Episode 1042 Scott Adams: Let’s Talk About All the Bad People and Funny People

Date: 2020-06-29 | Duration: 1:03:01

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• Dumping on Lena Dunham’s success

• Skin color mandates agreement with BLM?

• Life success is strategy, not skin color

• St. Louis gun-toting home owners

• Daily Beast hit piece on Van Jones

• Cognitively impaired Biden and cognitive dissonance

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I'm pom pom pom do you know what I discovered the other day that you can use your digital assistant should you have one I will not use the name of the digital assistant but it's al e X a I don't want don't want to wake my it up but apparently you can just tell it to play the podcast by the name of this this coffee with Scott Adams and it just starts playing I'll tell you if it's so much like the future I'm just standing in my kitchen and somebody sent me a message saying that worked and I thought really does that work so I said al exa play coffee with Scott Adams on Apple podcast and boom I started playing the the latest episode kind of cool somebody says someone else was killed in chopped I haven't heard that but we're gonna do something that will get this morning going just right

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will get this morning going just right yeah it's coming up I know some of you are prepared and all you need is a cup of margaret glass a tanker chelators diana canteen joker flask a puzzle of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous up and it happens now
so I keep telling you how weird it is to be me today is one of those days you know the the thing that specifically makes it weird to be me is that I deal with the news and then I wake up and then the news is about me and like oh crap the news is about me again so I wake up this morning to I think

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wake up this morning to I think Omar was telling me hey you're Dilbert is trending on Twitter now the first thing you see when you wake up in the morning if the first thing you see is that Dilbert is trending or your own name is trending yeah it's not necessarily a good news so you don't you don't automatically say hey hey this is terrific I'm trending the first thing you think is oh I'm either cancelled covent or dead as I like to play whenever I see anybody else trending I say are they cancelled do they have covered are they dead so Dilbert was trending this morning and what happened is one of the traps that I had set had sprung now if you're not me you don't think in terms of setting traps on Twitter that's probably just my own my own sick my own sick hobby I

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own my own sick my own sick hobby I guess is that sometimes I like to just put a tweet out there that just sits there often in the comments not even a tweet just a comment I'll put it out there and I'll just think well this one could come back to me so what I did was I had seen yesterday that Lena Dunham was trending and Lena Dunham was trending because in our world of 20/20 she's a I guess she's not a minority enough she she's a little too white and a little too connected to rich people it turns out especially Hollywood connections that she was trending for not deserving her success how would you like to twerk how would you like to trend on Twitter and find out that the reason you're trending is that black people don't think you deserved your success she just wakes up in the morning it's like oh

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wakes up in the morning it's like oh what's going on today check Twitter hey I'm trending I wonder why yeah this because nobody thinks I deserve my success bummer so that sucks so the thing that got me triggered yesterday and this will dovetailed into why I'm trending today is there was an african-american gentleman who was based on his profile assuming that he really is the person in his profile and he tweeted about essentially about Lina dominant Dunham's white privilege and his point was that the black people don't have the white privilege he did because apparently she got for her TV deal with nothing but a one-page write-up of a general concept and then she had a she had a TV deal now so so

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she had a she had a TV deal now so so black people were weighing in and saying things such as I studied film and you've written many scripts I have much I have lots of experience but I don't get to get my own TV show because I wrote something on the back of a napkin basically and I was connected in Hollywood and my relatives were rich and and so I just walk into a TV deal I don't get to do that now is it fair to black people that they have to work hard to get jobs in Hollywood but Lena Dunham with all of her whiteness gets to just walk right into a job doesn't even have to try hard now she had actually done some other things in in the business so it wasn't like she'd never worked in the business she had a little bit of a resume but still their point their point is quite clear right the point is very clear they're her white privilige made her more likely more likely not necessarily

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more likely more likely not necessarily guaranteed but more likely to be related to connected to network to somebody who could help her with a career and that's just what happened so that's racism right and here's what triggered me those of you in the comments can you that this would be a good time to to cover your ears of your kids if any kids are listening kids this would be a time to find something else to do there may be some cursing maybe a little bit of cursing that comes out in the next Oh 60 seconds or so and it goes like this as the African American folks were criticizing Lena Dunham for succeeding because of her whiteness which was true by the way so that that statement is completely true that as a white person she was statistically far more likely to have a connection it

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more likely to have a connection it would help her get something that other people couldn't get totally true also you you every one of you you because lena Dunham's connection didn't help any one of you did it how about the people who are not connected to billionaires like me like most of you how about you every one of you who think that some other random white person shouldn't get a leg up because Lena Dunham had an advantage Lena Dunham had an advantage that's not a white advantage except statistically do you want to talk statistically because I don't think anybody wants to talk to statistically alright you want to talk about an individual an individual doesn't necessarily have a billionaire for a father an individual has a problem that is their own problem you got your problems somebody else has a

