Episode 1075 Scott Adams: So Much News to Talk About! This Will be the Best Periscope EVER!

Date: 2020-07-30 | Duration: 1:16:35

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• President Trump’s NATO/Germany/Russia tweet

• Google’s manually created blacklist that isn’t suppression

• Whiteboard: Evaluating Trump’s Coronavirus Performance

• My HCQ question for Democrats and their pet media

• Dr. Fauci, NBC and Andrea Mitchell’s lie by omission

• Teacher unions are root of our biggest national problems

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good morning everybody come on in come on in this will be the best coffee with scott adams ever and i'm talking about since the beginning of time 15 billion years since the start of the universe and this will be the best one that's right well some of you know that i had surgery yesterday and while i would not normally talk about my health conditions on periscope i feel i need to because i've been sharing this with you and you all had to suffer through my sniffling and my complaining and i thank you for it so number one thank you thank you for putting up with my blowing my nose on camera pretty much every time thank you for the nasal sounds that you put up with i really appreciate it i mean that um secondly yesterday was one of the best freaking days of my whole life i gotta

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freaking days of my whole life i gotta say
say which sounds weird right because i was literally in surgery so yesterday around noon or so i got pulled into surgery for these um polyps i have in my sinus which if you imagine your sinuses are like caves the polyps would be like the stalactites except more bulbous and if you have enough of them and i guess they're just genetic some people get them some people don't it blocks up your sinuses you lose your your your taste you can lose your hearing temporarily yeah you know and you become stuffed up and you can't breathe and all that so anyway i uh had them taken care of i got in my head and snipped them out uh bandaged it up i thought that when i woke up because you know i was under general anesthesia i thought when i woke up i wouldn't be able to breathe through my nose because it'd be all packed with you know gauze and stuff up in my sinuses but the doctor was very impressed

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but the doctor was very impressed with how bad i was meaning that there were so many polyps in my sinuses it was some kind of a world record i guess according to me that when he removed them even adding in the bandages and even accounting for the swelling i can breathe better than i can ever breathe in my life breathing through my nose day after surgery so that was exciting but i got to tell you what was so much what was great about the whole day
day number one i've been socially isolating for
for forever right and i had to do two serious weeks of really bad social isolation meaning as a newlywed i did not even touch my bride for two weeks so i was a little bit starved for human contact of any kind and i'm being completely serious

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completely serious so being fussed over by doctors and nurses and you know it's a whole team coming in and out and they're they're adjusting things and there's poking you with things and even though every single thing they did
did hurt you know like even when they put the tape on they tape it so it hurts and they put the needle in it hurts a little bit well almost everything they did was hurt a little bit but i was so excited to be around human beings within within touching distance and of course they were all dressed like beekeepers right i mean they had the full the full protective gear on there's not one of those people i would recognize if i saw them today if i saw them today i only saw their eyes the whole time but they were very nice very professional so anyway then they they fill you up with uh fentanyl and they wheel you in i i of course don't remember any of that i woke up not knowing who i was or where i was but i could breathe

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i could breathe and if this works meaning that if i recover and it's still as good as it is now
now this is such a life-changing event for me because i've actually never been able to breathe through my nose not as a child not at any time i had a deviated septum i fixed that it didn't help i had allergies i thought that was a problem couldn't get those under control but this this actually just bulldozed the highway so we should work now it's not permanent so i might have to do it again someday in 10 years or something but at the moment i could not be happier i got home and you know christina had waited for me the entire time and she was she was uh taking care of me when i got home because you can't you can't do too much you don't want to drive or do anything that would be include lifting or thinking so then christina fusses over me in a good way you know taking care of me and

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taking care of me and i just had a really good day and the whole time that i was in the hospital it was such a newsy day there was so much news and i had surgery was delayed a while so i was just on my phone you know tweeting and looking at the news and doing exactly what i would have done except when it was in a really comfortable like bed with this warm and warm blanket on and people people being nice to me and i was like this is way better than being home this is way better than social isolation and so i just had a terrific day it was so good that uh last night christina was making sure that i you know was still um cognizant enough to take the right meds at the right time and she was
was suggesting that i take the uh was it the tylenol whatever it is the one with codeine that knocks you out she said we'll take that one around bedtime that'll just knock you right out 20 minutes you'll be gone

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minutes you'll be gone so i'm like perfect 20 minutes i'm going to be sound asleep well i'm still waiting so i've been up for 24 hours straight i haven't even been close to sleep because i'm just not even a little bit tired i think part of it is because i slept all afternoon on the uh during surgery and i've never heard of this i don't know do you actually get a good rest when you're when you're uh you're in surgery i don't know but anyway i don't have any pain today i can breathe for the first time in my life i don't have my sense of smell back i understand that might come around slowly but i could not be happier today i just wanted to share it with you and also thank you for putting up with it i think my voice will change uh i don't know how maybe maybe you hear it already all right let's talk about some other things enough about me there's so much news look at this look at that so much news

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uh let me read you some tweets that i thought were extra clever this one from twitter user cambrie at kamv tv this is one of the most clever tweets i've seen in a long time i don't know if she got it from somebody i think she made it up but it's great and it goes like this i remember when the news used to tell us what happened and we had to decide what to think about it now the news tells us how to think about something and then we have to decide if it happened that's true isn't it it used to be they tell you the facts and then you decide what you thought about it now they tell you what to think and you're not sure if those facts actually happened this is a really clever tweet so kudos to cambrie um i tweeted yesterday that trump had one of the best tweets of his entire tweeting life and i was going to tell you what i liked about it so here's the tweet from trump and then i'll break it down for you

