Episode 1037 Scott Adams: Bubba’s Garage Door Pull, Free Speech Fighting Back, Facebook Bad Behavior

Date: 2020-06-24 | Duration: 1:13:33

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• Some Advice for Bubba Wallace

• CarpeDonktum permanent Twitter ban

• Matt Gaetz and freedom of speech

• DeAnna Lorraine’s joke list technique

• Stephen Colbert’s cog-dis expression

• Red Pill list

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hey everybody come on in it's time for coffee with scott adams i tried to recreate from memory the simultaneous sip preamble i think i got most of it right but we're going to try it in a moment i hope you're prepared you know what you need think you do all you need is a cup of margarita glass a canteen jogger flask a goblet jealous or stein a vessel of any kind it's not the same as the usual fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better including systemic racism it's called the simultaneous up and it happens now go
don't you feel better already i know i do
do so let's talk about all the fun news

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so let's talk about all the fun news all right there's lots of it here's here's a little uh news bit that you probably completely missed because the news likes to focus on the important stuff such as what is the exact shape of the handle you use on your garage important news like that but one of the things you might have missed is that the trump administration won a big court of victory about hospital price transparency meaning that the hospital has to tell you what stuff costs before you go in so you can do a little shopping uh oh i forgot tankard yes a tanker jealous or stein yeah i think that's right so put these three things together you've got this victory in the hospital price transparency so the trump administration is going to allow you to shop better or at least we hope that's where it's going shop better for price for hospitals that

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better for price for hospitals that should lower prices over time the we also saw the change for telehealth where doctors can practice across state lines in theory if that becomes permanent and they think it will there's more chance than it will that it won't that should lower the cost of a doctor visit both for the doctor and for the patient as well now i think there's something going on also with pharmaceutical costs i'm not up on that but imagine if you will then november comes and trump can say the following we got you telehealth we got you um hospital price transparency and we're doing something on drug pricing i don't know what that would be that's a pretty good story that's that's very different from i didn't do anything about healthcare it's very different so that's good news let's talk about bubba wallace of course of course

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so we learned yesterday that the fbi looked into the issue of the noose hanging in african-american driver bubba wallace's garage bay and the initial story was that some were racist put that noose there as a racist sign to the to the most famous i think african-american nascar driver but here's the thing we just learned first of all the noose had been there for months before before any of the garage bays had been assigned so the fbi has concluded with certainty that it was not any kind of a racist act against bubba wallace it is a noose or at least it's shaped like a noose but it's the rope that hangs down that you pull the garage door closed with so yeah it's a noose but it's it was put there for a purpose now i have uh something to tell

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i have uh something to tell my black uh audience today here's something you might not know about white people when we see a noose we don't think race when i see a noose i think a clint eastwood in haggam high i almost always think of some kind of old western where uh where bad white people are being hung so if you would say and i think maybe bubba wallace might be wondering this because as he said after he learned that it wasn't directed to him and he agrees he said there's still a noose i mean still straight up it's a news and i would only add to this that's probably exactly what it was meaning that whoever tied it thought oh oh
oh you know i could tie it in a variety of ways i'll tie it in the noose but the thing you have to know is that i don't think any white person

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don't think any white person tying a rope into a noose it even crosses their mind that there's a any kind of racial element to that act it just doesn't seem racial it literally seems like an old western where old white guys are getting hung we we just don't connect the dots the way the african-american community would now maybe we should you know that's a different question i'm just saying we don't have i personally ever tied ropes into nooses yes yes i have i have i've spent quite a bit of my time as a you know a young kid teenager when i was like in you know tying ropes and you know you'd just be practicing different knots and stuff and you're a 12 year old kid of course you're gonna try to make a noose you know of course i learned how to do it properly because it was just something we saw on tv all the time again having nothing to do with race because it was always you know bad

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because it was always you know bad criminal white people or being hung on tv
so here's what i'd say first of all bubba wallace is completely cleared in my opinion from having done anything wrong or even being wrong because it turns out he never saw the noose it was reported to him by steve phelps who's the nascar president who came to him crying and i i assume i'm just going to assume that the president of nascar is a white guy so the white guy comes to bubba and says i got to talk to you in person and he's the president of nascar he's crying he's so disturbed like genuinely disturbed and he tells him about this rope that looked like a noose etc so bubba wallace never saw it he was he was taking it from somebody who thought he had interpreted interpreted it correctly so i see nothing in this story which we should hold against bubba

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story which we should hold against bubba wallace everybody on board with that bubba wallace gets a free absolute free pass because he was acting on what he was told by a very credible source that just turned out to be wrong but it was a credible source can't hold it against him for believing a credible source you can't hold it against him for buying into a let's say a narrative that is suggested by current events because you know everybody's thinking in race terms it wouldn't be a surprise would you be surprised one bit if some race racist somewhere did a racist thing in public or to some public figure no it wouldn't surprise you at all because the temperature of the country has been turned up so much so bubba wallace uh you get an a plus for
having nothing wrong you didn't do anything wrong in this case uh in fact but i will give i'll give him one
one one piece of advice the way bubba seems

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one piece of advice the way bubba seems to be treating this is that um he knows he's going to be mocked for a hoax although the hoax was not his doing and certainly not his intention but he knows he'll be mocked for it in his uh approach at least his initial approach was to you know act like it doesn't bother him and and channel that energy into his competitiveness now that's a good tv answer yeah i'm not going to let it bother me i'll put it into my sport sounds good i mean you'd like your athletes to say stuff like that but let me give them some advice this is the way i'd go with this i would say
totally my bad so that's the first thing you do you should do you should do you know um it was my bad even though i had information that led me to this conclusion i accept full responsibility that's number one and then here's the here's what he i would recommend if i were advising him

