Episode 1034 Scott Adams: Tulsa Rally, Mars Oxygen, Chinese Election Interference, Racism Strategy

Date: 2020-06-21 | Duration: 57:57

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• Raz Simone, more complicated than reported

• Kamala reemerges, retrained, polished by image professionals

• Whiteboard: Equality of GOP/Dems

• CNN Harry Enten’s robocalls hypothesis

• AOC, China and a Tic Toc prank

• Impressions on President Trump’s Tulsa rally

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hey everybody come on in it's time for coffee with Scott Adams yes it is and you came to the right place and before we get going what do we need that's right you need a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker chelators diet a canteen drugs or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid happy Father's Day and join me now for the dopamine here the day the thing that makes everything better that's gonna spike your every part of your chemistry of your body it's gonna be good it's gonna be great it's called the simultaneous sipping to happens down with going huh huh now I'd like you to play a game with me that I call covent cancelled or dead all right that's the game it's called kovat canceled or dead and the way you play it

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canceled or dead and the way you play it is you see a celebrity trending on Twitter and you say let's see who's trending on Twitter Justin Bieber is it because he has kovat he is cancelled or he's dead who's got a guess before we check kovat cancelled or dead let's check due to Justin Bieber oh my cancelled a little bit of me - action going on there with Justin Bieber's so kovat cancelled or dead you could play it every morning every morning there's a new celebrity and I say this one Co vid cancelled or dead and been pretty good so far alright it's pretty catchy isn't it

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alright it's pretty catchy isn't it Kovac cancelled they're dead come on you're gonna be saying this all day long you know you are if you have not watched my new video series called how to do things like a Boomer I pinned one of the videos to it I'll probably have more of them in the locals platform where subscribers can see them but I like to release a few of them publicly just so you can see what's going on now if you think those videos are just for fun because the the theme of is me trying to open ordinary consumer packaging and it doesn't go well that's the basic theme there's there's a larger user interface point at coming and for some of you you'll see that later all right here's a weird thing about the coronavirus it keeps making some things better have you done is that have you noticed that coronavirus it's making a

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noticed that coronavirus it's making a lot of things worse I mean that's where all the news is of course but there are some things that are just definitely better let me give you an example so I told you we have outdoor seating though so we have outdoor seating for the restaurants in my town now I don't know if they took my suggestion or they just came up with it on their own I dunno I made a suggestion through the the biggest restaurant owner in town and he was going to contact the city so I don't know if it was because of me but anyway my my main street now is closed down for restaurant hours and the restaurants bring their tables into the into the street it becomes sort of like a street fair atmosphere now the first thing that I noticed was it was way better than eating indoors as long as the weather was okay it was way better
so I know some of you are obsessing about this we'll talk about that later

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so one of the things that's better is one of the things you hate most about restaurants number one you hate getting a bad table right you go to a restaurant you make all this trouble and then you see you at one of those tables where you're on the side of the table where all you're looking at is the person on the other side of the table and a wall all you're looking at is a wall and the other people and you think to yourself well did I really need to go out to eat tonight I'm just looking at a wall and people I could eat with anywhere but if you're eating outdoors everybody has a good view because you're outdoors so there's sort of a 360 view so eating outdoors is better but then the this six foot this six foot distance thing by the way I'm not married I I have the ring I have the ring a head of the marriage so I was just wearing it but I'm not married yet in case you wondered soon soon I swear it's going to happen we got

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soon I swear it's going to happen we got delayed several times because of the Cova things so we're sort of we're improvising as quickly as we can to figure out how to make it all work but I digress I love having restaurant tables six feet apart because the other thing you hate about a restaurant is that the people near you can hear your conversation and you can hear theirs so six feet apart way better outdoor seating you know plentiful at door seating you know on the street that's kind of a very attractive street in my case much better and then the third thing that I really like one of the things that I my pet peeves about restaurants prior to kovat is I would hate it when my food would come or I've had my bread or anything and the server would stand directly above the table or the manager would come over to talk to you or whatever and they would talk directly above your food though maybe I'm the only person who's bothered by that but I don't like