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problems somebody else has a problem too your problems are not special your problems are not special now it's hard to say that on Twitter because that a lot a lot of in it and I'd use on my character account just with just with so instead I put a little trap there that ended up with me getting they've ended up with me getting trending early still bird it and the trap was this I put it in the comments just for context just for context that I had personally lost two jobs in corporate America most of you know this story for being a white male they told me directly my boss told me directly two separate times two different companies I can't promote you because you're white and you're male in those direct words the them that I threw in and by the way

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the them that I threw in and by the way the trap is that I know people don't believe it my experience has shown that people don't think it's true if you're black you just don't think that's ever happened honestly you have no idea that reverse discrimination was pretty much universally true I don't know how much is true today in corporate America but certainly to some degree and so here's one I threw in that I knew is going to be the red meat because it was a conversation of film people and writers who are my natural enemies as you know I always joke that when somebody comes in and says something rational to me I just checked their profile yeah artists it's the artist that never have the good arguments say they're just really worked up and they never had any kind of analytical structure to anything they say it's just random you know unkindness usually so I threw in the fact that the Dilbert TV show got cancelled because it was a white TV show

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cancelled because it was a white TV show and UPN have decided to become a an african-american centric Network the second season that I was on now they and and this is the fun part I knew that they would think that wasn't true I knew that they would say Scott there's no such thing as discrimination against white people they were just trying to let you down easily by telling you it was because of your race now remember I always kid that the artists and writers people in the TV business people in the arts they don't have even the slightest a bit of analytical ability to the point where it's just funny to watch them try to think and this was what they came up with they decided that they decided that in three separate times in my life that somebody thought the easy way to break me down too
too the easy way to let me down and their and their belief is that I'm actually

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and their belief is that I'm actually just incompetent at all those things so that I was incompetent and at the TV show I was incompetent at my corporate jobs and that the the way the bosses decide to let me down easily was by being racists what in what world do you let somebody down easily by telling them their their their ethnicity and their gender is the problem it's the one thing I can't fix that's the opposite of letting me down easily do you know what would let me down easily you know Scott you don't have the training for this job or how about you've you've made some mistakes maybe you would be more suited in some other job maybe we could move you to a function where you know your skills and your interests are better matched there are quite a few ways to let somebody down easily one of the ways that's not on the list to tell them that their gender and their ethnicity is the problem so that's what artists think

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problem so that's what artists think when they hear my story now the other thing they think is that I that I'm lying who would lie about that and so I was just very curious like can you develop your theory a little bit better about how I'm lying about it for example what would I have to gain did was that your theory was it your theory that my theory was that by saying I had lost three separate jobs because of my my ethnicity and/or gender that I was going to come out of hand on that does anybody think we live in a world in which saying that in public is in any possible way good for me no way that's good for me and you can see it the reason I'm trending is because I'm being attacked by people calling me a liar now did I know that yeah that's why I did it I literally put the tweet there because I thought it would be funny to watch all these artists attack me for for lying

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these artists attack me for for lying and making it up and I and I thought well that will just draw attention to me and the more attention it draws to me the more I can say let's have a full discussion because I I think we should just consider all the elements you've watched me long enough to know that I will go deep in listening to and taking seriously the claims of black Americans because they're all legitimate you know they're all based on legitimate stuff right so you know I'm anti statute because I listen because I listened and I said well you know what why is this bother you okay that's pretty good reason it's pretty good reason I can see why people might want the historical advantage well bobba bobba i can see the other side but i think outside with the people who say why would you have offensive statues i've talked about how to do reparations when most of you were just mad at me alright so i've gone deep

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just mad at me alright so i've gone deep i've talked to black lives matter tried to work out i've offered help to call him Kaepernick literally and publicly to try to see hey you got problems how can I help is there anything I could do so I think that I've done everything I can do to understand as deeply as much you know that the black situation in America in every sense and if there's anything else that I need to know open to that too listening to all of it and take it seriously yeah you've seen you seen me put the work in to take it seriously I've worked on the with a bill pulled a we worked on the blight of removal stuff which is primarily for the benefit of the black community I have some other projects that you don't know about that are entirely for the benefit of the black community but it is also true that white people are widely discriminated against now do I think you need to fix it yes I'm not even saying that I'm not

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it yes I'm not even saying that I'm not saying you need to fix anything I'm not saying I'm gonna protest I'm not saying that it wasn't even a greater good to have some discriminations in the eighties they helped to balance things out I don't know I don't even have an argument about it I'm just saying that that's the context just look at the whole context now I read on CNN that apparently there's some there's a little bit of pushback against Indian Americans and the pushback is that this is CNN's opinion piece today so this isn't me so don't litter via the next things to me I'm just saying what I read on CNN it's CNN's opinion one person on CNN that the so-called brown people from India should be siding more with with the black people who were protesting but the problem is that the brown people are being considered the the ethnicity that