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i would recommend if i were advising him for public relations i'd say let's look on the positive side look what happened seriously look what happened he had immediate complete support from everybody in nascar and i would say that the country was completely behind him and i don't think there was much in the way of racial division there were lots of people who thought the story was fake from the jump including me uh but we didn't really hold it you know we didn't have uh we didn't have a racial opinion about that exactly we're sort of waiting for the
the waiting for the information to come out we knew there was something wrong but it didn't feel necessarily like a racist thing maybe more like a mistake like the oakland alleged nooses turned out to be just exercise equipment put there by an african-american man
so um somebody says you saw a picture of it
it he did see a picture of it eventually

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he did see a picture of it eventually but i don't know if he saw a picture of it at the time and i know we didn't get a picture of it so
so there's that anyway so here's the point uh i think you should look at the positive which is that the way people reacted was the way you would want people to react if it had been real so i think his response was um uh you know could have been better but he wasn't being advised by a public relations person so he was just being a real person and i hold that again do not hold that against him
him uh you think he or they will apologize no i don't no no no no i'm not saying that i i think they will apologize i'm telling you the way i would handle it if i wanted to commander this with the best reputation is i would go right at it directly totally wrong i was totally wrong but look at the reaction i mean you're missing you're burying the lead you know the small part of the story is that i was wrong

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story is that i was wrong that's the small part of the story the big part of the story look how well people reacted to that that's that's how i would have played it all right um
and by the way i do think it was a noose and i do think it was tied to resemble a noose but like i say it was probably just done by somebody who was just tying knots um did i hear that one of the three presidential debates has been canceled already because of coronavirus and i ask you is there any chance there will be any presidential debates what do you think because the first one's cancelled and sure that could be actually just legitimate health concerns i mean why wouldn't there be you know it'd be it'd be weird if you didn't have health concerns about that but don't you think all three are going to get cancelled because the biden team really needs them to get cancelled am i wrong that if joe biden goes into a debate

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debate it's it's going to be a bad situation for him i think they have to at least extend the scare long enough to make the debates not happen that's got to be the key um trajectory for
for or at least the key strategy for victory for biden did you happen to see the god-awful campaign ad that biden just put out in which he's sitting in this uh looks like he's behind some kind of business and like an alley-like place where maybe there's some tables that perhaps the employees smoke cigarettes at when they're not working it didn't even look like it was a commercial place it was
was looked like he was in a back alley with like six people with masks and he had his mask on wrong and he's falling asleep in his chair and saying a few generic things and i thought to myself compare that because you know there were advisors right this is a video that they chose to

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right this is a video that they chose to release that they filmed this the biden the binding campaign itself filmed it and they chose to release it now when you see it you're going to say to yourself are you telling me that professional professional campaign advisors thought it was a good idea to do it there the way it was done with just the sparse crowd and this dingy you know terrible optics somebody thought was a good idea in the first place then they filmed it and then after they saw it they still thought it was a good idea to make a commercial out of it does that is that feeling that right now compare that if you will to what i told you in the last past month or so kabla harris seems to have improved her messaging and communication game extraordinarily which is a strong tell for some kind of a world class advisor or more working with her

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advisor or more working with her because you can see the transformation and you don't get that from your sister giving you advice whatever happened with kamal harris that's not from you know your friend gave you some tips that's from somebody operating at the highest level who's who's helping her transform and she's succeeding now i i had predicted years ago when people said no she's not good enough i said just watch watch what happens when you get close to election time and watch her transform because i i believe that she could um she could learn skills quickly that seems to be an indication that she can and i think she did so here's what we have we have allegedly the world-class advisors for biden doing the worst job i've ever seen of campaign advisors so bad that it almost looks intentional at the same time his presumed

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at the same time his presumed but not confirmed could could change but presumably the vice presidential pick who many of us believe would be the the real shadow president is getting the best advice you've ever seen is that a coincidence that all the good advice is going to the number two spot now it's possible that biden just doesn't take advice you see we don't know what's happening behind the scenes but if you are looking for a scenario in which the number two pick which i'm still guessing will be kabul harris becomes in voters minds the real number one pick this is maybe what it would look like it would look like the number two pick is getting all the good advice the number one pick is just sort of being pushed out there's something happening with free speech which is a fair statement which you

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which is a fair statement which you would all agree with but maybe not you might not be seeing what i'm seeing so the first there's the surface obvious thing that free speech is being diminished because um well let me give you an example so carpe dont got permanently banned from twitter yesterday uh permanently banned now carpe duncan does the memes that president trump likes to tweet so so he's very strong in terms of messaging for the republican side and he just he just got taken off the board a few months before the election now is that a coincidence is it a coincidence that he's been operating for years but when we get close you know the summer before the election that he gets taken off the board because he's not the only person being taken off the board right you're seeing some other people getting picked off probably not a coincidence now i don't

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probably not a coincidence now i don't know about the details of why i think it had to do with the the racist baby um meme that got taken down the president tweeted it it alleged to show a racist baby you know white baby chasing a black one but then you see it in its fullness and you can see that they're best friends and hugging each other so there was something like a dmca violation in other words the original video was copyrighted but it's a parody it's an obvious parody and with an obvious parody usually the worst you'd expect is maybe the tweet would have to be taken down yeah maybe the tweet would have to be taken down and that's and that's it so it seems like there's something a little extreme also slate star codex got taken out by the new york times so slate star codex is a very uh influential blog not political but it may have had some content that