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bothered by that but I don't like anybody talking above my food I don't need to fill in the blanks right so I've usually like if I'm listening to the server the manager comes over I'll be uh-huh yeah yeah as you know we're enjoying it I'll be moving my bread plate over uh-huh a-hole you're moving it out of the the spray zone uh-huh very nice restaurant thank you yes we I've got all the salt I need my fork I got a fork we don't need to be talking anymore and I'm slowly moving my food and in this phrase own and now the server comes over with a mask and I'm thinking I like this for all the time I like this forever can we do more of this yesterday I was gonna go out to do some errands and I had just been drinking some coffee as I often do now normally if I'm going to go out in public I might encounter some people and I would probably use mouthwash or brush my

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would probably use mouthwash or brush my teeth again just because I don't want to have coffee breath but I started to go do the mouthwash before I went out and I thought to myself no I don't need this a word a mask so I just brought out of the Basques they're like well save the step no mouthwash if I'm going yet all right but enough of that two things we know for sure in 2020 in fact check me on this there are two things we know that we all know so this is something that the left knows it's something that the right knows and every independent knows two things see if you agree with both of them number one the only sensible way to make decisions is by looking at the data and listening to the experts that's one thing we know got a look at the data you got a look at the experts the second thing we know in 2020 all the data is and the experts are lied so we've actually as a society we've agreed on

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actually as a society we've agreed on the following process it's the only thing we agree on you kind of look at the data and you've got to listen to the acts and the data is all wrong and the experts are live we agree on both of those things and yet we've agreed that that's the system that we're all going to live under unfortunately I don't have a better system if I had a better system I would be recommending it to you I don't think magic is a better system I don't think guessing is a better system but you certainly have to watch out for the data and the experts these days now the big news of course was the rally last night so you may have missed this little tidbit I'll just toss this out here not important in any way very small trivial little fact don't bother yourself with it because there was lots of news last night about presidents Trump's use of words that's the important stuff not this minor little

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important stuff not this minor little story here a European spacecraft has found oxygen on Mars what what oxygen on Mars now of course if this is like most other stories as in 99% of the stories that sound a little bit like this do you know what I need there's some stories that sound like other stories but are you know different into all the details this one about oxygen on Mars I'm going to put this in the category of things that later turn out to be that doesn't mean it is but have I mentioned that in 2020 all the data is and all the experts are alive so that's your context for the story hey we spotted oxygen on Mars because of some green glow or whatever to which I say to myself or or there's no oxygen on

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say to myself or or there's no oxygen on Mars and you just foolish yet just that just put that out there as the other possibility this is 99% likely so I wouldn't count on oxygen on Mars
all right but that's the story there's a fascinating story about Southern District of New York prosecutor who is looking into Rudy Giuliani and some Trump associates and he was either fired or quit or Trump fired him or barred it or Trump to a bar to firearm or bar said he'd fire him and Trump said okay or Trump didn't know and bar fired him or bar didn't know anything about it and Trump fired him or possibly he just quit and bar thought he was fired but Trump said he was fired but possibly there's oxygen on Mars so I don't have any interest in this story whatsoever I kept trying to think they keep talking about this story and sooner or later I'm gonna

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this story and sooner or later I'm gonna get interested nope I just have lost all interest in all lawyer stories and stories how many times have we heard there's a thing with a lawyer and this will be the end of Trump how many times have you heard that damn story it's all the details are always different but there's always a lawyer and it's the end of Trump sometimes there are two lawyers and this will be the end of Trump he's finished now because I've got a story and it's got a lawyer that's the end of trouble so I'm sure this story about the prosecutor is the end of Trump because he got fired allegedly for being good at his job but that will easily be spun by bar as being bad at his job so there's nothing here but it's a story here's an interesting thing do you know that razz

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interesting thing do you know that razz samode the alleged warlord of the autonomous zone is neither a warlord nor a member of the autonomous owned if you are watching only right Oriented news sources did you think that Raz Simone so he's the guy who came and he's got the he's got the the weapons and he was handing out weapons and he seems to be sort of handling security in the autonomous zone I I was looking at his his web about his web his his Twitter feed and he answered somebody early odd just maybe a week ago so he answered somebody and he clarified he said he's not he's not autonomous meaning he's not a member of the automata so he's an American citizen so what asked to describe himself why he

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what asked to describe himself why he wasn't asked he just volunteered that he doesn't he doesn't identify with the autonomous so and protesters you know he identifies with America just think about it just think about that he says explicitly and publicly no I identify with America I'm just helping out that's really different than what you've been told isn't it and now just because he said it doesn't mean it's true that's that's everything we know about the world but it sort of looks like maybe that is actually the case and that he's a little bit more thoughtful and a little bit more complicated than the right-leaning reporting it has indicated so I'm just gonna put it out there a little bug in your head I don't know what the deal is with him and I'm not I'm not endorsing I'm not telling you oh he's a good guy and you know we should be we should be comfortable with him he did hand out

