Episode 1094 Scott Adams: Three Civil Wars Scheduled, Low Information Voters, Homeschooling

Date: 2020-08-16 | Duration: 44:59

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• The media’s extraordinary ability to disappear stories

• 70% of the country will never know what happened

• We need a fact quiz to ID low-information people

• 3 American civil wars brewing

• Home schoolers…the revolution is on

• A new form of hiring discrimination?

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hey everybody come on in it's time for a hot and sweaty version of coffee with scott adams that's right today will be hot no not in the content way but rather in the way that if you live in the third world country like i do it's called california have you heard of it
it so california is one of those places that uh doesn't always have electricity so that's the first thing you need to know about it the other thing is that if something breaks you're not going to get it fixed my air conditioning just went out and i'm not going to be able to get that fixed so it's going to get really warm for me today at least in my office i think it's working in the rest of the house but to make everything better as good as it could possibly be possibly the best thing that will happen to you today is the simultaneous step and all you need to make it a reality in your life

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your life is a copper mug or a glass attacker chances like a canteen jerker flask a vessel of any kind fill that thing with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the dopamine of the day the thing that makes everything better except apparently the temperature it's called the simultaneous epidermis now go
oh i was wrong it actually may be a little cooler i guess there's nothing that coffee can't do the simultaneous if that is so
condolences to the trump family president's brother passed away as you all know and uh what a horrible thing made more horrible by the world we live in
in because of course the trolls are saying just the most despicable things as you can imagine by a portable ac somebody says

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somebody says uh i plan to look into it but what are the odds that there are any portable acs left in california i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure those are in demand right now because as you know the only time that you ever need a repair person for your ac is when there's a hot streak it's the only time it ever breaks so those are the times you can't get it fixed when you need it all right enough about me uh so i tweeted this and immediately got 10 000 retweets it's probably 13 000 by now and here's what i said see if you agree with this democrats and the fbi uh or democrats in the fbi and the media conspired to overthrow the government got caught and 70 of the country will never hear about it this is actually happening and it's so mind-boggling the ability of the press to disappear

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the ability of the press to disappear a story of that size is really impressive and not in a good way and i think that that's actually happening i i believe that there was a legitimate honest-to-god coup attempt we know their names at least this kleinsmith guy looks like he's in a lot of trouble we now have enough information that there's no real question that it happened nor is there any question that the media was complicit in pushing this narrative without proper evidence and the fact that the media can just make this go away like it didn't even happen is incredible it makes anything you thought about animals animal farm or or whatever weird thing you thought was possible in the future well it's the future and and imagine now if
if the government got rid of say fox news

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the government got rid of say fox news or
or a few other blue check people on social media at the moment the only way you know what the news is is twitter and social media think about what you wouldn't know about the protests that are ongoing every night if you didn't have twitter it's not in the news so you know certainly you've got a few you know right-leaning entities you've got your breitbarts and you got your fox news etc but what if
if what if you had a president biden can you imagine the scenario where they'd find some legal or other way to just make the entities on the right go away and they could just disappear them from social media from search i think they already did that to breitbart right didn't breitbart get disappeared if you do a search that doesn't even come up on the news so the the ability to make history actually disappear

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history actually disappear it's happening right now right while you're watching it history disappearing it's the most amazing thing and there's not much to say about it because it's not like a complicated topic they're just not talking about it so it makes it disappear and i thought well at least it'll be in the history books when the students learn about it no it won't it actually won't be in the history books think about that students learning history about this period of time will never learn that there was an actual to honest-to-god almost successful coup attempt it won't even be in the school books now we'll be in you know individuals writing books but how many students are going to go out and buy a history book that they don't have to read not too many all right and so this makes me wonder if what we need is a what i'll call a low information voter quiz we need a test

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voter quiz we need a test that i can just forward to people who disagree with me to find out what their base of understanding about the news in general is
is now the tough part is a lot of our disagreements are on opinion so it's an opinion that this will be better than that it's an opinion that we can find a way to pay for something etc but there are other things that are no longer opinion and one of the biz one of the questions would be do you believe the president colluded with putin to rig the election in 2016. that should be on the test because if somebody says yes they're a low information voter because neither the left nor the right report that to be true how about if you said the fbi colluded to overthrow the government now that's just a fact right would you say that that qualifies as a fact at this point i mean maybe you wait for durham but with the kleinsmith plea deal i think it moves into fact

