Episode 1067 Scott Adams: Portland, The Nation’s Ashtray, Teacher Unions Ruining the Planet

Date: 2020-07-23 | Duration: 47:23

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• Joe Biden says nurses were blowing into his nostrils …Meanwhile, President Trump aces a cognitive test

• Teacher unions have destroyed education

• The protesters are having FUN

• Ted Wheeler attends last nights protest

• COVID19 excess death tally lacks key info

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why do I feel so good this morning well I'll tell you it started out to be a regular morning with just regular stuff but then I heard a technique for really getting up and getting going and it was sort of a self help technique and I wasn't expecting it really it came from Joe Biden and he talked about how when he was in the hospital with his brain aneurysm that the nurses they quote they were they breathe air into his nostrils they got him up and going and so I thought well if getting him nurse to breathe air into your nostril get you up and going and cures you from a brain aneurysm or at least helps I got a guess some of that so I hired a nurse who will occasionally just blow some of the air into my nostrils and you wouldn't you'd be surprised how that just fires you up you feel great it's like oh thank you for that breathing that air into my nostril well

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breathing that air into my nostril well let's have the simultaneous sip and it goes like this all you need is the capper Margaret glass the tanker challenger's tie the canteen flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join me now for the dopamine hit of the day the unparalleled pleasure you could say those in either order it's called the simultaneous sip and it makes everything better including the pandemic unemployment racism yeah all that stuff it's getting better now go yes so Joe Biden continues to entertain with his unusual statements about nurses blowing breathing air into his nostrils yeah I saw a tweet on that and the funniest part was reading the comments from actual registered nurses it turns out that if you ask registered

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it turns out that if you ask registered nurses hey do you ever occasionally depending on the patient do you ever breathe air into their nostrils to try to heal them a little bit quicker turns out they've never seen that before surprised they have received that before alright let's talk about some of the things did you all see the clip of President Trump in an interview talking about his cognitive test you have to have to see that clip here's what's interesting he describes the the test a little bit and one of the examples was they would give you a list of items and you have to repeat them back but then you would later be asked to repeat them back again after asking a bunch of questions in between and as the president was describing this process he would use this example it sounded like he came from the test itself and the list was person woman may have camera TV now I have the opposite of whatever there's

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have the opposite of whatever there's the ability to remember stuff like this I cannot remember verbatim anything not phone numbers not lists I mean if I really work at it I can so you know I got good grades and in school because if I study I can do it but in a casual sense I don't really try to remember stuff like that and I don't so watching the president just tell the story and in the process of telling the story he repeated that same sequence maybe five different times I think and each time you said it as a viewer just somebody watching it it just made to the rest of my world go away you have to watch how Bezemer izing it is to watch Trump do this the sequence of five things approximately five times in different times and each time he does it you think to yourself oh god he's not gonna get it right this time because he was doing it a little live interview do you know how much guts it takes to do a cognitive

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much guts it takes to do a cognitive test impromptu to yourself live in front of you in front of the nation the fact that he repeated those five things in order five different times I'm not sure I could have done it I don't think I could have even done the interview much less the the cognitive part now what's funny is of course he's setting setting up Biden for you obviously it would be good for Trump if the media started asking for Biden to take the same test now that would be the the kill shot right because one assumes that Biden would not do well on that test so he either has to either has to deny that he needs it which would look weird or he takes it that looks bad so it's all good for Trump to bring up this topic but how or do I add this caution and it may be time for a pivot on this because there are a lot of old voters and I think the old voters just

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voters and I think the old voters just don't like it when somebody when somebody is honest about the fact that at a certain age you lose your cognitive abilities and I would at least suggest that you know maybe time for this or maybe later but I would I would give him finding the Bob Dole treatment that Bill Clinton gave to Bob Dole when he was running against Bob Dole was this much beloved senior politician who had been through World War two he was a war hero very popular politician and Clinton is running against them and what Clinton did was instead of going at him and criticizing him to the in the most normal way you'd expect you know real direct criticism he basically said you know we should respect we should respect Bob Dole for his war hero stuff but we're planning for the future and Bob Dole is planning for the past so

