Episode 1046 Scott Adams: BLM, Strategy, HCQ, Kamala, Fixing Schools and More

Date: 2020-07-03 | Duration: 1:01:54

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• eBikes and a national bike path

• HCQ helps, say 3 new studies

• Darrin Bell on single parent black families

• Whiteboard1: Teacher Unions, Mayoral Corruption

• Children NEED to be brainwashed

• A mantra for mothers: Education is the key

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yes I'll put on my microphone and I'll give out my notes and I will be ready to present to you coffee with Scott Adams and the thoughts of the day the news and the beginning of the best day you've had since yesterday yeah today is gonna be uh it's gonna be a doozy it really is and before we get started you know you need you need a cup or a mug or a glass of thank your Chancellor Stein a canteen Jagger flask a festival of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee what the hell just imagine this is my coffee and that I didn't forget my coffee cup downstairs you're gonna have to use your imagination okay but it's the dopamine hill of the day it's the best part of the day it's the simultaneous sip works with any beverage it happens now go that might be the

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it happens now go that might be the first time I've forgotten have my coffee cup with me well that's just because there are so many things happening how many of you had elk as the statue that would be destroyed next in the statue Deadpool did anybody guess elk because somebody said a statue of an elk on fire it was obviously a way supremacist elk so in a way it had it comin as things were you know as things continue into more and more ridiculous territory I think we can see that maybe things were not what you thought they were you know what I mean all right I've decided that if you were to write this summary of the year 2020 you could do it with one sentence here it gave us the one sentence is summarizes 2020 we measure we measured everything the

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we measure we measured everything the wrong way is it my imagination or are something like 90 percent of the problems we've had in 2020 all around the same problem that we don't have to compare things we don't have know how to measure things we don't have the right data we don't have the study things it feels like a lot of this is self-imposed you know meaning that a lot of the things that are making us a unhappy or just because we don't know how to do math and compare things and and measure things so look for that I one of my favorite things to do is watch CNN for what I call contempt two-faced now those of you listening will miss the magic of this next segment but if you notice there's a face they make unsee it end that you don't see on Fox News let me do an impression of somebody on Fox News both opinion and news people reading the

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both opinion and news people reading the news blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah here's the news all right did you see that nothing weird going on with my face now watch every CNN host or opinion person talking about President Trump with contempt face and it goes like this and it really it doesn't even matter the topic so I'll make up a topic let's say President Trump said that racism is bad right you figure well most people are gonna agree with that even see with CNN but no they can turn anything into a negative with contempt face watch watch me do it now and the president he is claiming that the racism is bad I clearly he doesn't mean it and

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you see what I mean Oh contempt face now you can turn no story at all into a CNN feature just with contempt face you just have to add the contemptible face like oh I'm so confused and and I hate it and what's going on here and I see it from another world I died just don't know ai ai ai ai ai can't even perform a sentence my contempt faces take it over my brain well enough of that people have questioned me lately because I've said two things that sound contradictory and they do sound contradictory so I'm going to clarify I've said that in the corporate setting the strategies are and they are and the corporate world the person at the beating who says what's our strategy is usually just the

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what's our strategy is usually just the dumbest person in the meeting and companies have largely given up on the whole strategy thing because there's just a lot of things you need to do right that's it is it a strategy for Amazon to be in the package shipping business or I mean you know delivering products well it turns out they're just describing what you do doesn't really turn it into a strategy nor does it account if you have a strategy in the corporate world nor does it account for changes and opportunity so your strategy might be we're going to make the highest-quality product and that's your strategy how long does that last it lasts until somebody else makes a better high-quality product and you can't compete then what do you do you say well you know what do we have going for us oh well we can make a cheap product and we can make a lot of them so people will change their strategy in the corporate world to whatever is the best

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world to whatever is the best opportunity at the time so strategy doesn't make as much sense but in your personal life that's where strategy the things that you specifically are doing you can have a strategy so the strategy would be for example go to college strategy would be stay on the jail strategy would be be nice to people and hope that they return the favor the strategy might be to have systems instead of goals strategy might be to build your talent stack a strategy might be contacting people to network on a regular basis so in your personal life whether you call it a strategy or a system or whatever words you want it's really good to have in the corporate world it just evolves into jargon and it changes on a whim but will it ever be a bad idea to improve your talent stack no it'll never be a bad idea will it ever be a bad idea to increase your network nope no there's nothing that could

