Episode 1044 Scott Adams: Special Guest Carson Griffith and Lots About the Protests and Biden

Date: 2020-07-01 | Duration: 55:39

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• Special Guest Carson Griffith is suing Daily Beast

• If Biden is elected, Trump supporters will be hunted/victimized

• What to expect from BLM and Antifa if Biden is elected

• Is CHOP the Democrat vision for the entire country?

• “Collective punishment” is a war crime, per the Geneva Convention

• Joe Biden uses management jargon to not say anything

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bum bum bum bum bum bum hey everybody come on in it's time for coffee with Scott Adams the best part of the day every single time and this will be no exception today we've got a special guest that didn't work yesterday but I think I have my technical issues worked out and well we'll bring her on in a moment but first you know what happens first I think you do it's called the simultaneous hip what do you need to do it not much a cover of mercury glass attack hotels are staying in a canteen sugar flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee enjoyed me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now go hmm well with no further ado let me see if I can bring on my guest Carson and watch

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can bring on my guest Carson and watch the technology work perfectly Carson a there I can yay all right so this is I'm pretty sure they get if I can they can this is this is Carson Griffith and you've got a story that I know my audience would like to hear and let me let me just set you up with this question and then give us give us the lay of the land and the question is who are you suing and why go ok well this can be a long answer a short answer so I'll try to keep it short yeah give us the overview first I will dig down a little bit okay so I'm suing the Daily Beast for defamation specifically because they accused me of being racist homophobic and transphobic that's the trifecta okay and they accused you that based on what evidence according to them so the writer name's Maxwell tawny his

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so the writer name's Maxwell tawny his main source was a former employee of mine who is also his long time very best friend okay so there was some personal connection there and who made the accusation and was there any evidence that they offered yeah so the accusation was made by two of my former employees and I used that word loosely because they worked for me for nine days that's the worst employees ever all right and what evidence did they offer of your awfulness they gave some slap conversations and then also just stories that they told him and and were the stories or the conversations real take it out of context how accurate were there were their allegations so that's the thing the defamation I'm not just this isn't a lawsuit Scott as you know I was I'm not quite sure if I'm

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know I was I'm not quite sure if I'm saying I was a journalist where I am a journalist at this point you know how that goes you know but that was my career for 11 years so I definitely know ethical journalism practices this isn't just me being like hey guys I'm mad that they wrote a mean article about me so I'm going to sue them this is an article that is definitely not just unethical journalism practices it is actual defamation and we know that because they could have they could have wrote a similar article which which has still been quite weird because I'm a private citizen and included 50% of the information but it would have been not defamation so what gives us the example of what they said that was based on a fact that is defamation um for instance one of the one of the girls in the article said that in the interview I did with her she said I don't have it right in front of me she said oh I claimed her

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in front of me she said oh I claimed her name's Anna Breslaw that I said during her job interview process oh I have a snack in my pocket from the office that's so poor person of me which she said that was supposed to be an elitist classics comment and I never made that comment they also try to get me on classism was you know they tried to paint a full full rounded picture of me and not only did I never make that comment they didn't have a second source for it it was my word vers hers and my my point was you know you never called me for comment on this article and also why would you take the job if I said that during a job interview now the you're talking about that this is the daily beast writing about you correct yes it's the daily beast so I mean kind of kind of to bring it back at let me let me just connect a couple of dots because my audience heard yesterday about Van Jones talking about The Daily Beast writing a story about

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The Daily Beast writing a story about him meeting with the President on the on the crime bill and Van Jones said nope it was never even in the building wasn't it wasn't in the meetings wasn't physically there none of it happened so The Daily Beast we do know literally just make stuff up now you've got an employee who literally just made up a quote which they ran with right can you give us a couple more examples because the examples are what brings that to life yeah sure so there were a bunch of different things they provided some slack conversations for the article and said here are some things that she said that we found offensive well one of those things was I asked them if an interviewee was a girl or a boy who they wanted me to meet with the interviewees name was Pilate okay they said Pilate is non binary Pilate used to be a she but now goes by they/them pronouns okay and