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but it may have had some content that somebody didn't like possibly uh he i don't know maybe he talked about tds or something so that got taken down he got doxed and he took it down himself basically so he deleted it the the um pseudonominous what's the word uh the blogger who does not use his real name took down his own blog when the new york times decided to dox him for no good reason all right so that's happening so you know that and you know that if you say anything that somebody thinks is a racist dog whistle even if it isn't that you will you'll be canceled so that's the part you know you know that people are being canceled and muffled and muted in a variety of ways but here's the part that i'm seeing it has something to do with that that has something to do with the black lives matter stuff for some people and i seem to be one of them i have increased my free speech and i don't think you saw

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my free speech and i don't think you saw that coming for example i'm going to give you an example of my newly increased free speech black lives matter is a racist movement white privilege is a racist statement and reparations is completely racist now could i have said that a month ago maybe if i really couched it just carefully and
and said it just right and all that but for some reason i can say that now and i feel like i couldn't say it a few weeks ago but the president keeps calling the coronavirus kung flu now he of course knows that he's being called a racist for calling it kung flu because that's you know suggestive of asian culture and therefore it's racist now even after he's told that he keeps doing it it feels to me that the president is very consciously

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that the president is very consciously making sure that the field of what free speech allows doesn't diminish now i know his critics are going to say no no he's just riling up the crowd with racist dog whistles that's all there is to it
we'll get rid of the give it arrest dude fellow there you go put you any misery blocked and so it makes me wonder if the republicans are about to discover a new form of free speech or at least simply just take it just just take free speech and just do it i watched a speech by uh matt gates i guess he was probably speeching either speaking before or after the president at the same event last night and matt gates said directly the white privilege is is a racist strategy to make white people shut up

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strategy to make white people shut up and
and and do what they're told and i thought to myself i don't know if he could have said that a month ago could he and did you know i looked at the home pages of cnn and fox news and i don't even think it's a headline can you imagine that there was a a you know a prominent national politician who said in public in a prepared speech that the white privilege is a racist term that's just being used to you know manipulate race white people basically i don't think he could have said that a month ago am i wrong i'd like to see in the comments whether you think something is changing and it's changing in both directions at the same time which is that some people are getting less free speech and being canceled while there are other people who are saying all right game on which is what i'm saying i'm saying okay bastards game on if if if you want to bring more

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game on if if if you want to bring more attention to me just just bring it on now i think that part of the the the divide is that what is it that um if you've been watching matt gates for a while what is it that matt gates and i would have in common i want to see if you can pick out what is different about the two of us from other situations now mostly we have things not in common i would guess like if you make a list you know here's here's a list of all things about matt gates here's a list about all things me be mostly different but there's one thing on those that list that we're very similar on that would tell you why we have a little bit more free speech i think than other people and i'm waiting for the delay in the comments to see if anybody gets it um here's what we have in common

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we're unusually good communicators now if you are the side who's trying to silence the other side you don't want to give attention to their best communicators in other words if somebody goes after matt gates and says hey matt gates you said i can't believe you said this that white privilege is actually a racist statement explain yourself and then you know what you would do on national television he would explain himself so well that whoever thought they were trying to trap him
him would say oh damn that didn't work that did not work
he would he would take that accusation ball it up and shove it so far back up their asses that they would never want to talk to him again am i right if you've watched him enough in public you know that he's basically untrappable on camera his his camera skills are just unworldly i mean i've never seen i can't

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unworldly i mean i've never seen i can't say i've never seen anything like it but who would you compare his on camera verbal skills to i don't know i don't know it'd be tough he's kind of all by himself at the moment now i'm um for different reasons you know i don't have the same type of um
um oratorical skills that he does but i'm also unusually persuasive and if i get mad i'm not going to back down sort of baked into my personality i can't change that so i would be the worst person to give attention to and i think that that might be you know why i have a little extra free speech maybe he'll come back and bite me in the ass later so i think you're going to see some kind of a bounce back effect where uh you know the president and other prominent people are going to say hey hey

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say hey hey how about this how about we say whatever the we want and you just shut up about it and just listen because we gave you free speech we listen to you the the the thing and let me say if i had to speculate about why this is it would be this what what would president trump matt gates and i all have in common specifically on the topic of george floyd's tragic death the one thing we all have in common and pretty much most of the world is that we all have the same reaction to it like this is horrible this is this looks like a crime you know we can't have this in our country so i think it helped that so many people were at least um mentally on the same side with with the people who would normally be our

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people who would normally be our critics if you know if you imagine it as a political take sides
flynn got the writ of mandamus well i don't know what that is but it sounds like something i need to look up right now fox news would have this right not yet i guess it takes him a while to write that up let's say uh flynn news let's see some flynn news dismiss criminal case against michael flynn appeals court really appeals court orders judge to dismiss criminal case against michael flynn the decision blocks us sullivan from holding a hearing to scrutinize the justice department's decision well thank you why in the world was justice sullivan

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why in the world was justice sullivan forming a new form of government to look at his own decisions that never made sense so that so a judge has blocked that uh all right do i understand what this means though blocks you from to dismiss the criminal case does dismiss the criminal case mean it's all gone is that what's happening is that is the case completely dismissing well let's say it is let's say it is let's say that the general flynn case is dismissed does that call for a simultaneous sip do any of you have any beverage left in your vessel grab it grab it get your cup your mug your vessel this will be a rare secondary simultaneous sip this one to general flynn and all the people who fought for him