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nope no there's nothing that could happen that would make that a bad idea but in the business world there's so much happening that can change what your priorities are that as strategy just makes less sense and in a practical world if you you know in a practical sense if you put five people in a room they won't agree with the strategy is anyway so in the corporate world they can't agree with the strategy is but if it's you personally you just pick one and go you know nobody's going to come argue with you about your strategy so it turns out that Joe Biden is getting a very wide lead with the people over 65 and I was looking at some anecdotal stuff it's hard to tell anything from anecdotal but they they seem to blame the president for the coronavirus I saw CNN interview one elderly gentleman a retired banker who said the you know the only the only good thing Trump's done for the economy is juice the stock market and even that's low now

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the stock market and even that's low now and I thought to myself I don't think he's looked at the stock market lately cuz it's looking kind of strong at the moment so old people do not make decisions based on data and nobody else does either but the old people might be a little extra you know not connected depending on how old they're so here's the thing that is not factored into any of the polls at the moment the only thing that moves old people is fear if they're not afraid then they get to make their decisions based on their complete lack of information which is normal if they're afraid then that will do whatever they can to limit their fear now the thing that senior citizens are most afraid of is losing what they have yeah they're they're a little less concerned with getting new stuff you know that at least

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getting new stuff you know that at least the ones who vote then they are about losing what they have so that's the fear that senior citizens have which is I can't I can't go back to work whatever I have is gonna have to be good enough I can't give any of that away so you could scare senior citizens into thinking they will lose their stuff what would it take to scare senior citizens back to Trump just lots of information about the protesters just lots of information about what the left actually looks like and what they want to do it's plenty scary you don't have to add anything so we'll see we'll see if that happens so remember I made a suggestion that for the sports that don't have live audience and it will see a bunch of them while there's a coronavirus I said they should have some kind of technology where people could hear the people watching at home cheering it turns out that exists

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home cheering it turns out that exists it turns out that there's an app or I think it's a website app basically called hero live and hero is spelled the way you hear H e AR with an O on the end dot live apparently they're already doing business for ESPN and something else so is very reason that the NBA for example couldn't just say hey everybody watching this game if you use this app you could all be sort of talking to each other by your phone so you would hear the cheering but it would come out of your phone or your mobile device not out of your television but it would be a real-time because you would be connected to the people who are watching the same event at the same time so that exists it's called here o dot live hero2 I've and I know that because the company

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and I know that because the company contacted me to tell me I don't have any connection to them all right here's my suggestion for improving the economy and making this robot proof are you ready goes like this here's something you don't know so I'll give you some information and then complete this story many of you know I bought an electronic bike meaning it has a battery in it and it assists your pedaling so you still have to pedal you can't drive it without pedaling but the bike just makes you feel like you have a superpower now when I try to explain to people what that feels like because the way things feel really determine how things go right it's not our common sense it's not our data it's the way things feel and I'm gonna tell you the way an e-bike feels compared to a regular bike is day and night you can't

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regular bike is day and night you can't even compare them the feeling of being on a regular bicycle hold that in your mind almost there all of you have been on a regular bicycle it's pretty good isn't it don't you kind of like riding a bike I mean if there are no Hills you're just it's a nice day and you're on a bike it's a really good feeling now I'm gonna give you an analogy to make you understand how much better it feels to be on a knee bike because if you don't get how much better if fee the rest of the idea will will now hold together so I got to transmit to you the feeling goes like this imagine if everything in the world was exactly the way it is the only changes that you personally have an 80% reduction in gravity just you everything else in the world is the same gravity but for magic reasons you personally don't have the same amount of gravity so you can jump 20 feet in the air and when

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you can jump 20 feet in the air and when you come down you don't even get hurt because you only weigh 20% as much as you would have and your muscles are all the same so it's easy now imagine a world in which you can run around and interact with the world everybody else is on regular gravity but you're at 20% gravity you can jump from things you could jump up on a Ledge if you saw if you saw something you know way above you you could just jump up like a cat jumps up on a counter you could run with you know like 20 foot leaps imagine what that would feel like if you didn't have gravity just on you in a world where everybody else has gravity it would feel amazing that's what an e-bike feels like I've never had a physical activity this addicting the feeling you have of being extra strong on your bicycle because the battery is sort of just helping you out

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battery is sort of just helping you out there that feeling is really addictive and it doesn't feel like a regular bike with a little extra it's a whole new experience so just in the same way that you know if you're let's say you're a distance runner and you really like it and it feels good and you get the you get all that and that I told you you could run 50% faster tomorrow it would be a really a kick wouldn't it imagine just being over on 50% faster so that's what any bike feels like you can't compare it and it's really addicting now here's the idea the cost of Ibaka ebikes will continue to plunge because the big cost in the battery and battery costs are dropping fast actually I don't even know if the big cost is the battery but the cost will drop as the popularity increases if you try to buy an e-bike it's already hard to find most bike shops have them but most of them are sold out and I told I'm told some of you

