Episode 1061 Scott Adams: Fake News, Fake Science, Fake Everything

Date: 2020-07-17 | Duration: 1:03:05

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• Has Mary Trump ever met President Trump?

• Legalizing violent crime before a national election

• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s calls out anti-semitism

• Jake Tapper calls out CNN HOAX

• HOAX: Unidentified authorities arresting people

• Hong Kong losing financial center status

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oh hey everybody good to see ya in it has come to my attention that some people who watched these live streams later on playback fast-forward through the simultaneous sip can you believe it oh well just in case you want permission the introduction and the simultaneous if is for the benefit of the live viewers who want to scream in and catch the beginning those of you watching gun replay fast forward and I also recommend listen listening to me at one point five times the speed I hear that's the year that's the sweet spot but for those of you who are your life the special people the good people the the punctual people the people who like to get it fresh to enjoy this experience in the maximum way you know what you need is called the simultaneous up and it goes like this you need a cup of our glass a tanker chalices tight in the candy jar if last got a vessel of any kind fill it with

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got 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 protests pandemics economics you name it it's all good go well here's my favorite story of the day apparently the simulation is winking at us again because there's a photo and a story about a fox an actual animal a fox who keeps stealing somebody's washington post off of their porch or lawn i guess and so we have a literal story of fox delivering fake news
I don't know what are the odds that these are just coincidences but it looks like the author of the simulation is

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like the author of the simulation is trying to send us a message did you get this one do you get it I'm sending a fox to grab the Washington Post you get it right does everybody get this well it just feels like the author of the simulation is trying to send us a message do you remember the story about the Twitter hackers who somehow they got into Twitter systems and took over some accounts and tweeted some scams about Bitcoin well there are some conspiracy theorists and I'm not so sure that I'm not one of them who think that maybe the whole Bitcoin thing was a diversion and that the real purpose of the hack wasn't really the Bitcoin part although maybe they made some money too but rather they were trying to cover up some deeper mischief which we may not yet know because once somebody has access to

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because once somebody has access to Twitter's innards what else can they do one of the things can they discover seems like it would be quite a playground there one possibility is that they have they had access to the direct messages of lots of famous people and maybe those famous people will get blackmailed I don't know but let me suggest that if you are leaving messages in a private place there's no such thing so be careful what you say in any digital form because you're now at a place where you should assume you should assume that somebody's looking at them
speaking of Mary Trump have you seen the latest against Trump's nice and I just yeah I hate that we even have to talk about this because it's yet another you know unverified claims or yet another

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know unverified claims or yet another book so so marry Trump Denise her latest bombshell claim which he was sort of badgered into saying on what's-her-name show on MSNBC and what marry Trump said was that the I guess the Trump family she didn't give a timeframe but that they may have used the n-word and that Trump himself at some time in the distant past had also used it now you know what's missing do you know what's missing from that story any kind of context because let me make a statement in case this comes as a surprise to people did did you know and I know this might come as a shock to some of you did you know that when people speak privately quite often they will say all of the things you're not supposed to say in public no not just some of them but

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in public no not just some of them but all of them unless you have different friends that I do have not the people that you know personally at one time or another maybe not all in the same day but I have not your personal conversations used every bad word that could be used surfaced every bad idea that could be surfaced and basically talked that every manner of bad thing often in ways that if somebody heard you in public you would be cancelled now in the old days you could say private things and maybe they would stay private because there's no you know nobody's writing a book about you there's no digital record and I would argue that people have two distinct lives one is the things they say privately and the other is the things that they would be willing for the general public to hear and I've suggested that if we were to have a digital Bill of Rights that one

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have a digital Bill of Rights that one of the rules we should at least consider is this that you should at least consider that if somebody takes a private conversation and moves it into a public sphere that the person who moved it into the other context becomes the author of it now this is a hard one right because you don't want the person who's just reporting what happened to become the author but I would suggest this if somebody says something in public and then is reported in public that's fair right that's completely fair this added in public reported in public but if somebody said something in private it is universally true that we speak differently in private to people we trust often saying things that are the worst possible thing you can say because that's what makes it funny that's what makes it funny that you're not supposed to say it so people will say things in public that are

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say things in public that are outrageously inappropriate because they can they like their freedom it's not hurting anybody nobody's going to hear it it may not be a reflection of their soul they just like to use inappropriate words in private because it's more fun is there anybody who doesn't use inappropriate words or talk about inappropriate things or at least things you wouldn't want other people have known in public in private I doubt it it's pretty universal so I would say and of course this rule does not exist but if it did I would say that marry Trump is the only person responsible for making us think of the n-word more than we need to and one of the things that I've said this before but this bears repeating you know the third of the country doesn't have a sense of humor like actually literally doesn't have a sense humor in the same way that maybe

