Episode 1091 Scott Adams: My Antifa Neighbor Doesn’t Like Me, Brain-Dead Biden, Lots of Curse Words

Date: 2020-08-13 | Duration: 1:07:19

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• Biden basing his campaign on the Fine People HOAX

• Being called a racist, legitimizes violence against the accused

• Joe Biden, the lyingest liar Democrat

• Unfair attacks on Kamala’s personal past

• Kamala: Pragmatic moderate or wild leftist?

• Cheap, OTC paper tests for COVID19

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hey everybody come on in this morning we're going to have extra cursing so if you've got children make sure they are well out of the way there will be extra cursing well uh has anybody watched the news recently there isn't any there isn't any news every morning i wake up and i think i'm going to look at the news i look at cnn i'll look at fox and they'll say all right i'll i'll talk about the news but today there wasn't any it's just purely political neither fox nor cnn are even even pretending to cover anything like news today it's just all just pure politics it's fun but there was no news which makes you wonder what's up with the news wait we need something we need the simultaneous sift because today will not

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simultaneous sift because today will not be complete without it
and all you need is a copper mug or glass of tank or gels or sign a canteen jagger flask vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine the other day the thing that makes everything better including joe biden's rotting brain
drink ah this is a good one um yes so there will be extra cursing today oh it's called for it's very called for um have you noticed we'll get to all the good stuff here but have you noticed that um if you if you encounter somebody on twitter who just gives you a sarcastic comment without any reasons

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comment without any reasons just stuff like oh scott i see you're you're really looking into it today or well i i guess that's all we need to know and i think to myself who would put a sarcastic comment that doesn't even kind of work in the situation and i checked the profile what kind of profession writers artists writers musicians less musicians it's usually visual artists and writers what is wrong with those people they they literally can't tell the difference between sarcasm and reasons and
once you see it you can't unsee it the pattern is so clear when somebody who's say a lawyer or engineer an economist disagrees with me it takes about two seconds to find out where the disagreement is usually some disagreement about a fact

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usually some disagreement about a fact that's hard to research or you know a difference of priorities for example but it never seems crazy it just feels like people have a little different view of the world perfectly fair just different from mine but the artists the artists are not even i don't even know if they know that that logic and rationality even exist it's like it's not even a thing in their world they don't they they go through these conversations at least as if it's nothing that needs to be addressed rationality why i have sarcasm i have all i need look at my sarcasm that should cover it i mean so anyway
so when hillary clinton was running against trump i have to admit that for me it felt personal because i really didn't like hillary clinton

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hillary clinton and she was anti-male now if anybody i ever had a good reason to be anti-male it's hillary clinton she you know she comes by honestly you know i i think hillary clinton could be completely forgiven for being anti-male right if we're being fair she's got a reason all right it's called bill but
whatever her reason are what whatever her reason is she is anti-male and i think that's pretty obvious and so anybody who's anti-b for immutable purposes doesn't matter why if they're anti-men anti-white people anti-black people if if they're anti-anything about something you're not going to change or including i guess religion even though you could technically change that if you wanted to um you know i i hate everybody who's in that category basically you know if somebody hates me for one to

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you know if somebody hates me for one to any one of those reasons i just hate their guts and likewise if you know if they're hating some other group i'm not in for the same reason i'm not too happy with them either so but it's a little more personal when it's me of course so 2016 honestly felt personal but i wasn't feeling that about biden or kamala harris because i don't really have a strong feeling about them until today and here's here's the thing when biden was originally and when i say originally i mean not that long ago in the last few months he brings up the the charlottesville fine people hoax every now and then and he believes or he acts like he believes that the president called the neo-nazis fine people all of you know it was a hoax you know that the president literally said the opposite you know that all the people who said i saw with my own ears because they talk like that they see

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because they talk like that they see things with their ears you know that they saw the edited version that reverses the meaning if you see the full thing it completely flips it but
but i thought when he was saying it originally i said to myself you know he's not all there he probably doesn't know it's not real he probably thinks it's real because a lot of people were fooled into thinking he was real so maybe maybe he was fooled too but at this point at this point he's basing his campaign on the charlottesville fine people hoax he made that very clear again last night with camellaris and here's what's different do i understand that president trump has failed the fact checking 20 000 times can we just get this off the table yes i know it you don't have to come into my comments and say oh what are you saying if if

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and say oh what are you saying if if biden said that and it's not true what about trump's 20 000 fact-checking yes i know it i know it you don't have to tell me and you know what's different about the trump supporters from the other people they know what they're getting and they chose it right so we know that president trump uses hyperbole you know he influences he sells and you don't take him exactly literally if you understand where he's going do i care if he built a hundred miles a wall or it's 65 don't care in the big picture you might like 100 you know 100 better than 65 but it doesn't really matter you know what he's doing he's trying to show progress he's trying to you know keep keep people feeling good about the country moving forward pushing all the time that is very very different

