Episode 1048 Scott Adams: Kanye Enters the Race, Dark and Divisive Speeches, Magic Mushrooms

Date: 2020-07-05 | Duration: 52:22

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• “Dark” upgraded to “Dark and Divisive”

• Culture and heritage are election losing words

• Joe Biden’s Republican 4th of July speech

• Spiritual unifier Kanye…is running for President

• 2 questions, asked in this order…would take out Biden

• Whiteboard: Water and Risk of Drowning

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I'm pom pom pom pom pom pom pom happy you fit the July everybody it's good to see ya come on in come on in there's plenty of room yes what a day we got lots of stuff to talk about but first before we talk about all this stuff there's something you need to do something you need to do every morning it's called the simultaneous it makes everything better yeah it does and all you need is a cup of Margar glass of tank your Challenger Stein the canteen checker flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure that dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better including fireworks and pandemics racism you name it it's all better with the simultaneous imp let us bring the country together go and for my international viewers we'll bring the world together a second step for

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world together a second step for inclusivity hmm very good very good can you feel the unity I think he can a little bit because you feel in a way you feel exactly like you did a minute ago but with slightly more unity you feel it I think you do well as you know fireworks were banned and outlawed last night because of all the dangers but it was also the fourth of July sometimes called Independence Day at least for a part of the country and I don't think the citizens of the United States gave a what the government said last night I think everybody's just done with the government it feels like people said wait it's independent stay and the

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wait it's independent stay and the government's telling us we can't do how about we just do twice as much of that today well how about we just actually have an actual Independence Day and just say everything and everybody and just send off fireworks mingle to our death and live our lives you know I'm I'm simultaneously thrilled and appalled by how by how Americans acted last night you know the the appalled part is that obviously people acted in ways that are clearly unsafe and not recommended do I recommend that people act in ways that are unsafe health-wise or fire wires or otherwise no I do not recommend that but when they do it I like them better I don't know I can't explain those two feelings I'm just just gonna have to be happy with having two conflicting feelings it's

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having two conflicting feelings it's like no don't do that well I'm glad you did I'm up to 500,000 followers a little bit more you might call that half a million oh there was something if you didn't see the the videos of the the wide shots of all the fireworks going off in LA last night you have to have to look for that video because it's just sort of I don't know where it's taken from a high building or a mountain or something and then the entire Los Angeles was just exploding Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam I thought I heard more fireworks last night locally just inside my house I could hear more explosions it sounded like it was in the middle of a war zone anyway I've got half a million followers as I told you when I reach a million followers I will effectively be running the world now the reasoning behind that is that influence has two parts one is how much

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influence has two parts one is how much talent you have for influence but the other is how many people are paying attention so if I can get a million people to pay attention to say a million followers that I'm pretty dangerous I'm halfway there there was an article in The Guardian about magic mushrooms you know psychedelic mushrooms and once again just there just continues to be mounting anecdotal and other evidence the psychedelic drugs and mushrooms being one of them helped people with PTSD now given the enormity of PTSD especially last night how many people got triggered last night who had military experience probably probably a few and we know that the psychedelic mushrooms almost certainly I would say at this point the odds of these being effective medically without much of a

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effective medically without much of a downside it's close to a hundred percent you know when we talked about hydroxychloroquine and I still put the odds of that at thirty percent that it's gonna make a big deal even though some of the studies say yes so so that's just so you can gauge my level of certainty hydroxychloroquine lots of evidence and still lie just saying I had thirty percent chance that that's really something important but with the psychedelic mushrooms I think is closer to a hundred percent because it's just so universally true if if you gave hydroxychloroquine to ten people and I know them said that just made all the difference you'd probably stop studying you know if it was that obvious that it made a difference we wouldn't even be studying hydroxychloroquine we would just say alright we just gave it to everybody nine out of ten people have got better to the you know now or after they got it and psychedelic mushrooms are sort of like that you know one trip and people