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now goes by they/them pronouns okay and I said okay I think he told me that but I wasn't sure thanks and they said because when I asked the question I said lol is Pilate a girl or a boy the lol applied to something I said previously but because I put the ello first I had never seen this person that I am transphobic so the the usual the mind reader approach which is even though it's clearly the lol applied to the prior comment which was not about this we think that's what she was thinking alright so so basically the the quality of the complaints would you say those two examples are indicative either didn't happen or they just read something out of context that sort of thing yeah I mean if if you go through the whole thing but it's like one situation after another but to go back to I mean Scott on top of it to really frame the situation they work from for me for nine days but to build up who they are as people when their anger I'm

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they are as people when their anger I'm not sure if you told your audience this but for some backstory I was hired in November 2018 to revamp the website Gawker so when I say the word Gawker most people presume this means I worked at even briefly the tabs the tabloid website related to the Hulk Hogan scandal but that was totally different that website was ran into the ground but the man who bought the bones at that site one turret was erected into something still culturally observant and witty but not downright vicious and petty so like a new Gawker but so I left my job at Conde Nast but unfortunately a lot of people weren't happy with this and that I was that at Oriel director because not that these are synonyms but I wasn't public enough I wasn't performative Lee woke enough I wasn't neat enough so it wasn't like that old Gawker but here I worked at Gawker great yeah you think that's what I was no dude do you identify as being left or right or supporting anybody in particular you know I always say that my cherry-pick my

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know I always say that my cherry-pick my my political views you know but the thing is that they got mad about was when all these people heard that I was the person who was supposed to run the new Gawker they started digging in my digital trash to go find things that I used to say or like you know my old tweets my old and the website called splinter dug up that I am I registered Republican in 2008 and you would have thought that I had shot someone on the street they were so upset there we go there we go right so the so the real problem is they thought you were a closeted Republican and they were looking for every every excuse to get you out of there so you were you were basically you know excised for being potentially a little bit too open-minded about the right would you say I mean exactly and I mean if they had really dug around they would have you know also seen that I was probably just very

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seen that I was probably just very open-minded which i think is a great great quality in a journalist in general I mean Scott you know that as well right all right so let's get to the the heart of the matter so so The Daily Beast has what's the word you used slander defamation is what what we're suing them for particularly good I'm suing the Daily Beast they're editor-in-chief no saxman the writer Maxwell tawny who wrote the article Noah Chapman is actually the one when you were speaking about Van Jones who Van Jones and Noah Sackman went at each other on Twitter the other night and then I'm also suing my former employee Maya kosis who was the sort of the name source for the story all right all right well good luck with that so so that's sort of a cautionary tale and I'm gonna use your story I'm gonna let you go here in a moment but I'm gonna use

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go here in a moment but I'm gonna use that to launch into some other stuff I want to talk about that that kind of tells the same story is there anything we we missed that you want to add on to this um no I think it's just you know these people were unhappy with having me as their employer as you know and they were trying to find everything they can and they then they went to the Daily Beast to use that as their advantage their connection so I think a lot of what you talked about so so even being suspected as being a trump supporter cost you your job would that be a fair statement yeah presumed trump supporter caught well eventually it cost me my job yet yeah and and yeah and presumed there's there's no specific evidence of that just said I love Trump from 2010 okay care what your it was yeah 2010 before before I even ran alright well so that tells you where we're at so Carson thank you for telling us your story and a good luck with your suit alright

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a good luck with your suit alright bye-bye alright so that sort of tells you where we are I tweeted this morning provocatively and I know that's why some of you are here that if Joe Biden gets elected that there's a good chance you'll be dead within a year now do you recognize that technique what does that sound like who are you reminded of or what persuasion does it remind you of when I say that if Biden is elected there's a good chance you'll be dead within a year does this sound familiar it should sound familiar it's a o'seas play about climate change yes some of you got it in the in the comments so I just took a overseas play now when you heard aoc say you'll be dead in 12 years or some version of that what happened to your brain your brain just caught on fire didn't it like that can't be true you know you're lying and then other people their brains caught on fire

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people their brains caught on fire because they thought it was true so the genius of what AFC said was your your brain would catch on fire if you thought it was true or if you thought it wasn't true just different reasons so you can't look away when somebody says something like that now what is missing from this presidential election there's something missing and you don't realize it until I tell you what it is fear fear because fear is the strongest motivator when President Trump was running for office he used a lot of fear persuasion now you could argue that that you know the the morality of it but I would say that if the fear is a real one then its moral to bring it up it would be quite Ithaca to say there's a real fear and you got to worry about this it would be unethical and immoral to just invent a fear that wasn't real and try to manipulate people with a fake fear

