Episode 1045 Scott Adams: Republicans Being Hunted, Trump Masks, CHOP Stop, Racist Statue Chess

Date: 2020-07-02 | Duration: 55:56

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• Seattle’s Mayor Durkan’s masterful handling of CHOP

• I borrowed AOC’s persuasion technique

• My “If Biden is elected” tweet

• Trump supporters are already being targeted for violence

• Violence is on the table, Trump supporters are being hunted

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hey everybody Wow quite a few people here is there something I said oh what a fun day today is one of the best days sounds like employment numbers are up yeah we'll do the simultaneous set let the people pour in here for a moment
employment numbers are up chop has been dismantled ghilane Maxwell has been apprehended the economy is starting to scream drone a virus deaths are down things are opening up Wow might be good news everywhere but first before we get to that you know what you need to do you need to grab yourself a cup or a mug or a glass of tanker chelators tie the canteen juggler flask of a vessel of any kind filter with your favorite liquid I like coffee and

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favorite liquid I like coffee and enjoyed me now for the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better and I think you can see it in the world already it's already working it's called the simultaneous epinet happens now a cow mmm delightful sublime yeah excellent three to one until Scott tells us we are wrong there gleamed Maxwell was arrested well I believe she was arrested I believe she was so the simulation has delivered to us once again entertainment it's nonstop how much do you want to know what Gallade Maxwell's gonna tell you when she's cuts a deal that the most exciting news day you'll ever have will be this headline Helene Maxwell cuts a deal can you imagine I don't know

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cuts a deal can you imagine I don't know if she can I've got a feeling she may not survive the incarceration process but we'll see what happens all right so the chop was dismantled the Capitol Hill occupied people or whatever it was and were you surprised that there was no real violence when they got cleared out what do you think of that have I ever told you about the fake because so that's the term I put on it and it's based on the book influenced by Jill Dini in which he talks about a an experiment in which you can prove that people will do things just because you said because our brains are wired in a way that when you hear the word actually just the word because your brain says oh there's a reason because the word because is there and you could use the word because and then add nonsense after it and people will still at least in

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it and people will still at least in this statistical way will be more likely to give you what you want just because you use the word because now I've taken that and I've extended that to the concept that you're not using the word but you're giving somebody a reason that they wanted a reason to do something now let me let me game this out for you so in my opinion the the mayor of Seattle Jenny gherkin played this brilliantly that I know most of you are gonna disagree with this but in my opinion this could not have been played better honestly it was one of the most masterful examples of leadership I've ever seen now there's another interpretation which fits the facts just as well remember you got two movies going on here they both fit the facts because the other the other set of facts would be she didn't care about any of this until

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she didn't care about any of this until they started threatening her own residents at which point she got mad and then police cleared about but here's how I see it and I said this from the start so from day one I was on the side of no let this play out a little bit let it play out a little bit because if you do it right away the energy is too high and you just cause you know the the opportunity for more death and more videos of police beating people up and resistance and you know god knows what so if the police had acted aggressively on day one or two or three you don't know what would have happened but it all likelihood because the temperature was so high in terms of people's attitudes it was very likely gonna end not well and spark more protests which themselves would end well so if you're trying to quell protests across the country the

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quell protests across the country the last thing you want to do is go hard the first moment you can you want to let the temperature come down a little bit and then you could go through so here's my hypothesis that by letting the proteic you pyres in chop experience the life which they did not intend to be permanent the people who you know occupied it they didn't they didn't start out the month and say hey I think I'll go live in a tent on the street somewhere with no shower I think the longer they stayed there the more they wanted wait for it a fake because they needed a reason to leave that they could say it wasn't our choice you see where I'm going they all wanted to leave by the time the police asked them to leave now I say all obviously nothing applies to everybody but you know what I mean that the mood there almost certainly because the mayor had waited long enough

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because the mayor had waited long enough this is the brilliant part in my opinion all right now for those of you keeping score and my net am I not calling a Democrat mayor brilliant for a specific piece of strategy and persuasion right so for those of you who were gonna attack me later or blah blah blah your uh president Trump's ass you just say good things about him you're in the tank just listen to me for a while I think this was brilliant leadership because she took the temperature down by agreeing with him she called that the Summer of Love she was completely non-threatening and it took the energy out that had to be done he had to reduce the energy and she did it simply by not not creating a counter force that would cause them to get worked up again once they had experienced living there for a while so however many weeks it was you know they wanted to leave you know again not every

