Episode 1085 Scott Adams: Trump’s Presser, Biden Goes Full Gopher, Antifa Costume Play, CNN Helps

Date: 2020-08-08 | Duration: 58:47

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• Powerful moves by President Trump

• Why is Biden delaying his VP pick?

• Reasons: 36% Black support for President Trump

• Kanye’s impressive bible-based platform

• Police rights when Antifa blinds with lasers

• Election influence by Russia, China, Iran

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well hello to all of you dog pony soldiers too it's good that we dog-faced pony soldiers could all come together and today could be an amazing amazing coffee with scott adams why well no reason it's just going to be really good and if you'd like to enjoy it to its fullest let me recommend that what you need is a copper micro glass attacker challenger stein a canteen jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything better including shadow banning sip go
ah the simultaneous sip does get better every time first time i told you that you thought

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first time i told you that you thought oh scott it can't get better every time i mean sooner or later you're going to have one that's subpar but no never happens one time after another the simultaneous sip crushes it well um the biggest news uh and i don't know how many of you had this on your predict it but uh it seems that the candidate for the libertarian party was bitten by a possibly rabid bat and and why wouldn't she be because it's 20 20.
20. in 2020 if the simulation isn't going to serve you up a major candidate for president who was bit by a maybe rabid bat well then the simulation is not trying and i think it's trying this year oh is it trying we've had more news this year than well all the other years put together

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well all the other years put together multiplied by three let's talk about some of that news today the headlines on fox news are all a bunch of fake news so fox has gone full fake news on the bill clinton um epstein island stuff and here's what i mean by fake news do i know if bill clinton was ever on the island i do not do i know that it wasn't on the island i do not but what i do know is that the person who the and as far as i can tell the only evidence they use on the on the island is from what i'd call an unreliable witness the same person who accuses um who accuses dershowitz of being there and dershowitz has pointed out that her credibility is whatever is less than zero so if you here's my problem with fox news on their coverage what they're covering is true

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what they're covering is true what they're leaving out is almost criminal what they're leaving out is that the one accuser who saw bill clinton on that island has no credibility none and there's a background for that ellen dershowitz does it i think the key reason that you should be aware of is that i think she also accused al gore of being there and i believe that there is a body of records proving that he was not there in the times that she said he was so if caught in one lie that is identical to the type of lie well the type of accusation that's a zero credibility situation that's not a well she got one wrong before but that doesn't mean she's wrong about everything else no it's a zero it's a zero credibility which doesn't mean it didn't happen remember we live in a anything's possible world where candidates for president can be re

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candidates for president can be re bitten by a possibly rabid bat so nothing's off the table i'm just saying that if you run this story without very prominently saying the only evidence it has zero credibility that's just fake news so if you think your fake news is only coming to you from the left there's a prime example of fox news faking it up for you and again the news is accurate but leaving out that context just turns it into fake news in my opinion
so here's a story that should worry the hell on you so one of my followers and might be on this periscope right now d d texas grandma 65 grandma spelled gma noted that she was following me but then somehow got unfollowed so automatically unfollowed so this prompted me to circle back to a story that

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that i'd been talking about maybe a year ago i can't remember in which i noticed that i had been unfollowed from ambassador grinnell richard grinnell now i don't know what title you would give him ex-ambassador or do you still call them ambassadors after they're not ambassadors i don't know what the rule on titles is but you know what i'm talking about he was he was acting out of the dni for a while but i had been unfollowed from him i think twice and so a year ago i'd asked if other people had been unfollowed and turns out there wasn't a massive number of people in the comments said oh yeah i just checked i was totally at following him and now i'm not so i decided to recheck that so a year has gone by just to see if it's still happening and sure enough i don't know i don't know if it's like a new wave of unfollows or if it's still some trickle from the past

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some trickle from the past but once again my comments were filled with people who said what the i was following but now i'm not and now i had to follow him back again and so i thought i would just test one more account just to see if i could guess somebody who is likely to have the same situation and the criteria i used was okay what is it about ambassador and or richard grinnell again i don't know i don't know how the titles work for ambassador but let's say he's always an ambassador if he ever was one let's let's go with that standard um so i thought you know what does he have in common or what is there about him that would make him a target for this and the obvious answer is that he's a unusually good public spokes spokesperson supporting president trump and i thought all right well i'll pick somebody else who is in that category