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to manipulate people with a fake fear but if it's real a leader has a responsibility to to address that of course so the president would talk about immigration and that was a risk and all the crime that might come with immigration of course you got call the races for that but in terms of fear persuasion it was pretty strong and I don't see the president using any fear persuasion this time do you not really he's really being sort of he sort of disappeared I mean we've got baseman Biden and and Trump is sort of pulled back a little bit from the the limelight now how does Trump get elected if things just sort of go the way they go you know who know who knows how many bumps we're going to have between now and election days there'll be lots of surprises I'm sure but I would at least put these two visions of the world in your head number

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visions of the world in your head number one let's say Trump wins if Trump wins things will look a lot like they look now you know you'll have the same divisions the same enemies the stock market will improve China will still be a problem etc so you kind of know what that world looks like because it looks a lot like today but maybe we get past coronavirus and the economy gets better so you've got sort of an image what that looks like does it look great you know maybe maybe not now compare that to another view and it looks like this you get a Joe Biden presidency let's just play it out what happens if you get a Joe Biden presidency does that mean that there protesters and antiphon and black lives matter will say some version of this yay we got what we want now that our people are in charge

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want now that our people are in charge we'll get some legislation going will really make some progress do you think that's what an tyfa and black lives matter the leadership not not the individual people who support individual stuff but the leadership do you think that they're gonna say yay fighting a Biden presidency we got it no no they're not on the side of the Democrats anti fuzz not on the side of the Democrats they're not an FA side black lives matter at least in terms of the leadership it doesn't look like they want solutions if the protesters wanted solutions the protests would already be over because the Tim Scott offered a bill with 70% of what people wanted with the complete invitation to bring in amendments to add or adjust supposing you had the support in the Congress to add or adjust as much as made sense on

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add or adjust as much as made sense on that bill in other words the door was completely open to negotiate a bipartisan bill and the Democrats said no thanks no thanks so it's obvious that the Democratic leadership doesn't want to solve it black lives matter doesn't want to solve it leadership the people do you know regular people of course was solutions but not the leadership the empty Fahd they don't want anything they just want destruction so they're not looking for solutions whatsoever so Biden becomes president just game this out what happens well the protests should be going on just the same way they are because it's not based on Trump it's not based on who's president they don't care that just doesn't have anything to do with anything Biden would still be the president of the system they need to destroy black lives matter wants to tear it down to build a more a better system from scratch and if I just once it all torn down to do whatever it's not clear so if you get

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do whatever it's not clear so if you get Biden you still get the protests but what's the difference the difference of course is that the more Democrats are in control because their base will require it they will be pulling back from supporting the police what will the police do when they have less support and more risk you don't have to gasp because you can see it happening right now
now you see the police retiring they're calling in sick there they're stepping back from active enforcement and only doing the essentials and crime is skyrocketing so under a Biden presidency some things that you could be sure would happen would be that the protests would get Ana control and the police would be taken off the field now if you take the police off the field what stops the protests nothing nothing it just gives worse but more importantly I think that the Republicans and the people who had ever supported Trump and I would be on that list I believe that we will be hunted I think there will be hunted now

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hunted I think there will be hunted now if you don't think that remember the story I just told so Carson Griffith lost her job as she tells the story entirely because somebody imagined that she was a trump supporter when in fact she had one tweet long before he ran for president that's that long before he ran for president and some other social media thing that was sort of ambiguous I forget and that was enough for her to lose her job she lost her job over the suggestion that she might possibly be a little bit friendly to Trump without any direct evidence so that was so ever so do you think that Republicans can keep their jobs in a Democrat dominated world probably not probably not so I think you're gonna see something like anti Farr running wild you would see you

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Farr running wild you would see you would see the Republicans arm themselves you see lots of bloodshed and you could see something closer to a revolution because Biden wouldn't be able to control anything and it's not his side all right so so I think a Biden presidency opens up the possibility that many of you listening to this will be dead in a year if it if it goes that way now
now I of course say that things are going to go towards the golden age so I think the the likely outcome looks like this Biden wins the presidency and Kamala Harris becomes the real president either because she's really running the show behind the scenes or he actually drops out she becomes the president in my opinion calmly Harris is the only one who can stop this you see that Kevin didya Kamala Harris might be the only one who could stop the protests because

