Episode 1050 Scott Adams: I’ll Be Testing My Freedom of Speech Today. Fake College, Bad Experts

Date: 2020-07-07 | Duration: 1:13:50

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• The press is illegitimately hiding COVID decreasing death rate

• The weird and unintentional impact of BLM

• Solving problems you aren’t allowed to discuss

• Protesters are the dumbest among us

• How you act when stopped by police, determines the outcome

• Does vitamin D explain why viruses die out in summer?

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[Applause] hey everybody come on in it's time you know what it's time for yeah you do it's time for coffee with Scott Adams and have I printed out my notes no I have not so that's gonna happen while we're waiting but before we talk about all the things let's first enjoy a little thing I like to call this simultaneous sip and all you need is the copper marker or glass of tanker chelators tonic empty injector 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 the death rate of coronavirus have you noticed have you noticed this since we've been sipping it's been going lower yeah one sip will make the corona virus death rate go down in your state

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virus death rate go down in your state try it go uh-huh yeah I can feel my stock prices going up and the death rate going down I think you can feel it too stay right there stay right there don't go anywhere don't go anywhere OOP stay all right I'm back I know it was hard to do to go on without me alright we're gonna do a little experiment today are you ready depending what devices you're using right now to watch me you might be able to open up Twitter separately and put the alert on so that you get an alert from me because in a moment I'm gonna send a tweet that has no purpose other than to see if you get an alert okay so I'll do that a little bit I'll just send out a test tweet and you'll tell me in a real-time

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tweet and you'll tell me in a real-time if you got an alert where you did not so hold on that but you've got a few minutes if you have two devices to see if you can make sure your alerts are set for my tweets and then we'll test it I got it one of my critics today Jordan and Sather said that I said Trump was on the losing path which I'll talk about the minute and georgians Heather said to me you think Trump is on a losing path that's loser think now I invented the term loser think so I said thanks for incorrectly defining of the term I invented sounds like your troll school went online may I take a bow for the following troll response you may use this you are welcome to borrow this let me read it again sounds like your troll school went online come on that's pretty good

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online come on that's pretty good because you know your Harvard education isn't gonna be in quite as much if you've never stepped foot on the campus you know that don't you alright I remind you that according to biology experts viral adjust you might call them nobody knows why viruses go away isn't that the most mind effing thing you've ever heard your life you've probably already before some of you have but just think about the fact that we have all these experts talking about you know which way is the curve going you know are we bending the curve and you know which countries are eradicating the virus and you know this works and bass works and what about the hydroxychloroquine and all the stuff we're talking about and let me read this again no one knows why any virus goes away and you're thinking to yourself well I know I know it's because of herd

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well I know I know it's because of herd immunity it's because of axes you know vaccinations work nope nope it's not it's nothing we don't know nobody knows why they go away now you could check that but I did hear that from a top fire I'll adjust in some interview who just just tossed that little completely it's like a hand grenade that goes into your your thinking process oh here's a little hand grenade here you go did you know nobody knows why a virus goes away and I think we're in that situation because we're watching the infection rates zoom and of course people have stories it's because the testing is more a blow of law but we don't know why the infection rate is zooming while the death rate is dropping like crazy something's going on and and it could be DNA it could be some kind of you know accidental immunity because

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you know accidental immunity because people had other kinds of colds there's some new a new study showed that there's some DNA genetic propensity to be more susceptible who knows who knows but may I tell you a narcissistic story I'm going to ask for permission to be narcissistic in other words I'm going to tell you a story which is just a fun story but since it makes me look good I'm gonna ask you in advance do you mind a story that makes me look good if it's and it's an interesting story all right if you if you don't like stories that make me look good probably want to sign off so the story goes like this it's a two-parter part one happened in the eighties I don't know I was working at 90s I guess I was working at Pacific Bell the local phone company and my

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Bell the local phone company and my department had a training session and the training session was on problem solving and we learned a rigorous process for looking at a complicated situation and being able to vary systematically break it down from its complexity into its simplest questions and then solve it it was a general format for us all any kinda problem and then we broke into teams after we learned that the technique and the instructor gave us all the same problem a complicated problem that we have to use the structure to solve so we go into our breakout teams and here is the story so this is based on a real world event there was an airline that was having a problem because as flight attendants kept getting a rash during flights so they did get a rash on their upper chest it was always in the same place they didn't get rashes in other places it was always just upper chest and here's the story

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just upper chest and here's the story that we were asked to solve some of you may have heard the story and here are the facts it only happened on international flights weird right it only happened on the international flights it only happened to women it didn't happen to men men didn't get the rash weird right so only international flights only men and it only happened at the beginning of flights like near the near the start of the flight and never toward the end so there was nobody who was clear until toward the end of the flight then just suddenly got it at the end now and there were some other details but those those are kinda then the key ones so we were given this complicated story so imagine those details but there were lots of others to complicate this story and we were asked to do the process and I read

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were asked to do the process and I read the story and I did what I know some of you are doing right now I solved it but I solved it without the process I just read the story and I said okay I'm seeing it in the comments that's right it's the life preservers I just read the story I said well what's different about international versus domestic well they do the life preserver thing if you're gonna fly over water but domestically you're generally not so they generally don't do it why would it be women instead of men maybe they dress differently maybe women have an open collar maybe men have a buttoned and so I guessed that they were allergic to the life preservers you know the ones that they would demonstrate at the beginning of flights because they put it on it touches her skin they get allergic that's it so I ended that to the group and I said I think it's the life preservers because it fits all the