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being considered the the ethnicity that are succeeding the brown people from India in particular they're demographic group tends to do really well and apparently they're not exactly siding with the people whose skin color matches them the most there I think siding is too strong a word they're not strongly identifying with black lives matter and that's the criticisms like hey you're brown they're brownish shouldn't you be on the same side to which I say that is the most looser ish opinion I've ever my life the most looser ish opinion in the world is that Indians from India in America should be siding with black lives matter because they have similar skin color what how could that not be just super racist and that's just like

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just super racist and that's just like an opinion piece on CNN that people just read does that looks good and I read it I think this is literally the most racist thing I've seen ever how about ever the most racist thing I've seen ever is that you should be on somebody's side because their skin colour literally literally that's what they're saying what's more racist than that here's what I would suggest now I've said this before and it's the sort of thing you can't say until you're so deep into the argument that you've given yourself a little space so part of what I'm doing is being provocative intentionally in in this space where most of you would get canceled for doing half of what I'm doing because if I can make my freedom of speech big enough then I can actually say useful things at the moment the the the field for for free speech on this topic of black lives matter etc is so small that the things you need to talk

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small that the things you need to talk about to make you better you can't talk it out so this is like job one job one is to expand the ability to have an actual conversation now there are things that you could say to any black person in person that they would not be offended in as long as you know you were polite and your your intentions were good etc but I find that there are things you just can't say in public that you can totally say to anybody individually and it's not even the slightly offensive which is where the danger is because if you if you lose that difference and say well I can say this easily to my you know my coworker or somebody I know in person it wouldn't be a problem at all it's just when it goes large that you know the problem happens and here's here's the thing that needs to be said and I've teased it a little bit but I'm gonna start pushing it harder why is it that Indian Americans are far more successful than black Americans is it because of the legacy of slavery

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because of the legacy of slavery I don't know beats being that's that's got to be in there somewhere right it's not like it has no effect but the biggest difference among people is not skin color its strategy and if we don't recognize that that's the big difference then I think we can't really fix anything because we're not dealing with a a true enough picture of the world to know where the buttons are you're dealing with this artificial picture of the world and here's what I mean if you were to take the people who had the same strategy as the people who came from India and as a demographic group it has been reported they're unusually successful compared to say other groups in the same situation what strategy do they use do they have a different strategy now I don't like to use the word - work ethic because that that feels a little racist honestly do you

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feels a little racist honestly do you hear it - when you say oh there's a difference in work ethic to my brain that's just racist I think because that's not a strategy as soon as you get into low it's your nature to be a certain way first of all that doesn't apply to any individual because the individual differences are all over the place but I just don't think that's where you should focus it just feels like that's a there's nothing productive if you're starting to think like that but if you said to yourself the Indian Americans came had this simple strategy stay out of jail stay off drugs focus on school work and that you know a few other things but basically that's your strategy you know no drugs no crime work hard in school now I think that you should only compare the people have the same strategy to each other because if you compare

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each other because if you compare strategy to strategy and then there's still a big difference I would say oh I think you found some racism like I think we've narrowed it down now obviously there is racism I say racism is universal it's not limited to anybody it's universal because your brains are your brains our pattern recognition machines you can't really turn that off they're just bad at it
it confirmation bias and and in reality look the same to us so I feel like where the conversation needs to go is to stop talking about statistical differences between people with something in common with their skin color and say how about the difference between people who used a strategy we know to succeed versus the people use the strategy we know never works why are we comparing strategies that don't work to strategies that do work and concluding that racism is the

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work and concluding that racism is the problem what's up with that so I think the fact that we're focusing so much on race tells you that nobody wants a solution now when I say nobody I don't mean people because individuals of course want solutions if you're just a citizen minding your own business yeah you want a solution you want a solution people are saying strong families I would say that that is untested I think that there needs to be two models and we only have one the the one model that conservatives sort of approve of if you will is it's got to be a nuclear family you know a strong mother and father and then everything goes well and I say yeah that's great if you're lucky enough to have two good parents you know who love you and they can give you a good strategy in life that's great that is the best that nothing would be better than that in my

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nothing would be better than that in my opinion but it's also not realistic yeah what what's the point of having a strategy that you know can't work do you think you can take all the people in the world and say are we've solved it you just need to find a great mate what if there aren't any how often do people get a great mate all right now how often does divorce happen a lot it's because we're not good at picking somebody who's good for us that's gonna last forever so there needs to be some kind of other model where a kid can thrive despite having one parent now which of these three things can you not do if you only have one parent do you can you not study cuz you only have one parent you could study you can pay attention do you have no choice but to get into crime because you only have one parent now you still have a choice you know do you have a choice about doing drugs in high school because you only have one parent is it you don't have a choice