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sense humor in the same way that maybe about the same amount of the country doesn't have musical talent I would be in that latter category so it's not an insult just people have different skills are distributed all over the place but there are lots of people who literally don't have a sense of humor and one of the things that they might not appreciate from people who do have a sense of humor is what they don't appreciate is that sometimes the thing that is funny is the inappropriateness of it so what you're laughing at is not at the subject of the joke let's say it mocks some group or person or whatever if you laugh privately with the emphasis on the privately somebody privately tells you a deeply inappropriate joke and you laugh you're not laughing at the target of the joke if you have actual if you're a unless you're a sociopath or you hate that person or something but in general you're laughing at the fact that anybody

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you're laughing at the fact that anybody would say that out loud to me that's hilarious when anybody does something completely inappropriate I always laugh it's automatic but here's the deeper question oh and I've also suggested that a digital a digital Bill of Rights would include that if you did something more than 20 years ago it just doesn't count it just doesn't count taking things from the past moving them to the present as if as if our current sensibilities you know existed at the same time as a statement is just illegitimate to me so we should just ignore anything from twenty years ago but here's a more interesting question as Mary Trump ever met the president there's like this is actually the hilarious part apparently there's some question about whether they've even ever been in the same room so we haven't seen a picture of them in

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so we haven't seen a picture of them in the same room and that's funny now what's funnier is the the physicality of the interview and I'm gonna have to go there you know you know they say don't go there well I'm gonna go there I'm gonna go there now when you watch Mary Trump give the interview she is not what you'd call a sympathetic character anything that when you look at her she doesn't look emotionally stable which is different from saying that she is emotionally unstable the only thing I know I'm not a psychiatrist right so I'm not medically diagnosing her but I have as a viewer I have an impression so I'll just tell you my viewer impression because in the world of politics the viewer impression matters it's not a medical diagnosis I wouldn't do that and what she looks like is somebody who has severe mental problems you know emotional mental problems now I'm not

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emotional mental problems now I'm not saying she does have them I'd say she looks exactly like somebody who has severe emotional mental problems so that I think works a little bit against her credibility but here's here's the funniest thing that works against her credibility are you ready for this and if you haven't thought of this yet you're gonna laugh when I tell it to you now let me know if you've thought of this but here's the thought when you're assessing her credibility consider that she looks like Trump with a wig she looks like a Trump so she has the the face that looks like she looks like President Trump yes there's something about it that reminds you of him there's a million you know something recognizable and so you immediately think I feel like I'm listening to female Trump talking about the other Trump and there's this weird disconcerting feeling that I think works

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disconcerting feeling that I think works against her credibility for the very part of the segment that they would like to believe it so I think that part's just funny I don't know if that really has any effect and then as Mike Serna vich pointed out in a tweet and I would agree that if you were going to say if you were just objectively looking at her as a stranger and you didn't know anything about who she was what she was talking about and the only thing you were doing is you turned off the sound and you watched her body language as she answered the question would it look like she was telling the truth or would it look like she was concocting a lie and I would agree with Mike sort of itches view on that again we're not lie detectors we can't see inside our brain but if I were to judge her from her mannerisms it looks exactly like somebody who's making something up I don't know if she is making something up can't read her mind

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making something up can't read her mind again it looks exactly like somebody who's not credible so I'm fascinated to see if this story has any legs at all you would think it would play into the whole you know the fake news view that the president's a giant racist but I just don't know how much attention this story is gonna get because Mary trump is so darn non-credible and it was a long time ago and I think everybody probably something tells me that you know even the the black people watching this are saying for themselves Oh obviously yeah everybody in the 60s and 70s in private conversations including all black people including all every other kind of person including all people have said things that you wish your niece wouldn't tell people you said now that doesn't mean he said any of those things and there's certainly evidence to suggest that he didn't and it's not credible but those

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didn't and it's not credible but those are all the factors I would take into consideration here's a question for you if you know I I tweeted the other day that the closer society gets to being able to program a simulation of its own in other words a software a world where the characters in the world believe that they're conscious and real people the closer you get to being able to do that the closer you get to understanding that that's what you are now of course I talked about the simulation because it's fun but I will give you this following thought to chew on and it goes like this why would anybody who could create a simulation create one what would be the purpose of creating a soft for simulation of a world full of people who thought they were real but were not why would you do it because the whole theory of the simulation is that once