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and you could imagine quite a few other facts for example you would ask do you believe it's been proven that hydroxychloroquine doesn't work for coronavirus and that it might be dangerous if you said yes you're a low information voter because that has not been proven it hasn't been proven for sure that it works in a gold standard way but there are lots of tests that suggest that it does with lower credibility all right and you can imagine a number of other and i actually do want to make this test like actual honest-to-god a real test and here's the thing if you think the only people are going to fail this test are on the left you would be wrong because i have lots of conversations every day with people who basically agree with me on you know trump-related stuff and still don't have current information still have just basic facts about stuff wrong so we should have a low

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stuff wrong so we should have a low information voter quiz and then you could just stop arguing with anybody who's low information i say look i'll debate you but you've got to get at least an 80 on this test if you don't get an 80 or higher maybe you're not the person i need to debate with so i got into it today with i made i don't know why i keep making the same mistake over and over some critic on twitter will say some dumbass thing and i'll say well that looks really dumb let me let me set you straight and i'll send my little smart little comment too often i think i've straightened things out and then that person will get back to me with something that's even dumber than the first thing and i'll think how did you get dumber from that first tweet i just straightened you out and all that well one more time let me clarify and they'll be all right i've done good work you know he was confused i clarified had a follow-up question i clarified we're done here third message

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message crazier than the first two and then i say
say oh click on the profile look at the career it's a freaking writer an artist and then we're done here you just can't have a conversation with somebody in the arts about politics they believe that they know enough to have the conversation and they are so not even close they're not even in the general universe of rational discussion and i will go further and say that the number of my critics who come after me with you know any kind of harsh criticism have become almost entirely artists the the people who are rational people who have at least spent some time looking at my opinions they will sometimes make a clarifying or you know a mildly critical

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you know a mildly critical comment but usually it takes one set of interactions to end up on the same page somebody will say well you're not considering x and then i'll say good point that's it right good point yeah i should consider x or they'll say you didn't consider x and i'll say well that's because i'm looking at it through this lens you know and that's a different question and the first person will say oh that's a good point that's it when you deal with people who know how to make decisions know how to compare things know how to set priorities you can usually reach agreement or at least find the the factual part that you might disagree on in seconds it just takes no time at all and those people largely disappeared from my criticism uh tree i guess uh well we've got three revolutions planned that i know of uh now before i scare you by saying that we have three civil wars i guess civil wars would be

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civil wars i guess civil wars would be the better way to put it we have three civil wars planned in this country they're on the calendar and i don't know if they can be avoided because we don't have much time but here are the here are the competing factors i've told you that there's something called the uh the adams law of slow moving disasters if you can see something coming from a long ways away you can usually adapt and be ready for it like the year 2000 stuff such as running out of oil
oil we didn't running out of food because of population anyway we didn't and climate change will be similar to that we've got so much time to remediate we'll be fine but do we have enough time to make sure that our election is fair not really we don't because it looks like the post office will be some part of the some part of the process if not

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some part of the process if not everywhere maybe some states and if that's true there's nothing that has lower credibility than the post office is there think of something that you would just automatically say well that's even less credible than the post office there's kind of nothing congress but yeah who who is less credible than the post office now i'm not saying that we all know everything about the post office i might know a little bit more than you do my father worked for the post office for 30 years so just about every night i heard a post office efficiency story and it didn't go well let's put it that way so unless the post office got a lot better let's hope they did but here's what we can know for sure if nothing changes you know if things just go the way they're heading we'll have an election that absolutely nobody believes is credible

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credible what happens what happens if trump wins narrowly well if trump wins narrowly it's a civil war it has to be because people will say it's rigged suppose trump loses narrowly maybe a civil war but the people on the right might be a little less inclined to do that but if they really think it got stolen what what if they think it's not just a gray area what if they say my god is just like this you know fbi kleinsmith guy we thought this couldn't possibly happen but there it is what if the people on the right just say um
um there's not really any question that the that this was rigged what did they do then i don't know how about uh about when uh the officers that arrested george floyd and tragically he died during that encounter what happens when the