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life preservers because it fits all the facts and everybody looked at me and and they looked at each other and they said oh that sounds right what do we do now because we didn't do any of the process we didn't do any of the problem-solving process so I said well let's take it back to the instructor see what he says because we're supposed to come back to him as soon as we'd solved it so we go back to him and I think we were done in 15 minutes or something it was supposed to take hours that we find the instructor who say we think we have the answer we think they're having an allergic reaction to the to the life preservers or what do you call it the life jackets and it turns out that the real answer was that there might have been some paint on it that was coming off so it wasn't a rash per se it was actually just something on the life preserver that was rubbing off on the skin I think but basically it was the right answer and and here's what happened next the instructor accused me of cheating that's

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instructor accused me of cheating that's right the instructor accused me flat out of cheating and he said I've been teaching this course for however many years we always used the same example nobody's ever solved it without using the process and I said but is it right and he said yeah it's right but I think you cheated I think you heard the story somewhere in the news and maybe you remembered it and I didn't it wasn't familiar to me but so instead of being the hero for solving the story I was judged a cheater and I think it ended like that I tried to defend myself but you can't really you can't defend yourself by saying aye ever read about this story in the past than the newspaper or something how can you prove it can't prove that so keep that story in mind all right just hold that hold that story and now here's the second story seemingly completely disconnected or not so when the co had

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disconnected or not so when the co had things started and we started getting information about who was being more affected and who was less affected I had that same feeling and I flashed back to that time and the feeling was this I'm looking at it and I'm thinking gosh I feel like I'm seeing some kind of correlation that's just jumping out at me does this seem like low vitamin D is explaining everything in terms of how bad it was in some places and not others so I started googling do black people have less vitamin D the answer is yes the the skin color etc doesn't absorb as well and black people were having much worse experience I thought all right how about overweight people blow up sure enough if you're obese or if you have diabetes or if you're just sick or if you're elderly and you're in the arrest on low vitamin D but what about those

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on low vitamin D but what about those Scandinavian countries they were they were ruining everything because the Scandinavian countries didn't seem to have any bad problems but they would you would expect to have the least vitamin D because where they're physically located less Sun but it turns out if you look into it they know they have a vitamin D problem they're so part of their culture is they supplement with vitamin D like crazy you know more so than anybody else would but it's because they need to so they know they need to be a fish oil exactly they do fish oil to supplement so it turns out that every place you look for it vitamin D this just stands out as being an obvious thing so here's what I'm going to say I think that when this is all said and done there will be some point at which somebody says you know if we just get in everybody's if we had just gotten everybody's vitamin D we could have just gone back to work now maybe also have to keep the the people in rest homes and old folks homes you have to probably protect them especially

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have to probably protect them especially well for anybody who did not have an obvious comorbidity I'll bet we could have just supplemented with vitamin D because why is it that a virus always always goes away in the summer could it be that in the summer everybody has more vitamin D you know I'm not a not a scientist there's not a study that backs us up exactly although you see little studies that suggest it might be true but that's that's where I'm at so I think I think we're going to find the vitamin D was the big actor that was unrecognized all right let's talk about some other things Trump is doing his usual Trump thing where he'll make an exaggerated claim to make people look into it now does he do that as a strategy well I don't know his internal mental process I just know he does it all the time and it works every time and by that I mean when he says that 99% of

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by that I mean when he says that 99% of people survive coronavirus is that true no no that's not true it's not true that 99% survive but what's it make you do it makes you pay attention to the survival rate it makes you look into it and if you look into it it kind of favors his his preferred plan which is we get back to work a little sooner than other people might like so once again it works and that he's also made the completely false claim that the u.s. coronavirus death is the lowest worldwide apparently not really even close to being the lowest worldwide not really even close but it makes you look at the death rate doesn't it do you think you're more or less likely to look at the death rate if the president makes wild claims about it more likely the way more likely what was the base claim that is most complaining about same as me

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is most complaining about same as me they're not showing us the death rate numbers the press is completely illegitimately hiding the death rate numbers from the public so what does that allow Trump to do any thing he wants because they're not showing you the numbers so the president just said goes out and again I don't know what his internal thought processes but he has the freedom to go out and say 99% of you will be fine because the only thing that the press can do is show the mortality numbers and that's all he wanted in the first place he just wanted the press to show us the mortality numbers which are you know going down does it change your opinion about what to do if your survival rate is 99 percent or if it's 96 percent if you know you don't have a comorbidity so you're not even in the people who are likely to get it do you change your behavior because a president

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change your behavior because a president incorrectly said you got a 99 percent chance of survival but because of your lack of comorbidity it's really not ninety eight ninety percent 99 percent from you personally it's more like 98 percent so do you act differently do you do you manage your life differently because oh my god he's so wrong he said 99 but in my particular case I'm 25 no comorbidities I get a 98% chance or whatever it is I'm just making up numbers now but the president's totally made-up number doesn't hurt anything but it causes the fake news to present real news I'd call that a success here's a note because there may be that so this is a note to one person who may or may not be watching me right now
now I did get a message from an african-american viewer and I always say the african-american part so you can identify yourself it's not important to the story but if you contacted me with a

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the story but if you contacted me with a specific question I saw it I put it aside I was going to answer and then a law
law so I'm not ignoring you just resend your message I look for it I can't find it so I wanted to answer your question alright um put that out there are you waiting for the part where I exercise my free speech it's coming it's coming I just read any article somebody send me in which it gave a very eloquent I would say and academic sounding good explanation of why white people need to change their mindset about racism and structural racism and systemic racism and all that so white people need to change their mindset and the word mindset was actually used now that may be true it might be true that white