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like that you know one trip and people say you know I think solve that problem and it's so consistent the fact that the United States keeps that illegal so there it's hard to experiment with even in this country so researchers can't do what they need to do because of government regulations if if Kanye ran on their platform of getting rid of these weird drug laws I don't you probably win but the president should get rid of those anyway did you see the article in The New York Times suggesting that offices might need to spray bleach all over their equipment have you heard that yeah the New York Times is reporting that that because the World Health Organization is saying that the virus stays airborne for a while they might have to spray bleach all over your computers and your electronics every day

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computers and your electronics every day in the office oh they didn't say that oh oh they didn't say that so it's not true well I rather write in the article they said they said from the New York Times article said that they were thinking they might need a UV light in offices as a disinfectant that's bleach isn't it that they I'm sure they taught us that because I used to think UV light was just a part of the light spectrum which happened to have the quality that it kills viruses and back in the old days I thought oh well there it's just the light but once the president mentioned using UV light as a disinfectant I was reading it to find out that when the president says UV light could be used as a disinfectant potentially even in the lungs because they they're testing putting it on a ventilator or just ventilating your lungs directly with light I mean not ventilating but disinfecting but the

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ventilating but disinfecting but the mainstream media has taught me that what that really means is bleach so even if you say UV light what you mean is actually just bleach so they they wanted to spray bleach all over offices I think unless I'm confused by the article so the Washington Post the New York Times and every dead brained Democrat has decided that the the phrase for the summer will be darkened divisive so the president's speech at Mount Rushmore was darkened divisive darkened divisive that's really good it's actually better than dark you remember they got some extra expert advice in the last election the Democrats and after the president's campaign speech at his whatever he called the Republican convention they all said it's a dark speech it's dark dark dark but now they've upgraded it to dark and divisive dark and divisive is

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dark and divisive dark and divisive is better and dark was pretty good so so the Democrats have cranked it up and the I would say the quality of their campaign now is pretty good it's pretty good so I'll talk about that in a minute
so it's it's really shocking and amazing if you happen to be aware of you're aware of your environment which many people are not and you read how the press has clearly colluded it's obvious that the press has gotten together they all got the memo they're working for the Democrats we don't have any question about that anymore because they all come up with the same phrases at the same time there's there's no doubt about it and for them to turn that speech into what they turned it into it it's just amazing that people can read these publications and come away well away

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publications and come away well away from the thinking that they're even trying to put trying to produce news the fact that anybody thinks these are news organizations say more is mind boggling but anyway that's that I had my own complaints about the president speech because he uses words culture and heritage in ways that I think either are intended to be divisive in the sense that they're good for the base but not good for the general election or or he doesn't know the difference and there's nobody on the on the team who can tell him the difference because honestly if I heard heritage and culture and I thought that my background or my my let's say my ancestors history was mostly slavery and then the ripple effect from slavery I would not be looking to celebrate heritage and culture I would feel like

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heritage and culture I would feel like hey that's white people heritage and culture so I would say that is a the one complaint that well it's not the only complaint that they have a good point on but it's one complaint they do have a good point on and to the extent that the president continues using words like that and the and the Republicans do those are losing words in a sense in other words those are the words you use if you're not really trying to win honestly and some of us have had some question about whether the president is really in at this time now I've heard other people say I think Mike Serna fish says this that the President's speech at Mount Rushmore was actually a strong rallying cry for the base you know was no more apologizing it was more of a more of an aggressive you know statement of how things should be and it was all of those things but it was also included things like culture and heritage now I know what you want to

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and heritage now I know what you want to do you want to say no those words mean X don't tell me those words mean this other thing because they don't mean those I we mean these words to mean a way of life that includes let's say you know a strong family unit things which have nothing to do with race don't tell me I'm not the one you have to convince I'm simply telling you that if you want to lose an election use those words I don't care how you to find them I'm just saying that those are election lose words in my opinion now could it be that those are such strong words for the base that it gets more vote out and I imagine that that's the calculation but I think the it also reads the mood of the country wrong because none of it needed to be said you could get to the same place without using those words for example you could say let us appreciate you know the the history that was not