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wanted to leave you know again not every single person but you know they did not want to live there for the rest of their lives what they needed they really needed was for their mayor to give them a fake because a reason to leave that didn't look like they had made their own decision and she did so the police came through there are very little video of it the video we got was not from the major news outlets I think it looks like the media kept a lid on this story or they couldn't report it I don't know it's one of those but I don't in terms of reporting were there any casualties I think they cleared the entire chop correct me if I'm wrong because the reporting is pretty sketchy so whoever said wrong the Scott and all caps you might be new here cuz what happens when you say wrong Scott and all caps well I think the other people can

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caps well I think the other people can tell you all right so blocked you got blocked you there's always there's always space for reasons so you can give them so that's my take now the other take which fits the facts just as well so let me let me give attention to the alternative movie which one of these fits the facts the best the other one is that she's an incompetent Democrat mayor who who botched it from the beginning because if she'd been tougher in the beginning they wouldn't have taken over the chop in the first place and that the only reason that she got tough in the end and had them cleared out is that she only cared about herself because they threatened her own home and then it became serious to her now does that fit all the facts it does it does doesn't it it hits them completely just it fits them as well as

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completely just it fits them as well as my description did so if you're going to pick which of those is the real one here's how you would do it you would say to yourself let's make a prediction from both of these two movies my movie says this mayor is a smart operator which would predict you will see future smarter things coming from her right now if the other movie is correct and she's just thoroughly incompetent and and selfish or something then you would expect that she would not do clever things in the future so let's watch if I'm wrong I would completely be open to that because I'm just saying that this view of the world fits you know the movie Fitz doesn't mean it's right we'll see which one predicts that's how you know all right so yesterday I was telling you that trumps let's say

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telling you that trumps let's say silence about masks was disqualified meaning that you can't really support a president who was not pushing masks or promoting the use of masks during a pandemic it's disqualifying yeah yeah I've been the biggest I've been the biggest trump supporter around in terms of his technique more so than policy but in terms of him personally in this tactic I've been one of his biggest supporters and even I would say if he's not promoting Fame masks during the pandemic that's disqualifying seriously that's pretty disqualifying but yesterday you did now you you could say to yourself I didn't he didn't come down straw he just sort of said they're a good idea he'd wear it in certain circumstances etc but the news is reporting it that the president is Pro mask now I don't think he was

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is Pro mask now I don't think he was ever anti mask but it was coming off that way so so he's sort of luke warm tepid mask or a good thing I suppose that's a good place to be I got a message from Vladimir's yesterday not directly in which the message was that Russia wants to be an ally with the United States to team up against China do you believe that do you believe that Putin sent me a message that Russia wants to be friends with the United States against China well if you were a subscriber to the locals platform you'd know what I'm talking about the rest of you should just assume it didn't happen so I don't know if you heard I made a little news yesterday quite a bit of news with the

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yesterday quite a bit of news with the aoc play now those of you who were with me from the beginning of this this play got to watch it unfold now here's some background I you remember when a OC said we have 12 years left before climate change kills us she never really said that but it was interpreted that way what she said was if you don't get really serious in the next 12 years you know you the future doesn't look so good but it got turned into simplified - you're all dead in 12 years now AOC as I've said from the beginning knows persuasion and it was really really good personal because it made you focus on it and it made you you know look at her first offer the first offer was so extreme so whatever comes after that doesn't seem so big anymore which was perfect right so if you if so she said she could be dead in 12 years

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she said she could be dead in 12 years she never really said that she never said that but that's how its interpreted so she allowed that interpretation in a sense allowed it by not pushing back as hard as she could and and that just brings attention to her topic what do I teach you about persuasion 50% of persuasion is getting people's attention because you can't persuade if they're not paying attention that's that's basic if you don't get people's attention you're not persuading so she does that better than just about anybody in the world and she got your attention on climate change and then then you're already primed for her persuasion so it worked really well now the thing that works about that is that the claim sounds ridiculous and believable at the same time now let me explain that so to say that you know we have 12 years to get this right or we're all going to die is both ridiculous like just on his