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what happens when the jury says it looks like he died from fentanyl overdose and the police officers might not get off
off completely free but certainly they're not going to be charged with or they're not going to be convicted of murder i think we can say that with a fair degree of certainty at this point what happens when that verdict comes down civil war right what happens when let's say trump wins by a solid majority will there be a second coup attempt like the first one of course there will of course they will because the coup attempt almost worked it almost worked of course it'll be another one you know if if people took those ridiculous chances before nothing says they won't take more ridiculous chances again so i would think we've got at least three civil wars coming a coup attempt a george floyd you know riot situation

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riot situation and certainly the election has no credibility at this point we can just stop pretending it'll be credible we should just prepare for it not to be would you agree it doesn't look like our government has the capability of producing a credible outcome during the pandemic with with short notice certainly we could get it right if we had enough time but we don't so here's the thing what do you do what do you do if you know there are three civil wars coming and they're all they're basically on the calendar there's nothing you can do to change any one of these is there is there i don't think there's anything you could do to change any one of them so we'll have to deal with that it looks like three three civil wars but as i say when you can see something coming you can you can adjust certainly every conservative has uh as has put in some ammo

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has uh as has put in some ammo yeah i see in the comments by ammo you know you that used to be a joke you know there was a time when i would have said well you know hypothetically the citizens might need to be armed because you never know your government might try to do this or that and usually i was thinking of it in terms of the government itself but i think you'd have to worry at this point about antifa and people who actually want to overthrow the government now here's something that hasn't happened yet i wonder if i could get kicked off of twitter for saying this let me try to find a way to say this without getting kicked off of twitter so i think i have to so so i'll start by saying i'm not promoting this idea okay i'm not predicting it so i'm neither promoting this nor predicting it nor do i wish it to happen i'm just wondering why it hasn't yet

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i'm just wondering why it hasn't yet because you know there's going to be a massive gun event right like you know that's sort of brewing and the massive gun event may not be anti-fog where the protester is doing the shooting sooner or later there's going to be a crazy person on the right who has a lot of firepower and is going to take matters into their own hands feeling that they're patriots not that anybody would ask them to do that and not that anybody would be happy about it but i'm a little bit amazed at the restraint that has been shown so far now i would guess that that restraint has everything to do with the fact that there's still a big police presence even though the police are being you know relatively generous in how they go rough on the on the protesters but don't you think that if those protests start slopping into places where there is not police

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where there is not police somebody's going to take out not just one of them yeah we're not heading toward a place where there's one one tragedy that happened and one person got hurt we're sort of heading toward the part where you're looking like a mass casualty event and i think that might be whatever is the turning point in other words right now it's very safe to go out and protest
all right i'll screw it i'm going to get kicked off of twitter i might as well go down in glory if you're going to get kicked off of twitter you might as well do it right right or kicked off a periscope whatever happens um it might be that that's the only thing that would change the direction of things now i don't want it to happen i want to be really clear about that but you have to predict that it will because that's sort of the obvious thing that would happen eventually sooner or later somebody's going to say

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sooner or later somebody's going to say well there's a mob in my streets it's my town they just broke some windows the police aren't doing anything i'm armed to the teeth it's time to stop it
it i can imagine somebody going into the street and just taking out the whole crowd like just all at once just literally just clearing the street if you know what i mean before anybody has a chance to respond now again not recommending this not promoting it don't want anybody to get killed but how does it not happen really because it's only a matter of how far people get pushed right i would say i feel like giving a standing ovation to the armed conservatives in this country because my god the level of con restraint that they're showing is pretty impressive now some of it is because they live in different areas you know than the protests and like i said as long as there's a big police

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said as long as there's a big police presence you could you could argue that the the force part is taken care of you don't need to get into that but the moment the moment there's a a mob and there aren't enough police and this extends into some less urban area i think it ends one way eventually and i think we would get to the point where the protesters say well there's a 1 in 10 chance that if i go out and protest i could get slaughtered at what point is that risk too high you know would the protesters who were protesting if it was a one percent chance that they would get hurt probably probably they'd keep protesting if there's a 10 chance they go to jail yeah maybe they keep protesting but i suppose there were suppose they thought there was a 10 chance of all of them and all their friends being slaughtered and even if they had the odds wrong

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and even if they had the odds wrong maybe just because they saw a news event in their mind the odds of it happening again would be much harder that's what what happens with terrorism right if there's one terrorist act it's all you can think about so in your mind it's like it's happening every day even if it just happened once so
so if you're worried about where the protests go and you're worried about the fact that law enforcement appears to have not the power or the support from above to stop it you'd ask to ask yourself where does it stop and the obvious answer is if the government doesn't stop it the citizens will would you agree that that statement is just a hard fact if the government is unwilling or unable to stop the protests from you know growing out of their contained areas there wouldn't it be fair to say that the citizens will i don't see that there's any
any any other way that goes um i would also like to state for the