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different from saying that the president is a flat out
out racist because of the fine people hoax now if the president had said that well yeah anybody who supported him would have a lot of explaining to do would you not agree if the president really called the neo-nazis fine people if that had actually happened in the real world do you think i would support it no i i hope most of you wouldn't either it wouldn't happen so here's the thing the find people hoax is not like other fact checking it is the tent pole that allows the people who are the anti-trumpers to dehumanize his supporters to the point of violence it is not safe to live in a country where your candidate for president is demonizing what 35 percent of the country 40 percent of the country

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country 40 percent of the country as literal racists because of this fine people hoax because again if that were true if this president had actually said those words i wouldn't support him but he didn't he didn't say those words he said the exact opposite now what's different is if you if you push that hoax you are demonizing trump supporters to the point of violence real violence yesterday i take my garbage out in front of my house just taking the garbage out ordinary night car slows down in front of my house pulls down and puts the window down and calls me a racist by name so somebody knew my name and called me a racist from their car now of course idiot doesn't know that in my neighborhood we're kind of ready for this stuff so here's a good picture of the idiot driving past all the security cameras in the world

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security cameras in the world it's not the best place to commit a crime now i don't know if it's technically a crime to call somebody erases from their car
car but we'll have a conversation later today now the interesting part about it is when i heard the voice before i you know looked at the video i couldn't tell if it was male or female it was somewhere in between and then i look at it it's like oh it's antifa it's antifa now i don't know if it's like technically a member but you know they all have that little uniform and and you know how the the genders are always a little hard to determine it's looks very antifa i don't know if it is or not so i don't know what gender we're dealing with
and if you're if you're new to these if you're new to this i don't care i'm not one of those people who cares about the labeling of the gender i want everybody to be happy and do whatever they want in their personal

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whatever they want in their personal sexual preferences i have just no i have no biases about that at all but uh it is sort of an identifying feature of antifa i don't think we can doubt that so here's the thing if my neighbor has the temerity to roll past my house not trying to hide his or her identity or
or whatever gender fluid situation is going on here um that's not a safe place to live it's not because when you call somebody a racist you are giving yourself permission to hurt them physically and so i ask this
why is it that twitter allows us so i just tweeted before i got on tweeted at jack dorsey that if as i understand the twitter rules um and let's say philosophical preferences if you will in addition to the rules my understanding is that twitter doesn't want to ban free speech so just

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doesn't want to ban free speech so just tell you saying something that isn't true would not be enough to get you banned or labeled or have your tweet taken down or anything like that so simply being not true it can't be that big of a problem in the world which you have free speech because there's just going to be too much of it right you can't really police that but there is a different category that twitter cares about a lot which is it could get somebody hurt physically a call to violence for example or it could change the course of an election because let's say let's say it was a tweet telling you the wrong day for election day that that could change the actual election so i would want i would want social media to flag that because you do want everybody to show up in the right day right i mean you know i don't want to win any elections so much that i want people to show up on the wrong day uh to win it that's that's not the way to get there um so here's the thing

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um so here's the thing i think twitter has to recognize that the fine people hoax is not like other facts because it is a call to violence it is a pretty direct call to violence because once you've said that the supporters are on the side of the neo-nazis in the united states that's permission that's permission for violence it's permission from what my neighbor did who will be hearing about it a little bit later all right it's permission and twitter i think you got to look at this pretty carefully this is not like other fact checking when you say somebody's with the neo-nazis in the united states in 2020 you just painted a target on their back all right so let me let me back up to my point about when hillary was running it felt personal to me with biden and kamala harris it did not until yesterday now it's personal

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yesterday now it's personal i've got a stake in this i'm actually physically at risk if this lie keeps going i've spent months trying to kill this thing and the fake news who is now completely illegitimate to the point of accepting violence against part of the citizenship of this country has a lot to explain now i'll give jake tapper credit he's the only person i know a cnn who has clarified at least the fine people hoax on camera and said that the president went on to say he wasn't talking about that group so jake's the only person who's even given a little care to whether it's true or false and i feel like he could step up a little bit better too you know ultimately i ended up blocking jake and so he's out of my life now you know i'd
i'd we'd work together on some charities and stuff and uh i liked him but here's my rule

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and uh i liked him but here's my rule if somebody thinks i'm a racist i'm not going to be your friend i'm not going to give do a favor for you i'm not going to have you in my life at one you little bit
bit all right now you can have all the opinions you want but if you think i'm a racist because you know i think the president is not if that's what you think you just get out of my life and stay out right i don't want to have anything to do with you all right if you're that dumb that you think you believe the fine people hoax and that's and that's coloring your world view yeah in in jake's case i don't know what the is going on there because he uh i think he knows well i i don't think he wants i won't i won't i won't assume i know what he's thinking so forget that all right so here's the thing the gloves are off and here's here's a specific thing that i'll be doing a little bit differently i had been saying that i felt bad

