Episode 1047 Scott Adams: That “Dark” Speech at Mt. Rushmore That Looked Unifying to You

Date: 2020-07-04 | Duration: 1:02:05

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• “Bad, evil people” hit a nerve on the left

• Lawlessness and wanting America’s destruction

• The news is straight up propaganda, manipulating us

• Black National Anthem before NFL games

• Self-Defense is becoming illegal

• Scott’s Law of Self-Defense

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[Music] hey everybody come on in come on in we've got things to talk about yeah today the fourth of July oh yeah it is happy fourth of July do you know the last time I knew what day the week it was or what time - the month it was it was a long time ago or as I said to Christina just yesterday can you remind me when we're supposed to get married I have this calendar problem so this is a lifelong problem but anyway I know why you're here yeah yep it's for all the fun in the simultaneous hip and all you need is a cup of under glass of tanker chelators sign they can't injector flasks a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine head of the day the thing that makes everything including the coronavirus

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everything including the coronavirus better it's called the simultaneous if it happens now go mmm here's a question for you just to blow your mind you want your mind blown have you noticed that it seems like when there's one crisis in the news and that's the focus of the news all the other problems go away you notice that do you see a lot of people complaining about climate change now so much and that's a little lesson for you on how this objective your experiences because if we did not have a corona virus and we did not have whatever the protests are about we would have the same amount of fear about something else your fear would just be transported into a new vehicle and you know we have this fresh new fira

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and you know we have this fresh new fira coronavirus we don't have to talk about climate change for a while but climate change will be back it will be the most important thing in the world again someday as soon as we get past this alright let's let's check to see how our prediction and suggestion records look in the beginning of the coronavirus who told you that maybe we should move the restaurants outside into the streets for the summer probably be and you see restaurants all over the country moving into the streets and outside who told you that there would it would be great to have outdoor movie theaters again probably I'm the first person who told you that and their Walmart is transforming 160 of its parking lots into summer outdoor movie theaters yay who was home you know that I told you to close travel before a week before the

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close travel before a week before the President did from China you know that I told you the experts were lying to you about masks the first time I heard it but here's some more remember I told you that hydroxychloroquine whether it worked or not was a good risk management decision that still looks like what's right I would say this latest study and of Detroit the one that's on the news that says it's that hydroxychloroquine works I would say it's a little early for that if you're relying on that study to say well it's over now it looks like it works yeah that's too early the odds of that study being debunked in the future probably over 75 percent so whether or not hydroxychloroquine works or does not work this latest study that says it works will almost certainly be debunked but that doesn't tell you whether it works or not that's the world we're in

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works or not that's the world we're in but in terms of a risk management decision I think it already looks like it was strong because I doubt it's hurting anybody here's a question that was asked how many people died because the the news treated hydroxychloroquine like poison because President Trump was promoting it think about that you might actually be able to do the math and figure out how many people were killed by the illegitimate nudists business right you could actually do the math now your estimate would be you know subject to lots of uncertainty but let me put a number on it if the if it's true this latest study is true that it cut the mortality rate in half which would be a big claim I'm not sure that that will stand up over time but let's say it did this is the way the news would report the story if the if this were reversed and President Trump is the only one who

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and President Trump is the only one who was saying don't use it and the mainstream media had been saying yes use it it's worth the risk if this had been reversed the story would be this if the President had gone the other way we might have saved 20,000 American lives right because you know over a hundred and 120,000 people have died the United States from coronavirus if you could cut that in half now it wouldn't get to every person obviously we there's a supply problem and blah blah blah so you wouldn't necessarily get to use the medication on everybody so it's not like you'd cut the entire death rate in half but let's say it would have made a difference we're talking about 20,000 people that were killed by the news think about it think about the fact that if the hydroxychloroquine study holds up and again I would say that's probably not going to happen but let's say that hydroxychloroquine does turn out to be

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hydroxychloroquine does turn out to be good and useful that's all we'd be talking about we wouldn't be talking about anything except how the President had killed 20,000 people with bad advice but
but he's probably saved you know 20,000 people if they took it and otherwise they might not have whereas the news may have killed 20,000 people but you won't see that in the news because the news the news does not indict the news so it's a it's a neat little situation the only thing better it would be a doctor because if you're a doctor and you make a mistake you could just bury it right yeah it's like well I'll just bury this mistake but if you're the news you can kill 20,000 people with intentional fake news and just don't report it you just don't report it just like it didn't happen that's convenient so what else did I get

