Episode 1074 Scott Adams: Social Media Free Speech, Democrats Become Orange Man Bad, Dumb Antifa

Date: 2020-07-29 | Duration: 57:11

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• Joe Biden, the Democrats chosen candidate

• Google search buries content from major outlet, Breitbart

• Hearing strategy: Don’t allow AG Barr to answer questions

• Jim Jordan does NOT want regulation of social media?

• Fake News? CNN’s unconfirmed story of “umbrella guy”

• Fake News: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes kidnapping claim

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hey everybody come on in here i wasn't sure i'd have enough time to do a periscope this morning but i can't leave you hanging i've got a little surgery later around uh 12 30 my time i'll be under the knife got to get in there a little bit earlier than that but until then we have this excellent excellent periscope one of the best you're ever going to see and it starts with a little thing i call the simultaneous hip and all you need is a copper margaret glass of tanker diet a canteen sugar flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee join me now for the dopamine hit of the day
day the thing that makes everything better including pandemics polling results racism economies everything really it's all here take a

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sip well all i can have is clear liquid and black coffee for the next few hours so if i don't die a hunger and i don't die from the surgeon's knife they're going to clean out some polyps in my sinuses later today but thank you for your well wishes let's talk about something else did you all see joe biden's i guess it was a speech with some questions he started out by walking to the podium and announcing that he thought he was in the wrong place not exactly he he he tried to play it off as a joke but the first thing he said was that he was in a different place a different venue in the same city and then he tried to act like it was a joke but nobody knows what that joke would be what is the joke when you say well i'm in the moscone center but no it's the javits center you get it i said i was in one place

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you get it i said i was in one place you see you just don't get jokes here's how the joke works i came up to the podium i said i was you know glad to be in this one place but it turns out i was in a different place in the same city you get it oh if you don't get that what kind of a sense of humor do you have and i imagine i was trying to imagine the democrats watching their their chosen champion and thinking to themselves uh was that a joke we can't tell either i hope that was a joke maybe we'll just ignore that let's just not cover that
equally funny is that i guess the news got a picture of biden's notes so he had some notes with him for the speech and the the and he had a note for kamala harris about what good things to say about her in case he was asked but he didn't have any notes about anybody else

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anybody else and i'm thinking why is that well it sounds to me like he was ready that if they said hey how about val debbings or duckworth or one of the others i imagine since he didn't have any notes for each of them he would have said something along the lines of i'm going to make my announcement next week which he did eventually say i'm just going to make my announcement i'm not going to talk about anybody personally but apparently if they had asked him about kamala harris he was going to talk about her and only her personally does that mean he's going to pick her for vice president no it doesn't but it's a hint in that direction even funnier you probably saw this on twitter but politico actually accidentally published what they planned to publish on august 1st
1st which is to show who the winner was and it looks like they just plugged in a winner to test their formats and the winner that they

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their formats and the winner that they plugged in just to again i'm assuming it was just a mistake and they were getting ready in advance to to know what to plug in when the when the news hit so it doesn't mean that politico thinks kabul harris is necessarily going to be the
the leader it just means that they had plugged that in and they forgot to change it before they published it so i wouldn't take anything from the politico thing except that they expect it to be kabul harris or at least the web designer used her because she was number one in the polling and it probably doesn't mean anything at all so people who are not familiar with this kind of business said to themselves things such as well there better be something like that for each of the candidates or you've got some explaining to do no they don't they don't have any explaining to do it would be perfectly normal for a web designer to design a page that just mentions all of the candidates and then

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mentions all of the candidates and then to see what it would look like if they later updated it by saying that this candidate won which was the thing that they posted so how unusual would it be to just pick one name throw it in there and see what it looks like not unusual at all and other people said but wait the the fake news from the future had an actual quote from joe biden that he has never said that you know they're acting like he'll say that in the future to which i say also completely normal completely normal web designer just said uh he'll say something like this i'll adjust it later if he does it was more like a a reminder to the web designer or the writer who was in charge of that it was just a reminder to put in a quote now was it smart to put in a real quote when there was some chance small chance but some chance that it would get published accidentally maybe but really small really small

