Episode 1012 Scott Adams: Black Americans, Your “Leaders” Are Leading You Off a Cliff. Profanity.

Date: 2020-06-01 | Duration: 18:18

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• Black Americans, your “leaders” are leading you off a cliff

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I'm pom pom pom pom pom pom yes you're surprised to see me at this time of day but I had a message that has some timeliness element to it so I thought I'd jump in here and and deliver it a way for a few of you to come online before I get going this may be the last day you ever see me because the odds of me being canceled forever in the next 10 minutes are pretty high I listen to a little bit of charlemagne and that will be part of what I wanted to talk about alright so the title of my periscope today as I said I was going to give some advice to black Americans now it's not really advice and I don't believe an advice per se and the reason is you can give people information and they can make their own in their own decisions and certainly it would be presumptuous to make advice for some community you are not a part of so when I say advice you should just see it as context maybe

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you should just see it as context maybe some new information maybe something that you hadn't considered before but don't take it as presumptuous because it's not really advice you're gonna do whatever you need to do I'm just gonna tell you some things that maybe you had not considered it goes like this and by the way I warned you that there would be some profanity right there's going to be some profanity so if you've got any kids in the room probably want to probably want to get him out of the room so let me start with the good news Martin Luther King was really good at this stuff you remember his I had a dream speech how perfect that is because it takes your mind to the future you can visualize it a you know dream where everybody is treated fairly and it was also accurate because it wasn't true that things were good at the time but it was true that everybody dreamed of a

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was true that everybody dreamed of a time when it would be better so not only was his message perfectly appropriate to how people were thinking in other words it is fit what they were already trying to think we're thinking both white and black everybody was thinking well I'd like to get to a time when it's all working so I I point that out because he was an unusually effective leader but also his persuasion technique if you're looking at the actual tools of persuasion very very good not only did he match conservatives by being as religious as they were took the high ground didn't use violence I mean basically persuasion wise he was excellent but that brings us to today and we don't really have a Martin Luther King who's in the arena at least not one I've noticed and let me say this as starkly as I can and by the way if you'd like some context I've been complaining

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like some context I've been complaining about president Trump's let's say leadership in the last few days on this on the protests and the riots so this will not be directed strictly at the african-american community because it's just as true for Trump but your leaders are incompetent your leaders are incompetent that's the problem the problem is not really anything else it's not anything else if you had good leadership you could identify and work toward fixing problems that would get you everything you need you don't have that you don't have anything like that and here is what your I guess it comes off as leadership whoever is leading black lives matter especially here's what they're doing wrong have you ever heard the phrase selling past the close it's one of the most famous sayings and persuasion and it refers to the fact that let's say you're a salesperson

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that let's say you're a salesperson you're trying to sell somebody on a product you get them to say yes and they take out their wallet selling past the clothes is when you keep selling after they said yes because there's nothing good that can happen after that because you've already made the sale the only thing that can happen if you keep talking is you lose the sale it's one of the most basic and strongest persuasion recommendations in the world don't talk past the sale the sale is done take the money take the money what happened when everybody saw the video of George Floyd the sale was concluded that was the sale the sale was white America do you understand how bad this is and most avoid America probably didn't

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most avoid America probably didn't probably didn't understand it then we saw the video the sale was made you made the sale what did you do after the sale you protested no problem with that protesting make sure everybody hears it make sure you reinforce it peaceful protest excellent good idea a good way to reinforce the sale that you've already made make sure some action actually happens maybe a good time to come up with some specific recommendations do you know what would be the dumbest thing you could do the dumbest thing you could do after you've made the sale a riot set on fire the of the people who agree with you set it on fire and then oh it gets better

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gets better and then you're incompetent leaders who I'd love to help literally literally I'd like to help if I can help let me know but you're incompetent leaders have once again decided that their best play tonight Monday night is to have the protests again which will bring the Lunars again which will bring anti-fog again what are you going to be watching on social media all night tonight you're gonna be watching young black men and women commit crimes all night so all night I'm going to be watching black people commit crimes you incompetent leaders why are you doing this to your people why do you hate black people you black leaders because you're you're leading them right off the cliff let me say this as clearly as possible

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let me say this as clearly as possible if there are riots tonight and it's planned by black lives matter to have a peaceful protest I get that part I know the plan is for peaceful but you know what's gonna happen you know what's gonna happen if you do it again tonight now that you know I'm out I'm out I will never do anything productive for the black community again period done will I ever hire a black person well in public I have to say yes don't I but black employment is done after tonight now if it stops tonight I think we can recover like if tonight goes well because I think the police are getting smarter there there may be joining in with the protesters you've seen some examples of that honestly the best thing the police could do is March with the protesters think about the best thing the police could do is actually just

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the police could do is actually just break up and March with the protesters why because then there would be a policeman or a police woman right where the looters are the looters and the police would be in the same place and then maybe they could do something or the police could say to the peaceful people hey those looters see way you can do try to talk them out of it just otherwise I have to arrest them I'm standing right here their looting right in front of me can you guys talk them out of this my help so tonight might go well it might maybe a little trouble maybe maybe we figure out how to do this but if we're watching more pictures of black people setting on fire breaking windows you're losing you're losing hard you're going right off the cliff I want to help you I want to I want to help white people want to help you've made the sale you