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theory of the simulation is that once you could do it you would do it and maybe you would do it lots of times well I would suggest that the creators of the simulation might do it for the same reason that we will do it in other words the closer we get to being able to do it the more we will realize oh yeah there is a reason to do it and that reason is a be testing their own choices in other words if you have let's say a problem you're working through in your life and you're wondering how to deal with it you could create a simulation of yourself in an artificial world testing a lot of different things seeing how it turns out now you'd have to have a really good simulation to think that the things that were tested in the simulation would then translate into your so-called real world but if you had enough simulations and you ran the simulation enough times you might get closer to saying okay every time I do something like this I get a better

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something like this I get a better result than when I do something like this so I would suggest to you to keep this in mind that if we got to the point where we could great in our civilization a simulation that would test what would happen if we personally act in different ways we'd do it so just think about it we'd probably do it somebody says it would be cruel I wonder if it would be would it be cruel to create software that felt pain what do you think that's a really interesting ethical and moral question isn't it would it be ethical to create a software that thought it was a real creature with real feelings and felt pain maybe not I don't know anyway I put that out there and the other part of that is have you noticed that in your life and maybe people you know people have the same kind of

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know people have the same kind of over and over again have you noticed that that that in your life your entire life even though your situation your relationships where you live the job all of these things are changing but have you noticed that you will have just the same sort of problem over and over and over again whereas all the people around you will have that problem zero times and you say to yourself how can I always have the same problem where other people don't have this problem but yeah other people also have a theme problem meaning they have the same sort of problem over and over again but I never have that one what's up with that and that again would suggest that we are simulations testing things for our creators meaning that the challenges that I get seem to be very similar in nature I won't go into it but the similarity I've noticed forever it was like really the moment I solved that problem a new thing jumped up to give me the same problem back in a different way

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the same problem back in a different way how could that be and it makes me think that that that's how you know which problem you were simulated to work through because you keep beating on the same problem in different ways all right I've suggested a lot of people have also that the the best slogan for Trump's campaign would be jobs not mobs now that that was a slogan that came up in the last campaign but I think it's more appropriate now because we're seeing more mobs so that contrast between jobs and mobs is now so big that it's just the perfect campaign slogan so I'd be interested to see if the campaign you know tries tries that out what if they like it the what you should expect is to see somebody not the president and trying it out first just to see how it does that would be a normal way to do it although Trump as you as tweeted it before so in that case you could assume

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before so in that case you could assume maybe it's already tested now I tweeted this I'm no political expert and I don't pretend to be an expert on politics but it seems to me that the Democrats strategy of effectively legalizing violent crime right before a national election is not the best strategy because what it looks like it to me and it looks exactly like this to me is that Democrats are removing the controls on crime going into a major election because that's really the whole story about New York City right they the there's no bail so you commit a crime you can just be released convinced more crimes get picked up canned released yeah if you have a court date I guess you can just leave I don't know what happens so couldn't you do that forever

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happens so couldn't you do that forever is there any limit to how many times you can just say well thanks for resting me I'll see you later and just walk away and I don't know the details but it sounds like you could so I can't see any world in which the Democrats even have a chance in November in terms of the presidency because if you're running on a platform of increasing crime and the news is showing non-stop images of increased crime I just don't know how that gets you elected I just don't see how that could possibly work I've heard people say that the president has basically has no chance of reelection because the polls are so slanted but how many people have you heard who have changed their mind from Trump to Biden in your life are there a lot of people doing that because I I think I have encountered zero people that I personally know although I don't know if

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personally know although I don't know if they mention it to me but it doesn't feel doesn't feel like the you know what I'm observing makes sense all right new topic Kareem abdul-jabbar if you're young you don't know he was one of the great basketball players of all time and he's kind of politically active and he's written a few op-eds one of them was about systemic racism I think I may have criticized him for that I forget what but there was something I acquittal dwith but he wrote another op ed just recently and this one really got my attention and so I want to give a shout out and a compliment to Kareem abdul-jabbar because he wrote if if you didn't know he's he's black which is important to this story and he wrote an op-ed in which he called our Hollywood and the sports world for their

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Hollywood and the sports world for their anti-semitic stuff that hasn't been really pushed back on enough according to Kareem now I would consider this one of the great acts of leadership that we've seen lately all right so keep in mind I'm not I'm not a big Kareem abdul-jabbar a fan in fact I thought he ruined a basketball for years because he was so good and so tall that watching him play other teams just didn't seem fun because it just didn't seem like he could beat a guy that big and that good so to me he sort of ruined a basketball for a while so it's not like I'm a fan yeah he's one of the great players of all time that's just a fact but he wasn't fun to watch in my opinion and I've disagreed with him on some political stuff but I'm gonna give him a plus plus plus on leadership for taking what might have been a fairly unpopular stand I don't know I'm not sure if he