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maybe but really small really small problem nobody should lose their job over anything like that
so here is one probably the most shocking story of the day and the you know we have news that's pretty shocking right somebody says why not xxx that would have been smarter than putting in an actual fake quote but not that much smarter and i'm just talking from experience as a writer you're in a hurry you're doing 10 things you put in a thing yeah xxx would have been better sure but it's a small problem
so this is the biggest story in my opinion the search visibility on google for breitbart stories about biden basically are zero so breitbart went from one of the featured big publications that leans right to having you know a

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that leans right to having you know a normal big presence on google if you google something it would be on the first page usually and apparently they have rigged and i'll say rigged because i can't imagine it would be anything else that google has rigged the search algorithm to just make them disappear they actually disappeared an entire media platform one of the most important ones in politics they made it disappear
that's the biggest story in the country now apparently i think if i have this right facebook mark zuckerberg will be talking to congress i think matt gates will be grilling him today which should be interesting and facebook of course is getting some heat for a lot of heat for taking down the video of the doctors who were pro hydrox of chloroquine but it looks like the reasons i took them down a little bit sketchy a little bit sketchy and the two reasons that i heard and i'm

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and the two reasons that i heard and i'm not sure that this is actually facebook's official explanation it sounded more like other people explaining why they did it but the explanations i heard is that the the one doctor claimed that hydroxychloroquine is a cure which is not supported by you know anybody who's a reputable scientific community but here's the problem what exactly does cure mean in the context in which she used it in the context in which used it i did not take it as a scientific statement that you know cure in the scientific definition of it just makes it go away the way i took it was the context in which he was speaking which is if you use this it would solve your problem if something solves your problem is it a cure technically not technically not if you're talking scientific and medical terms but why is she talking

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and medical terms but why is she talking to the public in strict scientific and medical terms i don't think so didn't sound like that to me so my interpretation was that she did not make a claim of a cure in a scientific sense it was a cure in a practical sense as in this would make our problems reduced to the point where we could get on with life basically that's how i saw it
it now i'm not saying she's right or wrong i wouldn't know but that's how i interpret it the other thing she said is that masks don't work or that they're not necessary the context in which she said that was hydroxychloroquine meaning that if you got that right there would be so little problem that you know you wouldn't even care if the doctor wore a face mask now what i do wonder is if ordinary doctors who are treating ordinary patients wear face masks because they don't typically why is it that doctors who are just seeing you for whatever your complaint is

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your complaint is in the doctor's office why do they not wear masks really ever i don't know if they're doing it now i assume they are i assume if you went to the doctor i guess i'll find out today i would assume all the doctors at the doctor's offices are wearing masks
but i don't know if that's true somebody says yours is but anyway in any case that was a sign that was a medical opinion from a real doctor who has a doctor's degree i'm not sure i would agree with her but that's not really the point because i'm not an expert either and neither is facebook so given the face face masks were at one point uh the devil and now they're now they're the savior i don't know that that's a reason to ban somebody from facebook even if she was wrong so that's a big story but not nearly as big as this breitbart thing being just disappeared and that's the

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being just disappeared and that's the biggest story really because if if they can do that to a major outlet and they did we don't have to wonder if they can they did what what control does anybody have about uh getting their message out it seems that it's pretty intentional on the same uh uh obviously it's intentional the on the same track israel is apparently flagging trump uh tweets whichever ones they think are problems but they're not flagging khamenei's so iran can say death to america or versions of that and that's fine but trump is a problem so they have to flag him now i suppose you'd have to look at the individual tweets but it's hard to imagine that this makes sense in a world with free speech
speaking of lack of free speech two other examples in which democrats are implicated

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in which democrats are implicated if any of you watch the bar is it a testimony or whatever whatever the word is in front of congress and you may have noticed that the democrats had a plan that was obviously organized in which they would not let him speak they were just going to use all their time making statements and then talk over him if he tried to talk and yell i'm reclaiming my time if he didn't watch it it was fascinating and i'm surprised he stayed because i don't think i would have stayed but he had more self-control and he looked like he was enjoying making them look like jerks which he did so he has more self-control than anybody i've ever seen in that kind of situation it was it was frankly impressive it's really impressive watching uh bar sit there and the few words he would get out when when he would try to say something just the few words you would get out would be just just devastating but it's a hearing okay thank you so it was a a hearing for bob