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Bob Dole is planning for the past so basically instead of treating him like an equal which is full force punching because that's how you treat an equal right if somebody was your your peer you wouldn't hold back because you're equal you've got to give them everything you can to try to win by a a little bit so you'd put your full force of your your attack into it but if somebody is maybe weakened if your opponent is not quite up to your your level that it just sort of looks bad if you're beating on them and I think that was what Clinton got right by treating dole as a lovable symbol of the past because that framing is pretty devastating and I think that there's at least that opportunity here which is for Trump maybe not yet yeah there's a timing issue but maybe yet I don't know - just start treating Biden as a respected but retired politician someone

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respected but retired politician someone who who was you know tried hard to help the country but I think that Trump no longer needs to say directly he that Joe Biden can't put two sentences together he doesn't know where he is he doesn't understand the topics saying it directly feels like a little bit at least two senior citizens as maybe you're taking that too far and he could get the same impact by saying look I don't want to be unkind and especially because you know there are a lot of the seniors yeah but I think we all see the same thing and I think you need to take that into consideration because if you treated it gently I think everybody would still see it
it it's the seeing it that's important it's not what Trump says about it about Joe Biden's cognitive decline it's just that everybody sees it and everybody knows everybody else sees it so I think it's

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everybody else sees it so I think it's powerful to say you know everybody sees it it's not even a left or right thing everybody sees it so that's one way to go all right according to Rasmussen Trump has about 30 percent black support meaning that likely voters 30% of black voters when vote for Trump if they voted today over Biden do you believe that because that's like triple or what you'd expect now here's the interesting part the rest of the Rasmussen poll looks about how you'd expect you know you the Democrats of course voting for Democrats and women women preferring the Democrat over Trump and been prefer a job so so a lot of things you'd expect are just the way you'd expect them except this one number which apparently has been consistent at least in the Rasmussen poll it's been quite consistent it's never it's never

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quite consistent it's never it's never gone way down or it hasn't fluctuated wildly it's been sort of like right at that level maybe climbing a little bit and if that holds that's looking pretty landslide e but we'll see and I'm trying to figure out why that would be why do you think it would be that thirty percent of black likely voters in this country would support Trump when the fake news is calling him a racist every day why would that be I'll give you a hypothesis and the hypothesis looks like this thirty percent is probably roughly just guessing probably roughly the number of people who like things the way they are don't you think I would guess that any population thirty percent of any group would say you know I kind of like things the way they are let's not change it too much but on top of that

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change it too much but on top of that Trump does not Infanta lies the black population and I would think that thirty percent of any population would appreciate not being infantilized not being treated like victims not being treated like you know there's there's just something wrong there but rather treating it treating everybody you like you know you're adults if you're an adult you're a kid if you're a kid but that's the only distinction
and I've got a feeling that that's more popular than people realize but I don't have any data to back that up so marianne williamson you know you know her from the Democratic primaries she tweeted that that Trump wanted to surge federal law enforcement into Chicago to help out with a crime she tweeted that if we allow this now and the attempts to stop this dictatorial rise will be forever stymied and I thought

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forever stymied and I thought dictatorial rise is that what's happening did do you feel a dictatorial rise happening because I don't feel any of that I feel like whatever would be the opposite of a dictatorial rise is what we're saying Trump is literally letting the states take the lead on a lot of this stuff I don't think you could get more anti dictatorial rise than giving the governors and the mayor's as much leeway as as the constitutional house and Trump is giving them that leeway now if he decides to surge some federal law enforcement and Chicago does not appreciate it he's still just obeying the law because the federal the federal forces would only be enforcing federal laws which he is supposed to do so anyway she deleted that tweet and I don't know if she deleted it because I mocked it which I

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deleted it because I mocked it which I did so I don't know maybe a lot of people mocked it but it didn't look like a dictatorial rise to me how do you think Trump would do if you were to reframe the the protest this way and oh there's a couple parts to this what is that what is that the complaint about the department homeland security forces being involved in the cities is that they're squelching freedom of speech now I don't think they're doing any like that because the protesters have gone well beyond freedom of speech and some of them are doing vandalism and crime and certainly nobody in the government even cares about the speech do they I have not even heard anybody