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somebody else who is in that category of an unusually good communicator in favor of president trump so i did a second tweet this morning asking people how many had been unfollowed from back gates so congressman gates and turns out a lot a lot now keep in mind the people who are answering are just the people who see my twitter feed and also followed back gates and also saw that tweet and also checked you know and also thought to put a comment about it so
so if i can turn up that many people in [Music] 60 seconds who can who say oh yeah that happened to me is it possible they're all imagining that i mean it is possible by the way it is possible it is completely within the realm of possibility that we're all imagining it but i don't think so i don't think so

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but i don't think so i don't think so it would be quite shocking if it were the case but actually you can't rule it out
out i'm going to give you another hypothesis which i also do not rule out but i think it could be ruled out pretty quickly if i just ask people on twitter and it goes like this
at least one person has had the following experience on an android device and the claim is this that there's something about the app running on an android device and i don't know if it's every android device every release i don't know if it's the app or if they're using the browser to get to it so there's a lot i don't know but the claim is this and you've had this experience have you ever had the experience where you're in some kind of an app it doesn't have to be twitter and you go to click something and just before you click it the screen moves and you click the wrong thing how many times does that happen probably a lot right you your finger is

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probably a lot right you your finger is moving in to press a button and then the screen scrolls and you press the wrong button you're like ah wrong button i deleted a couple of messages yesterday by wrong finger in them anyway so there's a belief or let none not a belief a hypothesis there's a hypothesis that there might be one
one one interface situation where people are automatically unfollowing who do not mean to do so but how likely is that i don't think any of that explains it to me it looks like the a hypothesis has to be that there is some way that somebody is influencing twitter could be somebody from the outside doesn't have to be an insider it could be somebody from the outside but something's happening clearly we don't know if it's third party apps because that's my other hypothesis when you sign up for some third-party apps say

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apps say tick doc just to pick a random example i'll just randomly pick tick tock let's say you had the tick tock app and you wanted to sometimes share your tick tocks on twitter well i believe it asks you if if tick tock can have control of your twitter account yeah think about that that gives the chinese government control i think i would need a fact check on this but if you have tick tock and twitter both apps on your phone and you've told tick tock you can manage your twitter some of your twitter actions could the chinese government through tick tock cause you to unfollow ambassador grinnell could it i think yes but i would need some kind of a fact check on that all right um yesterday

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all right um yesterday twitter purged a bunch bunch of accounts you saw a lot of people complaining hey my
my my number of followers went down i don't think i'd worry about any of that yet because there's no evidence to suggest that's anything but maintenance yeah it's probably just getting rid of bots probably uh just maybe cleaning out some uh you know dormant accounts that sort of thing so i lost just in case you want to know if it was just you i think i lost it's hard to know because i'm adding people at the same time they're subtracting people but if i were to baseline it fewer than a thousand users maybe out of half a million so well it wasn't a big percentage and i think you would be better off if they call the herd once in a while anyway as long as they're doing it for the right reasons so i wouldn't worry about any of that yet did all of you see the press conference that the president did yesterday

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yesterday which was more like a monologue and a lot less like a press conference so of course most of the i think most of the networks probably didn't cover it because they like the question part where they can try to embarrass the president they don't like the monologue part where he just talks about his accomplishments but i gotta say uh that was one of the strongest press conferences that i've seen and again i'm not sure if you want to call it a press conference it was more like a monologue but the monologue part was extraordinarily good and it was extraordinarily good for a number of reasons one was his his tone and presentation it was uh i would call it serious and powerful you know with sort of some joking at the end which was extra good but when he was talking about his accomplishments you know he would say stuff like you know we we've done x and i'd say

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know we we've done x and i'd say wow that's pretty good you know that's pretty good thing to stick in there and then he'd say another accomplishment and i think that's two and those are both pretty good pretty strong and then there'd be another one and they were they all seemed to have a flavor to them of strength right when you talked about the tennessee valley authority which frankly most of us maybe none of us really understand what the hell that is but it's some kind of a quasi-public private government situation i don't know i was too bored to look into it but when the president said you know we have some problems with their leadership i fired the chairman of the board i thought to myself that's pretty good that's pretty good what would you love to see more than the president firing somebody who had it coming according you know allegedly it's a real strong move so i don't know if the you know the details of the situation