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one who could stop the protests because she's she's a person of color and she is she's got a history of being sort of a badass on crime she could put she could put the boot down on the protesters Biden can't Trump either can't or is unwilling to so far so your best-case scenario might be a President Kamala Harris because she might be the only one who can prevent the prevent the the revolution because she could put it down violently because it'll take violence to stop it now I'm not promoting violence you all know that right I never promote violence but it is true that all government is held together by violence or the threat of violence you don't have a government unless you have the threat of violence for anybody who challenges the government so so Camille Harris has the option of using violence and the other people don't so if you want to see the there is

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don't so if you want to see the there is nothing that would stop the protests short of violence because they're not asking for anything you get that right if they were asking for something that you could give them something reasonable then you could say all right I can see how this ends you negotiate something but they're not asking for anything that doesn't end I mean they're not asking for anything that's practical that could actually be done in the real world we're not going to dismantle the system so this is the same play as a o'seas play that you'll be dead in 12 years for climate change because and the reason that it works so well is because you think it might be true because it might be true now AMC's thing wasn't true is it was intentional hyperbole but it got you thinking about it it certainly made a difference it moved the needle it was very persuasive you can say that so here are some things that signal what would happen under a Biden presidency today

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happen under a Biden presidency today you can't go in public wearing a trump hat without getting your ass kicked what are you agree if you can't even wear a hat or or announce that you're a Republican in a lot of places because it won't be safe you'll lose your job you could be the threat of physical violence you know there's already no no freedom for a part of the people in this country so I do think there's a not a risk it's almost a guarantee that if Biden gets elected Republicans will be hunted now when I say hunted I mean identity use will be surface so that people will lose their jobs and stuff like that not necessarily just physically with guns but I think that's I think the odds of a shooting civil war if Biden gets elected are 20% maybe 20% the odds of you being hunted one way or another as a Republican if you are a

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another as a Republican if you are a Republican I would say are closer to 80% 80% chance that you would be you would be victimized under the new under the new regime Karl Rove points out that what's missing with Trump's campaign is that he doesn't have a what what does he want to do next because you have to have a vision of the future and Karl Rove is right because I don't think I've heard Trump say what he wants to do next because the things he was doing kind of got derailed by coronavirus you include the other Chinese negotiations and the economy got stalled and the the walls moving slowly but that's not much of a campaign will build the wall a little bit faster so I think that Karl Rove is correct that Trump doesn't have a vision of what's coming doesn't have a good story on health care as far as I know and then the other thing Karl Rove says you should listen to everything Karl

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you should listen to everything Karl Rove says basically because in terms of persuasion for the in the political realm he would be one of the best so he also says he's not drawing any contrast to Biden enough of a contrast just saying that Biden has mental problems might be true but as karl rove says that would be like third on the list at best of things that's gonna that are gonna move people they care about the economy they they care where you're going they care about contrast you know so give us a contrast what's the world look like with Biden what's the world look like with Trump so a lot of people have said is Trump even trying anymore and I think that's that's a fair question yeah based on what we're seeing at the moment however however here are the things that you cannot rule out you can't rule out that the very best thing Trump could do is nothing you can't rule it out because the more we see the cha porch as autonomous own not working that becomes

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autonomous own not working that becomes like the the visual model you have of what the whole world looks and I don't know why the Trump campaign isn't doing the commercials exactly like this here's some video from inside chop and that's what the Democrats are promising for the rest of the country because they might be that that is close enough to true meaning that the Democrats will let things get out of control to the point where everything looks like chop that is close enough to true for a campaign purposes meaning that it tells a story of contrast even if it's hyperbole but I think it's true enough that that's where I would go I would show all the positive things you know the economy working and building things and you know the the beauty and grandeur of America and then I would show chop and say if you don't think this is what they're promising you you haven't been paying attention here's what I'd love to say here's the commercial I'd love to say the contrast