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you know the the history that was not kind well you know let us understand it and study it but let us take the things which have worked well for our country for hundreds of years and they've always worked well and try to build unity around it and if you said it that way then you could go out and say we think strong family you know family bonds are good we think you know whatever education whatever you want to say so you could say anything you wanted and it was sound unifying it would also sound perfectly good for Republicans because you'd still say yes we think your family unit should stay together yeah we think God helps Republicans would say yeah that's exactly what I'm talking about but if you try to capture all those concepts which are strong concepts if you try to capture them in words that the other side says means something else to them well you're not really trying to win all right that would be sort of how not to win now I realize that there's an

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not to win now I realize that there's an argument to be made that other people should not define what your words mean if you don't mean them that way hey I don't mean it that way so why are you taking it that way I would say that that is a childlike view of the world meaning that our words if we mean to persuade people we should choose our words carefully if we don't want to persuade people well go ahead and use whatever words you want if it's not your intention to change anybody's mind use any where do you want it doesn't matter if other people don't like it you're not trying to change their mind anyway but it's the whole point and I think that is the point in an election is to get people to vote for you why would you use the words that guarantee they won't I don't understand it because there are other words that are just as good for your side why would you use the words that are only good for your side when there are words that are good for your side and the other side seems like

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your side and the other side seems like a strange choice and now compare the president's approach which I think you would agree seems primarily aimed at the base maybe you don't agree but that's that's my starting point compare that to Joe Biden's speech which he gave sort of his own version of a fourth of July speech and I retweeted it without comment because it was good I can do that right sorry but as everybody okay with me retweeting Biden who you know I've endorsed just for my safety but I don't agree with his policies I don't think he's you know necessarily all there but I'm allowed to retweet him when he does something good right and I thought he is I thought he is fourth of July message about unity was very good in a Republican way in a Republican way

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Republican way in a Republican way that's right Joe Biden did a Republican speech for the fourth of July and by that I mean he did not say you're all a bunch of racists he did not say black lives matter he didn't say they you know he just didn't address race at all he just said unity America America unity we're all Americans it was very Republican so who was he talking to was Joe Biden talking to his base he was not which is interesting so Biden was trying to persuade Republicans mostly while Trump was trying to persuade Republicans interesting which one of those is the better strategy I'm not sure we know but it's interesting that they've chosen those because you know we like we like to see what turns out there was something else that Joe Biden said that I thought was

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that Joe Biden said that I thought was worthy of tweeting retweeting he said this statement which I know you disagree with okay all right so in advance I know you disagree with the following things that I say and also Joe Biden said and I agree with him he said wearing masks is patriotic wearing masks is patriotic do you agree I totally agree I totally agree and I will allow that you might disagree about wearing masks you might say to yourself hey it's a free country am i arguing that you didn't hear me argue that right did I say that you have to wear a mask I did not did I say that you know you're a bad person if you don't wear a mask did not did I did not I don't have any insults for you if you if you choose independence over wearing masks I have no comment that's the

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masks I have no comment that's the choice you have but I would say this it is a known understood medical fact alcohol in fact they're wearing masks might protect other people now would you call that patriotic if you're doing something which is a personal sacrifice something you don't want to do it's a personal sacrifice and you do it for the purpose of protecting other Americans what would you call that what do you call it when somebody personally sacrifices for the benefit of other Americans patriotic its patriotic I completely agree with Joe Biden now if you disagree with that let me reiterate I'm not saying that you're wrong to go with that amount I'm not saying you're wrong I'm not saying that you can't have a different opinion about the experts opinion of whether it's good absolutely

