Episode 1015 Scott Adams: Let’s Watch the Peaceful Protestors Have a Polite Chat With De Blasio

Date: 2020-06-03 | Duration: 33:27

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• Riots, looting and potential solutions

• CNN hasn’t reported murder of David Dorn

• Biden proposes shooting people in the legs

• Washington Post’s conflict of interest

• Governor Cuomo calls Mayor De Blasio weak

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hey everybody oh you thought you could get rid of me no no it turns out there’s a new crisis new crisis new periscope and I have to admit though that wasn’t going to go live tonight I told you I was gonna phase out after June 1st I wasn’t gonna go live tonight but I saw on Twitter that somebody was looking forward to it tonight and I thought Oh somebody’s actually looking forward to it I thought well I can’t really not do it now so here I am so let’s talk about some of the things I saw but first of all the clips we’re seeing on the news I’ve got all the news nailed up so I’ve got CNN I’m watching and Fox News over there so I can sort of keep keep an eye on but they don’t seem to show any of the good stuff let me notice that the good stuff meaning anything that’s actually in the action there they’re all standing behind police lines so I

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standing behind police lines so I thought I saw on Twitter that the crowd was marching toward Bill de Blasio’s residence is that true and it’s a peaceful crowd right why would a peaceful crowd need to go to Bill de Blasio’s residence right doesn’t Bill de Blasio support them even more even more than they support themselves why would they be going to his place just because he’s the only the only thing in town I don’t know speaking of town I just did a little tour of my town just drove through to see if there’s any damage yet and some of the local shop owners apparently you don’t watch the news that much because they put up the the big wood plywood over the windows so that part’s good so they’ve watched the news enough to

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so they’ve watched the news enough to know that their storefronts are at risk and so some of them have boarded up well here’s the funny part which tells me they don’t watch the news they decided to be extra safe so they spray-painted on their own plywood that they support black lives matter and just very pro black lives matter so the whole storefront is like Pro black lives matter to which I say I don’t think they’ve been watching the news that’s what happens when you only watch a little bit of news if you watch a little bit of news you think I got it I’ll just say I’m on their side that should work now I happen to see this immediately after watching a little viral video you can see it in my Twitter feed from tonight of there was this young white kid he looked like maybe a college student you know roughly that age xx 20 ish maybe and he’s looking at a window of what looks to be his

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a window of what looks to be his apartment I think it’s in New York City but I’m not sure an urban area and he’s watching the protesters go by and he might be I know 2nd or 3rd floor or something and he’s looking out the window with his phone and everything and he’s he’s thumbs up because he’s very pro protesters he believes in their cause he’s like thumbs up guys thumbs up but he’s he’s filming with his camera as he’s filming one of the protesters turns and hurls a brick through the window right next to him Shh it just breaks the whole window and he’s like what the what the hell and he runs back to the window that’s not yet broken and he’s trying to plead with the protesters of course can’t hearing him he’s just a white guy in the window and he’s like I’m on your side I’m on your supp and about the second time you said I’m on your side you see what are the other protesters reached back and you think to yourself no this isn’t gonna be

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think to yourself no this isn’t gonna be as good as I hope it is visit because that first protester had a really good arm I mean it couldn’t have been that easy to hit the exact window he was he was aiming for from from the street it wasn’t an easy shot there was though some distance involved and I see this other process to reach back and I’m thinking no probably not it goes right through the window that the guy with the that the guy with the thumbs up now it looked like it didn’t hurt him you know I wouldn’t be laughing if he got hurt but watching watching the protesters or whoever the looters I don’t know whoever but they were in that they were in the line of the protesters but but watching them take out one of their own was the funniest thing you’ll ever see in your life because and this is the point the guy the guy in the window who was doing a thumbs-up he thought that siding with them wouldn’t matter he thought that would

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wouldn’t matter he thought that would matter the people in my town they also think that it matters whose side they’re on on mmm no it matters if you have a big window if you don’t have a big window you might be okay if you have a big window and they happen to be nearby it doesn’t really matter what side you’re on and if you’ve missed that you’ve missed the show so I was trying to think of all the things that could solve this problem now the the conventional wisdom is that the only way to solve it is with massive but nonviolent means meaning lots of arrests and presence and maybe some tear gas maybe some water I don’t know whatever they use these days but not not deadly force but I don’t know I see something else is on fire in New York City

