Episode 1018 Scott Adams: Employment, News NOT Covering Protests, Biden Hates Us and More

Date: 2020-06-05 | Duration: 52:50

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• Dismantle police departments?

• News coverage is an accelerant

• MSM reporting, changes how people act

• Prank: White women shaving heads to support BLM

• Kamala Harris versus Rand Paul on anti-lynching bill

• Writers and artists who struggle with critical thinking

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good morning everybody how are you it's great to see you it's now the second day of the Golden Age a lot of people don't know we're in it but it started two days ago you saw the jobs report we'll talk about all that in a minute but first what's the best part of the day yeah that's right the simultaneous it and all you need is a cover of our glass of tanker Challenger Stein a canteen jerker flask a vessel of any kind to fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything bled better it cured the pandemic it's making employment go up and tensions are going down join me now the simultaneous epic go yep I can feel those storefronts being repaired and people hogging all

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being repaired and people hogging all over the place well let's talk about some of the things so you've you've come to believe now that we're all living in their own little bubbles our own different realities and still every time you see a stark example of living in your own little bubble reality it's always funny and worth calling out so yesterday afternoon I was spending some time trying to figure out a specific plan to help inner-city black to school roofs yeah but the students not the nutless room but the students so I'm literally spending my own free time and offering my own money reputation everything to help inner-city black students just tell you the truth and that I get on Twitter and I open up Twitter it's

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on Twitter and I open up Twitter it's like you're a racist you're a racist stop your racist BS you're a racist well what a non racist look like now I bet there wasn't one of my critics yesterday who did anything useful for anybody much less the black community so I have more to tell you about what I'm cooking up it won't be big it'll just be a little test but it could be interesting here's something that I don't think people understand and it's one of the biggest was one of the biggest realizations you'll ever have you ready here's one of the most useful reframing z' of your reality you'll ever have you control other people when they're in the room with you yeah if they're in the same place with you you control how they feel and how they act

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control how they feel and how they act now until you know that you're a victim your victim because you're your you have no control over anything the world is bad and people are bad and they're doing things to you and you're just a victim but the moment you learn that you're the one in charge of how other people feel and how they act that's the moment you're afraid now the your specific examples are if the police stop you you can control that police officer if there's somebody who's bad to your work you can control that person if they're in the room with you right you can't control them when they're somewhere else and the way you do that is understanding that people are imitation machines we imitate we pick up what other people are feeling and doing and then we just imitate it so if you walk into a room and you're angry ah I'm angry ten some angry what is it immediately

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ten some angry what is it immediately due to all the other people in the roof make some tents might even make him angry let's say you're laughing and you're in a great mood and you're just coming to the room with your great mood what to do to the other people it puts them in a better mood what do you do when a policeman walks up to you and you act a little bit aggressive what do you do to the policeman you make him aggressive no he didn't walk up to you aggressive you made him aggressive what happens if you what happens if you walk if a police officer stops you and you've got your hands on the top of the wheel showing that you respect the police officers safety and your own because that's what it means when you're showing your hands so you're keeping people safe and suppose you turn to that officer and said good morning officer what could we do today to keep us both safe what happens if the first thing you say to a policeman who walks up to you no matter

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policeman who walks up to you no matter who you are or why you stopped you good morning officer what can we do to keep us both safe today how is it gonna go does that person ever get this beat out of them no I mean maybe you could test it to just see I don't even think you need to test it if you want to not get the beat out of you by the police I
controlling them now if you think you can't do that it's because you don't have the tools and the tools are easy the first part of the tool is to understand that you can do it if you don't understand that then nothing else matters you'll just think you can't do it practice it practice it in a small way and watch it work just pick a situation and go in and see if you can change the mood in the room which would of course change how people act if you don't believe it just test it

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act if you don't believe it just test it in your own life it's easy going to have any interactions with any person and just say to yourself I wonder if I could make this person's mood and therefore their actions change and that just changed yourself and watch them follow it's really it's really easy to do once you've done it enough times you realize it's a real thing and then and then realizing it is the first step to getting out of a victimhood all right here's a here's something I need people to understand and I tweeted this if you protest against people who are disagreeing with you your protestor that's what it means right you're protesting as people disagree with you and you might have some really good points protesters most of the time have good points I would say 80% of the time I agree with the protesters no matter where they are because I usually have some good points but if you protest