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opinion of whether it's good absolutely you can I'm not saying that you should curtail your personal freedom just because other people think you should I'm not telling you that I'm giving you a personal opinion that if you sacrifice for the benefit of other people and here's the important part your sacrifice for the benefit of other people might not be guaranteed meaning that you may say to yourself I'm not a hundred percent sure this makes any difference at all right because we can't be a hundred percent sure that it works that mask works you're just you know the odds are good so what would you call it if you were even a hundred percent sure it made any difference it was totally what you didn't want to do it's completely a sacrifice and the only reason you're doing it is to protect other Americans patriotic you may you may you are welcome to disagree you're welcome to disagree and I won't even argue with you it's just my personal opinion of that so I thought

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personal opinion of that so I thought things were calming down for 2020 no I didn't really think that but last night Kanye decides that he's in the race yay is running now all we know so far as they he tweeted it and now we're starting to learn how practical or impractical that is because people who are smarter than I am are doing some googling and they're saying things like somebody says wearing burkas is patriotic the does that analogy I think I have to respond to your bad analogies the does that analogy make sense you think of burka and a medically required face mask that might last a few months those are kind of similar to you somebody says control I said you could not wear a mask what control am i putting on you no control somebody says I'd call this stupid you're welcome to

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I'd call this stupid you're welcome to master a sign of slavery something says fine no argument you can have any opinion of it you want but you must wear wess because experts are wrong 90% of the time perfectly acceptable it is perfectly acceptable for you to say the experts have been so wrong I'm not gonna do this now I would have a different opinion but I'm not going to tell you that's an unacceptable opinion somebody says they wear a mask to protect themselves okay fair enough all right so none of you had good comments but there there were lots of them I'm sure I missed some of them were I probably missed all the good ones all right he did not say he'd run in 2020 well his tweet did because it said Kanye 2020 all right so Kanye says he's running does he mean it let's get to the

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does he mean it let's get to the questions does he mean it I doubt it I doubt he means in the sense that he's going to do anything about it you know I doubt he's gonna campaign I doubt he's gonna do the paperwork I doubt it but just for fun what if he did what if God Nia did win it looks like there are enough states that he can't win in that he probably couldn't just wind in a straight-up way but if you were right in let's say can you write into anybody you want I have some questions about that but I think you can write in to anybody right those are a law against writings so is it technically possible now even if you won in the voting booth apparently there's another problem that's a little more technical you're supposed to have electoral college people who are basically backing up your vote I'll give it to you in the non-technical way so if

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it to you in the non-technical way so if you're running for office and you don't have electors already set up in each state then even if you win the state there's nobody to cast your vote because just winning the popular vote or winning the state doesn't get you elected it's the Electoral College so if you don't have your own electoral college there's no humans who have that job for you to cast that vote for you then maybe there's no way to do it because the system requires those there's electoral college people to exist now could all that be put in place probably I mean nothing is impossible now the big question is if Kanye actually ran who would he take votes away from I think he would take them away from the Democrats would you agree would you agree that Kanye would just completely wipe out Biden's vote you know not completely but he would take enough of it so it would it would make

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enough of it so it would it would make the difference but let's ask this more interesting question what if Biden just sort of dropped out what if Kanye took so many votes away from Biden that Biden looked at the polls and he went from a commanding lead over Trump to 20 points behind let's say that happened and then that poll those polls showed that for a few weeks in a row that Kanye didn't have a majority he had you know a solid chunk but it took Biden down to say 20 points below Trump a few months before the election what would be I didn't do ask yourself what would by didn't do well of course everybody would say Kanye Kanye get out of the race you gotta let Biden win but woody I don't think you would have announced if you wanted Biden to win woody you don't really announce that you're gonna run for president if you think the other guy that's already in it is the guy and again my guess is that

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is the guy and again my guess is that Kanye is not completely serious about running may be you seeing what's gonna happen and then maybe he'll decide after he sees what the reaction is I don't know yeah anything's possible that the thing we love about Kanye among other things is that he's not predictable if you were predictable what do you like him as much no no he's an artist all the time part of being an artist all the time you know not just when you're making this or you know making some fashion or something he's an artist all the time so he's always interesting he's always surprising and it's always fresh you're like okay I haven't seen that before so predicting what Kanye would do is always that this is a tricky business but imagine if Joe Biden said ah right amount because under these conditions I don't ever have a chance to win
win good luck Kanye do it you can just imagine that happened it's not

