Episode 1019 Scott Adams: Empathy as a System, The Thing That Could Have Ended Protests

Date: 2020-06-06 | Duration: 52:58

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• Empathy and decision making

• Facts don’t matter in decision making

• Uninformed Anti-Tucker hit piece

• CNN stock market graphic

• Coronavirus appears to be weakening

• BOTH anti-hydroxychloroquine studies RETRACTED

• Likely black voters, 41% approval of President Trump

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um hey everybody how's it going it's time for coffee with Scott Adams you came to the right place lucky you I tell you everything's looking good we're coming from a dark dark time but we're back ladies and gentlemen and everything else I don't know what other categories there are but just say there are we're coming back it's all starting to come together now and it's gonna be good it's gonna be really good but first to ensure everything goes well what do you need yeah I think you know you need a cup or a mug or glasses tankard let me try it again let me put my real teeth in all right okay copper mug or glass a tank or chelsye stein a canteen Joker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine of the day the thing that makes

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dopamine of the day the thing that makes everything better it fixed the pandemic it raised the stock market it made everybody that lived together as one well maybe not yet but after this step get ready join me go mm-hmm yeah I feel the racial tension decreasing is it just my imagination no I think it's real well let's talk about all the things that are happening if you missed it last night I did a live stream with a hotel Jesus if you are not following him you should just look for a hotel jesus H Oh TEP and we talked about all things related to covet and all things related to the George Floyd situation and I'm getting a lot of good feedback

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and I'm getting a lot of good feedback from that and one of the things that that it occurs to me you know after our conversation I finally realized that it's impossible for any one person by themselves just one speaker to communicate on this topic and the reason is there are things that I just can't say because they would be offensive but he can say because you know who is doing the saying makes a big difference right and I think there would be some things in the other direction as well so I feel as though like I had this little light bulb went on when we were talking because if you added the two of us together we could say everything that needed to be said but if it but if we're talking individually and we're not there literally at the same time in the same conversation as soon as you separate us we can both only say what we can say now maybe there's only it only works one direction but I assume it works both directions so there were topics that we

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directions so there were topics that we could cover as a duo that neither of us could talk about individually very it's fascinating really when you think about that limitation on I'm just communicating it's not a limitation on free speech per se it's just a communication limit that we place on each other and here are some of the things that came out of this and I guess I would put these as sort of preliminary preliminary understandings subject to future improvement so if these are roughly getting closer to the answer that's good enough because they show progress I don't think I'm there yet but here's what I'm talking about so hotep was making the point that black lives matter and the feelings of the the protesters the black community in particular is that conservatives and Republicans don't have empathy they

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Republicans don't have empathy they don't have the right feeling you know the you know the feeling in your heart toward the black community and I thought to myself I wonder why they think that because that's not my impression at all you know I spend tons of time with the left and the right and I don't really see that I don't see any lack of empathy whatsoever but it kind of occurred to me that they do see it and there's an obvious reason why the obvious reason why is that the if the black community is mostly seeing the conservative Republican opinion as spoken by people on TV and then the news and stuff yeah more so than in person if you were in a person you'd get a different impression than if you're talking if you look here's some of these public pronouncements and here's here's the insight see if this see if this rings true to you that other conservatives and Republicans by

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conservatives and Republicans by philosophy reject empathy because empathy is a way to take power illegitimately in other words if you go too far in empathy you've departed the rule of law you've departed you know the higher reasoning you've departed maybe the Constitution because those those guiding documents tell you everything you need to do empathy oh you know empathy in a political sense not in an individual sense so my claim is that conservatives and Republicans are identical to everyone else in empathy they're just identical but as a political philosophy they choose not to use empathy for decision-making because it's an inefficient way to make decisions you should have empathy but it should not be an unnecessarily part of your