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that's convenient so what else did I get right at the very beginning what was one of the first things I told you that's right vitamin D do you remember that I told you at the very beginning make sure you get some Sun and vitamin D because it's gonna make a difference that was a generic statement based the fact that vitamin D is just generally good for you and your immune system but did I not also before you heard it anywhere say it looks to me that there's this weird correlation which I just noticed in the wild I was just looking at the situation and said what is it about this group of people that are susceptible and so I started googling because I had a hypothesis that it was that so I said to myself first african-american people seem to be getting coronavirus worse google african-american vitamin D yep they get less of it for obvious reasons their skin color makes a little harder to absorb so I think that's the reason I

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to absorb so I think that's the reason I actually I don't know if that's the reason but it would be one of them and then I said huh what about the countries that are doing worse and I google it and what about people who have diabetes and I google it and basically the correlation really held so today there's a report that there was a study that found out that the vitamin D is very highly correlated with the death rate of coronavirus now that doesn't necessarily they really mean that if you boosted your vitamin D you'd do better but all common sense says yes so again the correlation looks really strong based on this one study which could be wrong tomorrow when there's another study but looks like I was right about that too so if you're keeping score if you had done everything that the idiot cartoonist told you to do about your health you would be way ahead of what the news told you what the experts told you and all of

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you what the experts told you and all of your doctors that's just a fact sorry you know I can't I'm not going to tell you that I could do this the next time there's a the next time there's a crisis that doesn't mean that I'm gonna be right every single time again but it's starting to look like a pattern doesn't it if you had trusted me on most things you're you know you wouldn't be right every time of course but you'd be way ahead does anybody know what the net deaths are for this year so one of the things I predicted which I think I'm going to be wrong about but maybe not I don't know I want to see the numbers it doesn't seem to you that the number net deaths in the United States is being suppressed because you know that the protests are being suppressed right so the news is no longer are showing the news the news is becoming a decision maker for what you can see that's sort

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maker for what you can see that's sort of turned into that so we don't see the protests because obviously they're trying to reduce the impact of the protests so the news is not so much reporting it as making the news that they're creating the situation by actively trying to suppress the protests just by not covering them but likewise it seems to me that the number of net deaths for this part of the year would be the most prominent thing you would see right don't you think you should be seeing just about every day on the news if this were a normal year here's how many deaths we would on average this many per month but because it was the coronavirus year the number is twenty thousand a week higher than normal or something or whatever the number is ask yourself why you don't see that number every day ask yourself why you don't see that number every day it's

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you don't see that number every day it's because we were being manipulated so whoever makes these decisions I don't think it's like one person who's deciding the whole new cycle but the people who decide what you see have decided that you shouldn't see that yes I may be using the wrong term somebody in the comments is saying do excess deaths not net deaths that's probably the better term so excess deaths meaning compared to the normal baseline and how many people died that you would not have expected in a normal year and then you assume that most of them are coronavirus but not necessarily yeah so you do see the number of deaths total total for coronavirus but you don't see excess deaths every day is that because it's high or because it's low ask yourself this why don't you know the most important question in the country or the world really what's the most important

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world really what's the most important question in the world are excess deaths more or less that there would be you know is there any excess deaths at all I guess you don't even know you don't even know it's the most important number in the world does anybody know of course yeah it's it's a gatherer of old number obviously what's up with that every time you see something like that that's now reported you have to ask yourself is that a decision did somebody say we don't want people to know this maybe don't know so Trump gave a speech last night probably you heard and the first thing I did was I tried to watch the speech without the benefit of any commentary so I like to watch it and say to myself alright what are the what is this basically to think of it and that I try to put myself in the other had to say okay what is what is the other team gonna think of this now the other team is easy you just

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this now the other team is easy you just say oh they're gonna take stuff out of context and say it's dark and evil and racist right but kind of easy you didn't have to actually hear the speech to know what the criticism would be am i right you did not need to hear the speech to write any of the criticisms that appear today look at the criticisms you tell me that you could not have written all of the criticisms before he gave the speech because they're sort of generic to pundits have so far used the word dark I wrote about this and wouldn't Begley and I talked about it in the 2016 cycle that there was a persuader who I speculated was Robert shel Dini himself the greatest persuader or expert who wrote the book influence and persuasion so you would be considered a sort of the gold standard for influencers and when when everybody on the Democrat side in 2016 started using the word dark about

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started using the word dark about Trump's speech at the convention I said there it is that's the mark that word dark does not come from normal political people this looks like an outside adviser because that's that's a weapons-grade persuasion that you just don't see from the regular political advisers and it turns out that Jill Dini refused to he had a no comment when asked if it was him no but nobody would no comment on that unless it was actually them all right who in the world would if you said did you give this specific piece of advice to the president who in the world would say no comment you would only say that if he did if you didn't you'd say now that wasn't me right because why would you yeah unless you were just like the worst liar in the world or something all right so we think that dark was probably given to the Democrats back in 2016 I've already seen it twice this year