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choice got it you got to do drugs I only have one parent no it's still a choice so there's something that tells me that while while I completely accept that everything's easier if you had you know - loving qualified parents it's just not real it's just not real it's just not going to happen for everyone right so it's a fairy tale to imagine that's some kind of a solution it's a good ideal you know if you want to push it as I like more of this that makes sense because it does seem to be a model that works I would say objectively speaking all right so just to follow up on the Dilbert TV show story so then the the artists who were bad at analyzing things went all CNN on me and when I say they went all CNN they found some information that was not the complete story and they made some fake news and that's how I got trending and the fake news is that they

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trending and the fake news is that they just discovered that when the show was cancelled the ratings were really really low so they say Scott you're lying it's not because UPN decided to become a an african-american focused network which by the way that part nobody questions because that's in the record you could find them saying it it's obvious they say no even though it is true the UPN was becoming an african-american focused network at the time you were canceled the reason you were canceled is because your ratings were low and you've even said that true true it's true the ratings were low and I did say that's why I was canceled I also didn't tell the truth about any of this stuff for a long time so why were they why were the ratings low this is the part that the geniuses who are doing their their little introduced new the sleuthing

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little introduced new the sleuthing don't get the reason the ratings were level is that I lost my timeslot from the season before where ratings were good ratings were good enough to get renewed now in the TV business that's this sort of binary you're either good enough to get renewed or you're not if you can get renewed then you can build an audience because even Seinfeld had a small audience in the first season did you know that the Seinfeld audience was actually very small in the first season but because they got renewed they found they found their feet and their their voice and they became big Dilbert ooh had actually better probably better than Seinfeld in terms of the first season because it was you did well in its timeslot on UPN well enough to be renewed then it lost its timeslot and I think it was too weird do you remember a young teen black star named Mandy she

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young teen black star named Mandy she was on the network and I may have this wrong I think she was the one who took that timeslot but anyway because her show did well at about that time they also decided hey let's build something around this and make it the african-american Network so losing the timeslot to an african-american product which turned their focus to hey let's do more of this because this seems to work and that made Dilbert no longer salvageable so while the problem the proximate problem was losing the timeslot to another property the the the kill shot is that it no longer made sense to try to move it or promote it or or make it work because it wasn't going to be there next year no matter what all right and that's the part that the geniuses who got Dilbert trending today don't know it's a little bit too complicated alright that's enough about me

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alright that's enough about me that's way too much about me did you all see the video of the st. Louis gun toting homeowners did you did you see it's the man and the wife they're standing in front of some high-end home and looks like black lives matter and maybe an T file we're starting to gather and before the crowd got big you see the guy out there with his big-ass gun and what is it what was it what kind of gun was it gun experts can tell me and and the wife's got a pistol and she's got her finger on the trigger which which was not exactly ideal gun safety situation because she probably had the I'll bet she had the safety off and she had her hand on the trigger and she was pointing it at me and apparently it was enough to make them decide that this wasn't the house they were going to vandalize somebody says lawyers I I don't know if there were lawyers he had poured poor trigger discipline this was

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poured poor trigger discipline this was was somebody called it so as they are 15 somebody says that's this what it looked like I wanted to make sure she came in she gave without taking so here's here was my take on that number one it worked it worked so the fact that anything works what does that tell you about it when something works people do more of it right when something works people do more of it somebody says is AR style and that's what I was wondering if it's technically an AR or are there are there other things that look like it I'm not enough of a gun guide you know so so here's the thing do you think that this is going to stop before some homeowner guns down somebody from black lives

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guns down somebody from black lives matter or an T file because I'm thinking it won't I feel like there's going to have to be some pretty serious gunfire before it's over now just to be clear I'm not promoting that I'm not in favor of gunfire it's a prediction it's a prediction that if you know you know you always worry about the slippery slope well I think the slippery slope will slip until the suburbs and the suburbs are gonna going to shut this down because the suburbs are well armed in the ways the cities are not and there's no homeowner under that situation who won't take out a gun so you should see black lives matter and anti-fur meeting armed resistance and it won't always be their own house sometimes it'll be the neighbors you know if your neighbor is being threatened and you've got a gun you might you might come out with your gun so I think guns are going to be the solution to what we're seeing and it won't be it looks like it's not going to