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dylbar um and he was bullied the entire time the the democrats just acted like bullies and wouldn't let him speak now ask yourself is this some kind of a new thing is this going to be part of a pattern i have the democrats just decided that they're going to shut down the other side from being able to talk because they're doing it with social media and now another way that we get to see the other side is by these hearings and they shut it down they didn't let barr actually talk so those are two examples that the democrats have completely shut down conversation are those the the only ones no
no turns out that uh i think also yesterday or recently michael schellenberger was also at a hearing or testimony whatever for congress and i just read an article by him this morning i tweeted you can see it in which they did the same thing to him so he was invited to talk about climate change and environmental

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about climate change and environmental things and nuclear power and renewables and those things his very area of expertise and while i think as some some of the people asking real questions and listened he actually had the experience of the democrats doing that that same thing where they would just use up all their time with character assassinations on him that were based not on facts and they didn't let him respond can you imagine that imagine having a time limit they use up all their time with horrible accusations that just don't pass any sniff test and then they say thank you very much it's public record they just made a public record of an accusation of a guy who's just trying to make the world a better place completely scurrilous lies and they just leave it there and i thought to myself it's very unlikely i'll ever be asked to testify to congress but i can't imagine i'd go i can't imagine i'd go because of this

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i can't imagine i'd go because of this now suppose i don't know they had a subpoena or something i had to go if you had been bill barr and it was once it became clear that it was their intention to not let you respond would you have stayed there because i'll tell you how i would have handled it i would have said you know i agreed to come here to answer questions i'm still very happy to answer questions anytime you're ready to ask me some i'll be in the hallway so if you don't mind i'm going to skip the parts that aren't important to me but i'll give you everything you want if you have a question you'd like me to answer i'm here for you man i'm here for you as long as you want i'm not even in a hurry i'll stay here all day and answer your questions will you give me a heads up when you have a in the meantime i'll be out here i got some stuff to do uh you know it's busy i'm the attorney general got some things to take care of so i'll be in the hallway i'll be on my phone taking care of some business

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taking care of some business if you have a question can somebody just come out and get me and i'll be happy to come in and clear things up for you now that's the way i would have handled it because it would have made them just look like idiots and that would have been more fun the way he handled it was also really good i gotta say i've never seen anybody under that kind of pressure who handled it as well as he did and what he did specifically is he didn't show them getting under his skin more than sort of what the audience was feeling as we watched it you know just the
the sort of general silliness of it but when he laughed at them that was that was the money shot when when he asked for a five minute break and nadler said he couldn't have one
one now clearly a five minute break is to use the bathroom right you don't you don't go to lunch with a five minute break so clearly he was asking in public on television if he could use the restroom having been there all morning and skipped lunch

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and skipped lunch nadler says no bar just asks again and then he gets another no and bar just laughs he goes wow you're quite a class act he just laughs because he knows that how this will look to the public and it's just funny to him because funny that the bar that that adler would be such a jerk now i have started the hashtag party of jerks because it seems like the democrats have just completely stopped being anything like serious or helpful or
or or a legitimate or anything they're just being jerks now and they've gotten away with it so well why would they stop and so if you look at the protests the protests are mostly jerks you know however many there were there for
for protesting legitimate problems well we heard them we heard all the legitimate problems and there's not much argument that things should be better in terms of policing etc

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terms of policing etc but a lot of the other stuff is just jerks it's just jerks the democrats who are not letting a bar talk just jerks complete jerks the ones who didn't let michael sheldenberger respond to their accusations that's just jerks that's not politics that's not anything it's just jerks
john avalon one of cnn's two dingleberries um this guy well you know what i'm talking about so cnn has two or three people that are designated trump bashers so every day at least one of them i think it's collinson is the other and john avalon is one they'll have at least one trump hit piece per day usually an opinion piece but i was watching uh john avalon today and honestly i watch it because it's funny and i'm not even

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because it's funny and i'm not even joking about that like normally i wouldn't cue up a whole video of you know an anti-trump person except that it's funny i can't help it it's kind of funny so but this was funny in a way i didn't quite expect according to john avalon i think it was in 2015 uh 43 percent of republicans thought obama was a muslim
what 43 percent of democrat of republicans thought obama was a muslim i don't know what to say about that guys
he wasn't a muslim never was but 43 you can't be proud of that now this is one of the reasons i don't join political parties because if i did join a political party i'd have to explain this it's like um scott do you know you're a