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already seen it twice this year like they're trotting it out to see if it'll it'll work but I don't know it doesn't seem to have any purchase yet so what I picked out was that Trump used the phrase bad evil people to talk about the ones who are causing trouble and taking down statues that were you're not even Confederate statues etc and I said ah there it is that's the quote this see then will take care of context and sure enough was that Mary yeah marianne williamson so she was the first one to take it out of context and say this he is in her tweet she said about the president speech he is pausing all those who don't agree with him as evil people who are enemies of America nothing like that happened if you watch the speech the the president's words were extremely clear we are all we're all Americans

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clear we are all we're all Americans unifying we're all Americans and there were these some troublemakers were knocking down statues and he's condemning them the exact opposite of what Mary Ann Williams has says is that he's positing that all those who don't agree with them are evil people not even close to anything like that happened in the speech nothing close to that literally the direct opposite of this but if somebody didn't see the speech what would they think if he hadn't seen the speech you'd think well you know maybe maybe he said something like that no you said exactly the opposite of that here's what so here's the other thing I was looking for I was looking for whether the president hit a nerve in other words everything is a giant test of yeah about this message how about this statement how about the way I framed this everything in a campaign is

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framed this everything in a campaign is a continuous test to see if you got the right message that hit hit a nerve and sometimes you can't tell if you hit a nerve unless you see the reaction of the people you're trying to move and let me let me read this reaction to you from Erin Roop our who is a notable anti-trump er so this is his comment about Trump speech he said Trump offers some remarkably overheated rhetoric interesting alright so the first thing you should note is that Rupert is calling the president's rhetoric overheated alright just hold that thought and he said and he's quoting the president saying the president said there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute Allegiance this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution alright so Rupert is pointing

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Revolution alright so Rupert is pointing out that this is overheated rhetoric and of the things he wanted to point out for a criticism he wanted to point out that this was going too far to say that the left was trying to demand absolute allegiance and that they were trying to overthrow the American Revolution here's what I think I think that hit a nerve I you know all of this is very subjective but I'm going to tell you that based on all of my lifetime of experience with persuasion I think Aaron Rupert is telling us directly please don't do more of this that's what it feels like it feels like it's true enough there're new part is trying to brush it back and say uh no this is bad better don't say that anymore it feels like he knows a nerve has been hit now of course there's a big difference between saying there are some

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difference between saying there are some troublemakers versus saying it's all the Democrats they're all troublemakers there's a difference but if the Democrats are sort of supporting the team that are the small group of troublemakers you can sell the argument pretty well you can sell the argument that they're all the same on the left as long as the left won't condemn them and does support them in their actions would you say that the left does support the small group of people who are taking down statues and and whatever do they support them do they even support the looters yeah they do they even support the looters by being very vocal about not wanting force being used you know to being the anti police in the sense I think that Trump hit a nerve now I'm going to tell you some things that I don't think he did right in a moment but on this one because remember everything's an a/b test you're not

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everything's an a/b test you're not trying to hit winners you're not trying to hit homeruns every time you're trying to get that one that goes beep-beep-beep this is the one this is the one and I think Aaron rooper who reads the room well in other words he understands his you know his side of things and isn't involved in politics so I would say that his censer is probably pretty well tuned you know that's not to say I agree with what he says I'm just saying that he is sensitive to the situation he can read the room and I think he's afraid of this attack because I feel like he thinks it's too close so did you notice that something seemed to happen in the last 48 hours when the president basically I forget his exact term for black lives matter but he basically said it was a you know violent hate group or something I think he said a hate group you saw that I tweeted that black lives matter is a violent racist group

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is a violent racist group I got 10,000 retweets I got 10,000 retweets from people not all of them not all of them were anonymous right so Twitter isn't just anonymous people I got 10,000 retweets calling black lives matter a violent racist group do you know have any retweets I get on a normal retweet that does pretty well a thousand it was about probably 5 to 10 times bigger response on something that you wouldn't expect people to then stick their head above the foxhole on I mean I thought I would you know had a good chance of getting canceled just for tweeting it right it was controversial enough that I thought I might you know might be the end of my career the day I tweeted it and ten thousand people retweeted that all right so it is obvious now that this attack is hitting a nerve I think that the left understands they went too far and I

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understands they went too far and I think they know that they overshot the mark and I think they know that their brand is now lawlessness and support for the complete destruction of the United States now is that overrated over heated rhetoric for me to say that the left wants the complete destruction of the United States well actually not that's the problem the problem is that it's not overheated rhetoric because black lives matter and their supporters and antiphon especially they say directly they want to dismantle the entire system you can't tweak the patriarchy it's not a tweak fix
fix it's a dismantle and they use the words now if black lives matter uses the words dismantle the system and they have demonized white people quite directly as the racist and white supremacists and slave owners is it too far to say that