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then i'll break it down for you he said germany pays russia billions of dollars a year for energy and we are supposed to protect germany from russia what's that all about also germany is very delinquent and there are 2 feet of nato we are therefore removing some troops and of germany so the point of the tweet is to announce that he's moving some but not all troops out of germany but the first part of the tweet is really good just in terms of engineering you know a tweet let me tell you why if you were to try to describe to somebody in a long form what the situation is it would take you a number of sentences maybe a paragraph or so you know like why is it that we care that germany is buying any of its energy from russia because you'd have to understand that that would give them a security susceptibility because you know russia could just turn off the energy at the same time that germany

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the energy at the same time that germany is part of nato which is supposed to be protecting all of our countries and nato against russia germany is making themselves especially vulnerable to russia now it takes a little while to explain it because there are several moving parts so the way trump does it and you've seen this technique i think from me from mike cernovich from other people who
who uh tend to get a lot of retweets and he does it with a question so by putting a question in a tweet it turbo charges it you'll see you'll see a lot of us do that who know how to do this sort of thing so let me read it again so you can see how provocative how cleverly he takes a complicated thing compacts it into you know just the first part of a tweet because he needed the rest of the tweet to explain what he was up to so he compacts it into two sentences that are just about as perfect as you could write these two sentences

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as you could write these two sentences first of all it's direct sentences all right very direct look look how quickly this sentence tells you what's happening oh did i forget the simultaneous if it's coming up after this um look how directly he gets to it germany pays russia billions boom that is a simple direct statement now you know what you're talking about germany pays russia billions of dollars a year for energy perfect and we're supposed and he says and we are supposed to protect germany from russia what's that all about now the what's that all about part is is the the magic of it so the first part is perfect because it's clean it's direct it's simple which is hard to do if you try to write a sentence that clean and that simple a little harder than you think i'll get to the sip in a moment
but the what's it all about is the magic part because that's the part that invites you to figure it out like it's a little bit of a puzzle

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little bit of a puzzle but it's not enough of a puzzle that you're not going to be able to figure it out
out so you have to spend some time on it if you want somebody to really remember what you did you have to make them spend time on it you can't let them go zoop and onto the next thing it won't be retained so by putting in the form of a question what's that all about you actually answer the question well what is that all about oh okay i'm putting this putting all the pieces together all right so that was his tweet it was quite excellent but i know you're here for the simultaneous sip and it's coming up it's coming up now and all you need is a copper margarita glass of anchor tells us stein a canteen jogger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the dope being hit of the day the thing that makes everything better including the coronavirus the economy yeah racism everything go

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ahead i feel my nasal polyps healing even as we sit here amazing really um if you watched tucker carlson last night you know that he uh and and if you also follow mike cernovich on twitter you know that tucker used mike cernovich's scoop about a memo that he got a hold of a republican memo that has been characterized as republicans deciding to go easy on the tech companies now i think there's room for interpretation but that's that was the essence of the story and here's the part that bugs the hell out of me as mike cernovich pointed out on twitter tucker uses his scoop which i didn't see anywhere else i didn't see anybody else have that scoop except from mike and he doesn't mention mike cernovich's name on the show as as the person who came up

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on the show as as the person who came up with the scoop now that is not standard that's not standard behavior i don't think or at least it shouldn't be
be and i got a real problem with that because the entire context of yesterday was the big media companies essentially censoring or you know what's the word uh suppressing certain voices and then tucker did it that's literally what tucker did he suppressed mike cernovich's voice by not giving him attention when it was clearly appropriate to do so which would have been you know presumably good for mike in whatever ways that attention is good for people who operate in the public and sell books and stuff so um so that bothered me i just wanted to point that out and give mike a shout out for that and we'll talk more about that um
um in no particular order if you're if

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in no particular order if you're if you're not following undercover hoover on on twitter you probably should it's uh at john w huber h-u-b-e-r and he tweets this and the reason the reason that this got my attention is because the whole russia collusion story was so complicated and it already feels like it was 10 years ago that as new information dribbles out it's hard for your brain to take these new dribbles and connect them with this complicated story that already feels 10 years old even though it isn't and so and so you can sort of miss the big picture just in the details here's one that i missed so ask yourself if ask yourself if you knew this so undercover hubert tweets i'm not sure everyone had fully internalized yet which is an understatement that i'm not sure everyone had fully internalized yet the steels meaning this

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internalized yet the steels meaning this you know the steel uh dossier the steel's primary sub source was directly on his payroll what what payments were laundered through a front company and the source was dependent on that income from steel to maintain his work permit to live in the united states what are you kidding me how did i not know that
so oh somebody's saying if uh if cernovich got it uh why couldn't tucker have gotten it well he could have and then he might have mentioned where it came from so he didn't mention where it came from in any event and we're left assuming that but if but if your criticism is that that i can't know that for sure that he didn't have some other source that's true i can't know that with 100 certainly but 90

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all right uh so the fact that the steele dossier and the whole russia collusion thing was based on steel paying his getting information from his own employee or basically a guy that he he gives income to it's just it's just the worst worst situation and
i saw something about who was the head of the cia there what's his name i can't remember his name but he was writing the book and then he didn't have access to his notes because he lost his security clearance what was the ex-head of the cia's name [Music] uh why am i blanking on that doesn't matter um so i don't know how people don't go to jail for all this stuff how do people not go to jail no it wasn't clapper brennan yeah so brennan i guess is uh writing a book but he doesn't have access to his own

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but he doesn't have access to his own notes from the period when he was ahead of the cia because i guess trump trump said he couldn't have him
which which is probably just spite but it's funny he had that coming um so espn had a story about the nba academies in china did you see that so the nba apparently started these academies where they would work with young chinese basketball players to try to develop them to try to to get some superstars in china because if they could get some you know local chinese superstars and import them to the nba then china would watch the nba so it was a good good business move but it turns out that
and this isn't funny except that it's funny
i feel terrible laughing at this i might have to wait until i'm not laughing anymore so i can so i can say it but so