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some good points but if you protest against people who agree with you and want to work with you then you're not really a protestor because the whole protest thing has to have something to protest against which has to be people because you don't protest against bad luck you don't protest against bad events what would what would that do because it's already happened so you don't you know protest about something that happened exactly the point of the protest that might be the trigger of course the George Floyd death was the trigger but what are you protesting against who exactly is on the other side so it's a silly protest in the sense that everybody is willing to be productive as you just have to ask you just have to have a good idea something you might

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have a good idea something you might want to test it turns out that one of the things that a number of the left-leaning cities want to test is dismantling the arrow defunding the police department I think I speak for everybody who's not a left-leaning Democrat when I say sure sure give it a try take a run at it now I mean that completely seriously unlike probably a hundred percent of you watching this unlike you I think you probably could in some situation not every situation but in some situations I'll bet you could replace the police department with some other mechanism not every time most of the time it would be a gigantic mistake but it does seem like there are some creative ways you could do that let me give you an example if

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do that let me give you an example if you had far more connected let's say neighborhood watch more more security more more citizens willing to get directly involved you could imagine some combination of things where the citizens in some ways replace some things that police were doing and that's not that's not crazy it's actually not it sounds crazy when you first you hear it oh there's rioting and looting in crime let's get rid of the police like it sounds crazy when you first hear it and it's got to be crazy probably for most places in most situations it's crazy because the criminals of course would take advantage but I think I think it's at least worth exploring a situation where you replace police with some other mechanism somebody says community but you need you need more than community you need

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need more than community you need connections you need organization you need some kind of technology I say give it a try give it a try what I wouldn't do is dismantle police in all the major cities you know next week that wouldn't be a good idea yeah somebody says vigilantes there might actually be a vigilante answer to it who knows maybe vigilantes are part of the solution in some cases so I'm gonna be consistent and say if there's anything that can be tested small and this is a perfect example if you would find just the right size let's say a small city and just test it you know you'd have to come up with a pretty concrete plan I'm not talking about just dismantling the police and seeing what happens I'm talking about having a real plan for something that would replace some aspects of the police try now I'm

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some aspects of the police try now I'm totally on board with that I just wouldn't I wouldn't go big all at once and I probably wouldn't do it in Minneapolis first seems like a sort of a big place all right if everybody is on the same side what exactly are the protesters protesting if you ever ask yourself that if everybody agrees I don't think there's anybody who disagrees with the idea that we should be talking about some specific solutions to reduce the actual and perceived because perception matters for these things to reduce the actual and perceived police abuse everybody's open to that I think if everybody's open the conversation and there's still lots of protesting it's kind of turned into a protest against white people by white people mostly am I wrong it feels like

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people mostly am I wrong it feels like the protest is a protest against white people largely by other white people who are protesting the awfulness of white people I mean it looks like that if we're not talking about specific things that we can change with the police then what are we there for it just sort of turned into this gigantic white people are bad and they should stop being bad thing I don't know so that's what it looks like it turned into I don't think that was the point
I did another thing that would get me canceled probably pretty soon and a tweeted this the from a persuasion perspective only so we're only talking about the tools of persuasion here the phrase black lives matter is one of the biggest branding mistakes I've ever seen probably in all of history I think black lives matter as a rallying cry is maybe

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lives matter as a rallying cry is maybe the biggest mistake in persuasion that I've ever seen you know the size of it is immense if you don't see why you're gonna see it in a moment when I tell you and as soon as I tell you you're gonna slap yourself in the head and you're gonna say oh my god you're right you're ready here it goes why is your goal just a matter just a matter I think you need to aim higher because you know what I don't know anybody who wants black people simply to matter like even people who are not black would rather that they frought that they thrive wouldn't you like to see your black neighbors your black friends your black co-workers not just matter for godsakes matter that is the lowest goal I've ever seen anybody set and I think you already matter so

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set and I think you already matter so setting a goal this low and honestly it's already been exceeded there's nobody who really thinks that black people don't matter that's that's not a real thing I mean I've never seen anybody you thought we had that point of view have you ever seen anybody have that point of view I literally never met anybody who thought black people don't matter I was that even the thing so persuasion wise and again nobody's going to nobody should take this as advice I'm not black can't get inside your heads don't don't want to imagine I could appreciate your situation I think that's it's disrespectful frankly to think that you can know anybody else's thinking it works both ways but just from a persuasion perspective so it's not even political it's not even it's not racial it's not anything it's just persuasion just as a tool you couldn't have picked a worst