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not be an unnecessarily part of your decision-making so in other words the Constitution can say everybody gets a fair shot but that's not going to work out for everybody and if you said oh we gave everybody a fair shot but it didn't work out for some people they had bad luck or whatever was that that went wrong let's fix that as soon as you do that then you don't have the same system anymore because you can't fix everybody who gets behind without making everybody equal and then you end up with socialism so I believe that what the black community at least through howtechs opinion you know that again we're limited by just the people we talk to we don't know everybody's opinion but a hotel's view that the conservatives and Republicans were hurting themselves essentially because they weren't showing the the degree of empathy that is clearly being requested and I would say that it is clearly being

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and I would say that it is clearly being requested abandoned if you will you know but certainly requested we need this much empathy in order to move on in order to be productive in order to get past this we need this much empathy and you're just not giving it to us why not like President Trump where where's your empathy and I was thinking about it I thought to myself yeah if you didn't already know that conservatives and Republicans are identical to everybody else in terms of empathy if you didn't know that in their hearts there's no real difference and all you saw was their public philosophical look and the political philosophical look is that you don't use empathy to make decisions it's just a bad way to make decisions a better way is the law of the Constitution democracy the republic you know that the actual structures so and

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know that the actual structures so and and it felt like I don't know that that point of view had ever been communicated before and indeed I don't know that I never thought of it before because it you know it never really came up it was just something I knew to be true but I didn't know it was relevant in some way to this conversation so that was interesting a point that I made that hotep seem to agree with is I've made the following analogy that you shouldn't look to the source of the problem for your solution I talked about that my book loser think one of the biggest problems people make is they say all right if if my problem is coming from here that's what I gotta fix I got a thing I got to fix the thing that's the problem common sense right this is my problem that's what I got effects except it's not common sense and we don't do that commonly and the analogy I used was let's say the problem is is raining can you stop the rain you cannot the problem

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you stop the rain you cannot the problem is is raining what do you do or you could even generalize it to bad weather but the problem is rain you can't stop the rave but what you can do is going doors you can build a structure with a roof that stops rain you could buy yourself an umbrella and a little rain hat you can wait until it stops raining all right so you can't sometimes there's a problem that just by its nature you can't really address the problem you can only find a good strategy that makes the problem irrelevant and so I was making the point that if if young black kids were taught strategy racism would still exist because people are pattern recognition machines and and even if you cured all racism in all living people today the very next baby that was born would be a racist because it would be born with a pattern recognition brain and we're not good at pattern recognition that's what racism is your pattern recognition you have it but it's not

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recognition you have it but it's not it's not giving you the right pattern and because it's it's assuming that everybody is some way and obviously that's never the case so so my analogy was if you worked on the strategy directly that's that's a lever that's a big lever and if it's available you can pull it so if you and I gave this specific example I said how many 12 year old african-american kids know the following is true that if they want to get a job interview at a fortune 500 company and there was one other person just to keep it simple who was a white person with identical credentials which one of you gets the job every time it's the black candidate every time it doesn't matter who's interviewing them and it doesn't even matter what company Ennis if it's a big company they need to hire minority candidates and it's a real problem because they need to recruit they they're gonna have to go look for them and the pool of the pool of opportunity

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and the pool of the pool of opportunity isn't as large as they would like it to be so the fortune 500 companies are competing for the the black candidate they're not competing for the white candidate in the same way even though the job market is tight but I said how many twelve-year-old kids know that they have a total lock on a job if they stay out of jail and don't give somebody pregnant and study in school you know just the basics if you just do the basics how many know that you're guaranteed a good life I mean nothing's really guaranteed but you know it's as close as you can get to being pretty sure things are going to work out for you in the long run if not right away so anyway otep seem to be an agreement on the basic point that you don't look to solve the problem especially if it's an unsolvable problem people have pattern recognition machine machines as brains you can't solve that it's like the rain there's always going to be

