Episode 1049 Scott Adams: Trump’s Bubba Wallace Tweet, Abolitionist Statues, Fake News

Date: 2020-07-06 | Duration: 33:04

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• Panic on the left over Kanye

• How to know if you’re in a bubble

• The statues chess game

• Should Bubba apologize?

• Media propaganda: Coronavirus and race relations

• Anti-Trump propaganda by FoxNews Sr. Editor, Edmund DeMarche

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hey everybody come on in well KB 44 cave b44 it's your first periscope all right you lucky imagine your first periscope being this one it's like you won the lottery good to see you all all my regulars and before we get going what do we need you know what we need we need the simultaneous hip and all you need for that is a cup of Buckner glass to thank your chels there's time the canteen drinker flask of a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me down for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine the end of the day the thing that makes everything better including the pandemic racism eat the economy you name it it's called the simultaneous eopns now go mm-hmm all key indicators improving so a number of

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indicators improving so a number of people have contacted me in variety of ways to say that my evening periscopes had been very beneficial to them during the pandemic and I appreciate that and I wish I could keep doing that all the time but having a morning thing and an evening thing seven days a week is really hard I don't know I don't know if you realize how hard it is to do two live streams today but here's my suggestion I'm trying to get married one of these days soon assuming we get all the details worked out everything's harder in coronavirus times but I won't be able to add that to my schedule anytime soon however I would give you this advice have you experimented with turning off the news for a day as any and and not watching your Twitter for a day
day has anybody has anybody done that just the experiment I've done that and it is

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the experiment I've done that and it is amazing how differently you feel because the news and social media is literally designed to make you get all wound up and it does it really well does it so well and if you just turn it off and what I find is if I can turn it off like 5:00 p.m. I still have all the knowledge I need but I don't get all the extra you know worry and you just go outside for example during the worst of the pandemic and the economy's falling apart and there's protests and if I look at my screens the whole world is falling apart everything I pick up it's like I pick up my phone ah the world is falling apart turn down the TV I look at Twitter ah the world is falling apart and then I would just go for a walk and I'd walking outside and I look around and I think there's really nothing different for most of us for a lot of

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different for most of us for a lot of people you know great disruption of course we're not minimizing that but for the the great majority of us things were kinda normal in our little individual lives it didn't change that much and I'm not sure if any of that other stuff that's you know brewing around the country will make that much difference yeah so here's some perspective the coronavirus is not going to stop killing people anytime soon but the number of people kills is now so small relative to the population of Earth that it doesn't really award it the same kind of worry I used to now you should still do the you know the minimum of you know medically advisable behavior but it doesn't look like it's gonna be the killer that changes the world you know in in some permanent way it's pretty obvious now that we'll get through it so if you have any questions

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through it so if you have any questions you know will we get through it I think that's answered the answer is yeah we will will some hospitals have impact probably will people died who shouldn't have died if we done things differently yes but that's the decision that we've made and I don't think it hurts the Independence Day fell where it did do you think about have you thought about the the psychological importance the least of the United States the fact that independence day literally Independence Day fell exactly where it did in the in terms of our thinking about you know being shut down and the coronavirus and all that and I think you saw the outcome at least young people just said well I'm done I think the young people just said I I don't believe here science probably I should have gone to work the whole time because I'm young my risk was low the people just said well how about

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the people just said well how about independence now I don't know if that's the right decision in the wrong decision but it doesn't matter it actually doesn't matter if if people going out and exposing themselves is right or wrong because it's going to happen you know if there was some choice about maybe people will go back to the Basques and you know full protection but I don't think there's any chance of that I think it is what it is let's just deal with what it is which is a lot of people will die but not a lot of people compared to all the people in the world and we live in a risky world so of course if I'm the one who dies I'll feel pretty bad about it but nonetheless humans have chosen freedom over safety we have explicitly chosen freedom over safety at least freedom over a complete safety complete safety all right so just turn off the news you'll feel fine believe me it works really well also make sure that