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um i would also like to state for the record that should i ever be chosen for jury duty i don't have any intention of seeking justice not even a slight intention because if i find that there's a you know some antifa person who shined a light into a police officer's eyes and blinded him well if that police officer killed that guy with the laser not guilty i don't even need to hear the evidence if a police officer takes out an anti-far person put me on the jury i don't even need to hear the details all right so that's where i stand on that in your two worlds two movies on one screen do you notice that cnn and the trump-hating media they only report which states are getting worse but if you go over to you know some conservative

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conservative media they're more likely to tell you that most of the states are improving which is what trump will say so it's something like well 40 some states are getting better but several states are getting worse so they can give you whichever view of reality you want things are getting worse or they're getting better here's another one rasmussen did a poll of likely voters supporting president trump and if you ask likely voters you get a ridiculously or at least impressively high number of black voters who support the president support him in terms of doing a good job now that's likely voters so what does abc poll do do they poll likely voters to see if they can get a number similar to rasmussen no they poll all all citizens so they talk to people whether they vote or not and so you get a completely different idea of

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idea of of you know what the public thinks of the vice president pick
so we don't have anything like news anymore and i was thinking i would think that the best news channel if you could say that would be if there's a twitter feed and maybe somebody can start this one twitter account that would do nothing but take other twitter journalists and combine them so they had something like a coherent news source now right now that's all over twitter and if you're clever you found most of them and you know you're following andy no and you know stuff like that but what if what if you didn't know where to find all that stuff wouldn't it be nice if somebody just had a twitter feed that takes only the only the news from uh independence and puts it together that might be the only way we can get past the fake news on tv the cnn types um

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the cnn types um so one of the things that i'm finding really interesting is this schooling situation and the coronavirus is obviously making a huge impact on homeschooling so apparently the number of home school applications the people have asked to have permission to homeschool and let's just stop right there permission permission to teach your own kids what why do you need permission to educate your own children with your own resources better than the government can do it you need permission for that do we live in a free country and you need permission to teach your own kids there's something deeply wrong with that now i get the fact that we should have universal education but uh that has more to do with the fact that you know we're forcing kids to have some kind of school but if somebody can do it better and you won't let them so

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won't let them so so the school unions the teachers unions i mean the teachers unions are the ones who are behind the limits on how many homeschoolers can be in a school district and they're they're keeping that cap during a pandemic during a pandemic an emergency when the kids health and mental well-being are completely on the line i mean these we're talking about kids dying if they don't have you know better structure and the teachers unions pure evil and the source of all systemic racism um or at least all that matters in the current era now i won't say all the batters they're the they're the biggest source of systemic races let's say 90 and they're stopping the only thing that can make things better for some people and the reason is that other people don't have those advantages now do you want to live in a world where you can't do what's good for your kids because somebody else that you

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kids because somebody else that you don't know can't do something good for their kids is that a reason not to protect your own kids well i think we're talking about civil war four here's what i think is going to happen i think there are enough people who want to home school that they can't all be arrested so i think that there's going to be a school revolution meaning that there will be enough conservatives and people who just want to get out of the school system i think it will be enough that they'll just do it because you can't be stopped from just doing it if there are enough of you if there's a small number of you then the police can arrest you for now sending your kid to a proper school i suppose but if there's enough of you it's a non-issue you just have to have enough people to say um let me explain this to you it's a pandemic i'm not sending my kids to the pandemic i am going to educate them at home if you come and try to stop it i'm armed

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right because the homeschoolers are mostly armed now i don't think you should use your arms if the police come to your house of course that would be the worst idea that you ever had in your life but it's certainly going to put a little friction into the the idea that there's any kind of law enforcement that can change that situation so i would say at this point you should not obey the government on school requirements let me say that as clearly as possible if you're a conservative you're worried about your kids and you have the ability to homeschool them in some way you should not obey the government let me say that louder do not obey the government on this homeschooling stuff if you can make it work do not obey the government if there's a law
law break it break it now typically i would not encourage anybody to break a law but there are laws that are unjust and the law telling you you can't