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do they I have not even heard anybody complain about the speech we're pretty much all free speech people in this country you know if it comes down to it especially the law enforcement people that gets drilled into you pretty well I think if you're in law enforcement but how does Trump solve the problem that it looks like he's clamping down on freedom of speech it looks dictatorial but at the same time he really does have an obligation to do what he can to clamp down on crime it's part of his job so how did it how does he get those two things right and I would suggest the following it could be time to ask for the protesters to organize a little better and maybe encourage the the media to take up their voices so in other words the president could say you know we do want to clamp down on crime but I hear what everybody is saying about freedom of speech so here's what I would

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freedom of speech so here's what I would suggest I'd suggest that your media sources you CNN's your MSNBC's your Fox News that they have on representatives of the protesters so that their freedom of speech is not just preserved but amplified amplified well so is there any reason that the president could not be in favor of your regular established media entities amplifying amplifying the protesters to make sure that they had the freedom of speech at the same time that the citizens were protected from crime now what would CNN and MSNBC and all them say about that because your first instinct I think is hold on hold on
on you don't want the CNN and MSNBC promoting all this Marxist stuff and the systemic racism stuff that requires you know destroying the whole system to fix it isn't that just gonna make it worse but

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isn't that just gonna make it worse but let me ask you this if CNN and MSNBC wanted to have those voices amplified they'd already be doing it I think that the established people people have jobs and all that people who work for CNN they don't want the protesters to win because the protesters want to change everything let me ask you this if you're Don Lemon and you've got one of the best most prestigious jobs in the country I would say the media personality on a major news network in primetime that's like a seriously great job if you were Don Lemon and I won't I won't read his mind so I'll just say if you were Don Lemon would you want the system to be radically overhauled I don't think so because he's he's sitting on top of the system he's the big winner if you were any of the you know well paid staff of CNN or the management or the ownership would you

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management or the ownership would you want the entire system of the United States to be remade I don't think so I don't think you would and I don't think it's a coincidence that the major news organizations even on the left are not fully embracing what the protesters are protesting for so I don't think it's a risk because I think that even you know even the CNN staff even the MSNBC staff would push back I think they would push back now they're not going to push back if somebody comes on and says there's institutional racism systemic racism they would probably agree with that but if they go further and say and therefore we have to dismantle the whole system I think even the CNN staff would say well give me some details on that because I'm not quite on board with dismantling the whole system because it's working for me so and maybe there's a different model instead of encouraging

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a different model instead of encouraging the
the press to do it maybe the president could say hey let's put together a national you know listening committee or something will give us some attention but the the general idea is that the president could promote free speech at the same time he's clamping down on a crime but he'd have to separate what is crime and what is free speech and I think you'd have to put the burden on the media and ask ask why is it let me ask you this why do protestors feel they have to protest the reason you do that is because your voice is not being heard why not you know why is that why are the voices on the left not being heard because they have most of the media if you if you're on the same side as most of the media and your voice is not being heard that sounds like a problem on the left they need to work that I know all right more fun stuff happening so the

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right more fun stuff happening so the president gave his he's giving his press conferences now about the coronavirus he's getting high marks for being realistic about it'll probably get worse before it gets better and high marks for being pro masks so those so it looks like you solved a couple of his problems just by being compatible with the you know the general mood of the country there or at least the general mood of his critics but now he's being criticized for not having the experts as part of the event now when asked why he did not have the experts the president said that the experts are briefing him and that the way he's doing is a concise way of doing it but of course that doesn't quite answer the press's question which is why can't we do follow-up questions etc with the with the experts and here's what I would do I would say look we're trying to inform