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commercial I'd love to say the contrast of you know things working well in America and then chop what's a video and then say this is this is what the Democrats in CNN would like for you this is what they plan for you and then and I would also also show the gun I'll show the video of the gunfire because there's actually audio I should say there's audio of the gunfire the other night now if you haven't heard the audio of the gunfire it's way more scary that just hearing that there was a shooting if you hear the audio because there's a lot of shooting it's like Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam and you say to yourself somebody just got shot a lot that was multiple times somebody got shot which i think is what happened so I I don't think the Trump campaign is just moving into overdrive for some reason and it could be that just waiting works it might be

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be that just waiting works it might be the waiting works and I don't think the polls are telling you too much right now here's another gigantic error on the Trump campaign Lamar Alexander Republican points this out he says the Trump should sometimes were masks even if he doesn't wear it all time you know there obviously if he's giving a speech maybe he takes it off but Lamar says that you're not gonna get get people on your team to wear them if you're adamantly opposed to them personally it turns into as Lamar says correctly then it turns into a political question hey I support Trump so I'm not gonna wear a mask well that's not why you should not wear a mask yeah if you're making your medical decisions based on your politics you're doing it wrong and Lamar I think is correct that although nobody's thinking of it in those terms as long as Trump becomes identified with a non mask wearing it sort of becomes

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a non mask wearing it sort of becomes the Republican brand and then people just say yeah no mask no mask so in my opinion this is a disqualifying mistake at this point from the president meaning that I wouldn't elect I I don't know I don't think he can support a president who is not encouraging people to wear masks during a pandemic is that clear enough if I said that as clearly as I possibly can there's no way you should vote for Trump if on election day he's not he's now recommending masks that that would be such a big and obvious mistake you'd have to say to yourself well I don't think he's even trying at this point now I would be completely happy if the president said this I'm your president I'm sort of like a symbol you know I'm a visual symbol just like the White House so I'm I'm not gonna wear his mask but you should I think I

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wear his mask but you should I think I would be perfectly happy with the president saying look when you're president you can make a decision about how you want to present yourself visually I'm gonna be careful but when I'm speaking to the public I'm not gonna wear a mask I'll make sure everybody has one around me so they're protecting me I'm going to get tested every day I'm a special case I'm a special case you all should wear masks but as you president and you could make the same decision if you were president you might want to present a different look for the people but you should wear masks to keep yourself safe now if he said that I'd say all right that's fair enough that's fair enough I could see why he would be the exception and nobody would argue with that right no but nobody really argues about the president being a special case because that's just good for everybody when he's treated as a special case but I would say if the president doesn't come out you know a little more forcefully about wearing masks he would

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forcefully about wearing masks he would be incompatible with the experts and incompatible with a lot of the public and I think it would be disqualifying I think it would be disqualifying because we would actually just kill people it's as easy as a few statements and if you don't make them people die so that's disqualifying let's talk about collective punishment have you ever heard that term collective punishment would be that the classical thing is that let's say there's a war and the winning the winning army gets control of a city and then they say hey some of the people who look like you were opposing us and we're gonna kill all the people who look like you so that would be collective punishment it would be punishing people who had nothing to do with the whatever the offenses but they're in the category it's like punishing all men for doing something that one man did or punishing all some ethnicity for something that one person did or a few people did so

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one person did or a few people did so that's what collective punishment is and it's considered so evil that's a violation of the laws of war and the Geneva Convention punishing people for things that people who look like them or in the same Club did just because they're in the club of whatever that club is it's a war crime that's how bad it is it's against the Geneva Convention and it's happening to me right now that's happening to me so I'm part of collective punishment because I'm white and male and the the black lives matter movement is largely saying that that if you're the same color and coincidentally in my case gender as the slave owners that you owe some money to other people now I've heard really good like legal arguments for reparations if you hear somebody who's really good at it I saw a

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somebody who's really good at it I saw a video yesterday if somebody who is just really good at persuasion who is defending the idea of paying reparations and if you hear the case by somebody who's got you know good skills at explaining stuff it's actually a pretty strong case it's a strong case in a legal sense now does that matter to me no because it's not a legal question it's not it's a political question so reparations who gets them and why it's not built into the law it's something that would need to be a law alright so if if people were in favor of it so here's my point even talking about reparations is collective punishment because I would be one of the people who would be bearing the burden of the cost but quite explicitly I was not part of the problem people who look like me who were also white mostly male because in