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the rain there's always going to be pattern recognition in human brains there will always be rain you can build a roof and in the case of your pattern recognition brain you can find strategies to you know overcome it you can make laws to make it illegal you can teach people you can train them you can you know live by experience you can tweak it and there's just tons of stuff you can do strategy wise but the reason that you're not succeeding in getting rid of racism is that it's not possible it's not possible it would require rebooting the nature of a brain itself and again I'm not saying just white people being biased I mean every form of bias is baked into every brain you can't get rid of that but you can't make a strategy that says all right what do you do with that how about we just admit it's there why don't we just say it's there all the time and just work with it

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anyway I thought was pretty productive you should look at my Twitter feed or howtechs to find that a lot of people say they they're enjoying him all right
if we were a species that used facts to make decisions there's a fact that just happened something we all know to be a fact they should have changed how we see this whole Georgia Floyd thing but it didn't it didn't even change it a little bit so this is one of those examples where you can you can tell yourself you know I've been saying for several years in fact it's the subtitle of one of my books the facts don't matter two decisions of course facts matter to what actually you know happens in the world what they don't influence us for our decisions which is weird because you think of fact would actually matter but here's the fact I'm talking about so we watched in the buffalo as police pushed a 75 year old white guy they pushed them

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a 75 year old white guy they pushed them on i guessing fell and hurt himself you had I don't know sudden head injury and when we watch the video we were all sort of similarly horrified because the police seemed uninterested in his well-being in other words they just pushed them to the ground one started to look after him but the other policeman pulled him away it looked like somebody was calling an EMT so they were they were doing something for him but they were not showing much that looked like empathy it looked like almost and robots you know it's like push it out of the way
way okay don't help him we'll call somebody else to help him just keep going so there was something cold and robotic and it lacked humanity but here's the thing it was a white guy it was a white guy you saw a white guy being treated by police with what at least on video we can't see you know we can't tell what they're thinking obviously but on video the way it looked

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obviously but on video the way it looked to us is police treating an old white guy with I don't know a complete lack of passion compassion complete lack of compassion now if we were a fact-based species we would say to ourselves wait a minute what does that look like now obviously killing a man with your knee on his neck for nine minutes is the whole level you know different than just pushing an old man who hits his head yeah I'm not gonna say those are morally equivalent right don't don't get me in that morally equivalent trap because that's not where we're going I'm saying it's another piece of information that you watched police seemingly indifferent to his race you know if what we had watched is the the white guy comes up and resists he basically resisted what the police were telling him to do and I guess they knew him to be an agitator who was looking for some trouble but if

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who was looking for some trouble but if they had said hey white guy good job go back to protesting you know how are the kids if they had done that I'd say well we got a big problem here because they killed the black guy who was resisting but the white guy they patted the back and say we'll see you at the barbecue what's up with this but that didn't happen they just shoved the white guy and heard him and walked around it they called the UM T I think so maybe there should be it's almost like this simulation was trying to send us a hint to see if we were smart enough to get it hey hey maybe you're looking at the wrong thing
watch this watch what I do this old white guy see if this tells you anything that you didn't already know hey now this brings us to another point there's a hilariously failed to hit peace

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a hilariously failed to hit peace hippies in terms of a tweet thread that's a hit tweet thread against Tucker Carlson and the weirdest thing about it is it didn't lay a glove on him it's it was the weakest hit piece I've ever received in my life because it started I'm talking about like he was grandparent but if it was at his grandparents or his parents you know who had a company and they used immigrant labor and blah blah and I'm thinking to myself that's your hit piece against Tucker is something something his parents did when he was a baby oh you got to try harder than that all right but then they did try harder and here's what they said exactly so here's an actual quote from the tweet threat against Tucker remember this is supposed to the anti Tucker hippies right here okay so one of the tweets says it is this crisis meaning the protests and stuff

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crisis meaning the protests and stuff coupled with the realities of climate change what I don't know why you throwing that in there the drive revolts against neoliberalism like we saw recently in France in the US the way to classically deal with such a problem has usually been way for this in the u.s. the way the classically deal with such a problem has usually been to divide the working class against itself along race lines now this is a sentence in a hit piece that's supposed to be against Tucker Carlson except I don't think they've ever watched his show because on almost every single show Tucker Carlson's primary theme if I could say it's a primary theme as to what I see the most by far is this this Tucker Carlson is the number one voice in the country against against having the

