Episode 1036 Scott Adams: White-Looking Jesus, News More Shameless Than Usual, Presidential Tweets

Date: 2020-06-23 | Duration: 53:15

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• PolitiFact’s credibility and the “Fine People” HOAX

• Shaun King tweets about “white European Jesus”

• NYT despicable doxxing of blogger, Scott Alexander

• CNN’s characterization of Russian collusion HOAX

• Bubba Wallace NASCAR story…HOAX?

• Project Veritas exposes Facebook’s political bias

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I'm pom pom pom pom pom pom pom pom hey anybody here today come on him if I mirror you should be here yeah we got stuff to talk about yes we do and that will happen directly after the simultaneous lip I know you'll enjoy it it's gonna be a good one now you might wonder why I don't do the normal introduction to the simultaneous if today and there's a reason I can't remember it that's right I read it every single time one of the tricks of writing is that things that you can read are very different than things you read out loud so if you're gonna write something for the purpose of reading it out loud if you're going to be reading it that's fine but something you were going to memorize and say you might write it differently
but we're going to enjoy the simultaneous sip right now do you have a cup a mug it's dopamine hit of the day

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cup a mug it's dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better and you're getting ready for it now go
good stuff so last night I was getting ready to go go to sleep just wind it down I was in bed and I thought to myself I'll check Twitter one more time here's what you should never do if you're trying to wind down and go to sleep don't ever check Twitter right before you go to sleep it's a very bad sleep strategy and so I opened up Twitter and I see somebody's making a comment that's referring to the president retweeting me which he did the day before yesterday I thought oh they're still talking about this this is the day before yesterday but then I looked at the comment well this doesn't

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looked at the comment well this doesn't seem like it's about that one so I click on it and he had retweeted me again so it was the second retweet in two days and I'm thinking well aren't I pretty special and that I saw another one I thought are you kidding me he retweeted me three times in two days but it wasn't true it was not true that I got retweeted three times in two days by the president because it was for a tweeted me four times in the last 48 hours we'll talk about those and I got to tell you it's the weirdest experience to get retweeted by the president because it's simultaneously big and small at the same time so the big part is that he is the most important politician on the planet and and even even if it were not just the job of the President he's also the

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the job of the President he's also the biggest personality and the biggest job I mean it's it's Trump right and so would he when he when he tweets about you and he referred to me as interesting guy
guy I'm not sure if that's my forever name yet it doesn't have the crisp insulting quality of his other nicknames so I I don't know if I can call myself an interesting guy it just it just needs to be a little more insulting so maybe I can ask him for that later can you give me a big day in that's just a little bit derogatory because I don't think I can go with this one it's not gonna work anyway so that's the the big part is that it's the biggest you know the most important personality in the world who is apparently I caught his attention to four times in 48 hours so that's the big part the small part is that what I'm experiencing it it's just me and my phone Christie does it in another room and it's just like ah just me and my

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and it's just like ah just me and my phone that's it so it's the the weird combination of things and then I woke up and so a lot of comments that other people saw so we'll talk about those things in a minute I tweeted yesterday that if I ever become president seems unlikely but if I ever become president I want to do such a good job that the news does about stuff like drinking water with two hands walking down a ramp tweeting about stuff have you noticed that the criticisms about Trump are completely off topic of his job performance have you noticed that it happens kind of subtly because we get so drawn into each story it's hard to to look at the larger trend you know you get lost into the details but if you just rise up for a minute and look at the headline so let me call up let's

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the headline so let me call up let's just call up CNN randomly let's see you see the types of stories that are anti-trump there's something about Brianna Keilar confronts Trump campaign official saying our Dead Americans funny to you alright so the best the best they could do is that there's a campaign official who laughed about a joke okay here's another one Trump takes first trip to the border so that's a nothing first trip to the border in 2020 okay how about
fact-checking Trump's mail-in vote fraud claims all right let's check that so John Avlon is checking Trump's mail-in fraud claims and as his source he uses PolitiFact so we refers to PolitiFact and they they have this little logo