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is both ridiculous like just on his surface you say well that doesn't sound right but at the same time it's completely believable that somebody believes it in other words even if you don't believe it you you are convinced that somebody else does believe it that's the magic sauce if you get that combination right you're gonna you're gonna have a viral everything and your message will be the one that people focus on so I borrowed that technique and I told you I was pouring it so those of you who are watching this develop you know that I told you I was doing this right so this nutter this is an accident and what I told you is that and I told you I think soon after I'd done it that I'd tweeted that if Biden is elected there's a good chance she'll be dead in a year do you see that you see that's zzz play the 12 years you'll be dead now when you hear that hear me say this

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when you hear that hear me say this there's a good chance she'll be dead in a year if Biden is elected what are the two things you think if you're let's say you're a Democrat the first thing you think is that's ridiculous right just like you said we'll be dead in 12 years from climate change that's ridiculous so that's the first part now what's the second part this somebody believes it's true so when they read this do they think that Republicans or even then I believe it's true yeah yeah they acted like they acted exactly like that so they fell into the aoc trap and I guess I was trending on Twitter for a while and yeah I was the subject of many articles yesterday he had pieces of course I didn't read any of them I just looked at the titles I always think it's funnier if somebody writes a hit piece about me and I don't read it for some reason that's funnier I'm the only one

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reason that's funnier I'm the only one who gets the joke it's like oh you wrote a hit piece about me and I didn't read it because I'm actually not interested it's actually easy to do if I were interested it would be hard to not read it but I'm actually not interested I'm at literally just I look at the articles and I think I got better things to do then reason it my favorite role yesterday it was he he tweeted something that he thought was an insult and I just retweeted it because it was such a weak attack that I just uh I think I'll amplify it and I'll tell you there's nothing more humiliating than thinking you're attacking a public figure and they just retweet it without a comment no comment at all just retweet it that's as hard as you can fail in your criticism if the target of your criticism says I think I'll retweet this so I did that yesterday to the entertainment of some

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yesterday to the entertainment of some of my followers who noticed all right so here's the argument that backs up now now going to go full AOC for you so hey OC once she has your attention we'll give you her argument about climate change so now that I have people's attention about this you might get hunted down if you're a Republican I will give you my argument because now I have your attention now not you because most of you are kind of Trump supporters but in fact but what I'm trying to do is attract attention from the people who are not by natural audience and controversy does that really well but it's not a controversy that's not grounded in fact and by fact I mean statistical likelihood that is to say nobody can predict the future no matter how well you watch me do it it doesn't mean I'm gonna do it right the next time right predicting the future I would say

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right predicting the future I would say I have the best track record of any public figure it's hard to compare but at the moment probably right up there in the top 10 percent at least of people who are predicting what's going to happen I get my share wrong but as does everybody but nobody can really predict the future you could only say well my best guess is that the odds of this happening there's a little more than the odds of this or that happening so that is the context in which I said there's a good chance that if Biden gets elected you'll be dead in a year now who is you you of course I was speaking on Twitter so it was Trump supporters because that's 95 percent of my audience on Twitter so is it true that there's a chance and I said a good chance that you would be hunted if you're a trump supporter and Biden gets into office let me support let me support that assertion

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support that assertion I remember the assertion is not that it will happen the assertion is that there's a good chance it will happen now you're smart enough to know the distinction between there's a chance of something happened and a good something happened versus I predict it will happen that's very different okay so there are multiple things that could happen one of them which you must guard against looks like this Biden becomes president and Democrats now being sort of in power let's say Congress is all Democrat - first of all is that possible well according to the polls that's what's going to happen so so far that looks like a reasonable future right a good chance that Biden will be elected just based on the polls now if he's elected is he gonna go hard against police I'm sorry is he gonna go hard against protesters once he gets elected it's possible it's possible Joe