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works really well also make sure that you get exercise every day have you experimented with this yet when the when the pandemic was got kicked off or first was getting kicked off one of the things I told you is to give exercise every day go for a walk at least you know do something every day and I've experiment - what happens what I don't if I did you know if something happens and events overtake me and I can't exercise other day that I plan to and then I test that I consciously say okay today I did not exercise how do I feel tonight and you could really tell you can really tell I don't sleep well my boot isn't the same it's completely different so if you're feeling that your mood is not good and you didn't exercise today well you have something to try that probably has an 85 percent chance of improving your mood I have loving seeing the Kanye panic

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I have loving seeing the Kanye panic that is being caused on the left because people assume that if Kanye Rand is some kind of a third party or independent he would take more votes from the left and the right and guaranteed Trump the victory so it is funny to watch their their their panic on that and at the same time they don't want to go too hard at Kanye but they don't want him in there and I love the fact that we don't know yet if he's serious you know how serious is Kanye at or an even more to the point does he need to be serious because Kanye could just put the thought out there and see what happens and maybe decide to be serious if other people are serious here's what I'm expecting I think the next presidential poll has to include him doesn't it do you think Rasmussen can do a poll without adding Kanye to it I think

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without adding Kanye to it I think they'll have to do it both ways for a while but wouldn't you like to see on day one how many votes Kanye would get in a three-way race would you like to see that I like to see it because I think it puts Trump solidly on top so essentially Kanye is the only one who would get to decide who's president let me say that again we live in a Democratic Republic in theory everybody's got one vote but you know we get a representatives and the representatives try to represent us as representatives as well as possible that's the system we think we're in right that's the system you think you rent but it's down to one person if Kanye runs Trump as president it's again if he doesn't run according to the polls its Biden the entire democratic system

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its Biden the entire democratic system came down to one guy and all he had to do was tweet Kanye West Row one tweet and took over the country meaning that he gets to pick the president if you think you get to pick the president well you're wrong but you don't yeah only Kanye gets to pick the president if he boughs out probably Biden if you stay his head probably Trump it's just down to one person now could anything be more absurd and it gets funnier what is the biggest issue with the news that's not the pandemic the biggest issue in the news is that we live in a white supremacist Society that's right we live in a white supremacist society in which the only person who gets to decide who our president is is Kanye West I'm not

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our president is is Kanye West I'm not making this up you know that what I just said is absolutely true I mean statistically anything can happen right but as a basic fact Kanye West is the only person who gets to vote this year I have not even another happy about it are you I'm not sure that's a worse system if you said to me Scott there are two potential systems one in which the voters can be massively misinformed by the press and then they'll take their massive misinformation to the polls and then the vote into what will be largely a randomized process because nobody had good information and then we'll add Russian interference and Chinese interference and vote rigging and we'll give some kind of a completely non credible result that half of the country thinks they have to have a revolution in order to overthrow it that's our current system the current system is what I just

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system the current system is what I just described a completely non credible system in which people are brainwashed for the wrong information don't believe they are vote anyway and you get some completely random ridiculous result compare that system to let's let the Kanye figure it out let Kanye decide can you honestly tell me you'd get a better result from the current system that's saying how about we just try elect like Kanye finger now I don't know which one's better if you say you know which one of those two systems gives you a better outcome I think you're lying I think you're lying you don't know that now what would be a bad system is to give one person complete power right then you have a dictator blah blah blah etc but if it just sort of happened it just sort of accidentally happened that the only person who gets

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happened that the only person who gets to make a decision is Kanye I don't know that might be okay let me blow your mind for a while all right here's the most mind-blowing thought you've ever had well I guess I oversold it take that down to it's one of many mind-blowing thoughts that you might have over the course of your year it goes like this if Kanye is serious let's say he stays of the race here's my claim he will be the first president we ever had that you wouldn't doubt his motives right think about it we've never had a president where you didn't doubt their motives in the entire time now you might not doubt their vote is sort of in general but rather you doubt them on specific decisions like well that feels a little friendly to the big you know military industrial complex or is that a little bit racist I can't