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be true it might be true that white people need to change the way they're thinking but it is so wrong to focus there because let me give you two possibilities number one why do people change the way they think about racism so let's say you can only change one thing you could change the mindset so you could just Matt use magic snap your fingers and all white people would have a different mindset about racism and structural racism and it would be more compatible with what the black community themselves think so let's just say that's one possibility you've got magic you make all the white people change their minds about how they think of these things or or number two black people change their mindset to say yeah racism exists but so does rain and I don't spend any time trying to stop it from raining but I do spend time buying

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from raining but I do spend time buying their income I do go inside when it rains so I can avoid the rain by managing my own life how much do you complain about rain in your life well if you did nothing to manage but manage it it would be a big problem you'd get be out in the rain all the time you'd be given away you know it'd be a problem but because you manage it if I ask you what are your big problems in life nobody ever says rain that's because we manage it so managing your own mindset will always be the winning play trying to manage other people's mindset it's worth trying you know it's worth trying to get other people to see more the way you see it's worth trying to get people to just sort of you know live through your eyes for a little while sort of get your point of view that's all good doesn't solve anything so while it may be good and useful and proper and appropriate to ask

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useful and proper and appropriate to ask white people to change their mindset and I think it's a good exercise by the way I would be all in favor of taking my mind to a new place if it's useful but it doesn't come close to solving racism and not even close because the people involved are going to have to have a strategy that works more about that in a moment all right let's do the test tweet those of you who were prepared or baby you have already set your alerts on Twitter I'm going to hit the button and send literally a test tweet and you will tell me in the comments there'll be a little delay there you will tell me in the comments BAM sending it right now all right said you will tell me if you got the alert or not now let me tell you so number of people are saying that they think I'm shadow band because they don't get alerts well I'm not sure that's the case I think maybe more likely people

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case I think maybe more likely people don't get alerts just in general it could be because of the way you set your filters it could be because alerts don't alert you every time I don't know but my suspicion is that problems with alerts are probably not to shadow banning it's probably something else all right so I'm looking at your comments got it got it got it
got got it got it yes yes yes yes yes yes got it yes yes yes got it got it got it somebody says how do you set the alert on Twitter well you could Google that and you would get thee all right so I'm not seeing any nose but I'm not sure if the people who didn't get it would leave a comment so I don't think I set this up very well yeah so it looks like you're getting it all right now could it be that it depends what kind of tweet I send could it be looking for keywords

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send could it be looking for keywords and deciding that if it sees some it doesn't send you an alert I don't think so I kind of feel like I kind of feel like the alert thing might be confirmation bias meaning that it probably works just fine then there's no shadow bathing in the alerts but it just feels like it sometimes because you don't hear it don't see it whatever all right Oh somebody's saying no now no alert nope now I'm getting some nose oh all the nodes are coming in now so that makes sense the people who heard it were first to respond people who didn't hear it were waving they were waiting to see if they would get it and look at that a lot of people didn't get it interesting so those of you who did not get it if you know how to set your alerts and you could confirm so the tweet I sent was its it was just a test suite you'll see

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its it was just a test suite you'll see it it's at the top of my feet could you put it in the comments that you confirmed you had your alerts and set and you had your make sure you had your phone on right don't have you don't have your alerts turned off on your phone and don't have it turned off within within the Twitter app so there are two places you have to have on the physical phone and the app itself both have to be in the right setting so just tell me if you really didn't get it all right enough on that I would say that what makes the United States the United States you our operating system meaning that the thing that makes a country is of course you know borders in a common a common understanding of things but I would say that there's sort of that DNA or a yeah an operating system I'll just use operating system for the country when I grew up that operating system was patriotism so patriotism and capitalism were sort

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so patriotism and capitalism were sort of the things that were drilled into us as kids now those were a really functional operating system the operating system worked pretty well in the country did well for decades but lately there's a bug in the operating system the bug seems to take the form of the education system the education system for whatever reason produces a certain kind of person who wants to teach and that certain person who wants to teach tends to have a view of the world that is not entirely compatible with capitalism or patriotism so it's like there's a bug in the operating system and it's the education system now what's happening interestingly is that current events with the the protests are almost like a system upgrade meaning it's almost like we're waiting for the new operating system to come in and we don't know our features it has yet because the country is sort of wrestling

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because the country is sort of wrestling with who we are and that's a pretty big question the country doesn't know are we still patriotic and capitalist where's that the old way and we're now we're gonna be a little more Marxist socialist and a little less patriotic and more identity politics so is identity politics the new operating system well I would suggest that if it is that is an operating system that doesn't work however as these things guy with the unintended consequences of the protests and everything else from coronavirus to the economy it's all one big ball of problem right now right the coronavirus economics and the protests about race they feel like they're not even separately more it's like one big thing that's affecting us with their own little features but here you're just a some of the things that the new operating system suggests are our new features are you ready so here are the

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features are you ready so here are the new features of our new operating system that's being installed through you know through the events that are happening in the world number one climate change just changed we will never be able to see climate change the same because we now have no trust in experts and we know that the experts are awaiting it they're making it up we know that the media is a complete liar and so the odds that we will take climate change to be the end of the world scenario that's really different now and not we weren't talking about climate change for months climate change was basically just completely off the table but because we were learning what experts and scientists and doctors and in our government we were learning more about how much we can trust them and we found out we can't trust them at all not at all so are you gonna trust them for