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uh apparently the local chinese coaches who were part of the academy so there would be some i guess american who would be
be you know they had but then there would be the subsidiary coaches and the i guess the local chinese coaches uh if you don't do a good job they hit you
you [Laughter] they hit you they like like punch them they'll kick them and punch them so these guys these chinese basketball players are trying to you know play basketball and they you know if they fumble the ball the coach will come over and punch him so here's here's the mba you know first of all they get they get sort of a bad reputation just for being subservient to china in general so so they're already behind the ball so to speak being subservient to china because that's obviously not a popular thing in america but then to find out that they're running academies of uh of child abuse

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academies of uh of child abuse in china just couldn't be more perfect anyway by the way if i start bleeding don't worry because i'm supposed to be bleeding for another day or so um
anyway so espn basically threw the nba under a bus with a story about their nba academies and the the players getting uh abused and there's nothing funny about anybody getting hit but what's funny is just how how awful this is it's just it's if imagine being the commissioner of the nba and you wake up one day and you're like oh well let's see what's in the news check espn yeah espn uh-oh apparently i'm the head of a child abuse uh ring so that was probably a bad day for the commissioner all right uh you of course all saw the

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all right uh you of course all saw the tech ceos ceos being interviewed by congress oh my god that was quite a thing now i didn't see all of it but i saw the important points and here's the thing that's a real
there's something happening now let me just say this as a general comment there's something happening with reality in the world now that people can know something is true and that thing can be extraordinarily important and we will act like it's not there have you seen that it feels like there are all these stories of things we just act like are not there for example the russia collusion thing it was obviously a coup to overthrow the legally elected president of the united states why isn't that in the news every day that feels like a big thing right so here's here's the other thing that's a big thing so yesterday matt gates is interviewing or

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matt gates is interviewing or questioning the tech ceos and he's talking to google ceo pinchai if i'm saying it right i hope i am and he he says uh to him you know that he had testified earlier in a in some prior uh hearing that they did not manually um what would be the word they did not manually mess with the search results in other words the algorithm was the algorithm and google said they didn't do anything to promote or suppress any political point of view that sort of thing so then matt gates challenges him on that and gets him to admit the google ceo gets them to admit in direct language that they do in fact create these black lists if you will or lists of people to suppress and that they're doing it manually now

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manually now so now he admits exactly that yes it's a manual process which we create a list of people that we're suppressing and then matt gates says so you admit you're creating a ma you're manually creating a list of people you're suppressing and then he says no no i'm like okay let me put this in an analogy form so you can see it better um let's say it's not about technology at all let's say it's a um google ceo did you murder a cat and i says no i did not did not murder a cat did you pick up a cat strangle it put it in a little wooden box and bury it oh yeah i did that

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but you're saying you didn't murder a cat
cat no i didn't murder a cat okay okay you didn't murder a cat but you took a live cat you twisted his neck until it wasn't alive you put it in a box and you buried it that you did right yeah that's what i did
did but you accused me of murdering a cat no that's a murdering a cat that's a cat you murdered it just say it you murder cats i don't murder any cats i don't know what you're talking about i'll sometimes twist their necks put them in a box put them in the ground well not murder
now i think the way pinchai was trying to
to lawyer his way out of the answer was by saying that no no it's not manual it goes through the algorithm in other words they manually create a list and then the algorithm uses it it wasn't him using it it was the

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it wasn't him using it it was the algorithm using it oh yeah they created a manual list for the algorithm to use but once the algorithm is using it i mean it's out of their hands right it was the most ridiculous lie i've ever seen in public i mean just completely ridiculous
and here's the example so we just saw me let me finish this it gets better so now we know that this at least google admits they are manually influencing search results and therefore obviously um controlling elections at least to the extent that they can suppress things and promote things you know for example that breitbart basically just got disappeared and a number of other sites pro-trump sites just got disappeared would that affect your your election of course yeah absolutely so we have established

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absolutely so we have established yesterday without any question that the big tech companies at least google that one because he admitted it is and it's obvious is is influencing elections and they don't plan to do anything about it apparently there was no no sense of oh yeah we're going to change that or nothing like that basically he just acted like he was just going to keep doing it by simply by not saying he wasn't going to do it so here's the punch line so then the the ceos were all asked if they thought that china was stealing uh intellectual property and here's the fun part mark zuckerberg said absolutely yes facebook does not operate in china that's important because they they have a chinese competitor is it wechat or something so facebook doesn't make money from china so zuckerberg says yeah totally they're still an ip

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yeah totally they're still an ip so then they go to the other three ceos who make a lot of money in china a lot of money tim cook says no no they haven't they haven't stolen anything from us it took about five minutes for somebody on twitter to tweet the story of an entire artificial apple store in china there was a fake apple store not only did they steal you know the iep but they recreated it in a store a whole store that looked just like an apple store but i had a few differences you could tell if it was the most ridiculous lie now do you think there's any chance that china isn't trying to get into the apple technology the factories are in their country the apple factories are in china yes china's getting it to apple stuff of course and tim cook looks right at the congress

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and tim cook looks right at the congress it's like don't know anything about that nope then then jeff bezos gives the weaseliest buzz smart let me say this all four ceos geniuses just brilliant people right so nothing i'm going to say would detract from the fact that these are really smart people these are operating at the highest level as opposed to the members of congress like simpson brenner or whoever it was who looks like a like a monkey basically talking to these guys so then jeff bezos gives his answers like well i've read reports which is not answering the question about amazon it's it's simply saying i read reports because we've all read reports and he got away with that he got away with that answer i read some things so that's why he's the richest guy in the world because that was a pretty good answer if you're trying to avoid answering pretty good

