind-reading and you know I always talk about the the sign for a cognitive dissonance so cognitive dissonance is when people's world doesn't make sense but they need it too so they paper it over with some weird thinking that makes things that don't make sense make sense and so that's how you spot cognitive dissonance it's not just a difference of opinion because differences of opinion usually you can trace back to oh you have a different assumption than I do that's why your opinion is different or you have different facts or you have different

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different facts or you have different priorities so usually if it's just a different opinion you can spot why but sometimes there are just words that don't even make any sense and that's cognitive dissonance see if you could just decide which one this is from Bill Mara he said quote just you I think you're starting to Michael Moore i'ma show last night and he said quote did just the impeachment you know I mean if I could do it over again I wouldn't because it just emboldened him mark continued he's talking about Trump just embolden him now he can conduct this war on accountability and nobody even it barely made the papers I bet you people are watching this and going wow I've never heard that because the news is all about covent now it's obviously correct that the news is focusing on the covert stuff and what I have seen a lot it seems like there's been a lot of coverage about the firing of the the IG s etc

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firing of the the IG s etc and but here's here's the part that I question so bill Barr saying that the impeachment emboldened Trump what what is the logical connecting tissue between the impeachment and an emboldened Trump what is it about the impeachment that logically would embolden someone does anybody understand what that even means because doesn't it sound like just two words were put together right so that's that's your side for a cognitive dissonance cognitive dissonance would have looked if it had done an actual reason like a real reasonable reason it would have looked more like this and this is not real this is just an example it would look more like this now that he's been impeached he knows that the Democrats wouldn't want to go through that again and fail again because it

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that again and fail again because it makes him look bad so he's got a little freedom because it's less likely he'll be impeached a second time because he can't be any more impeached than he is so if he said something like that I would have said okay you know maybe I agree or a don't agree but at least I see the connecting tissue but to simply put it out there like you can see it too well you can see it right the impeachment in which he got impeached and bolded him do you know what would embolden me not being impeached you could replace that impeached with not impeached and you could say the same sentence you know what emboldened the president not being impeached it embolden him do you know what embolden the president getting impeached if you can if you could put the opposite in the sentence it doesn't really change it because it didn't make any sense in the first place it's a nonsense it's a nonsense thought so it looks to me like

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nonsense thought so it looks to me like cognitive dissonance so of course we cannot know the internal thoughts of strangers so we can't know that's true we just know that it has all of these signs of it so that's the only part we can
can here's a question for you can you trust the news about coronavirus and vaccines and therapeutics when the news business is primarily funded by pharmaceutical companies that would be not a real question sort of a rhetorical question we have a weird situation where the biggest problem in the world is in the topic of you know a virus and the therapeutics and vaccines and nothing is more important than getting accurate information because it's such a big deal if you get the wrong information you know millions of people die if you get the wrong information and our source of information is the one source that's not

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information is the one source that's not credible because the news business is not credible under the the specific situation that they're funded by the people who have enormous financial gained by things going their way yeah so I would say that the news again separating what is credible from what is true I would say that the news business is no longer credible on the specific question of what vaccines or medicines or or therapeutics work so let me let me state that as a effect all donhad alright so this is not this is beyond an opinion I think this gets into just you know reasonable observation that if somebody makes a ton of money from pharmaceuticals they're not a credible source for your information about those pharmaceuticals would we all agree on that

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that the that's that feels like just a statement of fact now again that doesn't mean the news is wrong it doesn't mean they're intentionally lying it doesn't mean they've done anything it just means you can't trust them so not trusting them is different from saying they've done something wrong they could have done everything right but can you trust them on this narrow question of any kind of medication vaccine you can't you can't now I don't think I'm talking about you know the moon landing conspiracy who shot JFK I'm not talking crazy talk I'm talking about the the most basic thing any business person would say is true if you have a ton of money riding on it not a little bit of money we're not talking about a few pennies we're talking about billions possibly possibly trillions the the size

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possibly possibly trillions the the size of this is actually in the trillions do you think that you can trust news that's funded by the people who could make trillions no no businessperson with any experience would trust anything they say but unfortunately we're going to anyway because we're so used to trusting the news you know the people on the right are going to trust Fox News the people on the left are gonna trust MSNBC and CNN even though we know we shouldn't we really really shouldn't can I give you an example to make my case all right here is what you should expect if the pharmaceutical companies have corrupted the news are you ready for this are you ready to have your mind blown here it comes one way you could tell not a hundred percent but this would be a strong indicator that your news has been corrupted by the pharmaceutical industry