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imagine that happened it's not impossible if Biden were 20 points down a month before the election and the only way you could get rid of Trump was Kanye being elected right you see it don't you if you think he doesn't have a play he kind of does kinda does which was brilliant because if he doesn't win nobody's really gonna hold it against them right nobody's gonna say how Kanye you ran for president and you didn't make it you loser no because the way he's doing it if he's doing it at all doesn't look like a regular campaign it would never be held against him to not be elected president in 2020 but suppose it worked he could is it impossible not really it's not really impossible and if you saw a straight-up election between Kanye and Trump I actually don't know who would win then actually I take it back

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would win then actually I take it back Kanye would win I think Anya would win straight up I think you would now here's the other thing that might come to this I've said before that I didn't think Kanye would run for president in a serious way and we still don't know how serious is but I said I didn't think it because it would be a demotion there's nobody else who could run for president wind and you'd look at it and say that's kind of a demotion and I don't mean because Kanye is is famous you know I don't mean a demotion in that sense I mean that what he's been doing for last a couple years if you haven't been paying attention as he's been doing sort of that I guess a Christian revival or I don't know you call it but he's going very heavily into a spiritual direction in my opinion the country needs that more than they need a new president right because that's there's sort of a spiritual void or something you know I'm

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spiritual void or something you know I'm not a religious person but I even I can feel that people are drifting they need some kind of a connection to something bigger than themselves it's just useful so could Kanye be something more than a president I believe he already is could running for president or even teasing that he's running for president help his real job as a spiritual unifier which is what I think his greater purpose could be I think it's all good anything that drives attention to Kanye was good for me yeah in the sense that I think it's good for the country all right of course I had to announce oh let me give you another way that Kanye could be the kingmaker yes or no whichever way the black vote goes that will determine the next president we're all on the same page of that right if the black vote moved you know in mass to

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the black vote moved you know in mass to Republicans which is now doesn't look like that's going to happen but follow the logic of this if the black vote went in mass let's say 60% of them and voted Republican it would guarantee Trump got elected we're all on board right that's just math likewise if 95 percent vote Democrat pretty much guarantees the Democrat will win so I would say that black voters have complete control of the next president am i right now I don't know if the black lives matter protesters are quite understanding that they already run the country because they do in the sense that they get to decide to as president but as others have said they have abdicated or they've left free money on the table meaning that as long as you can depend on them voting democrat nobody has to offer anything they've given away all

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offer anything they've given away all their power by being predictable Democrat voters now imagine if you will Kanye enters the conversation could Kanye end racism in the United States yes here's how all right and I I'm not saying he's going to do this I'm just this is just a mental experiment could Kanye end racism without becoming president yes here's how okay as I've described before if everybody had a good education that would still be racism in the world but you know you can't get rid of the way brains are organized and let me start with an analogy to soften you up let me ask you this let's say you had a problem there's a risk of drowning what do you do about a problem that's a risk of drowning and if you live on the

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risk of drowning and if you live on the planet Earth there's water all over the place you got your swimming pools you got your lakes you got your streams you got bathtubs you've got oceans there's all kinds of places all over the United States that you can drown so that's a problem what are you gonna do well one solution would be to remove all the water from earth but it's not very practical is it you might even call it impossible the other way to go is to learn to swim or to build a boat or to have some life preservers on you now this feels very unfair doesn't it because if you're a person who may or may not drown is it your fault that there's water everywhere it's not your fault right it's really not anybody's fault it's just the way it is so if you can't remove all the water from earth the only thing you can do is