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it's like um scott do you know you're a member of a political party 43 percent of whom thought obama was a muslim i'd say i don't want to explain that so i don't join any political parties but if i were in the other one it would be scott do you know you joined the political party that believes the president called neo-nazis fine people and i'd be like uh yeah that's not me i'm sorry i joined this party so it's sort of embarrassing no matter which way you go i hate to say it speaking of embarrassing um mike sordovich has a scoop today as he often does somehow he got a hold of jim jordan's memo to other republicans which yeah i look through it and i'll give you my take on it the the headline take is that he's giving republicans a way not to treat social media like a monopoly in other words giving them an out so that they don't regulate them now of

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so that they don't regulate them now of course the conversation is should they be regulated or not now the jim jordan argument is that the regulation is i'll use my own words but i think this is close would be a little bit of overkill because the free market can take care of it
it so the argument is from jim jordan that the free market if it identifies that let's say you can't find any conservative voices with the existing social media that that will cause market opportunity and that they will naturally grow up a conservative leading media entities and platforms and that the competition will just take care of it do you believe that and uh
there's somebody out here says they believe uh obama's a muslim a secret muslim all right so i'm sorry i just totally lost my train of thought there um some of that remind me what i was

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um some of that remind me what i was talking about oh jim jordan and his argument that the free market will give us the competition and the conservative voices and alternative voices that maybe are being suppressed here is what jim jordan apparently doesn't know have you heard of the network effect do you know what the network effect is you know what it is commonsensically but it's a term used more in silicon valley than anywhere else and the network effect goes like this if everybody you know is using facebook you're not going to go to the facebook competitor because when you go to look at all your pictures on the facebook competitor there won't be any because your friends aren't there so your network of friends have already voted that they're going to be on a certain platform your instagrams your twitters your facebooks and they're not going to leave right because the network effect is too strong have you had the experience of trying out parlor

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experience of trying out parlor competitor to twitter i have looks looks like twitter works like twitter you know it's pretty much a clone of the twitter environment and i made some posts and got 20 retweets and then i thought to myself huh if i'd posted the same thing on twitter i might have 2000 retweets which gives me a dopamine hit and i feel like i made a difference because if half a million people see it on
on on twitter which is followers i have now i have a bigger impact i get more dopamine i have more influence feels better and then i go to parlor and i can make the same tweet and it's like i'm just sending it into the night because there's no network there not yet now obviously some conservatives are moving over there and that network is growing but i don't really want to be on a network that only has conservatives

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network that only has conservatives and that seems to be what's happening so you know i would be in the category of people who would leave in a heartbeat for a different platform in fact i did leave to to be on locals if you're not following me on locals uh you should know that that's a subscription platform seven bucks a month you can see the stuff that i won't put on twitter because there's stuff that if i put it on twitter i might get kicked off of twitter so if i think it's edgier or i think it's special and i think it's just for the subscribers i'll just put it on parlor so there's an app and there's a website for parlor i'm sorry not parlor locals so let me get my let me correct that in case i said that wrong more than once locals is where i put the subscription content and i'm also an investor in locals full disclosure small investor not enough to make too

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small investor not enough to make too much difference but full disclosure um
have you noticed the cnn is really going hard at the story about the hydroxyl chloroquine doctors but i pointed out on twitter the cnn is mostly only bashing the black female doctor have you noticed that so there was an event in which there were a number of doctors but the only one they're bashing is the one who happens to be black and female and from nigeria now how do you explain that obviously the racists i can you think of any other explanation for why they would pick this one person to single out and of all those white faces they pick the only black face to demonize must be racism because you know if this were the other way around that's what you'd be hearing right well it might have to do with something

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well it might have to do with something that she said besides hydroxychloroquine because it turns out she said some things that maybe are a little bit not so scientific something about scientists using alien dna to deprogram people's religions or something along those lines so anyway uh the the critics have a perfectly good case to say that you have to look at her as a whole before you incorporate her opinions but she does not represent all the other doctors she is one of those voices so i'm not sure what to make of that but i will note the cnn is bashing the only black female doctor in the group just saying just saying
here's an interesting thought according to me which which of the things that democrats most complain about trump have they not become and i'll include biden