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sold out and I told I'm told some of you this story about when I test drove it at the bike place the guy said alright here's you know just take it out in the parking lot it was a really big parking lot you know just drive around and see what you think I got a new bike and I took it 50 feet and then I turned around and drove back 50 feet right I just sort of drove to the end straight ahead drove back and he said what do you think and I said I said to him the bicycle salesman has anybody ever ridden an e bike and then not bought it and he laughed he said there's something called the ebike smile that after somebody does a test run they come back and I can't get this smile off their face because they're they're experiencing almost a drug rush it's so cool and they said yeah they basically if you can afford it and you do a test ride you leave with the bike that's it you said basically you just leave on the bike I left with

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you just leave on the bike I left with the bike 50 feet sold me on that Franco freaking thing so here's the thing still way too expensive for normal use but prices will come down fast here's what we should do we should build a national bike path that gets to all the good stuff in America now of course seasons matter so you couldn't use it all year everywhere but imagine if you will a major effort to build really good bike paths that are a combination of there might be you need a bridge a tunnel you need to connect some things there are already a lot of bike paths but you want to get them off of the road because the roads just a terrible place for a bike it's just no fun so even as good as the bike is if I'm in heavy traffic even in a bike lane that's not much fun you need sort of your own you know bike now why is this such a good idea because it's the type of job that you can learn to do which is building a bike path and

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to do which is building a bike path and all the things associated with that that you would suck up a lot of labor it would be Universal because there's no place you wouldn't want to do it the government could say that will pay for it will train you get people working and then here's the killer part how are you going to build a country that's safe from the age of robots when everybody loses their jobs and the answer is I think we have to become a tourist destination country the best one the United States with a bike path across the entire country would first of all make it possible for anybody to have a vacation because you could just get on your bike say alright or rent a bike it would probably be as much rental as it would ownership so you just rent a bike going going a hundred miles on a knee bike is actually trivial you can go a hundred miles on a knee bike and you just enjoy the ride you're not you wouldn't even necessarily be tired at

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wouldn't even necessarily be tired at the other end depending on the hills you do have to pedal a little bit on the hills but it's easy so if these are the types of jobs that if you built a network of bike paths you would need lots of support all along the network you and need lots of bike repair places kind of a job that people can get into young you would need lots of food and water and and other resources for bikes all the way and you would build basically a recessed ination that anybody from another country could come over to any part of the country and then use their ebikes to get to a huge circle of places without transportation problems hey people say it's a good idea that's the first time but I've seen so many people like my wild ideas alright enough on that so think about that for a little bit so here's a little update for you

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you I've told you sometimes I play and things years in advance so sometimes I'll set up a situation that can't pay off for five or ten years very typical in my life I've done that and one of the times I did that was with this book which many of you know had it failed almost everything and still win big when I wrote this book which was full of full of useful framing shall we say about how to have systems instead of goals and have a stack your talents and basically how to organize your life in life a strategy if you will a whole bunch of things that if you said all right I'll take these parts and build myself a system that you would come out ahead and the thing that I planned in advance on this one is that there would be something like a five-year lag between the time that's the first people read it because usually a lot of people read it when it's new but not a lot of people read a book after it's been out for a

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read a book after it's been out for a while right so you get mostly readers upfront and I knew that when people read this that I would get not a number one bestseller because I'm a cartoonist giving people a book that's outside my realm and generally that's a hard sell and so when I wrote this I said to myself all right it's 2013 when this is going to come out and somewhere around five to seven years from now I mean I didn't know it exact time the people who read the book first and then employed the suggestions are going to start coming forward in other words people are going to say I use this book and look what happened to my life I got this promotion I lost 80 pounds I did this and now all those things are coming through so I just got this is a little inside baseball kind of a talk if you're an author you usually get paid up front for a book it's called the advance and

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for a book it's called the advance and then let's say they give you $1 per book or whatever you've agreed in your deal for each book that's sold you don't get any more money than that initial check unless you sell so many books at $1 a book for my math example that it that all of that would have added up to the first amount you got once you've earned that by selling a lot of books then you can get additional checks
I'm a notable enough of author I'll use that word that I always get an advance now not every author is gonna get an advance sometimes they'll get a little one that's just a token if you're a brand new author don't expect the big advance but if you're well-known and you've you've published a lot of books that did well you get an advance what is unusual in my case is to sell more books than the advance covered and I just got a big ol royalty check for this thing