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help you've made the sale you made the sale stop it up who are your leaders let me tell you who your leaders are and I'm not sure this is anybody's fault it's sort of a default situation if you don't have a you know a real leader you end up following a podcaster right it's probably bad enough you listen to me but you might know that rush limbaugh again trying to help what is lish what is rush limbaugh trying to do today trying to help because he saw the video he says this is terrible how can I help rush limbaugh goes and seeks out the the best qualified voices to speak for the black community so he's got you know somebody who can speak with some weight he finds Charlamagne tha God and has a polite discussion with him which could have been great think about it and that could have been quite a moment rush limbaugh Charlamagne the great same side

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limbaugh Charlamagne the great same side same side all they had to do is find out what the two of them could do to move the ball forward so what happened instead rush limbaugh asked shall they mean the god what can be done what practical things can be done what what real practical things can be done what did Charlamagne tha God say to the question about what real things can be done he said that you have to I'm paraphrasing but this is pretty close you have to dismantle the entire system of white supremacy that's it you have to you have to dismantle the entire system of white supremacy Sharla being the god where's that button is there is there a lever that I pull because that's a little nonspecific it's worthless it's worthless it's just words there might be true words I'm not even

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there might be true words I'm not even saying if they're true or false they're worthless we're having riots shit's burning people are getting killed and Charlamagne the great the person that the black community at least some of them have turned to for some kind of a leadership voice the best he can do is dismantle the entire system of white supremacy yeah where do you start where do you start is it hiding under my couch do i do i do i vacuum under my couch do i kill somebody do i put somebody in jail do i change a law what does it mean useless useless useless oh my god here's what you should be doing now I'll take this out of here here's what you could be doing you should and advice are obnoxious words so I'm not gonna give advice and I'm not gonna say should I'll

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advice and I'm not gonna say should I'll take those words back because people have to make their own decisions what to do but here's the here's the information I will give you if you want to make the sale make things better change some things the President of the United States is waiting he's just waiting give him an idea what happened when somebody took to the president the United States the idea of prison reform he did it he did it he did it because it was a specific idea there was well thought out you know eventually they they figured out how to do it and then he signed it what better time would there be to come up with three to five specific suggestions take him to the president and say we don't know if these are the final things but these are the ones we want to focus on maybe work through it do a little more research you know do a test maybe but how about these five things where

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but how about these five things where are your five things you got you got you know like a million people marching in the street does anybody have a typewriter typewriter dating myself its ass everybody have a keyboard or a pencil to write something down you got some ideas write them down we'll take a look at them I will take a look and I will sell your idea for you in fact if you can't find a black leader who wasn't completely incompetent and obviously you haven't because everything that's happened in the last few days is nothing but incompetence and by the way I'd say the same thing about our government at the moment so it's not about black people it's is we have this weird leaderless situation who is the leader of Anti Fog mostly white people right who is the leader no no I have no idea they don't have a leader right they're a leaderless organization well so are the Democrats and so are the Republicans at the moment the whole country is leaderless if you need one uh happy to help I mean

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if you need one uh happy to help I mean I don't want to be the leader but I happen to help if you can find somebody who can bring some specific suggestions to the president I'll even go further I will guarantee that if you can give me three to five you know well thought-out ideas even even if they need some work I guarantee it will get to the White House guaranteed there's not even the slightest chance that won't happen all right so if you want to be helpful you've got a clear path you've got you've got a clear highway where everybody's agreeing they just need some specifics just give them some specifics something to wrestle with something to work on all right but if instead of that your leaders have decided to walk you off the cliff by having yet another night of nothing but video of black people committing crime because that's what's coming don't

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because that's what's coming don't expect any help in the future right just speaking for myself but one imagines that there are other people having similar feelings I've offered a lot I've taken a lot of from the right for even having a conversation with black lives matter all right how much did I get for just sitting down and talking to you no Hawk Newsom from black lives matter and see if we can figure out something that would be useful it turns out that Hawk Newsom was useless because he didn't want to he didn't want anything that was useful in the end he just liked the issue so he was addicted to the issue he was not committed to any kind of solutions at least that's my opinion after working with him but I took the chance I took the personal risk of working with black lives matter to try to help because I thought I could there was no interest in solutions that I could find really couldn't couldn't find any interest in solutions and in fact

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any interest in solutions and in fact that was somewhat confirmed by my interaction there you know I heard from some behind-the-scenes stuff that the worst thing that could happen is a solution right because they need the issue not the not the solution so let me say it as clearly as possible tonight's the last night tonight's the last night if burns up tonight if windows are broken tonight I don't care if I empty Phi held the hammer if black lives matter organized protests anti-fog shows up with a hammer I'm out and and I don't know if I could get back in but if you want to walk off the cliff tonight's the night so let's see how incompetent your leaders are tonight see if you follow them walk right off the cliff go ahead because this is this is the biggest mistake the black community has ever made by far by far

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community has ever made by far by far nothing's even close so I wanted to do that give that little bit of context that I won't call advice because that's presumptuous you really need to know how white people think if that's who you're trying to persuade and I believe that's the problem right you are trying to persuade white people you're not trying to persuade yourself if you want to persuade white people I just told you how stop selling past the clothes give us some suggestions we're ready all right I'm just repeating myself now I'll leave it at that I'll probably be canceled in an hour and I will talk to you well I don't know if I'll ever talk to you again