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at all so are you gonna trust them for climate change I don't think so by the way I'm reading Michael Sheldon Berger's book almost done with it apocalypse never which talks about how we're really not doomed yes the temperature's going up but we adapt so well and you know there's so much good news that it will overwhelm whatever negative comes from the higher temperature so I and I'll have Michael on on coffee with Scott Adams when I'm done with the book which I thought it would be done with but almost done alright here are some other changes gun control do you remember when gun control was a question not anymore nope we've sold more guns than we've ever sold a three month period in the history of the United States gun ownership reach a new high but more importantly that that visual image that we all have of the McCloskey is protecting their home

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the McCloskey is protecting their home with their guns against the mob that picture is sort of the end of gun control in my opinion I mean I suppose if no if no Republicans were in Congress you could you could push something through but I don't think the country is ready to accept it at this point I think if you push through a gun control at this point you'd have trouble getting reelected so gun control is pretty much dead
commuting I think commuting will never be the same because people just said I'm gonna work at home so I think commuting is going to change college is probably never going to be the same the online college thing really it really lays bare that the college education thing is is half and a half useful and the part probably will go away I'll talk more about that I think we might find that vitamin D and exercise are

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find that vitamin D and exercise are closer to essential activities than optional so I think our whole when I go outside and see how many people are walking and biking it's really impressive the number of people who are taking taking matters into their own hands to get outside get a little Sun get a little vitamin D get your legs moving get some exercise it's really different it feels like it's now a widespread habit whereas before it wasn't so widespread we're certainly going to know way more about pandemics we'll probably develop lots of technologies and an understanding so probably our risk of future pandemics went way down because we had to work so hard on this one we'll be more ready we lost all of our trust of experts we lost all of our trust in the news anybody who thought the news was really the news I think that that's gone and nobody trusts data and the protesters the good news about both the chop which used to be

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about both the chop which used to be jazz and also the defund the police calls you can see in real-time that they don't work so the police have said okay fine how about you have your protest to defund us and maybe we'll put a little less attention into your your neighborhood murders Dublin so the black community is just basically you know a crime wave is white just rolling over it and the police are just stepping back and they're just letting it happen now that's what you get I'm not saying that and they you know this is what you get I'm not saying that me like revenge II kind of way I'm just saying that cause and effect if you have fewer police you have more crime and then you get to prove it by watching it happen in real time that's valuable it's really valuable the president continues to be the president so excuse me I thought I'd

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the president so excuse me I thought I'd wait 48 hours to see what the president did about his Confederate flag tweet where he was tweeting at Bubba Wallace and mentioned something that sounded at least two to a lot of people who sounded like he was supporting the Confederate flag at the same time he was accusing a black guy of something that wasn't his fault you couldn't make a worse tweet when are you running for president you really couldn't now is it a clever play people will say is it clever to sort of semis support the Confederate flag the kaeleen beckon a knee tried to try to play off as well he wasn't pro flag but he wasn't anti-flag he really wasn't talking about the flag it was in the quote as context but he wasn't showing his opinion unfortunately there's nothing that even Kelly mcenany can do about that tweet that tweet is so far so

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about that tweet that tweet is so far so far over the line in terms of there's just no way you could redeem it so as long as the president is if he owned the Confederate flag he's not really qualified to be president sorry yeah you can't really be if he and the Confederate flag if you're running for president can't really do that now will he get elected well he might if Kanye if Kanye decides to really run that might be enough to give the president the win but I can't imagine a worse approach then somewhat maybe kind of supporting the Confederate flag now did you hear an opinion about the Confederate flag for me did you you thought you did but you didn't did I give you did I give you my personal opinion of the Confederate flag no you did not hear it I'm only talking about other people and what would be good political strategy my personal

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good political strategy my personal opinion is that while free speech is a wonderful thing the Confederate flag is clearly divisive and you know you have to weigh your free speech against destroying the country you know one one stab at a time so it doesn't even look like the president's trying to win at this point because that look Confederate flag thing is such an own-goal and so easy to avoid oh really I mean all the president would have to do is say look that's a local issue yeah I'm not in favor of the Confederate flag you guys could work it out you know it's not a it's not a federal problem it's not my job that would be okay I'd be okay with that let's just say I'm just not gonna worry about it you figure it out if the state's want to take him down they can do it all right this is what CNN said about the president this so

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CNN said about the president this so this is as I think this was Stefan Collinson so he's the one that I always mock as being the most ridiculous TDS just crazy mind reading opinions on CNN but here's one thing of this here's one thing he said that I just completely agreed with and it was clever so I'm gonna quote it he said 1/5 of the way through the 20th 21st century Donald Trump is seemingly running to be the last president of the Confederacy which is clever come on you have to admit that's pretty clever and it does look like Trump is running to be the president of the Confederacy he wants his Confederate statues he is at least open to the Confederate flag and What did he say this week about the future do you remember it do you remember all the things that President Trump said you would do for the future all the things that would be

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the future all the things that would be better or and he'd fix it and stuff no nothing so the Trump campaign is literally running a campaign to take you back to the past I mean accidentally it's not what they're trying to do but sort of they they got trapped into talking about the past meanwhile Biden tweets these gonna transform the country do you want the country transformed probably not because he's talking about changing capitalism and some things you might like but there's no way around the fact that Biden is associated with sort of the aoc world of let's change everything Biden is very much about the future and change just because he's he's sort of surrounded by all the changing people whereas the president seems to be kind of locked in the past now if you didn't know anything else about the race except that one person was focusing on the past