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a big ol royalty check for this thing 2013 and it just blew through it's advance it's actually it actually doesn't stop selling because the people who were read it early are now reporting in and recommending it and almost every day you see somebody in my feed recommending it with with a story of how I helped them so if you haven't read this and and I'll say this again you know every author writes a book because they want you to buy it and it's part of their job so they would like to get money right so you know we're all adults right authors write books to make money we know that right we don't have to argue about that but I don't do things for one reason anymore you know my life is now rich enough in let's say all the ways that I just don't do things for one reason so I wrote this - really I meant it for my step-son honestly who tragically died of an overdose before he finished it he had started the book

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finished it he had started the book actually but he hadn't finished it and it was really for people who just didn't have a let's say a father figure or role model they just didn't have anything in their life they would tell them how to organize a successful life strategically so I thought well this will be this will be like a virtual dad you know like the it could be virtual mom to make it less access somebody who just gives somebody that that guidance that does not common sense so I hate I hate advertising stuff is just the creepiest thing but if I didn't know that this changes lives I wouldn't do it I mean I really changed his lives and far more than really even I hoped it would so that's the good news so here's again here's something interesting I think there are three different studies that came out yesterday and today or the last few days I think there are three different ones

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I think there are three different ones showing hydroxychloroquine works have you seen them yeah somebody's mentioning atomic habits there are a lot of books that have explicitly mentioned my book that went on to become a huge bestsellers so you'll see a lot of people who and they say that they say you know I got some portion of my book or my ideas from from specifically this book so it's actually influenced a lot of bestsellers since then so hydroxychloroquine it turns out it works now I'm still waiting for more evidence but when the people when it was tested in a rigorous the first rigorous study has showed it worked like pretty well now this was test the people were already in the hospital my smartest smartest thinker I guess who I always asked for for advice on this said yeah

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asked for for advice on this said yeah it looks like a good study but the the way they did it there's a there's a methodology imperfection that you have to take seriously so I will still say even though there are three studies that seem to show hydroxychloroquine clearly makes a difference in a good way without actually killing people I will still say we're not quite there not quite there if I had to put the odds on it the odds on it now I would raise it quite a bit I'd say at this point it looks like 75% chance it's a positive thing maybe not maybe not a game-changer but probably is 75% chance it's more good than than that so that's my current update so how good was the Presidents Day yesterday studies were kept me I was saying hydroxychloroquine works the news was reporting that he's Pro mask now so that solves one problem and and the

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that solves one problem and and the economy was screaming again the the economy again beat expectations alright let's let's review let's review which pundits and experts were right and who was wrong if you if you took my advice let's say if the country had taken my advice we would have closed the earth the travel from China one week sooner than it happened so I was maybe one of the first few people in public we said close up close travel if you'd listened to me you would have known that masks were of course obviously effective and that the government was of course obviously lying to you about that from day one I said that really loudly I'm from the beginning so you would have been wearing your masks sooner I said early on that we don't know if hydroxychloroquine works and we can't trust those studies but the risk/reward is probably good meaning that given the

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is probably good meaning that given the lowdown side and the anecdotal but unproven potential upside it just made sense to be using it now that is proven correct all right some so that I see somebody in the comments saying mass are not very effective that that really that question is settled so if everyone now and then somebody will send me something saying oh there's some dispute about where their masks work I don't entertain that anymore I do not entertain even the argument the masks don't work it's it's overwhelmingly it's overwhelmingly obvious and you wouldn't even need data the data supports that but it's just overwhelmingly obvious I'm gonna say alright so and I will add one other thing on there who told you that the recovery would be surprisingly good

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recovery would be surprisingly good surprisingly good me and President Trump right now both of us loudly and often said you're gonna be surprised how quickly the economy comes back and I gave my reasons which was that nothing was broken so you know and people were already trained so it'd just be a little easier to ramp up than it would be if he had you know massive destruction of some kind so sure enough my estimate of how these how the economy would come back would exceed expectations of the experts and it has and I said that a lot of times I said it would it would it would blow past what the consensus assumption would be no were there other news from another area Iran had a mysterious explosion it's called a mysterious explosion and that one of the key buildings at a nuclear site in Iran

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buildings at a nuclear site in Iran where I guess they make advanced centrifuges this would not be the first time that an Iranian centrifuge facility have a quote mysterious problem the you remember the other one which was there was a famous cyberattack that made their machines go crazy and ruined all their centrifuges well this time just something exploded now what's one of the things that people warned the United States about when the corona virus hit here's what we were warned hey watch out United States given that you're all distracted by this coronavirus stuff the United States it could be that other countries will start to get adventurous because they think your attention is turned somewhere else totally a risk we should take that seriously but there's a flip side to the risk isn't there the flip side is that we can