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and the law telling you you can't educate your kid because a stranger can't educate his is an unjust law you have a patriotic responsibility to disobey an unjust law it's not just an option it's your responsibility to disobey laws that stop you from educating your own child period you have a responsibility to disobey that law now not all of you think it's a good idea i don't have the resources etc but if you're in that situation um boy do you have let me just say you've got at least 30 percent of the country has your back and when i say has your back i mean has you back with weapons you know i'm talking about something that's so important that armed america isn't going to take isn't going to take it anymore so i don't think we're at the point where this is a conversation anymore if you can homeschool your kids

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if you can homeschool your kids do it please please do it if for all the other if if the only reason is that you know takes power from these uh school the teachers unions who are evil by the way not the teachers i'm still getting people who are saying scott why are you saying teachers are bad never once said that i've never once said anything bad about teachers only the union all right it's a whole different entity it's not teachers it's the union so it's only the union that i target for destruction so homeschoolers the revolution is on you have my full backing and i don't see anything that can stop you certainly not the law because you're watching people looting freaking stores and not getting in trouble right if people are looting stores getting caught and then basically released you can homeschool your kid if you want to

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to all right we no longer live in the world where the government can stop you from doing that there are too many of you it's it's too obviously the right thing to do uh just go ahead and do it that's what i say
say all right um [Music] you saw some stories that said the administration and the fda have approved some rapid rapid testing technologies some people said to me hey maybe they're listening to you about this test strip stuff but that's a whole different thing the thing that the fda has approved is a two-day test you mail it away there's some kind of device involved it's faster and better and maybe cheaper but it's not it's not anywhere close to the idea that um is on the table which could be called more of a screening test so rather than saying it's more or less sensitive or more or less accurate those words don't

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words don't kind of tell the story uh the the one dollar or so paper strips that you just test at home because you just use your saliva and it changes color in a few minutes so that test exists right there's nothing about the technology of creating these that's hard and for rapid screening of everybody all the time it would work really well even if it missed some people with infections it's okay you can miss some people with infections if you're testing everybody every day and it's so cheap that you can do that you can still get the virus under control with less than perfect [Music] test specificity or test accuracy or test sensitivity every one of those words is wrong by the way because they all have their own little flavor but you know what i'm talking about so the administration has not responded to
to or approved the one one of one of the ideas that has the most

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ideas that has the most promise to get the virus under control so if you're saying to yourself is the administration doing a good job or a bad job
job i think you can look at this and this would be a case where if they don't at least respond to the public and say yeah we did look into this and it won't work here's our reasons you might agree you might disagree but i would say that would be responsible you know country management if you don't hear why the most promising technology that we have to really make a difference if you don't even hear why it's being blocked by the fda there's just no communication then that is your government just not doing its job
job so those i've been arguing with people that you can't tell if a leader is doing the right thing or the wrong thing because everybody was guessing first of all so somebody guessed right they're not the good leader they're just the ones who guessed right somebody was going to guess right

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somebody was going to guess right somebody was going to get better results than somebody else and then after the fact you say oh they were the smart ones no everybody was guessing but that said if you don't have good communication with your with your country your voters then you can say yeah that's not good management and this this is a case where in my opinion the administration is failing and pretty hard failing at maybe what could be in fact the top priority so if you're not hearing some communication about what could be the most important thing then you can't say that that's a good job right so they may be still mulling it or researching it but if you don't hear something yes or no from your government that's just not a good job sorry there's an anonymous report politico reported and business insider picked it up as a story

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business insider picked it up as a story that allegedly obama told another democrat during the 2020 primary campaign quote don't underestimate joe's ability to f things up now if this anonymous report was about president trump and it had been whatever he had said something wouldn't you think it was not true right if you heard this about trump you'd say ah that didn't happen anonymous person there's always an anonymous person isn't there but because we have this gel man amnesia we look at we look at this obama story and we think oh that probably happened yeah that probably happened i don't know if this happened or not but it plays a little bit into your bias doesn't it doesn't it feel a little bit too on the nose if you know what i mean obama is a pretty cautious guy do you think he would have said to somebody who could have blabbed it that he thinks joe would f things up do