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comfortable with him he did hand out weapons to two people from the trunk of his car we don't know what that is and somebody did get a shot recently I'm not saying that's connected in any way it's probably not but we got questions so they're more unanswered questions than there are answers but I'll just put that bug into your mind that he's a little more complicated maybe in a good way than you think so don't just I'll just ask you to reserve judgment about the whole wrath situation until we know a lot more now I'm not endorsing it not endorsing anything he's doing I'm just saying there's something here we need to know more about and I don't think you've been well served by your news sources that's all now part of that story is that if you saw this this was horrible so somebody got a shot and ended up dying they bled out in the autonomous zone don't know the details but the medics from outside the zone showed up with their ambulances and they stopped at the

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their ambulances and they stopped at the at sort of the border but nobody was stopping them from coming in so we saw the video there seem to be a you know an open road there were no protesters and in fact there was somebody from the order autonomous zone begging them to come all the way and that they were under radio is waiting for I guess police I think it was police approval to go into the zone now they decided not to until it was too late or they didn't I forget I think I think they probably waited for the the body to be taken it actually and I don't know the details I might have that last part wrong but the point is that they intentionally waited while that guy was bleeding to death and they decided that it was too dangerous to go in even though there was no immediate obvious threat where they were on the border before they were knew that there will be much discussion there will

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there will be much discussion there will be much discussion about whether those medical professionals were let's say not doing their duty by not accepting the extra danger which of course I think everybody would agree there's some danger knowing in that zone I don't know much but they did not accept that extra danger because they did not feel it was a secure place and they let him bleed them how much of that was political do you think do you think that whoever was telling them not to go in because it wasn't their decision really I mean I suppose they could have violated orders but then they get fired do you think that the people who told them not to go in working only about their safety or do you think that they used the a guy bleeding out as a political pawn and they just let him die to make a point because they did make a point I'm not sure it's the point

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make a point I'm not sure it's the point they wanted to be but they did make a point and the point is this autonomous zone isn't isn't functional it doesn't work it can't keep you alive and so somebody I'm seeing in the comments that somebody's calling them cowards I don't think that's what's what's going on my guess is that the the people in the the ambulances were in a tough situation but I don't think what stopped them was fear I don't I don't I seek because my I guess I'm biased because I feel like people who do that job I mean if you can be an emergency medical person I just don't know if physical fear is a big part of your life because you must have overcome that somehow even to just do your job so I don't know that they were afraid I do know they had orders not to go in and they decided to follow the orders now is that wrong I don't know

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orders now is that wrong I don't know but you'd have to ask yourself did the medics have helped or hurt this situation in the long run because by not going in they didn't make the point that you gotta wind this thing down they did it by letting somebody die perhaps I don't know that might've saved lives they may have saved future lives by letting a few die because maybe that why is it down faster who knows hard to score that one but it's tragic either way just about two years ago this summer i sat in the president's Oval Office and this is the one thing I'll tell you just because it makes the president look smart so I don't think he would mind if I told you this one little tidbit from the conversation and that was that he predicted two years ago the president did to me personally that Biden would be the nominee pretty

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that Biden would be the nominee pretty good right yes so two years before it happened president Trump's instincts and lots of other people picked Biden as well so it wasn't that surprising but you picked Biden two years ago and he was right okay so you have to give them that that bit of insight and instinct I can I can personally vouch for his confident prediction that it wouldn't be Biden he was right now I sat there and I said that it would be Kabul Arras now think about two years ago where was Kabul Harris she was not even in the primaries yet so that was a pretty bold call that I picked you know one politician out of you know a big swarm and she's made it apparently all the way to the you know vice presidential finalists but what's interesting is that when she dropped out of the race for to be the top spot I

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of the race for to be the top spot I continued with my prediction and said that she would reimburse retrained this is the important part I said that she would be retrained by the top level professionals in the country you know the people were really really good at it and that she would emerge almost like a different candidate stronger more confident more capable of communicating saying the right things never the wrong things that sort of thing and that has happened that's happened if you've watched her for the last month she's a completely different candidate she's changed her look she has fixed her body language because she used to talk like jumpy her shoulders will move when she's talking and it just looked unconfident she stopped it after a lifetime of that activity in the last month she stopped her entire body language thing now you could do that if you practice