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would say look we're trying to inform the country we don't want this big unwieldy thing that nobody's going to watch we don't want to impose upon the news you know the live news networks that they have to carry this for an our you know we have an obligation to make our message compact and something that the news organizations will carry so shorter is better and I think at a half hour a half an hour of the president is kind of exactly the right amount you know because it isn't really a case of more is better but the the critics do have a point which is what if they want to followup with the experts and they've got a question that maybe they'd rather hear from Burks or pouchy and I think the president should make them available but maybe not at that event now I assume they are available I don't know the details how hard is it for somebody to get a question to one of them but perhaps they could even say why don't you follow up with the experts in writing so yeah if you give us a written

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writing so yeah if you give us a written question for the experts we'll get you back a written response is that fair there's a fair to say are I as president I'm just going to keep it simple keep my message clean do the leader thing that the country needs but if you want to follow up on technical details it's much better if you do it in writing so that there's no miscommunication so give us a written question we'll give it to Burks and foul Qi or whatever experts you want and we'll get you a written answer yeah why not keep it in writing because we all know that the press conferences are about the showboating of the the press so he could say I could get you all the information you want in a better form than you're asking for it because doing it verbally you get it you get intel this misinterpretation problem but doing it in writing still could be misinterpreted but much lower risk so I think you could say look experts can get misinterpreted so why don't you give

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misinterpreted so why don't you give them the questions in writing I'll give you the big picture and then you can follow up on any details they're fully available send us your questions we'll send you some answers who complains about that all right
am i right or am I wrong that the biggest problem in the country is all one problem it just looks like lots of different problems but it's all one problem which is the teachers unions have destroyed education and imagine if you will that there were no teachers unions and that there could be charter schools there could be competitive schools and you know basically education became a competitive business right now it can be because teachers unions don't want that because it's not good for the teachers incomes in the short run and so it seems to me that everything from prime to racism to poverty basically all

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prime to racism to poverty basically all your biggest problems in the world are being caused by citizens who have not been well trained they don't even know their biggest problems from their smallest take for example all the people who are protesting do they seem well-educated to you not really because well and by well educated I don't mean that they did or did not go through some years of school and college I'm not talking about formal education because a lot of the anti-fog people actually do have good formal education a lot of the black lives matter leaders have good formal education but were they well served because I would think that one of the basics of education is to know your priorities and to know that you're working on what's important and there you have a strategy that makes sense these would be very important as opposed to just reading writing which have their own value but don't get you don't get you to a life strategy so it seems to me

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you to a life strategy so it seems to me that if you could fix the teacher union problem you could have good education and then you would produce citizens who when they saw this these questions about black lives matter and systemic racism they would be better better equipped because what they're doing now is complaining about their lowest priority the lowest priority and this is being looking from the outside but do you disagree with what I'm going to say so you know I realize I'm not the one who should be saying this but I don't know that anybody would disagree with it which is that the highest priority is education if you if you have a whole generation of well-educated black kids what does the future look like it looks a lot better looks a lot better because you could have less poverty that gives you less crime that gives you better health outcomes gives you more of a

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health outcomes gives you more of a voice in society you want to you want to fix some institutional racism well now you're in good shape to do that because you know everything else is working you know you've got you know the right base you know base education and knowledge so if you don't fix teachers unions you don't fix education if you don't fix education everything else is unimportant because it all flows from that and these protests being mostly about the police I would I would say it's the smallest priority and I wonder too if if Trump said that directly would he be burned alive or would people say oh yeah that's kind of true imagine if you will and I think maybe the atmosphere is just too toxic to say this but imagine if you will that the president said look I hear what I hear what all the protesters are saying and nobody wants anybody killed

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saying and nobody wants anybody killed by police that don't need to be killed by police but it's also your lowest priority because the fewest people are affected by that in terms of who killed even as bad as it is it's your smallest problem your biggest problem is education and maybe crime so if you don't fix crime you probably can't get an education right and if you don't get education right nothing else works so what would happen if the president just said I hear you and that's a real problem and we should work on it but do you agree it's your smallness problem yeah so people say you'd be burned alive burned alive I don't know I think there are a lot of people in the middle the the few people who might be able to go left or right depending on the argument I think the people in the middle would say yeah as long as you acknowledge that the police thing is a problem I have to agree with

