Episode 1008 Scott Adams: Protest Theater, Why BLM Are Almost Republicans, Lancet Debunked, Rockets

Date: 2020-05-31 | Duration: 35:35

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• Planetary ownership laws

• Alex Jones and Batman attended the protests

• Antifa is destroying the BLM messaging

• Democrats are a ranked victim party

• The missing portion of George Floyd video

• Did a Nigerian Prince conduct a HCQ study?

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lower of the blast shields it's getting dangerous out there blast shields lowering full perimeter security enabled robot sensors on laser cannons armed
I hope the rest of you were staying safe it's dangerous out there dangerous dangerous out there I say do you know why it's so dangerous out there because the weather's nice and we've been cooped up and people just need to get out just need to get out and get some exercise so we've got protest theater breaking down everywhere but let's talk about the good news first what are you the good news I think you saw it was that the coolest rocket launch ever I swear I've never needed a

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launch ever I swear I've never needed a rocket launch as much as much as I needed that rocket launch that was the rocket launch of all rocket launches if he watched it live I'm not sure if it has the same impact if he watch it I'm delayed but knowing there's so many people were watching it with sort of that the hopes the hopes of the nation I would say if not the world mostly the nation but it was sort of like the hopes of the nation were you know focused on at that moment and didn't you feel like didn't you feel like we just needed to do something right we meeting people in the United States you know you and I didn't have anything to do with it you and I don't give any credit at all but don't you like that some you know large entities in this case SpaceX and NASA and our government don't you like that

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and our government don't you like that these large entities which are American entities did something that was so right just so right it was beyond technology it actually achieved I think art now I would say that about a lot of Apple products you know you could say the Apple products were you know technology and there were tools but there were also art Steve Jobs made it so and I think Elon Musk it is certainly operating at that same level where I don't think he's happy with technology I don't think he's happy making a product it feels like he's making art and here's the fun thing you know obviously the United States has to get pretty serious about space both government Wisin & private wise private

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government Wisin & private wise private company wise because there's so much national defense you know purposes up there but also apparently there's just enormous wealth to be mined by whoever can get up there economically and if he log mosque is the first one to be able to mine space or actually colonize space or become the primary the primary transportation in space do you know how rich he is going to be let me let me put it in these terms it is not impossible that someday Elon Musk will wait for it own a planet
because what are the rules about who owns a planet if you had a private

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owns a planet if you had a private company that was the first one to get to a planet do you get to keep it does anybody know what the what the rules are for that if Elan musk let's say Elon Musk is 90 years old and going strong because he's he's using the blood of young children or something so he's staying young but he's 90 years old and by now he's you know he's probably a trillionaire just by the normal compounding of money and his investments but by the age of 90 he's created such an efficient private enterprise in space that he could actually send a rocket out with enough technology on it to colonize a planet even without people on it so perhaps we could operate things from a distance we could send some robots bye-bye Rocket the robots could build some kind of a structure and they can do some geo shaping and and turn turn the planet into a proper little

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turn the planet into a proper little planet the humans can someday operate the I think honest to god I think Elon Musk is going to be the first human to own his own planet he might not ever be physically on that planet there's a distance but I think he's gonna own a planet someday yeah I don't think you can own the moon I don't know I don't know what the law is on that but I don't think you could own it
anyway so that that was inspiring the funniest thing that happened at the riots today and there are quite a few quite a few candidates for the funniest thing that happened is did you see did you see Alex Jones the funniest like Alex Jones somehow got an armored

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Alex Jones somehow got an armored vehicle with loud speaker on it and it looked like it was I don't know a Hummer that had been outfitted with you know some kind of armor so Alex chose drives like into the middle of the middle of the protest not sure which city it was definitely matters because all the cities the protests are looking pretty similar but he strives into the middle of it and he's sort of trapped in traffic with everybody else he's a stout speaker saying people we're all in it together we're all in the same spot and Aoife and the other protesters are just destroying his ass destroying his armored vehicle they're like they're throwing bricks at it they're breaking this he's just not we're all on the same side