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elected it's possible it's possible Joe Biden could actually be the one who goes hard against protesters because maybe it may be a Democrat can you know without causing all the racism problems or maybe Kamala Harris can if she's the real power behind the presidency at the time so that's the other possibility Melissa just came out the different possibilities one possibility is that Biden is president and they just sort of don't support the police against the protesters the protesters would continue to do what they do because it's working nobody nobody stops doing things that work so if the protesters say hey we're gaining ground and nobody's stopping us they're gonna keep going so what does that look like well I interviewed yesterday a young woman who lost her job because her co-workers found an old tweet from 2010 that said she liked a Donald Trump 2010 as before he was even running for president and there were some other little clues they thought they found to suggest that she was a

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they found to suggest that she was a trump supporter which was certainly not any overt the things she was doing and and lost her job over it how common is that well let me ask you can you put on a Maggie hat and walk through an urban area without being assaulted not really if you put on a any kind of a or trump sticker or anything that suggested you were a trump supporter and went into a crowded area wouldn't you expect to be assaulted you would expect that right I'm almost guaranteed so if you have a world where people are already losing their jobs for being Trump supporters cannot in a public space have any indication on them that their Trump supporters without being assaulted it's very like very much like being Jewish in in Hitler's Germany isn't it if you were G I don't know what that was like but if you were if you were Jewish and Hitler's Germany you probably didn't want to go outside

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probably didn't want to go outside wearing clothes that broadcast that you were Jewish and I'm sure some people did but you probably would prefer people didn't notice you know if that was possible because you might give some abuse so it's somewhat like that to be a Republican now if you're a Democrat do you see that that's the sort of invisible to you wouldn't you say I would say Democrats are completely unaware that's been my observation that the rank-and-file ordinary Democrats are completely unaware of how much pressure is being put on Trump supporters economically employment wise socially and and risk of violence risk of assault so is it a big is it or is it a really big leap to say that if the protests continue the way they're going that there would be hunting down Republicans again I didn't say that will happen it's

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again I didn't say that will happen it's not a prediction I said there's a good chance it's one of the it's one of them maybe three paths that are about equal possibility right now now one of my critics tweeted that you know I don't understand what black lives matter basic wants basically they just want better policing and you know less discrimination and doesn't everybody want that to which I said I don't think you're listening to the interviews and the speeches given by the black lives matter leader because here's what the message has morphed into first of all you've heard Hawk Newsome on CNN I think CNN might have been in Fox News but I think he's been on a few things so he's a leader of black lives matter in New York and he said directly that violence is still on the table now and what he said was we need this revolution could be violent it could be nonviolent and he wasn't he

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could be nonviolent and he wasn't he wasn't picking a favorite basically you know the implication is that if they don't get what they want with non-violence then violence's is warranted because the problem is big enough and violence is always the way the society changes that's essentially a hawk's argument if I've captured it right so he does now say I prefer violence but he also doesn't say I didn't hear him say he preferred non-violence sort of silent on the preference he's just saying that they have an end goal whatever that looks like and that they are somewhat agnostic about whether violence is part of it if it has to be has to be and and I think Hawk is correct when he says historically people don't be hypocrites because basically the whole country was founded on violence everything you have came from violence so don't be so

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came from violence so don't be so surprised if there's more of it in the future that's actually a perfectly valid statement so let's take black lives matter leader Hawk Newsom at his word the violence is on the table if they don't get what they want for non-violence now I would say that would be true of every army wouldn't you say and every terrorist every terrorist I think would agree with whoa ha gruesome scent the violence is on the table but if we can get everything we want without non-violence Oh we'll do that yeah why wouldn't we of course so al-qaeda and black lives matter basically have the same philosophy about violence which is if I don't need it you know if I don't need it what's the point but if I do need it it's on the table same as a terrorist so and then here's the other change so it seems like a month ago white supremacy meant one

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a month ago white supremacy meant one thing but it's it's sort of morphed or it could be that I'm just learning how other people see the word I don't know which one it is but here's the change that might just be in my understanding that I've seen in the last several weeks it used to be that white supremacists were people who believed they were superior or out of because their DNA or whatever I've argued that I've never met one I just don't know anybody who thinks that and that it must be some trivial part of the country if I've never met one so I've never even seen one really I mean I've never even seen one on television and I've talked about I say never I mean let's say last five years I've never seen one who who met the definition in my opinion of thinking that because they were white they were superior to other races that's how I used to define white supremacy as which is different from being a racist and different from being a white nationalist a special kind of racist they don't they