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pretty good so that was good and then the more interesting one was pinchai the ceo of google and he said no he said no but soon after he corrected i don't know how much time elapsed it wasn't that much time but later on he made sure that he updated them and said no um in 2009 google was hacked by china and they stole some of our code
that's exactly what theft is so but he wasn't going to say it apparently until there was a published report because apparently that had been in the news when it happened so it would be hard to deny something that could be so easily googled right i mean you just have to use his own product well is that true let's google china hackers well there it is 2009. i guess you guess you delight so google kind of had to correct that

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so google kind of had to correct that because the report was out there you know in conflict but if you see that the three ceos who have the most financial interest in china all bowed to china the one who didn't have a financial interest didn't what can you conclude about that well here's what i conclude i conclude that the tech companies can't do anything that china would object to because if they did it would be a pretty big problem so doesn't that mean if the tech companies are controlling our elections and china has direct control of the tech companies doesn't that make china in charge of our elections because it does now you say to yourself yeah it's not that direct sure china's pushing a little influence here and there other people are pushing a little influence but it probably all gets lost in the rounding right

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in the rounding right i don't know because riddle me this if joe biden were not running against trump could the tech companies be so pro-biden and anti-trump could they get away with it because is it a coincidence that the tech companies are
are universally supporting the most pro-china candidate running for president it could be a coincidence it could be a coincidence but if it were not true i think they would have to change something in other words if it were not conveniently luckily true the biden is pro-china and also a democrat so of course the tech companies are going to favor the democrat what if that were not the case would they have to make it the case would they have to you know get another candidate i don't know at this point it's looking a lot like china runs the country

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a lot like china runs the country now what's the solution to that turnout the only solution to that because i think i think that the foreign influences and every other influence all the malign influences even the cheating on you know whatever cheating there is with ballots et cetera voter suppression all that if you if you count all of that some of it's gonna you know wash out the other but voter turnout is sort of the only thing that's gonna protect the country if you don't have massive like sort of historically high turnout china gets to decide who the president is that's it if you don't have historically like super turnout china is your daddy because that's the way it's going to go so there's that
you all know seth macfarlane from family guy and other great things i wrote about him in my book loser think

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my book loser think uh because he's a perfect example of loser think and what i mean by that is not that he's um unintelligent because he's actually quite quite intelligent he's very talented in a number of different areas he can sing you know he can he writes he acts produces directs i don't know does all kinds of stuff so so starting with seth macfarlane very talented and has a really impressive talent stack but what he doesn't have is experience in the fields where people make decisions the fields such as economics etc
etc and it comes through in his tweets and i'll give you an example he tweeted this today or yesterday god only knows what trump administration has to gain by completely blowing off all responsibility to formulate a strategy to contain the pandemic one would think a responsible effort

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a responsible effort would help his chances in november instead this utterly deranged so let me break it down for you god only knows what the trump administration has to gain by completely blowing off so this is a mind-reading thing where he's trying to read their minds that's not a thing so as soon as you're into mind-reading mode you're you've you've lost the the scent of of uh of your argument all right and exactly like there's a that they haven't formulated a strategy now i'm going to give you a lesson from loser think on my whiteboard about how to evaluate trump's performance on the coronavirus because i think most of us would agree that if trump is seen as doing a good job on the coronavirus by november he will get reelected if he is seen as doing a poor job it's going to be harder so did trump do a good job or a bad job on chronovirus and how

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or a bad job on chronovirus and how would you decide that let me teach you from my book loser think these are some of the things you would learn there so i would say there are five things you should look at you can compare them to the other president who is doing the same job at the same time oh wait there wasn't one oh so i guess you can't compare him to the other president who was president of the united states at the same time who was making different decisions and got a different outcome because that person doesn't exist but we imagine it does and that's sort of the the seth macfarlane um method he imagines a competent president and what that would look like and then he then he looks at trump and he says man you're not nearly as good as the imaginary one in my mind that is loser think because the imaginary one doesn't exist and you don't know what that person would do if they did exist it is completely irrational to look at

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it is completely irrational to look at one person doing one thing in one case and saying well that's not as good as the other imaginary person would do now there will be some modifications to that what i'll get to but in general that's the starting point number two you could compare the united states performance to other countries and if we were say in the top 20 percent you'd say pretty good probably something to do with leadership not necessarily but probably if you're in the top 20 but here's the problem all of our data is bad is is uh sweden doing really well or we're really bad get onto twitter spend five minutes looking at sweden related coronavirus arguments and data and you will learn we don't know what's going on there we don't know what's going on in sweden we don't know what's going on anywhere really all of our data is bad and here's the bigger part it's not over yet

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here's the bigger part it's not over yet right because it would be easier to wait to the end wouldn't it if you waited to the end you could see all right we don't have to judge the the outcome of the game at halftime which wouldn't make sense right because we're at half time now so comparing to other countries at halftime that's kind of dicey but it would be real really good if you could compare him at the end when everybody's buried who's going to be buried and you can count up the deaths which ultimately would be the best for the scorecard but here's the thing we're not there yet we're not there and what happens to all the countries who are doing really well right now how about the countries that got their in their infections and deaths down to like single digits what's going to happen to them in november it's coming back the the thing that everybody misses in this is that there's nothing that's going to stop this virus

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going to stop this virus from infecting herd immunity everywhere unless something gets invented that hasn't yet been invented if you think there's going to be a vaccine well that's terrific i don't i don't believe that a vaccine is going to save us i think that all of the other countries are going to end up being kind of comparable because the virus can't be stopped and even if you're taiwan and you like drive it to zero which i think they did at one point as soon as you open your airports it's coming back because we didn't drive it to zero so as long as the united states is not a zero and other big countries are not a zero and there's global travel and everybody opens up their economy because why wouldn't you if your infections are so low it's just going to come back so if you're looking at it today you're looking at the game at halftime and you're acting like you know how it ends you don't it would be completely irrational today