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if you can say what you want about Alex Jones you know I will welcome you to your own you know individual opinion and Infowars of Alex Jones I know he's polarizing but there's one thing you can't take away from the man knows how to do marketing that was the most clever ballsy marketing I've ever seen because you you're all gonna go look for that video now is frickin hilarious people we're all in it together and they're just attacking if they're ripping up his already
was the funniest thing today but it wasn't the only funny thing so uh
have you seen the video of Batman there's some video I just saw it'll probably be going around later tonight

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probably be going around later tonight I'm somebody Justin a Batman just the cameraman just sort of follows Batman through well he does he doesn't do anything except walk through the crowd and act like he's actually Batman
everybody stops or like okay I guess Batman's here now okay it was funny alright so I tweeted this joke that I knew at least one-third of the people wouldn't think it was a joke so now I've got you know Nicolas Fuentes and and the grippe are tweeting at me and but I thought I think I think Nicholas Fuentes I think he's smart enough to know as a joke I'm not sure that the other people have quite caught on yet that it was a joke but here was my tweet I said watching anti-fog

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my tweet I said watching anti-fog up the black lives movement I'm sorry the black lives matter protests makes makes me it makes me think black lives matter has a point about white people now if you can't tell that's a joke with you I mean really now the reason those it's funny at all is because there's some truth to it but of course like all jokes it acts like something with a little bit of truth to some kind of universal truth which of course it's not but that's what makes it a joke is that your brain is trying to is try to reconcile that it's a little bit true but it's not really sort of generally true so you know you have to wrestle with a little bit that's what makes it funny that's what triggers the laugh reflex there's almost makes sense but doesn't so remember that's the whole point of a joke is that it almost makes sense but it doesn't

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sense but it doesn't so it is true that anti-fat is messing up
up why shoulda been a very clean and effective black lives matter message because that video that video made it it made it very possible for black lives matter to really gain a lot in terms of you know empathy and understanding political clout maybe gifts and things changed maybe get some movement and maybe make a difference there were all these things that could have easily commanded this and I think anti-shah is the one breaking the windows right now I've seen a few videos of black lives matter activists yelling at these white Anti Fog people who are breaking up you know they're messing up property and black lives matter at least the ones on these specific video notice you don't it's not like it's capturing everybody's opinion these are just some individual

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opinion these are just some individual videos but anecdotally there are enough black lives matter activists who are saying that's not why we're here we're not here to be looting on camera that's working against your against your program so because anti-fur has somehow somehow anti-fire has sold black lives matter on the idea that they're on the same team but maybe i don't understand these two organizations well enough and you can you can correct me about this so fact check me on this would you now say it's true that black lives matter would like to build something in other words they'd like to build businesses for the black community they'd like to build some economic security they'd like to build better opportunity build a better life they'd like to build something specifically right i don't see black

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specifically right i don't see black lives matter saying we want to make somebody else less happy i think they want to build something for a group they've got some friction you know in terms of you know how society is organized that's their view and so they're there trying to fix that all good not only is that all good but everybody on the right and you think everybody in the left would be in favor of that why is that not a good thing certainly the right is in favor of it there's nobody on the on the political right who is not all for the black community building something you know building something even more than more than ever before all in favor it's completely genuine when the president brags about bringing down black unemployment that's completely real and I'm not sure that anybody noticed that there's a genuine pride in helping everybody you do better

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pride in helping everybody you do better so you've got that but then anti-fog comes in and they mess up that clean message because the message was so clean this time because of the video well maybe not as clean because there's some new video we'll talk about that in a minute but for a while there everybody was on the same team and the black people were trying to build something I think everybody else was certainly in favor of that nobody was against it why would you be against it and then anti-shock comes in and I'm not sure they're trying to build something are they they're literally trying to destroy the lower class to get to the upper class to destroy them am I wrong about that the anti-shah is actually trying to break the entire system but since they can't sort of directly get to the elite they're doing it by destroying the foundation which is the black community for example so I'm