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a special kind of racist they don't they don't require the supremacy part if you're just a regular basis you have a preference but it's not because you think you're superior okay so that's a distinction and I thought that mattered but it turns out I was listening to speech I think it was in LA one of the black lives matter leaders was talking to the audience with a microphone and the way blah the way white supremacy seems to be used at the moment is simply a description of a system that supports white people better than other people and that if the current system all the systems in the United States from judicial system to economic system to you name it that all of them support white people staying the dominant economic power mostly economic but political - in the country or a more economic I think because politically we did we did have eight

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politically we did we did have eight years of the black president so that's pretty good politically so so here's your situation it looks like white supremacy the the definition of it has changed from a small group of white people who think they're superior to everybody else which is basically a vanishing breed I've never seen one in five years it that's changed to white supremacy means if you're white and you're in a system that keeps you in a good place visa vie compared to other people you're you're a white supremacist so you would be a white supremacist simply by being white and being part of a system that's good for you so I'm white and I'm part of a system that seems to be good for me capitalism etc if you are also white and you're part of the system that other people think is good for you and I think they'd be correct in that it does the system

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be correct in that it does the system pretty much every system is built to maintain the status quo so I think there's something to that so here's the thing if violence is on the table and the only thing that you can do to get rid of white supremacy is to dismantle the systems and we see that you can't wear a trump hat with being without being assaulted and you see that you can't assume that you will remain employed if you're a trump supporter given all those things is it is it it is it a stretch to say we could get to the point of violence against just white people for being white because they're white supremacists let me say in the fast way if you label somebody a white supremacist in 2020 you you are marking them as a target for violence does anybody disagree with that that if you label somebody a white supremacist in 2020 you are giving a explicit I would say explicit approval

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explicit I would say explicit approval for violence anybody disagree with that disapproval so anybody who hasn't listened to black lives matter rhetoric both in the interviews and also in the public speeches I don't think they know what's coming because what's coming is not oh thank you for changing those those regulations about policing that's not really what they're asking for that was the spark but it has nothing to do with police reform if it had anything to do with police reform the Democrats and the Republicans would be negotiating on the bills that have been proposed but they don't even want to the Democrats literally don't even want to solve police reform which looks like you would be trivially easy to at least have improvements because the Republicans are already on board and say hey bring down the conversation so what you have to understand is that black lives matter

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understand is that black lives matter wants to dismantle white supremacy which they consider the entire system and if you happen to be one of the people who doesn't want that to happen and you've been labeled a white supremacist and violence is on the table explicitly on the table it is explicitly on the table is it is that a stretch to say that one of the three paths is that Trump supporters will be hunted it's not it's not even a prediction because it's already happening Trump supporters are already being hunted you don't believe me what why don't you wear a wear a mask that makes you look like Jack pasaba k-- who may be watching this right now hijack and wear a mask that makes you look like somebody who's associated with you know the right and conservatism and go to or go to a rally just just walk into a rally just being yourself but

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into a rally just being yourself but being a recognizable supporter of the president that's all you don't have to cause trouble you don't have to get into anybody's face simply exist and the same physical location as the black lives matter protester will you be assaulted yeah 100% now would you say that's not hunting Republicans I'm not making a prediction it's not a prediction it's happening right now if you don't understand that the Republicans are already being hunted you're not really current you may be locked in a Democrat silo in which you're only seeing your own news but good luck just just try putting on your jacket osowiec disguise you know in other words looking like him and walking into a black lives matter or rally and you can even you could even hold a sign that says black lives matter you can even chant with them they will still beat your ass or try to or