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or is that a little bit racist I can't tell or did you just do that because your base needs to hear it but you know it's not true think about it we've never had any kind of president who at least the other team said well I think they really mean what they're saying we've never had that he would be the first president who when he said something it could be brilliant it could be not brilliant but the one thing you wouldn't doubt is did he mean it is it is it exactly what he was thinking yeah yeah it would be the first time you ever had a president who you wouldn't wonder if he was trying to do the right thing you wouldn't even wonder he would definitely be trying to do the right thing why why the hell would he do it otherwise right you know it wouldn't make any sense so what would be in the Kanye's best interest like even if you said are you Scott you're being a little too too generous here everybody's selfish so Connie is a person he's a human being so of course I'll have some

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human being so of course I'll have some selfish motives to to which I ask you what what would they be to make money no to improve his reputation politics isn't gonna do that to what feed his ego it Kanye is exactly who he's who you see right he has a he has a big ego which he earned by doing big things is that a problem doesn't look like a problem so anyway he would be interesting and if I had to guess I'd say I know it's 50/50 whether he's serious about this thing and I'm not sure he's decided yet so we'll find out here's a way to know if you are in a bubble I started the other day to make a list of people I thought were independent thinkers it was a pretty short list people who you could depend on to look

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people who you could depend on to look at the information and just come up with an independent opinion then it's not the same as what the media is assigning to people so there's only maybe I can think of maybe 20 people you know some of them are obvious right you know you could pretty much depend on might sort of itch to have an opinion that's a well-thought-out opinion that doesn't match anybody else's it did depend of thought you could expect that of you know maybe a Joe Rogan or Eric Weinstein you can expect that uh yeah you can think of a dozen people Michael Ballas Matt Taibbi Tucker is a little I think the people who work on TV news have a little bit of a constraint on what they could do so but Tucker would be a free thinker within that environment yeah yeah Duvall would be an obvious one that gates surprisingly for someone who's a

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gates surprisingly for someone who's a professional politician back gates does seem to be able to take opinions that don't match up with his party's average so I would say that yes all right so yeah so you see a number of other names are so here's how to tell if you're one of those independent thinkers or if your opinions have been assigned to you think about who your favorite news source is it could be the network or it could be an individual so you could say you might be saying you know it's Tucker or it's I don't know Don Lemon whoever it is now think about who your favorite news sources and that ask yourself which of your opinions disagree with that source if the answer is none yes Glenn Greenwald is another one Bill Maher is another one god Phil there's another one Greg Gutfeld yeah yeah there's what's funny is that

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yeah yeah there's what's funny is that you all come up with names like I didn't have to see that list the list would look the same if you would just made it yourself Rand Paul I like ya okay I'll say Rand Paul yeah I think we could add into the list as a independent thinker it's hard if your job is senator you know there's a limit to how much independence you can have as a senator you you doubt you definitely have to be in the team but he's more independent than other people yes all right so ask yourself that question and in the comments tell me in the comments if you just did that exercises you had did you just discover that you're a-peein that your opinions are exactly the ones that are being assigned to you yeah you logged musk would be another one yep so let's give an update on the statue chess

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let's give an update on the statue chess so the president weighed in about this Frederick Douglass statue of he's an abolitionist was ripped from its base in Rochester New York and dumped over a fence or something now nobody saw it done now do you think if somebody took down an abolitionist the statue and there's no video of it happening and nobody took credit does that sound like the protesters did that or doesn't sound like a revenge I'm pretty sure that's a revenge statue situation that just sounds like somebody on the other side who said well you know if we're playing chess with statues I'm gonna take one of your pieces now I watch this with amusement because I'm not very invested in statues so Louie let me explain that if you make a statue and somebody rips it down I can see why you'd be banned I can see maybe why the other persons would be bad at whatever your statues stood for what I don't really care I