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saying that i felt bad about making fun of biden's mental state because he's not all there and i think that you know i've been saying that he needs a more respectable send-off you know he he should be retired with some dignity for his years of public service people say he's a nice person and you know he's nice in person i don't doubt it but now it's war because biden is making it dangerous so let me let me put it very clearly um
there's almost nothing that's off the table anymore because it's a clear and present danger to me physically all right once it becomes a physical danger all the rules are off right um i believe there are two ways to fight in terms of like getting into a fight with another person

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with another person method one is run away which is always my first choice if somebody wants to fight me and i think i might get hurt you know even if i win the fight i might get hurt i don't want to get hurt so my first instinct is run away and i i would recommend this to all of you as a self-defense mechanism run away so that's strategy number one run away strategy number two is to kill the person and anything in between is just all right anybody who gets in a fight even if they think they're going to win the fight i don't quite understand it i mean there might be some special cases where you have to because there's something immediate happening but if you have an option run away but if that person still needs to be killed well you know where to find them why why would you take a chance of getting hurt yourself find them hunt them down and kill them now fortunately that has never happened i've never had

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that has never happened i've never had to hunt somebody down and kill them because i've never had such a reason i hope i never do but my point is i don't have i don't have an in-between speed so in the political sense biden has to go down not in the physical sense but in the political sense all all the regulators are off so his rotted brain can't ruin the country the way this looks like it's shaping up so biden is going to have a little extra pressure on him more to come on that topic yeah it's a strategic retreat is what it is yeah here's what i've never understood why would you hurt somebody who knows where you live have you ever thought that that was weird it makes you know i can imagine hurting somebody if they didn't know who you were and they didn't know where he lives but if they know who you are

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if they know who you are and where you live why would you ever hurt somebody it feels like a really bad strategy for life because it's going to come back all right
and it's kind of amazing to me that something like the fine people hoax and a lot of the other hoaxes they they can they can remain completely intact because the fake news has such a good bubble you know that the people on the left they really won't touch news that's not in their bubble i mean it's like it's you know you could send them a an article from breitbart try this with any of your friends send an article from breitbart to one of your trump hating friends and say hey here's something that contradicts what you thought was true and it shows its sources you can check for yourself and you'd see that it's right you can't even get them to read a breitbart article they just won't do it won't even read it

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it won't even read it so their bubble is complete now i have to admit there are a few sources that i feel the same if somebody sends me an article from the huffington post to make their point well i'm not going to read that come on or the atlantic has anybody ever sent you an article from the atlantic to make their case that you know trump is orange man bad if i see an article from the atlantic i just laugh and i think you poor poor bastard if you believe if you're reading stuff in the atlantic and you think that that view of the world is anything close to uh accurate you poor poor bastard you know i asked this question and this is serious objectively speaking if you take politics out of it and you're just scoring is biden the most prolific liar the democrats have ever run for president do you think that that's true do you

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do you think that that's true do you think that there's never been a bigger more obvious liar than biden now of course you're going to say hey but you know bill clinton lied and you can say hey obama lied and you know all the all the politicians lie you know let us let us stipulate that we don't have presidents who have told no lies according to third parties who who rank these things but i'm just saying that biden might be the lyingest of all the liars am i wrong about that because the types of lies that he's told are are ridiculous ones like his own resume he's lied about his education he's i mean he's lied about some pretty big stuff and now the he's like he lied about the president being soft on terrorists what it's being soft on terrace and so he says or vox yeah if somebody says to me a vox article i usually just laugh because you don't

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i usually just laugh because you don't really need to read it to know that it's
um but if somebody sent me you know something a little bit more mainstream i might read it um so that's just a question in my opinion i think that we would find at least in modern times that biden is the most lyingest democrat who's ever run on purely objective things you would you know i think you could just score it see how many times he's lied and what kind of lies they are which is an interesting strategy because what is the biggest complaint about this president you know when before trump was in office there were all these complaints about the bad things he would do right he will blow up the country he will destroy the economy he will whatever and then three years of governing and none of that stuff happens right he wasn't a russian puppet

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right he wasn't a russian puppet you know the the russia collusion didn't happen so after three years you talk to your democrat friends who hate trump and you say what is it about him
him that you hate now that you've seen that everything you thought would happen didn't happen and what is the usual answer the usual answer you'll get from an educated trump hater who's watched him for three years and none of the things that he thought would happen happened and what did they say well he's a liar he's a big liar now fact check me on this have you had this conversation after say three years of governing when you don't have to guess what happened you just look at it don't they say the biggest problem with the president is that he lies that's it right it's the number one thing because all of the other things just sort of went away now you and i probably think okay you call it lying i call it hyperbole yeah he you know maybe should say less

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yeah he you know maybe should say less about the medical stuff well i get it but have we not learned how to how to filter things have we not watched enough of this president to say okay there's the claim now let's you know look what the experts say you know see if it's a hyperbole or not have we not learned to understand how that works that he is intentionally and tells us directly this is the fun part the president told us
us while he was running before he was elected after he was elected that he uses optimism and uses hyperbole and he tells us he actually tells us that he's going to do it and then he doesn't that feels a lot different than just making up a lie that would tear the social fabric of the country apart those are not the same thing biden's lying is the dangerous kind the president's lying if you want to call it that is the salesman kind is the salesman