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corrupted by the pharmaceutical industry would be if if Fox News and CNN agreed right if I can give you an example in which Fox News and CNN agreed on a pretty important story and let's say that that story was about Trump right let's say how often do CNN and Fox News agree on how to frame a story about Trump if they both framed it the same way
way would you say I think there's something external happening here well let's take a look let's look at the news today as you know CNN has been reporting that the hydroxychloroquine studies are actually showing that the hydroxychloroquine the so-called Trump pills if you could call them that are actually deadly actually deadly and and indeed there's been yet

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deadly and and indeed there's been yet another study yet another study is showing that if you give the hydroxychloroquine to people who were at death's door more of them will die than if you haven't given it to them alright so CNN is reporting that that more of them will die and what they don't do on CNN is mentioned that if you don't test it with the zinc I'm not sure you've really tested the thing that has the most promise because this is CNN's trick and their viewers are not wise to this trick but a lot of a lot of my followers are which is they're really four things that you could test in this world now I'm throwing out I'm gonna ignore the azithromycin from now just to simplify because they're really three things you could think about but just to keep it simple the Hydra chloroquine alone which if you give it to people who are near death and those are the studies

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are near death and those are the studies that we keep seeing on CNN it's bad doesn't seem to work now is this a surprise given that we know that the hydroxychloroquine can have some heart issues with people who already have heart issues are the elderly people who are dying from hydroxyl from coronavirus do they have strong hearts probably not so I'm not even a doctor but if you said to me Scott do you think this is a good idea a drug that you know it's a it's really only risk factor seems to be if you've got some heart issues should we give it to a group of people who are at death's door and have weak hearts I would say you know if they're gonna die anyway maybe you should test you never know might work they did test it and it didn't work are we surprised well not really I mean it was worth testing probably worth testing but not surprised that it didn't work but where

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surprised that it didn't work but where are tests for the other categories and where where is our test for the one that has the most promise because the whole point of the hydroxychloroquine we're told is that it's a delivery system for the zinc where's that have you seen this test because CNN will tell you this has been tested and therefore the president is not doing something that's safe that's what CNN says right go to Fox news.com today and see what they say about this same thing they say the hydroxychloroquine in yet another study shows it to be dangerous for people who are desperately ill but then they say and at least Fox News mentions that the president is taking hydroxychloroquine with zinc so let me ask you this are these two different drugs is

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these two different drugs is hydroxychloroquine a different drug than zinc and the answer is for marketing purposes and the way our brain considers them there are two separate drugs if you take these at the same time does your body know that you have two drugs or does your body just know that there's some new chemicals in it your body doesn't know that's two drugs your body says that's one drug right it doesn't know you've combined two drugs that's marketing that's packaging this manufacturing that's the way your brain holds things it holds them as two different drugs but your body doesn't know the difference your body only got one drug it was a combination of these two things so when they say the president's taking this drug that's killing people is that true it is not true it is basically a lie it is a lie if you leave your readers the idea that the president who's taking

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the idea that the president who's taking this drug which is a combination of two things is the same as this drug which is just one of those things when you know anecdotally anecdotally we don't know that's why you want to test it that it's the combination that might be the powerful part now so the point is Fox News is misleading its readers the same way the CNN is and they're both misleading them in the same direction which is to think that the hydroxychloroquine wizzing is a bad idea because something completely different has been tested and not only was it something different but the whole presumption was it's a first symptom drug to begin with and we haven't seen this tested who's testing this so we get the ones that fail first isn't that a coincidence all the ones that fail are the ones that are coming in first huh is that because the ones that were the

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that because the ones that were the least likely to work were also fully funded maybe who knows so today there's a news all right so that's your first signal that the news is not giving you real news on pharmaceuticals because both Fox News and CNN are doing something that's completely illegitimate in my opinion treating the one drug like it's the same as the combination of the two drugs and I don't know any reason you would do that other than to mislead intentionally or unintentionally it's clearly putting putting the readers off the track and moving them off the scent instead of helping them understand what's going on so I would say that's a pretty strong indication that the news is no longer credible when it comes to any kind of pharmaceutical medical thing just to make it fun just to put a bow on this do

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make it fun just to put a bow on this do you think this could get any better oh it's getting better right now because I'll bet you haven't heard this news this news is hot-off-the-press I just tweeted it like just before I got up and let me read it to you it turns out that in India which is what is what is India famous for making the they're the biggest manufacturer of a drug what's that drug oh yeah hydroxychloroquine okay so in the united states the two big news organizations left and right have weirdly and uncharacteristically taken the same side huh it's almost as if the pharmaceuticals are influencing that but let's look at India now India if you imagine that the pharmaceuticals influence their news what do you kind of expect that the country that is the number one producer of it even though it's very cheap they produce a lot of it