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stood for what I don't really care I want I suppose I guess I want to care just cuz this is the news but I can't think of anything less important think about the fact that let's say your parents and grandparents grew up with problems like world war two now that's a problem how about you how about you know women you can't vote that's a problem how about slavery that's a problem how about the Great Depression that's a problem these are big problems fast forward to today hey somebody ruined a statue the my team likes well will ruin your statue that's it have we become such ridiculous whiners that we think the world is ending because we're having a chess game with statues do you know how many statues I care about none none there's

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statues I care about none none there's not a single statue I care about well I'll make an exception for let's say the Lincoln monument you know the the ones there that are actually so famous you know that now Rushmore you know those are those are special cases but just a statue a statue at a park that I never heard of if you're getting worked up over statues I think you're missing the bigger picture that if all this happening is our statues are coming down that doesn't feel like a big problem now I understand the argument let me make the argument for you it's part of a larger Marxist plan to first remove there are symbolism - you know carve away at our national identity carve away at this psychology of patriotism until it's a softened up environment to make their big push to turn us into our Marxist country maybe maybe I don't know how many of the protesters have that

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how many of the protesters have that thought process and let me ask you this if we had something like a news organization would you not see on the news what are these Marxists being interviewed now they might lie and say oh no that's not our plan we just don't like these statues but shouldn't you have somebody out there that you at least believe has that view so they could be interviewed let me ask you this if you believe that the whole statue thing is part of the larger Marxist revolution ask yourself why the news that you watch doesn't have any representative of that opinion of their show I'm gonna take this opinion until until facts change right so I'll give you a temporary opinion it goes like this if you don't see an interview of somebody who has that opinion on any network there's no network that has some

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network there's no network that has some of the outside okay you know what you really want to do is introduce Marxism can you explain that you know tell us why you want that etc where's that person really you can't find one person you should assume this is not true or that your news your news business is no longer in the news business and they don't want to show it to you because if it were true at least FoxNews would be interviewing that person right at the very least you'd see the right leading you know publications and have sit-down interviews with somebody who just tries to tell you why you know their view of the future of the country is the right one you don't see that which makes me believe that the whole Marxist story is just complete hallucination now what would it take to change my mind here's a good question you should ask yourself all the time ask yourself this this is my opinion whatever the topic what would it take to

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whatever the topic what would it take to change my mind here's what it would take for me it would take an interview with somebody who represents that opinion and I could be convinced that they represent other people's opinion because they say they're part of a larger group or something now if you say you've seen it it's clearly not something that's well represented they don't label them
looks like Scott needs to find that interview himself something says I don't think the person exists likewise what it was last time you saw a white supremacist interviewed anywhere the reason is because they sort of don't exist there now of course the word white supremacist has now morphed into a whole different beating but in terms of the old tide but people who thought that everybody in their group was superior to everybody in some other group that just doesn't exist anymore because it's just

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doesn't exist anymore because it's just too obvious that the very variety among people is so great that even if you could find statistically you know averages that hold up when you do the math it wouldn't tell you anything about an individual there's there's too much individual variation so the old supremacist just sort of don't exist if they do they're just toothless people who haven't seen the news in 20 years all right I should not make fun of the toothless so Trump tweeted today I have to read the tweet he said has Bubba Wallace apologized to all those great NASCAR drivers and officials who came to his a hit stood by his side and were willing to sacrifice everything for him only to find out that the whole thing was just another hoax that and flag decision has caused lowest ratings ever now the first question is what was the

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now the first question is what was the flag decision he's talking about because people are interpreting it to be the decision to get rid of the confederate flag on race cars but there was also a decision to allow people to deal for the national anthem so we don't know which one he's talking about we'll see if he clarifies that if he's talking about the confederate flag that he's obviously decided not to be president but we'll see if he clarifies that if he's talking about the regular flag then that's just him talking the way he talks but the second question is asking Bubba to apologize for something we know wasn't his fault because we know he'd never saw it he was told by somebody he trusted the president of meth all right told the bill happened he believes a very credible source and then he acted upon it and then when he found that it wasn't real he he said he released a statement that I praised as being really well-written which said well I'd rather look silly than to have this be real thanks for all the support