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tool you couldn't have picked a worst solution it's just the worst one I've ever seen it just shoots so low alright so I tell you that as sort of a persuasion lesson they won't change anything for you know what's happening today the virtual news blackout continues on it's a total blackout on real coverage of the bad events because we know there are some scuffles and some problems with the protests but they're completely not being covered by the mainstream news I don't know that that's a bad thing so I'm not going to criticize that because it looks like people have realized that the news coverage is an accelerant and we don't need an accelerant on something that's already burning so fast it might be too hard to control so it appears that the news business has made some kind of a I don't know if it's independent independently they all decided I don't know if they talked

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decided I don't know if they talked about it I don't know if the government asked them because that would be my guess if I had to guess what's going on I don't have to but I will I'm gonna guess then maybe the government said a news business please cover the news but just be aware that what you focus on is what is driving emotions so it's one thing to say you know here are stats three people got injured last night etc statistics don't really Drive emotions but there's still the news and we still need to know so give us the information but the things you show the visuals of the things you run and Clips the things you your opinion people talk about incessantly that becomes the active part of the news that's what drives people to protest to feel bad to be racist or not racist and those are the things that are driving people and

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the things that are driving people and it's obvious that they've stopped doing it and they stop doing it at the same time both the left and the right and here's the interesting thing about that it's a complete recognition that the news can cause insurrection think about it the news would not have suddenly stopped covering the news meaning the the worst parts of the protests the the violent parts they wouldn't have done that unless they knew that the nature of the news changes how people act so it's it's sort of a stark admission that they know they're brainwashing the masses and they wanted to pull back on the brainwashing because they've gone too far that's exactly what happened the news business realized that the brainwashing had gone too far and they pulled back think about that it's you live in a brainwash society in

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it's you live in a brainwash society in which you're pretty much all of the opinions of the public are assigned to them by the media they watch if you don't believe that opinions are assigned to people have a conversation with a person see if you could find a person who has an opinion that they didn't get from some media source good luck all of our opinions coincidentally just match some media source that happens to be a preferred media source if you think that's a coincidence then you probably think it's also a coincidence that people have the same religion as their parents mostly is it because people grew up and look at their parents choice of religion and said to themselves you know I've looked at all the options and my parents nailed it I'm just I'm gonna do what they did I'm so glad that my parents got the right religion and yet all over the world people have been saying the same things and coming to different conclusions well it's not

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different conclusions well it's not because you've thought about it that's not how it works although some some people it's true but for 80% of the world they didn't really do research they just accepted what was handed to
youtuber Jake Paul if you don't know him very famous youtuber has been charged with criminal trespass and unlawful assembly so he was one of the protesters and followed the looters into a mall in Scottsdale Arizona and you know I guess he was taking video from inside the mall so he's being charged what do you think of that do you think a youtuber who was not looting himself but did follow looters in and he was certainly someplace that the property owner would not have wanted him to be should he be charged for that I say yes I say yes I don't know if you've heard

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I say yes I don't know if you've heard but there's a movement for the the women who are supporting black lives matter not necessarily black women but you know the the protesters in general to shave their heads so there's movement for the women to shave their heads to show their solidarity with the black lives matter of course this is a prank I think it started on 4chan or something so it's just a total prank made by people of the right but stick sacks of hammer 666 yep sure mostly you follow him on YouTube as well or wherever it is bish ute I'm not sure where he's broadcasting from these days but maybe both he tweets I strongly support the entirely organic go bald for black lives matter movement and and he left us now following suit should be shamed so it's pretty funny

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shamed so it's pretty funny the the political pranks tourism I always appreciate all right here's something as you might imagine because the protests and the George Floyd tragic death that the topic of this lynching legislation anti lynching legislation has come up so I guess Cory Booker and comel Harris are pushing that Rand Paul Rand Paul actually had the stones so Rand Paul actually had the stones to publicly oppose a lynching bill during the race right I don't know Iran maybe maybe you should have read the room a little bit better I've told you I have told you the thing I like best about Rand Paul is that Rand Paul does not care what you think he