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stand I don't know I'm not sure if he got any blowback for it but he came out strongly against anti-semitism in the middle of you know the black lives matter movement he said hey let's I don't want to say that he said all lives matter because he didn't but in effect Kareem abdul-jabbar was saying let's not over focus on this one problem this anti-semitism thing is pretty big if you're ignoring this you're not really credible that that's my paraphrasing of it and I appreciated that I appreciated the fact that he stocked up for another group and I think the more of that you see the healthier the country so thank you to cream all right people keep asking me why Trump is not promoting the wearing of masks why is Trump not saying and this would be this is not my opinion this is people talking to me they say you know these masks save

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to me they say you know these masks save lives we'll talk about the controversy about whether they do or do not but people say to me they they save lives and it's obvious say some people why doesn't Trump say wear masks doesn't have to say that you have to doesn't have to make it mandatory but if he just promoted it more people would say all right you know we like Trump you say and wear masks will merit will wear masks so why doesn't he do that if you know that people would pick up on it and I think that's safe to say if you promoted it more people would wear masks on the Republican side I think that's fair so why doesn't he do it is it a mistake of leadership that he is not pushy masks here's my take on that cuz I had to think about it for a while imagine if he did let's say he pushed masks what would happen if the president promoted the use of masks it

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president promoted the use of masks it would be like hydroxychloroquine if the president said wear a mask CNN and MSNBC would be running non-stop pieces about how they don't work and it's making everything worse now if you don't think that's true you have not been paying attention if you say to yourself Scott Scott Scott the fake news may be fake news but they're not going to run you know stories that would destroy the country and with bad medical advice just because the president had the opposite opinion they're not going to go opposite just because he said it yeah they would that's exactly what they would do there's no chance if the president was promoting masks and if it was very persuasive let's say Republicans just all masked up from day one you wouldn't see Democrats wearing masks they would say was fake and he's anti science that they shouldn't wear a mask but here's the other part that I

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mask but here's the other part that I haven't seen a single person saying I have not seen a single person say this and it's the most important thing Trump has been painted by the opposition and the fake news as an authoritarian as a dictator if Trump is being painted as an authoritarian Thorat Arian and a dictator how would he be treated if he told everybody they had to wear masks from the federal level he would be treated as an authoritarian dictator and even the Republicans would think so right so it would be the first time that the Democrats would ever win a point because mostly the two sides you know they send messages but they don't get through but one of the messages the Democrats have been trying to send is hey you Republicans can't you see he's an authoritarian dictator why can't you see it why is our message not

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see it why is our message not penetrating your bubble get out of your FoxNews bubble he's a dictator he's an authoritarian if Trump told people to wear masks from the federal level that message would completely penetrate the right and the right would say you know actually you got a point there I think you got a point we don't want to hear this from the president now if the president does not do it what happens well the states do it and and the cities do it now they don't all make the same decision but what do you feel about the credibility of the decisions if they're made at the local level versus the federal level it feels different doesn't it doesn't that feel different if your city has decided you should wear masks even if you don't like it doesn't that feel more legitimate than the president this is not a president decision the fact that

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not a president decision the fact that the president has stepped back from a little bit I wish you would say it directly by the way the best thing that the president could do was say you know I'm not your dictator let your local let your local community work it out with you you see what the professionals say you see that I wear a mask when I visit Walter Reed I'm not going to be the dictator working out locally but I hope you follow the medical advice that would be a good message I don't think that he has done that well but when you're saying he's not doing it right you got to ask yourself what would it look like if he did if he did it right according to the people who say masks work he wouldn't be would have made the Democrats hate masks they would have questioned it and they would have called him an authoritarian dictator and it just wouldn't have worked so it's sort of a trap so here's the other thing how

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of a trap so here's the other thing how do we judge all of the conflicting science about masks and whether they work so I asked on Twitter can somebody send me a good thread that that talks about them and here's what I find and people will send me to an article that looks quite scholarly there's a PhD or medical doctor involved it'll be an article that says here's all the proof that masks do not work every every study says they don't work and you say to yourself Wow well that's pretty convincing it's a looks like some publication that's respectable the person who wrote it looks respectable shows all of his sources every one of them show that face max don't work so that's it right good source credible person every single every single cited study same direction best don't work so we're done right except you can go six inches down your