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that one person was focusing on the past a race has passed I mean it almost sounds like a joke it's like oh there are two people the only thing you know about them is one of them is very fond of our racist past our statues and symbolism and the other one is looking to you know really change things in the future for the better that's kind of no contest the one who wants to change something the one who wants to go to the future should win that every time now those are not the only variables those are not the only variables and so that doesn't mean that this will determine anything but at the moment Trump has a backwards looking campaign and and Biden as a forward-looking one even if you don't like what he wants to do it's still forward-looking it's tough to beat it's tough to beat the forward-looking campaign with a backward-looking campaign if that

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backward-looking campaign if that doesn't change I would expect Biden to win so the at the moment the the slaughter meter which is the meter I use to show if nothing changed you know what would the election look like but of course lots of things will change so it's not a prediction it's just a point in time point in time the slaughter meter is negative meaning that if nothing changed between now and Election Day you'd expect Biden to win but lots of things will change Kanye who knows lots of things are gonna change are you ready for some free speech I was tweeting that I was gonna exercise my free speech today and so this will also be a little test to see if I can say things that would have gotten be canceled a month ago all right so this might be the last time you ever hear me well let's say

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time you ever hear me well let's say I've said that a few times and so far not canceled so I'll keep pushing it to see what I can get away with here's my starting point I believe that black lives matter has have a weird and good unintentional impact the weird and good unintentional impact is that it's it begs for free speech in an area in which it never existed I don't have to tell you if you happen to be non black I don't have to tell you that you've probably been lying because you can't tell the truth in other words you can't really give your actual opinion on anything about black lives matter because then you get cancelled am i right so first of all I think you'd all agree with that statement if you're non-white than if you said something that was really kind of you know a little too honest that you would get

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little too honest that you would get cancelled but I think that's changing and I think that people are willing now to just be a little more honest and we have a weird problem that if you don't speak of it honestly you don't really have a chance of solving it do you can you think of any problem that can get solved when you're not allowed to talk about it honestly so here's the so here's the context we're talking about police and how they are more brutal to the black community and we're taking that as our starting point for discussion and that that's obviously racism and then we go from there so that's the big trigger it's not the only problem of course but it's the trigger for the black lives matter movement spay and here's here's the part that white people can't say in public you ready here's the good part I don't think

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here's the good part I don't think there's a white person in the world or a black person who will disagree with the following statement a young black person on average does not respond to police the same as any other group meaning that if we're not looking at the actual individual strategy and behavior of the person who stopped by the police we don't know anything we don't know anything there's not a single person in the world who thinks that a young black guy from an urban area responds the same way as I'll take random example Asian American in the suburbs there's just nobody in the world who thinks they act the same way now if you act in a way that's different should you get the same outcomes no no you should not and there's nobody who

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you should not and there's nobody who believes nobody black nobody white nobody anything who would disagree that on average different you know cultures will have a different response to police now am I saying that there's something wrong with black people no if you heard that you're just reading something into it what I'm saying is that everybody has a different way of reacting and it could be because of their history suppose you had a history in which you observational II anecdotally the news tells you that you're being hunted by the police basically if you thought you were being abused by the police and that was like a basic truth of your life would you respond the same to them if they pull up on you no no would I respond the same way to the place if I had been told my entire life that they were there to beat me up and kill me and they're all bad or whatever no no of course I wouldn't now

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whatever no no of course I wouldn't now because I don't believe the police are there to hurt me how do I respond when the police roll up on me politely politely do you think a police officer can tell in one second that I'm no danger probably probably and it's not just because I look like I'm not dangerous it's because I act like it I'm it's two things let me ask you this do you remember when you saw the studies of how many black women were killed by police stops versus white women killed by the police do you remember those it was gigantic story like everybody was talking about it and and it was so useful because you know once you know the answer to it are the women were being stopped by police also being killed you know the the black women at a higher rate than white women oh oh wait you've never seen this

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oh oh wait you've never seen this statistic you because nobody will show it to you what do you think it would show what is show that the police kill women maybe they do but I'll bet the I bet the number of women killed by police is really low like close to zero now why would that be why why would that be could it be all that psychic well that's like I gotta take something I've got a dog emergency there a vac all right um so does anybody believe that they're women who were stopped by police act the same way as bend no well and if they did would the police officer be as afraid of

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would the police officer be as afraid of a woman no because the police officers can physically control someone who is less muscular someone who is a smaller human being the police are less afraid of they're not going to resort to a gun because just don't need it all right now let me ask you this have you seen the statistics and again they were everywhere so how could he miss it it was a headline the study that showed that police are more likely to use violence if you're larger larger just taller or more muscular have you seen that study they showed that black people who were under 5 foot 8 had about the same rate of being killed as other people were under 5 foot 8 have you seen that study oh you haven't seen it because nobody did it how important would that be seriously do you think the police act exactly the same with a six foot three guy who looks like

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with a six foot three guy who looks like he can lift a house versus me no they don't of course they don't they act completely different because I'm not a threat they can beat me up with one hand so of course they're not going to you know resort to whatever the more drastic things are does anybody need to put me in a chokehold not so much not so much all right so here's the thing here's my free speech the whole black black people get treated worse than police is all the entire protests are based on poorly educated people who don't know how to compare things no nada analyze things and been sold a bill of goods by undereducated people who think they're over educated the people on the Left believes that they have most of the knowledge and they do have some advantages in terms of you know they might be a little more scientific on some topics I'll give them that but they also don't have any appreciation of the