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could do that if you practice but it's I guarantee there was some external source who said look you got to get your body under control but sending the wrong signal is yes the other thing was her unconfident laughs she would laugh at her own jokes and if you saw her laughing and answering about in the debate she said it was just a debate that she laughed it was more of a confident laugh in other words she was laughing not at her own joke on confidently she was laughing at the person who asked the joke for it being so silly that's a whole different laugh and it works here's the next thing she did so yesterday she tweeted this Cobb lares tweets I was raised to know that being black means that you are capable of doing anything that if we are committed if we are deep in faith we can do anything but it requires resilience and most of all love of self and it's a wonderful thing now that is almost a pure

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thing now that is almost a pure republican tweet isn't it the Republican point of view is the only thing stopping you is yourself you know we took care of making the laws fair as fair as we can you know deeds lots of tweaking but at least on paper they're fair so the thing that's holding you back is your own motivation in your own effort you know your own life choices it's very Republican and so Delk Pablo Harris just out of nowhere she wasn't prompted to say it has volunteered the most Republican statement you've ever heard now she can still you know say that there's a victim thing going on as well so she doesn't have to abandon that but notice she's triangulating that's the Clinton strategy triangulation in other words she's starting to move toward the center where everybody can agree I'm gonna talk about this actually I talk about it now let's go to the whiteboard I've said this before but I

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whiteboard I've said this before but I figured a better way to present it so I think that's worth doing forget about the shadows here so the GOP of the Democrats have different views of what equality should or or is and this is a generalization it doesn't apply to any one person right so just in general the Republicans think that if you have equality of rights and equality of opportunity well you're done the rest is up to you right as long as we made the laws equal on paper it's up to you working in in general right again these are gross generalizations the Democrats are a little more focused on outcomes which is hey you know yeah I see on paper it looks good but our outcomes are different so that that's something that must be fixed we've got to figure out how to get the outcomes better whatever that takes and these are hard to resolve

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that takes and these are hard to resolve and my suggestion is that the useful middle ground the triangulation place the the place that a national candidate could find agreement on both the left and the right is equality of strategies what do I mean by that here's what I mean as a white person in America do I have enough strategies for success the answer is yes yes as a white person in America I have plenty of strategies for success stay out of jail don't do drugs you know go to a good school that's it because if I do those things and I'm a white person in America sooner or later I can get a job and I can you know make something make something work out but suppose that black in America do I have the same strategies or different strategies as long as I have plentiful strategies for success does it matter if they're exactly the same as someone

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they're exactly the same as someone else's strategies not so much not so much for example if I said I'm gonna give you $100 and I'm gonna reach into my right pocket and give it to you do you care if I say I would do my right pocket or my left it doesn't matter you know you just you've got your hundred dollars and you didn't do any extra work either way they're all equal so I would say that if one group has a good basket of strategies all of them are perfectly acceptable but they're different from somebody else's basket of strategies I would say that you have equality of strategy so long as both baskets are full of good strategies that don't have any limitations compared to the other basket so if you're a black person in America can you do you have the option it might be harder because of you know let's say if you're in an inner city you have different pressures but you still can not do drugs pay attention in school your school is worse perhaps go to

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your school is worse perhaps go to college get a college scholarship so if you're black you have a you have an extra an extra strategy because you're more likely to be able to get a college scholarship if you get the college degree or it could be anything it could be a trade you know learning a trade doesn't have to be college once you're ready for the workforce do you have a strategy for getting a job in our big old racist discriminating world and the answer is yes yes unlike the white person's strategy which is I'll just go get a job there's nothing really stopping me black people might have some racism depending on the situation there could be some racism that they have to overcome but they also have a strategy that white people don't have which is being black you can go into any fortune 500 company and I really mean it Eddie pretty much 100% of every fortune 500 company take your college degree and say

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company take your college degree and say I'd like to get a job and they will hire you practically before you get the sentence out of your mouth because they have great pressure to improve diversity so if you go in there with some skills they can use it's yes it's yes and they also need to make sure that they've got enough diversity and senior management so are they going to overlook you if you're black or are they going to give you a really good look because they really need you to succeed yesterday it's gonna give you a really hard look and maybe pick you above other people even if they don't say that because it helps senior management to promote black employees because it makes them look good Hey look at me I I got some diversity here so I believe that children especially need to be taught that all those strategies might be different although racism is pervasive and universal and no matter what you do