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isn't there the flip side is that we can take risks internationally that we maybe couldn't have taken before because they are also distracted so I'm not going to say that the United States was behind the mysterious explosion I'm not going to say the Israel was behind it I mean you can make your own assumptions on that but here's what I will say to add to the story if it was either the United States or Israel the timing was kind of perfect the timing was perfect because everyone's distracted by coronavirus so in order for Iran to get any any kind of a win and of having their facility attacked they would either have to mount a counter-attack which looks impossible at this point or they would have to get public opinion on their side and nobody freaking cares we just don't care about Iran at the moment I mean the world just

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Iran at the moment I mean the world just sort of doesn't care we just have other things to worry about so if you look at the situation in Iran is in their budget is completely blown up I think they that their taxable income you know the income they get by taxes is just a fraction of what they're spending them so they're they're on a fast track to complete destruction so they've got runaway inflation there but their government budget is toast their oil revenue is nothing the sanctions are cutting off there there are other ways to make money and they've got a big coronavirus problem and they're still trying to keep their proxies alive and you know whatever they're trying to do in in Syria is probably not working out well it's getting expensive so Iran is really on the ropes right now and if you if Israel or the US are getting adventurous in terms of trying to push them over the

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in terms of trying to push them over the edge it is the it's a perfect time to do it I've often said that the most important things the government does are the things you never find out about so you know it could be that we're deeply involved in whatever this whatever this mysterious stuff is going on but you're never gonna know or maybe years from now you'll know here's a interesting factoid that will blow your mind are you ready one of the reasons that you listen to this periscope the regulars anyway so you like to hear something that you hadn't heard before or have something framed away that just makes you go what and it's especially delicious if it's something that you are positive is true you've always been positive it's true and then you find out it isn't it's kind of fun isn't it in a minute it's kind of fun to find out that something you thought was true your whole life just

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thought was true your whole life just isn't true all right I got one for you now you'll have to you have to fact-check to be on this but I'm gonna give you a claim this sounded plausible to me but I'd like you to check it out for me okay so here's the claim that I believe every conservative believes about what's what needs to be fixed in the black community to get us as close to racial parity as possible correct correct me if I'm wrong conservatives overwhelmingly believe that the family unit is staying together in other words not being divorced and having two parents to raise a kid especially fathers right especially fathers that that's critical and that there's a gigantic difference in the black community with 70% I think a 70% of black babies are born into a single parent now that's why you know right you're conservative you believe

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right you're conservative you believe that the black babies in 2020 70% of them are being born to a single parent and you believe that the key to success for any baby like a really really the most important thing is to have a solid family unit that can kind of guide your upbringing right those are the things you believe are true here's a little factoid from Darrin Bell who is a African American cartoonist who I've known I've known of and I've noticed worked for years but he got involved into one of the Twitter threads and he dropped this little red pill on me so I'm gonna drop the red pill on you that Darrin Bell dropped on me but you have to fact-check this okay it goes like this it is true the 70% of black babies in 2020 will be born to single parents but remember what I told you at the very beginning of this

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you at the very beginning of this podcast when I said that the biggest problem of 20/20 is that we're measuring the wrong things apparently a huge percentage of that 70% or single are just living together like they're married and the and the father is completely involved and that if you were actually to look at father involvement in a two-parent situation it's pretty close it's pretty close so your most major assumption that these fatherless black kids are disadvantaged by the fatherlessness according to Darrin Bell and this is what you need to check it's just not true they're technically not married but they operate as a married unit and so the father is completely involved and in fact if you dig down to feeding and bathing the child the black father's married or not are in some of those

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married or not are in some of those categories actually more involved on average then then white fathers now look at the comments watch the comments go by don't think so nope they don't ba ba ba somebody's somebody's having cognitive dissonance somebody is excited by it having a guy in the house doesn't equate to her father remember the second part of the survey and Darren Dolph sent the information so I could look at it myself the second part went down to the details you know did they feed and bathe the kid do they watch the kid and the answer is yes so whether that's a father father or the new boyfriend statistically that kids still getting a father now check that for me look how many of you are having real trouble with that yeah a lot of you a lot of you are not liking this at all because it just blew