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and they they have this little logo you've probably seen it that shows the meter going from you know false to true and if it's really false it's like it's on fire you know it's a lie so PolitiFact is their source for CNN to fact-check the president so I thought to myself well I wonder how credible they are so I thought I'll check the one thing that I know what the truth is and it's the the fine people hoax and everybody who reads the transcript the truth so this was easy you don't have to wonder what the truth is because it's just written right in front of you there's no interpretation it's pretty obvious so you should go to PolitiFact presumably if it's a credible outfit and it will have this little meter which it does for all of its facts and that fact will say the fine people hoax or the fine people's story that the allegation of the president called the marching Nazis fine people it should have a big

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Nazis fine people it should have a big flaming false right if if PolitiFact is credible that's what it would be so I look it up and I'm looking for the logo and it's not there it's not there the logo the little flaming truth-o-meter is the primary branding thing that they do they put it on every story so every story has that except for the fine people hoax instead of telling you it was true or false they said we're just going to show it to you in context here's the transcript why would a fact-checking organization not check the fact on the most important fact of the entire presidency in my opinion that's the most important fact because more than a thing it's what's behind the imagination that the president is a obvious racist and everybody knows it and here's the evidence because of those fine people hooks think about it

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fine people hooks think about it PolitiFact left their fact-checking off the biggest lie and politics didn't say it was true didn't say it was false they just left it off think about that and that's the source the CNN uses the fact chicken so they're the CNN claim is that mail-in ballots would not be a massive fraud opportunity they might be debating some of the details of that and I would imagine the president is speaking point approximately as he often does so he may not be true on every fat but is there any thinking person who believes that mail-in ballots are not an opportunity for fraud I can't even wrap my head around the opposing argument I really can't so that's weird

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so that's weird here's what else they say Trump falsely accuses Obama of treason so again here's one of the biggest the worst criticism they could find of Trump's job performance has nothing to do with his job it's just something he said about Obama in a political season and he exaggerated perhaps it used treason when really he meant bad behavior you know not technically treason it's not a story again if I run for president and become president the best you could do is to have your biggest critics have nothing to say about your actual performance on the job and only talk about your personality talk about some unimportant things that you said that might have been wrong that's that that's the worst they have on Trump are they talking about the economy do you know what November 30 is going to look like here's what November 3rd is going to look like

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what November 3rd is going to look like the economy is going to be roaring back at record percentages which will be misleading because we're coming off a low base so just as Obama's performance with the economy was misleading because he too was coming off a depressed base everything looks good from there Trump is going to get that same imaginary benefit he's going to be able to say hey look we had a coronavirus and things are up X percentage somebody says the Dow is that I'm screaming up I'll bet it is so the president's going to have an economy that's coming back I don't think people will blame him for the president before they economy being depressed but they might credit him for it coming back I think that would be fair because he has been pushing for it to come back even at maybe great risk before health problems and so the economy will look good what else we got let's take China how is the president

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let's take China how is the president gonna look in terms of China trade well I think China's reputation is so bad that because Trump has been tough on China in general he's going to look smart because he was tough on China and it looks like his instincts about China have been completely proven true so that's what about Isis Isis is gone Isis is completely gone do you remember Isis wasn't there a time you were worried that Isis was going to conquer the world it's gone basically I mean at least territorially it'll never be gone as an ID I suppose so you can kind of go down the line if you were to if you take whatever you think you are the top five things right take the top five issues he looks pretty good there was a Rasmussen poll that said that something like

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poll that said that something like twenty four percent of black likely voters so it's not the entire population it's just the likely voters who are also black Americans strongly approve of their president's job approval do you believe that so this is Rasmussen mara Asmussen I think was the most accurate poll and of the major polls the most accurate in 2016 and they're saying that about a quarter of black likely voters approve or strongly approve of the president's performance do you think that's true I think it is actually just anecdotally and of course you know anecdotally doesn't mean much but it is my impression that he may have doubled his support in the black community and why wouldn't he why wouldn't he right because I think the I think the black community is looking at the same stuff everybody else