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universal and no matter what you do about it you can't get rid of all of it it's just sort of baked into our human experience you can try as hard as you can but if you're talking about what is equal what is fair what is it what is a standard by which we should measure how well we're doing as a society I would argue that if everybody has strategies for success that that's about as fair as you can get yeah there there might be an idealized level of fairness that you'd like to accomplish that might be just impossible but the best you can get in the real world is you've all got a path they're just different paths so if Tom Harris were to take an approach like this and say look racism exists everybody agrees we'll do what we can and we'll tweak these systems we'll try to you know get more control over the judicial system in particular but the real thing is strategy let's let's get a strategy for success let's fix the schools whatever by the way if I had to

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schools whatever by the way if I had to if I had to pick one source of racism like if you look at all the things you would need to fix to reduce let's say racial outcomes yeah you don't even have to say racism you could say racial outcomes so that black students you know can do better yeah how do you improve that every poor student can do better how do you improve that if you could take take it out to one problem what would it be let's say one thing you could fix what would it be here's my vote the teachers unions I'm not an expert in this field but from what I can see the existence of the teachers unions makes racism possible and promotes it because you can't fix the schools unless you have some choice and some competition my understanding is that black lives matter and Republicans agree of the following point wouldn't it be nice to have better

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point wouldn't it be nice to have better schools for black people that that this is where Republicans and black lives matter are on the same page wouldn't it be nice to have better schools for black people and for everybody of course the Republicans would just say everybody but don't you think Republicans want better schools for black kids yeah yeah they do how do you get there with teachers unions in place you can't you can't there is no path while teachers unions exist in their current form there's no path you can't get to an approved school because you can't get competition you can't fire bad teachers you can't you don't have school choice you know you're not going to be able to use the use the listening religious school or private school or any other school even if you could afford it just can't use them they don't exist so there's a there's an obvious strategy for for making things better which is to break the break the

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better which is to break the break the teachers union of course that has its problems all right there's a we'll talk about the speech in a minute there's a pundit on CNN Harry Intan who believes that the the rumored belief that there are shy Trump supporters and that the polls are not picking them up so Harry Anton writes this finding peace on CNN saying that that can't be the case it can't be true that Republicans are lying to pollsters because the way they're polled is when robocalls so there's not a human being and Harry had said I don't want to insult the guy but I don't know how to do this I don't have to talk about this without insulting his intelligence he thinks that because you gave your

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thinks that because you gave your political opinion to a robocall that you're talking to a machine so you wouldn't have any problems with your privacy Harry I would be really embarrassed to put that opinion in public because that robocall that was your phone number and it knows what answers you gave by pushing the keypad or however you did it and that's all in a database you don't think a human has access to the database how could you be how could you be so unaware of the world to think that because a computer is collecting the information that humans don't have access to it so I can't think of a Republican who would you would trust a robot with their personal information a robot comes to your door and says hey yeah I'm a robot can you tell me your medical information there

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tell me your medical information there you go are you kidding that's private I'm not going to tell you my medical information there's a robot at your door says oh no no I'm not even a person I'm a machine you can tell me and then the Republican says really if I tell you that you know I still have privacy because you're a machine and the robot says yeah yeah I wouldn't lie to you then the Republican goes into his gun safe takes out the biggest weapon he can he blows the head off the off the robot because it's obviously an evil robot and I think it would be a justified killing
so what I did is 11 points ahead of these robot calls maybe maybe you know I don't think you could rule out the Biden is actually and might actually win the election good habit so here's the biggest story of the

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habit so here's the biggest story of the day that will be treated as the smallest story of the day but if I grow over time as Joel pointed out both white wheat and a Breitbart where he wrote about it what we saw last night was you've noticed that the rally crowd was not that big and of course the campaign the Trump campaign tried to say you know maybe it was because protesters tried to keep people out but it wasn't that the protesters did do a little interfering but it didn't have anything to do with the final count so what was it they did it well AOC and some of the Democrats are crowing as they say crowing that they're quite happy that they believe there was a tick-tock Prague in other words users of tick tock got together and they organized this online campaign to RSVP to the rally but not planning to