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thing is a problem I have to agree with you that if you were to rank all your problems in the black community it would tend to be the lowest it would be it would be dead bottom if you ranked it based on anything based on a number of deaths based on the long-term impact as bad as it is now of course somebody will watch this and say cartoonist says there's no problem with police of course I'm not saying that I'm just ranking them alright have you noticed that well and this problem of not knowing what our priorities what the priorities are is it affects everything take climate for example the the people who have been educated for the past 20 years by the teachers unions and the teachers that they support believe that climate change is the biggest risk to the world climate

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is the biggest risk to the world climate change now maybe some of you even agree with that because what could be a bigger problem than the planet itself becoming you know unlivable well here's what an educated public would have said they would have said something closer to what Michael Shellenberger says in his book apocalypse never which is that poverty is the problem if you fix proud if you fix poverty or you know put a dent in it then you're also going to be fixing the and and the environment because poor countries don't make better environments rich countries do the United States has gotten to the point where we can substitute in greener energy and you know we can build a nuclear power plant but you're not going to build that in a third-world country where there's no money you know you don't have the support structure etc so to imagine that

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support structure etc so to imagine that the biggest problem is the environment and not the economics and poverty is just not understanding the problem and that's an education problem and again you see the same problem is focusing on the wrong thing fairly consistently how do you decide what's the right thing well the right thing you'd have to know a little bit about economics a little bit about comparing things a little bit about life strategies you know the things that are not typically taught in school but should be alright and I do think that teachers are brainwashing kids to give them a victim mentality and a win-lose sort of mindset instead of an abundance and talent stacking strategy kind of a mindset so probably teachers are destroying the country is my bottom line all right as we're watching all these protests I

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as we're watching all these protests I don't think you should lose sight of the fact that I doubt the protests would be as aggressive as they are if they were not fund do the protesters look like they're enjoying themselves they do right if you see the protesters they're totally enjoying themselves and I don't know if that's you don't really protest 50 nights in a row unless it's sort of a lifestyle thing so the protesters because they're protesting the lowest priority and don't parently that doesn't seem to matter it's become sort of like a when I see the protests they look like Civil War reenactments where the the people are more like actors it's like people people decided to participate in the protest but they don't just show up as themselves they actually take out a role so the the black bloc people who dress all in black

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black bloc people who dress all in black they've literally adopted a role just like a Civil War Reenactment be okay you're the you guys are the infantry you're the cannon guys so we're slightly different outfits you know you're the general and and then you see the now we've got the the mobs so the moms are dressing as moms I guess I'm putting on yellow shirts and and bicycle helmets and now now the bombs are a new set of actors and this massive role-playing thing but imagine if everybody had jobs imagine if they had entertainment alternatives if you had job and you had an entertainment alternative would you be out on the street I don't know maybe because it looks like it's fun but if you have some other alternatives that are also useful or fun it's going to take some of the energy out of that and what about the fact that the protesters are probably not having sex you're one

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are probably not having sex you're one of the things that we probably won't talk about this country is that the one of the effects of this shutdowns and the quarantines and all that is I think people are having less sex in this country than any time in our history what's that do to you it's not good it's not good at all so that's a problem speaking of Portland who I have designated the ashtray of foundation ten-wheeler their mayor went down to listen to the protesters and interact with him he ended up getting tear gassed accidentally we think and here's what this made B wonder so Ted wheeler goes and he wants to listen to the protesters so far so good I like it when our politicians actively show that they want to listen to first amendment protests so that part's good but here's a part that is conspicuously missing conspicuously

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conspicuously missing conspicuously missing where is the poll of what the non protesting citizens of Portland want do you know well what about the other people because I think I know what the protesters want they're pretty provoked lamented but do you know what the non protesters want where's my poll of the citizens of Portland who are not part of the protests physically in the streets and do they support continued protests or do they support the federal government taking care of it why don't you know that ask yourself that question it is such an accessible thing meaning that they're you know poll polling groups etc and you wouldn't necessarily need a polling group you could have yeah you know see you then does these little not town halls but they'll have a group of