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liking this at all because it just blew up your most basic assumption now is it true I would like you to check that because if it turns out that Darren Belen is the one that's wrong well let's find that out so let's put a put attack in that by tomorrow somebody will have tweeted at me or told me the truth yeah I'm watching the comments complete disbelief hard to believe somebody says it does pass the sniff test but you're not sold and you're seeing a few people saying oh shoot could we be that wrong and the answer is you could be you could be that wrong now before I talk about some potentially helpful things for the black community I would like to update you on my free speech exercise so as you know I've been seeing how close I can get to the line of cancellation not just for fun but to

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of cancellation not just for fun but to see if I can get to a point of useful productive communication on a really sensitive topic race in America in order to be useful I told you in advance I'm gonna have to walk right up to the line of cancellation because if I don't get right up to the line I'm not going to be able to be honest and if I can't be honest well I'm no use at all they ignore my that's my dog who's asleep barking if you hear that runner in the background when she sleeps she runs and barks in her sleep anyway so as part of my experiment to expand my free speech so I can get to the point of being actually useful I tweeted this and by the way I don't think I could have tweeted this one month ago but today no blowback so far could come later so this is a tweet that had no blowback if you can imagine this this is for me

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if you can imagine this this is for me this morning I said black lives matter is a violent racist organization that includes lots of people with good intentions who don't fully understand what they're signing on to support now don't you think I would have got canceled for that about a month ago but today I can say it it's partly because the conversation is getting richer it's partly because people are a little bit more desperate for something that sounds like is useful you know something that's true and let me say this as clearly as possible and if there are any African American people watching this there always are it turns out I've got a fast-growing part of my audience is African American men and women more men than women because I get more men on here than women but it's a fast-growing portion of what they're watching and here's why the next thing I'm going to say I think is why that is it's just my hypothesis I

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why that is it's just my hypothesis I can't prove this I think the reason I'm getting a fast-growing increase in black audience for what I do is that I'm not going to be condescending I'm not going to treat you like you can't handle the truth right I mean who doesn't appreciate that and and then black people say this directly all the time you hear this all the time I'd rather you just told me the truth right don't do pretend you're blowing smoke up my ass and then go be a racist privately just freaking tell me the truth because I can deal with the truth I just can't deal with this vs stuff I don't know what to do with that perfectly reasonable so here's some truth black people I'm sorry here's some truth white people almost routinely lied to black people because they feel they have to white people almost universally lie to black people

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almost universally lie to black people about race because they feel they have to so if you would like to have an actual conversation about race you're gonna have to get to the point where you can convince them white people to stop lying to you because if you can't get them to stop lying to you intentionally how the hell are you gonna make any any difference in anything so why lie I believe that black lives matter is more of a political violent racist organization that doesn't change the fact that there are lots of things that need to be fixed whether you're black or anybody else and here are here's my current of thinking on this we're going to the white board how would you know that he says no I'm speculative so I tell you when I think I know something and I tell you when I'm speculating so that was speculation which you're free to disagree with and or effect check all right here's how I here's how I see the world so the Democrats support

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I see the world so the Democrats support teachers unions teachers unions are the reason that you don't have school choice that's the reason you have bad teachers teachers unions are the entire problem because if you get a bad school you've got a bad life where are the bad teachers they're in the inner cities disproportionately teaching black students so basically the teachers unions are the source of most racism right institutional racism is primarily you know the the thing that I would agree that black people say there's a third there's definitely a ripple all the way from slavery there's definitely something about the system that tries to maintain itself which is which makes it harder for people to have the mobile that they need there was way more mobility and I think when I was a kid when I was young there was way more mobility for everybody so I think there's there's much to be sad about systemic racism everybody's got their

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systemic racism everybody's got their own definition of it but this is a good example in my in my opinion this would be systemic racism with the primarily primary system the teachers unions and you can't fix that as long as Democrats have controlled because the teachers unions favor the Democrats therefore the Democrats give the teachers unions what they want the Republicans would like to break this bottle by saying how about instead of a bad school how about you have a choice a little competition in there right but you know maybe some charter schools if you can get them but at least competition and so that's the Republican way to fix it now which of those two groups different Democrats or Republicans are trying to fix systemic racism in the place that it matters the most in other words if you get this right and by the way you know the the black Americans watching this you know

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black Americans watching this you know jump in and I guess on my eye that's bothered me jump in and agree with this if you get a solid education and let's say a useful thing you still have racism to deal with but you're gonna slice right through it it doesn't make it go away but you can make it less important and everybody's got their thing right I'm short I'm old you know you're you're you're ugly you've got a weight problem whatever it is everybody's got something but if you've got a strong training and background in education you can probably slice through your problem to just different problems all right then there's the cities because you can't you know it's hard to fix anything including the schools if you're living in a place that's you know so depressed economically and of course the mayor's tend to be democratic in the big urban areas and nothing can get fixed in an urban area if there's money involved because