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looking at the same stuff everybody else looking at do you think the black community likes crime no do you think the black community likes a bad economy no do you think the black you know community likes you know bad trade deals no so yeah why why wouldn't he have doubled support even even against all the bad press seems like you would have
alright some other things so one of the things that the president retweeted was my tweet in which I was tweeting about Shaun King now you all know Shaun King he's he's an activist one of the most famous ones and he's he's a black would you say he's a black activist where he's an activist for black issues now the reason I ask that is that the and and I can't tell the story without this all right so when I start giving you this

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right so when I start giving you this context the first thing you should say is how is that relevant to the story yeah I'm you're seeing it in the comments so he's an activist for the black community who has the interesting distinction of not appearing to be black now I'm not going to I have no opinion of what his DNA is right so I'm not going to go there I'm just saying that the public opinion other people not me look at him and say dude you don't even look black I don't think you're black now I don't know what he is I'm not going to give you an opinion on that I just think it's it's it's sort of obnoxious to tell other people what they are so manat going to I'm not gonna get into that argument I will simply I'll simply note that the most famous thing about Shaun King is that he's not black enough according to his critics ok and when I say now black enough I mean he

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when I say now black enough I mean he looks like a white guy again nothing wrong with that I'm not saying is why I don't know anything about his DNA I don't even have an opinion I don't care right I literally couldn't care about any of that but it's important to this anecdotal story here so he was asked about whether the depictions of Jesus who looks sort of white and European in most depictions if he thought that that needed to be you know changed to be more and historically accurate and let's say incorporating the assumption that Jesus was less european-looking and probably more Middle Eastern looking and this is what Shaun King tweeted he said yes I think the statues of the white European they claim as Jesus should also come down meaning like the statues and stuff they're a form of white supremacy always have been in the Bible when the family of Jesus wanted to hide and blend in guess where

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wanted to hide and blend in guess where they went Egypt not Denmark tear them down so that was shown Kings tweet now here is the fascinating psychological part of this the fascinating part is that when you see this tweet isn't your first impression that the slippery slope you know started with one statue and then it was lots of statues and then it's and then it's you know Teddy Roosevelt and you know and the next thing you know it's going to be Jesus is that your first impression that you started with something that wasn't that big a deal was just a statue of one statue and world full of statues but then it was lots of statues and now it's my god they're coming from my religion that's what it feels like right but let me suggest that if this had been the first and only issue if you'd never heard about any statues there was there were no protests going on if the only thing you heard of was just this point hey why

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you heard of was just this point hey why is Jesus always depicted looking European wouldn't you think that was actually pretty reasonable as a complaint seriously it was the only one you were judging it as a continuation of something maybe you've got a problem with if it was just by itself at isolation it's actually the most reasonable it's the most reasonable complaint which is what I said so when i retweeted it Sean kidding I thought to myself you know you know in these times of great division and stuff like this I don't disagree with that even a little bit in fact I've thought that all my life when I went to Sunday school as a kid yeah I'm 10 years old and I'm looking at white Jesus and I'm looking at the Middle East and I'm 10 and I'm thinking how how's this work how did you get this European guy born and born in the Middle East so and then Sean King's characterization of it the

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Sean King's characterization of it the Senate it's a form of white supremacy now if you've been watching me for a while you know that I've been criticizing anybody who uses the word white supremacy because it's just hyperbole and it's really not in a lot of the examples that people are using in terms of how white people are thinking about it anyway has nothing to do with any of that so I think most of that is just overblown but in this particular example I've got to say he's got kind of a point here because religion is you know what's more important than religion and Christianity being one of the the big two I guess religions it's super super important in the world and in people's lives and sure enough the racial identity of historical Jesus was changed to make it white like how was that good and it's somebody in the comments is saying he was a Jew and they