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Paul does not care what you think he really doesn't care what you think he's just gonna do what he thinks is consistent with his you know his philosophy but watching him be be the only person opposing an anti-lynching bill during a race riot that takes a lot of guts because you have nobody in the world is going to take him nobody's gonna take his argument seriously and I don't even know what his argument is because it doesn't matter he's nobody's gonna listen to it anyway but I think his argument has something to do with the fact that the law already has plenty of you know plenty of penalties if you lynched somebody you're gonna be punished pretty hard you know so maybe you don't need like extra a little extra on that so that's his point I'm not agreeing or disagree with it I'm just saying it's hilarious that you would that he would have the guts to make that point unprincipled during a during these

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point unprincipled during a during these times but here's the bigger story so commonly Harris got her moment you know she had a moment because she spoke apparently passionately against Rand Paul's point of view but here's the interesting part so a long time ago I don't know how many months ago this was I made the following weird prediction I said that calmly Harris is one of the worst public speakers I've ever seen I mean she's the worst campaigner just talking impromptu in public isn't just terrible and I predicted that when she dropped out of the race that she would not only come back as a vice presidential pick by Biden but there would be another element to it and that she would be coached to being really good and it would happen kind of suddenly sort of suddenly like if you watch American Idol you watch these people who don't have any

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these people who don't have any professionalism per se but they have some talent as singing and then the coaches and the professionals who work with the show start working with the ones who are going to make it to the top ten and the top ten start getting better-looking and they just improve like really quickly because they had raw talent but then they got coached by really good professionals and you just see this dramatic change they become just better-looking more charisma just everything's better and it happens kind of suddenly and I predicted that that would happen to come Harris that she would get world-class coaching and that there would be this fairly quick improvement and I think you could see it in her response yesterday so I watched it with the sound off which is a really good thing to do with the sound off it looks like she cured all of her jumpiness problems because I for those of you who are watching she used

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those of you who are watching she used to do this jumpy shoulder thing she'd be talking and she'd be like you know she'd be her body language was all nervous and unconfident and it was just basically a mess and that I watched her with the sound off yesterday and it was really good it was really good she went from ad - in terms of just the let's say the visual part of her speaking everything from her style to the clothes she wears to her body language and all of it just went to a-plus it went to a plus really quickly so yeah now we haven't seen if she stopped the snickering says somebody said in the comments because she does the thing where she laughs nervously now it could be that it was the topic that kept her serious so she didn't have a nervous laugh cuz she was it looked like she was

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laugh cuz she was it looked like she was really in the moment you know and she probably knew she was she was having a big big moment in her career so she maybe didn't have the opportunity to giggle at her own jokes it just wasn't a time when anybody would do that so we don't know if she's cured that but I'll bet she has for the same reason it looks like a professional is involved all right yes we're going to talk about employment let's talk about that now so the employment level unexpectedly was pretty good pretty good compared to what people thought it would be so it turns out that we added jobs what we added jobs things actually looked up last week I told you it was the Golden Age the violence from the protests practically gone disagreement about racism not much everybody is on the same team if we could just stop marching and have some

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could just stop marching and have some ideas to play with and the economy the economy is looking strong stock markets up so we have this weird situation where it looks like the end of the world and things have never been better things have never been better it looks like the end of the world now what I say that things have never been better obviously the economy was better a few months ago and stuff like that but the situation were in has never been better because just breaking everything breaking all of our old assumption breaking a lot of our economic models it's gonna unleash a lot of good stuff because we had to shake the box before we could really make some big changes it looks like that's happening so joe biden said that 10 to 15 percent of americans are quote not very good people so I

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are quote not very good people so I think BuzzFeed put that at approximately 50 million people so there are 50 million people who Joe Biden thinks not very good even the New York Times turned out and for that because you can't really be the president of the whole country and say that 50 million of them sort of suck especially if I'm in that category all right so here's what I tweeted I said Joe Biden wants to be the president of all Americans not just the 50 million people like me who says Biden are not very good people on the plus side Biden will train police to only shoot me in the leg and that feels like a step in the right direction if I could walk so I don't know if this will make any difference it feels like the kind of thing that moves elections you know I was asked earlier this morning what I thought of Trump's new campaign commercials if you haven't seen that