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York City but I don’t know exactly if that’s going to work thanks la gen I only came out here because I saw your tweet and so what could possibly stop it well maybe it could be this massive application of force but it seems to me that the anti-fog can simply reconstitute as often as it wants so there’s kind of like a terrorist group it wouldn’t matter if you caught one of the cells there would just be another cell tomorrow so I don’t know that you could ever use nonviolent means to stop it because they don’t care about any of that none of that seems to be even even slightly you know influenced them so what else can you do you can wait it out if you wait it out though I would imagine they would just pick town after

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imagine they would just pick town after town after town and get rid of them but you know I always say that life is not a slippery slope the things only slip until there’s a counter force and there’s always a counter force it’s what we’re waiting for is a counter force now it could be that the counter force is the US military it could be but of course I you know that there needs to be some coordination with the locals but it could be that we just send in lots of scary-looking soldiers again non-violently and the show of force is enough but I don’t think it would be because wouldn’t they just plan another another one later in a different place so I don’t see that working either so what would work you can imagine some charismatic leader on the left talking people down can’t you know you can’t you can’t think of that at all there’s nobody on the left who would have the

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nobody on the left who would have the ability and the willingness to talk them out of it you know and just say hey you know so even Oprah I don’t think Oprah can do it at this point it’s beyond all of that so they can’t be talked out of it and they and they can’t be convinced with non-lethal force and because I’m on a public social network certainly not going to advocate violence so let me say that as clearly as possible I don’t advocate violence but predicting violence is different and I believe that all problems go until people decide to take whatever steps are necessary to solve it and that’s probably going to be violent I can’t see another option so again I’m not promoting violence I’m predicting now there are a few ways that this can go the the lowest loss of life would be to kill one person in spectacular fashion

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kill one person in spectacular fashion I don’t think that’s going to happen right and I don’t promote it I’m just saying that that could work you could imagine for example a vigilante sniper imagine a vigilante sniper who just takes out looters but nobody else if a vigilante sniper and again I hope this doesn’t happen but you have to assume that violence is down the road there’s going to be a violent response we don’t know what nature it would take but we hope it takes the nature if it takes any at all you’d rather it didn’t take any violent nature at all but if that has to happen because of the other ways just can’t work there just systemically they’re impossible to work because the other side has a response to everything so if violence is the only solution in the end you want it to be the smallest amount what would be the smallest amount probably a sniper ideally a sniper who

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probably a sniper ideally a sniper who has never caught now here’s the weird part about this if you remember there was once a you know some citizen sniper who is just killing people randomly years ago and it was like the biggest problem in the country like it practically shut down the country because people didn’t want to go anywhere because it was actually some crazy sniper on the loose but so it’s you know it’s a big problem you don’t want a crazy sniper and lose but here’s the weird thing as Michael Knowles said on his video I think it was this morning he said who knew that protests would cure coronavirus way who knew that and the weird thing is that it really did take one disaster it didn’t really cure it but you know what I mean in the jokes and secured it and I saw a report I don’t know if it’s verified yet that there were some pipe bombs hidden for for use later tonight at one of the

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for for use later tonight at one of the locations now what if that’s true there were pipe bombs do you think those pipe bombs were only meant to kill whoever they wanted to kill or only meant to blow up a building if there are multiple pipe bombs a bunch of innocent protesters are going to get killed just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time it kind of stands to reason if you have enough people and enough pipe bombs innocent people get killed now that could be the wake-up call it could be that there’s an accident by some of the bad actors that kill too many of the people who were marching with them and then it just changes the narrative instantly so that would be a much larger loss of life so you hope that one doesn’t happen of course or any of the ones they have loss of life what else could do it in Islamic terror attack could get it done again I’m not