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is the salesman kind is the salesman destroying the country no no probably not probably just selling you a car that you might be happy with if you bought so somebody says i lived in delaware for 20 years and he's dirty biden is well i don't doubt that but he's been so vetted that i don't know how many that's going to stick to them i know what you're talking about though the credit card companies and all that stuff here's something funny have you seen the way that the media is treating the photography and the graphic images for uh harris and biden have you noticed that they're putting they're putting a big big picture of kamal harris and then they'll put a little picture of biden standing behind her
on what planet in what year have you ever seen the vice president featured and the the top of the ticket standing way back in the corner like he's disappearing have you seen that it is so obvious

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have you seen that it is so obvious that they're de-emphasizing biden the head of the ticket that if this were a comedy i mean you could play this as a comedy imagine this is a movie all right literally imagine it's a movie and you're seeing the graphic artists and they're you know the graphic artist comes to the boss they'll say they work at one of these big publications they say all right here's my graphic treatment uh and the the editor says ah can you make you've you've got the vice president and the president biden and harris the candidates you you've got them the same size could you go back and make just make the biden one a little bit smaller and make that the harris one a little bit bigger and graphic artist goes back comes back and now the biden is half the size of the harris and the editor says okay we're moving in the right direction but the biden is still a little bit big could you you know just uh just a little bit just

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you know just uh just a little bit just take a little off and give me another look graphic artist comes back and now the biden is 30 the size of the the big harris image and the editor is like
could you just give me one more look i just want to have something to compare you know one one with just a little bit smaller can you make it could you make the biden 10 percent the size and could you hide most of the biden most of the body part behind the much larger kamala harris picture and then the graphic artist looks at looks at the editor and says sure sure sure i'll do that and then as they're walking down the hallway you see the graphic artist muttering idiot now if that were a movie because you know something somewhat like that actually happened you know that those pictures you saw

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you know that those pictures you saw with tiny biden and gigantic kamala harris it wasn't the graphic artist who came up with that all right no graphic artist brought that image to their boss nobody's that bad
bad at being a graphic artist i'll tell you what happened they brought him a picture where they were balanced and the editor said go back to the drawing board that biden we can still see it we can still see a little biden in that picture a little less biden all right you know that happened right you don't have to be some mind reader to know it went down just like that because no graphic artist brings tiny bite in giant kamala to the boss and says how about this that's not draft number one you know it right yeah that's not first draft
all right um the i feel like republicans are totally falling into a trap i think president

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falling into a trap i think president trump has fallen into this trap already and certainly all the supporters and here's the trap if you're attacking harris for her presumed sexual whatever past and the willy brown stuff and ha ha ha she slept her way to the top first of all you're not a good person all right yeah it's a subjective it's a subjective thing but in my opinion you're not really a good person if you're going to that argument because there's enough of an argument without that and you wouldn't want it to be about you right i mean if you reverse that would you want to be running for office and all they want to talk about is your sexual past no no it wouldn't be fair you wouldn't want it to happen to your daughter you wouldn't want to happen to your mother you wouldn't want to happen to your wife your spouse you wouldn't want it to happen to anybody so if you're doing it you know if you're

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so if you're doing it you know if you're part of that hahaha it's funny okay i get it you know it's funny for about a minute but really it would be really helpful to get off of that quickly because it just is too easy for the too easy for the democrats and they're already doing it to say well it looks like it's misogyny all the way around all the republicans are misogynist looks like that president's being misogynist because the way he talks about harris is not the way he talks about men which you could argue but the president does like to use this word nasty nasty now here's where he's he's clever but maybe a little too clever in this case it's what the president is superb at using imagery and words and stuff that set your brain on fire but if you looked at it specifically there's nothing wrong with it right the word nasty was not invented as

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right the word nasty was not invented as a gender specific insult you know there's nobody who can't be nasty you could be male female you know there's no gender assumption in nasty but the democrats have decided that there is now it could be that there's not there's no history of trump using that word against men i don't know maybe yes maybe no but it feels like it's being used because she's a woman but it's a really it's really good word because nasty is one of those words like dark that you can read into it whatever you wanted to put into it you know dark well what's dark well his attitude the way he talks uh the policies are everything fits into dark but likewise there's a lot of stuff that fits into nasty so in terms of persuasion it's a really good word it's a really good word but the counter to it is a little bit better which is hey you wouldn't use that word with a man which is a pretty good counter if you're

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which is a pretty good counter if you're already primed to believe there's some misogyny going on
on so i would i would uh i would advise all of you to just let that go all right first of all to be good people right you don't you don't want to stump you don't want to lower yourself to your enemies level that's you know i can see sometimes that might make sense but i don't think you buy you're not buying anything by doing it you know if you had something to gain by doing it well maybe but there's not just nothing to gain on this um the democrats are trying to figure out
out how best to protect harrison biden and i don't think they've decided yet if calling her a pragmatic moderate i think i think that's the way they're going to go they're going to try to sell harris as a pragmatic moderate but but the right is selling her as a you know