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slave owners is it too far to say that they would seek retribution the moment that they felt safe in doing it and hunting down people like me did you see what happened when I I said in public that that Trump supporters might be hunted down and you could be dead in a year if if if Biden wins it wasn't because Biden and regular Democrats were going to hunt down anybody I'm not suggesting that you know or an ordinary middle-of-the-road Democrat is going to look for revenge against Republicans or anything no no all they have to do is give cover for the groups that will which they're they're doing quite plainly right now you don't have to wonder if most Democrats we'll give cover for the few Democrats who are causing the trouble because we're watching it is happening right in front of you you don't have to wonder how that would play out of course they would would they do everything that they could do to protect Trump voters in a

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could do to protect Trump voters in a Biden administration no no there's no indication that they would lift a finger to protect anybody who wasn't their own team there's nothing that would indicate that's the case you've never heard one bit of rhetoric from the left that they would protect Trump the voters have you have you ever heard one person left say if I'm president or or even just the way I think should think should be is that people should leave Trump voters alone have you heard anybody saying anybody one time a celebrity politician in the house Senate candidate for president have you heard anybody on the left or even in the news say you know people we should not demonize regular Trump voters they just have a preference that's different from yours have you ever heard it not once that is approval there's no way that that could be interpreted

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way that that could be interpreted anything but approval so it's silent approval but approval nonetheless so here's what I think happened the moment that the president and people like me you know less impact in my case the moment that the president was willing to say in public directly the black lives matter is a hate organization and we're not that we're going to put him in jail for knocking down our statues 10-year prison sentence for knocking out a I guess maybe a federal statute I think that the left realized they overplayed the hand I don't think the left understood that people on the right are legitimately afraid because they've said it directly they want to dismantle the country if you want to dismantle the country you are saying I want to destroy everything now normally normally in a situation up like this I would say no no no they don't destroy everything they just want a different system you know transition to

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different system you know transition to something that works better that's not what's happening the the loudest voices in the black lives matter don't want to transition anything they just want to blow it up there's no new plan there's no plan it tell me if you've seen one has somebody drawn up the the way the government will look without all the systemic racism have you seen that blueprint there is them they only have a they only have a plan for destruction that's explicit it's not an interpretation to prove me wrong you just have to show me their plan for what it should look like when they're done if you can show me the plan that's what it looks like when they're done yeah this is this is the world we're trying to build it would look a little bit more like this if that exists well then I'm certainly wrong but it doesn't it doesn't exist and it won't exist because they're not they're not in the building business they're in the destruction business so here's what I think happened

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business so here's what I think happened I think that the Democrats realized they overplayed their hand and they're trying to walk it back without looking like they're walking it back so the more that any of you are willing to say that black lives matter is a violent racist organization with lots of people who have good intentions so when I talk about black lives matter it's a very diverse group which is the good news right so that's the one good news about anything is that if you can get any diversity to agree out anything you know maybe that's good unless you're leading the revolution that you don't understand which would be bad so lots of people within the movement are just well-meaning people who got caught up in something they didn't quite know what they were getting into how many people who are supporting and marching with black lives matter understand that their entire way of life in the United States would surely be destroyed if black lives matter got what it wanted

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matter got what it wanted how many of the protesters understand that maybe not I've said it before this is the what there's one group in the country maybe the world that you can criticize and nobody can fault you for it like you you can't make fun of people for their appearance or ethnicity their gender and I don't suggest that you do you know I'm happy that those things are largely off the table but there's one group that we can all mock mercilessly and I hope you'll join me in it it's young people and the reason you can mock young people is because either you are one I mean there are only two conditions if you're alive you either are a young person or you used to be one so you do have a right to mock young people because it's you you used to be one you know how smart you were when you were twenty and you know how smart you were when you're 40 if you're 40 or over and it's not

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40 if you're 40 or over and it's not very close it might it might feel like it's it should be close to what you're twenty when you're twenty you're pretty sure you've got the context now you're like all right I'm as smart as I'll ever be
be IQ wise which might actually be true but you don't know very much about context and framing and how much you've been manipulated and how you've been brainwashed your entire life but it might take you another ten years to figure it out so we have a revolution that's being led by and I say this with love our dumbest citizens on average dumbest meaning young all right there's no ethnicity and what I'm saying I'm only talking about young is always less informed than more experienced is just a fact of life so here we have a group of people who are leading this thing they went way too far they have convinced the people on the right that they mean it let me ask you this do you think there