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were also white mostly male because in those days that's you know that was the model so I would be punished because people who look like me who also have my DNA and not many of them relative to all the white people in the world there weren't many who owned slaves just you know a handful by statistical problem terms so I would say that that is collective punishment
and I think Connell Harris might be the only one who could crack down on the protesters so maybe that's that's what's gonna happen Trump is largely taken out of the game because anti-fur uses black lives matter as a human shield have you noticed that if Anti Fog by itself cause trouble we could send in the military pretty easily nobody would care right because it's a bunch of privileged white kids nobody's gonna

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privileged white kids nobody's gonna care if the police roll up on a bunch of white kids in an tyfa yeah I know does the country care no not too much but yeah and then black lives matter they don't have the numbers so if they team up with an tyfa they've become this powerful force except i don't think black lives matter realizes that an tyfa is using them as a human shield to destroy the country whereas black lives matter might have a different a different opinion of which way things should go so at the moment they're on the same side because they seem to be opposed to the system but what would happen if the democrats won would they turn on each other maybe we'll see so here's some newer mind-reading news from from CNN so this case Mark Cuban was on talking to Sean Hannity and they had a lively calm conversation and here's a quote from Mark Cuban he goes so Sean let me give

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Mark Cuban he goes so Sean let me give you some business advice huben continued if you're going to negotiate now he's talking about Trump negotiating with dictators he says if you're going to negotiate you don't fall in love with the dictators that you have to negotiate with mind-reading right do you think do you think Trump is in love with the dictators I don't think so I don't think so I thought the other criticism of Trump is that he only loved himself and that everything he does is selfish I mean I think I think you have to make your mind up is Trump a selfish person who only cares about himself or did he fall in love with dictators to the point where he cares more about the dictators than he cares about himself in the country I think you have to choose don't ya either only cares about himself or he only cares about what the dictators want you can't have both those are opposites

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you can't have both those are opposites so that's a sort of a mind-reading attack on the president here's another one my favorite humorist on CNN doesn't do it intentionally and I actually laugh every time I read his articles because this poor bastard Stephen or Stefan Collinson he's their designated anti-trump aru so he writes an article every day or two that is just the most insane stuff that when I read it I just shake my head and laughed the whole types like oh I can't believe people are buying into this so here's his latest from Stephan Collinson he says but Trump on Tuesday tweeted cryptically I remember cryptically he tweeted cryptically meaning you don't know exactly what he means and what is tweet said was the lone warrior so obviously it was Trump was talking about himself the lone warrior and then here is Colin Suns interpretation he goes apparently embracing his isolation from even

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embracing his isolation from even political allies to which I say yeah that sounds that sounds like that could be the right interpretation he's embracing the fact that he's alone even among Republicans yeah could be I mean we can't read Trump's mind but that feels like a fair interpretation but then he goes on isolation from his political aisle eyes and and after the end comes the funny part and the scientific approaches that have proven elsewhere to at least slow the spread yeah yeah that's what the president was doing sure he was tweeting the lone warrior to tell us that he he doesn't believe in science that's what Stefan Cullison thinks that meant he's the worst mind reader of the world all right we've got a lot more fun today you should stick around for at least the

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you should stick around for at least the last story I know that alright that why is it you never see anti-fog doing interviews you ever wonder about that we've seen black lives matter representatives a number of times but you don't see aunt Eva where's aunt Eva it's been a long time since I saw a member of aunt if I do a an interview now of course they they need to keep their identity hidden that's part of it but they don't all wear masks there must be somebody there who's willing to talk I think it's because nobody wants to nobody in that group can tell their story because it doesn't hold together I can't imagine an anti-fog person doing a national interview and trying to describe what it is they want and how that's going to work that would be pretty interesting so I'm noticing that white people are having a little bit more freedom of speech just in the last

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more freedom of speech just in the last few weeks slight it might be temporary but I can now say the following thing out loud that I wouldn't have said two weeks ago all right so here will be a live demonstration of me with more freedom of speech as a as a white male because as we have the least amount of freedom of speech as everybody knows but watch this I'm gonna say something now I just couldn't have said two weeks ago and it'll be fine unless I get cancelled I think it'll be fine here it is and this is all I'm gonna do is read a tweet from Ian miles Chun who says imagine thinking we live under white supremacy when you'd be literally canceled for making fun if anything other than a white person
so I can now just say that in public because my freedom of speech is increasing a little bit probably because people are challenging the borders and partly because the conversation is so intense now that you can just say more stuff so yeah we if this were a white