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it's very cheap they produce a lot of it so it must be a lot of money hydroxychloroquine the main producer of hydroxychloroquine if they were to test hydroxychloroquine do you think that they would get a good result or a bad result without even knowing anything about science without knowing anything about medicine would the people who make a fortune producing this chemical more likely telling you it works let's read today's news according to this is news from india the premier health body so their big health body looked at three different studies now when i say study is i don't mean there were drug trials there were studies of looking at what what happened when different groups were given hydroxychloroquine for a prophylactics prophylaxis meaning preventative according to india there are three separate studies they show very strongly

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separate studies they show very strongly that the and again it's a retrospective study it's not as reliable as like a control study so the first thing you need to know is this is not a confirmed clinical gold standard you know fuchi level clinical style clinical trial but it's three different sets of data in which they have a lot of data the data seems reliable far as we could tell we don't know that seems reliable and it all goes in the same direction and apparently the people who took hydroxychloroquine I guess it was mostly frontline workers had way fewer infections than the people who didn't so in India the news is opposite of the United States and coincidentally coincidentally their pharmaceutical financial incentive is also opposite of

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financial incentive is also opposite of the United States huh-huh is that a coincidence is it a coincidence that wherever the money leads you is where the science ends up huh now that could be a coincidence you actually can't rule out coincidence can you you can't rule out coincidence we live in the world were coincidences are just rampant so it could be that the Indians are all wrong three separate studies and all three of them were wrong could be now if somebody says was it with zinc and the answer is doesn't say so the the article doesn't mention it one way or the other but if you were taking hydroxychloroquine preventatively and you were a frontline health care worker would you not be taking zinc right because zinc zinc is sort of suggested that it might be

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sort of suggested that it might be helpful no matter what it could be that the zinc is the only thing that matters but I could find that out in the future too so do you think that the health care professionals who have also heard what you've heard that it's the combination of the two that's good do you think they weren't also taking a zinc supplement probably they were probably they were it's also possible that maybe they had enough of zinc in them because they were younger people and they weren't they were unhealthy to begin with but here's where I would be cautious all right here's some caution for you what would be different about the people who voluntarily took hydroxychloroquine from the / the people in India who had the same opportunity and decided not to is there anything that you could determine about those two groups that would skew your your results and the answer is yeah yeah there is right the people who would

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yeah there is right the people who would say I'm gonna I'm gonna do everything I can to avoid coronavirus are the people who are going to take a chance on this drug is there anything about that personality type that might protect them yeah they're the ones who are extra extra concerned the people who are most concerned probably do a whole host of things from washing their hands more you know not touching their face they're probably a whole bunch of things that you do if you were if you're in the more concerned at group so if what you heard from this is hydroxychloroquine works because India did three separate retrospective tests and it looked like there was a strong effect you didn't hear me all right if that's what you got out of this you didn't hear me India has a gigantic financial incentive and say this stuff works the United States the news industry anyway as a gigantic financial incentive probably to

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gigantic financial incentive probably to say that it doesn't because there are so many vaccines being worked on I would imagine that just about all of the people who have some connection to you know advertising on the news they probably all have at least one division that's working on a vaccine or a therapeutic and there's a lot of money involved so I don't I wouldn't trust anybody on the question of hydroxychloroquine all right
he says it's basically free not why not have it on the ready and the answer is apparently we don't have enough of it so there's actually a shortage of it it's you can't say something is free at the same time you said there's a shortage of it because in a capitalist system the the price of it in the context of a shortage it should be should be going up on the black market pretty high alright I'm looking at your

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pretty high alright I'm looking at your comments here so there's a Peter Salk article somebody sent to me can you still hear my whistle by the way I the whistle is being produced in my teeth and mouth area so don't worry about me having any kind of medical problems shouldn't we all be required to wear it goggles the answer is no so people are asking if if you should wear if you should wear a face mask why shouldn't you also wear goggles because the medical experts are telling us that your eyes and your mouth are places where viruses can get in and the answer is that you don't wear a mask to keep viruses from getting in you wear a mask because you might be asymptomatic and to keep them from getting out your mouth produces you know droplets your shouldn't amount of your mouth your eyeballs do not produce tears that are

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eyeballs do not produce tears that are shooting out of your eyes if you could shoot tears out of your eyes just walking around then you would have to wear goggles too but as long as you're shooting things out of your mouth but not any of your eyes you a symptomatic people are fine alright so last night I had more of a whistle I'm consciously trying to avoid doing it so I'm I probably got it under a little bit control
there should be no requirements all these suggestions yeah yeah I don't know you know I'm on the side that says anything you do temporarily for the purpose of medical should not be viewed in the context of the Constitution because everything we do medically is an exception to the Constitution you know not everything but you know we do lots