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could get it done again I’m not promoting an Islamic terror attack obviously but if Islamic terrorists said oh this is the perfect time to attack because there’s so many people in one place and you know there’s police there it’s just sort of the perfect place if it happened you hope it doesn’t it would solve the protests so it would be this weird situation of of like one you know one horrible thing could solve the other horrible but then you gotta solve the next horrible thing and he can only solve that with another horrible thing so it’s a weird dimension we’re in we’re only horrible things are solutions but they create their own problems I don’t know does anybody know what the death count is so far from the protests do you know the death count the death count I only know I know of two african-american men who were killed one

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african-american men who were killed one in Omaha and a security guard somewhere else so we know that at least two black men in America died while protesters were protesting what because we all agree now let me ask you this are the protesters protesting for justice I haven’t heard that I don’t think the protesters are protesting for justice they’re gonna say that of course but when you’re talking about the other three cops and they need them to be arrested and tried or there will be no peace I don’t think they’re asking for justice because if they were asking for justice it would look more like this all right if you’re not going to charge these guys you need to explain why I mean it really needs to be good but if it’s explained and the evidence is available to the public and the public sees it and they say to themselves oh I

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sees it and they say to themselves oh I really want those other three cops to be charged but I also wouldn’t want to be charged with evidence this week if it were me so it looks like there’s a setup here where the only thing that can fix and unfair let’s say justice slash police system is another unfair justice slash police system in which people in this case the three cops who are not charged and again this is speculative because we don’t know all the evidence but just work with me through the thinking of this it looks like the only thing that would stop the protesters is to arrest people who you would not arrest if not for the protests meaning people for whom the evidence is too weak to bring a successful case even if you think they’re they’re up to no good or they did something bad if you wouldn’t charge

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did something bad if you wouldn’t charge regular people under regular circumstances with evidence this week if we do go ahead and charge these three cops for the purpose of social social cohesion we will fused really a gigantic injustice again justice meaning using our legal system in a consistent way it’s not the kind of justice that people are thinking of this more revenge II that’s that’s the justice they’re thinking of but if you’re being consistent treating everybody the same under the law those three people probably would not be charged if not for this situation so if they do get charged and that’s the only way to defuse this thing it will be one of the greatest tragedies in American justice under the assumption that there’s a reason they weren’t charged in the first place we haven’t heard the argument so I’m

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haven’t heard the argument so I’m getting ahead of myself a little bit they might get charged and it might come out later that there was such a good reason that we haven’t heard in other words evidence we haven’t heard not reason we haven’t heard but evidence we’ll see but so far the the peaceful protesters have killed several people and injured fifty people at the White House so you would have to say that their credibility is sort of a zero wish at this point would you murder Hornets somebody suggesting the murder the murder ordinance our only solution it’s not a bad idea there’s a theater article a number of murder Horne that would clear any city street and then maybe the Hornets die anyway because they don’t have much to eat in the city huh you know the fun not the funny thing but the the frustrating

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funny thing but the the frustrating thing about this is the the reason it’s not already solved obviously the reason it’s not already solved is that nobody knows the solution nobody knows what if we new ones I don’t even do it so whatever the solution is probably gonna be ugly and I’d be really amazed if there’s not a lot of deaths tonight speaking of deaths again we’re not hoping that happens just in case anybody’s wondering about that so it looks like the protesters are going to willing willfully ignore the curfew which guarantees that the looters come in behind them does that be lots of cover and they’ll outnumber the police so CNN is reporting that there are fine people marching with the looters and the domestic terrorists do you think that fine people could ever be marching with looters and domestic terrorists because in this case they’re actually marching with them in the case of the Charlottesville find people hoax the

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Charlottesville find people hoax the fighting people weren’t actually marching they were just showed up as soon as they showed up the cop said you can’t be here and they he heard it away so that so the president didn’t know but they didn’t get to do much protesting all right so and I I swear I thought I imagined it but I turned on CNN and I think they were trying to blame it on right-wing white supremacists that’s really happening right am i imagining the CNN is trying to put this on right-wing operatives that is just the craziest like ever now it could be that there are a number of outside people but if there were many far-right agitators there I’d be certainly surprised very surprised apparently Trump’s disapproval level hit an all-time high for any than ever so he’s got that record the