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from earth the only thing you can do is sort of learn to deal with it this is much like racism in my opinion racism is everywhere in the world that there are people because bias is built into the way any normal brain is organized it sees patterns and then acts on the pattern but the trouble is were really bad at recognizing patterns we can't tell confirmation bias in other words a fake pattern from one that's an actual pattern we can't tell the difference and you've seen this a thousand times in 20/20 alone people will look at the same news they'll say well here's the pattern and somebody else will look at and say no this other pattern is the one that matters we're terrible at pattern recognition so black lives matter would like to reduce or eliminate racism in this country can it be done no no it can't be done you can't even be reduced it's not possible the

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even be reduced it's not possible the only thing you can do is learn to swim you can learn to swim you can't get rid of the water you can learn to swim and so imagine a imagine Kanye with this proposition again I'm not predicting anything will happen but you can imagine imagine Kanye says something like this here's the deal if you get education right and and you can make sure that every poor person but black people is who we're talking about but every poor person can have a real good education then the perceived racism in a generation will look a lot less because everybody that an employer talks to will be somebody who's well educated they're not going to say well odds are or anything like that those to say hey well-educated kids they're all good if you can educate everybody equally you wouldn't eliminate any racism but it

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you wouldn't eliminate any racism but it would be such a better world because you could slice through the racism like it didn't exist so if you could slice through it like it doesn't exist is there racism well let me ask you this does Kanye experience much racism in his personal life things that he is discriminated against because he's black I don't know yeah there may be things that he feels are offensive but I don't think racism bothers Kanye why is it because racism doesn't exist no it's exactly the same everywhere in the world but Kanye is not bothered by it it just doesn't affect his life in any way at least on the big stuff right I'm sure there are you know offensive little things and things you imagined and things that are true that are in the you know in the noise now we can't all become Kanye if you could become Kanye or Michael Jordan or Oprah the last

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or Michael Jordan or Oprah the last thing you worry about in your own personal life is the racism that people are applying to you it could be annoying it's not gonna change your income you're gonna slice through life like it didn't exist if everybody had a good education they could do the same thing so imagine Kanye saying I'm neither Republican nor a Democrat but if we don't get education right for everybody for everybody being the secret sauce we're never gonna have a better world here's what I propose that whoever makes the best offer on education will get my endorsement so imagine imagine that Kanye develops enough of a support base that he's actually polling with like 20% of the vote so this is just mental experiment he stays in the race conceptually the next poll that comes out says he has 20% support well now you have to listen to him right because if he decides to

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him right because if he decides to endorse somebody it's gonna matter so now you say let's say Kanye gets a 20% of the poll and he says look I don't know who's gonna win but here's my deal for you America Republicans give me your best offer for what school would look like for everybody to make sure that you absolutely get a good education no matter who you are or where you're born what's your proposal now Republicans say something like school choice they'll say something like charter schools and guess what those things are very popular in the black community the Republicans have a proposal for education which as far as I can tell is far more popular among black voters because what would they like more than a choice of where to go to school I mean that's that's pretty pretty high on the list of things that can fix everything right you get your school right so imagine condi is saying look I'm

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so imagine condi is saying look I'm neither Republican nor Democrat I've got 20 percent of the vote behind me and get asked for one thing tell me which of you guys has a proposal Democrats your proposal is that these that the school unions own you and you're not going to do a thing is that is that your proposal it is okay debt Republicans what's your proposal and I'm not talking about college because any black kid who's got good grades it's gonna find a way to get to college we get the training they need or skip college because maybe it's not so important anymore learn to code whatever but you got to get there early school right you know so Bernie's talking about free college well that's great but you got to get the early stuff right so if Kanye could say here's my deal I'm gonna go with whoever it could fix racism and the only way to do it is to fix schools and fix it for everybody you give me the best proposal for that and you have my endorsement and then Kanye is not