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except you can go six inches down your Twitter feed and find a credible person in a credible publication pointing to studies showing they work that and so here's my greater point the only people you should not believe in any conversation are the ones who are sure those are the ones you should not believe in any conversation at least if there's complexity in science and fault you and I don't know how to sort of through the science you do not know how to read those various studies and and say oh you know this is the good one this is the bad one I trust this one I don't trust this we don't have those skills we do not have those skills we only have experts telling us what they've seen because maybe they do have those skills but here's the problem which expert are you gonna listen to because they don't agree if the experts don't agree how can you tell which is

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don't agree how can you tell which is the good expert because it just takes you a problem of not being able to look at the science and come up with a good opinion all it does is transfer it to well I can't also figure out which experts are credible it's all just stuff that you don't have any ability to determine what you think you do the think you do part is the part that makes you stupid if you can look at all these studies and say well looks like there's some people and some studies that go one way it looks like there's some people and some studies that go the other way if your opinion is anything but I guess it's unclear that's the only opinion I think you could have on it but you still have to make a decision right you don't get to say well it's unclear so I'll just avoid this situation you're either gonna wear a mask or not wear a mask so you've got a pick so what do you do if you can't evaluate the science and you don't know who which experts are

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don't know who which experts are credible you are left with some kind of a low information risk management decision here's how I've made mine here are the mistakes that people make when they're looking yeah I'll work into it here are the mistakes that the lay people are making when looking at the studies and even the question the first one is that they misunderstand the purpose of the mask the the masks for the public are not about protecting the wearer it's about protecting other people that's the first thing so you see a lot of people were very certain about things and they'll say nope mass will not will not protect you from getting the virus but that's not really the question so those people don't understand the question because they're analyzing the wrong thing the other thing is some people say the total quantity of air that comes out from

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quantity of air that comes out from around the masks is still the same because if you exhale it's going somewhere so if it doesn't go too straight out it's going out the side of the masks it might even be going out in little Jets because you're forcing the same amount of stuff and smaller openings and so some people say well it's the same amount of air that's going in it's all the same this too is a bad analysis because the point is not to reduce the quantity of air in the room nobody said that's the point the point is to keep it local the point is that your exhalations are more likely to say stay local even if it's coming out of the edges to me that sounds reasonable and a lot of experts say that as reasonable - it is also not about the masks blocking viruses because people will point you to a lot of science that says you know at the microscopic level that the holes of the mask are this big

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that the holes of the mask are this big and that particles the viruses or this bag and even the smaller water drops are this big and they fit through they fit through so if they fit through the mask the mask nothing right wrong because the air is what is mostly carrying the virus some of it you could imagine would get stripped off some of it would be on smaller droplets etc but there really is no situation I can imagine in which if you can't blow out a candle that's you know a couple feet away from you but you could if you had the mask off it's doing something it's blocking some of the moisture that's carried in the air and much of that moisture must have a virus attached yeah the the worst argument I heard somebody emailed me and said Noah happened Scott is that it's carried on the water droplets until it reaches your

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the water droplets until it reaches your mask and then the water is stripped off and then the free viruses go forward into the universe now unburdened by the water droplets I feel like that's not what's happening again we're not expert so we don't know but if virus travels on water droplets and water droplets aren't in any way impeded or slowed down or kept more local I don't know any situation in which that isn't going to be good in terms of transmission and then there's the question about there's a question about touching your face and a lot of people said if it makes you adjust your mask a lot well that's just as bad as having no mask and it might be worse does your face your hands always going to be up around your face but I don't know about you but if I have a face mask on I do touch my face a lot but I'm sort of touching my cheek with my finger you

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touching my cheek with my finger you know I'm doing this and you know maybe my chin once if I'm doing this isn't that like really different than touching the moist part of your mouth because I would think it's sort of your your mouth and your nose and your eyes you know your your moist parts that are the problem so if you cover this big moist mouth and you do touch your cheek a little bit with your finger is that just as day just as all the times you touch your mouth because people do touch their mouth a lot when they're not wearing a mask if you've watched so anyway if you're totally certain about masks maybe you shouldn't be but you have to make a decision anyway and I'm going to go with the the piss your pants model the piss your pants model looks like this if you're standing next to somebody and they take a piss in their pants do you get as wet as if they were not wearing pants and there were a me at you now

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pants and there were a me at you now it's a bad analogy because the virus there's no virus in the urine and that bad analogy but it's sort of how I'm thinking about it it must be stopping the some of the virus alright today CNN did report on the number of gröna virus deaths now I've been mocking them because they've been talking about the number of infections but they leave out of that same story the number of deaths which is clearly the more important part both important but deaths will always be more important but today they actually reported it and and prominently why do you suppose they did that because it was a record all right so as soon as the deaths were bad news it became part of the article when deaths were good news meaning that the number of deaths were low compared to the number of people infected that actually looked kinda like good news because it made it look like no matter