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comments is saying he was a Jew and they could look any number of ways well I think that that's a fair statement that there are people who look all different ways but I don't think anybody would disagree that the artistic renderings of Jesus were intended to look like a European okay I'm not saying it's impossible that somebody could look a certain way and it's different from the other people but I think you would agree that they intend to make him European don't you feel that that's a safe statement I mean I'm not a historian but it feels like that safe right so I think Shawn King was right all right I I will be happy to criticize him in places where I think he's wrong but why can't we just agree with him when he's right and I think what's fascinating about this is if you take in the context away you would say yeah you know that's pretty good point maybe maybe you should do something about that now I'm not a I'm not a believer so it's not up to me I'm not in this fight at

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not up to me I'm not in this fight at all I don't whichever way it goes is fine I think I think everybody said you should see Jesus the way they won't do right why why can't Jesus be exactly that Jesus you want to see why can't black people have black Jesus why can't you know I can't the Chinese have Chinese Jesus because he is Jesus right you're not exactly fitting into a you know fitting into a little box there's only one of them so whatever whatever the believers want to do with Jesus that would be their business here is a horrible little story oh and so what's interesting about that is that the president retweeted my comment which was a in which was also agreeing you know part of the comment was I said Trump just won 2020 because if the protesters come after Jesus that's the end of the election isn't it now that the Shawn

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election isn't it now that the Shawn King thing probably will just stop with a you know one tweet but imagine if you will that it becomes a thing even if I agree with it being a reasonable thing that they should be discussed it is the end of the election is there anybody would disagree with that that if this Jesus thing became more of an issue than it is more than just a tweet it would be the end of the election so President Trump retweets it do you see how clever that is do you see how clever it is for the president to retweet that because in its in its form as it was you know just as a tweet it's just a blue check person who tweeted something that has been said before not much to it but because the president tweeted not only my comment that it would that would basically be the election but he also tweeted the part where I agreed with Shaun King think about it he didn't make

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Shaun King think about it he didn't make a comment about it he he just tweeted it so the the fact that he would want to boost that signal because it's good for his campaign it's pretty clever okay I gotta say that was a that was a well chosen retweet because if that gets bigger the elections over here's I'll get back to us more Trump tweets retweets in a minute there was an appalling story about something the New York Times did there is one of the most despicable things you'll ever see in any entity especially a news business so the New York Times decided to do a story about a fairly famous blogger who conceals his real identity and he blogged under the name of Scott Alexander but that was actually his middle and his first and middle name so his real last name he keeps secret because he he's a psychiatrist and he

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because he he's a psychiatrist and he doesn't want his blogging which can be a little more controversial to bleed into his real work he could get fired his his clients whatever problem with it so the New York Times says they wanted they contact him to do a story about his blogging now I've talked about Scott Alexander's blog before it's one of the most brilliant and insightful things you've ever seen like ever that's a pretty big statement right but it is one of the most insightful smart fresh views you've never seen before I've quoted him before one of the most interesting thinkers in the world really and very well-informed and the New York Times of course while to do a story about it because he's so influential and so good at it but they decided they were going to DOX him they were going to do a complementary story about him because I guess the angle was he got a lot of stuff right about coronavirus before the experts did so it

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coronavirus before the experts did so it was going to be a complementary story about how he got things right before the experts were and he's an influential great blogger and their policy is that they reveal real names and of course he asked them not to and they said no it's our policy we have to reveal real names now if this they were going to write a positive story and destroy his life intentionally knowing that we're doing it because it's just their policy it's just their policy to use a real name yeah we can't we can't make an exception because it's just our policy and I don't know if they're if they did or they're going to I don't know the status of this I can't tell if but what at what it caused him to do was to delete his entire blog not just a blog post but the entire history of his blog one of the most valuable contributions to civilization and he