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won't be it looks like it's not going to be government guns because the government has been neutered by excellent psychological warfare the psychological warfare meaning that if a government gun kills a black person during any of this then then the violence will increase instead of decrease if a black if a let's say a black lives matter person or an tyfa gets killed by a homeowner in the in the in the act of some kind of vandalism america is going to be kind of happy about that when I say America I don't mean black lives matter I mean that all the people who have homes that don't want them vandalized all the people who want the protestors to be reined in are going to be pretty happy the first time some of them get gunned down on somebody's lawn now it looks like there's nothing that would stop that from happening at this point now these

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from happening at this point now these the the story of the st. Louis people were well-armed they had good control they had relatively good self control because I think I might have fired off at least a warning shot in that situation I don't know I think I would have put a couple of rounds into my own lawn just to tell them it was loaded and I think that would have hastened their retreat but that probably would have been you know illegal to do so they're smart the way they handled it I don't know I could have had that much control but here's the thing I'd like to add sooner or later there's going to be a homeowner who technically breaks the law by exacting some violence on some protesters you know that's coming right there will be a homeowner who kills or wounds a protestor a hundred percent chance that's coming I would like to say the following should I ever be chosen

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the following should I ever be chosen for a jury in which a homeowner is being charged with overreacting and it would be the overreacting that would make it illegal so something that is not clearly self-defense but it's it's charged as something more like murder because the person wasn't threatening them but was on their lawn with a big crowd of people behind them shouting we're gonna kill you so something that's a little more gray area you know it's like it wasn't immediate harm but on the other hand it was an angry crowd that have killed other people and beaten other people to death them they're on your long and you've got children inside and so you're shot so you shot somebody dead on your lawn for whatever reason you thought it was you thought you didn't have a choice now let's say that it is technically completely illegal and that homeowner under normal circumstances should go to jail this is what I'm declaring in public if you put me on the jury I'm not

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public if you put me on the jury I'm not going to convict them period I'm not going to convict any property owner for any violence against any protestor regardless of the specifics let me say that again while this situation is ongoing that this is not a permanent thing because if things calm down you want you want the letter of the law to be followed but at the moment I'm just I'm just declaring there for the benefit of the United States and as a patriot that I would not be involved in any jury in which I would even consider a guilty a guilty verdict for anybody who defended their property with violence during this situation now I don't recommend violence let me be as clear as I can be about that don't kill anybody don't hurt anybody unless it's you know self-defense that you just have no choice don't hurt

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you just have no choice don't hurt anybody I'm just saying that's the way it's gonna go somebody's gonna get hurt unfortunately we hope it's the fewest number of people but should it happen and I assume it well anybody who is on that jury is willing to in victor for being a little overzealous and protecting their property it's not going to happen with me on the jury not going to happen not in and I don't care what the details are I don't care if this person opened up and just started spraying the crowd innocent that's it I will not convict anybody for protecting their property and by the way it doesn't matter what ratchet or what nationality they are I'm not saying I'm gonna let all white people off I don't care what your nationality is if you're protecting your property if you put me on the jury it's at least a hung jury actually if

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it's at least a hung jury actually if you put me on the jury it's gonna be whatever I want it to be because you should really shouldn't put a hypnotist on a jury do you know one of the questions that lawyers should ask but never do are you a trained hypnotist if you're trained hypnotist you shouldn't be on a jury because the rest of the jury is gonna just agree with you you might as well just have one person on the jury now I know you don't believe that but trust me I saw on Twitter today that Twitter has suspended the account of Sidney Powell the attorney for General Michael Flynn does anybody know what that's about because when he heard you first hear the suspension you know it takes a while to find out what the reason was what was it somebody says come on man their lawyers somebody says that the st. Louis people were lawyers I don't know I don't know if that matters so if your vehicle is in your driveway

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so if your vehicle is in your driveway that's not part of your home no I would I would also say that if that's your property I don't care where your property is even if it's just your car if if somebody in a car runs over a protestor while other protesters are threatening the car put me on that jury innocent I don't know I'm not even gonna listen to the details I don't care all right so let's find out why Sidney Powell got you know which is weird because if an attorney is getting kicked off a Twitter don't you think the attorney would know why she was tweeting and what was risky and what the rules are
are there's something weird about this story and I can't wait to find out what it is The Daily Beast decided to do a hit piece on Van Jones isn't that weird why would you do a hit piece on Van Jones and here's the reason apparently he helped with Jared Kushner

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apparently he helped with Jared Kushner he helped advise the executive order about that the president signed about police and you think to yourself well Whitman isn't that a good thing Van Jones working with the administration already has a track record of successfully working with them on prison reform something very popular at both the left and the right got past so isn't Van Jones a rare free-thinking a rare non partisan well I won't say nonpartisan everybody's partisan say a non extremist most useful guy in the country like actually somebody who can make something happen that matters that helps people that's fan Jones right so they do a hip piece here's why here's why they don't like Van Jones or at least The Daily Beast attacks him it's because he helped advise now we don't know how much of the final output was from Van Jones and how