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town halls but they'll have a group of 12 people who are just sample citizens and they'll just talk to them say all right you sample citizens there are 12 of you how do you feel about the protests you know you're for or against them but why are we not seeing anything like that why is it why is it that you and I don't have any idea no idea I don't even have a good guess of what the citizens of Portland who are not protesting what I don't know what they won't and add their silence makes me wonder if they care and why do I care if the citizens don't care you know why should I want my federal tax money to go to sending people who are just making people mad and they don't want them what's the point so think about how badly you've been failed by your media that you don't know what the citizens of Portland actually want and I kind of tell you I want to feel sorry for Portland I just can't I

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feel sorry for Portland I just can't I don't have any empathy to thee for Portland at all and the reason is not because I'm a monster who has no empathy but you don't really want to show empathy for someone who's not asking for it and doesn't need it and doesn't want it and it's not part of their mindset if they think they're getting what they want why am I the one to tell them they're not getting what they want sort of up to them so I don't know I just I can't get too invested in Portland unless they're invested in themselves alright that's enough about Portland do you think the president will have an electoral advantage or disadvantage in getting tough with pride in the cities so it looks like he's going to surge some troops into Chicago which is unpopular with the mayor of Chicago but what about these citizens of Chicago who are not criminals what do

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Chicago who are not criminals what do they want do you know no no you do not know you don't know what the citizens of Chicago want the ones who are not protesters you don't know isn't that the single most important question because if the citizens of Chicago are okay with a crime rate meaning that they prefer that over the alternative of stronger law enforcement if they prefer it again I just won't travel there I just don't have to go there I just don't know that it's a problem but I do think that the president his instincts are probably right that as long as he doesn't get too dictatorial looking as long as he makes it clear that this is only for the benefit of the citizens and to reduce crime etcetera I think it's a plus but the Democrats are going to try as hard as they can to turn those Department of Homeland Security law enforcement people

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Homeland Security law enforcement people who really are just trying to do a good job and help the country turning them into some kind of Gestapo which is pretty alright one of the things one of the problems that aunty Fay has is the same problem that Isis had and prior to Isis being completely destroyed on the battlefield and losing all of their territory but not obviously not their ideology and recruiting but before they before that happened I had said publicly number times the ISIS the worst thing they can do is hold territory because as soon as Isis holds territory there's something to Bob you know you you go oh ok that's that's where Isis is now that's their police force boom gone so if you're a group that does not have as much power as the group you're protesting you don't want to hold territory and that's what they're trying to do with you know the Chazz and the

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to do with you know the Chazz and the chop and the you know the various times that they've barricaded streets and they try to hold territory it just sort of doesn't work because that's the point where the the larger authority can say oh you're all here you're all standing this block and you've done some crime so we can round you up now so enta far has sort of a natural limit to how far they can go because as soon as they try to hold territory they lose and I don't know that they could win in an election so it might be naturally gating alright there's a so I do report that the excess deaths in the period that the coronavirus started raging in the United States was about a hundred and eighty two hundred ninety thousand so that's how many people have died above expectations for a normal year now given that it's hard to know who died of coronavirus this is a useful number but

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coronavirus this is a useful number but what it doesn't sort out is how many fewer automobile accidents there were while we were locked out how many fewer accidents of all kind but it also doesn't count how many people died because of lockdown how many people committed suicide we're at drug overdoses or were victims of crime because of the lockdown so that we don't know what the net of that is but if it looks like the coronavirus locked down plus the coronavirus killed it looks like we're definitely going to be over 200,000 now 200,000 is kind of a magic number because I've told you I've asked people who said Scott Scott Scott is just a regular flu it's a little bad but it's a regular flu and I've asked how many people would have to die from this regular flu before you would say okay I changed my mind this was a big deal I didn't realize it was going to be this big and the number I've heard is around 200,000 it looks like we're gonna blow