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stuff so yeah we if this were a white supremacy and you know in a real power way then white people would have freedom of speech like other people but if you're looking for where the power is don't look for the people who don't have freedom of speech I'm not sure that's where it is so that's something you couldn't say a few weeks ago
has anybody published tips on how to defend your house from a mob we also the video of the the McCloskey couple who had their guns and they were defending their house from the mob we'll talk about that in a minute but it made me think okay suppose a mob came to your house and let me say up front I don't glorify violence just so I don't get cancelled here so this is no no encouragement to violence this is not glorifying I discourage violence but let's say it's self-defense and you're surrounded by the angry crowd it looks like they might have weapons you know

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like they might have weapons you know they're gonna destroy your house you know they've heard people in the past you might be one of them at what point can you use a firearm in legal self-defense and again look how careful I'm being in legal self-defense where is the line at what point can you safely say okay now I can fire and I won't go to jail I don't know where that point is and it would be really useful for people who have both legal and military training to let us know now part of the complication is it depends on your state so the state laws will determine exactly what it looks like to to be a threat but the other thing I wondered is if if you have limited ammunition what do you do with it again I'm not glorifying violence and I discourage it in every way I can but in the almost self-defense I think it's completely fair to talk about what is good self-defense and there are two

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good self-defense and there are two theories on awareness you first maybe more than that probably several and I don't know which one is right and I would like to get some professional advice so here are the theories just so you can compare them one would be to get whoever is closest in other words the most aggressive person who is closest because everybody would see that person go down you don't want to issue somebody in the back of the crowd because the front of the crowd doesn't see it so one so one piece of advice is make sure somebody everybody can see second part is are they armed maybe you have to pick out the person who has a weapon first you know if you were if you were accurate enough you thought you could you know only one weapon okay that might be the first target but then there's a third one that I think is more evil but possibly more effective which is you shoot the person who would cause the crowd the most concern right now I'm not going to fill

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concern right now I'm not going to fill in the blank but if you said to yourself what's the most shocking thing you could do just fill in the blanks right you would pick the person who would stop the crowd in their tracks that you know you you if you had one bullet what's the one place you would put it for self-defense again not glorifying any violence not encouraging don't shoot anybody if you can yeah I'm not going to fill it in but you you can use your imagination if you only had one shot where would you put it so use your imagination and I think you probably come to the same conclusion that I did all right so I know who I'm aiming for that's all I'm saying I'm so McCloskey the lawyer who with his wife defended his home with his AR and she had her handgun he went on Cuomo's show and here was an interesting exchange

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and here was an interesting exchange so Cuomo said to him Trump retweeted the video of Mark McCloskey because quote he liked the image of white resistance to his black lives to this black lives matter moment so and then McCloskey looks into the camera he goes I'm glad you're a mind reader because no one else thinks you are so this lawyer you've seen the lawyers home it's his big palace like it looks like Versailles or something so that lawyer is super rich which means he's probably really good at his job right he's very good at his job so you would think that he would be very persuasive and sure enough he picked the most persuasive thing that you could have said which just stopped Cuomo in his tracks I'm glad you're a mind reader because no one else thinks you are he basically just called them out for being a idiot on TV and completely got

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a idiot on TV and completely got away with it completely got away with it because now first of all let's talk about the elephant in the room here is there is there anybody you've heard say that before the CNN is engaged in mind-reading yes me do you think how many of you think that mr. McClosky was influenced by me because before this election cycle let's say the first last three or four years have you ever heard the phrase mind reading being used in this context to accuse somebody of just being a mind reader
you might imagine that that came from me now I've told you before that I track my influence by using unique sets of words or words and then see if they appear in the wild where they had not appeared before now that doesn't conclude that you're the cause because other other

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you're the cause because other other things couldn't trigger things but if you see it enough you'd say well that's five times in a row I've seen this pattern even if only two or three are true and the others our confirmation bias probably have something you know it's it's far short of a scientific test but it's fun to do now what are the odds that a lawyer whose job is persuading people would have read through the book win big lis or even loser think because they both teach you how to persuade and think through things well I have to tell you that a lot of lawyers read my materials if you look at who follows me you probably see more lawyers and and oddly enough doctors in my Twitter feed than any other profession maybe engineers would be more but doctors or lawyers are way over represented in my followers and there's a reason because I talk about persuasion if you're a lawyer what is more useful to you then

