Episode 1068 Scott Adams: Charlamagne Tha Racist, Biden, Schools Reopening, Trump Press Conference

Date: 2020-07-24 | Duration: 48:51

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• Louie Gohmert’s resolution to ban the Democrat party

• Teacher unions and systemic racism

• Antifa, BLM, Dems are female run organizations

• Mike Lee Joint Economic Committee conclusions

• Mike Adams politically incorrect, forced retirement

• Charlamagne Tha God scolds Joe Biden

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well i don't know about you but i can't go back to the old ways you know the old ways before coronavirus i've gotten to the point where if i watch a tv interview and there's a talking head and i don't hear a dog or a kid in the background it doesn't feel realistic anymore don't you like it when you hear the dog in the background of the the tv commentators i don't know it just feels a little more real so i'd miss that i would certainly miss it if my food service service food service stopped wearing face masks i kind of like that i wouldn't like it if my airline starts putting people in the center row i'll even pay extra to not have anybody in the center row so there are a lot of things that will be better we'll miss them if this coronavirus stuff ever stops or as president calls it president trump calls it the china virus we'll talk about that but first what do we do first it's called the simultaneous sip and all you need is

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oh well it looks like a lot of baseball players are kneeling for the national anthem and i saw the pictures and i know people wanted to say it's a victory for black lives matter is this a victory against president trump ahaha we got him now did anybody really care have you noticed have you noticed that uh was it only a year ago that kneeling no it was more than a year ago

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it was more than a year ago that kneeling for a sporting event was a gigantic big issue what was it this year this year it was the least important thing happening this week it wasn't even a big story for a thursday i mean it was a story but did you find yourself caring in any way whatsoever i don't think i did i just looked at it and said looks like everybody's kneeling so if somebody says they carried it i'm sure some of you do but you have the option of turning it off i haven't watched any of the games with the fake fan noise yet is that any good they probably need to tweak that a little bit how many of you watched dr fauci throw out the first pitch if it could be called that now i don't know i don't want to make fun of dr fauci because after all he does he does not present himself as an

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he does not present himself as an athlete he is a professional in another way so there's no reason to think that he should be good at baseball but i don't think you've ever ever seen anybody who is worse at baseball [Laughter] if if you think i'm exaggerating you have to watch it and i will say i will say this in dr fauci's support because he seems like a nice guy like in person he'd probably be fun but um if you're gonna throw a bad first pitch do it the way he did it because his pitch wasn't a bad first pitch his will be the one that will be shown forever as the worst first pitch anybody ever threw i think it went closer to first base than home plate and only about halfway there
i don't know if it rolled all the way to the plate it was still in bounds when it stopped i think

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think so it was by far the worst first pitch you've ever seen in your life now uh like i said i would have felt sorry for him if it was just a really bad pitch but it was so bad that it would be like a highlight loop for the rest of his life and if you if you do that i mean that just puts it into another category that's just a that's just funny and i would bet that fouchy privately thinks it's hilarious like after he gets over the the initial the initial shape of it it's just gonna be a hilarious story he'll probably show it himself at parties anyway um the gop's louis gomer i don't know if it's a gobert or gomer but he's got an ert at the end of his name like gilbert and dogbert so i like him um he introduced a resolution to ban the democratic party now didn't you know this was going to come it was it was obvious this

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come it was it was obvious this this was brewing this was going to come so
so louie gobert pulled the trigger on this and so this is what he introduced quote that any political organization or party that has ever held a public position that supported slavery or the confederacy shall shall either change his name or be barred from participation in the house so of course that's the democratic party who did all of those things and the republicans never did so i don't expect this to get passed but it is funny and it does it's more than funny it's it's functionally funny because you know we always talk about where's the slippery slope going to end and where the slippery slope ends is at mockery you know when the slippery slope whatever it is whatever the topic is begins the first few things that might happen actually could be legitimately just progress you know it's just okay society needs to move ahead a little bit so

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needs to move ahead a little bit so maybe it's just progress but if you keep sliding you inevitably get to the point where it's more funny than serious and then louis gomer's little uh funny not a serious uh resolution here kind of kind of tells you where the limit is so we're sort of we're in the zone of the limit of how far
far this can slide because mockery and reality just merged you got that right if you can't tell the difference between who is serious and who is just making a joke if you really can't tell the difference that's where the slippery slide is going to start to end and and i think louie gobert displayed that perfectly because this resolution if it had been the other way around would have been taken seriously right if it had been the republican party who had ever supported the confederacy or ever