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country against against having the elites separate the working class by race so the thing that was a hit against was so uninformed about the the major theme of his show stop dividing us by race that they think they thought they thought this was something to feature as a hit against him to say that Tucker Carlson is contributing to to this problem as opposed to the number one voice in the country in terms of how many people see him and how often he talks about it and how strong he talks about it is that to stop dividing us by race it's what he says all but not almost I think every single show how could you not know that about Tucker Carlson it's the very thing that defines him you know if you could define it it's a it's like your central identity almost at least you have the TV identity this stop dividing this by race there's

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stop dividing this by race there's nothing he says more than that and this is the hippies that he is contributing to it okay that's a pretty weak hair piece anyway I you should be so lucky to have hit pieces against you that are so weak that they make you look better here here's something that CNN is criticizing Fox News for and you know normally I don't pay too much attention to the back-and-forth because you know CNN and Fox News are like your siblings are always fighting you know so they always fight about each other's coverage and I don't pay too much attention to it except sometimes it's fun but this was this was a pretty good criticism it's so bad that it's funny like I'm laughing because it's bad about laughing at the content there's the difference you know laughing is something because it's so

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laughing is something because it's so inappropriate doesn't mean you're laughing at the inappropriate part you're laughing because it's so on are pretty inappropriate okay that's an important distinction I guess Fox have a they showed a graphic of how well the stock market does every time a black person is killed and this is so bad that it's funny right like I don't know how I don't know how this got on TV but and then I didn't believe it wouldn't seeing it was saying it but they they showed the actual graphic and it showed what percentage of the stock market went up after MLK was assassinated after the death of Rodney King after death of Michael Brown and the death of George Floyd and in each of those cases the stock market went up and I'm thinking ok I get that it might be true but the fact that is true I don't

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true but the fact that is true I don't know if that's a good enough reason to put that on the screen like I don't know what you were thinking when you put that on the screen but let's just say that wasn't your finest day and again I'm not laughing of course at the deaths of anybody I'm laughing at the ridiculousness there's somebody somebody gave the green light to that graphic that's just a head shaker I mean you can't take that too seriously because I don't think it means there's no bad intent intention and you know no matter which way the criticism is going I generally among the in favor of saying all right this wasn't bad intention but Wow there was a blind spot there you go
so now we're hearing more information about the other three cops that were involved in the George Floyd incident and two of them were brand new police

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and two of them were brand new police uh-oh you know what that means right the two who were brand new were necessarily relying on show Ovens opinion on what to do if you're a if you're a juror and somebody said all right these these guys are rookies they're brand new and they're looking to the veteran of 19 years Chauvin to tell them what to do and indeed that's the conversation that was reported is that I threw keys we're asking Chauvin why shouldn't we do and he was telling them what to do and it turns out he told them what to do wrong and it caused the death of this guy you know the the totality of the events did and then I guess the third witness is cooperating and now do the math you've got two who are rookies and probably that's gonna be good enough for the jury to get them off or to get some kind of reduced thing that doesn't make anybody happy and then the third is cooperating and I don't know if that

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cooperating and I don't know if that means a reduced sentence or reduced charges something like that so you might have the three supporting police already in a legal situation where it's unlikely that they'll get any kind of a serious penalty and then as I've talked to you before I think Chauvin defense forget about what you think it think about it morally forget about for the moment just for this conversation what you think about it as a human being and how it registered with you from a purely legal strategy perspective I think Chauvin is definitely going to get off I think all four cops are going to get off so if you're not getting ready for the next wave of this you need to so I mean it's already baked in you could just put it on your calendar at this point the second set of destructions all right so