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also don't have any appreciation of the other side of an argument any argument they only hear one side where conservatives tend to hear both so the part of the problem is that the the lefty is I'll take I'll say the the white lefty type people is that they think they are informed but they're deeply uninformed very deeply uninformed they don't even know what the other argument is it would be one thing to hear the other argument and say okay but I don't buy it and here in my reasons that's not what's happening they haven't ever heard what I just said how many people on the Left have heard what I just said none you know why because you'd get cancelled if you say it you can't say what I just said directly and let me say it again directly now that I yeah I couched it in ways that that make it a little more acceptable directly the whole police treat black people worse is complete and I don't know any white person that believes it there

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white person that believes it there might be I mean it's a big world and there are lots of people so there must be there must be - who will believe it but I've never met one alright so can I say this to any black viewers any blood any white person who tells you that they think this issue is real they are lying most of them there might be some people who just been exposed to anything anyway to analyze things but they're mostly lying can you solve a problem if somebody's lying to you what you know one of the things you hear a lot is and I inhibit it to say this is that people will tell you exactly what they want if you can listen to them but you have to listen because you you tend to hear what you think they're saying you don't hear what people say and it's actually a different skill it's a skill you have to learn to listen to what they're saying instead of immediately interpreting it into what you think their meaning and one of the things that black people say all the time and you've heard lots of different

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time and you've heard lots of different examples lots of interviews I'll bet you've all heard this which is the white liberals who pretend to be on their side are bothering them bothering them because it feels like they're racist too and they're liars so it's like the racist and they're liars and they're trying to be on our side but they're burning up buildings making us look bad I don't think the black community is loving the white liberals taking their cause without really understanding it either you'll hear you'll hear black people say fairly often you know give me a choice I'd rather talk I'd rather talk to someone who's straight-up racist because at least we're talking about the same topic at least we're talking about something that's you know you could deal with it you could figure out how to change it or whatever but if you're if you're only talking to a liar how can you make progress so so that's that's

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you make progress so so that's that's the first bit of truth now let me give you some background in this the other day there was an old Trump video from 1989 this surfaced and on it Trump was saying that in 1989 so you have to think of the time he was saying that he thought it was an advantage to be black in terms of employment so he limited it to employment he said it would be an advantage to be black for employment and the the context of course is that businesses were actively trying to in prove diversity which I approve of they should actively try to do that and the only way you can do that there is no other way you have to favor diversity otherwise how would it happen if it hadn't happened yet you need to put a little more muscle into it so that was a completely non controversial statement that I thought given the times might be a bigger one so i retweeted it and that I that I added

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i retweeted it and that I that I added some gasoline to the fire by saying that in 1989 guess what was happening to me so I made it vague so that people would say what was happening to you and of course if you look at my pinned tweet you'll see that I was I had lost one job for being white and male a banking job and they told me directly can't promote you because you're white male so I left went to the phone company and there I was Ken told that I couldn't be promoted because I was white and male and for those of you are new they said it in those words directly to my face there's no interpretation going on here and that was about when I decided to not have a boss anymore and started working on what became the Dilbert comic so and that situation remains to some extent in other words it's still easier to get a job if you were black and educated I

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job if you were black and educated I think the president said educated so he was he was doing apples to apples if you're educated and you're black you have an advantage over somebody's educated and white although it may be harder to become educated because of the schools being not as good so here's the other thing that people don't say out loud the protesters are our dumbest citizens the protesters are our dumbest citizens we should just say that because it matters and when I say that our dumbest it's because they're our youngest and young people just don't know as much as people been around a while nobody knows as much at 20 as they know at 40 it's just the fact you can't there's just no argument to that we've all if you've experienced all of those ages you know what I'm talking about if you're 20 you probably doubt it but you'll know just wait so so we have people who are educated poorly at big

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people who are educated poorly at big colleges and only gave them some you know weird indoctrination they're the youngest they're the dumbest we should just be able to say that that it's the dumbest people and how can you prove that they're dumb they don't know how to analyze any situations for example they still can't even sort out that you should look at not the percentage of black people who are killed compared to the population of black people that doesn't make any sense and you should look at the number of black people who were killed by police based on the number of stops and then the problem goes away if you look at it correctly so if you analyze things correctly sometimes the problem isn't even there now is there a problem with racism of course of course is there a legacy from slavery of course of course there is but here's how I would say that you should proceed if you have a strategy and here's just one of

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have a strategy and here's just one of many books you know libraries and amazon.com is full of books that will tell you how to change your own mindset which makes sense as opposed to changing someone else's how to have a strategy for life that makes whatever your obstacles are less so you can make the problem of racism go away if you're Michael Jordan does Oprah have a lot of problems with racism well maybe in terms of like personal encounters that are unpleasant but it doesn't hurt her job I think your jobs going pretty well yeah so the idea is to simply be successful and that part you can pretty much control so while it is and let me say it as clearly as possible all of the protesters the young people are dumb are dumbest citizens because they're young the young part that's the only part of focusing on nothing about ethnicity they're just young they they don't