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the right is selling her as a you know wild leftist with the most progressive you know ideas etc which one of those is true is it true that harris is a pragmatic moderate or is it true that she is a wild lefty what do you think what what is your honest opinion if you were to take take the politics out forget which team you're on for a moment and you're just saying all right all right i'll be as objective as possible you know imagine it from 30 000 feet i'm an alien i just came to earth i don't have any biases or opinions i'm just going to look at what she says and does does harris look like a pragmatic moderate or a wild lefty
pragmatic moderate in my opinion and when i mean pragmatic i mean she'll take whatever position she thinks will get her elected so you can't get more pragmatic than that in my opinion she has no commitment

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in my opinion she has no commitment whatsoever to the far left she has a commitment to ambition she has a commitment to winning she has commitment to herself you know she may have some some good feelings about the country too i don't know can't read her mind um but you know the the attack that she is a wild lefty it probably works on the right in other words republicans are certainly they're primed to believe that anything that she wants to do that republicans don't want to do will feel like it's too far left so so i think that framing works for the republicans and i think the but here's the question the democrats the democrats are trying to frame her in a way that can get her elected if you are part of the bernie sanders crowd do you want to hear that she's a pragmatic moderate because i've got a feeling that the

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because i've got a feeling that the the bernie people are just gonna just gonna stay home i don't know that they'll vote for trump but i don't think they're gonna come out and vote for the pragmatic moderate because that's exactly what they didn't want that's as close to what they didn't want as anything could be now will they say yeah but you know it's better than trump they might but how how enthusiastic are you
you for yeah i fought really hard for bernie and these really leftist policies but man i'm gonna get up early and i'm gonna you know brave the coronavirus or i'm gonna fill out my mail ballot or whatever i'm going to do to get that pragmatic moderate in there i don't know i i just don't doesn't feel inspiring to me so i've got a feeling that's going to hurt them
here's a wild card that was suggested to me
me uh i'm not going to give credit to people who send me dms and don't if i if i use your idea

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dms and don't if i if i use your idea that you dm'd to me just take the happiness that the idea um you know made it into the periscope because if i haven't asked you if i can mention your name i don't want to do it and and i usually forget to ask that question so here's a thought from it's not an original thought the the id the idea is that the young women um who are democrats are seeing biden as a creepy old man with a younger woman and as soon as i heard that i thought to myself oh snap
think about it creepy old man with a younger woman now i know what you're thinking i know what you're thinking you're saying scott that might be a topic you know just a little bit about okay i get it yes i do have a much younger wife uh and i can tell you that my experience no surprise

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that my experience no surprise is that there's a segment of the population who really really hates that i don't know exactly why
why you know you'd have to open up their brains and do a brain scan and figure out what's going on there but there is something incredibly triggering in a bad way when an older man and a younger woman are certainly if they're married or they're you know together but even though a vice president and a president are not in any kind of a you know personal relationship of that sort does it feel like it kind of feels like it
it is my cat's tail going by oh perfect yeah just leave it right there oh that works yeah
uh if you're listening to this on the audio only my face was temporarily replaced by a giant cat tail all right so i've got a feeling that this whole old man creepy old man with younger woman

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woman thing is kind of a turn off for a certain number of democrats uh and we'll see if that makes a difference i think it might all right have you noticed that president trump uh when he gives his briefings about the coronavirus have you noticed that he's he started to put the united states progress in the context of uh how we're doing compared to europe have you heard that now i'm assuming that the numbers he's talking about in terms of europe's experience versus the united states are you know in the ballpark meaning that if you compare europe as a whole not country to country but
but compare them as a whole the president is making the point that they're having a renewed problem there's some kind of second wave situation happening and that we're actually doing well compared to europe i haven't seen the fact checkers disagree with that

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disagree with that and i imagine they would right that would be at the top of the things they would disagree with if it were not true and i've i've given up on trying to look at data anytime you try to google well is that true let me let me google whether europe is doing better or worse in the united states you can find information but you can't find anything you trust at least if you're me so you'll find competing information you'll find stuff that's a month old you'll find stuff about one country you'll find stuff that measures things a different way in the united states but it's not really i won't say it's impossible but it's nearly impossible to go research anything yourself because there's just too much noise out there in the data so anyway
i think it's smart of the president to compare himself to these other countries because i as i predicted a while ago they were doing well compared to the united states for a while but what changed you knew it was going

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but what changed you knew it was going to change all right here's a criticism of the administration for those of you who say scott scott scott why do you only say good things about the trump administration a i don't i don't i have plenty of criticisms i do talk more about what they do right and i do defend them more than i criticize but that's because the criticism part is so well taken care of like you don't need another person to point out the same thing that's all the headlines you don't need that for me so i like to show you the view that's you know less expressed and here's my criticism there's uh i've talked about this before there's the idea that we already have the technology and it would be easy to ramp up for these cheap over-the-counter paper strip tests for coronavirus now apparently these are a good test which will tell you if you currently