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commercials if you haven't seen that there's new Trump campaign commercial which is very respectful to George Floyd says every right word about bringing us together and uniting and all that so it's a Trump commercial that hits every right note for that you know the political mood the mood of the country etc won't move the dial a bit because there's no no Democrats gonna watch that commercial you would watch the first five seconds and you say about because it's Trump so I don't know if political ads make any difference except to the base and I don't think it changes the bases mind because there's nothing new from the base it's sort of where everybody already was so I don't know I don't think political commercials in this climate make any difference but Joe Biden saying that 50 million people are not very good that

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million people are not very good that could change an election that could move the needle I did I do think the Hillary's deplorable comments at the very least increased increased people showing up on the conservative side all right New York City witnessed 0 confirmed deaths from coronavirus on Wednesday zero deaths from coronavirus on Wednesday what what I've got questions that was that possible really how is that possible so there's something going on that we don't quite understand and I say we I don't think anybody understands how would in the world is coronavirus just sort of stopping did something happen jumps on TV now how is he let's see what's he

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TV now how is he let's see what's he saying I'm guessing he's saying something about the protests or where he's doing something on prime time
alright well we'll catch up with that later all right um so so we don't know what's going on with these Cova deaths but two days ago I told you it was the beginning of the Golden Age coronavirus disappearing we don't know why economy coming back all the protesters and the country on the same side we're all on the same side just have to realize it and get something going alright we saw the video of the old man who got pushed down by the police yeah do you care about the old man who got pushed down by the police because he

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got pushed down by the police because he was resisting the police I don't care a bit I don't care even a little bit about the old man who got pushed down by the police because he was resisting police now it's terrible that he got hurt like I have you know empathy for anybody who got hurt but I can't care about anybody who opposes the police when they know they're gonna get their ass kicked if the police kick your ass because you're getting in their face I just don't care about you I don't care about you at all don't ask me to but obviously I care about anybody was just abused by the police who did nothing to bring it on of course I care about that now there I guess a lot of Democrats are talking about Trump it might reject the election as Jake Novak points out that when Democrats are saying that Trump might not accept the results of the election I

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not accept the results of the election I think they're broadcasting that they're not going to accept that's what Jake says and I agree with it they're broadcasting that they don't plan to accept the result of the election so I do think that there is real talk going on I don't think it's going to turn into a real action I hope not but there is real talk about an actual physical insurrection by the Democrats I think that's I think it's going from just talk to actual planning but I don't expect it to be executed yes because if it were executed well I don't even have to finish the sentence it wouldn't work out well can we can we just leave it at this on behalf of the people who love the Second Amendment if if the country were overthrown with an insurrection it's not going to go well for the people who wanted it to go well it just isn't

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wanted it to go well it just isn't
I'm being widely mocked by people who can't understand things by that I mean artists and writers so I was amusing a lot of my followers on Twitter by tweeting all of the people who are criticizing me that day and by the way it was all of them everyone who criticized me yesterday I tweeted them with the same comment I looked at their profile and there were writers or artists every one of them and that the that's my running joke that writers and artists can't follow critical thinking and so when they encountered me they don't understand what I'm saying they misinterpret it and then they get mad at their misinterpretation so it's very consistent I don't have I don't have economists I don't have engineers who are coming after me with just insults now there are plenty of economists and engineers and lawyers who disagree with a fact or something I said or even the logic I'm using and they

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or even the logic I'm using and they usually just say those things oh this fact is wrong here's a link you did the math wrong that sort of thing that's fine but the ones who come after me personally all artists writers and artists and usually almost always they're not quite that successful which i think is part of the part of the problem so today what they're doing is I wrote a long thread the other day about how the Joker movie is actually strong persuasion and you could have Matt it you could easily see that the Joker movie caused a pattern in people's minds that increase the likelihood they would act like the Joker now that got turned by writers and artists into Scott thinks the only thing that caused the protests is the Joker movie and therefore I'm a racist now that's pretty far from what I was saying pretty far from what I was saying we