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than ever so he’s got that record the most disapproval of any president ever now I think you’ve heard a number of people say this that this situation has lost a lot of support and I’ve been very critical of it as well but it’s not over this will be judged by things that haven’t happened yet so let me say that again how history and voters judge what’s going on with the protest will be entirely based on things I haven’t happened yet David Doran is the African American gentleman who got murdered is that is that correct David Doran there’s there’s some social media action around the fact that CNN won’t report it at all how would you like to be work at CNN and know that it’s widely reported that a african-american man was killed during looting that came with these protests and they’re not reporting it how would

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and they’re not reporting it how would you like to work for that Network and know that a black may have gotten murdered but because he was a policeman it didn’t get reported or he was a security guard I think how could you work for that network I mean wouldn’t you be like updating your page every minute and say okay I know I’m working for a network that tells real news because people work there probably believe that and they’re like I know they’re gonna report this and then you refresh your screen and nope nope what do you do how do you how do you explain that away do you just say oh I guess that’s not the news no I don’t know how you rationalize that Joe Biden had a good solution for training the police to have less violent or less fatal interactions his idea that the pleas should be trained to wing a suspect in the leg if the suspect is coming at them with a knife so so that’s Joe Biden’s a

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with a knife so so that’s Joe Biden’s a very constructive suggestion we’ll retrain the police to be leg shooters and I’m thinking they would have to they might have to change out some of the targets at the target range because the legs a little smaller than a torso so you’re gonna wanna you’re gonna want to put like just a leg up there so it should be maybe just a leg and a foot and that would be your target and of course when you shoe you don’t want to somebody for life duh so you’re gonna have to go to the target range and practice shooting around the perimeter of the leg just see a Wingham now Joe Biden thinks that that’s a perfectly practical plan and I think it could be no I I think that you’re mocking him too quickly because you’re probably thinking to yourself Scott it’s kind of hard to hear the leg of somebody who’s running at you with a knife and wing them maybe I’d go for the torso it’s a bigger target but I don’t think you’re thinking in terms of actual tactics if you’re

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in terms of actual tactics if you’re trying to hit the edge of somebody’s leg who is running at you with a knife you don’t want to aim at the edge because I wouldn’t give you enough margin for error just a little bit off to the left you miss entirely so if you’re trying to shoot somebody in the legs and they’re coming at you you want to aim for their balls because if you aim for the balls and you’re a little bit off left or right you’re still gonna get a little leg if you have to be a really good shot well you get the balls and that will that will certainly slow them down and my understanding of medical literature is that that will make them less aggressive in the future so the Joe Biden plan for shooting protesters in the leg which really game for the balls because you don’t want that you don’t want to miss on the left of the right is a pretty good suggestion I think that could work all right I can’t remember if I talked about this this morning but

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I talked about this this morning but it’s just blowing my mind so I’m going to say it again so Jeff Bezos as you know owns not only Amazon but the Washington Post The Washington Post if I assume like most left-leaning anti-trump publications might be a little bit forgiving to the violence that we’re seeing just assuming is a coincidence that Jeff Bezos Amazon just is watching on television and his news Oregon news reporting the complete destruction of Amazon’s competitors Amazon just watched and reported on all of its competition being destroyed so I don’t give you investment advice and you really really should not take investment advice from me I’m just gonna tell you this because it’s part of the story not investment advice when the riot started and I and I

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advice when the riot started and I and I saw that anti-fog was targeting storefronts I took every dollar of cash I had and bought Amazon stock which I also bought at the bottom of the of the crisis the coronaviruses now I’m not saying I’m proud of it I’m and again I’m not recommending it because tomorrow you know but buying one stock is never a good idea just in general but I only put in an amount amount of money that I can afford to lose and I thought I think Amazon’s gonna pull this off I think Amazon is actually going to destroy all retail business on earth and it’s just going to look like they were reporting on it I think he’s going to pull this off it will be the greatest move of any entrepreneur ever pure evil of course but now one is who I’m only