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to the rally but not planning to actually go so they were just going to say they were going and then you know the campaign was saying we sold a billion tickets or a million RSVPs but that was all fake that was a tick-tock prank this started small and it grew into a big thing so AOC was laughing and mocking the Republicans and the Trump campaign last night by tweet hahaha you fools the clever clever anti Trump users the citizens the young citizens he called them the Zoomers you know the young people of tick-tock they organized this campaign and they tricked you and they made you rally a failure ha ha is that the story is there anything anything maybe a detail that could be added to that story that would make it a little bit different is there anything maybe missing from her tweet well tick-tock

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tweet well tick-tock a Chinese company who controls the algorithm in tik-tok well tick-tock-tick-tock gets to decide what their algorithm is who controls tick-tock Chinese government because they control any Chinese company so that they have an interest in if they didn't care they wouldn't control them but since tick-tock is a gigantic social media company with a gigantic influence potential that would be a case where you could know with with certainty that the Chinese government has some control over the tick-tock algorithm don't let me ask you this if you're familiar with tick-tock you know it's mostly people doing funny little singing and dancing videos you know that that's 99% of it and you know that the age is sort of the twelve-year-old you're sort of the the core age a little bit older but you know twelve is

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bit older but you know twelve is probably that you know the real point now can you remember in your in you were memory of your entire life do you remember the other time that twelve year olds were really interested in politics to the extent that they would care about one rally in Tulsa and that they would care so much about politics these twelve year old Americans because you know your 12 year old American girls I think it's mostly girls twelve year old American girls what they really care about is politics and the issue they care about the most is the number of people who attended a Trump rally in Tulsa because that's the sort of thing they care about when they're 12 do you believe that do you believe that the that the size of this viral campaign was driven entirely by organic interest of twelve-year-old girls in politics is that what you think

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girls in politics is that what you think did do you believe that this happened organically
it's possible but it would be the first time ever that twelve-year-old girls got deeply involved in politics I would say the odds that this happened organically are pretty close to zero which means they're right in front of us and by the way since the the rally crowd size has been front-page news so there's nobody who could argue that this story of how many people attended the rally doesn't have an effect on our political system you couldn't claim that right nobody nobody reasonably could say about that didn't have an influence on the campaign it was such a small thing well it is a small thing compared to all the other things but it is nonetheless true that we we watched right in front of ourselves the Chinese government changing the news cycle of how we report

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changing the news cycle of how we report on the biggest political decision of our lifetimes perhaps so here's the thing if tick-tock is still legal in the United States next week your government is worthless so I don't know that tick-tock will be banned in the United States but if it's still alive in a week the government of the United States is just not doing the job I mean this was such an obvious foreign interference and I'll even go further suppose you can imagine they since you can't prove the Chinese government did anything you know there's no smoking gun because we don't have access to the algorithm even if you couldn't prove it what's the difference what's the difference you still have to shut it down because China could have done that whether or not they actually

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done that whether or not they actually did it in this case is completely irrelevant to the question of shutting them down this case shows unambiguously that they could have done it all they had to do is boost the algorithm so that more people saw the saw the the post that's it how many people how many people do you think would organically see a political post tick-tock do you think that's the kind of post that goes viral hey I'm gonna say something about politics on tick-tock that'll go viral well some of them are but that feels like a new phenomenon like maybe there's somebody behind the curtain who say well there's not much political on here but we're gonna make these big so I don't know there's there's no way to shade this at this point a tick-tock has to be closed down it has to be closed down because what we saw last night was worse

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because what we saw last night was worse than Russia collusion was even alleged way worse you you saw the the Facebook ads that the Russians did like complete amateur amateur hour had no effect on anything I can guarantee it but this did this actually changed the new cycle in real time you watched it you watched it there's nothing else to ask there's there's no further no further investigation needs to be done you know that they could have done it so even if they didn't it's too big of a risk so I wouldn't be surprised if tick tock gets shut down by the end of the week next week I wouldn't be surprised if it gets shut down on Monday and I will tell you that if we go all the way into the election and tick-tock is still legal in the United States Trump doesn't deserve to get elected so let me say it as clearly as possible if tick-tock doesn't get shut down