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the black community for example so I'm pretty sure the anti-shah is the natural enemy of black lives matter and I don't know that black lives matter has figured it out the other thing that's weird and I mean it's almost so incredible that it's going to come out of my mouth and it won't even sound like it's reality I'm going to say it anyway the natural allies of black lives matter are Republicans their natural allies because the Republicans have a very simple system I say it all the time if you follow the Constitution you're cool with us you follow the law you work try to take care of your family boom you're done you're good you are a hundred percent everything that that Republicans like and respect and they'll help you get a job they'll help you succeed and they'll like it they'll not only do it they'll like it the brag about it they'll tell their

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the brag about it they'll tell their friends they helped you get a job so I think there maybe is some turning point happening because I think black lives matter is looking at the people they thought were their allies but where the black community is trying to build something these supposed allies and anti-fur are literally trying to destroy those very things the exact things that other people want to build because that's how they get the whole system to crumble I think unless I'm misunderstanding you know everybody's objective I think that I'm saying that accurately so there may be this weird turning point where here's what it would take if if President Trump said tomorrow look you tell me what needs to be done give me some ideas about this you know police killing people situation just give you

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killing people situation just give you some ideas and then see what the federal government could do maybe nothing maybe something so if the president just said you know let me see how I can wade in to be helpful but you have to be specific tell me what I could do is if funding more about police body cams because maybe I can do that right so the president has this gigantic opening to be the adult in the room and the one who says you know there's only one person listening to black lives matter right now and it's me and here's what I can do for you is anybody else offering because you know the black community is saying as clearly as possible you can even hear from Charlamagne tha God saying it as clearly as possible that they're gonna go where the deal is best I mean they're basically of declared free agency

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basically of declared free agency they've declared free agency they've actually said we would be willing to trade the trade parties if you could make us an offer the sounds good and I would think that the president could do exactly that he could make an offer this sounds good so you may have this weird situation where these protests are going to turn into the black community saying what's the most pragmatic thing we could do you know if you just want to be practical and actually just make results the most practical thing you can do is pair with the Republicans that's that pair with the Republicans the Democratic Party in terms of being sort of a victim party is no longer I don't think it's a optimum place for the black voters because if victim class is what the Democrats are all about the trouble is that they have two categories ahead of you if you're black because there are more women than

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black because there are more women than there are black people just in general demographically so because women are also sort of a victim class they're always going to be a little bit ahead of any other class just because it's the greatest number of people and then behind them it seems like just because the the trend of politics etc it seems like the you know the Hispanic vote is more important to the Democrats for the future anyway than the black vote so if you're a black Democrat you're you're ranked just got knocked down to third place if you join the Republicans it's a it's a sixty million tie for first place because the Republican point of view is American yes it's a tie it's a tie you and I are are exactly equal so

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a tie you and I are are exactly equal so that's sort of the Republican point of view it's a lot easier to play by the rules on the right and the people would be more helpful I think as opposed to trying to destroy your black owned business with the Molotov cocktail which I would call not helpful maybe there'll be a realization to that yeah so what else we got going on here there I told you that we would eventually see that missing video of George Floyd's tragic and ending few minutes because remember we weirdly we had a video early on in the arrest sequence and we had a video of his final minutes but that whole thing in between was missing and what and what did I tell you I told you that somebody didn't want you to see it

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that somebody didn't want you to see it and now we've seen some of it but I think there still some missing so the part we've seen is a little bit to cleverly ambiguous so let me say this you know that video lies right if you just added out a little bit of video you can completely reverse what is seeing we saw it with the Covington kids situation you've seen it with enough situations you know that as a general truth if video is edited even a little bit it can completely reverse what you saw we have not yet seen the full video of the stop from beginning through death there's still a piece missing and here's what's really sketchy about the piece we're seeing it seems to start when there's something happening inside the cop car and you can see cops from