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still beat your ass or try to or threaten you or assault you or throw something on you which would be assault all right so I've had a lot of fun I've grown more Twitter followers in the last 24 hours than any other 24 hours so what I'm watching is a lot of people who are watching what I'm doing because I think you understand this audience understands that this is a performance I'm not doing individual things I'm doing a group of things which I'm stream together and if you don't see that I'm building a thing then you're missing the best part of the show so every time I draw in my trolls and my critics and every time they write a hit piece about me I grow stronger now this doesn't work for everybody I don't recommend it if you just have a vanilla job and you you want to stay out of trouble don't do what I do because I'm looking for trouble because I can convert the energy into something productive you can't all right some of

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productive you can't all right some of you can maybe but I wouldn't try it I wouldn't try it the odds of me being canceled are really high but I like danger sometimes you know what's
fascinating yes we're watching the others there's some talk about the Mount Rushmore because two of the presidents on Mount Rushmore were slave owners and a lot of Republicans were joking just a week ago it's like hahaha next they're gonna come after Mount Rushmore well turns out Mount Rushmore is now in the crosshairs for exactly the reason do you think now what do you think about that I was thinking maybe we should put George Floyd up there instead because you could you could change one of the faces let's say George Washington and replace them

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say George Washington and replace them with George Floyd anybody like that idea you could probably you know carve it a little bit I have to might recess a little bit because you'd have to you know change too many things in the face but you could I think you could make yourself a proper George Floyd because as as Candace Owens provocatively points out she complains that since she is black she can say things I can say but Kenda says that black people should have better role models and I think well that shouldn't that apply to everybody shouldn't everybody have better role models do you want George Washington to be your role model when he was a slave owner kind of ambiguous but we we've been told that George Floyd's you know whatever else he did in his life then maybe you don't approve of is not relevant and so unlike George Washington where he has to be considered as a whole

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where he has to be considered as a whole which would make him a racist and it would of course that's just a fact we don't have to do that with George Floyd we should we should see him as a sympathetic character and I thought well why not take it to the next level why not take it to the next level put him on Mount Rushmore what you don't like that idea
come ah such a good idea don't say racist things I have to block you for that sorry she can't be here saying stuff like that all right
will they make a play for Mount Rushmore maybe we'll see I thought it was interesting watching the black lives matter people say F Eric Garcetti correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Eric

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correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Eric Garcetti the most accommodating white man you've ever seen in your life if you if you haven't been watching so he's the mayor of Los Angeles and Eric Garcetti has been absolutely Pro black lives matter from from the jump he's a Democrat notice what his base wants he's been completely on their side and you know doing the middle ball that I guess a mayor needs to do but he's unambiguously on their side so what do the black lives matter people say about white Eric Garcetti who was completely on their side him they were chanting it they were chanting Eric Garcetti he's all in on their side and they were chanting eff him now the issue is as I said before he's part of the whole system in other words you can't you can't take him and treat him separately he's part of the system as

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separately he's part of the system as well and that the system is white supremacy so it doesn't matter if he says all the right things and even if he does all the right things he's still part of a system that has to be dismantled if you're Eric Garcetti do you say to yourself you know if these black lives matter people get everything they want I'm safe is Eric Garcetti personally safe let's say career wise let's say economically maybe even physically if black lives matter did get everything they want and remember black lives matter is a group that Eric Garcetti very much approves us and supports so if the group they used to approve seven supports guess what they want what would happen to Eric Garcetti what would happen to Eric Garcetti is exactly what black lives matter is telling you he'd be they chanted it you don't have to guess what they're

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you don't have to guess what they're thinking if a crowd chants Eric Garcetti why not listen to him was it not Maya Angelou who said if somebody tells you who they are you should listen to them black lives matters tell you who they are and they're saying that this white guy who is absolutely completely on their side is gonna get because he's a white guy and he's part of the white supremacist system so you got that Michigan State University they pressured Stephen su Hsu I don't know if I could pronounce his name right I think it's su to resign from his position as vice president research because he talked about some research that came from that University it wasn't his own so he was referring to in a

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his own so he was referring to in a tweet I guess some research that his own University did but not him it wasn't anything he was involved with that showed that to do that there wasn't much difference between police shootings of black and white Americans so just referring to research from his own institution got him pressure to leave his position s as vice president of research now now apparently he also was accused of some tweet about genetic differences and the context which they leave out is that that's his field his field is genetics that's like his field so he tweeted have something from me filled that he's gonna lose his job for it it wasn't he was something he did it was just something he talked about in his field all right so I guess you can't do you talk about this stuff without