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if tick-tock doesn't get shut down before Election Day I don't care if Trump wins it up I mean he's not doing the basic job of the president if he lets that continue to be a product that is sold in the United States or used in the n° seats would you agree by the way when you say that's just so basic to the job that if he's not if he can't get that done I'd look at somebody else yeah you got to start looking at the alternatives if the guy who's in the position doesn't do something that basic alright let's talk about how he did on the speech itself I know that's what you care about my first take and I tweeted about it but then I deleted my tweet is that it looked like a disaster so the first I don't know 15 minutes senator so I was I was just thinking this is the worst morality he's just looking not to win that was my first impression yeah and here are some of the things that I saw for that he

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of the things that I saw for that he said stuff like these are all red meat he was feeding CNN so my specific complaint is that it seemed like the entire speech was just to give CNN material to criticize him about stuff that just didn't need to be said it just wasn't this wasn't helping him but it could hurt him that was my first impression I'll tell you how that changed and so he talked about the flu being the Chinese flu I think he said the common flu flu so you know that's gonna be called racist he said he used the word hombre you know what if some bad hombre comes and even signaled to us that he knows he's not supposed to use that word and then he used it after he signal he's now supposed to he of course supported statues which people will interpret as racist even if it isn't he use word of thugs that he knows people will interpret as racist even though it isn't so he did he talked about his supporters would fight better if it came to a you know if it came to a civil war the Republicans would win because

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the Republicans would win because they're better fighters basically and the second event invented is important because the protestors which makes CNN think he's talking about shooting people so and then of course he had I don't think he mentioned Juneteenth he didn't mention any unifying words the entire all of the visuals were Trump supporters packed tightly together and not Merritt wearing masks and frankly look like lucky idiots let me say that as clearly as possible the visual of it in the in the middle of the pandemic seeing crowds and crowds and crowds of the picture after picture of Trump supporters standing shoulders your shoulder without masks it does look make them look like idiots so that's just a terrible look I kind of expected that the president would not be wearing the mask but that the the participants would be strongly encouraged to wear them some of the some of them had them but nobody

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of the some of them had them but nobody so I would say that the if yeah I'm not sure how that played with Republicans my guess is that Republicans generally liked his speech you know probably more like that than not but even Trump himself referred to the first part of his speech is not up to his the standard he wanted it to he actually criticized the quality of his own speech while he was giving it and he was accurate which made me laugh so so that's the part we like about him like that there's some you know that lack of a filter is very appealing even though it has all kinds of problems associated with it it's just appealing to some types of people I would include myself but here's what he did right oh the other thing he said jokingly or not he said that all the testing makes it look like there's more infections and

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look like there's more infections and that's bad for Trump so he said he told his team to slow down the testing baby because it makes him look bad now a CNN chose to interpret that as literal like he actually meant that to his credit Chris solez a-- solicit was on CNN and one of those you know multi-person panel shots when they went to him he said and he said it explicitly well I don't think he was completely serious about that in other words at least crystal is I recognized that when the president says things like this you should always take them as literal but the other panelists chose to because that makes it a story but knowing that crystal izi was like I don't know that that's serious is helpful because you know that even see it then it's got to have a little bit of question whether he was joking by the way he was joking and that he also said that he talked to the Republicans of the plane coming over some of the other

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plane coming over some of the other politicians and they were talking about how it might be better to let the cities burn because it would look good for job
and I thought to myself oh god did he really say that did he say the Republicans are talking about letting the cities burn because it'd be good politically did he really say that but people also realize because he also said that if the city's allowed him to he could stop the problems in an hour it'd be you have to send in the military but he stopped in an hour so he's very clear that the reason that he's holding off is because the Democrat mayor's are not letting him in if they asked he would come in to solve the problem so here's my overall take what I said what I've heard first heard the first few things that I knew would be on CNN I wrote them down and checked and as soon as it was done yes every point that you pulled out that you do what he said it was like oh

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that you do what he said it was like oh there is the CNN Headline there's another one it sure enough every one of them was there but it wasn't the only as bad as I thought it would be I looked at the headlines last night and there was a vet abuser word racist what's up with that he fed them intentionally race baiting ideas when he the the ombré one was the one that told you what he was thinking all right cuz that one was a little too on the nose he actually said I like to use the word abre and I made some reference to the fact that it would be trouble and that he used it so here if you look at all the things he said that normally other people would put in the context of racism I didn't see it as strongly as I thought CNN was going to play it because if you would look at all these things they really more easily fall into being offensive than free speech so I think