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which will tell you if you currently have the virus versus used to have the virus and only have antibodies so that's the first thing you have to understand that these cheap could be even one dollar cheap little tests will will tell you if you have it as opposed to will tell you if you used to have it so that's the first advantage second advantage is you get your answer in a few minutes meaning that you could do it every day you could test yourself before you left the house you could test yourself be in the lobby of your employer you could test yourself before you go to the sporting event so if it only costs a dollar and you get your answer really quickly that's pretty darn good right i mean you could imagine that that would lower the the the r was the r zero or whatever they call it it would it would lower the transmission rate enough that we'd really get on top of this thing it wouldn't make it go away but it we could really get on top of it now the critics say but but buttscott it doesn't this type

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but but buttscott it doesn't this type of test won't pick up the virus when you're asymptomatic for like a day that first day to which i say that's right it gets all the other times when you're the most spready but it will miss you know we know this it doesn't get that first day because you don't have enough i guess whatever to detect it but it doesn't matter if you got 80 percent of the ident if eighty percent of the time you were right that would be the best thing ever so if you're saying so the first thing you yeah are not sorry that's what it's called the r instead of r zero or not let's be let's be scientific about it so the first thing you need to know is that these paper strips could be only eighty percent um getting it right the twenty percent is wrong is because it's just too early if you could create a test that could do that for one dollar widely available and immediate response

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widely available and immediate response it doesn't matter that you only get 80 percent of it
it doesn't matter that is so good that if you're doing this much testing you would just stamp out the virus probably in a couple weeks you know if if it were ubiquitous so here's my question so this this idea i
i i can tell you from personal knowledge has been promoted up through the administration so the administration is completely aware of this option there's some kind of fda thing that makes it impractical so private industry can't just go ahead and do it right so there are private companies who could just ramp up and do this they have the technology the ramping up isn't that hard it's paper strips oh and if you're worried about privacy this is a test you give yourself unless you're trying to get into an event and then of course you know that would be different but it's a test you give yourself so

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it's a test you give yourself so you nobody has to know what your result is unless you tell them
so the administration knows about this option and we have heard nothing about whether they like it and nothing about whether they don't and nothing about what they may or may not do about it now i'm not going to say that i know this is the great answer and that i've considered everything and i know all the context and i know what's good or bad about this i don't i'm just saying that our administration is failing us at the moment on this question because we don't have an answer at the very least i need somebody like the president or ideally more like you know the head of the fda i want somebody who's probably the head of the fda to say this test exists or it could exist you could ramp up and then tell us why it's not already a thing if you're working on it please tell us like if it's going to

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please tell us like if it's going to happen in a week you know there's going to be some change to make this possible please tell us that would be the biggest thing you could tell us if you're not going to do it and there's a reason tell us i just want to know the reason i don't need it to be right i don't need it to be the solution if it's not i don't want you to lie to me i just need to know where we're at and so there's this big black hole where this is according to the people who have looked at it the most obvious rampable practical completely doable solution that would make this whole pandemic go away if it's real but what if it's not real i need to know that too we need to know if it's not real just tell us where you're at fda all right because without without that feedback again the fda

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without that feedback again the fda might be completely right right so i'm not ruling out the option that the fda has looked at it and judged that it's a bad option they have their reasons and it hasn't been communicated failure that is a failure because you gotta communicate it all right we're all in this like if you think the public is not fully engaged in this pandemic think again right fda you're not you're not like operating in some little satellite out there you're connected to the public and we need just an answer just tell us is this is this a thing or is it not a thing just inform us all right
um i guess that's just about what i wanted to cover today

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if the paper test is now somebody's saying reliable for the paper test i'd like to get the the language correct because i've been corrected on it and i think it's helpful when you're talking about the test don't don't think of it in terms of accurate or not accurate or reliable or not reliable it's very reliable for the thing it does so for the thing it does it's really good yet the thing it does is pick up a virus after that first day or so what it doesn't do is it's not designed that it could pick up that first day but you don't need it to solve the problem you you could you could miss that first day every time that's the proposition you would miss it every time but you would get the other stuff really really well and that would be all you need all right uh yeah we talked about my neighbor you missed that part
so here's something amazing so every time i see

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time i see an alex berenson tweet about masks you know being unproven it's making me crazy because i think to myself how do we not know i tweeted this yesterday how do we not know now whether masks help and i thought to myself this is just crazy this this berenson guy keeps tweeting that you know to the effect that we don't have any information that masks work and i'm thinking that can't be possible i mean certainly it was possible in the beginning but five months in we don't know for sure and here's what's going on i think the first thing that i think is going on is that people are looking at these various lab studies the lab studies are all all of them 100 of them are all right so if you saw a study that said that these mass stop these you know