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you know the details of the situation but in terms of the press conference leading off with a strong manager move of this guy wasn't doing it right and so i fired the chairman of the board and i'm going to keep firing all the board members because i guess that was the power that the government has i'm going to keep firing board members until they change the situation and then apparently he got what he wanted which was also strong because i think the problem was they were firing americans who were higher paid to replace them with lower paid employees from other countries and then asking the americans who are being fired to train their lower cost replacements now if your president isn't willing to fire people over that you need a new president because if you're the jobs president and the you know america first president that is a really strong play so just the optics of it and i would say

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so just the optics of it and i would say the
the competence of it because it just looks like oh shoot that's exactly what you need you need somebody who's going to fire those guys until they stop this and there's a list of other things i forget the details but every one of them was wrong and then he ended with a joke at the end i'll give i think this is maybe maybe i don't know why if you would agree but maybe the strongest
public appearance he's ever made i i don't think i've ever seen better than that you know i we like the rallies and the fun and the controversial ones but when he turns off the controversy and
and and at the press conference he just turned off the controversy in my opinion you know relative to any trump uh situation but when he turns it off and he just goes i'm doing the job for you
you it's really strong but we do like the provocation as well now here's the funniest thing he

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as well now here's the funniest thing he did one of his executive orders was is going to be he just announced it but hasn't done it an executive order to uh require that pre-existing conditions are covered by insurance now how did the press cover that now you are aware that the president is often accused of being the guy who's going to take that right away the right to be covered even if you have pre-existing conditions is it wasn't that one of the biggest the biggest claims against this president is that that he was the one who would be behind taking away your pre-existing coverage rights and then the way that the press covered it when he says i'll do an executive order which is a really public thing i mean basically you would you would be roasted if you made such a direct executive order made a public deal about

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executive order made a public deal about not taking away existing uh you know what i said the coverage for existing conditions and how did the news cover it the news covered it as it was stupid because that's already the law under obama's past work now do you feel like that's the right context to cover this to say that uh it's a it's an unnecessary executive order because it's already the law now here's the beauty part because it was wrong but it's that little bit of wrong part yes it is true that you don't need an executive order for something that's already the law of the land so in that sense it's sort of wrong which is what causes cnn to cover it and then while they're covering it they have guaranteed that their audience hears this message under a trump administration you're really really

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really really protected on your uh on your earlier conditions so trump managed to do something that didn't make sense an executive order for something that's already the law of land at least it doesn't make sense from a cnn world view i actually think it makes complete sense but that little bit of wrongness made them boost his signal perfectly this could not have worked out better for the president if you are ever going to be criticized let's hope it's this way how about this you're running for president and you say not only am i in favor of peace but i'm gonna pass a resolution saying that i'm peaceful and then the news says you idiot you don't need a resolution to say how peaceful you are because you're already being peaceful well if the message you wanted for the public is hey i'm the peaceful candidate that's how you get there so i thought that was a fairly

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that was a fairly brilliant move by the president to add an executive order that is unnecessary but absolutely persuasive because i don't think anybody is going to walk away from that thinking oh he's going to do an executive order and then do exactly the opposite if he gets reelected it doesn't feel like that's even slightly possible this is clearly why he wants he wants these conditions to be covered that could not be any more clear all right uh according to rasmussen i said this before but it's blowing my mind 30 36 of black likely voters approve of the president's job performance at the moment 36
if that number is anywhere close to true the election's over now i think the election's over anyway i don't think biden actually has

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anyway i don't think biden actually has any real chance and anybody pretending he does at this point you have to sort of check yourself at this point this isn't a real election unless they substitute somebody in who might have a chance this is going to be a stroll to re-election this is not a sprint the president could stop for a smoke break and still get elected president the the glide path for the president is pretty clear at this point just show up do the kind of work he did at the the press conference yesterday which was outstanding message wise and and tone wise and everything else and i think he's there
but here's a question we must ask ourselves why is there such a delay in the vice president pick now obviously some of the delay might be because it's a weekend and they would wait for something like a tuesday or a monday to control the weekly news cycle so it