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contributions to civilization and he deleted it he kept the backup so it's not going forever but he deleted it and and wrote about it now I could not hate the New York Times more than I do right now it's just evil there isn't really any other way to spin this if you're telling me that the New York Times has a rule and they just can't break that rule well okay but it's an evil rule do you know who else had a rule Hiller he had a rule too they weren't very good rules we wish he didn't have them so New York Times why don't you take your rules and shove them so far up your evil asses that we can see it in your eyes you shouldn't even be able to stay in business at or something like this because it's one thing to do something accidentally I'm very forgiving about accidents it's one

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very forgiving about accidents it's one thing to have a different opinion I accept different opinions it's one thing to be political it's one thing to be hyperbolic it's one thing to fail the fact-checking there are lots of ways to have bad behavior but daxing a guy that you actually like in your writing story because of how much he's added to the world and you know you're gonna destroy his life by revealing him that is so evil that I can't even wrap my head around it amazing and by the way this guy isn't political there's nothing political here he's literally just a helpful voice in the world that's it and they're destroying his old life oh it's worse than that because his patients will suffer he's a psychiatrist with a big group of patients do you think that they will be unaffected by this no no they will be affected evil all right and the other thing that

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evil all right and the other thing that the president tweeted was just an article i retweeted which was that yeah the supposedly the only pollster to show Trump winning the state of Michigan so in other words he has that distinction for accuracy in 2016
basically has a projection that's completely different than the major polls so you know the major polls are showing Biden winning by very large margins and the guy who was the most accurate pollster on a state basis at least for the some of the key states says that his polling using a little different methodology which has been more accurate in the past shows us neck-and-neck it's neck-and-neck and he suggests that there might be more shy Trump supporters than 2016 that's right it's neck-and-neck and there might be twice as many shy supporters

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as many shy supporters who are not admitting who they're gonna vote for then 2016 so the president retweeted that because that obviously is good for him so let's say Trump put a temporary hold on workers visas from foreign countries you know this is a topic I don't know a lot about but I also don't understand why the tech workers are being treated differently than other kinds of workers I could see wanting to keep employment good in this country if there were types of jobs that Americans could do and wanted to do but in the tech world bring bringing people in from other countries let's say let's say India if you bring in an engineer from India does that subtract from America or add to India or add to America well have you ever met

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add to America well have you ever met any any technical people from India they're really God I'm not saying that you know as a general statement that every person from India is a technical expert I'm saying that I've met a lot of technical experts who were born in India and they're really good they've started companies some of the biggest companies in the country or at least people were born in India started the biggest countries not necessarily just work or a piece of people but my understanding of economics is that the more people who have that kind of skill the better the more the better because there's an unlimited demand there's no limit to the number of people who have money and would like to do a start-up of some kind and the main thing that's preventing them from doing that startup is that they can't find a technical person to do the technical stuff it's the number one problem you probably think the number one problem

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probably think the number one problem for startups is getting money right it's actually not in my opinion somebody might disagree with this the number one problem is finding technical talent if you get that right you can usually get money too so I don't understand this but I also haven't heard the full argument and it's a temporary restriction we'll see if that becomes permanent through the end of the year I want to read you how CNN is currently characterizing the Russia collusion coup against the President and so that's my characterization that the Russian collusion hoax was essentially a coup to remove the president so that's the way I would call that so CNN of course you would say to yourself well they were certainly hugely embarrassed by covering it as if it were true for under two years or whatever only to find out the

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years or whatever only to find out the entire thing was was just a hoax and made up and the president didn't do anything wrong and it was bad actors in the government etc exactly the opposite of what he intended reported for two years so do they say gosh we should have got that wrong no this is the way they're deciding this is an opinion piece doesn't matter who it's under son cnn.com and here's their characterization of that I just got to redo the son of this was hilarious wall quote while some misconduct related to the Russia investigations has been uncovered that's just the first part of the sentence sub misconduct yeah there there has been some misconduct a little bit the hardly worth mentioning I you don't need any details but to us up some misconduct related to the Russian investigation it's been uncovered you know and several former FBI officials have been chided for their handling of certain aspects of the probe chided