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pretty far from what I was saying we don't live in a one variable world I don't believe that people were peace-loving and had no no inclinations or no no already primed emotions I'm just saying that the Joker movie is an underappreciated variable in a world of lots of variables it's not like the Joker movie was more important than watching the video of George Floyd being killed by a cop I didn't say that you know so so for the writers an artist they have to turn what I say that makes sense into something weird and ridiculous and then there's there's this awful publication called the Mary Sue that I think we're where writers go to die
that's got a whole article a hit piece I'd be today if you haven't experienced what it's like to have hit pieces written on you on a regular basis you really should just somebody said today Elon Musk cut his own hair that would be

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Elon Musk cut his own hair that would be hilarious if he did all right so when Minneapolis said that they were going to with the exact phrases dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a transformative new model of Public Safety I don't think you should take that as literally getting rid of police because it's a little more nuanced than that it it's when they talk about replacing it with a transformative new model of Public Safety it doesn't mean that doesn't involve police it could mean just a new system in which the police you know operate differently or something like that yeah and then the artists as somebody's reminding me in the comments the artists will attack me for just being a cartoonist but they never checked my other body of work at this point cartooning is a smallest part of what I do somebody says I want more

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of what I do somebody says I want more hip pieces they are kind of fun I have to admit Scott says artists aren't logical they they certainly are not as a rule now that doesn't mean there can't be artists who also have built their talent stack as I have I mean I'm an economist and a business person and had trained hypnotist and some other things so there could be artists who also do those things and they would be perfectly capable of critical thinking but not a single non artist came at me yesterday coincidence you decide could the rioters be made to clean up their damage for a live publication you need to shame them so that we see them cleaning stuff up you know I'm not a big fan of shaming people when you punish them yeah the Dow is up seven hundred points let's see how much the black lives made

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let's see how much the black lives made matter has made for me Oh looks good holy cow yeah add the stock work is really up Wow what would you do if you were marching to dismantle you know privilege and white privilege and the elites and the more you marched the more the stock market went up I mean wow how would you feel about that how would you feel that you're trying to dismantle the system of the elites and you're making them richer as you as you protest because that's what's happening God is an artist yeah so for those who don't follow the point let me just say it one more time because there are some artists on here so I know the rest of you already understand this so the next

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already understand this so the next thing I'm going to explain is because there are also some artists watching the live stream and they're all confused now I know most of you get it it goes like this being an artist by itself doesn't make you bad at critical thinking being an artist only might make you bad at critical thinking because you haven't learned it if you're an artist and also a lawyer you might be good at it if you're an artist and also an engineer your work in tech your software developer you're used to solving problems and using critical thinking you probably have those skills but if you're only an artist you don't and here's the tough part you also don't know that you don't have the skill because we all think we're logical but until you've seen what it really means to learn how to think critically like reading my book loser think would get you there until you've actually seen

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you there until you've actually seen that to do it properly the first time you really don't know how bad you are because it's not common sense critical thinking is not common sense they're they're worlds apart and people who think they have common sense incorrectly think well then I also have critical thinking and they don't they're just different all right
somebody says I'm a friend and web developer are you an engineer or an artist you're both that's a good talent stack
what's the slaughter beter well you know the slaughter beter was a funny concept it was the idea of if you were to say nothing changed after today who would win the election but of course it's a ridiculous idea because by the way how many times when I when I gave you this lauter meter if you ring under this how many times did I say this is what it

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many times did I say this is what it would be if nothing changes but something always changes because you knew there were big things coming you just didn't know what they were I didn't know what it was I just knew big things are coming I also know more big things are coming some of the big things I know about some of them I don't know about so what I tell you big things are coming here's here's how you should interpret that I do know something I do know about some of them there's some really fun coming so just just understand that the slaughter meter today is sort of worthless and it's just for fun because there's so much that's gonna change between now and Election Day and some of its gonna be really big and it's going to be fun so the slaughter meter is I had about 300% today why well the Conservatives won every

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well the Conservatives won every argument this week they won every argument all of them every one the only thing that could be better for the president is if Ruth Bader Ginsberg died this week and well actually that wouldn't work because the I think the Democrats would stall so they stall past the election so at this point know between now and Election Day I don't think there's any chance of any Supreme Court seats being filled but my point uh so let me drop that point let me let me just make the larger point that gun control is dead obviously all right so conservatives have completely won on the issue of guns being necessary because the biggest the biggest complaint about guns is that you know the government has guns that's all you need you know citizens don't need guns because you've got your police you've got the army you've got you've got the government protecting you but