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control the weekly news cycle so it could be just you know it takes a while to get things done could be took longer than they thought possible but i think all the smart people are saying it looks like they might be delaying because they've got a problem knowing who should be at the top of the ticket if you know what i mean and you don't want to waste your best candidate in the second place if that's the one you think should have been in the first place so you can see where they're jockeying saying to themselves well maybe it's not kamala harris for the vp role and by the way if biden announces it's not
not kabul harris i think you're going to have to start seeing kamala harris as maybe the replacement for the top spot that might be a signal but could also be a signal not of course could go either way but i would certainly my antenna antennae would go up and say what what why are you holding kamala harris out

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out uh available for a job if not the vice presidency and why would uh why would black likely voters have such a high approval of trump 36 being at least historically high
and i have some hypotheses i've often told you that one of the keys to persuasion is simplicity and another key is repetition build the wall build the wall build the wall if you hear it enough and it's simple and it's unambiguous it just it just becomes part of you after a while there's nothing that you can hear that much without being forced to incorporate it into your worldview and give it a priority that maybe it didn't deserve but think about this have you seen how disciplined trump has been for the past several years when he talks about unemployment

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unemployment he always always leads with what he did for the african-american employment rate now if you're as president the the first thing that comes out of your mouth every time you talk about good employment is what you've done for the black community the first few times you hear this what do you think to yourself well politician right politician pandering right that's a little pandering yeah of course he's going to do a shout out to a group that he wants to get some folks for so that's why you hear the first few times after you've heard it 50 times you start thinking oh i guess that's just a pandering thing he's going to do every time after you hear a thousand times it's just true right so this the tr you've watched the transformation from a pantry kind of thing that any president would say to he has said it so many times

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to he has said it so many times so consistently so disciplined and in my opinion quite incredibly like it doesn't look fake or artificial in the least he has transformed that impossible thought into you believe it now right do you believe that the president literally cares that black lives matter in in the context of unemployment especially he cares he cares and the thing that people seem to forget is that the truth the presidency is pretty transparent and you can't do a good job for the country you can't do a good job for yourself unless you've done a good job for the country the only way this president comes out ahead is if he does the work that's the only way
way it's so transparent there's no scenario in which trump is thinking to himself i think i'll just ride this and milk it and see if i can make some money in my side job as as the uh you know the trump guy i i

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as the uh you know the trump guy i i can't even imagine it there's no way he would be so unaware of his environment i guess that he would not understand that the one and only path he has for the rest of his life his other business interests to do well the one and only path is to do
do a really good job for the public short of that it just doesn't work you know you can't just leave the job and say well you know don't you love me anyway even though you don't like what i did that's that's not a thing he has to do a good job he has to and he has to do it for you know black americans for you know for everybody um so i think the fact that he always highlights it went from a pantry sounding thing to a well he's got to mean it at this point i mean that's pretty disciplined to say it so often the other thing that doesn't get enough play is that if you're a black voter or just a black citizen

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a black voter or just a black citizen do you want open borders no do you want less choice in school that's what the democrats are offering you less choice in school if you're black do you want that no no you don't do you want fewer cops while you live in your high crime neighborhood in too many cases no not most people most people want some good policing they just want it to be better of course we all do um so if you tell yourself that this 36 black approval at the rasmussen gets as an outlier i would say to you could be anything's possible you could have a presidential candidate bitten by a bat that might be rabid maybe not anything's possible but i feel like let me put it a different way i never understood why it wasn't already 36

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36 in my mind if you have you know any appreciation for what uh black voters want out of life and again not treating them as a monolith i don't want to go all joe biden on you but it is true that uh while there are many diverse voices in every group uh you know it is true that the black community one would expect would see the same benefits that you and i see why would it be different
and i think the whole cries of racism are disappearing every day that biden does another what did trey gowdy call it he appeared on the five yesterday great appearance on the five and uh and he went through the list of what he called joe biden's racially curious comments which is just the freaking best framing for this because i don't think anybody thinks joe biden is some kind of a racist

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racist but if you make enough quote racially curious comments then it starts sounding like a dog whistle doesn't it but because it's biden the people who's who are on the left must be thinking to themselves okay there are a lot of racially curious statements he's made throughout time do they form this pattern because if this were a republican it would be a pattern right but because his biden is it a pattern or is it a coincidence is it confirmation bias is it just one of those things but if it were a republican oh that's this would definitely be a dog whistle situation but now it's fighting i have to think that every time biden makes another racially curious comment that it makes people say uh maybe it's just the way people talk