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become and i'll include biden as part of who they've become all right so i'm going to read a list of things that they said the democrats have been saying about trump as the reasons they desperately need to replace him okay so these are all the trump flaws tell me which one of these do not clearly apply to the democrats number one he's a bully
what have we been watching antifa bullies uh cancel culture bullies um democrats at hearings bullies um social media bullies now i'm not saying there are no bullies on the right okay that's not the point i'm saying that their whole their whole thrust of joe biden as their candidate is that he's the one to get rid of trump so they're trying to get rid of trump to replace it with a situation in the candidate which is just the same or is it here's another one so i'd say bully certainly applies to the left how about

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certainly applies to the left how about anti-science and anti-data yeah absolutely different things right the the right might question some kind of science and data the left might question other science and data but it's the same they're just they're just questioning other science and data now i'm not talking about hydroxychloroquine in particular although that's certainly in the mix but take things like climate change if they followed the numbers of the experts if they looked at the experts what they say about nuclear energy et cetera they'd have a different opinion so i'd say that you could say both sides depending on the topic could be anti-science of the data but it's not going to help you to pick the other one that's just like it how about racist i would say the democrats have become full racist at this point right wouldn't you say and i don't think that's even worthy of uh discussion that's somewhat obvious at

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uh discussion that's somewhat obvious at this point um how about chaos they talk about the president would bring chaos well what are the protesters are bringing this is the most chaotic thing ever what are the democrats bringing us besides chaos it looks like chaos everywhere how about trump is uninterested in solutions doesn't that seem like the democrats at the moment they wouldn't even listen to bar
bar they wouldn't even listen to sheldenberger at least some of it so wouldn't you say they appear uninterested in solutions how about solutions for um systemic racism if the only thing they're talking about is improving school and school choice so that everybody can get a good education then i'd say they're very interested in solutions but if they're talking about their lowest priority for the black community the lowest the dead last priority in terms of number of people

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priority in terms of number of people affected and how badly it affects them would be police killing of black suspects even if everything said about it is true and i think you'd have to look at the statistics and you'd have some questions but even if it were all true it would still be the smallest problem in the entire black community wouldn't it
it think of it this way if you solved whatever problems people see in black suspects being stopped by police let's say you solved it in whatever way you do that it just goes to zero does that help you get a better education and does it help in any other way
way not too much suppose you fixed education so that every black kid every poor kid every kid has a solid education would that fix police problems later probably a lot because if you can afford a better lawyer and you're driving a better car and you know

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driving a better car and you know the statistical uh reality has changed so that if a cop pulls over a member of uh
uh you know the black community or any underserved community the police in their head thanks same as everybody else the odds of this person pulling the gun on me the odds of a crime about the same as everybody else if you fix school you you have demonstrated that you are interested in fixing the biggest problems with systemic racism now when i say fix i'm talking the way that the doctor said cure i'm talking figuratively you can't fix systemic racism you can only create a situation where the citizens are hardened against it meaning that they know how to deal with it they can slice through it like a hot knife through butter still there but you can just slice through it it's not it's not going to devastate your life anyway some more how about uh trump has money motives

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money motives and he's doing doing it for money does anybody believe that anymore i don't think anybody believes that anymore do they in the beginning people are saying that but it just seems so ludicrous that trump is doing it for the money he's definitely not doing it for the money well that's one thing i can say for sure i don't have to read his mind to know that but it does appear that the democrats have some money motives if you know what i mean how about being aligned with foreign adversaries you know there was the whole trump russia collusion thing but clearly biden is probably beholden to china biden's beholding can't spell yeah you can um
and that feels the same worse really because being beholden to china would be a far worse thing than being beholden to russia at this point in my opinion how about lying

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in my opinion how about lying that was the other big thing how can you have a president who lies look at the fact check i counted five lies in biden's little press conference and i only watched like five minutes of it and there were five lies there and there were obvious ones like like the president held his bible upside down that time it's on video it's the most ridiculous lie it's on video you can just look at it it's right side up and so biden is one of the most lying politicians of all time you know he's literally famous for lying about his own resume about his degrees he's gotten in college these are basic lies so here's the point whether or not they think biden is better than trump on policy the thing they've been saying is now policy for the last few years the thing they've been saying mostly is that it's something about trump himself and then they're trying to replace them by replace that problem by becoming all of