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and all the people who fought for him all the people who advocated for him justice drink
damn that feels good that feels good somebody says carpe dunctim who got banned from twitter should join locals he is on locals so i'm on the locals platform which also helps me to be a little bit less cancelable because i have a second place to go it's a subscription subscription service um i hope to be talking to carpe soon about his uh account on locals um and uh know we'll we'll make a little bit more noise about that so you can see the importance of having an uh a a platform for people who get deep platform to other places all right well gosh that general flynn stuff

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how do the democrats process that if you're a democrat and you're looking at general flynn the the case just got dropped for being a complete fabrication and it's obvious it's all part of this the coup how do how do democrats process that i just don't know
all right here's some other things going on
on did you watch the project veritas undercover tape of facebook employees admitting perfectly candidly and freely that they do illegally meaning not not not compatible with company standards that they violate their own company standards to block trump's supporting messages they actually sent it directly they bragged about it they laughed about it it's lots of people it's widespread and it's so it's so acceptable that the employees

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it's so acceptable that the employees were involved saw no trouble at all speaking freely about it in in front of other people it wasn't even something like a dirty little secret that they kept to themselves they happily talked about
suppressing conservative voices on facebook now that should be the end of facebook in terms of an unregulated entity shouldn't it uh we'll see if that happens somebody's asking me if locals is app or web-based the app just came out
out a couple weeks ago so it is both app and web-based
anyway so enough on that uh facebook i think is gonna get regulated um i think that twitter the you know how brains work we associate things even if they should not be associated i talk about this all the time the fact that there's undercover video of a social media platform

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video of a social media platform in which the employees are saying straight up you know we screw the republicans on our platform people will assume it's true at twitter is that fair to say so we do not have an undercover tape showing you know twitter people saying exactly what the facebook people are saying but your common sense says okay if it's happening in one place and it's so widespread it's got to be happening in other places it's just got to be so i i think the possibility of the social media platforms not being regulated i don't know i think it went to zero unless uh congress is controlled by the democrats so free speech will end actually officially yeah free speech will end on november 3rd if um and by the way that's a really powerful statement isn't it free speech will actually end on november 3rd

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actually end on november 3rd if democrats control congress and the white house because now that we know with with no doubt you know any any uncertainty has been removed that facebook is suppressing uh speech on the right well you know the democrats are not going to change that because that works for them so if democrats are not going to change the social media from suppressing voices on the right is it not fair to say that free speech will die on november 3rd under the condition that democrats have enough control after that that's a fair statement isn't it but it's also very persuasive
because it's true if it weren't true it wouldn't be persuasive there's a rasmussen poll that says that black americans are the demographic group most concerned about a shortage of police officers so of all the demographic groups the black

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black black population of this country is the most concerned about wait wait we're not going to have enough police is that a surprise shouldn't be should that be a surprise no nope it should not be a surprise um i have a question for you why is it that only republicans worry about mail-in votes being rigged i haven't tried to weigh in on that question too much because there are some um system details that i don't know and you would be it would be easy to imagine that i understood this mail-in ballot issue and i don't and i'm not sure anybody does let me let me state that more emphatically nobody understands the email and bout it bell issue it's a whole bunch of confused stuff that we conflate together and we treat one thing like a different thing and so i don't think there's anybody who actually understands the real risk

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who actually understands the real risk but the thing i don't understand is why only republicans are worried about it because are republicans under the oppression that there are no local voting precincts in which republican operatives would also try to cheat with ballots i mean i it feels like the cheating could be about equal why would one cheat more effectively than another i don't know so there's something about the whole issue i don't understand so uh let me say as clearly as a possible that i'm not agreeing with the republican position on this but i'm also not disagreeing i think if you have certainty on this issue either direction if you're positive that male ballots are safe you're not a credible person if you're positive that they're unsafe all the way to the point of changing an election result well i don't think you're entirely credible there either unless i learned a lot more about this so when i say credible i don't mean wrong

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wrong that i always make that distinction i'm saying if you're if you're trying to be an informed citizen then you're just looking at what you know and that's all you know is what you're being told i wouldn't believe either side republicans or democrats on the topic of male imbalance one of them is right there's no doubt about that one of those two sides is right they're either a big problem at least a risk or they're not right i don't know which one it is i honestly don't if you sample both sides of the media you will hear arguments that you know if you don't have your own knowledge about the field and i don't i hear the arguments and i go uh sounds pretty strong and then i'll hear the argument from the other side and they'll say sounds pretty strong somebody says don't play dumb don't you play dumb with me well no i'll tell you what i do know i do know that there should be

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i do know that there should be a million ways that you could cheat with male in balance we'd all agree with that right there must be a million ways you could try but here's the argument on the other side um you could audit them to know if there was any cheating so you could for example i don't know if anybody will do this but let's say that they suspected some cheating in some area they could say we're not going to check every ballot it's too hard but we can check every 100 or whatever is the right number to get a sample we'll check every 100 we'll go to the actual voter and say is this you show me your license did you really cast a vote this way and if the person says yes say okay well we sampled a lot and everything we sampled looked good now if you sample and it doesn't look good you would you would have determined that there's voter fraud absolutely so here's here's the question could voter fraud happen i think obviously yes