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it would be completely irrational today to compare any country to any other country number one all the data is bad all the data is bad and not comparable and you know what's what's up with the vitamin d what's up with the uh uh the uh vaccinations for tuberculosis they have some kind of connection what's up with hydroxychloroquine use what's up with the age what's up with you know do they count right do they test right do they do they measure the deaths accurately we don't have any of that as soon as you think that we have good data on this you are so far into imaginary wonderland that i don't know how to get you back right so we can't compare them to the president that doesn't exist we can't compare him to other countries because the date is bad and that would be half time anyway we can't compare the final outcome because that's months away but we could look at his strategy and see what he's actually doing now the only way you could you could judge his strategy to be bad is if it was just so obviously bad

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bad is if it was just so obviously bad for example if his strategy to fight the coronavirus was to sacrifice a chicken and sing to the moon we wouldn't have to do any kind of a study to find out that that was bad strategy right it was just sort of obvious so is there anything that the president has done or is doing is just obviously wrong and could you say that he doesn't have a strategy as seth macfarlane says well i don't like to use the word strategy because there's no in some sense there's no no such thing that's another conversation but we do have a system and let me explain it my understanding of the federal let's say the federal government's response to coronavirus is number one let the states take the lead in deciding on a city-by-city basis what to do that's our federal system does anybody think that's crazy is it crazy to let the states take the lead on the on the details

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take the lead on the on the details within the state no that's our system it's exactly what you'd expect the president to do now the other thing you'd want them to do is to backstop them so if they don't have enough ppe don't have enough ventilators well that's something the federal government could really do they can step in with their emergency funding and powers and get that done did the president do that yeah yeah he did that so we got the ventilators we got the ppe didn't run out hospitals didn't crash so that worked out the other part of the plan was that we would stay flexible and we would probably experiment with reopening and then pull back if we needed to experiment pull back and then we would also be trying you know try masks try this try that and that we would be picking away at it because nobody knew the right answer in a situation where nobody knows the right answer somebody guesses door a another leader guesses door b and let's say b turns out to be the

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and let's say b turns out to be the right one but they both guessed there was no information to be had they just guessed is leader b the good one because they guessed right well you know history history will record it that way but uh no it's just a guess so the system we used was to stay flexible try stuff pull back try stuff pull back give the states as much authority as possible share as much information as possible do the press conferences it looked pretty good to me i mean there's nothing about that that i just described that is like sacrificing a chicken and singing to the moon so you could argue that it could have been done better right but you wouldn't have any information there you could say i think hypothetically if something was done differently you'd get a better result but you can't know that and there's no evidence of that here's the uh last category the president's tweets

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president's tweets his communication his pressers and basically just the way he talks about it i would say that's not been an a plus and i don't think anybody would say that i think you know he could have been stronger on masks perhaps but did it matter is there anybody not wearing a mask because the president maybe i don't know but i feel like i feel like republicans would have ended up there anyway i don't think that if trump wore a mask every day do you think that that would cause the voters to wear more masks i don't know might just cause the democrats to not wear masks right because we see that whatever trump does half the country is going to do the other thing or say it's wrong so there's no evidence to suggest that if trump had been stronger on his messaging on masks more people would wear masks just that is not an evidence because of his special case that people would rather do the opposite of their democrats um what about his uh speculating of

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um what about his uh speculating of you know hydroxychloroquine well that's halftime too isn't it is hydroxychloroquine the real thing if it turns out that by november we find out that hydroxychloroquine works trump is your president i don't know if we'll do that so i'm still at 50 percent chance that the hydroxychloroquine when administered early and with the azithromycin then zinc that's the important part that i'd say 50 chance that there's something real there and 50 chance that confirmation biases overcome us and that there isn't anything there um but will we know that by november don't know um
and so i would say that communication wise he probably should have stayed away from the medical stuff a little bit but he did listen to the experts he did listen to the experts i just

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he did listen to the experts i just described a perfectly rational approach we don't know if in the end that's going to be better or worse than other countries because it's only half time and the you know the infection rates and curves in different countries were not aligned so it's not like everybody started at the same time and did the same things so you should have some timing differences it should be expected the countries doing well will eventually do less well and the ones that are doing less well will eventually do well and that you can see you can see the curves crossing a lot
lot between now and the end of the year all right let us talk about hydroxychloroquine because we must yes we must and i issued this challenge on twitter i hope some of you saw it it goes like this and i feel like i should just run right through this have you ever seen a story about a guy who got coveted you know actually was infected got early

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you know actually was infected got early treatment with hydroxychloroquine zinc and azithromycin all three and then he died have you ever seen that have you heard of one case anywhere in the world in which a person any person anybody in the world got the coronavirus and within a few days of getting it also got the three drugs and then later died because if you can show me one of those ideally five five would be good then i would say to myself well that's not a cure is it you know it's still worth studying but since five people who took it in exactly the right way five of them died and we can confirm it let's say i would say well that moves to the skeptical side because remember the claims are that it's nearly a miracle the claim is that the word cure

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the claim is that the word cure in quotes because it's not technically a cure but it's so close to a cure that you can kind of say nobody's going to die now let me ask you this i know some of you were afraid that it would be too easy to find such cases but let me ask you this if democrats could find any of those stories wouldn't they be in the news already don't you think that the democrats would run
run one profile a day in one of their pet media vehicles don't you think the cnn would have a story every other day about the person who took exactly the right amount at exactly the right time and died anyway because that would be the kill shot there isn't a single chance that trump could get elected if five stories ran about five real human beings who took exactly the hydroxychloroquine thing with the three drug combo and died it would only take five real stories