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they're just young they they don't understand that strategy makes a better approach so instead of saying let's look at the data incorrectly because we don't know how to look at data and then looking at it all wrong and deciding there's a gigantic problem and protesting and burning cities over your inability to understand the data and that's what happened let me say that again as clearly as possible so I'll get cancelled by being clear not unclear well I said that's fine it was fine the way it was so until we have data about how anybody is acting differently during a stop which we do not have there is no data nobody's ever studied it as far as I know to show that the way you act during a stop will have some impact on the outcome obviously it makes a difference so I am now rejecting the infantilizing way of the past which is to act like you

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way of the past which is to act like you can't speak honestly to black people if there's anybody black watching do you appreciate that I'm speaking to you honestly and don't you think you could work with that because even if I said something that I think is honestly true but you can say oh you're looking at the wrong data look at this data I'm happy to do that but if I can't tell you the truth how can we get there like I got to tell you the truth first and then you can tell me to look at different data and then I'm happy to I'm happy to you know I told you the example of the other day where it blew my mind that the the whole problem of black kids being less likely to have two parents turns out that at least partially might be a fake data because there are lots of couples were unmarried in the black community and they just act like a parental couple and that doesn't show up in the data so so even so that's that's the perfect

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so even so that's that's the perfect of where my opinion was modified by Dana now I need some confirmation of that but I certainly was willing to change my opinion of it Trump wants to open schools which i think is a really winning political strategy because mothers want to open schools so and fathers too so I think he's got a really strong play there because the public is pretty much on his side about opening the schools did you see the Don Lemon interview with Terry Crews so Terry Crews despite being an african-american man insists on thinking for himself and so Terry Crews has some let's say non-standard opinions about things meaning that they they I don't know if you would describe himself as a conservative but let's just for understanding purposes he's not buying

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understanding purposes he's not buying into the full black lives matter narrative let's just put it that way and Don Lemon interviews him and literally wouldn't let him talk you have to see it I like sort of edge tweeted ed and i retweeted him but you have to actually see that clip to understand how afraid Don Lemon is of a black man with a different opinion he actually wouldn't let him talk he just talked over him it was it was amazing to watch all right [Music] there's a new idea for testing for coronavirus that people who are smart say it could be a big breakthrough now you've heard of the idea before but I don't think I understood how powerful it was until somebody who is smarter work through it and the idea is this that instead of testing individuals you start focusing on groups so instead of testing you know you they would test the you

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you know you they would test the you know the group you belong to if you're in a nursing home they test the whole nursing home and they just throw all the blood in one pile and test it if nobody in the entire nursing you know them has covent well you're done you you've effectively tested everybody in their nursing home but you did it with just one test because you threw all the blood together and you just tested it and there was no coronavirus in there so I'm doing a bad job of explaining it but smart people will say that if you maximize that technique of pooling it and then if you find something you can dig digging further they say that that would just you know amazingly change the nature of what we know about it very quickly so that that's an example of just human ingenuity that you didn't really see that one coming because that just came in the left field we've been hearing about it for a while it's not brand new but what's brand new is a more rigorous analysis of how useful that would be and it's way more useful than you might have

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it's way more useful than you might have thought just commonsensical e over in bethel ohio there was gonna be a smallish it's a small town and they were gonna have any protest which didn't go well because hundreds of bikers showed up to make sure they didn't destroy the town now of course some of the people showed up were outright racists the n-word was hurled which we do not support and it was an ugly situation but the town did not get destroyed no I don't think that the 50 protesters were going to destroy this little town so I don't know that there was any real danger but here's my point if you're worried about the slippery slope I've always said for to myself from the start that all of this you know the at least the looting and protesting part the parts that are physical damage to places I thought that myself well there's sort of a logical end to that because as soon as it as soon as it

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that because as soon as it as soon as it gets to the the point where armed Americans are part of the game that's that that's that because the protesters are probably not going to take up arms I mean some of the people in the group we have small arms but as a general statement these are intended as peaceful protests that get out of control but as soon as I hit armed America like this little town to Bethel I think it's over I don't think you could it just can't spread into orbit America because the people in the rural places will say how about no how about we say you can't do that and that's just gonna be the end of it I love the fact that Harvard is going to charge a full tuition but you can only go there online I guess maybe some freshmen will be able to commit in person and I was thinking that instead of calling it Harvard because if you can't go there and network and do all those things it's not really Harvard anymore is it it's not really Harvard if you

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is it it's not really Harvard if you know if he can't network you're not there in person it's just some online classes and I'm thinking they should rename Harvard - because it's Harvard is a racist guy from the past to call it George Floyd University so is there a reason they can't just rename it George Floyd University because I think that would be compatible with their view of the world I don't see any reason they wouldn't do that and now that Harvard as a name doesn't have much value because in online online classes in the online class doesn't matter if you're a Harvard or anywhere else let's call it George Floyd University and we'll see how that goes all right the president has parently decided that foreign students in America have to go home if their college is only online if they don't if they can't go to the college anyway the president is saying well you have to go home now this is will destroy a lot of lives it

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this is will destroy a lot of lives it seems to me you know not in a way that they can't recover but it's kind of expensive to come live in the United States and it's kind of expensive and doesn't give you what you want if you have to go back to your country and study online in the middle of the night because the let's say that the time zones are different you have to go home and study in the middle of the night and I mean it's really bad if you were if you were a foreign student in America this is really really bad that said there are some benefits to it and benefits I'm gonna put quotation marks around because it depends on your point of view whether these are benefits apparently a third of the money that universities make comes from foreign tuition because they don't get if you're from another country you don't get any scholarships so they're paying full price it's about a third of what the colleges make if you take away the foreign students a lot of colleges aren't gonna make it and that may be