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obviously yes would it be detected if it happened i would say obviously it could be obviously it could be
be now that doesn't mean that they'll have a process in place to do that and that's the part where you know very quickly i get into the areas where i don't understand it's like well how many people are involved and haven't we always had mail-in ballots i thought we always had them what what's really different about it is it the fact there are so many but they do have a they've got an identifier in each one can can china print up a bunch of extra ones and if they did how would china print up extra ones if they need a unique identifier for each person they're mailed to how could they do that so if you think you have a a good firm opinion on this i would suggest you probably shouldn't um you know if i if i had to now part of your intuition is that it's very cheatable and i agree with that my intuition it is also that it's cheatable

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intuition it is also that it's cheatable and you could get away with it but i don't know enough to confirm that but if your instinct this is probably a bad idea you might not be wrong
all right here is i sometimes i try to teach you joke techniques you know how to do humor better and i'm going to read a really funny tweet but it's only because i want you to understand the technique so the technique here and i've told you this before is putting things together that don't quite fit so here's a list of things by deanna lorraine i guess you ran against pelosi at one point and lost so i don't know anything about her except that she's a republican and she tweeted this and i'm not saying i agree with anything on the list okay this is somebody else's tweet i'm just reading it bubba wallace isn't a victim sean king isn't black joe biden isn't winning cnn is cnn isn't

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joe biden isn't winning cnn is cnn isn't news elizabeth warren isn't indian colin kaepernick isn't a hero beto o'rourke isn't latino don lemon isn't a journalist greta thundberg isn't a scientist meghan markle isn't a princess now i laughed for five minutes over that now i'm not saying i agree with her points but the way they're organized is hilarious especially with meghan markle isn't a princess at the end because that was such a throwaway just nothing but an insult
that that that the whole thing makes sense but it doesn't make sense there there are too many things that individually you'd have to think about a little bit but because they they don't fit together in a list it just makes you a giggle and i can't stop giggling when i look at it not because i agree with it it's simply the organization of the thoughts um so this this technique of putting a bunch of things together is hilarious now

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now there there's also a persuasion technique baked into this and it's a little different from the laundry list persuasion laundry list persuasion is where you don't have a strong a strong reason for your argument so instead of a strong argument you you just list lots of weak ones that's the laundry list persuasion now lots of weak arguments that should add up to nothing because individually they're all they're all nothing so if you add a bunch of nothings together it should still be nothing but our brains don't hear it that way if you hear a laundry list of reasons you think to yourself well you know i recognize that one of those things on the list isn't true but there's so many things on the list there must be something on that list that's true what uh deanna lorraine did in her tweet which was funny it's a different kind of list yeah i'll call it a sean hannity list all right here's what a sean hannity list is for example there'll be five things on the list

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the list four of them are things that you know to be true or you're let's say you're politically aligned with sean hannity so you're sure they're true even if they're not so the before things you're pretty sure are true and the fifth thing is sort of an opiniony thing and so if he gives you four things that you know are true or you believe are true and then the fifth thing you're undecided but it's in the list with all those other things you believe it's very persuasive all right so so if you wanted to persuade somebody that some of these things were true let's say you know some of them you'd agree with right we know now that bubba wallace isn't a victim but then she throws in shawn king isn't black you know you know what she's talking about because he's criticized by the black community for that as well but is that exactly true i mean i haven't checked his dna so it feels like i don't know joe biden isn't winning

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i don't know joe biden isn't winning well if you're a republican maybe you think that cnn cnn isn't news you agree elizabeth warren isn't native american you agree colin kaepernick isn't a hero if you're a republican you agree better better and then it gets gets to that last one megan merkel isn't a princess by the time you get there it's just silly but it's it's funny anyway i just wanted to call out the technique you don't have to agree with any of the points did you see the stephen colbert interview with john bolton if you saw it there's a very interesting phenomena that i can't determine yes or no if this is true but i'll but i will assert it as my strong professional opinion all right so this is professional opinion it would be hard to know if it's a fact and
and it's this you should look at my tweet in which i showed the picture of colbert and bolton uh side by side

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colbert and bolton uh side by side and it's hard to show you things on the screen here so well maybe let's see and what i wanted you to see is colbert's expression compared to bolton's now it's a still photograph and these those can be really misleading because if they catch you at a bad moment the still photograph doesn't look anything like the way you were if you were moving but in this case the still photograph captured exactly what i did see when i watched the live video and that is there's a look on colbert's face which if you're a trained hypnotist and you've seen if you've triggered lots of people into cognitive dissonance there's a physical look and colbert has it
it the whole way through the interview i'm going to try to teach you what the look is like all right
let's do maybe i can show it to you because if i don't show it to you won't be nearly as powerful so i'm going to call it up on the screen here we'll do our best let's see if the screen looks good on

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let's see if the screen looks good on your screen let me make sure i don't have anything else on my screen that's embarrassing i don't think i do
so look at these two faces now one of them is a disgruntled fired employee and one of them is experiencing cognitive dissonance bolton looks like a guy who's just you know disgruntled employee that is a completely normal look for a guy who just isn't too happy and he's expressing it colbert look at his eyes and look at the smile do you see they don't fit the look of the eyes is crazy and the smile doesn't fit the eyes
that's cognitive dissonance that's cognitive dissonance so and let me see if i can do an impression for you on here sorry for the people listening to this you're going to miss it i'll try to explain it