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certain aspects of the probe chided they've been chided now CNN does not say that the FBI did very very bad things as part of what seemed to be a larger plot to remove the president who was legally elected no they say this several former FBI officials have been chided Oh they've been chided I don't even know where you come up with the word excited could you come up with a softer word to criticize somebody let me see if I can use these this word Joseph Goebbels Goebbels who was the Nazi propagandist a number of people have chided him for for some of the things he did yeah Joseph Goebbels he was jaded got jaded a little bit how about a Ho Chi Minh killed millions of people that's one way to say

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millions of people that's one way to say it I mean if you were being unkind you'd say oh yeah he murdered billions of people but if you were seeing then you might say Ho Chi Minh it has been chided before some of the things he did in office while he was in power all right
let's say let's talk about the Bubba Wallace news story so the news if you could call it that is that a rare NASCAR driver who was african-american apparently there were not many of them but Bubba Wallace claims that there was a noose and hanging in the garage that you know he the part of the garage where his car was I guess and that was considered a racist act and the NASCAR people who got behind him and and really supported him which which was good now I said to myself on day one how many of you remember can you back me up on this

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you remember can you back me up on this because a big part of what I do is I make predictions based on persuasion and then I check them right have I told you that you have to check your protec predictions because otherwise you have no idea you have no idea how how well you understand the world you don't know how your filter in the world works unless you make predictions and then check hey did what was the first thing I said when I heard about the Bubba Wallace new story in the comments what was the first thing I said where's the picture right I told you that if there's no picture it's a hoax we live in the world where we're bristling with camera equipment every single person every one of you has a camera within arm's reach probably your phone right are you telling me that people saw a freaking hoax I'm sorry that they saw a noose hanging in the

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that they saw a noose hanging in the garage of a black NASCAR driver and nobody took out a phone really nobody took out a phone so that I'm so let me ask you this who else told you at the beginning of the story that if you haven't seen the photo already it's probably fake now I have to say probably because if this is if this turns out to be a real story let me be the first to say it's appalling you know it's it's a 10 and a 10 it's like a cross burning on your loan we all condemned it there's no no hesitation no equivocation horrible horrible act if it's true but within a photo mm-hmm so 203 race stories like this turned out to be false according to the walls Wall Street Journal actually two out of three it was researched so the odds are that any of these stories have been 67

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that any of these stories have been 67 percent chance of being false if you don't know if you don't know for sure and you can't check it out yourself that's the filter you should put on it well it'd be terrible if it's true but there's a one in three chance it's true so there's been some of you are saying in the comments already so people looked into it and it turns out that there are photos and even live video which is much harder to fake it's possible but you could do it but it's harder there's video of that same garage with that with a a pole rope for the garage doors or row pegs down and you rabbit and you pull it to raise and lower the garage I have exactly that in a utility garage where I have a rope that I pull do you know what makes it easier to pull that rope just take a guess what would make it a little easier to to grab the rope yeah you put a little loop on the end

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yeah you put a little loop on the end and they're actually videos from November November of that same garage garage number four with the pull rope from the the thing hanging down and they're in miniature about the size of the hand not the size of an AK not the size of something that could go over a head but more like the size of something you put your hand through that was noose like at the bottom now if I hadn't seen it on video cuz somebody was just filming back in November and we were just filming the cars and they go right by and you see the you see the thing hanging down and it's obviously just a pull rope for the garage now somebody cut it off allegedly so that there are no photos that you could take now because it was cut off but back in November you could you could see it was