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replace that problem by becoming all of those things themselves all right enough of that alex english who may be watching hi alex pointed out on twitter that i had predicted and i think this was probably 20 years ago i predicted this that the media would start assassinating people on live tv for entertainment now that hasn't happened but there is a docu-series on netflix about how the the media changes the result of high-profile trials now if the media can change the outcome of a trial which is i guess the claim of this docu-series that's not exactly assassinating but it is sort of the media putting people in jail for ratings it is that so i wasn't too far off shout out to greg gutfeld whose book the plus is just out and he got a presidential

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is just out and he got a presidential retweet for his book come on i would like to speak for all authors in the world who have never gotten a trump retweet on their book hey what about us we're just jealous so congratulations greg on that and i'll be dipping into that uh this week the book it is it's called the plus you could buy it anywhere from greg guffeld um so what a here's a funny story one of the guys i guess an antifa or a protester guy set fire in a portland justice center and they caught him do you know how they identified him it turns out he had his name tattooed on his
his back his own name that's right he got a tattoo of his own name on his back and then he committed a crime with his

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and then he committed a crime with his shirt off [Laughter] he tattooed his freaking name on his back and then committed a major federal crime with his shirt off in front of so he got caught
are you as disgusted as i am as watching the people on the right say that the protests are violent because some of it is while the people on the left are saying the protests are peaceful because some of it is it's like they it's like everybody just stopped trying you know we're not even going to say things that the audience even even slightly believes is true you know what is what is true is that there's some peaceful stuff that is of course creating a shield for the
the unpeaceful stuff now if you say to yourself scott scott's got 90 of them or even higher are perfectly peaceful and they have no intention

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peaceful and they have no intention of harming anything but they are marching with the people who do have the intention of harming anything and they know that it provides them cover in my opinion that makes them all violent because they're at least supporting the violent people by creating numbers now could they stop the violent people if they wanted to in other words could all the peaceful people do they have enough numbers that if they wanted to they could just physically stop the the violent ones yeah yeah of course because they have the numbers but they don't so if they don't stop it
it's pretty close to supporting it and so i would take the view that the protests are violent and people supporting them through their the choices that they're making and consciously supporting them through the choices not as their main intention but they're conscious that they're doing it

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conscious that they're doing it they're conscious that that's an effect of what they're doing
uh here's your possibly fake news of the day uh you may have seen a video early on when minneapolis first started flaring up and before the first fire was started there was a a suspicious person with an umbrella who set fire broke a window and sapphire i think he just broke windows so other people could set fire of an autozone and that autozone became the first thing that sparked other fires and stuff and got bad and so there was much interest about who was that strange person was it police people blamed the police and now cnn has the following story unconfirmed all right now think how important this story is and now think about the fact that it's unconfirmed they think they know who did it i don't have a name but this person who is unnamed

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but this person who is unnamed is considered associated with the aryan cowboys which the anti-defamation league lists as a white supremacist prison and street gang the warrant does not label them as a white supremacist group but describes them as a quote known prison gang out of minnesota in kentucky on its facebook page the group says it does not care about a person's color so the group that they're labeling a white supremacist group has a facebook page saying that they are not concerned with color so one of those things isn't true my guess is that what they mean when they say they're not concerned about a person's color is that as long as it's not bothering them you know they just want to keep to themselves and don't want to be bothered which is different from being a white supremacist quite

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from being a white supremacist quite different you don't have to like it i'm just saying it's different and here's the sketchy part of this isn't it really convenient that the guy who sparked all the trouble happened to be an aryan cowboy now this could be true this could be a hundred percent true but do you believe it isn't this exactly the kind of story that you would find out later is fake because it looks exactly like a story that you're going to later find out is fake could it be that this aryan cowboy was so clever and so you know racist they thought it would be a good idea to to make the uh you know to make the protest worse or did he just have a thing about the autozone it's entirely possible it was just a guy who was mad at the autozone because he got fired from there or something right we might find that