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i'll i'll give you two looks one is me um
um concentrating on something that's right in front of me and then the second one will be um it looks like i'm in the room but my mind will be in a hallucination all right so the first one is an ordinary person who's not hallucinating who's just looking at something in front of them all right so look at my expression
all right you can tell from my expression that i'm present i'm just yeah i'm just looking at you nothing going on all right now now imagine that i'm recounting to your story of president trump who in your mind has has created this um imaginary he's this imaginary monster that's completely divorced from reality now imagine that you've gone four years knowing that he would destroy the country but everything that can be measured is better now of course we took a hit with the coronavirus etc but nobody would argue that trump did not preside over a strong economy

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did not preside over a strong economy with good unemployment nobody will argue that it's not going to come back fast at least as a percentage even though it might take us a while to get back to the top no one would argue that the stock market is low nobody would argue that isis still exists in terms of holding territory nobody would argue that we haven't pulled down our troop troop numbers i mean you could you could just keep going and the only thing they'd have is maybe you ran up the national debt which is not the strongest argument for democrats because they would too so imagine you're living in a world in which everything you believe about the world four years has disproven it's disproven after four years nothing went wrong everything that you could measure when right so you have to actually hallucinate something wrong which they do they imagine that the president's inner thoughts are wrong so let me now do an impression of somebody who's in cognitive dissonance i'll take off my glasses and they're they're having a

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and they're they're having a hallucination while they're talking to you it looks a little like this and then and then the president that the president see the eyes when when the eyes are in imagination mode and i'm imagining the president as this crazy clown he's running around he's he's trying to kill everybody there's there's a there's a look and the and the smile will be why am i smiling because i've got a sociopath look do you notice my my my eyes are not smiling right but i've got a smile it looks like a sociopath but the sociopath look um the sociopath look
is very close to the cognitive dissonance look because i don't know what the sociopath is thinking but the cognitive dissonance is
is you're having a hallucination and it's coming through your face and your face is distorted because it doesn't know how to
to how to deal with the hallucination now you want the test

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you want the test here's the test cnn's uh let's say that think about all their hosts i'm gonna name names and now you've seen the look right so you saw it on colbert and you saw it on me and i'll go further and say that when they're not talking about these topics they don't have that look it's about the topic that gives them the look i'm going to name some hosts from cnn and you tell me which one seems to have a normal look i'm just talking about the news this is on the news this is what happened on the news and which one seems to have something wrong with the eyes all right all right i'll just name name some dr sanjay gupta just imagine
chris cuomo don lemon anderson cooper um jake tapper um uh brooke um

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uh brooke um why my brook baldwin um all right now of those go which which one of those people exhibits
you're all getting it right yeah anderson cooper anderson cooper has the cold bear face uh chris cuomo
ish yeah i can see why you're guessing but yes uh stelter no jake tapper no um don lemon no believe it or not don lemon does not he does not um exhibit the cognitive dissonance face which might mean that he believes what he's saying and it seems consistent with what he sees could be
well this is going to freak you out because now that you've seen it and by the way you'd have to be a

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and by the way you'd have to be a trained hypnotist to recognize this or at least be experienced but now that i taught it to you you're going to start seeing it and watch how easily you spot it
it now that you can see it it's going to freak you out how easily you can spot it all right let's see if i talked about everything i want to talk about did i miss anything anything else happening and and let me um
um let me reiterate the the fact that cognitive dissonance is not does not measure your intelligence it doesn't measure your knowledge it doesn't even mention it doesn't even measure your intentions so there's nothing about anderson cooper that i think is anything but smart and well-intentioned and well-informed i would say all those things about him but
but it is nonetheless true that when he talks about trump he gets a look on his face that is not common to any other reporting and i think you've seen it somebody says

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and i think you've seen it somebody says aoc
aoc you know the ones that are hard to tell are the are the ones who um open their eyes wide when they talk sometimes so you'll get a photograph that looks strange because you caught it right that moment so cory booker and aoc sometimes have photos or wide-eyed that's not exactly what i'm talking about it's not just your eyes are wide there's a there's like a glassy stair like you're not in the room that is the the tail
does anybody think that bolton is laying a glove on trump because it doesn't feel like it doesn't that doesn't the bolton book feel like it's just groundhog day and it's another guy saying stuff happened in the room and nobody else heard it and in a month in a month you won't even remember that book

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somebody says no fair teaching nlp to the uninitiated so somebody is a hypnosis trainer on here what's the next next big red pill well if you were on the locals platform you would already know the answer to that question but because you answered if you're going to stick around for a moment i will read to you the parts of the red pill because i documented them on locals so if you ordered it in writing that would be the place to go but i'm going to read it to you all right so here's a list of things that have changed um here's a people are asking me if adam schiff has the look see adam schiff has the same problem he has he has wide eye look and that that one can throw you off so just having you know wide eyes doesn't necessarily mean cognitive dissonance um it's a little different than that all right so so i told you that the big red pill coming was not going to be one event or one thing it would be a bunch

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one thing it would be a bunch of things here's the bunch of things in my list number one experts are far less reliable than we thought and that changed a lot in 2020. yes or no
no the public's opinion of what experts know and how much you should trust them is completely different in 2020. are you with me that's part of the red pill just a small part but all of these collectively will make you doubt your ability to understand your reality the way you used to understand it number one
one we trust experts far less that's a fairly new change number two project veritas showed us that facebook literally is doing everything that conservatives thought they were doing it's real yes i will add this flynn has been all the charges are dropped so the flynn thing is another part of the red pill number three we know that individual scientific studies are no more reliable than horoscopes in fact half of published studies turn