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November you could you could see it was clearly just a pull rope so that's the biggest one of the biggest stories in the country and it's just so obviously debunked once you see the video but how many people will see the video what percentage of the company of the country do you think will ever know that that was a that that's fake well let's look at say CNN because let's see I just funny that story seems to have disappeared from the front page just jacking checking all right well let me do a search on CNN and see if they've got any and uh story so well this news story see if there any updates nope that story seems to have disappeared I just did a search on CNN's page and the story isn't

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search on CNN's page and the story isn't even there it doesn't exist as any kind of a story in a search unless they come up in the wrong order let's see oh it is there but it came up in the wrong order all right I'll just quickly look at it and see if it mentions if it mentions even the possibility that there are videos of this in the past bla bla bla people looking into it strengthens our resolve it's a horrible thing you set the race buh-buh-buh it's a despicable act this will not break me
and by the way somebody pointed out that the garage is in question have these you know multi-million dollar cars and tools in them of course they have video you know they have video because because it's like super expensive equipment and all these garages so there's video of all this so we're going to know for sure

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all this so we're going to know for sure Phelps would not say what if any video cameras may have been recorded at the track so the official won't say if there was video recording why would you not say that is it for security purposes no it's because somebody looked at the video and they know that there's nothing there's nothing there
people are enraged yeah okay the sick person who perpetrated it must be found and exposed yeah so CNN does not make any reference to the fact that there exists video on YouTube which shows it in November as a Hempel do you do you think that they ought to at least mention that other outlets are treating it differently so this is the world you live in where the world is presented you as completely think alright so I give credit to the last

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alright so I give credit to the last refuge that I think did the most thorough job of showing photographs you know before and after and debunking it but there are there are other sources for that but the last refuge seems to a bed all over it alright and that's about all I wanted to talk about today some of you saw my ring I'll just say again just for the purposes of completeness I was supposed to get married with Christina in May but coronavirus delay that and we rescheduled and rescheduled and we were trying to figure out honeymoon and wedding date and finally we decided that we would just call ourselves married we will actually get married within the next 30 days probably but we decided that the government doesn't get to decide if we're married you know what I mean it's one thing to say okay there's

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mean it's one thing to say okay there's a process everybody has the same process you have to go through these things and then you're married like that if it's easy if it's traditional if the bride once it's the family once and I don't mind doing any of that stuff but if the government is preventing me from getting married because you know there's a coronavirus and it's just harder I mean it took us a long time just to get the paperwork to get the license because nothing's easy you know you can't go to the office in person and you got to do things from the mail and there's a website but it doesn't look like it worked so you're not really sure if again through and then you have to get a person who takes it in person down there for you and science it's like they've made it unnecessarily complicated but to say bye know why the ceremony matters does the ceremony matter just because you have a witness I mean I could get I could get a witness to sign a document it doesn't need to be a ceremony so here's the point here's my point I don't believe the government gets to

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I don't believe the government gets to tell me if I'm married do you agree with me would you agree that the government is not in control of whether I am married I'm married that's it so it's not the government's decision I don't want their opinion on it when things are back to normal as soon as we can do the ceremony we'll do it so we'll wrap up the details but don't tell me I'm not married I'm just not legally married somebody says why your age get married just stay as domestic partners well there are lots of reasons but one of them and a lot of it has to do with the level of commitment your your showing to each other etc but a lot of it is financial right because you want to you're both committing yourself and you have to know that there's a financial you know safety for both of you at cetera so that part's just common sense you have to you have to get get that taken care of but the other part is just existing in a world

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other part is just existing in a world that requires labels yeah the optics of it is exactly as somebody saying the ability to say somebody is my wife is really convenient it's really easy it's clean it says everything you need to say all those other words for it and this is my domestic partner blah blah it just seems to minimize the other person and it just takes something away from it so of course it's a considered decision but there are some just advantages to it just makes everything a little bit cleaner in our current system but prenup of course yes prenup is just pretty much standard standard business if you're my age and you have assets somebody's asking about divorce and division of assets no don't worry I'm an adult I