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the cop car and you can see cops from both sides and based on their feet you can see that there's something like a struggle going on inside the backseat of the cop car and that it looks like that that there must be some kind of a physical struggle with George Floyd and then you see them except around the corner and then they end up by the bumper but you're looking from the other view see you can just tell that that's where they are but you can't see much happening so here's what's still missing what happened just before the altercation in the cop car why is it that we would see this video that starts it starts exactly when it's ambiguous because because what the tweet that I saw was somebody who who imagined that it was a video and I say imagine because you can't tell he imagined that what was happening inside the car that you can't see it all there's no visibility really

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see it all there's no visibility really in the car but you know there's some kind of altercation going on there because of the legs on the outside so one person imagined that that was the police beating up George Floyd just beating him up now is that possible yes anything's possible but could it be that there was something else going on somebody had suggested I think Ian had suggested that he had said something about being claustrophobic when he was yeah towards sort of his final words there now if he was claustrophobic there might have been maybe some kind of a panic situation in the back of the car it could have been misinterpreted as resisting arrest when might have been more of a panic maybe I'm just saying that we don't know what's what to rule in or what to rule out we still have a black hole of you know of non information there so I would ask you to be really careful

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so I would ask you to be really careful when you see that new video from the new angle because it's missing probably the most important part and I'm guessing that the most important part the missing part somebody doesn't want you to see because it might change your mind about something now it could change your mind in the wrong way meaning it could be misleading so it's possible that somebody doesn't want you to see it because it's misleading you can't really let him that would be a legitimate reason to hold the back you know if he thought it was gonna cause a race riot and it was misleading you know a reasonable person might might decide you know I'll just hold it back but another reason to hold it back is that you want to mislead we don't know we don't know who has the video and we don't know why they're holding back we assume that it the whole video exists because it would be kind of weird if it doesn't but there's probably something to happen right before they put him in the car

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right before they put him in the car that would suggest where the bad behavior you know where the sequence of events started I guess and then maybe would give you some greater understanding of the whole situation that said there's no excuse for killing the guy who's once he's once he's down on the ground so so there's still a lot of questions that need to be answered there the weirdest thing about these protests is that the whole point of the protest is against the police at least that's the trigger for it as I said an tyfa is there for their own reasons and they're not being especially helpful to black lives matter but given that the trigger for it and at least black lives matters main issue is the police the weirdest thing that's coming out of this so far and fact check me if I'm wrong are we now seeing the police in lots of different cities being both restrained

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different cities being both restrained and really professional and quite effective is that what bike police shooting tear gas I haven't seen that but what do you say that they're actually doing a pretty darn good job so if the protests were supposed to put pressure on the police the weird thing that happened is it made all the protesters look like bad people because of the looting now let me say as clearly as I can the percentage of protesters who were actively looting I imagine was very small to present tops maybe 2% of the protesters did a looting or defacing property but the way these things work it ends up smearing the entire operation so the protesters are getting their reputation completely smeared by the two percent who worked in the looting and whatnot throwing bricks but the police are looking really strong professional restrained I haven't seen anything yet

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restrained I haven't seen anything yet and there should have been a lot of a lot of examples of it but I haven't seen anything yet this strikes me as you know outrageous police behavior now of course there are a lot of cameras there so there's a lot of reason to be on your best behavior but it's a tough situation really tough situation I do not envy that the police who are there and I have to ask you this question I wonder if things would have been better with none because it was the anti-shah people breaking windows I think which mostly attracts the police then once the police are there black lives matter who is mostly angry at police now have a whole new reason to be angry because they're right there and they're looking threatening so it looks like black lives matter is a big loser in this because it accidentally made the police look really professional while

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police look really professional while making black lives look really bad because of these 2 percent of looters and the anti-shah causing trouble
all right well I'm sure there will be examples of police behaving badly as well but will because it'll be there are a lot of people involved so he can't expect everybody to do a good job somebody says another umbrella agent was spotted at the White House protests yeah I saw some pictures who knows how real they are of people with umbrellas and they seem to have little wires you know the kind that Secret Service would have to have an earpiece but I don't even know if those pictures are real it could have been easily photoshopped or something the left is breathlessly saying it's not an taifa it's proud voice well good luck with that I think the number of conspiracy theories that's