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ever supported the confederacy or ever supported slavery but they didn't if they ever had the democrats would they you know they would this is not a joke this is no hyperbole you know they would have asked for them to change their name so the republicans are just using their own rules and that's what makes it funny somebody's asking when my surgery is because i'm you can see i'm struggling it is the um 29th so i just have to make it to the 29th as and i apologize for you having to put up with me for that long all right
um did you see are you seeing more and more um what would you call it blame on white women it seems that white women are having their turn in the barrel if you know what i mean so there's more and more sense that the so-called cairns of the world while meeting well they do mean well that they might be

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they do mean well that they might be destroying the world so now so now there's a thought that uh white women might be the problem this is this is not me saying this by the way uh this is other people but it does make me
me wonder how what is the percentage by ethnicity in the teachers unions because as i've said the teachers unions basically are are the cause of systemic racism now you're going to say to me no no scott it was
was the ripple in time from slavery that causes it plus the you know the powerful elite white men who want to stay in power that's what's causing it all and that's true it is also true that those same white men
men who want to hold on to power and everything else they have for the decades really since i don't for a long time let's say decades have opened this big doorway and said yeah you probably can't get to where we are the same way we did

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the same way we did because you've got the legacy of slavery blah blah we had advantages but we'll open this other door in which as long as you get a good education you still can't get rid of all the traces of racism but you could make them somewhat irrelevant in your personal life just by succeeding going to school having a good life yeah there's still a little racism that's not going to bother you as much because poverty would go down everybody's doing better crime goes down basically every problem gets a little bit better if people are doing better with their their occupations so what happened to that big door that was opened by the people who were in charge you know the the white people who had already made their money it had power what happened to that doorway that they opened so that everybody could get through you didn't have to be black just everybody else you could just be poor and you can walk through that doorway and have a good life what happened to that door that door got slammed shut by the

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that door got slammed shut by the teachers unions the teachers unions by being a force that stopped all competition within the field of education for the teacher part you couldn't get rid of a bad teacher what happens when you can't get rid of a bad teacher you have bad schools if you had bad schools well and no competition what happens to that doorway that the rich powerful white men opened up and said okay we can't fix all of our stuff we don't want to give all our stuff back but your doorways open walk right through it wasn't there the doorway is blocked by the teachers union and so the question i asked because uh the
the social media seems to be dumping on white women lately not me i'm just saying that social media is doing it i wonder what is the composition of the teachers unions is it mostly white women i don't know the answer to that it might not be

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the answer to that it might not be but i gotta i gotta think that they're a large percentage if not a majority so i'll just put that out there i would also like to make this provocative statement this is just an observation i don't know if it's true but it seems like both the antifa and black lives matter movements have something in common you would think that they wouldn't have that much in common but they do and what they have in common is that they're both uh female run organizations now you might say to yourself scott scott scott that's not true there's basically there's not much organization at all i wouldn't say it's organized but you you watch the street protests and the dynamic and then you look at who is often has the microphone you know who's the person talking and it seems like it's usually women the one of the founders of black lives matter is a woman and uh antifa if you look at who's on

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and uh antifa if you look at who's on the street you see the the moms are taking the lead now the the moms are a big part of it and it looks like women and you look at who's yelling who's yelling you know organizational things it feels like it's largely women-run organizations now also the democratic party is a woman a woman-run organization and i'm not putting a plus or a minus on this so if you're looking for it you're not going to find it it's more of an observation that maybe gender differences are are a bigger component of the whole understanding of what's going on than perhaps we recognize because all of the
the antifa and blm stuff sort of looks like racial right it looks like racial and it looks like you know maybe socialism versus capitalism so those are the frames we've put on it but there is a real big variable about women and and uh empowering women etc that's sort of a

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empowering women etc that's sort of a little less less noticeable in the whole thing but it does seem like women are running the democratic party i don't think you'd disagree with that right the democratic party has largely become a party run either run by women or for the primary interests of women and again i'm not saying that's bad because in our society women have more value when i say women have more value than men
men again that's not an insult to men it's really just a biological statement that you don't need that many men to perpetuate your species compared to women so just on a biological level women are more valuable so we should be surprised that they want to take their take as much power in society as they could get i wouldn't be surprised so of course they should
um the there's a report that you're going to hate by bob lee