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because the people who want to sell their services to the city can just bribe people easily now this has nothing to do with race there's no race in this conversation as long as you have this model for cities where the people running the city can take bribes by you know big contractors etc to do things how could anything ever get fixed it doesn't even there's no system here that can fix that the system as it exists is one super racist to unfixable it's completely unfixable because you're going to be living in the middle of just garbage if you don't have any way for the mayor to do a real job when they're being bribed to do whatever the contractors won right the only way I could think of to fix the the problem of cities being poorly managed is by the what I've called government in a box now I think somebody

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government in a box now I think somebody needs to create the government and a box option so that voters can at least have an option imagine if you would I don't know now in California you can put anything on a ballot you know called the proposition if you get enough signatures I don't know how widespread that is so somebody fact-check me on this but suppose that you had an urban area that was just a mess let's take Baltimore so Baltimore is just a mess right and and we know that you know the the governance is probably part of the problem historically suppose somebody started a petition and said look if we get enough signatures here and enough votes we will replace the mayor and the administration for let's say one year could be three years whatever it is but limited time with this government in a box which might be who knows maybe it's people from Switzerland who just want to come

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from Switzerland who just want to come in and they don't care about your country they're just trying to do their job so they get recommended to be government in a box on another city so they want to do a good job just because it's a business right hey government doesn't need to do a good job if it can also get elected if your mayor knows he or she is going to get reelected they don't really have to do a good job but if you had a government in a box which was a private company let's say consultants who would come in for a year or three just straighten things out get things on the right track and then and then at the end of that you say all right it's time for these guys to move on fix another city but until that exists until until you have a government in the boxing option until somebody offers it you just stuck with the old system which is racist in a systemic way now let me offer you my most provocative thought for ending racism now would it

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thought for ending racism now would it end racism come close so let's say ending racism is too big because worry you know humans are just we're unfixable when it comes to recognizing patterns especially fake patterns so you can't get rid of people's bias but you can certainly find systems that overcome them so so well that they don't matter as much all right here's the most provocative thing I will ever say you ready and I can always say this because you've those of you who have followed by lessons on persuasion and you know the facts don't matter it cetera you have to brainwash children children need to be brainwashed they need it because if you don't brainwash them somebody else will either television will or their friends will lure or they'll they'll just work it out on their own which is the worst case if you don't brainwash kids and I'm using that term very thoughtfully

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using that term very thoughtfully children are not influenced they're brainwashed and you got to do it right or you don't get a good kid right so how could black America brainwash it so kids easily easily and fix an entire generation the moment they're born alright so here's an idea that won't fix people who have already been born and have already reached a certain age I'm talking about something that would stop it cold from this point on so that the next baby born would be born into a better world and here it goes you convince somehow because this would require persuasion as well so the black community would have to embrace this wildly for it to work you embrace this that education is the key to success now education including any kind of profession so I'm talking about a skill

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profession so I'm talking about a skill stack I'm talking about the kinds of things you would learn in this book etc and so this is all education but I'll say a practical education so imagine if you will the black America says hey listen let's end racism and everybody will say that's not possible that's too hard oh yeah watch this watch this we're gonna get every mother you don't even need the father's to this and I'll tell you why you don't need the father's in there but you don't need the father's to be part of this and just the moms keep it simple the fathers can help but they're not required and the mother from the first time the baby can hear says you're going to college or education is the thing education is the thing education is the thing and you just brainwash those kids into thinking

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brainwash those kids into thinking education is the thing now I've gone further and said you could make a checklist and say if you don't if you check any of these boxes you're not going to succeed one of them did you have trouble with the law did you get involved with drugs or a gang you know so there's sort of an easy checklist and you just give that checklist to every new mom in an urban area and again this would work this works for everybody the fact that I'm talking about the black experience doesn't mean it's limited this this would work for everybody and you just say here's the checklist kit oh you're only two years old you don't quite understand this well look how important it is I know you don't understand it and you're three years old still don't understand that but you realize there's a checklist these are the things you need to do stay off drugs education is the key then the kids about 5 at around 5 they don't they don't understand how the world works but the brainwashing becomes permanent