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of course but now one is who I’m only being a little bit hyper hyperbolic here in the sense that he is actually making money by watching all of his competitors being destroyed because he’s got that he’s got the Washington Post you know I don’t think it was a plan I think that would be going too far it’s going too far to say was a plan but one wonders how hard the washington post is going to try to stop it given that if they stop it their parent company makes a lot less money now of course you assume they’re all good people so they’re they’re conscious intentions would all be right I believe that’s true I don’t think there’s anybody working for The Washington Post maybe a few few of the opinion peace people but generally speaking there’s nobody there as bad intentions so I don’t think they you know plan to be part of an evil plot to destroy retail businesses and enrich

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to destroy retail businesses and enrich Amazon but it’s happening I mean they didn’t ask to be there I’m sure but that’s happening and could this conflict of interest which is the most extreme conflict I’ve ever seen let me ask you this have you ever seen more conflict of interest than that that’s about the most conflict of interest you’ll ever see are you puzzled that the stock market is reaching new highs even as America is burning are you puzzled by why the complete decimation of retail stores in urban areas is not even bothering the the stock market a little bit does that make sense to you do you have a little theory in your head why we’re watching on the news the complete destruction of the retail and

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complete destruction of the retail and restaurants and basically everything in urban areas that that’s on the ground floor and the stock market is up how do you explain that have you thought about that I mean that’s really sort of a puzzle so I’ve been thinking about that today and I have some speculation I mean I don’t think I know what’s going on but let me toss out a few ideas one idea is that the stock market is now a safe place to put money in other words if you were to look at all the places that you could park your money to be safe you could put it in the bank I don’t know our banks the safest place for money not over a certain amount how about buying gold it’s worked out a number of times but with digital currency in Bitcoin and China’s got their own digital currency is gold

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their own digital currency is gold always gonna be the place you want to go to for safety maybe maybe not but what about the stock market of the United States I think that investors are using the strategy that that I took on back in 2008 and nine when the economy went in the toilet and it looked like everything was just going to be over that’s my door - so we get that a little bit so anyway the point is let me just make sure there’s not somebody standing out there waiting for me all right no good oh yeah stocks so the point is that it could be that investors are thinking the following if if the if the US stock market goes down in other words the economy in general it doesn’t matter where your money is you’re just you’re just in trouble so it could be that the

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just in trouble so it could be that the US stock market has been so resilient for so long that it just looks like the safest place to put money so used to be a dangerous place but now interest rates are basically zero what probably makes a big difference the interest rates are zero so there’s no place else to put money that’s both safe and could make a little interest and stuff so that’s weird the other the other possibility is even more shocking and let me just I’ll just run it by you retail stores are now Cerie could be take for example you know a an ordinary brand store can’t they sell as much as they want online I’m not sure the stores even make money because eventually the you know eventually the the landlord eats all of the profits of the retail any kind of a retail storefront is going to be marginally

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storefront is going to be marginally profitable at best so one of the things that might have happened is that smart investors the people who drive the markets the most they may have said to themselves we didn’t lose anything because that’s what the markets kind of saying the market is kind of saying that every one of those storefronts didn’t have economic value they might not be wrong so they had lots of economic value in terms of giving people jobs but I don’t know that they were profitable and the the stock market doesn’t care so much if the retail worker lost a job but they would certainly care if profits go up or down for the for the parent company so that’s just speculating but it’s kind of a puzzle of why the stock market is so resilient I’m glad it is apparently Cuomo is smack-talking de Blasio for being weak weakness apparently is not working and we will find out tonight how far this goes so my

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find out tonight how far this goes so my prediction is that ultimately violence is going to happen you don’t want it to happen but it’s probably the only way we get to the other side you hope that the violence does not come from the police if the violence came from our military it would go down a lot better wouldn’t it if any of the police kill a looter it just worse doesn’t matter what the situation is it’s just worse if a US military person takes out a looter what are you gonna do what are you gonna do if the US military takes out a looter because let’s say let’s say they brandish but none came at him or something what are you gonna do I feel like the US military has so much credibility that people would just people just live with it I think I think they just live with it so it could be that the military would need to show some tragic tragic toughness let’s say something that you

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toughness let’s say something that you wouldn’t want anybody to do but it might happen anyway all right that’s all I got for now if that’s all I got for now and we’ll talk to you in the morning