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final output was from Van Jones and how much wasn't but when he went on CNN he said that the deal was you know a step in the right direction essentially he did not say it's all good and we got everything that's worth getting he said that it's a good preliminary solid step that people on both sides should like basically paraphrase it he did not say when he was talking about it publicly while he was saying it was good he did not say that he was one of the people who advised on it and so and so Daily Beast thinks that this is worth an attack piece to ruin his reputation in public or they're attempting to they're failing but attempting to because he advised on something very important vital to the country tearing the country apart one of the few people who is both credible and useful and just wants based on everything I'd seen just wants good results all right one of the most helpful self-sacrificing people in the

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helpful self-sacrificing people in the entire frickin United States and they go after him and they attack him talk about the enemy of the people now let's talk about the specific complaint so he did not he did not fully disclose that the the executive order he was saying has good parts wish it could be bore but has some good parts he did not disclose that he was one of many people that Jared Kushner got advice from does that fair let me ask you this do you think everybody who advises the White House brags about it in public do you think everybody who advises the White House wants you to know that in public for whatever the reasons are I say it is completely fair to not disclose that do you know anybody who has advised the White House and did not disclose it yeah you do probably quite a few of them it

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you do probably quite a few of them it is very routine to advise the White House and not disclose it why well one you're not a dick how about that because disclosing hey I advised the White House yesterday it's just sort of a dick thing to do because you know what you should let the White House present their case any way they want to if you want to help if you want to help the White House how about you keep your own face out of it right you don't take credit for something the president's doing because you you gave advice for ten minutes and a meeting you don't do that no the the White House and the administration if you if you consider the entire administration they are continuously sampling for advice I have been asked for advice a lot of the blue check conservatives who have something to say have been asked for advice on different different topics at different times do they all talk about it no no you don't

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they all talk about it no no you don't do that that's not how it works you don't advise somebody in the White House and then go talk about it on TV it doesn't work that way now if if the story was that you were invited to the White House the Oval Office they took a picture then of course you say you know that you were there and you talk to the president and when they say what did you say to the president what do you say none of your business none of your business that's that's how it's supposed to work so here is Van Jones not trying to you know claim credit for anything not talking at a school about you-know-who he may have advised exactly like you'd want him to exactly the way you'd wish he would act and they write a hit piece on him the only guy who's trying to do something useful now it made it very clear that at least The Daily Beast doesn't want a solution I mean you don't have to read

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solution I mean you don't have to read too hard between the lines to realize that they didn't they wanted the fight more than they wanted any kind of movement forward that's pretty obvious all right there's a story about a company named perform path Lake Mary Florida company and they've introduced an ultraviolet light I guess it you can just replace your light fixtures or your bulbs I don't know if it's a bulb or the light fixture might be both but you can basically put in lighting with ultraviolet and there they're aiming at team and venues you know places where you have team sports and spectators and they're looking to basically use this UV light to disinfect the entire area all the time does it work well hard to know is it expensive I don't know but I'm just telling you that that sound thinner and I and it could be that ultraviolet

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and I and it could be that ultraviolet light I'm just going to give you the most positive potential imagine it works and I would think they need a little more science to know for sure they do know that the UV it has an effect on viruses so that part is known what they don't know is if you put it in a lot of ceiling lights and a lot of places do you get a different result but probably I mean common sense tells you it's worth trying let's say it works could it be that we will developed a technology that makes it safer against all viruses forever yeah it's a it's a specific type of UV light not generic UV light thank you
you this could be one of the biggest things in human development because think about all the the damn viruses from the regular cold too you know every other kind of flu virus if if the UV light can kill those things without hurting people and it can

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things without hurting people and it can basically flush it end of indoor spaces if you can get rid of viruses indoors with just light bulbs you know just make sure you have a couple of those lights in each room if that does it this is one of the greatest I mean this would be as big as when humanity learned to wash its hands with soap this would be that big I mean that's pretty big who knows if it'll work we'll see anyway here's as there's the scariest thought of the day we've talked about the the Yanni and Laurel audios so there's a there are audio illusions in which you can imagine you hear something one way and then you can just imagine it another way and here's the other way so given that Audio illusions are established as a thing we know we can make people hear different things even sending the same sound and

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things even sending the same sound and it has to do with how they're primed now imagine a bad a bad character a bad let's say a country that wants to start a revolution or a riot in another country and they want to they want to do it with misinformation one of the technologies that apparently is available is to send a message that half the people will listen to and they'll say I don't hear anything wrong with that and the other half will say oh my god are you listening the same thing I am what I hear is that they're they're math Nazis who want to take over the world or whatever it is whatever is the worst thing you could imagine so if somebody created an intentional audio illusion let's say I had somebody somebody you thought was a good politician but the audio illusion made it sound like they were using the n-word now I think of this because there's a video of Joe Biden using the n-word that