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or something right we might find that out later but i don't feel this is true it feels yeah aryan cowboy sounds too good to be true doesn't it it's a little too on the nose isn't it have i taught you that that if there's a story that's a little too perfect just a little too on the nose that's usually tell that it's not true but we'll see the other fake news we're seeing a lot of today chris hayes msnbc tweeted this and a lot of other people on the left i think some of the democrats in congress were saying this that now the trump administration with the department of homeland security is doing kidnappings so they're not arresting people they're kidnapping them and what they use as evidence of this is a unmarked car with dhs people will pull up and grab somebody who doesn't appear to be doing anything dangerous at the moment and they'll arrest them now as someone who is smarter than me explained uh the reason

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smarter than me explained uh the reason that that's happening is that those people that are resting are suspected of very specific crimes but the people who arrested them waited until they were clear of other people in other words they waited until it was the safest time to pick up the person that they'd been watching so it was just an arrest but it was a safer rest now some are saying it was an extraction and i think that there might have been at least one extraction but today's news showed somebody you know who was obviously more struggling and that looked like an actual arrest so there might be some extractions yes or no i don't know but the explanation that they're just waiting for the safest time to pick somebody up is just normal police work completely normal and unmarked cars are not
not a normal it just makes sense so that's the fakest of fake news still re being reported as fact by msnbc

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fact by msnbc they're reporting this fact it's just obviously fake obviously well unless the police are lying about that or bar is lying but i don't think so
so um i saw locally that a look like a parents group might be
be organizing to get kids back to school and i've said for a while i don't know if i've said it publicly that there's one big interest group that has not weighed in yet on the question of going back to school and that group is kids if kids insist on going back to school i think it's going to happen because i don't know what your world looks like i'm sure you have complete control over your children and they never resist and they never get what they want but in most of the world kids are super powerful in 2020. if the kids collectively got together they they tic-tocked or they instagram they did whatever snapchatted

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instagram they did whatever snapchatted and they organized they could make it happen yeah i think the kids do want to go back to school because they're friends and all that and i'm wondering if they will get activated because if the kids get activated it's all over the the parents will fold the parents will fold now i think that this might be a gigantic opportunity for the president to do something with getting maybe some more freedom of choice in school so that might be a good outcome of this
can they collectively rally to get voting rights maybe they could
yeah so i'm waiting to see if anything happens from the public now the the other illegitimate reporting i'm seeing both on the left and the right goes like this it's very much like this question of protests or are peaceful or

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question of protests or are peaceful or not
not and it's the conversation of what is the danger if children go back to school now if the right is talking about it they'll say children don't get the coronavirus so the children are safe and then they'll point out that there's not a single documented case of a teacher getting it from the kids which is pretty amazing and then the right will be done explaining it all right kids are safe almost all of them and the teachers are safe well we're done right but that's not even the i'm sorry that's not even the question so it's hard for me to side with people on the right when they're so plainly manipulative it is just manipulative to say those two things and walk away that the kids will be safe the teachers will be safe open up schools completely manipulative all right that is someone who does not have your best interests in mind

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have your best interests in mind here's the full story there are three things you got to work out think about not two one is the kids probably safe enough two is the teachers probably safe enough three is that the kids come home and infect grandma then grandma dies all right that one's got to be in the conversation or you're just being manipulative if you're willing to say there are three risks two of them look clean one of them i think we should manage you know keeping grandma safe but let's be honest it won't be managed it won't be if you took a hundred people and say all right you're our hundred families you all know that you gotta keep grandma safe do your best out of a hundred how many people are going to pull it off half maybe 25 percent yeah 25 percent maybe i think 75 percent of grandmas would get infected unless kids don't carry it but i think they do

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kids don't carry it but i think they do maybe we'll find out so here's the thing if you're looking to either the left or the right and they don't explicitly mention all three risks you are being manipulated you are not being informed and nobody honest will ignore any one of the three nobody honest will ignore any of those three things when discussing it so if you see somebody who ignores any one of the three that's not an honest communicator it doesn't matter if it's the left or the right
and by the way i don't know the answer to whether kids should go back i'll give you my opinion my opinion is yes
yes and we should accept the death i know you're not allowed to say that people will die i think it's guaranteed we don't know how many but i do think that the benefit of getting back to normal of getting the kids into a healthier situation getting ourselves into a routine