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200,000 it looks like we're gonna blow past it so do the people who said it's just the flu do they revise their opinion too when it blows past 200,000 or do they say this because they're not good at analyzing do they say Scott Scott Scott you're counting wrong 45,000 of them maybe more died because of the lockdown it was the lockdown they killed 45,000 people that's what they would argue I would argue that was 45,000 people who died trying to save a billion so I think that the 45,000 who died because of the lockdown if you or they asked medical professionals they'd say yeah that's terrible nobody wanted those people to die but it's fewer than would have died otherwise and then nobody won't be able to prove it so you're always get to this point where they'll be this question that you just can't prove like what would have happened if you'd done the other thing

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happened if you'd done the other thing you never know because you didn't do the other thing so I guess we'll never have an answer but I would say that the question of whether the corona virus is a regular flu basically as answered it is not alright but I know that there will be disagreement with that have you heard the the biggest Trump criticisms and how generic they're he's creating chaos there's no strategy he's a racist have you noticed that and I say this before but once you start seeing it it becomes funnier that they'll never they don't blame in for things you can measure they only blame the president for things that are impossible to measure because that's the only way they can be credible if they said you ruined X Y or Z we could just look at the numbers and say oh no x y&z look pretty good it doesn't look like you ruined them at all so they have to go with his vague there's chaos and the

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vague there's chaos and the administration and and and he's you stop passing the fact-checking and none of it ties back to a real thing that matters to your life and I remind you again that there are some generic things sent about every leader that there's chaos and nobody's making a decision and there's no strategy and that's just sort of generic stuff you say about every leader
Tesla is moving its production for a cyber truck to Texas I think California is pretty much done because you know California was one of the potential places to put that and it's just not even an option the fact that Tesla would say you know California thanks for having us will we'll keep our production facilities that are there for a while but the state doesn't really work for us anymore it's a big deal probably a bigger deal in the future have you

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bigger deal in the future have you noticed that the issue of sports teams and dealing for the national anthem went from being this big national the story to no relevance whatsoever yes people are still going to complain about it but is there anything in your entire life that's a smaller problem than an entertainment industry there's some of the entertainers dealing because they want to use this to protest the flag not the flag but protest police brutality is there a smaller problem in your life than that it's literally your small this problem not even a problem it just makes it more interesting so to be the dealers add some interest to a field of entertainment that could always use a little more interest I don't see that as a problem at all all right you heard about the Chinese consulate and Houston was closed because I guess it was a den of spies a den of

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I guess it was a den of spies a den of spies wouldn't you love to know what's really happening between the United States and China do you think that the the public has any clue what China is doing to us every day and what we are doing in response or doing to them first who knows there's a there's a whole war raging with China but because we don't have the kind of casualties that you could easily count you're like oh this this guy got a bullet and now he's dead and we'll count him as one damn but if fence it all comes in from China goes through Mexico gets mixed with some other drugs and somebody has an overdose death we just say well that's the you know the Avex problem so there's this gigantic deadly war that's you know theft and cyber crime and China put in sending a probe to Mars and that's pretty scary because whoever controls

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pretty scary because whoever controls space is going to control earth so I would just note that you're in the middle of a hot war that is a modern form of a hot war it's all this cyber information economic getting ready for this lying about this spying gathering data artificial intelligence and all that so you're you're in the middle of World War 3 it's not even though the news because it's all it's all distributed in a million ways the Three Gorges Dam is about to break yeah do we have enough data on them I know that they started releasing water so they they're intentionally flooding some of that zone I we think that China would be able to get out of the way because they have enough warning horses on the roof I don't know

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warning horses on the roof I don't know what that means Scott what state will you be moving to well you know not everybody has the option to moving because if you have family connections etc businesses it's pretty hard to move so I might be a holdout because I I don't live in San Francisco if I lived in San Francisco I would already be gone but I left San Francisco because I hated living there you know 30 years ago it's not better now yeah there go our antibiotics yeah if China gets flooded it could get ugly for the supply chain all right cat on the roof yeah all right I'm just looking at your comments and I think that's all I have to say for today I believe and we'll talk to you tomorrow