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that you're going to hate by bob lee who's a republican uh is it bobbly i think so did i get his first name wrong but lee anyway um and he's a republican so this is important keep that in mind before you hear the next part he's a republican now he may be you know maybe not the republican that you you want him to be but he's a republican and that's important and he i guess he had up this uh study so it was a report by congress a joint economic committee now it's a joint economic committee right so these are experts on economics i'm sorry mike lee is the is the answer not bobbly bob lee is a guy who used to be a an executive at a place i worked and i got his name in my head it was mike lee gop so thank you for that correction isn't this better that this is live you know i thought about doing these periscopes recorded so you get the

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periscopes recorded so you get the you get the better quality and everything but i make so many mistakes that you guys you guys correct that it would be terrible if i recorded this all those errors would be on it every time it's bad enough that you have to wait for the correction all right so this joint economic committee came up with this they said the demise of the happy two-parent family two-parent home so you know where this is going right he's a he's a prominent republican he's doing a study on what happens when you take the fathers out of the home so you know where it's going to end up don't you all right doesn't everybody do a study that just goes the way their party says it's going to go all right so you know he's a republican mike lee he does a study it's about the two family versus the one parent home you know where it's going to end up except it didn't it was supposed to show that obviously having a one-parent

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that obviously having a one-parent situation is where your poverty has come from and a big probably the assumption was and a lot of people said this is the primary cause of black americans having a bad economic situation so that would be the republican point of view except that the study did not show that now it did not show the opposite it was ambiguous meaning that if you think it's obvious that when you peer into all these many variables everything from the legacy of slavery systemic racism you've got population you've got you know where you are what your situation is what the policing is when you throw all of those variables in there with the single parent household you can't isolate the single parent thing as the problem now some of it might be that getting rid of a bad father maybe doesn't hurt you too much if the father was you know not going to be that beneficial in the first place so i don't know what the
the i actually don't know what to make of

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i actually don't know what to make of this except all of you who said and you've been telling me this forever and i think i'm the on the one hole down on this point and almost all of you said it is a dead fact that the single-parent household is the core problem for black america wouldn't i'll bet just about every single person who's watching this believes that to be not just true but obviously true just obviously true right would that characterize most of your thinking on the issue now you still could be right because this study does not
not uh is not conclusive in either direction but what's interesting is it definitely can't find that effect you all think is obvious and very large can't find it now somebody says it's laughable it's laughable here's what i say i think we should be able to isolate whatever it is that makes

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whatever it is that makes the two-parent homes more successful if in fact that is the variable so i'm still open um so don't hear me wrong i'm not saying that this study claims that it doesn't make any difference if you have one or two parents the study did not say that it just couldn't find this big effect from having a one one-parent household if you control for all the other stuff you just can't suss it out and i think that's exactly where i was so without seeing any studies i said from moment one i don't know how many studies you could show me because i don't think you'd be able to to find that problem i think it's going to be hidden in the in the variables and that's what happened so i would give myself the only pat in the back in the entire united states because i believe i don't believe there was one other person in the country who would have expected to not find that variable means standing out
out and again it doesn't mean it isn't the main variable just couldn't find it

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main variable just couldn't find it but if it is the main variable and i'm certainly open to believing that i just want i'd like more you know more evidence of it but i'm open to believing it
it i think we can find what is the what is the key thing or two things or whatever that makes having a second parent so important because there might be another way to get it you know i i've talked for example about imagine this imagine creating a substitute for the the household structure under the understanding that you'd love to have two family homes but you just know it's not going to happen we just don't live in a world where you can want people to stay buried and they will you just can't want it into existence it's just not going to happen so if it's not going to happen that you'll have all these two-parent homes what do you do what is the second best thing you can do because we're not even really trying the second best thing but let me let me just throw out an id or two suppose you had some uh housing situations let's say