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just the way people talk right maybe it's just the way people this age talk and maybe trump is not sending secret you know racist whistles maybe he just talks in a way that's you know less delicate or more offensive and that's all there is to the story because it might be all right uh the babylon bee if you're not following the babylon bee which is like i guess i'd call it like the onion except with a conservative flavor they are really good so if you like your humor on politics in particular do a follow on the babylon bee but here's one of their headlines today so headline from the babylon being a tweet biden tells staffers to pick any black person for a vp since quote they all think the same anyway
now if okay just for context this is alleged to be what joe biden

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this is alleged to be what joe biden thinks that the black community thinks the same so i'm not laughing at the black community i'm laughing at joe biden just to remove any uh any doubt about what that means uh kanye has has published his platform and you could go take a look at it it seems that his platform is highly uh bible compatible so much so that with each thing in his platform he shows you the applicable bible verse that supports it uh some of the things he wants is prayer in school and one of his big planks is fixing the school system so it works for everybody now uh i i'm not really into the prayer in school debate you know i'm not a believer and i don't object to it so you know work it out among yourselves i feel like i could be on the sideline on that one

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on that one because i don't need the prayer for myself but i but i understand his benefits so just work it out among yourselves whatever you do is fine with me and but here's the part i like kanye's platform is actually the best platform i've ever seen for the black community
and i don't know if he'll ever get credit for that but which is the other platform that's focusing on schools as as like a key lever you know kanye covers the other stuff he even says that he would treat america first so kanye actually says explicitly that he's going to negotiate etc and treat america first as the best model to move forward i i think you should read it so just google it or i think mike cernovich tweeted it if you want to find it on his uh twitter feed i think i retweeted him and it's worth reading it's worth

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and it's worth reading it's worth reading if you have a few minutes read kanye west's thing uh now i don't know if you saw tucker carlson's um he did uh what do you what would you call it a mo i guess a monologue on kanye west if you didn't see it it's some of tucker's best work like really really good work i'm just talking about the writing you know the writing of that piece in which he went through you know the the kanye situation he talks about how until kanye said he liked the president he wasn't crazy in other words the media treated him as just creative and provocative until he seemed like he was on the other side and then the headlines are that he's crazy now kanye himself cops do some you know mental challenges so i don't think it's you know inaccurate to agree with the person who has a self-assessment but it was very interesting to see that

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but it was very interesting to see that before it didn't matter and now and now they're throwing them under the bus so i would say kanye has the best emphasis on schools so he understands priorities best if you wanted somebody to champion you
you you should pick somebody who has their priorities right and if kanye had said black lives matter is my primary uh thing you should dismiss him as somebody who doesn't know what's important but instead he talks about education hits the nail on the head of what's important and bringing some kind of a spiritual revival to the united states you could argue would be a good thing
i know that those of you are atheists bristle at this but so long as it's not anti-atheist and it's not it's not it's not even slightly anti-atheist
i think you might be able to coexist with that

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the funniest thing in the news is that a t-shirt outfit called teespring t-e-e spring uh banned anti-fog shirts while they look into it now they're acting as if they're gonna look into it so
so you know maybe it's not permanent but anti-fog got all uh anti-falling all crazy about it because they said hey but you have t-shirts from this or that right-leaning group or extremist group or what else hey why not our shirts and uh here would be my answer to that i think antifa is the only one they mentioned that's literally a domestic terrorist group i i think if you're teespring you can get rid of a domestic terrorist group from your your shirts doesn't feel like a reach to me
me so i would like to suggest that if they stick with this and they don't bend to the pressure that's no doubt coming to their way that you might consider

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to their way that you might consider doing a little shopping at teespring send a little money their way i suggested that if they make a shirt called we cancelled antifa then it might sell a few copies might sell a few now i would not wear a a cancelled anti-fuzz shirt in public because it'd be like wearing a magic shirt maga hat you get your ass beat but i might buy one i might buy it and put it in the closet just to support teespring if they stick with this if they don't stick with it well who cares um as i tweeted this morning i have i've developed this habit that i'm not sure i'm proud of every morning the first thing i do is i get my coffee i sit down on my computer and literally the first thing i do after that is i look at the news usually twitter and it's filled with the video from the night before the highlight clips from the big game in portland now i call it the big game because i don't think it looks like politics anymore