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because it made it look like no matter whether you get infected or not we've got something going on don't know what maybe the way we treated maybe hydroxychloroquine who knows maybe it's vitamin D I don't know but it looked like death was good news while infections were bad news death rate falling being the good news not the deaths and as soon as the death count became bad news because it's a record that's obviously bad news it became a headline and it's just so disgusting one hundred eight hundred thirty eight thousand people dead so far from crota virus allegedly some Princeton professors very cleverly wrote an article in which they said maybe we should change July and August changed the months because July and August are named after Julius Augustus Caesar and if Julius Caesar was a slave owner which he was no you have to change the name of those two months now it was

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the name of those two months now it was a little bit of a more of a challenging thought they weren't actually in favor of changing him and then they went on to say that you'd really have to change the name of the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party up to the 1960s when I was alive you know my actual life time was was the party of you know segregation and Ku Klux Klan and and all that other stuff so is there an argument that Democrats must change their name from Democrats I would say yes I mean why would you be a member of a party with the same name as the party that was in favor of all these racial bad things one of my other favorite stories in the news is Jake Tapper having to call call on CNN's own pundits for spreading fake news so Kaley mcenany was misinterpreted when she was talking

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misinterpreted when she was talking about school openings she said that the science should not stand in the way of going back to school and then she went on to say that the science and she referred to his study credible study saying that the risks for children were low and therefore the science would not stop us from going to school because the science supports it of course Jim Acosta and some other people at sea and then decided to interpret that as we're going to ignore the science and go to school exactly the opposite of what she said Jake Tapper to his credit called on it and even tweeted it so even he was not willing to accept the narrative which is own Network had immediately adopted that the the fate news that kailia mcenany was in favor of ignoring science and putting children back in school so they will die because orange man bad and so I will

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because orange man bad and so I will give props to Jake Tapper for fact-checking his own network which isn't easy you know there's no there's no way anybody no way anybody thinks that's easy to do and I will give him a second shout out by saying he's the only one who said about the Charlottesville fine people hoax he's the only person who said that the context should include that the president explicitly disavowed the people that the rest of scene and was saying he was talking about as fine people so Jake is the only person I know who was called on his own Network for misinterpreting quotes in a fairly obvious way that are misinterpreted so credit him for that there's a story about Portland because there are these uniformed scary looking people in camouflage the who are showing up in rented minivans and stuff and grabbing protesters off the street and

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grabbing protesters off the street and taking them away now the rumor or the way it's being treated on social media is that these are unmarked unnamed unannounced we don't know who these camouflage military looking people are they have masks on they're just grabbing people off the street it's like the Gestapo it's it's like death squads it's like Gestapo so that's how the left is framing it but they also of course have no access to news from the right so they don't really see real news if they did they would be following Jack pasaba on Twitter who would tell you they have DHS patches on their uniforms now it's hard to see cuz this a night but I think he
he just better as spotting the stuff from experience and we know that the Department of Homeland Security said they were gonna be operating there they

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they were gonna be operating there they said they would be operating there and people with DHS you know identification on their uniforms did show up there so there shouldn't be too much mystery about who they were and they should not surprise you that they were in non military vehicles because you don't want to bring in tanks and Humvees and stuff like that it just makes it look at to military but here's the part I loved about it it is scaring the living out of the protesters which to me is hilarious let me read this one quote let's say there's so there's this protester who was frightened and he said he was one of the ones that they they they nabbed and they took him somewhere but then they let him go and after he was let go he said this he didn't this is from a news reporter he did not know whether the men who were police or far-right extremists who frequently Don military like outfits and

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frequently Don military like outfits and harass left-leaning protesters in Portland and the 29 year old resident said he made it about half a block before he realized there would be no escape because he tried to run from them then gave up then he sank to his knees hands in the air and he said quote I was terrified Pettibone told The Washington Post it seems like it was an if a horror sci-fi like a philip k dick novel it was like being preyed upon to which I say good good excellent excellent because I think it's useful for the protesters to feel how the citizens of the city that they're abusing feel about them how happy are you that a protester was afraid of somebody in a mask it's kind of perfect right the fact that the Department of Homeland Security wear masks so you can't see their faces it's really

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so you can't see their faces it's really funny because we've been saying that one of the things that you know fuel these protests is the fact that people can wear masks if you can wear a mask because the coronavirus it's recommended then you can get away with stuff because you figure well nobody's got a picture of me I'm wearing a mask so the masks have so far been only to the benefit of the protesters well it looks like Department of Homeland Security just took their advantage away because if the Department of Homeland Security who do not live in the city for the most part they don't live in that city and if they're wearing masks you're not going to be able to find out who they were because they probably don't have name tags if they do they got to get rid of them they need to get rid of the name tags so it reminded me somewhat of the untouchables do you remember the Untouchables they were people who did not live and I think of a Chicago who were brought in from the outside and people didn't know I think people didn't