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this be real thanks for all the support isn't a great wall for all the support one of the best recovery your response statements by a celebrity I've ever seen it really was one of the the model responses to somebody who messed up was it really his fault so he acknowledges he looks silly says glad it wasn't the bad thing thanks everybody for having the right intentions and supporting me I don't think it could have been better really so the president reading the rube wrong or is he reading the room correctly makes a statement in which he basically wrongly accuses a black man in public now if you could ever read the room more wrong than that I would say that accusing a black man of a crime he did not commit because like I said he was just acting out information that came from somebody else and the way he acted was completely appropriate with

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acted was completely appropriate with the information he had as it came to him so there wasn't anything he did that he needs to apologize for in my opinion so falsely blaming a black man in public today I don't know if your instincts could be much worse than that now I can see why it you know riles up the base you'd like to think it's not because of racism but rather you know he just represents somebody on the other side but I don't know this just looked like such an own-goal that you got to turn the this one turns the the slaughter meter back I think that turns it back to zero of course the the cardi a thing is the only thing that matters so it doesn't matter what Trump does at this point and it doesn't matter what Biden does probably doesn't matter they're probably only matters what Katya does from this point on does Kanye gets to pick the president

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Formula One drivers who are different from NASCAR if you don't follow the sport Formula one dryer drivers in a separate story some of them are standing and some of them are dealing I guess for there was a race yesterday or something and a few of them don't want to wear black lives matter shirts but they instead wore a black shirt this has a head racism they didn't want to deal at they must have been during the nationalism but they were willing to stand there with their shirts so now we're getting some nuance for people I don't think that's gonna go well eventually those people have to fight against so the two biggest news stories in the country I think you'd agree or the coronavirus and race relations what do you agree I mean the economy is always a story but that's sort of a permanent always story but in terms of really the most current of events it would be coronavirus and race relations your news sources do not report useful

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your news sources do not report useful data on either of those stories the two biggest stories and your new sources don't even try to report useful data let me tell you all would be useful data the death count every day from the coronavirus instead they show us the infections that was very obvious that if they show you the infections instead of the death count and you know you can't deny that it's intentional at this point both on the left on the right either that will show you the useful data sorry we're gonna have to go blow my nose pretty soon let me see if I get this quickly for the coronavirus if they don't show you the death count they're just giving you propaganda and manipulation because that's an important number you need to know it and they're not telling you it's very obvious it's intentional secondly for race relations if they really wanted to give us data instead of just war Eiling us up they would show us all the death counts over time and compared to things they

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over time and compared to things they would show you how many cops are killing black people white people different different colors they would show it over time they would show up by city maybe state maybe show you by whether it's a Democrat mayor or a Republican mayor that would be useful right because you want to know if a Democrat or a Republican approach makes a difference you would also need to see the number of people were just murdered how many black people kill black people this this week and over time how many white people kill black people have any black people kill white people if you're not seeing that you're just seeing propaganda when you agree it's just propaganda if you don't see the basic death counts and you're being just a fan of story alright I need to go oh then I guess over on Fox News they're turning against Trump as well so there's a opinion piece written by Edmond de Marsh I've never seen him before but he's on Fox News at least a opinion piece of their website and he

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opinion piece of their website and he said that this is his interpretation of Trump so on a Fox News site this opinion exists Trump has praised the quote beautiful heritage of the Confederacy did that happen did you ever see Trump praised the quote beautiful heritage of the Confederacy no no that never happened he praised our beautiful heritage and the Confederacy and all manner of bad things and all manner of good things are part of our heritage but no he never praised the beautiful heritage of the Confederacy and this is on Fox News which means they've turned against them at least to some point and then it also calls out that he called the protesters quote thugs now that's called out to call him a racist by implication and that's not the Fox News so even Fox News is running an anti Trump piece all right that's all I got for now I've got to go take care

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I got for now I've got to go take care of some stuff and I will talk to you later