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in fact half of published studies turn out not to be true now it is true that studies collectively and over time work science toward knowledge but if you look at one study doesn't matter what but usually in the social sciences area is what we're talking but if you looked at one study it's useless now you used to think well it's a study right even just a few years ago you said well it's in the it's in the news and it's a study i know sometimes they're not real but probably 80 chance is real and now you don't think that do you what do you think is the odds of any study that's in the news just an individual study that's not backed up by other studies and it's a shocking new claim what's your first thought about how likely it is true well it used to be about eighty percent right now a little closer to 20 isn't it big difference um how about uh we and now we know that of course defund the police will never work

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course defund the police will never work you know you already knew that but i think other people are just learning that the slogans like defund the police don't translate into anything you can actually do you can of course improve the way they do their job you've learned that stories about nooses and hate crimes are more likely fake than real in fact the wall street journal did a study on we talked about a study in which they looked at all the hate crimes reported and two-thirds of them were fake two-thirds of hate crimes are fake do you think it's two-thirds or higher you think it's higher don't you that's different if you had said to me two years ago there's a hate crime reported this or that is it true or false i would say well i don't have no way to know but 75-80 percent chance is probably right what do you think today 10 percent today if you see a hate crime reported and you haven't heard the details yet you just heard

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you just heard somebody's reporting a hate crime what's the first thing you think maybe it would be horrible if it were true 10 chance is true that's part of your red pill how about this um we're starting to understand that if you calculated reparations correctly there'd be a negative number because if you if you do the right calculation you would study black people who came to america against their will as slaves compared to the income of the people who were not taken as slaves what's the average of the people from the country or continent where they came from and how are the children of the people who are taking the slaves doing income wise now as soon as people realize that and a few people already are reparation starts to go away because even if you think there is a different way to calculate it and of course people will people are not going to automatically agree that i that i described it right but the fact that that conversation is

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but the fact that that conversation is guaranteed to happen that it should be a negative number pretty much takes it off the table um how about the fact that we're very close we're not there to realizing that there's no such thing as racists what what did you did i just say that there's no such thing as racists what i mean is everybody's racist so there's no such thing as oh that guy's a racist but you're not no no that's not a thing because you can't be not racist in fact you can't be not biased on any topic because your brain is a pattern recognition machine but it's not good at it it's not good at recognizing patterns it sees confirmation bias as a fact just as easily as it sees the fact is the effect so you can't turn off the basic working of a brain you can just find ways to overcome it and and ways to do better and use your higher powers of reasoning to recognize it and you know build a system

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recognize it and you know build a system that tries to squeeze it out the bias but it's it's now it borders on stupid at this point you know 2020 it borders on stupid to imagine that they're racist and non-racist that's not a thing everybody everybody is racially biased in one way or another it's just it's universal and i think it's more it's important that we understand that because then you could work on the right solution the wrong solution is trying to fix the way people's brains are wired you can't fix the basic wiring of a brain you can just fix what you do which is fixable
we now understand or we're coming to understand that the news business isn't even trying to be news it's just being naked advocacy i don't think people knew that five years ago people didn't know five years ago that the news wasn't even attempting to be news i mean it wasn't even in their in their first choice

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first choice uh we're learning that conservatives see the news on both the left and the right and so anybody who is only sampling the news on one side is a low information voter and because the news on the left is sort of more universal it always bleeds over into the reporting on the right the people on the right see the news on the left and the news in the right it's a fuller context even if they choose to you know think one is more right so i think the left is about ready to realize that they are low information voters because their own news sources are completely corrupt and they're just starting to figure that out you know the flynn thing the russia collusion thing this is these little hints are starting to come together um the new york times is doxing that anonymous blogger i told you so that removes all doubt about the press being on the side of the people didn't you used to think that the press was on the side of the people you know maybe maybe you never thought that but people did people thought that

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that but people did people thought that the press was on the side of the people the new york times has removed all doubt by doxing a person that they were going to write a a positive article on and they were still going to ruin his life just because it's a story and they were completely completely transparent about that we know that black lives matter is a racist movement that is creating a preferred victim class now you probably thought that from the beginning some of you did and not everybody is there yet but that's what's forming it's it's very clear that a poor white kid who became a poor white kid for no fault of his own should not be put in the lower class of victim there's just no argument for it and i think that red pill is emerging we saw the russia collusion hoax the charlotteville fine people oaks and other hoaxes
you've learned that much of the news is speculating about mutt and mind reading once you understand that the news is mostly mind reading but

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that the news is mostly mind reading but poorly you recognize it everywhere it's like wait a minute that's not news that's you imagining you know what somebody's thinking that's not a thing and now you see it
some of you have learned but not all of you that hiring the best people isn't really something you can do except by luck uh if you're the president and you happen to be a very provocative president who even the people on your own team don't necessarily want to work for you because it's too much heat you don't have a big pool to pick from if you don't have a big pool of candidates the best you can do and this was true with trump the best you can do is take your best shot and then fire aggressively so if he fires aggressively and he's picking from a limited pool because just people don't want to be associated that's the best you can do people are understanding that slowly uh people are understanding that if you hear a book or a report

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that if you hear a book or a report about one person who was in the room and heard something shocking but the other people in the room didn't hear it didn't happen right you used to think well maybe it happened but now you know that that anonymous report or even the non-anonymous report like bolton nobody else heard it huh isn't that funny nobody else heard of that that means it's not true you're learning that disgruntled employees always talk the same way doesn't matter if trump fires them or the ceo of a company fires them that ceo has no strategy it's all chaos everything he doesn't look into the details he doesn't understand the finer points of all of the smart things i tell him every employee there's nothing political there's nothing about trump every disgruntled employee is that same broken record all right we've learned that china is not our friend and never wants to be it's not even close so decoupling is coming uh we're learning that the technologies we thought were the