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video of Joe Biden using the n-word that I heard it and I said okay that didn't happen so as soon as I heard it I was like okay that's a picture of Joe Biden his lips are moving and I clearly hear that n-word coming out of his mouth but as soon as you hear it you go now that didn't happen that's some kind of a fake now it turns out that the the nature of the fakery is it was just an akan text and he was quoting someone else while condemning them so if you know he's quoting someone else and condemning them that changes the context now should he have used the word in its natural form walking Demming them well remember it was pretty far back in time when it wasn't as obvious that that would be the worst thing in the world should he have done it I don't know it's a small problem he was obviously his intentions were right and the times were different so I wouldn't make a big deal out of it but it reminded me that how easy it would be to have a piece of misinformation in which people could clearly half of the

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which people could clearly half of the people would say no it's not on the video Trump is not saying those words and then the other would half would say ah it's right there we listen to it open your ears you must be lying to us because we hear those bad words clearly so there is a potential for really bad Mis just the kind that would actually destroy a country if you use that technology what are the odds that a pandemic would make masks mandatory at the same time that the protests really require masks to be successful is that the weirdest coincidence in the world or is it a coincidence now the conspiracy theorists would say that everything from the corona virus through the Statue stuff is all planned by some cabal of Marxist somewhere in the sky now I don't think that's the case I think it's an actual incidence I think it is an actual just legitimate

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think it is an actual just legitimate coincidence but a really bad one because if people couldn't wear masks how large would the protests be now as many people said the looters weren't variant wearing masks you know a lot of those people weren't wearing masks to which I say they only could do what they were doing because there were so many people and there were only so many people because so many of them could wear masks if you took if you took the masks away from the non looters there would be no looters because there wouldn't be many people there and then the police would have numbers and they would just stop the looters it's the number of people that gives them their power and the only way they can get the number of people even if a third of them are not wearing masks the only way you can get that big number is with masks and I would say that you can't solve this problem as long as they're wearing masks you can't solve it as long as it's

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masks you can't solve it as long as it's mandatory to wear a mask but here's what I would suggest and I don't know you could test this and see if it makes things worse or better this easily could make things worse but just test it out suppose the police could very calmly just detain a member of an tyfa not even necessarily somebody who's breaking law and let's say there's an anti mask law which is the anti mask law of course would be overridden by the need to wear masks for the pandemic so you have two conflicting laws but the pandemic one is sort of a particular one for a particular purpose could the police stop somebody and say just for the purposes of identification we have an anti mask law but since I don't want you to be in danger well we'll stand six feet away I'd like you to drop your mask and we'll just take a picture that's all then you could put your mask back on and you're free to go what would happen now of course they

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go what would happen now of course they might resist right the obvious thing is that they they would resist but it does seem to me that if the rumour started catching on that the police were take we're asking people to pull their masts down to take a picture and if they refuse they would be arrested because there's let's say there's an anti mask law which not everybody has so it seems to me that you could at least have a shot at taking a lot of the energy out of the protest by allowing the police to take a photo of somebody with their mast down just temporarily and the safest possible way so that you're not putting them at risk for the coronavirus I just put that out there there might be something to work with there but also could just be a reason for a fight and you know cause problems depends Biden says shoot the looters and the legs and then remove their masks yeah we had

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then remove their masks yeah we had going inside a bank with masks is kind of scary so I used to be a bank teller it was my first adult job and let me tell you if I were a bank teller and all of my customers were wearing masks I would not be a happy camper because I got I got robbed twice when I was they tell her all right somebody says they work in a bank bar said all 14 terrorist task forces have been activated meaning that they're going after the organizers as Terris um somebody says it's a brilliant idea but it will reveal that the politicians are in the tank with protesters so one of the things I'm hearing from smart people is this that the reason there doesn't seem to be as much focus on solutions is that the organizers don't want them they don't want solutions I think that that's closer to true than not true while it is

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closer to true than not true while it is definitely true that there are plenty of protesters who want a solution to police violence is certainly not true that that's what's driving the protests it just isn't what's driving the protests is the organizers the TV the social media and it's a small group of people who are manipulating the larger group to do what they do but the small group doesn't want a solution they need they need infinite conflict to take this to you know to its broader conclusion which is power of course and I think the as I said earlier the only the only way that's going to stop ah somebody says in the in the comments a new Rasmussen poll says nearly 40% of believe voters believe Biden has dementia 40% of voters think Biden has dementia now you don't have to look at the details to know that that's divided by largely along party lines so