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anymore i don't think it looks like a social movement even in the least the whatever antifa is is closer to some kind of a role-playing costumed sport and it went to a new level last night maybe recently where apparently antifa has developed their own shield like a plywood shield like like old-timey costume uh role players would have if they were playing nice you know knights of old and then they've got the antifa on there and that they've got their little crew of shield people with their plywood pushing against police and i turn it on and this is not even slightly not even slightly an exaggeration when i watch the clips usually you know in andy noclip for example when i when i look at the clips i look at them like i'm watching sport highlight clips

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highlight clips and i'm watching the police beat up antifa and it looks exactly like watching a football game with tackles and you see the highlight reel of look at this spectacular tackle and i'm watching the same sport except it's police also wearing protective gear just like football also trying to control territory in space just like football you got fouls just like football you've got announcers you know with loudspeakers just like football you got play by play you got highlight clips it's a sport now if you tell me that's not a sport watching the two teams with strategy and costumes and meeting at the same field every night if you tell me that's not a sport you're gonna have to define sport a little bit more clearly because it's not politics there's no politics in that it's not crime exactly because if it were they

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crime exactly because if it were they would all be arrested instead of just you know the the bad apples that are doing something specifically so if it's not exactly crime it's certainly nothing like a social protest you know in any way that we can understand it it's a sport and i'm not going to see it any other way now of course those of you who are jerks just said to yourself scott how can you treat this as a sport people are getting killed and the police are being injured why do you call this a sport scott how can you not take this seriously well you're just a jerk because i am complicated enough that i can hold in my mind that it is a super tragedy and it really makes me mad
mad when the police are injured in particular especially with these lasers i think the police should be able to shoot to kill anybody who has a laser even if they're just brandishing it even if you don't see it being used

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if you don't see it being used i think the police should be able to shoot to kill now
you might disagree and it might be a terrible strategy because it would make the police look like a police state it would not be good for the country but it would be good for the police and i'm going to say that sometimes sometimes the citizens need to support the police it's not just always the other way around right you know you can't you can't be sending your troops out there in the form of the police you can't be sending your troops out there unsupported and if you can't let them shoot a protester who's got a laser in their hand just as if it were a handgun if they can't shoot that guy they ought to have the right so the best i can do is to say if you put me on a truck on a jury i will i will say shot a guy with a deadly weapon i don't need to hear any more evidence

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need to hear any more evidence if you'd like to present the evidence sure if you need to but i'm not going to listen to it because if police shoot somebody with a one of those lasers at a protest has to be out of protest i'm not even going to listen to the evidence at all innocent boom i'll go right to the verdict in fact i'll stand up in the jury box and say not guilty and then they'll say um sir the trial hasn't started yet and i'll say just try to save time anybody here doesn't want to save some time because there's no freaking way i'm going to vote against a cop who takes out one of these kids with a laser uh blow it take his head right off it's fine with me now it would be bad for your career bad for your life might even be bad for the country but i'd still back you still back you if it happens

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and and i've often said that you know one of the big complaints from protesters which i think has merit is that the police might treat different ethnicities differently apparently the death rate is not treated differently you know the number of people killed doesn't seem to matter based on your race but probably there's some maybe a little extra abuse not maybe there's certainly extra abuse in black communities obviously it's because they're high crime neighborhoods that's a big part of the story but let's say you just thought that was a problem and you want to reduce the gap well one way would be to have less abuse against black citizens that would be ideal as long as you know everything else works out that's of course what you want but the other way to reduce the gap would be for the police in portland to just beat the out of these protesters with the lasers like once a day
day just to get the numbers up because the higher we get with the police beating up

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higher we get with the police beating up white antifa protesters with the lasers yeah they have to be doing something bad the more of those we get the closer the gap will be so there may be two problems one is too many black people getting beaten up by the police say the protesters i don't know one way or the other but the other is not enough white people getting beaten up so we could close the gap from both sides if we work at it so let's get some more white people getting beaten up by the police if they're anti-fog people with lasers that would be fine for me all right i asked on twitter a little unscientific poll i said would you hire a job candidate whose social media supported antifa ninety-four percent of you said no
no that you would not consider a job candidate who had pro-antifa stuff on their website now if i were to ask the same question of
of people on the left because most of my followers would be