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what is more useful to you then persuasion you're probably interested in it and you'd like you know like to be exposed to more of it so I can't tell you that McCloskey got that from me but I would add that to the list of things that sure look like he came from me now some some people say it may not have come from me directly and that is true because it could it could you know it's permeated the atmosphere at this point so that Michalowski guy is just a lot of fun because he doesn't take any he's like bill bar with an attitude so here are the stories the CNN makes its living on so you got your mind reading stories where they assume somebody's thinking something and always think it wrong then you've got the category of worrying about the future of things that almost never happen so they're always worried about something happening but that thing never happens so that's the imaginary worry stories

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so that's the imaginary worry stories then you've got the the secret messages stories well well these sending a secret message can you hear it it's a dog whistle the UK here then you've got your anonymous sources stories which always turn out to be fake news and those are at least 30% of their news and here's my favorite one generic management jargon they make stories meaning content not stories but their pundits they used meaningless management jargon to talk about the news and then you feel like something happened but nothing is happening because jargon doesn't actually inform you it just makes you feel like something's happening what and I'm gonna tell you something that you'll never be able to unhear when I first taught you that this mind-reading idea is persuasive just dozens of people told me even just in the last day that now they see it everywhere no once you see it you can't unsee it it's that's your filter

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can't unsee it it's that's your filter I'm gonna set your filter for Joe Biden watch this you'll never be able to see him the same Joe Biden talks and management jargon but he doesn't say anything here are some Joe Biden complaints about Trump watch how they don't say anything they're just they're just it's just your boss talking he should do his job set priorities listen to the experts need more transparency he's got to step up he's got to take responsibility if you listen to Joe Biden it all sounds like that there's nothing there there's actually nothing there because let's take one example
Biden decided that he would he said he would keep dr. pouchy if he were elected president and he will listen to the experts now how different is that from what Trump has offered has Trump listened to the experts including and

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listened to the experts including and primarily doctor foul Qi yes with one big exception now I'm not gonna count you know whether he personally wears a mask because that's more of a political calculation right that's not that that's more about Trump but has Trump followed the recommendation of pouchy yes with one exception what was the one exception the one exception is the one Trump got right which was closing travel from China as soon against the advice of the experts so if you get Joe Biden and this is just mind boggling when I heard it Joe Biden is promising you that he'll give you at least on the coronavirus he'll give you everything Trump gave you which is following the advice of the experts except for the good part the part where Trump did not follow the advice of the experts and was proven a hundred percent

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experts and was proven a hundred percent right as events unfolded so from a risk management perspective Trump nailed it he nailed it the only time he broke with the experts was a big one it was a really big one and he was right Biden promises you to do all the things that Trump did except for the good one and he's actually presenting that as his proposition and his his audience is so low information that that actually sounds like something imagine being such a low information voters that you didn't know what I just told you and you heard you heard Biden talk and you thought to yourself yeah yeah you should listen to the experts how about that huh
somebody says hydroxychloroquine I mean that's that's a risk management question I'm not sure that's an extra question

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and that's his proposition so I think that's mostly what I wanted to talk about today
yes I did that's it so Biden is a basket of bad ideas somebody says all right so here are your futures your futures are Biden presidency police are not supported crime surges Republicans are hunted down either economically or physically or both chances of you being dead you being a Republican chances you being a dead in a year if Biden is elected pretty good pretty good maybe 20% 20% then some Republicans would be hunted down and killed under that situation where a law in order to break down but that doesn't have to be the case it doesn't have to be the case because there's this thing called a third act and in the third act you get surprises and you get surprise

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you get surprises and you get surprise fixes for things for example if the president let things get worse and worse source and then sent in the military and cleaned it up right before Election Day what would that look like might look good it might you don't know and it might be that somebody says that chop has ended or Chazz has ended is that something that happened today while I was on here because I haven't seen any news on that I don't think that's I don't think that's the case Chazz has ended I doubt that's true it would be a headline all right sometimes it takes a while for the headlines to reach the written page but we'll check on that all right the other possibility is the golden age the golden age and we might be almost there so let's make sure that one happens I'll talk to you tomorrow