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it would only take five real stories to end the trump presidency how many have you seen zero so now i've tweeted it to half a million people now most of them are conservative so they're not going to try to you know accomplish the challenge i would imagine but there will be enough democrats there will be enough operatives because a lot of people watch my twitter enough people you know a lot of congress apparently watches my uh my periscopes i've learned so there will be enough people on the left to see this challenge and they will say to themselves my god that's true that is true right does anybody disagree with this statement that if the media ran
ran just five profiles of somebody who died on the drug that you know trump seems to like that would be sort of the end of him because the coronavirus is the big story it's going to determine the election so if you don't see any of those in the next month

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that might tell you something doesn't tell you it works because you could you know the the lack of evidence is not proof of something but it would certainly push me a lot further into the there might be something here category i would raise my 50 estimate so this will just be fun to see if anybody can rise to the challenge and by the way um i wouldn't say i would be just as happy but i would be i would feel like i had done a service for the country if those five people do appear because don't you want to know i mean it's kind of important you kind of want to know if the hydroxyl chloroclean works i kind of want to know the answer so even if the answer is not the one i want i kind of want to know the answer even if it changes the election because it's that important all right um
andy noe tweeted this little fact if you're not following him uh to watch all the protest action and video you're missing a lot so

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action and video you're missing a lot so is andy no ngo and he tweeted that according to law enforcement source there have been 22 homicides in portland since june 1st so that's seven weeks 22 murders in all of last year there were only 36. so we got 22 murders in seven weeks compared to a full year which would typically be 36. and then he said that the mayor ted wheeler dismantled the gun violence reduction team because he and others said it was unfair to blacks now are you seeing a pattern here i'm seeing in your comments people saying that herman cain died so i don't know about that story but we'll look into it later but people are saying it in the comments so you don't have to say it again i just said that so you don't have to um so here's the pattern it looks like uh if this rate continued of this number of homicides you'd have some [Music]

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[Music] you know if if you assume that there's some breakdown of how many black people are getting killed by murder and white people etc if it's typical of a big city hundreds of black people will be murdered because the mayor dismantled the gun violence reduction team because it was unfair to the black people hundreds of which would be murdered by this change now i'm pro-gun all right i'm pro-second amendment so i don't have i guess i don't have a philosophical problem with not taking guns away from people but i'm just not sure that the black citizens of this country are getting are really getting uh any favors from the white people in this country who are literally trying to help them and doing all the wrong things now this this story reminded me you know so ted wheeler is a white guy

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so ted wheeler is a white guy trying to help the black community probably means it probably means well you know i have no reason to think he means anything you know bad so he he thinks he's doing a good thing and it probably ended up in the murder of hundreds murder murder of hundreds of his citizens that didn't need to get murdered but he protected the feelings of some people and i guess that's good too but this reminds me of is it my imagination or have white women completely ruined the black lives black lives matter movement is that is that just my imagination because i keep seeing more videos of uh actual real black people yelling at white people who are trying to help them but they're not helping them at all you know like the the the white girls who are graffitiing black lives matter on a business and and the black citizens are back there saying don't do that that's just going to look

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don't do that that's just going to look bad for us you're not even black why are you writing black lives matter on a building they're going to assume it's us in the right so just over and over again uh and if you're watching the arrests correct me if i'm wrong it's all white people getting arrested right whenever you see these arrest things i guess there have been some some black people arrested but it feels like it's mostly white people and it's just making the whole black lives movement it's just ruining it it's completely ruining it and when you see black people complain that anything that they do that's good gets ruined by white people the first time you hear that you say well that's that's not true it's not true that everything good that black people do some white person is going to come steal it or ruin it that's not true and then you look at all the examples and you go
it's a little bit true it's not maybe 100 true but it's

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100 true but it's it's trueish it's got some truth to it
trump had a couple of interesting executive orders which is one of his advantages he has because he's an office so he can actually do stuff whereas biden can talk about stuff but trump could do stuff and he did two interesting things uh one of them he said he was happy to inform all the people living in their suburban lifestyle dream which is just a great phrase coming from the president that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood so he signed an executive order overturning some obama rule that required low-income housing in the suburbs now here's the important part of that would this have been possible before the protests do you think that trump could have gotten away i don't know if he'll get away with it yet but he's trying do you think he'll get away with an executive order banning low-income housing in the in the

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banning low-income housing in the in the suburbs today and the answer is yes the answer is yes you can get away with it
it but could he have gotten away with it a year ago here's why i don't think he could a year ago if you had seen that the president wanted to um strike down low-income housing requirements what would you think of that a year ago you would have said well no that you know why can't we help the low-income people you know everybody's got to live in the town i mean the town isn't going to be all prosperous people right if the town has restaurants you need restaurant workers they have to live somewhere you've got senior citizens so of course you want some low income housing around your suburban area it's just fair and it kind of makes sense right so that's what you would have thought a year ago and you would have said well that sounds a little racist sounds a little bit racist because you're saying low-income housing but maybe you're thinking people of color is that what you're thinking right so

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is that what you're thinking right so that's what it would look like a year ago
ago what's it look like today today it looks like the best idea you ever heard because the protests are making it seem and again it's how you feel it's it's what you think is true it's not what's true that matters it's just what you think is true and when you watch the protest what you think is i need to get as far away from that group of people as i can young people without much money let's just call it that youngish people without much money because they look dangerous they're protesting they're lighting stuff on fire they got purple hair my god purple hair i like purple hair but somebody's going to say something like that so trump is so good at picking up free money that's i always say that about him and because of the protests this low-income housing executive order became free money it was like a pile of money just sitting on the table and all he had