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got the government protecting you but now that we know the government won't protect us and and they will aggressively not protect us under certain situations it's obviously you need a gun now it's kind of obvious and now certainly nothing's obvious to everybody at the same time but in terms of the direction of that argument that direction just went so far right meaning that the right is winning the argument that it's just off the table what about reparations this was reparations we don't have to talk about reparations it just happened because the trillions of dollars we lost in these protests are far more than reparations would have been and it's on the same topic if black lives matters wanted to spend their reparations this way too sort of put it all in one basket and say you know let's let's make it a night of let's make a few weeks of protesting and

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let's make a few weeks of protesting and whatever comes out of that they had the option that's the way they went so reparations is off the table you've got the president of United States agreeing immediately and aggressively with the black community about the the police action against George Floyd that looks pretty good you've got the corona virus that appears to be solved and I didn't see any other countries do a better job to do not really I mean people are gonna say oh look at look at I don't know Sweden or look at some other country look at South Korea but I don't think we really compare ourselves to them nor should we so I think we're going to see that we're passed coronavirus you can see the economy is zooming even maybe better than the president promised you it's just all good it's just all good but from today's perspective it just looks

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from today's perspective it just looks scary and bad because of the way the news frames things but I don't think I don't think we're close to a or even heading toward any kind of a permanent change of government or some kind of an insurrection that matters if you were to add up all of the protesters would it be a million yourself let me put that as a question if you added together all the protests in all the places yesterday in America would it be over a million might be but my point is there are what three hundred and seventy million people in the country a million people marching is a lot and could change laws could change the way we think about things could be productive we'll see but it doesn't overthrow the government we're not we're not anywhere in that realm

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somebody else's with a blast name of Floyd died after pepper spray that would be weird I don't know if that's up somebody says that that was up 750 points we'll bill bar we do release the Anti Fog communications I don't know I think it depends on what else is in there or if it gives away any of our secrets the camera lies on the scale of the protest that is correct yeah if there's one thing you should understand is the video lies and video lies every time remember they used to say you used to be a thing that a picture doesn't lie and then came fro to SHOP NOW pictures do lie in fact Instagram is nothing but pictures lying it's like there's a multi-billion dollar social media service that's nothing but pictures lying it's called Instagram and you could

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it's called Instagram and you could argue that Facebook is nothing about pictures lying because we only show our happy times which is a big ol lie about who we are oh yeah here's my happy time look at my vacation total lies because they leave out you know the rest of your life but video is even a bigger liar you know the camera phone video is the biggest liar of all let me give you one example you can't really tell how hard the police officer was placing his knee on the neck of George Floyd you've got the you've got the the corner report that says his face was scarred but you don't know if that happened because of the knee or it happened when they got him down etc right so my point is that the video is mostly a lie but we don't treat it that way and it's not I don't mean that video in particular I mean pretty much all of them let me put a

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pretty much all of them let me put a number on I would say this a if you see something with your own eyes you're there and you can see the whole context and you know who's behind the car and everything else you could be right most of the time maybe 80% of the time your impression of what happened would be correct but I'm gonna give you this number I would say that video of a real event will be misleading in an important way 80% of the time so the number you should have in your head is if you see a new video of some horrible thing that happened in your mind you should be saying to yourself there's an 80% chance that this is misleading it's about right I mean you know just observation 'le about 80% of videos are misleading did you see the one where it looked like the the cop was pointing one of those rubber bullet things directly at a protester who had a child on on his back so it looked like use either pointing it at

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looked like use either pointing it at the guy or the or even the kid and you look at the photo and you say well if photos don't lie this cop was pointing this rubber bullet gun right in the face of this guy he was standing right in front of him except that they weren't even next to each other you could kind of tell if you look at it that they were beside each other and that where the cop was aiming was to the side of the guy at some other target it's just the angle of the egg d'leh the picture made it look like he was pointing it directly in somebody's face but if you just look at it a little bit more you can see oh the the people are a little bit closer he's just pointing to the other side of them as something else so your artists enemies are gonna misrepresent what I said they always do all right that's all I got for now let's go see what else is new today is gonna be fun there's gonna be a lot of fun

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be fun there's gonna be a lot of fun things are moving in the right direction just doesn't look like it yet we'll talk to you soon