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some uh housing situations let's say it's low income-ish housing and it's you know maybe an apartment situation or a compound or whatever so everybody's physically close and then you have a rule that says you have to add in a single primarily single maybe they don't have to be but adult males who have certain professions so it might be you say you you have to have living there a policeman at least one you have to have living there one doctor uh one black lawyer well let's just say it's a you know a black community and you have to have an engineer i'm just making this up so you have to have some good role model adult males maybe one of them's a you know a karate coach you know just just people who have the mindset of success and the mindset of staying out of trouble and the mindset of you know how to follow the rules and get what you want

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what you want and you put them in the community and say okay these are everybody's dads so that everybody has a new dad actually you have several of them now you got a doctor dad a cop dad got an engineer dad lawyer dad and these are all your dads and the deal would be that they would act like it they would actually get to know the kids and they would be sort of a force for good you're the single mom and you can't get your 14 year old kid to do what you want because your 14 year old kid is bigger than you right you're a single mom your 14 year old male son won't do what you want what do you do well that's when you call cop dad doctor dad
dad psychologist dad lawyer dad and have them come over and have them talk to your 14 year old son because they're bigger than your kid and sometimes and you know this if you're male right and every male knows this sometimes men need to be put into place because men just the way we're organized our

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men just the way we're organized our egos and our bad behavior will just grow like a like a goldfish in a bigger and bigger bowl like there if nothing stops us we'll do some bad stuff not every person right you're you're awesome i know you won't but in general if you don't put any control on men we have some bad impulses you know on on general again not all of you so you can imagine finding the thing that works and and re-engineering the situation but nobody's working on that
i'm amazed that even today we cannot agree on whether the sweden model for coronavirus was the right one or the wrong one can you believe that that even today there is still a debate did sweden do it right or did they do it wrong meaning that they didn't close down as aggressively but they did have higher than normal deaths so i was just watching one

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normal deaths so i was just watching one of the swedish experts saying well you know there's no proof this wasn't the right way
way because it's not over yet it's not over yet i believe that you cannot figure out what was the right thing to do and what was the wrong now if you say if you say to yourself were all these governors and the president were they all wrong about opening up when we did or at least trying to partially reopen because the infections again picked up so could you say well we had a choice of opening or not opening the most most of the people who chose to open there are a lot of them because there's a lot of governors a lot of mayors a lot of people chose to try reopening and now we see the infections are going up and i'd say it didn't quite work right that that if we'd had you know magical abilities to see the future maybe we would stay locked down a little bit longer fair so did all of our politicians and

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fair so did all of our politicians and did president trump by being a proponent for opening up did they make a mistake do we say all those governors et cetera all the southern governors especially did they all make a mistake
i would say no because you did not have a situation in which it was known what the right answer was if you don't know what the right answer is you have to test it and then pull back it was the only plan we had we only had one plan we'll try something we'll test it and we'll give ourselves the option of pulling back if it doesn't work that's exactly what happened we got to the point where lots of smart people said well let's try it exactly like we said we would let's try it if it doesn't work we'll pull back we tried it it didn't work nobody's surprised nobody's surprised because this was the plan try it pull back now what i'd like to

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try it pull back now what i'd like to see
see is since there are a lot of people who got their flare-ups i'd like to see them pull back in different ways because maybe that'll tell us something for example do you think that a lot of people were getting uh coronavirus by eating in restaurants with their own family indoors do you think so it's possible wouldn't you like to know that wouldn't you like to know that of the flare-ups you know the extra coronavirus that happened because we reopened would you like to know the percentage that came from hair salons you know personal stuff like getting your nails done you know which are gigantic industries that employ a lot of people what do you like to know that nobody ever got covered from their pedicure because i don't know if we know that i'm making that up i don't know if that's true but i have a feeling
that a bar without masks and people getting drunk and talking to each other too loud over music

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could be like 40 percent of all of it could it be that it is nothing except letting the children out maybe that's all it is because the children have been able to socialize for a while with each other maybe that's all it was what if it what if opening and closing restaurants has nothing to do with anything i think we'd like to know that so maybe the only way we'll ever know that is if the ones who end up reclosing stuff do it intelligently in other words they say to themselves i don't think it was this business i think it was this business so maybe jim's i could easily see a gym being a you know a virus stew so i'd like to see them reopen intelligently and then maybe we'll learn something
here's a chilling story for you a guy named mike adams now he has my last name and interestingly he has the first name of mike now uh i have to tell you a weird thing about the simulation