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followers would be trump supporters i would imagine and but if you ask the same question on the left you know would you hire a trump supporter you'd probably get the same answer you you get a pretty good answer so we've we've come to the point where your politics plus your social media make you unhirable by half of the public but here's what i was thinking all i would take is one major company with some serious gonads to announce in public just sort of preemptively i'm just brainstorming here but preemptively announced in public that they would not consider hiring anybody who was associated with antifa can you imagine it imagine a fortune 500 company where their leadership has enough balls to say the obvious which is we just have to tell you it's hard enough getting employees and if you're supporting antifa you can't be on our list

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can't be on our list because we just can't support that what would that do just one just one fortune 500 company make an announcement we're just putting it out there if you support antifa we're never going to hire you it's it's it's absolutely off the table now the first thing that would happen is it would make it safe for other companies but the other the other thing that's even bigger is that the parents of antifa which you know are supporting them right you know the parents are sort of on board a little bit
bit even if it's only by lack of action it's going to activate the parents because the parents are going to say uh did i just find out that my child can never be gainfully employed by a big company where where the pay is good and the benefits are good and therefore he will never lose leave my basement i think he could move the needle it would just take one big company to make that statement and suddenly

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to make that statement and suddenly parents everywhere would say um hello uh jennifer we'd really like you to have a job someday so maybe you should rethink this whole thing could make a difference all right here is the update on the remember peter navarro name check me on cnn and told cnn they should watch my video on the risk management part of the decision about hydroxychloroquine obviously i don't make medical recommendations but i can break down the argument based on what the experts are telling we naive citizens and based on the information we have which is you know less than what the experts have what do you do so that that's what i did the decision-making part not the medical part i just i just listened to the medical part and so navarro points to that cnn mocks me the daily beast

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cnn mocks me the daily beast mocks me the hill mocks me but nobody that i've seen if you you can tell me if there's any any uh difference there nobody that i've seen has criticized the video and what i said in it nobody as far as i can tell nobody do you know how infrequent it is for me to put out something that visible and have nobody criticize it no matter what it is it could be a comic could be a book anything you always get low reviews on something there's always somebody who's going to say this is no good right but not this and i don't know if it's because i i don't know if it's because of nobody looked at it because it wasn't linked in some of the articles or if everybody agrees or maybe i just didn't see any criticism it's possible to so another day goes by where that just sits there as the truth and the truth is the least

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as the truth and the truth is the least important thing in the world so nobody cares let me correct for many of you a big misconception that you have and i'm watching some people on uh twitter who are making this analytic mistake it's based on a lack of knowledge about something in particular so i'm going to fill in a knowledge gap for many of you so many people would say do not take a medicine unless it has gone through the gold standard type of uh you know double-blind placebo test in fact i had a conversation with my most trump-hating democrat friend last night by text in which um he he said with no uncertain terms no doctor ever should recommend a a medicine that has not gone through the highest standard of tests now my friend

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standard of tests now my friend is really well read uh highly educated more educated than i uh and very very deeply involved in reading the news and following the news so this is a really smart really well informed person who used his smartness and well-informed status to tell me that is crazy for a trump a peter navarro or even a doctor to recommend using can you believe it the horror a drug that has not gone through the clinical testing for the purpose it was it was prescribed to which i said have you heard of off-label off-label prescriptions he said he hadn't in a private prior conversation he said he hadn't had never heard of it and and then last night i said do you know that twenty percent of all

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do you know that twenty percent of all prescriptions are off label which means that twenty percent of all the prescriptions one in five in this country have not gone through that standard that my friend and a lot of people on twitter say is the only way you should ever uh prescribe something because their blind spot is that if a drug has been proven safe for anything and the cost is reasonable that your doctor working with you can make a risk management decision that goes like this i've got this drug that was on that was only gold standard tested for another thing but we did find out the side effects are nothing to worry about so given that the side effects are trivially dangerous you know barely enough that it's not even worth mentioning and it might work and there's some reports that it works but they're not the gold standard let's give it a try and how often does