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second set of destructions all right so that's bad you know I think that Trump had maybe one of the best weeks of his life but I don't know that it'll be recognized as such but look at the things that it went right for Trump so the the jobs as you know the jobs were just way better than anybody expected and even though we're coming off a low a low base so anything looks good coming off of the the low base you were all happy about it right it's unambiguously good news except that apparently was not good news for black unemployment which didn't go up as quickly so so that's no good but in terms of jobs in general they went up and you you one assumes that if everything's heading in the right direction everybody gets to go along eventually so jobs are great that's good for Trump but it also at the same time the co fed desk just fell off a cliff

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the co fed desk just fell off a cliff why why did Kovac deaths suddenly just plummet we don't know yet but the theory is floating around are that the virus might be weakening and just so you know the lay of the land here information-wise it was only maybe 48 hours ago that I proposed the idea that the weakest the the virus might be weakening and at least on social media people said there's no evidence of that and it was people who knew what they're talking about and I thought okay there's there's no evidence of that we probably would have seen it by now if there was evidence it was weakening but as of the news yesterday some experts were saying that's probably what's happening that it probably is weakening and the thinking is that viruses tend to weaken because if they got stronger they would kill you and then they couldn't spread as easily because you're dead so you're not walking around and spreading it so the

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walking around and spreading it so the idea is that viruses generally will weaken over time because they can spread faster if they're weaker you'll carry them longer to spread them that's the theory I'm not sure I'm completely buying the cause and the effect of that being a clean cause and effect but there's thought that the virus may have weakened on top of that and I haven't heard many people say it directly at least this week we heard a lot of it before vitamin D has just got to be in this story somewhere right because one of the ways that it would look to you as if the virus was weakening is if everybody just went outdoors and got some some it could be that just the good weather everybody went outside and got some Sun and then it looked like the virus was weaker because people were getting it and not getting as many symptoms because they had vitamin D so it could be something about the summer that's the heat it could be the humidity it could be the

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could be the humidity it could be the vitamin D that you get from the Sun it could be that it's weakening but whatever it is Trump was the one that said well what if it just goes away do you remember how how badly Trump was mocked for saying that we had the virus would just go away and it looks like the things that made the most difference in addition to the masks I guess and probably in addition to learning how to use the ventilators in a less deadly way I think that was part of the story but weren't we all shocked at how suddenly it appears son that the virus went from a civilization ending problem to hey where's that virus it happened kind of quickly and although the president thought it would happen sooner maybe no I'm not even sure he thought it would happen sooner I think he did say summer didn't he didn't Trump say something like it might just go away and then we're watching it and it hasn't

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then we're watching it and it hasn't gone away and indeed there might be a second wave of if it doesn't go away but it's remarkable how close to his prediction this is that New York went New York City went from hundreds of deaths down to 42 and I think the day before is zero and that's a pretty big jump so he's got that going for him and and because the Cova death plummeted at exactly the same time the things were reopening its gonna make Trump look like wait for it wait for it the the coincidental timing of the covet the ferocity falling off a cliff at the same time that Trump was pushing to reopen because it was time is going to make it look like his instincts are freakin amazing amazing you know in retrospect he won't get any credit in the short run because people do that but when you look back on this

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do that but when you look back on this thing you're gonna look at Trump's timing for because he was pushing things to get open up a little bit earlier pushing pushing and pushing his instinct on that it's gonna look dead off in retrospect how about his instinct for closing travel dead on dead ah right he closed travel when when people the experts were saying don't do it he did how about hydroxychloroquine you you know he was pushing hydroxychloroquine as you know and then there were two studies that came out that said no no no you fool hydroxychloroquine will kill these covent patients it's so deadly we did some studies and found out it didn't help a bit but it sure killed people in some cases there were two studies both of them have been retracted both studies which were the basis for mocking Trump