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the brainwashing becomes permanent education is your way to success education is your way to success education and again practical education I'm not talking about you know an English degree and it could be mechanics or programming or any practical thing and what would happen 18 years from then or let's say 20 years from 21 years from them 21 years from then let's say that every black mother just started drilling that into their kids doesn't mean they all do it but they're drilling it in and you start developing a generation which 21 years from now you're an employer alright wait for this here's the good part it's 21 years in the future and you're an employer a black applicant comes in fresh out of college what do you say to yourself because you're a racist because everybody's biased right

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racist because everybody's biased right this is just now something you can turn it off so what do you say to yourself 21 years after that all started hypothetically you say to yourself oh good I got a super baby I got a super baby you're hired because all you want to hear if you're an employer is that you've got a kid who came up through a system from the moment they were born educate educate educate educate educate educate it's your way out you tell me that kid doesn't get the job no that kid gets the job and what happens when that kid well-educated does well well people start noticing it you could in one generation turn racism upside down and you could say to yourself black black kid comes in for an interview he's 21 and he was born from the from the moment he was born he was drilled with education white kid comes

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drilled with education white kid comes in looks like sort of a similar background but you don't know what kind of programming that kid had no I think you take the one that got brainwashed the most productive way education now why do I mention this because this is what my mother did to me my mother was not educated nor was my father both my mother and my father had to repeat a grade in school now my mother because she had some family problems my father because you just had a low IQ so he just failed a grade and the way that people do so neither of my parents had any college but from the moment I could understand language my mother said to me you're going to college it's a key to your success you can do anything you want you're going to college it's the key to your success you're going to college now she didn't have any money

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college now she didn't have any money and didn't even know anybody had been to college but that simple little mantra if I could call it that program to me it programmed me there was not one moment of my life that I didn't think I was going to college and we couldn't even afford it we couldn't even come close to afford again especially with three kids we figured it out you know I got some scholarships and you know my brother and sister went to less expensive colleges etc we figured it out but we never doubted that that was the path now that's my suggestion it's something that a hundred percent of people could do there's no mother who couldn't program their kid you just have to say it over and over and over again if that's all it is
is kids can be programmed just by repetition consistency and rep titian it's all it is in one generation you could turn a black applicant into a super baby in other words the employer

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super baby in other words the employer says yeah I want somebody who came up with that kind of programming all right
that probably was just about all I wanted to oh yeah there's another interesting thing Elon Musk is having a online debate with some other smart people and experts and Elon is pointing out that the coronavirus test kits can be as inaccurate as 50% false positive it could be as high as 50% false positive and he's saying that's the reason the the number of infections seems to be going up it's a combination of more testing plus the fact that the testing is so unactive plus the fact as other people piled in and said that the hospitals are now open for other business now I have a surgery scheduled minor surgery scheduled and I can tell you for sure that the process is I have

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you for sure that the process is I have to get a corona virus test and that I have to self quarantine for two weeks before I before I go in for my surgery now this is elective but suppose you went in you just went in and you didn't even have a surgery plan you just went in to the emergency room well the first thing they do is they test you for corona virus so if there are simply more people going to the hospital for unrelated reasons you're going to pick up a lot more corona virus because some of them will have it so so Elon is arguing the point now I'm not sure that I agree with Ellen's point because I these are complicated situations and there's probably a lot of stuff I don't know but it would explain the unexplained the most unexplained thing in this phenomenon correct me if I'm wrong the most unexplained thing is why infections are going up while death rates are going down oh I know what you're going to say it's the time lag but I don't think the time lag is gonna

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but I don't think the time lag is gonna change it that's my prediction that there might be some change but it's not going to change the major trend the major trend is that infections are going up and deaths are going down I think that's going to continue and I don't know how you would explain that other than you're detecting more cases that are the the mild kind and that would be part of the explanation the other part could be they're doing better with meds they're doing better with ventilators yeah they're just getting smarter in general it's possible all right that is what I wanted to cover today so I believe I've said let's see what if we fixed today we fixed the long-term economy to make us protected against robots by building in a national network of bicycle paths and turning us into a bicycle tourist destination with mostly e bikes in the future we've said we fixed racism by I told you a mantra

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fixed racism by I told you a mantra three words no how many words uh education is the key education is the key
key all right four words five words whatever you want but something like that a little mantra for mothers would transform children now you still have to keep them out of jail and and all that so that's it's another problem and of course if you voted Republicans and you could get maybe some school choice and that would fix your school situation yeah I think we fix just about everything today is there anything I haven't fixed yet I don't think so I fixed your personal lives so you all have better lives because of this yeah I think almost everything is fixed do we have any other problems you'd like me to get to all right well let's send done that because I think that's the good news and things are looking up stock market's good this country is going to

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market's good this country is going to be fine and so will you talk to you later