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let's give it a try and how often does that happen well it turns out that some of your most popular drugs that are commonly prescribed did not go through any gold standard testing except for other purposes so hydroxychloroquine has been tested in the past for its own use you know lupus etc i assume i think that's true and uh if anybody claiming that it should not be prescribed because it has not passed the gold standard test which is true it has not but it's also because they haven't tested it in the right application so [Applause] if you see anybody saying that it hasn't gone through the rigorous trials they are ignorant of how medicine works and you can fill them in with that 20 percent over-the-counter prescriptions that did not go through that process and it is so safe so routine so rational that 20 of prescriptions are

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so rational that 20 of prescriptions are in that category if you i mean ask yourself if this were a problem would 20 of prescriptions be in this category no no all right how about this um so do you have this problem where you want to make a joke about bad things that are happening but you don't know where the line is because you don't want to be canceled because you don't want to be that person but sometimes it's so funny you can't help it well when i heard about as you know the libertarian party candidate being bitten by a possibly rabid bat i looked at the comments and i saw that matt schwartz asked how's the bat now i didn't feel proud that i laughed at that how's the bat and i felt even less proud when i responded to it with

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when i responded to it with the answer to how's the bat i said ahead in the polling i don't feel good about it but if you laughed at it well maybe that's something
big news of course is so we've got some big fake news about russia china and iran and the thought is that they're all trying to influence the election and but the problematic one seems to be russia because according to the fake news the russians are trying to support president trump president trump's response to that is he's the been the toughest on russia he gives a number of examples that's not really the answer to whether russia is trying to help you because it could be true that the president is their toughest toughest sanctions toughest opponent toughest president on them that could be true and there's a really good argument for it it could be true at the same time

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for it it could be true at the same time they prefer him because remember russia has two bad choices they they either keep the the the devil they know which is trump at least they can talk to him at least they can deal with him even though he's you know being a pain in the ass to putin at least they can deal with him he's predictable you know where he stands you know he'll make a deal compared to biden because biden would just go after him because apparently that's you know that's their technique in favor of china biden would be pro-china no doubt russia's biggest risk and uh so it could be true that russia wants trump at the same time is true that trump doesn't want that and is sanctioning the hell out of them for whatever the hell they're doing um but here's my prediction you will never see a compelling example of this alleged russian interference because if you did you

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interference because if you did you would see that it's trivial the same way if you had seen and almost nobody did the memes that the so-called russian troll farm put out in 2016 those memes looked like a sixth grade project that was
was underfunded they didn't even look like adults had made them they were that bad they certainly had no impact i definitely never saw them until it all came out and i got to see a bunch of them all at once and they weren't even in the same direction some of them were anti-hillary some of them were anti-trump i mean it was
was you could argue that the troll farm was trying to influence the election because they made you know u.s campaign topic memes but you can't argue it mattered not when you see them i mean if you've never seen them you could say well yeah it seems entirely possible that a sophisticated kgb operation with the top minds in the

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operation with the top minds in the world and great hackers could come up with memes that are just so powerful so good they can influence our election yeah i mean in in in the abstract that seems like totally a thing and then you see what they actually produced and you say oh this is a little sad and maybe it's not
not putin ordering this maybe it's somebody who thought they could please putin by doing it on their own which is what it looked like and it's common apparently it's common for everybody to jockey for favor with putin by just trying to do something that they think he would like and then hey look what i did so don't expect you will ever see some examples of russian interference and if you do it's going to be so trivial that you're going to say uh this is what you're talking about so that's my that's my prediction um about uh iran

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um about uh iran um we may be seeing some more explody stuff uh as jake novak had pointed out even months ago there seems to be at least a suggestion that either israel or the united states or both have some extra knowledge about where iran is keeping their bad stuff you know their bomb making stuff their weapons etc so somehow we know more than we used to know and it looks like maybe where we or israel is acting upon it
it so that's an interesting story um
all right i think that uh i've covered everything i'd like to cover oh there's sturgis motorcycle rally well that's a funny story yeah sturgis you know all the motor the bikers come to sturgis at the same time and have a big event and uh there's some fun talk that anti-fog could show up but antifa is not going to show up there i

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antifa is not going to show up there i would not expect the anti-fun to show up in sturgis but that's a funny thought all right that's all for now come on man i'll talk to you later