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aren't gonna make it and that may be part of the plan it may be part of the plan to put these colleges and a business if you're a conservative you're saying to yourself well maybe put them out of business you know are they helping it looks like colleges are destroying the country at the moment and people are kind of anti college as a trend not everybody of course but there's a growing trend toward an anti college but here's another thing the Chinese students of which there were many the ones born in China Chinese citizens studying in the United States I don't think they're ever coming back my guess is they're sending everybody home is a way to make it easier to not invite everybody back in other words if you're from France and you got sent home you probably get to come back if you're from China then you got sent home you're probably not coming back I don't think Chinese students are necessarily gonna

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Chinese students are necessarily gonna ever come back so that might be a decision because there's there's a spying problem and because we might want to put pressure on China and let's say I saw an article in which somebody was complaining that one of the problems was scientists and academics is that their writing is so stilted and academic that the regular public can't read what they're saying and so they their knowledge is sort of lost because they don't know how to communicate the interesting thing about it is that the woman who wrote an article on how science can communicate better is really a bad writer when I say bad I mean in Scotts personal definition not in the sense that she couldn't get a book published because she does have she has a high level of writing skill that obviously came from some college or university education that she was an English major she says

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that she was an English major she says but her sentence are almost unreadable because they're complicated and she's writing an article about how the other people are too complicated that you can't read them easily and I'm looking at her sentence structure and I'm thinking man I'm working hard to read this article and ultimately I skipped it so my point is that these are college-educated people arguing that the other ones are basically useless because they can't communicate and it turns out that we're all useless because they can't communicate the only skill in writing that you need in the real world is business writing business writing gets rid of all the adjectives that you no need the adverbs you don't need simple direct sentences and no long sentences with multiple points in them which is sort of how this article was written so college is just ruining people and they this is what's the bad part college is just ruining people in

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part college is just ruining people in this case somebody went to college to become a far worse writer than they could have become with a one-day class of business writing and that's just the fact this is somebody who got an English major you know a degree and the net effect of all this English major you know writing and reading is that the result is an adult who can write well think about it it was a course on English English literature you know being an English major and the result was somebody who was taught to write poorly and then it's just poor writing in my opinion all right Mike Pompeo is reportedly looking at banning tik-tok now will will Mike Pompeo be on favor of banning Tech Talk will the government let's say the president well here's what Mike Pompeo said here's an exact quote and see if you could read between the lines

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see if you could read between the lines of this Mike Pompeo quote talking about banning tik-tok he says I don't want to get out in front of the president but it's something we're looking at he says I don't want to get out in front of the
looking at read between the lines they've already decided to ban tik-tok so tick-tock is definitely getting banned because you don't say this sentence because they asked Pompeo do you think you should be banned because I don't want to get out in front of the president that is not something you say if it's not gonna be banned right it's gonna be banned all right I think those were my main points let me quickly look at those just to make sure I didn't miss anything that was exciting and good no I didn't it's all there so I think keep your vitamin D levels up and you will be in good shape oh you want do you want some more free

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oh you want do you want some more free speech I saved a little LED nugget for you here's some free speech the other day I think it was CNN ran a story about a tragic death of a young they think 17 year old and his ran a picture of him and said he didn't have any comorbidities but you look at the picture and he was clearly obese and he was black now did he have low vitamin D I would like to know that wouldn't you because the odds are unless he was supplementing he did because if you're black you have more trouble getting it just from the Sun in this part of the world he was obese that they didn't mention that they said no they said there was no comorbidity now I'm looking at the picture and I'm saying are you kidding me now I get it and I am completely opposed to fat shaming and if if this sounds like it's fat shaming you're hearing it wrong your

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fat shaming you're hearing it wrong your your weaith is just a nut the situation I don't mock people for medical situations what would be the point of that nothing good can come from that I'm just making a fact that if you can't speak freely and say a 17 year old died who had two comorbidities one of them probably low vitamin D probably statistically very very high likelihood of low vitamin D and the other one who is obese unless the picture was wrong so
we just got to have a little bit more free speech it will be a little bit safer from the coronavirus and we'll be way ahead in terms of race relations well let me close on a positive note you don't have to read my book how to fail at almost everything and still win big although if you look at the reviews you'll see it's changing people's lives what it teaches you is a life a strategy that would make racism or whatever your

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that would make racism or whatever your problem is if your problem is not racism you've got some other problem you know you're you're short you're old you're whatever just you pick something that you think is your obstacle and it will make it much less important so you can't get rid of racism and those who are trying to do it are trying to solve an unsolvable problem you can't make the rain go away but you can buy a raincoat you can get an umbrella that's my advice if the black community would like to work on strategy I'd like to help strategy for individuals works every time trying to get rid of racism in people who are born racist and die racist and it will always be so because brains are pattern recognition machines you can use your higher-level thinking in your moral sense to overcome it but it's hard it's hard and you're not going to get rid of it you can only overcome it all right I just looking at

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overcome it all right I just looking at your reactions somebody said ugly people are the true victims yeah there's another thing that you can say aloud both watch me because I have freedom of speech now the biggest problem you could have in the world is to have a to be less attractive than the average there's no way that being a tall good-looking well educated black man as a disadvantage in America are compared to a short poor didn't go to college person who doesn't look so good there's no way that those are equal they're not even close you'll take you'll take the that a six foot three healthy black guy with a good college education every time that person has a good life half of them that's it all right so that was a little bit of free speech for you and I hope it hope it allows me to come back tomorrow I'll see you then