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technologies we thought were the greenest might be the worst in other words nuclear power might be the greenest of all so that's a that's a switch we're learning slowly that the planet is probably warming even even skeptics say the planet planet is warming but there's a growing body of smart people michael sheldenberger for one i'll be talking uh about him a little bit more his great new book is out apocalypse never about three quarters through it it's terrific it's it's the best so let me recommend this is michael schellenberger's brand new book uh apocalypse never and he goes through all of the environmental arguments but here's what's different he gives you both sides i don't think i've ever seen that before like quite objectively he actually gives you both sides and when you're done you'll have a completely different understanding of all of this stuff you really will it'll blow your mind uh

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it'll blow your mind uh then there's uh just for a funny one i said socialism only works if your mom pays for your cell phone so the the experiment in the autonomous zone i think has been very successful for everyone except the people in the autonomous zone because it told the world that what they're asking for isn't a real thing it's not something that can work oh somebody's telling me that michael schellenberger's book is not out until june 30th i got it i got a preview copy so but i'm sure you can pre-order it and i think he would appreciate that all right um the lincoln project uh twitter account yeah it's tweeting all the hoaxes um let's see i'm just looking at your uh jazz was sort of a mini stanford prison experiment well that's a that's a funny and

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well that's a that's a funny and terrible thing to say
they offer one month free on locals i think i have that option i was thinking about doing that
you should link to amazon so you can get a kickback you know those are not very big kickbacks what about parlor somebody says so parlor is the um one of the competitors to twitter but you know it's tiny so if you do what i do for a living and you try to sell books and stuff you have to be on the big platform so that's not really an option so it'd be very expensive for me to get kicked off of twitter
but here's what i'd like to see can somebody build this for me if you'd like an idea for a project is already something called hootsuite hootsuite where you can you can schedule your tweets and your posts to social media but i'm pretty sure that does not

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but i'm pretty sure that does not include the alternate sites such as parlor such as locals such as rockfin competitor such as bitshoot i don't think it includes all those so here's the product that needs to be built it's a product where you can write your content and uh and then you can just select all the platforms the big ones the small ones the alternate ones which is more than anything does right now and it just sends it to all of them because until you have the one software that sends it to all of them it just it'll be too hard for people like me to to have a twitter let's say presence but also have some kind of a presence on an alternative site all right so right now there's not really there's not a practical way for somebody in my position to just say uh i'm done with twitter i'll go to this tiny platform that none of you are seeing there no you know the president doesn't use etc

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you know the president doesn't use etc but if i could publish to all of them i would be sending all of my same traffic to every source maybe maybe the software has to adjust it if it's being posted in a different place you know maybe twitter has a limitation on characters but facebook doesn't so you you know you'd have to have your software tell you you know where your content will fit so yeah you can adjust it so if it's at all but once you have that somebody says it has been done i doubt it all right um whenever i say that something needs to be built somebody uh always says it has been done but if you looked at that thing that somebody says has been done it's just never it's never the thing you know it's just something that reminded you of it um i would know about it by now
all right uh and if yeah hootsuite is first of all the user interface i found impossible i actually i don't know if it's improved since then but years ago i tried to use

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since then but years ago i tried to use hootsuite and i found it so frustrating that it was basically unusable in my opinion and other people have had the same opinion and whose suite does not
not um i think does not connect to the alternative platforms probably only does the big ones
um yeah if it's been done tweeted at me and i'll take a look but i i will say with the confidence of 99 that if it's been done it's not done to a commercial level or it doesn't have all the platforms or something
somebody says you can it's just not simple like you want right it's the simplicity which makes it a product yeah other people are saying the same about the user interface for hootsuite pineapple on pizza i'm being asked i say whatever you want

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social pee i don't know what that is somebody joined parlor and likes it oh somebody's asking me about tests coronavirus tests versus hospitalization so right now the hospitalizations are are the at least the coronavirus people have it is going up while the rate of death is going down and i don't think we quite know why do we it could be that the testing is finding more people who have low symptoms but that wouldn't tell you why the death rate's going down could be that the old people are hiding better it could be we know more about ventilators it could be
be who knows i don't know it could be that some of the meds they're using are more effective than we know it could be the zinc who knows but one possibility is that is that the rest of the cases from this day forward will be a lower version of death it's possible slaughter meter right now is at a hundred percent

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is at a hundred percent uh the slaughter meter is not a prediction because i always add this following caveat if nothing changes but something always changes so there will be lots of surprises between now and november 3rd do you have any idea how many people how many big things are going to drop between now and november 3rd a um somebody says the fragile ones are already dead they can't die again i i think it's probably a whole bunch of little things that are adding up to it we're smarter and all those things all right um yeah biden obviously has some cognitive problems somebody says there's no zinc in the vitamin isle at walmart well i know i ordered some by mail and it sure took a long time to get here
all right um did any celebrity die from coronavirus yeah that's the test i've

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coronavirus yeah that's the test i've been using to know how scared i should be
be because the odds of me being the first um
um like household name that that dies from coronavirus is very small so it's just this weird little trick i'm playing with myself to say all right if there's no other celebrity person you've heard of who died of it i know there have been a few but they were ones i was not familiar with then i'm not going to worry have you watched the circus i have not but i might all right that's all i got for now and i will talk to you later