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offensive than free speech so I think the president has carved out a strong position which he refuses to give an inch on which is free speech which is a gigantic issue for his base and watching him not bow even a little bit to political pressure about how to speak I kind of liked I kind of liked it even though I was like oh don't say that don't say that at the same time the other part of my brain was saying I like the fact that he's he's protecting the space meaning that he's he is absolutely adamant about the right to offended people about anything he was the right to be offensive and yet he's fighting for it and that right accrues to his base I think by association in the sense that if he doesn't get canceled you know that does not some kind of a standard now there were no unified words a lot of

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now there were no unified words a lot of people on both sides saying well that was kind of a missed opportunity but on the other hand on the other hand as we watched the Democrats self-immolate in other words the autonomous that is all bad news for Democrats I would think I mean ongoing trouble this seems like it's accruing to Democrats the the you know that the Democrats in the middle will seem to be losing ground to the left this is the weirdest election because the best campaign strategy for both Biden and Trump it's the not campaign isn't that weird Biden is definitely advantaged by not campaigning but so is Trump I think Trump just has to wait and just just let the nearest play the news a lot of people have criticized him for not being more vocal about the the protesters the district etc if he had been more vocal it would

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etc if he had been more vocal it would have been called racist he did say all the right things about you know George Floyd and etc and he did do an executive order on you know police police processes so he was you know paying attention he was acting he was saying the right things but once he's done the basics he may be just not talking this is best campaign strategy I mean that would be surprising if it were I'm not not recommending it but overall I would say that the president gave a speech much like his last much like these other speeches I don't think it will make a dent it will not lose him any votes it will not gain him any votes but here might be the one thing that we took away from it that might be the one thing that was the most persuasive are you ready for it here's the one most persuasive thing that came out of it

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persuasive thing that came out of it what Trump did in front of the entire world stand out of he was there for an hour or whatever it was whatever the time was he he did a one-hour presentation that there isn't one person in the entire world who believes Biden could have done that nobody there's no Democrat and there's no Republican who believes Biden could have simply even performed the way Trump did forget about what he said just the performance Trump was clearly mentally all there he was a top of his game he even made fun of you know he's slow start I think he's a little out of practice got a little out of practice with the rallies and stuff because of the time off I think that will fix you know I think he'll be better every time he does it the the slaughter beater is probably it's probably about 50/50 right

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probably it's probably about 50/50 right now so it's below 100% but it's also going to be moving all over the place between their own election he was very funny I think he had his funniest jokes when he talked about the ramp in he had you know excellent presentation on the the water glass and using his one handed the saluting and stuff so in terms of playing to his base I think it was very successful in terms of the the left I know the protests seem to have fizzle out the protests seem to fizzle out yeah he was pretty funny I have a good laugh over some of his stuff and I was watching the fact-check turd Dale is this they the fact checker so Trump claimed that the last 10 feet of the ramp he sort of you know ran down and that if they showed the last part of the ramp they would see that there's nothing wrong with Trump that it was

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nothing wrong with Trump that it was obviously the ramp because the last part he ran now of course he didn't that just didn't happen if you look at the video no there was no running down the ramp did that happen but immediately after he was off the ramp he did show a little spring in his step and I remember seeing that even before he mentioned it and I thought oh that little spring in your step is I think he's signalling to anybody watching there's nothing wrong with me that it's the ramp and when I watched it that's exactly what I thought I saw that little he did a little like a skip at the end when he got off clearly shouting they had full control of his body and his legs it was just the ramp so what Dale fact-check sentence says no the last 10 feet of that ramp he is not running and he said he was running and that's just not true but if you watch the video you're gonna see him get to the end of the ramp and then do like do a little like skip thing and then you could say okay well he did he did

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could say okay well he did he did exaggerate the end of the ramp thing but it's also obvious that the news live because he's fine and then he obviously there's nothing wrong with his his hand drinking water I I was very curious what the two hands of the water glass was because we've seen them do it before he holds over two hands and his explanation he's trying to keep a drip from his tie because it looks bad if you get like a little drip on your tie his so tie it's really gonna show and I thought that is so weird I think it's true I think it was so weird that it would be hard not to believe that that he used the second hand to keep a drip off his tie I don't know that you would make that up that would be the weirdest lay in the world to make up so as soon as I heard it I thought wow that is just so weird that's probably true all right that's all I got for now yeah I will I will talk to you later