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not everything but you know we do lots of medical things that if you are really gonna look at them compared to the Constitution you'd have some problems you know for example people who are considered not capable if you're if you're a judged to be not mentally competent you basically lose all your constitutional rights shall be in the Constitution the place where it says being mentally incapable is where you lose all of your rights as a citizen it's not there so we we fairly routinely make it non constitutional decisions for the benefit of you know medical necessity and trying to do the right thing I mean nobody's being a dick for just trying to do the right thing try to keep people alive right nobody's trying to violate your Constitution which brings me to my final point you will see especially on the right leaning media that the the real purpose of this shutdown is to train the citizens to put

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shutdown is to train the citizens to put up with anything and it's to exercise control and it's all about people's internal need for a control none of that's real you should discount everybody who tells you that they're looking into the minds of strangers be those strangers government governors or pundits and they can see that on the inside even though they're not saying it and there's nothing in their philosophy that would suggest that that internally you can tell that the real plan is they're globalist plan to squash the human rights of people and exert their control over them before they take them to the gulags all right in my opinion there's not one person on the planet earth who is thinking along those lines none yeah I know the news on the right likes to paint Whitmer

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likes to paint Whitmer as somebody whose real goal her real goal is power it's about something in her personality can you see her personality is that in evidence always see is people making different decisions that's all we know all we know is that 50 governor's made 50 slightly different decisions as people do right so yeah and you know Lightfoot and Chicago arresting people do you think that do you think that mayor's are arresting people to satisfy their internal need for control nothing like that's happening in my opinion I hate to be the you know I hate to be the bearer of good news but allow me to be the bearer of good news we are experiencing a one-in-a-lifetime situation this is once ever I don't know

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situation this is once ever I don't know if you'll ever see this again and the part that's the one sever not just the fact that it's a virus the one sever part is it we're all on the same side once ever we're all on the same side those mayor's who are making decisions it's not because they're they're working out with some kind of you know inner turmoil with their their their emotional state it's not some big global conspiracy every mayor is just trying to make this work they're just trying to get to the other side of it with a good result there's nobody there's nobody in this story was a dick there's nobody in here who's just trying to get one over on people you know I refuse to believe there's anybody that bad I do I just refuse to believe it and now you could say I'm being naive but in order to make your point you'd have to find at least one person ever who is willing to say it out loud it's like yeah you know I don't mind all

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like yeah you know I don't mind all these people dying I don't mind the economy being destroyed I just want a little more control I need to control the people I don't think it's a thing I really don't so I I think you should release on it and also I I think that anybody who's telling you that they can see it it's one thing to say I speculative might exist but I have no information that would confirm it or even suggest it that would be fair I'd accept that yeah I I believe it might exist but there's no evidence of it that'd be fair but if somebody says it's obvious is clear I can see it I can see their thoughts I know what they're thinking it's part of their massive plan for global domination you should discount that person's opinion on everything else they ever say for the rest of your life that's it that that is someone who's not really dealing in the in the observable world that you're living in somebody says it's

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that you're living in somebody says it's about corruption I don't know what that means what's that mean it's about corruption exactly who's who is doing what to get rich this I mean there's lots of profiteering on supplies and stuff but if you talk about the mayors and the governor's are the mayors and the governor's taking bribes to keep us closed longer I all think so they might take bribes to open us sooner but nobody's taking a bribe to stay closed are they I doubt it so I've said this about the presidency as well I don't think somebody says the rostra
[Laughter] funny that the Rothschilds somehow would have something to gain by keeping the the economy closed I don't think anybody has anything to gain the the unique the new unique characteristic of this is that nobody can gain by doing it wrong

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that nobody can gain by doing it wrong so you know we may have a different opinion of what's the right way to do it and how soon and you know this specific technique but there's nobody nobody even in the the wildest stretch of your imagination there's nobody in any elected office who is gonna come out better by doing a worse job nobody comes out ahead by doing a worse job it's just it's just not a thing all right if a thousand wise men say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing somebody says I suppose that's true
somebody says the China deal led to the plan Demick so somebody thinks that there was a plan to stop the China trade deal by by a plan Demick yeah somebody says you are naive that's what people

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says you are naive that's what people say right before they get blocked block there you don't have to worry about my naivety anymore problem solved all right so that's my that's my show for today and I hope you checked me out on locals where robots read news as a comic quite often and a lot of other material over there that you don't see anywhere else that's all for today and I will talk to you tomorrow well no actually tonight