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let me ask you this do you think there are any people on the right who are preparing to leave the country because they think it's all good that society itself will be ripped apart yes there are people on the right who are smart and they're not crazy people whatsoever we're planning to leave the country because they think that the left will actually become a violent mob but that will destroy whatever is here and there's nothing that can stop it now I don't think that's the case I'm not in that camp but the left has gone so far that people are considering moving the country out of the country and I'm not talking about the people who said if Donald Trump is elected I'll move to Canada none of that was serious I'm talking about people were actually making plans to get their self the out of this country because the black lives matter people and the protesters in anti-shah appear to be unstoppable if nobody's willing to stop them and there doesn't seem to be a willingness to stop them now I don't

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willingness to stop them now I don't agree with that I think things will far more likely just revert to something close to normal in a few months in my opinion the only reason any of this is happening is a weird coincidence and the weird coincidence is that coronavirus made it necessary to wear masks at the same time that people wanted to protest and it wouldn't it be convenient if you could wear a mask alright so if we did not have this weird mask coincidence which is the weirdest coincidence you have to wear a mask and by the way you might be protesting wouldn't that be convenient so so it is by its nature something that would not be a long-term problem if we can contain it which I think we will which is why the news is now actively managing the protests to decrease them let me ask you this if the people who ran the mainstream news which of course is corrupt and nothing like news anymore it's just fake news it's just straight-up propaganda if the

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just straight-up propaganda if the propagandists who do what what looks like news if they thought that the showing the protests were good for their side wouldn't you see a lot more of it have you noticed that they stopped coverage of the protests and and doesn't your common sense say if these protests were bad for Trump I think we'd see a lot more of them just a lot more footage and stuff so you're definitely being manipulated by the news all right if you didn't know that here's a really good mind spinner so Elaine Maxwell the co-conspirator with Epstein as you know got picked up and Alan Dershowitz wrote a fascinating article about that situation now of course he used the situation to defend himself against allegations that he was you know with some young woman and if

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you know with some young woman and if you've ever seen one of the top you know lawyers of all time defend himself it's really worth looking at it's worth looking at just to see how well he makes his argument it's just every time I read Dershowitz I just go wow that was really well done even even if you don't like his point of view you end up going okay that's really skillful and he did it again so he writes this article in which he is noting that a lot of the people who have testified the the young women who have these horrific stories of things that happened with Epstein and on the island Dershowitz very persuasively points out that they have been what would you say discovered to be Liars at the highest level in other words we know they made up stories about other people being on the island because you can check the record and you can know for sure that they weren't there when these witnesses

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they weren't there when these witnesses were claiming it was all happening so Dershowitz is explanation of the witnesses being completely unreliable I mean as unreliable as anything could be let me tell you how unreliable it would be imagine if you had a person who claimed he saw a murder on his front lawn well the first time happened you'd say well we don't see any signs of a murder but we're going to treat this seriously because you reported a murder and then in the end they say all right it looks like nobody got murdered on lon and then you call the police the next week can you say another person got murdered on my lawn well maybe you take you seriously you'd say sounds a little familiar but we'll check it out and again nobody got murder doesn't long play back the video it's obvious there was nothing happening on the log the third time you call and say somebody just got murdered on my front lawn what did the police say they say

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lawn what did the police say they say well maybe work it out yourself right so if you've been caught and then the exact lie of the type that is on the table that is the lowest level of credibility you can have you're not just somebody who in some general way is undependable you're someone who is specifically undependable on this exact question and it's been proven that's the lowest level of credibility you could actually have you can't get lower you lie on this exact question and we know it it's proven so Dershowitz makes the case that the witnesses that sound when you see them out of context and by the way I watched I watched the Epstein movie on Netflix which threw Dershowitz under the bus pretty hard with you know I and allegations against him in that film and Dershowitz tells the story of giving them all of the background information that was exculpatory some of the same

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that was exculpatory some of the same stuff he mentions in the article he gave it to Netflix a complete defense then my opinion is actually really strong I mean really strong I wasn't there I don't know what happened I'll never know what happened but I'm just looking at the defense based on real facts that could be checked facts you could check yourself he gave two to Netflix and they didn't put it in the film they didn't put it in the film think about that they threw Alan Dershowitz under the bus accused him of being a sex criminal and the the accusers have a record according to Dershowitz of being Liars on this exact thing accusing other people that we know sure of words there how do you not include that how do you not include that really what kind of world are you living in we're at the exculpatory information they just ignore like it wasn't there so

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they just ignore like it wasn't there so the the level of evil that requires is just mind boggling anyway I don't think that ghilane Maxwell is innocent by any means but when you you cedar she would set it up say well he basically is argument assessed that he's not saying anything about Maxwell because he doesn't know so he's saying I don't know anything that she did I didn't observe anything wrong but here's the context all of the accusers have been proven liars on these very accusations I mean this type of accusation not the specific ones against her that's a really strong argument you know there's no I can't even imagine a jury that could convict on that unless so you know unless the video appears or something later all right so don't be surprised don't be surprised if ghilane Maxwell does not get convicted of anything and the other possibility is apparently there was some kind of a plea