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endorsement and then Kanye is not technically the president but he fixes racism in one generation fixes it I mean because if the proposals are good and when I say fix it I do not mean reduce it because you can't you just make it less important that's fixing it all right here's my campaign slogan I've also announced that I'm going to run for president I have a few requirements so I don't want to do any paperwork so I've announced on Twitter I'm running for president but without the paperwork I also need to work from home I'm not about commuting and another big requirement is this is my only policy proposal all foreign dignitaries have to wear name tags I'm not going to memorize all of these names of foreign dignitaries I'm just not so it's my one proposal just wear name tags just just do me a solid only

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name tags just just do me a solid only when you're visiting I also have a campaign slogan that I think I think is quite good and it goes like this black lives matter more than others now you might say to yourself whoa Scott you can't say that you can't say any group matters more than others to which I say well I do not need your looser philosophies I know how to negotiate everything's a negotiation in politics right even if you're not calling it a negotiation it's kind of a negotiation why would you if you are selling the product why would your first offer be the lowest price you're willing to sell it for why would your first offer be the lowest price you'd start high and let them negotiate down to a fair price right so all good negotiation starts with a big first ask so I would start start with a campaign slogan of black lives matter more than others and then

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lives matter more than others and then when people try to negotiate me down I'd have to have a room to get to go down and and then would they get down and say hey how about we just say it's all kind of the same and I'd say no I'm willing to listen to that offer but my first offer is that black lives mean a little worth a little bit extra a little bit extra and then people say we can't live with that that feels like a violation of the Constitution but can we talk you down to two even can get you down to equal I'd be like I don't know you sound a little bit racist when you talk like that but here's what we'll do now you've seen lots of deals that there could be things that are a trade off for example you have to pay people more to work in a dangerous job you have to pay people more to work on a holiday alright so you can see that discomfort and money can be

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can see that discomfort and money can be you substitutes right I'll pay you more if you'll take a little more discomfort so there are lots of cases where money is a substitute so I'll say yeah I'm willing to entertain your offer of bringing a first offer down to roughly equal but you're gonna have to kick in a little extra maybe some better schooling something so so I would just be a better negotiator and I would get all of the black vote that way so I might be your next president if Kanye isn't there was a new fake video that CNN apparently ran and some others that seemed during the Keith that president Trump didn't know that Operation Desert Storm was not in Vietnam now of course it was a deceptive edit which they finally had to admit wasn't true but can we learn can we learn from now that video lies can we

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learn from now that video lies can we all agree that video lies and that it lies almost every time kinda lies almost every time so if you think I saw it with my own eyes as a thing it's like you missed all of 20/20 anybody who says to you I know it's true Scott I saw on the video if anybody says that your best answer is sue it looks like you skipped all of 20/20 and didn't notice that if it's on the video is probably a lie that's why it's a viral video
all right did you see though let's talk about a little more on Biden so I offered a in a tweet today or I offered a way to take him ahead of the race and it would look like this now this assumes that a reporter can ever talk to them and ask questions I don't know if that'll ever happens but there are two questions if s then this order would

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questions if s then this order would take Biden to edit the race are you ready two questions in this order and it's the order that matters it's gotta be in this order takes them out of the race number one do black lives matter we assume he'll say yes number two here's the key question do white lives matter what would Joe Biden say if after you said do black lives matter and he said yes of course and then you say do white lives matter what would the answer now here's the beauty of it if you would ask them do all lives matter he would know that that trap is coming and and of course he would be prepared for it right I mean he would be prepared for it he'd say oh let's not be divisive we all want to live in a better world blah blah blah so he almost certainly would have a response ready but if you ask them specifically do white lives matter what's the answer to that it's stuck it's not obvious right you would fumble

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it's not obvious right you would fumble on the answer and in the fumbling of the answer you would create the video clip which would pretty much end his campaign so here's my supposition that because Biden's mental acuity is in question and I think it looks like it's obviously less than they used to be if you look at old videos of Joe Biden talking it's really obvious or something different going on so if you ask him questions which are of the type he is answered before during his career and I'm not talking about answered before as in yesterday I'm talking about things which he has thought about for a long time he probably has the right kind of memory capacity to dredge up some general answer right you probably generally answer somebody says stop and shaving him for stuttering well I've never done that because I don't shame people for