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that these mass stop these you know water particles or whatever and so therefore mass are good that that study is if you saw the opposite that there was a study that said that the particles get through or it makes it even worse or they're getting out through the edges or something and in the lab they showed that that's true that study is complete all right so whether or not the lab study showed it works or the lab study showed it doesn't work they're all none of that should be taken as credible because they don't test it in the real world basically they're just saying some droplets came out or some droplets didn't or we measured this we measured that but what they don't tell you is that in every case the covering is going to change at least the direction of where stuff is going at the very least it's you know filtering it to the side or whatever at the very least it's changing the

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at the very least it's changing the viral load i mean even if all it did was distribute it as opposed to send it directly into the mouth and eyes of the person you're talking to if that's all it did probably would you know distribute the load and none of these things are tested in the lab tests right the lab tests are all just a looking in one window of the taj mahal that's it every one of them looks in one window and they go all right well i guess i know what the taj mahal is i'm looking in
in the one window and it looks like the taj mahal is a it's a men's room yeah it looks like that's a bathroom in there if you're only looking through one window you don't know anything that's where all the lab tests are the only thing that would convince me is real world usage where somehow you could say
say this group is exactly like this other group that's the hard part right getting any two comparable groups and say well they use masks and look how well it did they didn't use

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and look how well it did they didn't use mass and look how well it did now the next thing that people do is they'll send me this one country or one state they'll say look at this one state here's where they put the masks here's where it didn't work do you know what is also useless sending me one state every time you see a graph of one state or two or three you know anything in the small numbers and it says here's the masks this day is when they were mandatory and look infections still went up then you don't understand how to look at data because all you've seen is that things are getting worse you don't know what the mask did if the if you didn't have masks would that curve be even worse that's the question if you don't know if it would be even worse without the mask you don't know anything you don't know anything here's what i would find convincing all of the countries that you know did masks somehow

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masks somehow putting them in a bucket all the states all the countries the the mask people put them in one bucket and all together so you're not seeing just the the weirdest of any one country or the weirdest of any one state compare that to all the places that didn't do masks and just show me the two curves all right if you can adjust them by time i guess you'd have to do that because everybody's sort of on their own schedule there so if you could do that would that whole entire giant basket of people using masks have a noticeably different curve collectively than all the ones who didn't use masks or yeah i guess that would be the best way
way now if you show me that and they don't look that much different well i i would i would say that would be pretty convincing if you showed me that and there is a big difference i'd say okay well there it is you know that that's not

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that that's not a controlled clinical trial but in the same for the same reason that hydroxychloroquine you don't know if it works we you know i don't know i put it at 30 chance that it's a big deal but it's still worth taking it because the risk is so low right so if you have a low risk and yes yes i know you know there are people who can have problems with the masks i know you you know the dentist has the fellow smell problem i know it keeps the bacteria close to your face i know the mask can get affected i know you might touch your face
but if if it shows overall that the masks are making a difference on the pandemic i would consider that important and i i think it's astonishing that we're still having this conversation five months in so here's my take on it i don't know if masks work it seems to me obvious they do but but being obvious that something works is

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being obvious that something works is different than being scientifically true and proven we all agree that you can be easily fooled just by looking at stuff right that's not science science is not saying well it looks like it'd work but your reason should tell you that at the very least it's keeping your exhalations a little bit local and if they're floating in the air afterwards they're probably dispersed and probably a lower viral load and if masked don't work well i'd be very surprised wouldn't be impossible i don't rule it out i don't rule it out this sunday we'll find that mass made things worse i just think it's a small chance if i had to put the odds on it i would say
say 95 chance the mass are helping in an important way five percent chance that we got it all wrong that's the odds i'd put on it would just you know observationally so

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i'm just amazed that we don't even know that if there's one thing we've learned from this whole coronavirus thing is that we can't trust any of the studies you can't trust any of the experts and everything you think is true is going to be untrue tomorrow and take that thinking over to climate change because it's the same conversation now by the way for however many years i've argued that we can't do you know useful models of the future 80 years in the future for climate change most people who have not done data analysis for a living i would think or have not been close to it anyway would think maybe i'm wrong maybe you could do an 80 year old an 80-year projection about temperature and how that will affect the world maybe you could and you would not be an idiot for thinking maybe that was possible you would just be somebody who had a different kind of experience in life right i've done projections anybody else who's done this kind of

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anybody else who's done this kind of work knows it's not a thing it's not even close to a thing it's not in the neighborhood of being a thing it's nowhere near a thing but it's presented as a thing now once the coronavirus has i think uh ruined all of us in terms of trusting data trusting scientists trusting the consensus trusting you know individuals or organizations trusting the government trusting anything we've just learned that literally nothing can be trusted in the scientific or political realm nothing but will we take that understanding in the gel man amnesia way will we take what we learned in this coronavirus situation about the undependability of projections will we take that to climate change evidence suggests that most people won't that they won't make the leap that they're they won't have the sophistication to say you know everything was wrong about the