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about the simulation people named mike have always had a weird impact on my life and this is something i've said for years i first noticed this 40 years ago that whenever somebody named mike entered my life that something was going to happen sometimes good sometimes bad but i have this weird theme in my simulated reality in which as soon as a mic comes into the picture i got to pay attention i don't know why it's just that one name nobody else and so this guy mike adams feels like the simulation is winking at me now what would it be about this mike adams that i don't know no relation that would be winking at me from the the simulation and here's the story he is a recently retired professor when i say recently meaning just last month so he retired and he was the subject of controversy for his tweets he had written a book about uh political

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he had written a book about uh political incorrectness so he was one of these intentional political incorrect guys that was his that was sort of his thing as he was known for he was an author for he was sort of a bill maher in just that limited sense of being politically incorrect intentionally as part of his deal so let me tell you the two tweets for which he was forced to retire early and there's a punchline coming to this story so wait till the end um he had two tweets that were considered vile and inexcusable by the faculty of the place that the uncw and here are his tweets he said talking about the shutdowns on may 28th he he tweeted don't shut down the universities shut down the non-essential majors like women's studies now do you get fired for humorously but not humorously meaning he actually means us for having an opinion that women's studies is not a quote

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studies is not a quote essential major
now of course he's just joking he doesn't actually mean this but he is making it uh he's making a distinction between a women's study major versus let's say an engineering degree is that unfair really is that unfair to say that some majors are more valuable than others here's the other thing that you got in trouble for and let me ask you if this sounds racist to you or just politically incorrect he said quote in a tweet this evening i ate pizza and drank beer with six guys at a six seated tabletop i almost felt like a free man who was not living in the slave state of north carolina massa cooper now he's using a funny name in his opinion for the the governor of his state roy cooper he goes massacooper let my people go

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people go so now he's comparing himself to a slave because he's in north carolina and they had slavery now does it sound like he was in favor of slavery no no he's not in favor of slavery is he making fun of black people no no he's not there's nothing in here in which he's making fun of slavery he's not minimizing it he's not doing anything he's making a politically incorrect joke that you're supposed to go oh i don't know if he can say that but then you look at it you go okay there's no there's no actual content that is you know that would be worrisome it's not racist content he's just making a joke that makes you a little uncomfortable because you're not supposed to joke about stuff so those two were considered vile i would point out that neither of them seemed to have bad intentions they were just just his opinions and he got

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and he got retired for it so a month after he was the
the most politically incorrect guy he was found dead so how many people died naturally a month after they're forced to retire with lots and lots of enemies yeah now we don't know the cause of death and i'm not going to suggest that there was foul play because i think the police would have suggested that so i don't know that there's any evidence of foul play it feels like we would have heard it if there were but why is the guy with the name that the simulation uses to wink at me with my last name mike adams why is he in the situation exactly like me which is he's had good intentions but he occasionally says it says things which are politically incorrect and makes other people mad even though they shouldn't be and then he was found dead in his home i feel like the simulation is giving me

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i feel like the simulation is giving me a warning don't you think he's giving me a warning uh here's a little story that was in the headlines by
by a fellow you've heard of charlemagne the racist have you ever heard of him he's that he's a radio personality african-american he used to be called charlemagne the god but i've renamed him this morning based on his comments so i'm renaming him charlemagne a racist so here's the racist thing he said he was talking about joe biden and joe biden's comment that that trump was the first racist president well if you're joe biden and you're trying to get the black vote one thing you probably should not say is that uh that trump is the first racist president whereas charlemagne the racist points out
out that there were 12 presidents before him who owned slaves now oh wait i'm not allowed to laugh because

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because the topic is slavery so i guess it's still too soon but i'm gonna laugh anyway so i'll be found dead in my house in a month i'm sure just like mike adams um so were there 12 were there 12 presidents so it's like that seems like too many right or maybe their families did or something 12 sounds like too many but it was a big number uh certainly noteworthy so the point is the same even if the 12 is slightly off but here's what charlemagne the racist said and i'll quote him he said old white male leadership has failed america so right there you're a racist all right the red i don't even need to read the rest of it so that's just a a flat plain bald-faced racist statement and so now you know he's a racist and he goes on he says there is nothing worse than an old white male this isn't getting better who can't recognize the faults and flaws of