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do you talk about this stuff without getting cancelled let's see what else we got going on you know the hardest part about our politicians handling the protests and the occupied zones is that nobody and also the coronavirus it's the same problem is that we don't let leaders do do math with people's lives and it's the whole job the job of a leader is to make hard decisions in which you know that no matter which way you go somebody's going to die but it'll be different people depending on the path you take and you're only trying to have the fewest of them die if you can so leaders are usually choosing among paths which somebody's going to die you know even the social stuff not just international war stuff but even social stuff if you don't have enough of a social net people die for example so

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social net people die for example so with the coronavirus the thing that Trump can say the thing that Republicans can say the thing that no politician can say is this because this is what a leader would say here's the deal the economy is just another way of expressing lives in other words if I say GDP of 1 percent you could translate that directly into saved 10,000 lives or whatever it is because economics and people living or dying are so connected that it's almost like just another word for how many people survive so if you were a real leader you would say something like this we'd like to reopen the state we now infections will continue to go up but it will be good for the economy and the reason we're doing this seems cruel because it's good for the economy which seems like coal capitalist thinking but actual real

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capitalist thinking but actual real people will die your grandmother might die if we make this decision but I as a leader have decided that people will also die if the economy is bad it's a takes a little longer but even more people could die if we don't get our economy going so I've decided that if 20,000 people have to die because of coronavirus but the benefit will be opened into the economy by my hunches because I can't prove it my hunch is that I'll save more than 20,000 people but different people by doing this so yes I'm making a decision in which 20,000 people are gonna die who would not have died if we had stayed closed theoretically because we get to a vaccine someday maybe but I'm gonna make a decision 20,000 people might die but I think we're still gonna come out ahead because we'll save more than 20,000 by

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because we'll save more than 20,000 by having a functioning economy now that's what I that's what leader needs to say but you would lose your job immediately upon saying that so we as citizens do a terrible job of supporting our leaders because we can't let our leaders say the truth I can't and I'm being prompted there's I forget where it was but there was a statue of an elk elk a and elk you know big animal there was set on fire and to face I guess because it was a statue and I agree with that because I went to a Elks Club meeting once so they were all white so I get why they're getting rid of those ellika statues even if they're not related to the Elks Club it just you know symbolism symbolism is important so the also the story about the recent a Harvard Graduate a woman who said she wanted to stab anybody who said all lives matter Trump supporters

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said all lives matter Trump supporters mostly and that caused caused her to lose her job at Deloitte and she was back on film crying about it now I have they lowered the standards for Harvard because you wouldn't expect somebody from Harvard somewhere in that educational process you think somewhere they would have been taught don't go on social media and threatened to kill your political rivals by stabbing them to death it's just not really good for your future employment but I guess that didn't come up now here's what I think this really tells you imagine somebody going through Harvard and then doing this video saying that she wanted to literally stab Trump supporters and you know did the motion stab stab stab and she was actually very angry and and tell me how could you go through that whole process and not know that that would get you in trouble it

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that that would get you in trouble it has to be that she had been so so in a bubble of like-minded people that she literally couldn't imagine that there was somebody else in the world who was seeing the video and that they might not appreciate the enthusiasm with which she would like to see them killed I mean if you assume that her IQ was probably very high because she got into Harvard right these are not dubbed people Harvard does not produce dumb people it just doesn't happen so the only explanation is says she was in such a bubble she just didn't even know the other world existed which is tragic in her case so I think Harvard failed her hard and that cost her here's a story of a racist story of a guy named Paul McCowan's used an african-american man who walked into an Ohio Bank recently clutching they say his first paycheck why do you have to say

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paycheck why do you have to say clutching that's racist so this story itself is racist you know you stop clutching his first paycheck he has a paycheck how about that it but but if he's a black man he's clutching it no I don't think he was clutching his paycheck he just had it what is the bank all right so that's my rant yeah so he got a new job at an electric company took in his first paycheck that was a thousand dollars and the teller called the police so the story is racist teller calls the police a black man who's just tried to cash a check just tried to cash a check now what is it they don't tell you in this story well that's why I'm here because I used to be a bank teller I have refused to cash the checks for white people allow me to tell you the following story very much like this but without the