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divided by largely along party lines so you know obviously there are more Republicans who think Biden is as dementia than there are Democrats how much of that is just political and how much of that is confirmation bias and how much of that is cognitive distance well I think you're gonna see the numbers somewhere in the 20% range of of Democrats who think that Biden has dementia yeah there it is in the comments somebody saying that 20% of Democrats think Biden should be checked for dementia now I think technically it's probably more about he should be checked for it as opposed to he hasn't because we're not doctors right it's more about maybe we should check this out I think that's always the underlying assumption now if 20% of Democrats think Biden has dementia and a hundred percent of the people watching this periscope probably think it what's up with the other 80% of Democrats this is an interesting

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Democrats this is an interesting question so there are 80 percent of Democrats who can look at Biden and according to them according to those eighty percent of Democrats don't see a problem do you believe that what would explain the gigantic difference in in people seeing a problem obviously and people who say no I don't see anything well well some of them are of course lying wouldn't you assume don't you think some of them are lying because they just hate Trump more than they care about having their president who doesn't advance dementia that's got to be some of them right I don't know if it's most of them or just a little a few of them but some of its line but I'd like to suggest that this is the ideal setup for cognitive dissonance now if you've ever had trouble understanding what cognitive dissonance is and you just wanted like a really clean example this is it this is

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really clean example this is it this is the cleanest example of us of a setup that is guaranteed to create cognitive dissonance let me say that again the set up that you're seeing with Biden getting this far but yet clearly having signs of dementia is the perfect set up to generate cognitive dissonance in fact you could run an experiment with just if you could find some way to do an experiment with a sample of people and and give them the set up you would see cognitive dissonance half of the time at least at least half maybe a hundred percent I mean it's a really strong effect and here's the setup people wanted to beat Trump and it's their number number one most important thing all right it's the most important thing the Democrats they've gone through this entire primary process in which the Democrats were looking for the finest most effective leader that they could pick out of all Democrats they came up

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pick out of all Democrats they came up with Biden and now in order to get that thing they want most they have to back Biden as their champion what would happen to your brain if you found yourself in a situation in which you had to back a guy who obviously had dementia because to do otherwise violates everything you think about yourself which is I'm pretty good at picking picking politicians and voting and I'm a member of the Democratic group and were the reasonable ones so obviously we're going to pick somebody who can understand science and and very importantly doesn't lie because a big problem we have is that Trump guy keeps lying and saying things that are wrong and some facts are wrong and we can't have that so we need a person who's famous for telling the truth oh that's a problem because what are all these clips about Biden lying and lying and lying about his own resume I mean just crazy things like he's on tape saying he had three degrees when he

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tape saying he had three degrees when he has one and he said no I forgot I forgot I only have one college degree not three or majors I think it was was it degrees or majors I forget but anyway it was some wild lie and so you're a Democrat you get caught in this trap the only way you can get rid of Trump is to to accept somehow that Biden is a functional person it's the perfect setup for cognitive dissonance so my guess is based on my experience that most of those people who say no I don't see it are telling the truth are telling the truth that most of the people I don't know if it's fifty one percent or ninety percent but my my experience says that by far most of the people actually are perceiving the world in which biden is perfectly fine is that's wild isn't it it's wild to know that that the perceptions can be modified in real time

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perceptions can be modified in real time I mean you you and they that you could stand right next to him they could be standing right next to you and watching one of those compilation clips of Biden just mentally falling apart and you could say all right well you see it now right right you're watching the clip you're standing right next to me watching this clip now you see it don't you
you right and do you know what they would say they're say no no I see somebody like everybody else they sometimes fumble the word yeah he's a certain age people of a certain age maybe will reach for a word a little bit longer means nothing and it'll just freak you out and you'll be like are you kidding me are you kidding me we're looking at the same video at the same time he's not all there and the other person just won't see it and you won't know if they're lying that's the weird thing you just won't know if they're lying and you'll say I don't know if you're

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you'll say I don't know if you're telling me the truth is it just what you want me to think is true cuz you see it don't you don't you see it now this is very different than when the the anti-trump errs say to any Trump supporter but you see he's he's not passing the fact-checking right don't you see that and we say the same thing yeah yeah we see it it's hyperbole you know he's directionally true doesn't care too much about the details has an effect at anything yet we still prefer him over yeah the alternative so when you talk when you talked to Trump supporters they seemed to be completely aware of what they voted for and what they got which is not cognitive dissonance you know but you don't see you don't see too many Democrats if any say you know your Biden is mentally incompetent but I'd like a mentally incompetent president because I think it's a step up that's a little harder to

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it's a step up that's a little harder to say all right that's all I got for you to do today and let's go forth and have a terrific day and I will talk to you tomorrow