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which were the basis for mocking Trump for what two months how much has he been mocked for the last two months for this hydroxychloroquine viciously and a lot of that mocking if not all of it almost all of it was based on two studies that were withdrawn for being bogus in fact the database that both of them used apparently is just some stuff that some guy made up now there's no credibility in the data whatsoever so you can't have a much better week than surprisingly good job numbers I mean what what makes Trump happier seriously is there anything that makes Trump happier then good employment numbers you know good relatively speaking so you got jobs he timed the the back to work thing to perfection - perfection his instinct on this was frickin awesome I don't know

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this was frickin awesome I don't know that he'll ever get credit for that because we just don't do that we just don't give credit for that sort of thing he'll just be called the anti science I think and then here's my opinion about the protests it's easy to imagine that the protests or some sign of racism getting worse or whatever and I was saying to hotep Jesus yesterday I was saying the pictures I see there are way more white people marching for racial equality than there are black people if you tell me that this country is in trouble because there are more white people marching for the end of racism than there are black people I say there's something wrong with your eyes use your eyes just look at the crowd number one that's a lot of people marching against a racism that's

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people marching against a racism that's good now find somebody who is opposed to their message nobody nobody there's nobody on the other side it's one of the biggest protests in this country nobody on the other side and this is I just saw a message that just totally threw me off so he said Bill Mitchell was right no Bill Mitchell wasn't right we don't have time for that but I can't let that go but I think Bill Mitchell was claiming that the virus was not dangerous and it was no more than the flu he wasn't right about that and nobody knew if it would stop and nobody knows that they had stopped yet so I'm not I'm not gonna give you a Bill Mitchell was right but back to Trump's good week I would say that race relations in this country are at an all-time best this week that's right

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all-time best this week that's right that's a shocking claim is it not in my opinion and I'm quite serious about this and I'm quite confident actually I don't think there's any question about it race relations in the United States have reached an all-time best this week today today I'd say if somebody accusing me of virtue signaling because if that's about me you're gonna get blocked cuz I don't do that I just don't have any value in it
so we're seeing it all this bad news but actually it's great news and of course we shook the box on this economy to the point where there's no question it's going to come back stronger because there's so much more to work with you know we're rethinking everything from scratch it's going to be amazing alright so Trump had one of the best weeks ever I don't know that people will I don't know that the public will notice

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I don't know that the public will notice that oh oh oh there's one other little good piece of news for Trump did I did I forget to mention this yeah I forgot to mention it if you didn't see it there was a poll of likely black voters 41 and 41 percent of them approve of president Trump's performance 41 percent of black love likely black voters 41 percent approve of the president's performance according to Rasmussen know it's funny I said this to somebody and their first response you know what the first response is well it's Rasmussen Rasmussen you know that's not reliable to which I say on Trump related stuff I'm pretty sure they were the best I think they smoked everybody didn't they correct me if I'm wrong but the

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they correct me if I'm wrong but the entire time Rasmussen was the only poll that had accurate numbers about Trump that said he was in the hunt the whole time so I wouldn't discount them you know you know of course everything depends on how the question is asked but what if let me let me just put this hypothetical out there what if what if white people are not as racist as we use and what if this is just an if you don't have to accept it yet just - what if what if white people are not as racist as assumed and what if black people don't like crime maybe they don't like crime maybe they like good economies maybe this 41% is exactly what you would think it would be like if I had to guess like where would black approval of the

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like where would black approval of the president be like if I'd never seen any poll I've never seen any anything what a guest somewhere in this range forty to sixty percent that's where I would have guessed because you know so I'm kidding of course because it's obvious that there are plenty of white people who are not racist in any problematic way I think everybody's everybody's bias all the time but I don't think most people are racist in any actionable problematic way no matter their ethnicity and I also think that generally speaking every every category of people would prefer less crime than more crime it's just sort of duh you know is there any group of people who wants more crime no of course that all right yeah let's see what else we got going here I think we're doing well I do think that