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people didn't know I think people didn't know their identities because then they can work on organized crime and they would not get bribed because it's hard to bribe somebody if he can't find them you don't know the name at and they're from out of town but it's easy to bribe let's say a police officer who lives in your town especially if you're threatening their family if they don't take your bribe so it looks like the Department of Homeland Security are the untouchables the people coming in who don't have an obvious identity and you can't get back home and they're scary super super scary all right so I can't think of a better solution than to bring in masked super scary people with unknown identities to clear things out of Portland and you have to appreciate that as a strategy but of course they're counters strategy is to say you're your Gestapo people worry about we might enter World War three with any of our

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enter World War three with any of our you know international foes China or Russia etc but I don't think you realize we're already in World War 3 World War three if you count war with Russia and China simultaneously as a world war we're in it we're in the middle of it let me give you a a shocking statistic if you added together the number of overdose deaths from fentanyl in the United States and the fentanyl we know comes from China Chinese fentanyl has killed X number of people if you add that number to the number killed by the coronavirus those two numbers together both both caused by China have killed more American citizens than died in World War two that's right so if you believe that Chinese fentanyl is intentional meaning they could stop it if they wanted to but they don't and

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it if they wanted to but they don't and I believe that it's intentional and if you believe that they didn't tell the rest of the world about the corona virus intentionally then we have already lost more people to China's aggression than we lost in all of World War two think about it now if you're telling me that we're not in a world war I would say you don't know what our cyber security people are doing you don't know how much China is doing espionage and cyber stuff attacks against us and you don't know how much we're doing to them because that pretty sure it's a lot so at the moment we're in a full-out war that's just a weird war that it's it's being fought in ways that you don't see you know bodies you just see in some cases you might see some protests or something they were caused by these this mischief but the war is on the war is completely

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but the war is on the war is completely on and we're right in the middle of it it's just a war like nothing we've seen before Pompeyo told Congress that he says Hong Kong is no longer to be autonomous now that doesn't come as a big surprise right the day that Great Britain decided okay you know the lease is up and Hong Kong will be returned to some kind of Chinese situation with autonomous rule pretty much everybody smart said oh so it'll just be China because eventually just because of geography and because China would want control over it it was obvious that Hong Kong would lose its independence there's probably nothing that can be done about that but apparently there's a hidden reason for Pompeo to tell congress the hong kong is no longer its own autonomous thing and it has to do with the fact that hong kong is a major worldwide financial center and the

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worldwide financial center and the implication is this that if Hong Kong is not autonomous you can't use it as a financial center and if Hong Kong loses its role as one of the world's big financial centers and it looks like that's guaranteed now because we're not the the free the free markets of the world and the free yeah I guess markets is the right world they're not going to use China as their financial center it just wouldn't feel safe so if Hong Kong is no longer autonomous as Pompeo says then Hong Kong is going to lose their status as a financial center that's really big that's big big big big big so that's a big deal so that's part of world war 3 were in it and somebody asked me to rank Trump's visual persuasion I guess he had a White House event with a red truck and a blue truck and he put these fake weights on

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truck and he put these fake weights on him to represent all of the regulations he was going to cotton at the crane Pole you know the weighed out of one of the trucks etc and I didn't even see that on the news I only saw it when it was sent to be on social media so I would say it was a real good visual presentation but I don't know if worked because it was sort of standard so I don't know if it got the attention that they wanted to get because I didn't see it but maybe you did and that is what I wanted to talk about if you missed my special podcast last night I did a live stream last night sort of spontaneously on how to have a socialist system within the confines of our capitalized capitalist system so that everybody can live the way they want and they would not interfere with each other so you don't have to have one system for everybody so it's not a good idea it's

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everybody so it's not a good idea it's just an interesting idea and you might want to check that video out on replay everywhere that my videos are found so you'd see it on YouTube etc but if you'd really like to have some fun you want to go to locals where my content in addition to this I do a lot of other content on locals locals calm as an app as well as website and Don jr. has moved on to locals which is a big deal oh by the way I should tell you that I'm a very small stockholder investor I guess that's not over but investor in locals so full disclosure I'm on locals I have a small investment in it and Don jr. coming over is probably going to give it a lot of attention so somebody wants me to talk about the double-counting and the bad counting of the coronavirus