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very much like this but without the calling the police part when I was a bank teller man walked into the into my my branch put a check on the counter and I think it was like $5,000 or something and which was a lot of money back in that day in those days and I asked him if he had an account at my bank and he said he did not then I asked them that I asked him you know he wanted the the check II walked to cash was too big for my level of approval as a teller because he didn't have an account but the the check he was cashing did have an account so that's why you go to that bank does that that's the the bank where the money is coming from and sometimes you can cash it there so I said I can't cash this cheque for you but I'll gather I'll get a manager to see if they can so I get a manager and he waits patiently and I wait on other customers while he's waiting for the manager and he's just waiting waiting just perfectly nice guy

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waiting waiting just perfectly nice guy just waiting and the manager comes over and she approves that I pay him his money and afterwards my manager comes over and she says um do you know whose check you just refused to cash then I go not really I mean I looked at his name because that was part of the process but you don't really register names when you're a teller they're just you know it's just the information flying by and she goes you just refused to cash a check for a bill Packard the founder of hewlett-packard one of the richest men in the country you just refused to cash his check you know I didn't trust him I didn't trust him I did not trust a billionaire white guy because he didn't bank in my bank I'm sorry now keep that in mind now here's the story of a guy who also did not bank at the bank same as same as the billionaire I turned down so if he was turned down

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I turned down so if he was turned down or or somebody went to the manager you'd say that's just part of the process right that's not racist but whereas I did not call 911 this teller did call and said quote I have a customer here he's not our customer check actually she says and he's trying to cash a check and the check is fraudulent it does not match our records what's that mean now if you've been a bank teller let me tell you what it means the check was written on an account from that Bank the bank teller has access to the records of that account so the teller looked at the check looked at the number on the cheque looked at the amount on the check and then presumably I don't check the numbers on her list maybe it was out of order or maybe there was something irregular there was something with that the teller checked that tipped her off that the check was fraudulent was it for

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that the check was fraudulent was it for example a hundred dollar check that had a zero Abbot that probably can't happen was there something about it that didn't look right there was just a mistake because if it was just a mistake like there was something hinky about the check but it was otherwise fine was she allowed to call 911 and announce a crime maybe that might have actually been that might have been that might have been the actual process so when you hear this story the part that's left out is why did the caller why did the bank teller call 911 you don't call the bank teller the bank teller does not call the police unless it's obviously a crime you don't call the police because black people cash checks this story is racist because it's not true it's just not true that meaning that the

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it's just not true that meaning that the context is left out of why the teller thought there was a crime it doesn't have anything to do with black it was a check either this check looks like it it works you know in other words it's compatible with the Wreckers and what you know or it doesn't had nothing to do with the race of the person there nothing and any bank teller will agree with me I ask anybody who's done the job of a bank teller do you think that's a racist story or there was just something wrong with the check a hundred percent of the tellers will say well if there was something wrong with the check which we still need to find out by the way if there was something wrong with the check that's kind of the end of the story because do you know what happens to a bank teller if they cash a bad check let me ask you do you know what happens to a bank teller oh I just took my ring off for typing somebody's asking me about my ring yeah it's still getting married don't worry but it's hard to it's hard

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don't worry but it's hard to it's hard to type sometimes with a ring do you have that problem this this finger doesn't feel like it's flying free sometimes when I'm typing but I'll get used to anything anyway so that's a fake racist story you can ask any bank teller to find out all right
now I think I've done everything I wanted to do here let me just see if there's anything else talked about I don't think so all right I think we hit all the high points is there anything I missed the ghilane Maxwell story will be just so tantalizing but we're I couldn't know anything for a long time I'll bet need bored practice yeah I'll get used to it I think I just have to get used to it but I was actually

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get used to it but I was actually hitting the wrong keys I actually hit the wrong keys because it's sort of a think ring finish your thought I think I finished it
all right that's all I got for today and I will see you tomorrow