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just sitting on the table and all he had to do is walk by and say is this money does this belong to anybody no all right it's my money and just pick it up and he did i think this was in terms of timing this was the best timing you've ever seen for an executive order i mean i mean i just laughed when i saw it's like oh my god that's just perfect independent of what you think about the idea the politics of it is perfect then after this the ceos of the tech companies did their uh
uh their hearing he does another executive order directed to the fcc to implement uh preventing online censorship to limit section 230. so i don't know the details of that yet i'm not sure there are details but the president just said how about i use my executive order and just tell them they have to you know stop uh discriminating who exactly can argue against that

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argue against that is there anybody on the other side of that is he going to force the democrats to say no we don't want freedom of speech there's nothing you can do about it now i don't know if this executive order will have any impact but it does put pressure on the tech companies and a lot of trump's base had been screaming for months that he wasn't doing enough to protect the base you know their their voices and keep them on the platforms etc and i don't know if this is enough but it's a lot right an executive order from the president to prevent online censorship that's a lot
lot right i don't know how it'll play out but it doesn't it's not nothing it's a lot all right um when you're trying to figure out who the liars are in this world it seems like it's getting easier and easier now nbc news used to be something like a news business but now i think everybody agrees it's something else i don't know what it

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it's something else i don't know what it is it's either a cia front i don't know but it's whatever it is that they don't seem to try too hard to get the news right it looks they're more like the national enquirer of news at this point so nbc's andrea mitchell was interviewing dr fauci and of course asked about hydroxychloroquine and fauci gave this answer which is that all of the gold standard clinical trials the only ones that really can tell you if something works or not have shown it has no effect and it might even be harmful now is that a lie no no that's completely 100 true the only you know high end you know with uh controls and you know placebo and all that the only high-end studies did show that it didn't work but what did andrea mitchell and nbc and dr fauci leave out because there's a lie by

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leave out because there's a lie by omission here here's what's left out the trials that didn't work were when they tested the wrong thing they tested hospitalized patients who were near death who already had these psychotone you know storm or whatever it is their immune system had grown wild which is not what the hydroxychloroquine is supposed to work on because the the infection has two phases when the infection grows and then the dangerous part is if it causes your immune system to go crazy nobody thinks that the hydroxychloroquine is for that second part but that's what they studied so if the only thing you studied was the wrong thing should you go on tv and say the studies show it doesn't work for the thing that didn't get studied because when they study the other stuff these are not as high quality studies so even though there are a lot of them you don't have to you don't have to tweet me yet another study about hydroxychloroquine working

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study about hydroxychloroquine working if you get it early i've seen them there are a lot of them but they all have the same quality they're not a gold standard you know double blind sort of test so doesn't matter how many there are they don't add up to credibility right there could be hundreds of them they still wouldn't mean anything because that's why you have the gold standard study the whole point of the gold standard kind of study clinical trial is that all of the other things don't work if they did then that's all you need to do you never have to do the other kind now is it true that the more studies you have that look at it from different angles even if they're not 100 you know quality studies if you have lots and lots of them does that eventually tell you that you know you should use it here's my take then it becomes a risk management decision then you say to yourself well there's a good chance it could work

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good chance it could work and there's almost no chance it'll hurt you so it doesn't cost much won't hurt you might work let's try it so you'd end up in the same place of trying it without without that certainty so here's my point i don't believe there's any way that dr fauci doesn't know what i just said right you you'd agree that he knows everything i know and lots more so there should be nothing i know that's this basic that he doesn't already know and he knows that when he says it's been tested and didn't work he knows he's talking about the wrong thing right in the beginning you could say well you know he chose to focus on this or you know he likes to talk about the the high quality trials but he uses those as an example of how the completely other thing won't work and that has not been tested in those same kind of trials and when they do test it looks like it works in the in the

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it looks like it works in the in the lesser trials so um i would say that yesterday when i saw this was my departure point for dr fauci so i like to give everybody maximum benefit of a doubt i don't like to do the mind reading where you say well i think you're lying or i think you have a you know some interest or something i'd rather give everybody the benefit of a doubt because usually that's right but i can't anymore i can't anymore this is just so obviously a lie and it's really important one this this isn't some this isn't some small thing this is important and he lied about it and nbc did too so don't trust them um
here's uh interesting thing uh i tweeted just before i got on i want to see how many retweets i got in that that the root of all of our problems and i'm going to say this as many times in as many days as it takes until it becomes a thing

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becomes a thing that the root of all of our current national problems are the teachers unions now if that isn't immediately obvious to you
you let me give you some examples 1500 retweets so people are agreeing so this was my tweet i said most of our national problems and then i list them unemployment poverty systemic racism the school's close the uptick in suicide the crime drugs and even trump derangement syndrome are all caused by the teachers unions because the teachers unions restrict competition for schools so they they're the force that stops you from having more charter schools and more private schools and all that and because they restrict school choice that means less competition and it means that people get bad educations and if you live in a poorer part of town you're definitely going to get a bad education so does giving poor people a bad education does that increase unemployment yes

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does that increase unemployment yes yes it does does giving poor people a bad education increase poverty yes yes it does does giving poor people a bad education
increase systemic racism in a sense here's the way i like to say it systemic racism exists but it's not going away it gets sort of just baked into everything and everybody is just sort of it's like the air but if you have a good education and a good job does racism bother you as much it's still there still bothers you but it's not stopping your life from succeeding right so if the teachers unions could allow poor kids and black kids in this in this context the black kids to get well actually any person of color i suppose to get a better education there would still be systemic racism but you wouldn't notice it as much it just wouldn't be a reason to complain about it it's like yeah people are jerks that's it people are