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assets no don't worry I'm an adult I live in the real world I know all the I know all the risks and we do what we we needed to do oh did Project Veritas drop a new video how about that let's look at it don't go away don't go away the best part of this periscope just happened all right so remember I told you last week that there would be some major red pills dropping and I said it's not one story it's going to be like a quilt and wish there will be squares of the the quilt which will be dropping from the sky and what are these squares may have just dropped let's say with say Facebook Project Garrett ass and see what comes up

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project ferret has exposed CN CN n in facebook is this the new one no that's the old one let's see what project Veritas has going ah projects fair tennis why is this not coming up alright looks like this is the new one damn it alright we'll talk about this tomorrow but give me a chance to look it up 6:23 here it is Daily Caller has it project Veritas video shows Facebook content moderators discussing censoring conservatives reveals quote exception given to Don Lemon for hate speech so let me let me play it for you have you not heard it let me play it for you you don't have to see the faces because they're all the sort of semi concealed

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they're all the sort of semi concealed and stuff
let me know if you can't hear it's as you say b-bring I am more brave than I am scared like any trouble that anybody could give me for breaking some stupid NDA I think the truth is more powerful than any NDA to stick up for the voice of the people it's a shout of is yeah it's what's the forest for and they say they don't like yes clear the people's content opens up because it's indeed filtered off thank you it's a very progressive company whose very Android Magus EVC a conservative Zach McElroy came to project Veritas because of what he saw at his job at Facebook in Tampa Florida he saw and filmed evidence of structural

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he saw and filmed evidence of structural and cultural bias inside Facebook discriminating against Republicans and conservatives McIlroy's story raises serious doubts about the under oath testimony at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Congress where he claimed Facebook has no political bias what percentage of the flagged posts in the civic harassment queue as it's called were Republican conservative I saw a stark contrast between Republicans versus Democrats in the queue I saw upwards of 75 to 80% of the post not Q or from Republican pages politicians journalists and pages that supported the president or supported conservatives what does that tell you about Facebook / cognizance algorithm here well certainly the algorithm is not human but it had to be made by a human so for 75 to 80 percent of the post to

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so for 75 to 80 percent of the post to be targeting Republicans and conservatives you can say it was a bot but somebody had to design that algorithm so really somebody at Facebook some people on Capitol Hill have expressed interest in this ratio that you speak of are you willing to potentially testify under oath that that 3/4 of the post that you saw flag or in one political direction to the best of my knowledge and ability yes to me censorship online is one of the biggest issues facing us in the lead-up to the 2020 election well insofar as I was not somebody who was working behind the scenes on policy but rather as someone who was enforcing policy I saw everybody around me and I saw myself and I did a little bit of comparing when I thought you know there really are not very many conservatives here and because there are not very many conservatives I really don't think there are very many people sticking up for the voice of

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people sticking up for the voice of conservatives at a company that handles all the and a company that handles the flow of conversations basically the large portion of the discourse online and we are essentially in charge of what gets set and what gets stifled you mentioned the election and the consistent talk a little bit more about your concerns as it pertains to Facebook meddling or being involved in the 2020 election well we know publicly and as someone even before I started working there we saw plenty of we've seen plenty of statements from Mark Zuckerberg publicly about how they don't want to meddle in the election they want to give everybody a free you know the platform for realistic freely but we know that privately they have very different opinions and we've seen that with the

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opinions and we've seen that with the previous Facebook story that you guys published and I had no doubt that what he said publicly is not what he means to do privately [Music] let's go to the Trump cartoon this one here is just something that you you all right it's a little bit longer than I thought it was gonna be but I will call your attention to it and say you should all watch it because today but today might be a lot different than you thought it was going to be so I think you're gonna find out a lot in this video I haven't seen it all but it's gonna be a fun day alright that's it for today I'll talk to you tomorrow