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apparently there was some kind of a plea deal when Epstein originally went went to jail I don't know one of those times there's some kind of an existing plea deal that might give Maxwell immunity but it's sort of untested she might have immunity there might be she might not go to jail at all think about that all right here's the worst idea I've ever heard in my entire life they're going to play the black national anthem before the NFL games and then do the regular national anthem prior now of course one understands why they're doing it or they're trying to do the best they can to satisfy not only their their players but their fans and it's just a tough situation all right so I feel bad for the NFL because there's just no way to win they just don't have a they just don't have a winning play but I think they found the worst the solution because how do you feel if

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the solution because how do you feel if you are let's say a football watcher and you see an alternate national anthem the alternate national anthem now they're referring to it as a black national anthem but let's take the black out you just heard there's a an alternative national anthem for a subset of America how does that make you feel does it make you feel like an American now that there's two national anthems it doesn't matter if it's a black national anthem it could be the woman national anthem could be the you know LGBTQ national anthem it doesn't matter what subset of Americans were talking about this might be one of the worst ideas I've ever seen from a business I feel like the NFL is going to have the lowest ratings they'll ever have unless people are so starved for entertainment that they watch anyway I guess it's a wild card because people

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I guess it's a wild card because people are just starved for entertainment so maybe it'll be the highest ratings ever had but they might people might tune in you know ten minutes after the game starts does not watch it now what's my personal feeling about it is I don't get worked up about you know symbols I don't care about flags and flag burnings I don't care about national anthems I don't care about kneeling and I don't care about statues too much just generally speaking if you're talking about symbolism I don't just work it out work it out among yourselves if yeah if there are Americans who care deeply about these symbols and they want to mix it up with you know verbally mix it up with other people who have a different opinion I just I'm just going to watch the show wherever it comes out statues yes that's just know I'm gonna be fine with it either way I just can't get invested in something so ridiculous so personally I'm not invested in any of it I don't think football is important I

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I don't think football is important I don't think it should be played by the way I think football should be banned you know because they had an injuries especially for children maybe for adults you let them take the chance but certainly I would ban football for children that's another another story so I think the NFL is shooting themselves in the foot with this but we'll see but it could turn out to be brilliant we'll see
here's something that's a worrisome trend self the self defense is starting to look illegal now did you know that didn't you have a pretty good idea in your head what self defense look like and you thought you knew what it was it started to get murky and I'm worried that the the the realm of what we would call self defense is shrinking so that the angry mobs can get at you a little bit better let me give you an example so apparently I don't have an update on this but the last I knew the McCloskey

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this but the last I knew the McCloskey is the couple who were the the gun wielding couple in their big house that they protected against the crowd apparently there is still being considered for charges are you kidding me they are still being considered for maybe being charged with a crime for simply having guns to to at least have some defense against the scrap no I don't know if it was because the wife pointed her gun does that make a difference I'm not a lawyer and maybe it varies by state but where exactly was the crime that was as self-defense ii as anything i've ever seen in my life there were lawyers for god sakes they knew what a crime is they're lawyers they know what a crime is they weren't trying to commit a crime that's for sure and then i heard another one today about that there's a question about what police should do or really what anybody should do let's say the mobs surround your car if the mob surrounds your car

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your car if the mob surrounds your car they start breaking the windows and there's even somebody with a gun and you know they shot somebody in a car so it's like the worst scariest situation but the mob is all around your car what can you do in self-defense can you drive forward at the risk of hitting people when you know you would hit
hit can you drive slowly can you give them like warnings and like you know sharp little moves forward to get them out of the way but if you hit somebody you're still liable and you go to jail even the question of your car surrounded by people you're not allowed to just drive through them even if they're attacking your car and and the fact that that's even a question are you kidding me that's a question well let me let me say if somebody attacks does somebody surrounds my car I'm gonna drive forward if there's somebody in front of my car they will be they will be killed or injured but I'm gonna do it I'm not going to sit there with a crowd

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I'm not going to sit there with a crowd that's beating on my car and threatening me I'm gonna drive forward and I'm gonna take out anybody who's in front of me and I'm not gonna even think twice about it I'm not even gonna feel guilty about it
it I'm gonna look in my rearview mirror and see brains spilled on that on that the road behind me I'm not gonna have a nightmare about that I'm not even gonna have PTSD about that all right that's that's just me but let me let me say it again if you put me on a jury in this country I am NOT going to convict anybody for what looks like self-defense moreover if it's a gray area they're not going to be convicted by me put me on a jury if it even looks a little bit self-defense II in the context of these big crowds I'm not talking about a normal crime right a normal crime you have to look at each one individually but in the context of these protests if somebody does something that's even arguably a little bit self-defense II