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people are jerks that's it people are jerks i got a good job that's it how about closed schools that's totally the teachers unions and all the problems that the closed schools cause including an uptick in suicide teen suicide going through the roof teachers union crime drugs all of those are caused by poverty bad education so basically we have essentially one problem in this country the teachers unions if you could if you could thwart them fix them get them out of the picture or whatever and fix education for kids all of those other problems start to get solved you know within a generation if you focus on the exact wrong thing such as the death of george floyd as tragic as it was if you focus on the entirely wrong thing literally the smallest problem in the black community feels like the biggest one maybe but

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feels like the biggest one maybe but it's definitely the smallest one because if you fix the george floyd problem let's say let's say the police officers get found guilty and go to jail i guess you're you fixed your structural racism right no wouldn't fix anything it would be the smallest thing if you're talking about the entire your community of you know the country the black community in particular it would be the smallest thing but what if you fixed education what if every black kid was just guaranteed if they wanted one to have a good education even if they didn't have two parents even if they weren't rich no matter where they lived they'd definitely get a good education what's that fix that fixes everything basically so um teachers unions are the devils i might be saying that a little more uh the ap reports that there's a russian disinformation campaign going on and that they're spreading stories on their websites

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spreading stories on their websites that are conspiracy type theories to you know mess things up in the united states but here's the thing i read some of the examples i've never heard them before so apparently there are these russian-made conspiracy theories on these obscure websites none of these got into any you know name brand website they're like no traffic websites with these ridiculous conspiracy theories that i've never even heard of and they look ridiculous on the surface i didn't even remember them they're so so nothing and i realized that the russian disinformation can't pierce all of our domestic disinformation there is so much disinformation from our own media that you need a lot of russian disinformation even to get noticed because you know you when you think about disinformation from a from a foreign adversary you your imagination goes to all right there's all our good information

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all our good information there's this big body of clean credible good information and then damn those russians they're putting this this little bit of wrong information into our good clean information it's ruining everything except nothing like that's happening what's happening is you've got a giant turd and russia is flying over and pooping on it like a bird so you've added a little bit of bird turd to an eight-foot pile of manure
i guess that's foreign interference but that bird turd is not going to penetrate eight feet of disinformation from our own media i mean it's just good luck russia russia if you could come up with better disinformation than cnn and msnbc go ahead knock yourself out all right
here's an interesting factoid to throw in the mix so uh dr james todaro he's one of the

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so uh dr james todaro he's one of the front line doctors who was a pro hydroxychloroquine uh but he's i find him to be the most credible of the bunch and especially he's the most credible on the um on the topic of hydroxychloroquine being suppressed right so there's two questions one is does it work which he thinks it does and then the other question is is somebody trying to suppress it i would say his argument that it's being suppressed is really strong his argument that it works yeah i could be convinced but i'm not quite there yet so here's what he tweeted today he said after four months of appeals since it was taken down google finally uncensored our initial paper on hydroxicolar queen in treatment of kovid19 and then he said it's strange google reversed this decision immediately before appearing in front of congress today to discuss censorship

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censorship so google uncensored their paper that they've been trying to get uncensored forever the day that they were called in front of congress to answer for their censorship maybe a coincidence maybe not all right here's the worst story of the day i'll land on this so uh you remember mike schellenberger who wrote apocalypse never i had him on here and he's an expert on environmental stuff so congress asked him to come in for a hearing so that they could you know learn what he had to say compare it to everything else they knew and make better decisions sounds pretty good right congress invites an expert in expert gives them some information maybe they agree with it maybe they don't talk to some other experts that's all good stuff right well what happens is they gave him the the bill bar treatment the democrats basically just used their time to malign

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basically just used their time to malign his character and just leave it there all they did was just trash him the democrats anyway so imagine being invited to congress and here's the the key part of this he's not an elected representative you know he's not the ceo of a tech company that's effectively running the world he's not the ceo of a tobacco company he's a guy who's trying to help the earth he's trying to help the earth like that's his job you know like he lives and breathes and has been doing it for i guess most of his or all of his adult life learning everything he can about you know green technology every bit of conservation everything and he's just going in to tell him to tell them what he knows and they trashed him the democrats um that is so wrong i don't even know how to express it because it's one thing to trash you know the

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the you know a politician or somebody who's in the ring and you've got a a rivalry but when you ask a citizen a private citizen who just happens to be an expert on something you ask him in and then you use the power of congress to ruin his reputation or try to or try to and squash him like a bug you sorry didn't mean to swear slip down but um that was the most grotesque thing i think i've seen from any government because that's just that just crosses the line right you know you can do anything to the professionals and you know obviously michael schoenberg's a professional but he's a private citizen like we didn't elect him yet we might elect him someday but haven't elected him yet that was just inappropriate all right um we'll go check on herman cain i guess there's some story there um

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i guess there's some story there um did you enjoy today's periscope i told you it would be the best one ever i think it was what do you say um the left is being surprised by the right's tenacity somebody says are they thoughts on election day do you mean the day itself or the result um on the day itself i don't know that's all up in the air it's hard it's hard to know now did you see the uh there was a some local local news program i think it was they did a test of mail-in ballots and i think the test was just to mail a bunch of ballots and just see if they arrived and something like three out of 100 didn't arrive and i thought to myself uh three out of 100 is too much if if 3 out of 100 just got lost in the mail that's a problem it's a pretty big problem because our elections are decided by less than three percent

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are decided by less than three percent oh you agree it was the the best ever and happy birthday to mausman uh or mossman wassman uh thank you thank you yeah i don't take days off i don't like sleep so i've been up 24 hours and i'm not even a little bit tired i don't know what's up with this but i will talk to you tomorrow