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the bad counting of the coronavirus stuff I'm not too interested in that actually because we know stuff is being counted wrong but I think the direction of stuff is all that really matters and if the you know and over time all these irregularities get worked out you know they'll get scrubbed out of the system and time as long as we know the general direction that's probably good enough
how many cases with the US have to get for the majority of people to say okay it let's all try masks well the problem is that people have convinced themselves that there is strong science that same masks that don't work so in theory as long as they believe that masks definitely don't work and we've seen the science and you know I'm not saying that but people say that as long as I think they don't work or that it makes things worse it wouldn't matter how many people died when policies are being implemented

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died when policies are being implemented based on wrong numbers we should all care yes we should but I don't think the wrongness that we're talking about is directionally wrong I don't think the numbers are changing the direction of things and if they did they would only do it temporarily should CDC go to the White House though I don't know what that means I just leave your comments see if I missed anything somebody says locals needs to move to a single fee for all access models don't like subscribing to individuals yeah I think that's actually on the the board right now so they're actively looking at that model now that model has some implications for creators for example if the the main reason that you joined locals was for one creator sort of unfair because your money would be distributed to the other creators who

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distributed to the other creators who are not the reason that you were there so it's hard to work that out and make it fair who won Navaro or foul Chee you know I'm not too interested in the palace intrigue stuff that's just somewhat predictable and doesn't really change anything talk about New Zealand and how well they've done with it well let's talk about countries in general that have done well are you amazed that we don't yet know why some countries are successful and some are not oh you think you know you think you know because you the chart that said the ones that use hydroxychloroquine early that they all have good results right so that's that I mean you saw the chart all all the countries with hydroxychloroquine early good result all the ones that don't so that's it right that's a whole thing well except you may have also seen the chart that shows that vitamin D pretty

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chart that shows that vitamin D pretty much explains everything so put vitamin D explain everything we're seeing in the other countries when in fact hydroxychloroquine use explains everything we see in the country but also the graphs show that vitamin D does so those are two different theories except that oh wait there are also graphs that show that the degree of masks use is the main variable and it very clearly shows that the ones you use masks got better results so what the hell is going on you know so my take on this is that we don't know exactly how much is masks how much is better treatment how much is hydroxychloroquine how much is vitamin D that's in the atmosphere but also might be part of the treatment we really don't know and on top of that you're really yet and also somebody says

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you're really yet and also somebody says immunity we don't know about immunity we don't even know exactly the nature of the virus in terms of how its spread there's so much we don't know that yeah correlation is not causation let me here's a here's a a brain test I was going to give you so those of you who feel you are good at analyzing the stuff you see in social media so you feel like you have a pretty strong decision on masks or hydroxychloroquine or vitamin D or whatever it is you've got a strong opinion let me ask you this this is a thought experiment if I told you there's a city that has the most strong law knocks on their doors they have the most bars on the windows they have the most locks on the doors they have the strongest defense of the house and they even have a lot of firearms and they

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even have a lot of firearms and they also have the highest burglary rate what does that tell you they do the most to protect their house but they have the highest burglary rate so that proves that protecting your house doesn't work right right is that the conclusion if you have tons of locks and it's the most locked up definitely lock your doors bars in the window and still the highest burglary rate well that proves that locks don't work it proves that bars on the window don't work right no it doesn't prove that it proves that if you have a lot of crime people are going to improve their locks the fact the dumbest thing that people say about Chicago gun control is that well it has the tightest gun control and the worst murder so obviously gun control doesn't work no they have the tightest gun control because they have

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tightest gun control because they have the most murders it cause and effect is backwards now did it help how do you know how many murders would there have been if things were different you know know so if you don't know how things would have been in the alternative situation you don't know anything and we think we do that so we think that well there's a correlation there I guess I guess locks on doors don't work there's still burglaries and that actually as ridiculous as that sounded that's most of the way people are analyzing stuff most of it is reversing cause and effect most of it
who are we talking about I know no one who has that situation I don't know what you're talking about
it says proves you don't understand burglars very well proves you can't think because what you're accusing me of

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think because what you're accusing me of is to say that burglars would not prefer to burglarize the less protected house of course they would so we assume that those locks did decrease some amount of burglaries for the ones with the best defenses there's nobody questioning the friction works friction works but correlation and causation are still backwards do people get murdered with legal or illegal guns well if you looked at the the kinds of murders you would find that gun control wouldn't have as big an impact on those murders as you'd like for example gun control probably would not make any difference to gang violence right probably wouldn't make any difference what about the Hurricanes I don't know what you're talking about all right but

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what you're talking about all right but the gun control is ineffective it only stops the law-abiding yeah maybe I don't know if we've had actually study that alright that's it for now and I'll talk to you later