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I think we're doing well I do think that the president has not nailed his messaging with all of this George Floyd stuff and yesterday was a good example of it everybody's getting out of the president because he said George floor and again I'm laughing because of how bad it is I'm not I'm not laughing at any people laughing just how bad this is I said George Floyd would be looking down and thinking it was a great day because employment unemployment had improved the employment numbers were good and I'm thinking of myself there's probably a better way to say that there had to be a better way to say that but again I go back to my earlier comments when I was talking to Hotel Jesus that Republicans by philosophy don't do empathy so you know the Republicans will give you the required minimum amount of empathy but if they go

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minimum amount of empathy but if they go beyond that then they've changed their political philosophy and they don't do that and their political philosophy is I'm not going to give you power because you complained the most I'm not going to give you power because you were the biggest victim I'm not going to give you power because you hurt the most I'm not going to give you power because I feel bad for you like those are not a workable system so so again while it is objectively true that the president's messaging on the whole protests and racial division etc feels to me completely lacking as well you know if I'm being honest I could find a hundred ways that could have been better but
requiring it or expecting it to be better and I think another Republican could have done a better job so I'll say that directly it's not just because he's conservative it's not just because he's a Republican he just didn't hit a homerun on this this head bath I would say at that at that that time a bat he

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say at that at that that time a bat he struck out now I like to be consistent and say I'm forgiving of everybody's mistakes if they're adjusting and tweaking and learning from it etc you know judging people from mistakes is just a bad way to live you should judge them by how they deal with their mistakes so the president getting lots of pushback for saying that George Floyd would be happy and looking down at these good employment numbers sure let's see if he can adjust and improve that message if he does it's the standard I would apply to him would be the same I would apply to anybody else doesn't matter your political party I would say if you if you struck out and then you adjust it and then you've got a nice bass head on the next bat you're all good you're all good I see I see people calling out the hoax part yeah there was a there was a

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hoax part yeah there was a there was a hoax element to this in which in which the context was left out and I think that's what you're prompting me in the comments so if you leave out the context it sounds more it sort of sounds more bad than it was with the full context good is everybody with me on that that the clips that are being shown about his comments when they're shortened which is the trick the the Iligan of fake news uses old time if you shorten it it takes out the context which would have softened it and you all agree with that right but he did make comments which left him open to this interpretation and how we call that friendly for anybody who's been trained in media stuff that's just an error so it could be true that they built a hoax on top of his error but it doesn't take the air away it was just an error somebody says he didn't say it okay well I heard it now you if

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say it okay well I heard it now you if you're saying he didn't say it in that context that's true but he did say that George Floyd would be looking down and be happy about how things how well things are going that's not a hoax right you're actually saying that he didn't say that listen this is kind of interesting is it possible so Wow a lot of you think that's a hoax let's find it let's find out right and so your your claim of my the people who are watching this and it seems quite consistent is that that I've fallen for a hoax and that he did not say that George Floyd was looking down see if we can find it because I don't think you're criticizing me for what you think you are well that's right now looking down it was happy see how

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looking down it was happy see how quickly and find that I don't want you to wait all day alright so it is the Guardian Trump condemned for saying George Floyd is praise him but it's the economy of course he didn't say that
Trump suggests George Floyd is happy about us job numbers that there's you know so obviously the the headlines are hoaxes in every encounter with law enforcement regardless of race color gender a creed they have to receive fair treatment there's a good contact from an enforcement they have to receive it everybody else knows what happened last week George is looking down right now and saying there's a great thing that's happening for our country there's a great day for him it's a great day for everybody there's a great day for everybody this is a great great day in

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everybody this is a great great day in terms of equality it's really what our Constitution you're totally right it was a hoax it was a hoax you're totally right I got totally taken by the headlines I I have to admit I'd never heard I'd never heard the full quote but I had seen so many so many quotes I I'd heard so many quotes that I thought he had said that it was about the good economy that George Floyd was looking down and he'd be happy and none of that actually happened one reporter even retracted yeah so the comments are a little behind this so I've I played it so I was so if you're just coming on I was challenged for saying that the president blew the communications about George Floyd by