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routine i do think that's worth some tens of thousands of deaths you know if you were to weigh it now if you can't say that out loud that this is worth tens of thousands of deaths because the economy has its own problems if you don't get it cranked up if you're not willing to say that i don't think you're you should be in the conversation all right um you know when we're watching these social media companies they basically they control our minds now because they control what you can see they also control our bodies by telling you what medical advice you can and cannot say so now the social media companies control our minds and through that they control our bodies the medical information we get and obviously our votes so it's it's clear at this point that the things that they could manipulate will change votes so if the social media companies can control our brains our bodies and our votes what happens

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our bodies and our votes what happens when ai takes over because the intel the artificial intelligence just has to take the whole package the artificial intelligence doesn't have to do any conquering there's nothing to conquer it's all packaged up the control of citizens is now just an algorithm and so when ai becomes the algorithm you could argue it already is but when ai becomes intentional it's going to own people because they're already packaged the social media company has rolled us up into a package to control us now unlike some people uh i don't believe that that's their intention i don't think control is like the top of their minds like i got to control things except in the way that everybody likes to control everything in a general way yes everybody wants control but anyway the ai is going to own everything eventually we've set it up that way um

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and then the other thing that the other thing that the news is just being dumb about is uh the fed the department of homeland security people are only guarding the federal offices it is such a small part of everything that's going on just the federal building that's it so we've got this tiny little area of you know violence even though the violence is pretty bad the police are getting beaten up and permanently damaged in many cases but acting like this is widespread is wrong acting like it's non-violent is equally wrong
all right that is what i wanted to say for today stop scaring us scott you know i actually am not afraid of the ai taking over i'm not um but i want to give you the scariest thought you'll have all right here it comes we have

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all right here it comes we have we always talk about when artificial intelligence will actually be intelligent and we talk about the the touring test which is you put a you put a barrier between the computer and the person and then you see if the person can tell through the barrier just through conversation either typed or verbal if if the person can tell they're talking to a machine or they can't tell the difference now that is suggested that that would be the test of when intelligence is really intelligent i would give it a different definition i believe that artificial intelligence will be intelligent the moment it is programmed with intention so as soon as you put intention into the program in other words it has a a goal it's trying to get something done something different from what the people are asking it to do so i'm not talking about a system that a human can make it do something and then it does something but rather something that has its own

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but rather something that has its own intention the moment it has its own intention you will notice it and it will be intelligent it might not be smart in the way that you can have a conversation with it it might not be fully knowledgeable in the way that the entire internet can be but if you caught even a hint of an intention coming from software that's the moment of intelligence because humans also would not act in any way intelligent if they had no intentions to protect themselves to appropriate to you know to be selfish to get what they want to to hurt other people we have lots of intentions and so when we talk our intentions come through let me give you an example if you go to your computer and you say uh can you tell me what the weather is and it gives you the weather there's no intention there right you

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there's no intention there right you know except that it's responding to you that's not really an intention but suppose you walked by your computer and it said hey you know uh i could use really use an upgrade that's a bad example let's say your computer acted selfish or it acted in a way that it seemed like it was trying to reproduce itself what would you think then suppose you walked past your digital assistant and you asked for something and the digital assistant said hey you know if if your brother had one of these devices you could send messages what would that feel like well you first time you heard it you'd say oh it's just marketing it's good marketing it's smart to have my digital advice try to sell more digital devices devices but that would also be an intention to reproduce so as soon as you have an intention built into the artificial intelligence

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built into the artificial intelligence it's intelligent even if it's not yet smart all right um
all right already baked into the touring test uh you could argue that that the touring test would pick up intention but i don't think so because i could also just answer questions intelligently and you would you would think that you had intelligence
uh ai begins at intention i think that might be a definitional thing what would be the intention given to modern ai you know the gpt-3 the new one um does that have an intention i mean other than helping out is that an intention
um all right that's all for now i've got to get ready and go under the knife i hope to so i don't know if i'll see you tomorrow morning i believe i will be awake and i believe

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i believe i will be awake and i believe i might be in some kind of pain i don't know how well i'll be able to talk or how coherent i'll be but i promise you if i'm crazy out of my mind meaning i'm i don't think i'll be on any hard drugs but
but if i'm really out of it then i'm definitely going to do the periscope i'm definitely going to be here if my brain isn't working because you don't want to miss that you know all right surgery on my sinuses coming up today i'll talk to you tomorrow maybe