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arguably a little bit self-defense II they're good with me good with me because here's what I don't expect of my fellow citizens I don't expect you to be speed lawyers in an emergency you're probably not a lawyer and if you were you don't have much time to think I'm not going to ask you to be a legal scholar while a crowd is ascending on you
you if the crowd ascends on you this is Scott's rule let me out there are you ready this is Scots law I'm just making this up now Scots law says that if the crowd comes after you there's nothing you can't do to defend yourself got it there's nothing you can't do to defend yourself if a crowd threatens you that's Scots law put me on the jury let's say the crowd comes in and they're chanting things and they surround you and you pull that a machine gun and you you you you killed 27 people self-defense self-defense that's just me

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self-defense self-defense that's just me you can do anything you want it's a free country so far a little less free than it used to be but if it's made you could take out a machine gun and you could take care of the entire crowd that's threatening you and you could even finish off the people who are on the ground suffering and I would still still say looks like self-defense to me I know because you don't know if those people on the ground we're gonna get up right I mean you're not some expert on military or defense so if a civilian gets surrounded that's just me I don't recommend that you do that because taking self-defense recommendations for me would be a certain way to get you killed just telling you my attitude so I think we've reached the point where the slippery slope has met the wall slippery slope meet wall I'm we are all able to say now that black lives matter is a violent racist organization now by the

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violent racist organization now by the way that's not an opinion that's actually black lives matters self branding you saw Hawk Newsom a head of the black lives he's the leader in black lives matter in New York which is obviously an important and important branch of black lives matter and he said on television I think you said it more than once recently that they do not sq violence that you know they'll be peaceful if they can get what they want but if they can't get it through peace violence is on the table and you said it you said it directly I'm not interpreting like reading between the lines he said it directly and guess what I agree with him the reason the reason I know I'm not misinterpreting it is because it's a perfectly reasonable statement which is and here's the second part as hawk points out that if you look at the history of this country almost nothing ever changes without violence and it's a really smart a thing to say because it's

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really smart a thing to say because it's true this is one of those countries and maybe it's just true everywhere that until there's at least the threat of violence things don't really change you know because you don't have to you can say well deal with that tomorrow and then don't so he's not wrong that if they need you know if they feel that they're willing to do whatever it takes to get these changes whatever they might be that violence is on the table so if your organization leader says violence is on the table you are a violent organization and you can see you know individual members who are being violent secondly is it racist of course this of course it is it's totally racist let me make an analogy for you is yes black lives matter you're equally concerned with other lives obviously not the whole point of black lives matter is that it's a preference you know they're not looking for equality they're looking for at least the way the slogan is

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for at least the way the slogan is presented I'm not mind reading anybody whose individual thoughts I'm saying that the way the the way it's presented is that their problems are special because they came from a certain you know a certain historical path I would argue that saying that black people's problems are special whereas let's say some Hispanic American Filipino American who was born into poverty I guess their problems are special they don't get any help because they don't have the right kind of skin it's just purely racist as violent and it's racist now again I think by and large the most of the members most of the protesters have something like good intentions but they have joined unto a violent racist organization without realizing speaking of that let's talk about the President's speech which is being called racist and divisive those of you watched the speech last night give me your opinions we'll take there's a little

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opinions we'll take there's a little time like in the comments but your opinion was the President's speech unifying or was it racist and divisive go
go what is your opinions no I'll tell you mine and by the way I do plan to have surgery someday if the coronavirus doesn't keep delaying it I'll get my sinuses fixed all right so I'm looking at your comments give me and I guess it's gonna take a little while for them to get here's what I think if the president wanted to be unifying it wouldn't have sounded anything like that so I don't think it was a unifying speech or even close to anything like that did anybody think that was unifying so he decided not to tell jokes and he played this seriously he talked about America and he talked about you know we're all Americans etc so there were definitely things he said that you could

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definitely things he said that you could you could identify as attempts at unification but here's the thing if the president so I'm looking ok comments are coming in now good good somebody says dark somebody says best truth somebody says low-energy I will agree with low-energy you looked low energy to the point where he looked really tired actually some people saying it's very unifying patriotic somebody said to mild which is not divisive enough I guess uplifting and unifying unifying unifying unifying all right here's what you all got wrong unfortunately all of those who know all of those of you who are saying that it was unifying I hate to break it to you I got a I hate to break it to you that might be the least unifying speech I've ever seen in my whole life let

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ever seen in my whole life let me tell you why if this isn't obvious to you you really haven't been listening to the protesters you know if if you have this many protests you if this many people are protesting at the very least you haven't listened to them you don't have to agree you don't have to agree but I'm starting to think you haven't even listened to them because here's here's why this was the least unifying speech of all time that's saying too much it wasn't unifying here's why the president talked about all of us appreciating our great history and our and our shared heritage how does that sound to you let's say let's say for example you're watching this periscope there's a statistical chance that you might be white and a trump supporter how does a sound to your ear when you hear you'd like to everybody to share and and honor our