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communications about George Floyd by saying that George Floyd would be happy that the economy was picking up which is the way it was reported and that just never happened it's a complete hoax that was interesting alright so I stand corrected can't can those of you who say Scott you never say you're wrong can you make a mental note I don't want I don't want to hear from anybody on this periscope ever again you can never say Scott you never say when you're wrong because I'm saying it right now I couldn't have been more wrong all right now let me ask you this am i embarrassed that I was this wrong in public nope nope you really need to build this this part of your talent stack if you can learn to not be embarrassed by being this wrong I mean that was this wrong honestly that's as wrong as you could be

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honestly that's as wrong as you could be and you just you just watched me do it right in public and I don't even feel a little bit embarrassed because remember what is my standard the standard I told you just minutes ago his mistakes are normal and therefore I don't judge them I don't judge you or mistake but I also don't judge my own which is very important I don't judge my own mistakes I do judge how I dealt with them and this way in this case the way I dealt with it is I listen to your criticism I went back to the original data I listened to it found out I was wrong and then I admitted it clearly that's how you deal with a mistake all right now if everybody did that you'd be happy with everybody you wouldn't be blaming them for their mistakes you'd say well what did you do about it what did you do about it by the way there's nothing there's nothing better you can train a young person that then you know young people teenagers

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you know young people teenagers especially they're gonna make every mistake you could possibly make it it's almost their job description to make every mistake and see if they can learn anything and one of the best messages you can say is I'm not going to dwell on the mistake what did you do about it you know how did I need to learn something from that all right I got a question for you is there anybody out there who has a let's say a significant following on social media who is also a conservative and found that their social media has exploded in the last week has that anybody is anybody who's a let's say a trump supporter notice that your social media traffic just exploded in the last five days or so the reason I'm asking you is because that's what happened to mine some the number of the number of people who are signing up on Twitter suddenly just went through the the roof

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suddenly just went through the the roof so I'm just looking at my numbers here all right so there's an app called social blade that tells you how many people are following you each day happier signing up each day so you can tell if you're picking up people based on what you did that day so my normal number of people that I would get I'm just looking through the history it's like you know two hundred five hundred two hundred five hundred and then suddenly the last day of May it was 760 then fourteen hundred thirty four hundred eighteen hundred fourteen hundred eight hundred yesterday so suddenly just went through the roof and at the same time my tweets are performing just way better than usual just ordinary tweets that wouldn't normally go viral or or you're getting fifteen hundred so I wanted to see if it is up looking at your answers now because they're just catching up I'm seeing a yes and a no and I mean

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I'm seeing a yes and a no and I mean somebody said they've heard this wow I'm saying yeses okay somebody's asking if it's BOTS I don't know somebody says in a band somebody says bigger no I know some or D platformed you were good that's why but I haven't been extra good this week or something there's there's not something I did this week now the President did retweet me again right about the beginning of this traffic but I don't think that retweet in the past so the president has retweeted me in the past and it didn't make that much difference in my social media you think it would but it really doesn't drew brees you know I'm not going to talk about Drew Brees because it's such a small I don't know it's just an athlete who said something they made

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an athlete who said something they made him apologize he apologized I don't know it's just not a story I care about
somebody says they were accused of being me yeah I know retweets make it grow so it could be just I was tweeting well this week because I speak truth so okay so it looks like a lot of nose and some yeses which would suggest that there's nothing that's some obvious trend anyway I was just wondering about that yeah Trump Trump retweeted me when I had a tweet that said that some of the protesters were fine people or something that I think somebody says I'm very popular in Russia is that true are you are you in Russia and you know that because I do actually have a number of Russian followers on the where of that

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all right somebody says more conservative stuff is showing up on Twitter well I guess I'm what I'm asking if there was some change that anybody noticed and I'm not sure we can say that based on these replies all right that's all I got for today and I will see you later