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that he thinks joe would f things up do you think he would have said that to any anyone in the political sphere knowing that everything gets blabbed do you think that obama wanted people to know that he said this about biden i'm gonna say fake news on this one
one i'm gonna say fake news on this doesn't mean it couldn't have happened it is within the realm of possibility it is however not in the realm of credibility meaning it could be true but by the nature of the way it's reported you should assume not you should assume not right it's a fun story but just put that filter on and say if this if they were talking about your guy you know somebody on your team you wouldn't believe this was true you probably wouldn't all right i need a ruling on this there's a new form of discrimination that popped up which i believe is far

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that popped up which i believe is far worse than whatever we had before so one of the unde unintended consequences of the black lives matter and the protesters is this it is one thing to have a difference of political opinion and in the history of the united states that hasn't made too much difference in your hiring decisions i don't i've never heard of anybody in my whole life who made a hiring decision you know plus or minus uh based on somebody's political leanings never heard it not even one time in my whole life i'm sure it's happened you know it's a big country i'm sure has happened but i've never heard of it so it's it's not like the most common thing but what about now what about now suppose somebody came into your office and you're a conservative and you're just hiring somebody and resume looks good and the person comes in
in and somehow you learned that they were part of the protests or their they belong to black lives

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or their they belong to black lives matter and let's say you're a white conservative and let's say you're male just to make it extra hard uh what would you think about what the applicant thinks of you now i'm not talking about what you think of the applicant so you might say to yourself you know freedom of speech i'm completely happy that you protested and in fact i i agree with your message black lives matter totally need to make sure that police are doing their job so you can be a conservative that even completely agrees philosophically with with the approach but you know maybe not the technique and still wouldn't you have to worry a little bit that although you feel okay about the applicant that the applicant probably hates your guts and would look for any excuse to take you down because you're part of systemic racism wouldn't you feel that would you not

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wouldn't you feel that would you not feel that your applicant hates you now that's never been the case before i can't think of it like is there any time in history let's say in my life if i were to interview a black candidate for a job which of course i have everybody has uh if you've done any hiring and not once if i ever thought that even though i know we live in a you know a racially sensitive world and even though i know you know black citizens on average might have a little bit of a bad feeling about white citizens on average i can't think of any time in the past that would have mattered to me like because it just it would have been sort of a low-grade uh you know i just have these feelings but everybody's got a little bias you can't really hire people who don't have a little bias no big deal you just deal with it right but today today if you hired uh given our hyper partisan

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if you hired uh given our hyper partisan situation if you hired somebody today and you were let's say a white male conservative and you hired a young female black activist who was in black lives matter what would you think that person thinks of you now what would be your risk would you be at greater risk of being attacked meaning legally after you know if something goes wrong are you going to get sued and i would think that at in our current environment we we've accidentally created a whole new kind of discrimination which is weirdly legal completely legal you could actually not hire somebody not because they're black like it wouldn't even be racial because you would say the same thing about let's say the white protesters you just say i just can't hire anybody who is part of part of that complaining you know in other words the the complaint is that they're

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the the complaint is that they're complainers about something that you maybe you don't think they should be complaining about hypothetically
i don't know it's a dangerous situation political discrimination is legal i believe it is completely legal to discriminate on political belief i believe i think that's legal uh i was told by somebody who knows more than i do that very thing
you're probably already at risk of being sued if you don't hire the person well no that's not true because you could find somebody um who well yeah i suppose you're always at risk you're right you're always at risk
somebody says you'd be hiring a walking lawsuit that's what it feels like even if that's not true so i mean that's what discrimination is it's all right um so everybody wants me to

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all right um so everybody wants me to talk about millie weaver's film shadowgate which is now available on youtube somebody says um let me tell you that during the course of my day lots of people send me videos that they think i'm interested in i don't watch most of them so sending me a link to a video without a summary of why i should watch it that will kind of never get me to watch it but if you send me a link and say this person made this claim i might think oh i'd like to see about that but if you just send me a link and say what do you think about it i'm not going to watch that because the the context is lots of people are doing that all day long i'm just getting links all day long watch this video watch this video i'm not going to watch any of them none of them but if you summarize it you might get my attention then i might watch it all right yeah um so here in california we've got lightning rain power outages

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lightning rain power outages fire nato's homelessness drug overdoses and crumbling economy and somebody is floating the idea of a wealth tax for californians now if you don't think a wealth tax will empty the state you don't know this state there's a lot of people with wealth who will have one foot out the door and a wealth tax would that would just be the end of it that would be two feet out the door
all right um all right i'm about done with everything i have to say and i will talk to you tomorrow