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everybody to share and and honor our heroes and our shared cultural history how's it as a feel unifying right you're like yeah our shared history were Americans let's revel in our shared history okay here's what's wrong with that a lot of the history was people being slaved how in the world are black Americans supposed to look at the history of the United States and say yeah that looks good well let me buy into that shared heritage where where I you know my great great great whatever was a slave how in the world does that is that unifying in in the context of protests with black lives matter you know the statues coming down the the legacy of slavery that the room is about slavery slavery is like the biggest topic in the news right now it's on the

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topic in the news right now it's on the top of minds the president said let's celebrate our shared history well the shared history is some people doing well in some people slaves how in the world are the slaves you know the people who descended from slaves or have any connection to it how in the world are they supposed to hear that speech and hear it words like heritage and culture and saying yeah let's let's honor some of that stuff where my people were slaves or let's honor that part where the Native Americans were slaughtered to get their land how in the world is that unifying I would say that that speech was an attempt to be not unifying in my opinion in my opinion it was written with the intention of being a you know more for the base that did the base like it yeah they did so I I was wondering how the base was responding and they were responding very well because the base has a gigantic blind spot you know you

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has a gigantic blind spot you know you do not every single person obviously but the base has a gigantic blind spot which is history is not so kind to a lot of people who live in this country and should be you know should feel good about it just the way you feel good about it if you do so I I would say that a unifying speech would have directly referenced that and would have directly acknowledged that and and some something would have looked more like you know let's let's appreciate more blah blah blah now here's what here's what I like that he did he did mention the heroes of our history and he quite pointedly mixed in a lot of African American heroes with the other heroes but did that make everybody happy no because there was no LGBTQ in that list I don't even know if there was a woman in the list was there

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there was a woman in the list was there there might have been one was there maybe one woman in the list of American heroes so you can't really satisfy people with hey we'll throw in some statues for you guys to you know to show that everybody's everybody's equal we'll give you some statues because the group that didn't get any statues is going to say it's great that white people and black people have statues but how about me so there's no winning so did the president take the most politically advantageous approach which is pushing back on the statue people which is base wanted using words like culture and heritage which sound racist to half the country but to his base just sounds like common sense and you generally genuinely don't hear it I think it is it is legitimately true that people on the right just don't hear that they don't hear in his racist but

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that they don't hear in his racist but it's because you haven't lived in anybody else's life everybody else has the same problems that it's not a problem on the right it's from that nobody really knows what anybody else is feeling or thinking all right so my opinion is that the speech might have been good for his base which was important so maybe it was politically correct in terms of unifying I would say it used the words that you know won't unify so if you intentionally put into a written speech words that are guaranteed to not unify you can't really say it was an attempt it wasn't really an attempt to unify them oh so somebody is saying that there were some women in his list several of them Ella Fitzgerald Rosa Parks Harriet Tubman Thank You Clara Barton oh thank you okay so when I was hearing the list I was not taking note of them Dolly Madison was she on the list all right

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list all right somebody says statues are idols used for mind control I agree with that statues are a form of mind control just as the history of the country is just as the Pledge of Allegiance just as the flag is so all of our symbols are they have utility we use symbols because they do something they they have a function it's a tool it programs people to think a certain way that's why we do it so the president suggested building a special garden in which statues would be but he didn't say if we would be moving statues and he didn't say are we building some extra statues to those other people he mentioned so there's some questions to be answered but that wasn't a bad idea I think on the right people were pretty happy with the idea of putting them in a special place where you've got better context yeah so I would say the president did a good job from the perspective of his base he did nothing

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perspective of his base he did nothing to to make the left move toward him but maybe that doesn't matter because maybe you can't maybe you can't move the other side towards you so maybe it doesn't matter but yours here's the takeaway I believe the left is afraid of the president's framing of them as dangerous basically dangerous racist hate groups so that does seem to be the most productive attack the one they worry about the most and there's plenty of evidence to make that case so it's very dangerous all right everything is a form of mind control somebody says with a smiley face that's true everything does impact the way you think your environment doesn't all right
professors are indoctrinating kids with mind control yeah I think so I think that's a fair thing to say did you see I

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that's a fair thing to say did you see I tweeted this around that there that I mentioned this there actually is a national effort to build a national bike paths around the country so that you could bicycle from one side of the country to the other and it would be a touristy thing to do so that's actually underway I tweeted that the other day amazing all right somebody says dumbest idea I've ever heard I don't know if you're talking about the garden full of statues or not all right that's all I got I will talk to you tomorrow have a great 4th of July