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recognize the faults and flaws of other old white males so there are two ways to be a bad old white male one is to just be a bad old white male and the other is to be a bad old white male who doesn't recognize how bad the other old white males are which makes you an even worse bad white male pretty racist pretty racist a scale of one to ten where would you put this as a racist statement it's a ten right this isn't a nine this isn't slightly non-racist this isn't it's a matter of opinion this isn't well you could look at this differently this isn't anything but complete unambiguous racism and it goes on racism is the american way well that's true so that's a fair statement donald trump and i say it's a fair statement because we have pattern recognition brains and racism isn't something you could

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and racism isn't something you could ever completely get rid of because we're not good at pattern recognition and it's our normal operating system so so when he says it's the american way i don't think he says it's endorsed by america exactly but it's certainly universal uh he said donald trump is not the first and sadly won't be the last right he's just more overt with his racism than most presidents in recent times uh i would argue that that is kind that is confirmation bias but that's not the argument for today um here's my point charlemagne the racist do you think that bill clinton was an old
old is an old white man who is terrible because i think he was considered the first black president was he bill clinton how about chuck schumer is he an old white man who's doing nothing for you he's on your team how about all the older old white men on the democratic party are they they're all racist too they're

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are they they're all racist too they're all not doing the job um how about bernie sanders is bernie sanders an old white man who who's the worst of the worst because he doesn't know how bad the other old white men are or is he just a regular bad old white man not the one who's extra worse because he doesn't know how bad he is uh so and it'll be amazing because charlemagne the racist will completely get away with this meaning that there will be no blowback whatsoever because you know nobody cares what i say but it's kind of sign of the times and uh charlemagne's thinking that biden's basically just blowing it and he's not gonna get any black people to vote for him and uh that that would be bad i guess i think he's right about that so he's a racist but he has corrected his points i would say um i think it's funnier in front of you that the chinese consulate in houston was closed for being i guess a den of spies

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being i guess a den of spies and the question was asked why you know why houston and i guess they were the worst so but what it makes me ask this question if they closed the houston consulate because they were the worst of the places that china was using as their i guess their spy center where they're stealing intellectual property doesn't that mean that you also know the other chinese consulates were also involved in the same thing but they weren't quite as bad what should they all go are we just starting with the first one to see if it changes any
any behavior what's happening with that
all right somebody says nasa is in houston and that might be why it could be although i don't know if you need to be in person to steal stuff but uh these days could be and at the same point when trump was doing his press thing he said this and he was a little bit cryptic so we're

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and he was a little bit cryptic so we're gonna have to interpret this he said that he was less interested in the china deal now you know apparently they've bought a lot of our corn recently and that's good but corn doesn't tell you the whole story it's just one product and i don't know what who they're feeding that corn to but they bought a lot of corn and uh so so trump said he's less interested in the china deal now and and he sort of just looked at the public and said you understand that right now you understand means you're supposed to fill in the blanks why he's less interested in the china deal why is he less interested in the china deal well the answer is that he's decided to decouple and that doing business with china doesn't appear like it's an option because china has apparently made it so clear that no matter how good your intentions were for how long you can no longer ignore the fact that they were not looking for a win-win situation they were not into the whole

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situation they were not into the whole capitalism thing where you win i win we both get richer we both buy some more stuff hey look at us we're both doing good that they they don't have that system in mind they have a system of chinese dominance which they apparently want to get to through among other things stealing our intellectual property because for reasons that are unclear they can't do it themselves now some of it might be that it's just always good to steal the other people's stuff you know if you're in a spy situation maybe anything that they learn from the other country is good but what is it that makes china unable to innovate as quickly as us why is that because japan does right and and i think china has tons of patents so is there something that stops china from just making their own ip i don't know it could be their system so here are some things that uh

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so here are some things that uh trump said during the press conference so i'll just everybody wants to know how is he doing with these press conferences so i'll give you my rundown um i thought his press conference was uh solid beating there were no you know mistakes that become headlines he just played it played it down the middle mostly read it uh didn't get into speculations about medical stuff he did say something about you know someday the virus will just end people that drives people crazy because we don't have evidence of when and if that'll happen but or why really so you know that was the one time he you got he got a little ahead of himself in terms of what you should say in public if you're not a doctor but trivial i would say uh on the whole that the press conferences if he keeps them in this model i would say that they are positive quite positive and that he came ahead on