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the number of conspiracy theories that's good that will grow out of this will be just amazing all right an FBI guy was hit with a brick is that true as black lives matter denounced the looting well I'm seeing videos of organizers yelling at the looters quite aggressively so the only thing we know is that individual black lives matter are very aggressively trying to stop the bad behavior but there's just so much they can do it's not like they're armed
how did they get all their black outfits so fast well if you're talking about empty father they they've had them for a long time
see then says they don't know who the bad protesters are there are definitely some people there who are there to cause trouble and they came in from other

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trouble and they came in from other places so I don't know how we'll find all those people who came in from other places but so Carmelo was at the White House protests today got it I wish I wish Biden would just go ahead and name Kamala Harris as his vice Prez a choice because all this waiting is killing me you have videos are popping up all over Twitter of black lives matter of condemning an T file I've seen three of them I think so far so I would expect more somebody says look up Michael malice tweet I can tell you if you're not watching Michael valises Twitter feed this week you're really missing a show you know every now and then have you noticed though B people are good at tweeting but they'll just have like a a world-class Grammy winning week

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like a a world-class Grammy winning week I think Michael Dallas is everyone's Grammy winning you know tweeting weeks he had me in stitches with a few tweets already this week oh yes so I forgot to mention so you know there was that big Lancet article saying that there had been a study showing the hydroxyl clerking was dangerous and I killed more people that are saved and then the World Health Organization the very dependable World Health Organization decided to you know stop all the stop all the trials everywhere in the world of hydroxychloroquine now turns out that the Lancet article looks like it's being essentially debunked by Lance of itself they found a bunch of problems after the fact so even Lance that this is you know recanting basically and saying in saying there's not enough information to make a

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there's not enough information to make a determination so in other words the study doesn't tell you anything and now Lance of the saying that but more interesting they I just read it I tweeted this you should read about how this study was put together if you think the steel dossier was a bunch of you gotta read how this lets that it wasn't Lance it just was the article was in The Lancet so it wasn't lancets fault but apparently all the data came from basically one company that purported that it got the data from all the different hospitals but everybody's smart who knew enough about the situation looked at what they had and said I don't think you really could do that like it seemed impossible that they would have the data they said they had and then you dig a little deeper and it's a company of five people and you dig a little deeper but it's really just one guy I dig a little deeper and it's one guy that didn't exist before February

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that didn't exist before February it's basically basically the entity that came up with the study used a source of data the source of which is about as credible as a Nigerian prince asking you for buddy to help him get his fortune and at the end of the bankers hands it is hilariously non-credible meaning there's a you read about it so just look at my Twitter feed if you want to read the details but a doctor looked into it and and and found there's just no credibility to it so the World Health Organization once again did the wrong thing now if you're checking my record against the World Health Organization I'm up to what six and now every time I've disagreed with the World Health Organization I've been I've been proven

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Organization I've been I've been proven correct i I'm not a I'm not saying I'm a medical expert I make no such claim I'm simply pointing out that if you were to compare our track records I have done far far superior in medical recommendations than the World Health Organization do you know who else has been more accurate than the World Health Organization magic 8-ball coin-flip monkey with a dart mic Tsarevich I didn't mean to say Mike Tsarevich directly after monkey with the dart simply these are entities Kreskin Trump basically everybody in the world that's so funny the World Health Organization is literally the least credible health organization in the world what do you

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organization in the world what do you what do you call the most irrelevant medical organization who kind of perfect it's like the simulation just wanted them to be called who because that's what you call irrelevant things hey did you hear about the irrelevant person who of course not nobody's heard of irrelevant things whoo all right well I think I beat that worse all right that's all for now I will talk to you in the morning you know where