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that because I don't shame people for stuttering but any question that he has never seen before a novel question she would throw his brain into a reboot so it so think of it this way I gave you one specific example of a non-standard way to ask the question does the standard way would have been do all lives matter and of course that's the racially divisive but the do white lives matter you just haven't seen nobody's asked that specific question so it's the uniqueness of it that would throw him off his game whether it's this topic or any other I have some a self defense recommendation for you and it goes like this if you accidentally hit a protestor with your car in under normal circumstances you should stop right because if there's an accident especially if somebody's hurt you don't want to leave the scene of the crime that would be another crime you want to

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that would be another crime you want to work it out but in this specific situation where you hit a protestor with your car and there are other protesters which clearly would surround your car and kill you can you leave the scene of the crime in that situation I would say yes I would say that even if you hit somebody with your car you should get out of there as soon as you can you want to leave as soon as you can now to protect yourself as soon as you're safe you want to call the authorities and tell them what happened I think that would be good enough to protect you I'm not a lawyer but I can tell you you're better off dealing with the legal consequences than you are with the mob that will certainly kill you if you stay around even if it was an accident most of you saw the horrific accident yesterday there's one fatality and it was just horrific if you've seen the video

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you've seen the video jool Pollock had this interesting twist on two ideas he put him together I guess is his wife he reports says this this is Joel's tweet my wife's fourth of July idea put the proposed National Garden of Heroes along the National bicycle path that's kind of as proposed now I should remind you that the somebody else before I had I thought I had this great idea of a nationwide bicycle path route with lots of lots of supported structures that would create lots of jobs around the way and then you could be a sort of a robot proof business because you would need lots of humans to maintain it no matter what at least for the foreseeable future and and then there's the idea of putting all the statues in the National Garden but what if you let you have the statues put near the bicycle paths or the bicycle paths goes goes where they

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the bicycle paths goes goes where they already are so that you would have a continuous a history lesson at each stop so you'd be you know on the surface you're bicycling across the country or just some part of the country yeah you don't have to go the whole way but every time you stopped there's a statue might be Martin Luther King might be George Washington with some context well he was a slave owner and we don't like that part whatever you do but basically make sure that everything is in context if you want to make sure that you've got the you know more modern and you know non slave owner statues then do that to throw a Columbus in there but gives the full context why not and then of course they would be torn down in an hour so it wouldn't work but yeah I think it's always fun to noodle of these kinds of ideas because it might give you ideas for better better ideas in the movie

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for better better ideas in the movie business that's called the bad idea so somebody comes up with a bad idea and you know why it's bad but that makes you think more creative and you end up loads away wait if you changed it a little bit it would work and that's that's what would be the good outcome all right if I talked about everything have I talked about everything I think so how would you make it flat excellent question and I mentioned that before your bike path would not need to be flat everywhere it could be flat in parts based on just the local topography but because the electronic bikes are now they've gone from maybe a novelty to I own one down and it's completely changed as transportation I won't go into my long sales pitch on that but with the elect electric bikes they give an assist to your pedaling the hills don't really matter so even at my age there's no Hill

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matter so even at my age there's no Hill in my neighborhood and I live in a really hilly I'm in a really hilly place where they're really steep hills where I live they just disappear with an electronic electronic mic so there will be more of those and you could probably rent them you wouldn't you wouldn't have to bring it with you you'd just rent it on-site just like any rental car etc they they're in the range of yes they could be four to eight or twelve thousand dollars mine might cost $4,000 my guess is that it'll be a thousand in a few years you know probably in three years will be a thousand dollars and then you still might not want to own one but it's a very economical thing to rent you know if you're renting a thousand dollar item probably doesn't cost you that much per day alright that's all for now and I will talk to you tomorrow