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you know everything was wrong about the coronavirus just everything every person every organization every model every everything it was all wrong oh but this climb has changed stuff we got that nailed got that nailed lucky we got this stuff right but the one time you can really see if it's right or wrong it's all wrong really that's just a coincidence right the one time you can clearly know if the experts were right or wrong they were wrong as much as they were right coincidence well could be the fog of war but i don't think that explains it totally
you know i i'm not i'm not on the anti fouchy train because there there's a mind reading element to that that i'm not comfortable with the any anything against defauchi in my opinion rests on the assumption that he had bad intentions you know some financial

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financial connection or bad intentions i just don't feel that's an evidence and assuming that he's feeling that way or secretly thinking that way is not a standard i would put on anybody else i wouldn't put it on him and the fact that you know he was wrong about some stuff i told you from the beginning on day one of the you know when we knew this coronavirus thing was going to be a big deal very early on i made a really big deal of saying i want to tell you now that our leaders are going to make a lot of mistakes and you shouldn't blame them because nobody knows the right thing to do later we'll know what was the right thing to do and then we'll think we're all geniuses because we looked in the past and say well why didn't he know why did he know and of course nobody knew there was always going to be somebody who guessed right all right if you take a bunch of marbles and you know you've got a circle drawn on the ground you just drop your marbles some will land in the circle

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land in the circle some will land outside the circle because they'll roll if it turned out later that being inside the circle was better than outside the circle were the marbles that were inside the circle the smart marbles no marbles are not smart they just ended up where they ended up and likewise leaders around the country took their best guess they took their best guess some of them were going to be right and or right er and some of them were going to be wrong or wronger just like the marbles and at the end were because we're humans we will attribute genius to the ones who land the marbles that landed inside the circle we'll say hey look it's pretty obvious the marbles that were inside the circle are the good leaders those are the good leaders because they picked the right place to be no they didn't it was random people were guessing some of them got it right they're not the smart ones the ones who

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they're not the smart ones the ones who corrected are the good leaders so if you're if you're looking for a skill look for the people who got it wrong and then correct it and i'm going to surprise you boris johnson it looks like you know this is this might change in time so just current snapshot it looks like boris johnson got it completely wrong meaning that you know he was going to go for herd like sweden but then they reversed course quite dramatically they reverse course it looks like the reversing of the course was better don't know yet we you know we could be we could find out that maybe they should have just gone for heard but at the moment it looks like they made a bad decision at first and that they corrected it so who's who's the good leader is the good leader who made the right decision first or the one who corrected i kind of like the one who corrects

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i kind of like the one who corrects right you don't want to be on the team that got it wrong and then had to correct wouldn't you rather be on the team that got it right but you have to realize nobody knew what to do so the boris johnson approach if indeed history proves that it was very wrong in the beginning but they did adjust i would look at the adjustment to look for the leadership that's where i would look for the leadership so i'm not willing to throw boris johnson under the bus or any of the other leaders let's wait to see how this turns out and let's be a little bit forgiving about the leaders who got it wrong but the correcting oh yeah you want to look at the correcting and you want to make sure they got that right all right it's amazing that the russians were first to get the vaccination well that's not amazing if you imagine that they cut corners um so i'm being uh prompted in the comments

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uh prompted in the comments to mention canon hinnot the i guess the story is the little five-year-old or something who got murdered by the neighbor now i think this story the the reason that conservatives or pro-jumpers are pushing that story is because you know they say hey how come this is not a national story because it was a black man neighbor who assassinated basically just walked up to a little kid with a gun and just killed him
him that's the story allegedly and and then the complaint is why is why is the national media not covering it
it and i would argue why should they
it's a i don't agree with the argument it's a good political argument if you want to push the argument for political reasons you know it's a political season um but in my opinion it is

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um but in my opinion it is not national news it is a tragedy that doesn't have a political element to it that i can see if somebody gets murdered wearing a maga hat
hat well then that's also that's a tragedy but it's also a national story because it connects to politics but uh one one child tragically murdered by a neighbor does it matter that the neighbor is a different ethnicity i don't why should it i mean we don't know what was going on there but it looks like a mental health problem right so to me it just looks like a mental health problem that doesn't connect to any larger larger issue so we can be horrified by it
it we can be informed by it but you shouldn't take it as a as some larger political thing that's what i think all right somebody says a peace deal is going on a peace deal between israel and the uae interesting interesting

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interesting interesting okay
i'll check up on that it does seem like that israel may be taking advantage of the coronavirus to get some stuff done and but when i say take advantage of being in a good way
way it looks like a lot of iranian military assets are catching on fire a lot of hezbollah's assets seem to be blowing up so i think israel is mopping up things and doing a good job of it all right oh at the moment the slaughter meter's 100 100 i can't see from this perspective trump losing or even coming close to losing i just don't see it um but it's a lot still a long time till november so you know the the slaughter meter specifically excludes surprises right and there will be surprises so you

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right and there will be surprises so you can't use it as a prediction but it's fun
yeah the george floyd thing was political because of the issue of police blah blah
uh and somebody says if you reverse the ethnicities would it then be a national story not my opinion no because in both cases it would be a mental health story it's not a political story all right that's all i got for now and i will talk to you later