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quite positive and that he came ahead on that here are some things he's doing right taking the side of going back to school a little faster than normal i think that's a good vote getter because i think parents really really really want kids go back to go back to school and because we live in a sexist world as a general statement it could be true that the mobs are a little bit more interested so trump is weak with suburban moms uh but i gotta think that this is gonna help him because trump's the one pushing to get the kids back to school and i'm pretty sure the moms want that too on some level but here's here's what i'm going to add to the system the most important vote on kids going back to school we haven't heard yet have we do you know who is the most important voice and really the only one that's going to matter at the end it's the kids now the kids are still not

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it's the kids now the kids are still not really engaged in the question i don't think because they're sort of thinking well if we don't go back to school is that more like summer vacation it's not so bad anyway at this point they can see their friends most of them so the kids i don't think have weighed in if you've ever been in an american family in the past 10 or 20 years let me tell you what parents can't do they can't put up with their kids being unhappy for too long if the kids started organizing and i'm kind of wondering if it might happen if kids started organizing to demand something like regular school instead of home school i think they would get it because i don't think parents can ignore their kids if their kids want something badly enough and they have an argument for it and they would have an argument the same argument the president's making so that's a wild card that may that may stay dormant it may be that the kids never organize but they have social media the kids have

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but they have social media the kids have social media it would take one kid to simply put together some viral content and say hey who's with me you know retweet this or or like my message if you think kids should go back to school and not do remote learning
what would happen if you got 40 million kids i think there were 50 million of them at risk here what happens if you give 40 million kids to lobby their parents to go back to school they go back to school they would go back to school you don't know how powerful children are the only thing that keeps children from running the whole freaking country is that they don't know they can if they knew they could they'd probably do it they just don't know they can now i'm exaggerating a little bit but on a question that's directly about children and the science the science is pretty much on the side of the children it would be a lot like climate change because they would be

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climate change because they would be taking the side with science if the kids are willing to take the side of science with climate change and there's a whole debate about whether the science is right but i'm ignoring that for the moment if they take the side of the consensus of science the kids are going to say take us back to school you know and i think that's a wild card all right and i think trump is doing a good job of balancing the the risks uh the one thing i'd like him to say more about is protecting the teachers he does say we'll do what we need to do to protect the teachers but i think you could put a little more a little more caring into the fact that teachers will die
die teachers will will die when kids go back to school we don't want it of course but i don't know that it would be more teachers dying than they would from regular flu if you want to put it in put it into that perspective so uh i'll give the

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that perspective so uh i'll give the president an a for his press conference i thought it was solid didn't produce any negative news of note uh in fact when i looked at cnn just to have my morning laugh and i'm serious about this my morning laugh is to look at cnn and see what the most ridiculous of their punditry says because it's always good and i thought okay i watched this press conference trump did a good solid job and he hit every note that his critics asked him to know to hit you know he was seriously taking he was taking you serious which is what the press conference gives you uh he was saying i think reasonable things he was compatible with science he really hit all the notes he said wear a mask he said it's going to get worse he's not under playing it all the things his critics wanted to do he did and what did they say about it
it well it's not just about the tone and the message and i couldn't even read the article

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and i couldn't even read the article because it was funny just on its on this i'm not going to read whatever whatever weird criticism they can concoct from a guy that they admit just did exactly what they wanted him to do so that was pretty weak so i would say if things go the way they are
are there's a big now we have a big variable with if we don't keep things open what's that due to unemployment and would november look like things are getting worse or better so now it's a little harder to tell my prediction remains the same the economy should be improving markedly that'll be good for trump and i think that the protesters will continue making the no police defund the police thing look ridiculous i think that the going back to school will get trump and some bombs and i think that i'm going to have to end it here because i can't even i can't even talk anymore my head is so

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my head is so stuffed up and if rasmus and pole is is the one that's getting it right about black support trump already has a historic black support and he's just going to start picking off the weaker segments i think between now and now with that i don't know why he doesn't uh just legalize marijuana by the way that's low-hanging fruit i've always been surprised about that that's just leaving free money on the table democrats are going to pick up that free money slaughter beaters at 100 and i will talk to you tomorrow